Playing "Say it Ain't So" by Weezer

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JOE WILES: Hi. This is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll Conservatory on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, we're going to talk about Weezer's "Say It Ain't So." Now, I have my guitar tuned to standard tuning, E, A, D, G, B, and E. But in the actual Weezer song, it's tuned down a half step, so keep that in mind, okay? The song's going to start off, I'm going to bar the whole 4th fret with my index finger, okay? That's the A string on the 4th fret, D string on the 4th fret, G string on 4th fret, and B string on the 4th fret. Then, I'm going to hammer my middle finger and my ring finger down to these positions, the 5th fret on the B string and the 6th fret on the D string. That's the chord we're going to end up with, okay? It's pretty tricky to do so give it a couple of practices. And then, we're going to move down to an E major chord form, barred on the 4th fret. That's 4, 6, 6, 5, okay? So together, they sound like this. Then, we're going to do a little arpeggiated picking pattern. Keep in mind that the B string is going to ring open, okay? That arpeggiated picking pattern is the A string, the E string, and then up. Then, we slide this whole little form up one fret, and then lay our index finger down from the bar across all six strings. Then, open E major chord, which is the same form just in the open position, open, 2, 2, 1, open, open, okay. Again, bar the 4th fret and then hammer on to this position. And my fingers are hammering on to the 5th and the 6th fret of the B and the D strings. Slide up. Now, the answer riff is an open E string. The 9th fret on the A string hammered on to the 11th, and then use our index finger to hit the 9th fret of the D and the G string, and slide it down, again. And then, slide back in to the 4th fret to repeat the phrase. Slowly, that whole bit sounds like this. Oh yeah. Nothing to it. It's a pretty song as long as you know your--a couple of chord forms and if you don't, practice it until you get 'em 'cause we're going to use those chord forms all the time when you play the guitar. In our next segment, we're going to talk about "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash, and I'll see you there.

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