Tactile Sensation (Verse)

This week's part is unique. The reason why is because it's not one, but two parts!

Thanks to a little studio magic (also known as overdubs), we recorded both a low single note part, and a high chordal part. The two parts compliment each other because they're in different octaves on the guitar neck, so they each have their own musical space.

There's some songs where there are two or more guitar parts, but they play at different times so I am able to do both live - like the clean guitar from the chorus in Synthesize Her, for example. But because both guitars play a similar rhythm here, I have to choose only one to play live. I'll usually go for the lower one. So if you're only going to learn one of these two, that's the one I would suggest doing.

Let's start with part I, the lower one:

Part I:

Comes out of a pentatonic scale (like all good things in life). The particular shape used here looks like:

--------------------------------7-10-
-------------------------8-10--------
-------------------7-9---------------
-----------5-7/9---------------------
------5-7----------------------------
-5-7---------------------------------

The riff is broken into little 2 note figures, where you slide into the lower note with either your 3rd or 4th finger, and play the next note on the string above with your 1st finger.

Learning this riff is mostly just a matter of getting used to this slippery slidey approach. 

Part II:

There's some higher chords here. I barre my 1st finger on the 7th fret, top 3 strings. Any 8th fret that you see is added on top with my 2nd finger, and any 10th fret note is covered by my 4th finger.

The very end of the phrase has a shift all the way up to the 14th position. You might recognize this last chord as a D major shape - but shifted up 12 frets. It's like a teeny tiny D major. Squeeze your fingers together to play the shape.

TAB is attached as a Guitar Pro file and a PDF.