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sweet emotion

#3
Personally, I don't think so. If you've not already, tune your G string up to A so your bass is E-A-D-A. Play the riff on the top 'A' string. As it uses lots of open string 'A', I find that, if you leave it unmuted, the second 'A' string (one octave down) will sound quietly in sympathy which gives a sort of drone effect. It doesn't work in other tunings as you need the two strings to be tuned to the same note. Hope that helps.
 
#8
4StringsEnough said:
Personally, I don't think so. If you've not already, tune your G string up to A so your bass is E-A-D-A. Play the riff on the top 'A' string. As it uses lots of open string 'A', I find that, if you leave it unmuted, the second 'A' string (one octave down) will sound quietly in sympathy which gives a sort of drone effect. It doesn't work in other tunings as you need the two strings to be tuned to the same note. Hope that helps.
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I believe he plays EADG, he seems to be playing it in EADG and also the octaves Tom plays in the verses would be a long stretch.
 
#10
Here's how I've adapted the intro:

/ \ = slide
x = harmonic
* = partial harmonic (open string sounds too because you let off at the right moment)

Code: 
   x  x  x  x  x  *     x  x   / \
G -------12-------------------------
D -------------7--------12----11-12-  (alternate with 12-11)
A -12-12----7-----12-------12-------
E ----------------------------------
 

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