chap Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 |-13p10----10--------------------------------------------------------------||-------13----13p10-13p10----10--------------------------------------------||-------------------------12----12p10-12p10----10--------------------------||-------------------------------------------12----12p10-12p10----10-----10-||-------------------------------------------------------------12----12-----||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|Ok I know that tab is never accurate ... ok here goes:Mr. Crowley the main guitar solo original version. This is the second bar of the solo - a decending riff. At the end of this bar, Randy ascends for 4 beats and ends on a bend on the 20th fret high-E. I count 4 beats decending on the recording but the tab only shows three. So I'm just repeating the last beat (last 8 notes) and it fits fine and sounds OK. It seems that Randy is partly palm muting the end of this bar just before he ascends. Anyone?(BTW, this looks remarkably similar to the Sweet Child O Mine main solo, towards the end when Slash ascends into a series of bends like the first bar of Mr. Crowley solo. Kind of like the first two bars of Mr. Crowley solo in reverse and pushed up a couple of frets, just an observation)
Guest JackButler Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 I hear him first bar: doing the repitition lick in the 10th position.. second bar: doing this lick you've got above and then "U-turning" right there on the A string and re-ascending to that bend on the 20th fret bending the "C" to a "D". It is 4 beats descending in the Dminor pentatonic box phrased as sextuplets (sixteenth note triplets/6 per beat).When he re-ascends climbling to that bend the next bar is 3 beats of sextuplets and on beat 4 he has this little legato hammer/pull shift where he does 32nd notes and crams in 8 notes on beat 4.I DO hear a lot of heavy pick attack and there does seem to be some slight palm muting.Randy was a little guy with a killer grip.. play 13s on his LP during that particular session by most accounts and favored smaller vintage style frets.. which to me.. makes what he did even more impressive.edit to add: This type of pentatonic descending/ascending lick can be heard in that GnR tune you mentioned.. first guys I heard do this when I was a kid was Ace Frehley and Pat Travers.. it a very common lick in the pentatonic minor box.
chap Posted June 13, 2008 Author Posted June 13, 2008 I totally missed that -- 6 notes per beat not 8 just like the first bar of the solo, that works just fine then ... 24/6 = 4. Then the last beat sounds like he just wings it a bit. Thanks for the post!(edit: your www.guitarworkshop.com link doesn't work man)
Guest JackButler Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Your welcome! Anytime!https://www.guitarworkshop.com/store/produc...t=28&page=1
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