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Wow, I remember this throwing me off big time when I worked on it before, but I couldn’t figure out what it was that was tough as I could play it cleanly and accurately though slowly as long as I was looking at the tab.
This time, I figured out what is so difficult. I have learned to do 3 bass string alternating thumb, but the pattern that seems more common is 6, 4, 5, 4. But this exercise has the bass thumb going 6, 4, 6, 5. Then throw in the changes and I can’t keep it straight.
This is what I’ve got so far: the thumb is consistent doing 6, 4, 6, 5 (I had to edit that as even when typing I wanted to type 5 for the 3rd hit) and the fingers are consistently doing 2, 1, 2, 1. So the only thing changing is the rhythm, which is done by the fingers. The fingers go after the drone (6th string) in the first measure, then after the secondary bass string (4 and 5 string) in the second measure. But his thumb and fingers are doing an alternating pattern that never changes.
I’m breaking it down like this because I’m really gonna get this. 😎
MG 😀