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Strike a Pose (Chorus)
🕑 Added 2020-03-26 17:52:07 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who has taking advantage of social isolation by striking new innovative poses? When nobody is watching, you can get fearlessly creative and really push things to the limit.
We did the intro to this song a few weeks back - if you haven't already seen it, go check it out too!
Pro Tips:
- This one is spanky. To accomplish the spank, hit the strings with confidence and gusto. If you have a strat, put the pickup selector on the 2nd or 4th position (the spank positions). If you have a 2 pickup guitar, use the middle position (a little less spanky but still spanky).
- For fingering, this riff is in the 1st position, although you'll temporarily depart every time the 3rd fret slides up to the 5th. The slides make it sassy.
- Like any of the clean funky stuff, muting is key! Quick tip - the underside of the 1st finger lays lightly on all the higher strings to prevent them from ringing (for example, strings 1-4 when it's fretting the 5th string, or 1-3 when it's fretting the 4th string). Also, when I'm not fretting with my 3rd finger, it lightly touches the strings below the one I'm playing (so if I'm playing the 5th string, it'll mute the 6th. Or if I'm playing the 4th string, it'll mute strings 5-6).
Theory Talk:
Here's the pentatonic scale this comes out out of. The nice thing is if you take the time to look at this first, all the notes of this fall within it, so half the memorization work is already done:
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--------------3-5--------
------1-3/5--------------
-1-3---------------------
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The underlying chords (played by the bass and synths) are:
Fminor7 - Bbmajor - Gminor7 - Cminor7
If you ever feel like trying these chords out on your guitar, here they are:
----------------------3---
--1-----3-----3-----4---
--1-----3-----3-----3---
--1-----3-----3-----5---
--x-----1-----x------3---
--1-----------3----------
TAB is attached as a PDF and Guitar Pro file. Enjoy!
Comments
That's so cool! I'm glad to hear it helps you appreciate the tune on a more detailed level.
Such Skill. Lighting up our inboxes every few days! ^______^ Thanks again Pho'BAWS!
KazultheDragon
This video is one of the reasons I sub even though I've never played guitar. This part of the chorus isn't what I initially focus on when I listen to the song, so it's really fun to watch this and then go back and listen to the full song. I've listened to it dozens of times and now it's like I'm hearing it the first time. Keep rockin', Phobos, and stay safe!
I love this song! It's such a good fun one, especially live! I just gotta say, "the spank positions" sound like something very different lol! Hope you're staying safe and sane in these weird times! Now to get back to work on all these poses I've been striking
Krissy
So much good stuff here to practice, thank you! Enjoy your poses, maybe, just maybe, I'll try that too XD
This song is just SUCH a sexy groove!!!
Shiro
Oh, this is upbeat and nice! Love it :D The kind of nice thing about being housebound is I've got lots of time to practice, haha. I've gone from not being entirely sure how to hold the thing to being able to sprawl out on the couch and pick out chords, which is kind of gratifying! Hopefully I'll get feeling back in my fingertips eventually. Have a good one, guitar man, stay safe!
spank it
