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  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    REARVIEW MIRROR is easy. Though, i do conceed that maintaining the pattern for the duration of the song does require endurance.

    I find to keep RVM going at the proper pace, without f-ing up is one hell of an endurance trial, like running a marathon! Especially the end, if you're not soloing, to wail on those power chords for a good minute and a half to two.
  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    moster78 wrote:
    I find to keep RVM going at the proper pace, without f-ing up is one hell of an endurance trial, like running a marathon! Especially the end, if you're not soloing, to wail on those power chords for a good minute and a half to two.

    Yeah the end is pretty tough to get down when you're just learning it but you get used to it. I found the chords where he's playing along to the lyric 'I couldn't breathe....' hard for a while to get the timing right.

    Once you learn though its fun to play.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Not for you.

    Just slide the E shape up 2 frets and then another. easy peasy.
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  • Eddie_Vedder_83
    Eddie_Vedder_83 Posts: 281
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    Rockin In The Free World
    main verse-this is the power chord version not the chord
    e
    b
    g
    d-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--7--5-5*-5*
    a-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--5--3-3*-3*
    E

    for the chorus i play:

    e-3--0--0
    b-3--3--1
    g-0--2--0--5-5/4/
    d-0--0--2--5-5/4/2
    a-2--x--3--3-3/2/2
    E-3--x

    than pre-chorus A/A7 ope chord and than back to E5/D5/C5
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,865
    Wow, you guys ressurrected this thread from the boneyard...

    These tips and reccomendations helped me a lot. I started to improve. I broke a string, tried to restring the guitar myself and did it wrong where the guitar goes out of tune after 5 minutes of playing. I got lazy, never got it restrung and it site there...

    But seeing this thread has made me wnt to give some deserved love to the guitar again.
  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    You have to pull on the strings a bit before you put them onto the guitar man.
    Being wound they get stretched when you first fit them onto a guitar.
    If you stretch them a few times, tune it, strum for a few mins. If its out of tune then just tune it again.
    Its a little frustrating at first but within 10 mins it should hold a tuning, if it doesnt its not new strings you need, its a new guitar, lol.
  • ItsEvolutionBaby74
    ItsEvolutionBaby74 Posts: 490
    MayDay10 wrote:
    I have been trying to learn the guitar. What is an easy Pearl jam song/PJ covered song to learn via tab?

    I know it's not a PJ song but if you're up to a challenge maybe the first 45 seconds of Stairway to Heaven?
    "Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling!"

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  • pjfanfromsd
    pjfanfromsd Posts: 23
    Easy acoustic PJ songs= Thin Air, Off He Goes, Black, Wishlist..

    Once you have a handle on those try Elderly Woman, Low Light, Nothing Man and Crazy Mary

    All these sound really good on acoustic and, if you know your chords, are pretty simple.

    http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songartist/Pearl%20Jam/index.html

    Keep practicing and you'll get it in no time
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