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Hi! How you doin'? Justin here
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and in this lesson today
we're going to be checking out
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the riff to 'Alive' by one of
my favorite bands Pearl Jam.
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It's a properly awesome riff.
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Not particluarly difficult to play
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but often taught wrong so
I'm going to show you the right way.
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Let's get to a close up and check it out.
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Ok we are starting here with a
little A open power chord.
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We're just plucking the 5th string,
4th string, and 3rd string.
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1st finger doing the little mini bar there.
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Doesn't really matter if you
accidently hit the 2nd string.
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It doesn't sound great but
it doesn't really matter
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You definitely don't want to
hit the thinnest string.
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And you might want to use your thumb
to mute that thickest string,
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just to keep it nice and clean.
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(plays A open power chord)
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That's played once for the down pick.
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Then we've got
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which is a slide.
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The third finger is sliding from around
the 4th fret, maybe the 5th fret
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up to the 7th fret.
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Lifting off and you've plucked the
open D string.
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And then hammer on your
1st finger into the 7th fret
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followed by your
3rd finger in the 9th fret.
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This last note is actually picked so it's
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pick the open D,
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hammer the 7th fret
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and then pick this note at the 9th fret.
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This is the 4th string.
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Now at the moment,
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because I'm demonstrating
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I'm sliding up to the 7th fret
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and it's a bit organised
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but it's a bit looser than that.
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It's kind of a slider
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I think it finishes on that 7th fret
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but you gotta feel it a bit
looser than that.
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So 9th fret, 7th fret.
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Then you got
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which is the open two middle strings
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down and up
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then put the chord down.
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Very common rock thing.
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Good thing to practice.
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So down pick,
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up,
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down with a chord.
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Then this second time,
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bend, 9th fret semitone,
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back, 9th fret, 7th fret,
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and then the open D string
and G string again.
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Our middle two strings.
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Then right at the end, we've got
an F chord here.
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This is the 8th fret, a power chord
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with the 5th string group
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and we go
down, down, down, down,
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move it up two frets,
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down.
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This is now a G
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and then you lift off your third finger
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so you've got 10, 10, 12
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which is kind of like a C chord.
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It's a C chord 2nd inversion.
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Little power chord C.
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S'pose you could go
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if you want but the record
sounds like.
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OK. Let me just play it
nice and slowly for you.
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Here we go.
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And normal speed.
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Well that was 'Alive' by Pearl Jam.
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Awesome song, great band.
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If you haven't checked them out before,
if you're a bit too young
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Pearl Jam are the business.
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When I was a teenager,
that was like as good as it got
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and I spent many years playing Pearl Jam songs
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in sweaty little toilets around Australia.
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Really awesome, great stuff to work out.
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Really good fun to play.
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Really nice two guitar part things
quite often as well so
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go check out Pearl Jam,
if you don't know their stuff already.
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See ya for another riff some time very soon.
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Take care of yourselves. Bye bye.