Plateau - Meat Puppets/Nirvana Unplugged (Patreon)
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Today we are learning another one from the Nirvana unplugged album, Plateau, this is another one that was originally written by The Meat Puppets, the band that composed Lake of Fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BCZl...) and it is a ton of fun to play! One of the few songs that we have done at Tenthumbs were the chords change on the 1/4 beat and to get that groove going what they do is this really cool fingerpicking idea, that we will break down for you note for note as always.
In addition to the fingerpicking rhythm in the verse and intro there is a 2/4 measure that acts as a pre-chorus and this cool pre-coda followed by a key change into the key of A for a full on fingerpicking intro. The song is a lot of fun to play and not too tricky, at the end we will do a play-along and show you how all the pieces come together.
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Riffing with the G shape triad
Changing chords on the 1/4 beat
Key changes
Open string arpeggios
1/16th note arpeggios
Fsus2 chord
Muting strings with your fretting hand