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Pale Blue Dot (Outro)
🕑 Added 2020-04-30 18:51:10 +0000 UTCHey! How is everyone?
It's time to rock out with this rockin' riff. TAB is attached a PDF and Guitar Pro file.
Pro Tips:
- There are lots of 2 string shapes here. For the ones on the 8th fret, I play them by barring my 1st finger. For the ones of the 10th fret, I use my 3rd finger on the lower pitched string and my 4th finger on the higher string. Alternatively, you can barre your 3rd finger to play the 10th fret on both strings, if you wish. "You do you", as the youngsters say.
- Note that there's a hammer on at very beginning of this riff. I'd recommend just working on this one thing for a while, to really hone in on the double hammer on motion.
- This one is short and repetitive. This makes it quite easy to practice as you just need to play these few notes over and over again. You could even watch The Simpsons while you low-key practice this riff in the background.
Theory Talk:
This one starts off with a C pentatonic scale:
C - Eb - F - G - Bb
Map that out on the fretboard and you get this classic shape:
---------------------------------------8-11--
--------------------------------8-11---------
-------------------------8-10----------------
-----------------8-10------------------------
---------8-10--------------------------------
--8-11----------------------------------------
All the 2 note shapes we talked about above are sometimes called double stops. A double stop is when you take any 2 notes from a scale and play them at the same time. You can find a ton of these in the pentatonic scale, and most of them are on the same frets, adjacent strings. It looks like this:
-----------------------------8--11----
--------------------8--11--8--11----
-----------8--10--8--10-------------
--8--10--8--10----------------------
--8--10------------------------------
---------------------------------------
This is all the raw material required to construct this cool riff. You'll see the first 4 double stops are the only shapes used in this riff.
Comments
Whammy-Jammy ^_^ Great Stuff as always Red Ranger! (Hope your enjoying your Streaming adventures and that Self-Isolating isn't driving any of y'all too zanny!)
From this distant vantage point, the earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it, every one you love, every one you know, every one you’ve ever heard of. The only home we’ve ever known.
Can't wait to noodle around with this one Phobos!
Shiro
If there's not a pedal for that, there should be!
KazultheDragon
Awesome! Now how do I get Carl Sagan's voice to play out of a guitar?
Krissy
I dig the rock sound of this guitar a lot! I wonder how close I could get on mine. It's nice being able to play my guitar whenever I have work breaks, but I can't wait for things to go back to normal. Hope you're doing well!
I’m Good! A little bored of quarantine but I think everyone is but more importantly, how are you today phobos?
Shiro
Oh shit! Mark this as the first post where I'm fairly sure I understand, at least in theory, almost everything that's going on here! It's like I'm learning or something ;) Despite the relative chillness of Pale Blue Dot, btw, I'd pair this riff with a slightly more hardcore candle--it'd come in a black jar, probably, and be called something like Graphite or Leather
