Found Your Love (Intro)

New song off the new album time! Good news is that my regular camera is back working again, so the next few vids will look extra crispy :)

This is the main intro riff that happens twice, when the band first kicks in, and again during the bridge. 

I think this is a good example of (mostly) single note rhythm playing. It's there to provide funky percussive rhythm, since the keys/synths are sticking to holding longer sustained chords. Because of this, the rhythm of the part is actually more important than the notes themselves. In a way, the guitar acts kind of like a big heavy and more expensive tambourine.

When coming up with these kinds of parts, my go to scale shape is an extended pentatonic. This is usually one of the first things I show my zoom students since it's the backbone of so many different songs people learn on the guitar. I've shown it off on this page a few times but here it is in case you haven't learned it yet:

------------------------------------------11-13/15-
---------------------------------11-13--------------
----------------------8-10/12-----------------------
----------------8-10---------------------------------
-------6-8/10----------------------------------------
-6-8--------------------------------------------------

The trick with this part is the picking. I've said this in a few different lessons now but I'll say it again: whether you do a downstroke or an upstroke on any note isn't dependent on what comes before it, but is just a matter by where the note happens in the measure. So if the 16th note 'grid' is like: 1e&a2e&a3e&a4e&a, then any notes on the numbers or the &'s need a downstroke, and anything on an e or an a needs an upstroke. Getting this habit down will enable the use of extra funky ghost notes (the quick muted notes that sometimes occur between the actual notes of the riff).

Drop any questions or comments down below! TAB is (as always) attached to this post.

buhbye,

- Phobos