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Your vibrato is on the top E string, Bumblefoot Mafalda’, the track featured this release by the new guitar abel @: SOUND ADVICE Squid Note Records ~a doul "FOOT'S FRETLESS ‘oanpitation CD entitled “The Alchemsts' (see Track Record) “1 USED AVIGIER SURFRETTER, ‘vibes. 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(Ifyou see numbers in the accessory for a unique technique © A tapped note would normally be music but no Ts next to them, t but its highly effective denoted by an arrow above the fingerinas apply to vour regula he transcription you have before relevant note-tead in the m fretting han ssns done by Bumble ere, youll find the letter in pli “© You may be puzzled by sections himself Its such a meticulous bit of of an arrow. Your tapping ha has as BAR 2, where you have to work that we didn’ want to change to keep the ite finger on thimble- tap a note and then pull off oa a thing, even though a couple of he holding detail, and your index finger natural harmonic, The trick here a> sunven 2002 Guitar Techniques 43Rock BUMBLEFOOT MASTERCLASS ‘MAFALDA’ is to have a fnger on your let hand resting lightly on the strings at the ‘appropriate fret, so a harmonic magically pops out whenever you pall ff from a tapped nove, All harmonies are notated with ‘diamond: heads inthe musie, and also with a whole-note-shaped diamond symbol above the tab ‘@ Some of those wide-interval licks are playedl with pick-and-ingers note the usual “down’, up" and ‘mide finger” markings. © For "tnble” notes (we've already used the letter T for tapped notes) we use “Th. Try not to ‘confuse the two! You'l find a lot of wide stretches in Mafalda’, not to mention some very unusual Lapping ideas, where ‘Your tapping and fretting hands feel Like they're doug completely different things. Nobody said this stuff was easy, but if you work on some of these ideas at a slow, sensible pace, you'll soon find wags ‘of meorporating a touch of Bumblefoot into your own plaving, For more of the same, pay a visit to we bumblefoot com, where you can learn lots more abet this truly ‘unique player. The 9.11” album is required listening if you thought over-the-top guitar playing never got any more scary than ‘Passion And Warfare’, but if you faney more of a band: orientated vibe, you should probably check ont ‘Hands’ or ‘Unenal. 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