[Kirk Lorange]

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Here's one that will keep you busy for a while! I must admit, I'm not awfully familiar with this one and I had to go to iTunes to have a listen to a few versions to remind me how it goes. As hard as I tried to come up with a simple arrangement, I couldn't. It's not so much that the fingerings and chord shapes are difficult, but the moving between them gets tricky. You really do need to think ahead for this one and mentally be making those moves long before they actually come.

G once again proved to be the best key for this, so at least you'll find a lot of familiar positions for some of the chords. It's in 3/4 time, so you'll hear me count two bars "one two three, two two three". There's a pick-up note on the third beat of the second bar of count-in.

It's that opening bit (which recurs twice later on) that's the most challenging. I tried several ways of playing this (as I always do) and this one seemed the easiest. Moving from the B7 to the C is where you need to be quick, clean and accurate to keep it all flowing. You really need to get your fingerings -- your whole hand in fact -- in position while it's moving between chords so that all fingers land at the same time, ready and prepared ... and the instant they land, be thinking of the next move. In this case, the C is just two notes (the first beat is in fact it's a C6), so it's not as difficult as getting a full chord down cleanly, but it's tricky nonetheless.

At bars 15 and 31 I play a D/C chord for one beat. That's a "D over C chord" which means a D chord with a C bass note, a sort of D7 with the flat7 as bass note. I only added that because I though it sounded neat, you can go straight to the plain old D is you prefer.

At bar 19 there's an interesting little passage where the bass line goes down while the melody line goes up, a line that your fingers will need some convincing to execute, and at bar 22 there's a pull-off from the 7th fret to the fifth you need to do with your pinkie.

The end bit is a repeat of the first two sections, the hard bits.

Keep plugging away at it until you get it ... listening back to my rendition here, I wish I'd waited for a couple more run-throughs before hitting 'Record' on the cameras and Audition ... I play it much better now! Practice does make perfect.

As always, I remind you that the downloadable version has big clear movies, one of which is the overhead view showing very clearly what the left hand is doing, which fingers are being used and which are just hovering there. You also get the GuitarPro file which (if you have the software) is a great tool; two midi files, the MP3, the tab and notation ... well worth the few bucks.