Supplementary Songs
Try accompanying this song with a rock chord accompaniment using a shuffle rhythm.
This piece is quite challenging, so take it slowly at first. The high Bb note in bars 7 and 11 is at the 6th fret on the first string and is played by the 4th finger.
You will notice in bar 4 and 7 that an Fsus chord and an Em7(b5) are introduced respectively. These chords can both be found in the chord chart in Appendix Three.
The fingering of the F#dim chord in bar 30 uses the same fingering as the Cdim chord in Lesson 30. These diminished chord shapes can be moved 3 frets up or down the fretboards and it will still retain the same chord name, the notes just appear in a different order. In this example, the F#dim chord is fingered at the fourth fret.
Electric Guitar Pickups...
Single Coil Pickups
Electric guitars contain pickups which capture the sound coming from the strings and send the signal to the amplifier. The original pickups were single coil pickups similar to the one shown here. These pickups are commonly found in Fender guitars like the Stratocaster which contains three single coil pickups, and the Telecaster which contains two different single coil pickups.
You may wish to alter the strumming pattern in the last two bars, mimicking the rhythm of the lead part instead of playing rhythm pattern. This will help to make the song sound finished.
