Linus and Lucy

Ok you do know it was originally for piano? Ok good. Well what he does is he takes the E, A, and D strings and uses them as the "left hand" part of the piano part. He also plays that with his left hand. Then he takes the melody of the song, which is like 3 notes, which are a whole step apart, and plays that on the G string.

So now you know that

Ok then playing them at the same time...well you need amazing cordination to do that, something I cant do, but am working on.

 

Ok another thing, he plays all the notes by tapping, which is bassicly fretting the notes without any plucking or picking going on.

 

It's tapping. But it's a very hard song to tap, because both hands are doing a completely seperate thing, so it just takes lots of practice.

Practice up.

 

Hey guys, thought I would chime in here too
Linus and Lucy is a little tough if you do not have experience tapping. It was the first song that I ever learned, but I had already conditioned my hands for tapping. Search the archives for tapping info you will find tons of great stuff
I tap alot myself probably more than I play traditionally. Actually tapping was the reason I started to play bass in the first place. It is the perfect instrument for this technique.

 

If you get a chance watch his instructional video (if it's still available) where he plays the whole thing. Interesting to watch.