Hey, how're you doin? Justin here. In this lesson today,
we're checking out "Hysteria" by Muse.
That little riff that I just played there was actually the bass riff,
it's not really the guitar riff.
But I'm going to show it to you anyway because
it sounds pretty cool. So we're going to check out that little riff first.
Then we're going to check out the actual kind of main
melody part that he plays, check out the chords in the chorus
and I'll show you the solo as well, for good measure.
Because it's a pretty funky little solo. So, without any further ado,
let's get stuck in and check out that first riff.
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Okay, nice and slowly, let's check it out.
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There, this is obviously the tenth fret
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Ten to twelve
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Open again
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Ten
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Open
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Seven
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open again, then we've got this eight, eight, seven, five, seven
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That's the first bar. Definitely worth practicing that bit by itself.
Then we're onto the next one. We've got now an E pedal
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an open E
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which is all on the thickest string,
except for the last note there, the note A up at the twelfth fret
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This is obviously the tenth here
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similar sort of feel to the other one
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the twelfth and fifteenth fret there
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Now we're up to the D string
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Sometimes I'm changing what finger I play that note with,
it doesn't really matter. And then we finish the same as we start.
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Except the first note of that's missing actually.
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So we're having this
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It's kind of this here is the first beat of the next bar
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because it's an octave above the A anyway.
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When it comes to the main guitar riff, it's really important that you make sure
that you get your muting good with both hands.
First of all, when you're playing the octave
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you should be able to strum all of the notes, but all of
the notes are muted, except the two that you want.
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And you're going to use that down, down, up, down, down, up pattern.
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Then mute all of the strings with the outside of your palm here,
sists on the strings to keep them all quiet
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and then you're going to do a little bend here at the twelfth fret
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to the tenth fret. So it's semitone bend
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and down to the tenth fret.
Now, that pattern just moves down now, so twelve
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that's first finger on the eleventh fret
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first finger on the eighth fret
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last time, the bend is going up and down a couple of times.
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Same again
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Then he's just hitting an open A string
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and the seventh fret of the fourth string
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octaves of the eighth. Then, the guitar is quiet.
All of the way through the verse, comes in with
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big muted hits.
So grabbing the whole fingerboard with your fingers
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and hitting
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then we're into the chorus. Now, the chorus, the chords are power chords.
C
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G
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D
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and A
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And it's kind of strummed unusually for power chords
if you just check out the strumming hand now for a second, here it is
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Now, I do a little trick here as well, which you might like,
where I'm playing a C chord. Now this is, and I don't think what
Matt Bellamy is playing on the record but it sounds pretty,
sounds like it. I think maybe it's a bass or a synthesiser
or something, but I go
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I put a little
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a bend in from the second fret
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and then up to the third
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And finishing with a little riff, same as the bass one
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which is of course the one with the E pedal the we learned already.
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And then it's back into that octaves thing.
Then the guitar goes quiet, then it plays a chorus. Then it plays the little riff again and then,
we're into the solo!
I'm going to do the solo in two halves. The first half looks like this:
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Okay, let's go through that now, just really nice and slowly.
Got here fourteen and twelve
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Picking is alternate throughout. I'm not going to go through all of the frets with you.
I'm sure there's plenty of tabs around for this
and you can probably see it anyway.
That's, we've got this nice little run
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Second part of the solo is based on arpeggio's.
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Hope you enjoyed the look at Hysteria by Muse.
Fantastic rock tune and if you're playing in a band or getting a band together,
it's a really, really great fun one to play.
Your bass player will love you for it. If you can play, and he'll hate you for it
if you can't. Matt Bellamy's guitar playing is most awesome
and in this tune, there's loads and loads of cool things to learn.
I hope I didn't go too fast through the solo.
There's going to be plenty of tabs around. If not, just make
your own tab really slowly by watching the video.
It's not too difficult. Make sure that you get your alternate
picking all of the way through this tune. All of those fast things are all alternate.
Continuously alternate, you know, down-up picking, whatever.
Making sure that you pick down on the beat of course.
Yeah, lots of good fun. Hope you enjoyed that. Back for plenty more guitar lessons soon.
If you get stuck on any of this, check out the forum.
There'll be plenty of people to help. And I'll put also,
some additional notes that'll help you play the tune on my website.
Take care of yourselves and I'll see you some time real soon. Bye bye!