andysamb4
First Lieutenant   Posts: 2 Registered: 1/11/2006 Status: Offline
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posted on 1/11/2006 at 17:50 |
Hi, I'm a newb to the forum and the guitar (although I did play a little 10
years ago). I've managed to get myself a Tanglewood LP Studio copy and have
nice 15w marshall amp (with onboard effects).
I've managed to get a few tunes together - "sanctury" - cult, Beautiful day
- u2, Satellite of Love etc. etc.
You get the kind of music i'm into.
However, I'm tackling the Police and "message in a bottle". My question to
anybody who knows the basic riff is :
do you play the majority of the riff as a barre at the second fret or do
you find the strings individually?
I've tried both ways and find barreing (is that a word?) difficult to
achieve the right sound. However, whilst picking individually I get the
right sound but I find it difficult to maintain the accuracy throughout the
whole song (timing is a little poor too).
Grateful for views, advice and some easy but rocking tabs to have a go
at.
[Edited on 1/13/2006 by Moderator] ____________________
Andrew
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Spidercents
Moderator   Posts: 1019 Registered: 7/29/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/12/2006 at 04:59, Reply 1 |
Play the first 4,6,8 with index,ring and pinky or whatever is comfortable
for you...let each note ride and dont mute if possiable...play this as if
you were playing power chords with the added pinky and dont strum the
chords pick them.
E---------------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------------
G----------8-----------4----------6---------------------------------
D------6-----------2----------4--------------6-7-------------------
A--4-----------0----------2--------------4--------------------------
E ------------------------------------2--------------------------------
[Edited on 1/12/2006 by Spidercents] ____________________
Treat people the way you would want to be treated.
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brian
Moderator  Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 1/31/2006 at 11:16, Reply 2 |
How's the song coming along 
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jorgevalenciano
First Lieutenant Posts: 1 Registered: 11/1/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/1/2007 at 02:44, Reply 3 |
E---||----------------------------------||---------------------------------
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B---||-(1)-------4---------------------||--(1)--------2--------------------
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G---||----------------(3)----------4---||----------------------------------
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D---||-(3)-----6-----(1)-------2------||--(3)-----4--------(4)--------6--(4
)/--7--
A---||-(1)--4--------(0)----0---------||--(1)---2----------(3)-----4-------
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E
--||-----------------------------------||-------------------(1)---2--------
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Bar on 4th fret---------------------------Bar on 2nd fret
This may be easier. This is the way I do it. Make sure that you try and
hold them for as long as you can.
The two barres will keep you from hurting your fingers on the stretch. The
bar enables you to already have the
fingers down where you need it. Don't worry too much about keeping the F#
on the 6th string down
as the bass line already takes care of the note. You can either pick the
last note or you can slide it over.
You can let go of the 3rd finger at the end and focus on the pinky as it is
more important. Experiment
with the last fingering: (2) or (3) will work. I hope this helps.
Jorge Valenciano
|| = bar
(X) = fingers used
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benlast
First Lieutenant Posts: 1 Registered: 11/16/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 11/16/2007 at 06:29, Reply 4 |
I've been trying a couple of ways to play this main riff (and there are
some really bad tabs out there. Jorge's suggestion is clever, but I
prefer the "spread out" method (as per spidercents' post).
I took a quick trawl through YouTube to see how Andy Summers handled it
originally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQ2yXE1mpU shows that
he plays it almost the same way as spidercents, biut the second chord is
rooted on the B on the low E string (i.e., it's:
E---------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------
G----------8-------------------------6-------------
D------6---------------11-------4-----------6-7--
A--4---------------9----------2----------4--------
E --------------7----------------------2-----------
This is an excellent trainer for getting your fretting hand to deal with
widely-spread notes (a cure for any tendency to play with the thumb of your
fretting hand wrapped around the neck). It's also good for your picking
hand timing.
You can see another performance (from 2007) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n6zO_FnnIw which
shows some more of how Andy plays it. This time they do the song at a
cracking tempo (and Andy screws up the playing under the first verse) so
don't feel too bad at how tricky it is 
Finally: the tempo of the album version is around 145bpm or so: I'd suggest
practising at 110 until you have it down and then speeding up by 5 or 10bpm
each time until you can nail it at 145.
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