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So thanks to this here challenge, @V8 and I now have to learn Scuttle Buttin' — my first SRV song.
Love the guy's music but never bothered learning any of his songs (or any songs, really — bad habit of mine, I'm not a strong finisher)
So what's the first step? For me it's probably gonna be Rocksmith 2014. It has a "Riff Repeater" you can use to isolate the riff and slow it down to something playable. You can then slowly increase the tempo up to the tempo of the song.
I might add in a metronome to my practice so I can eventually play without the game because I find it difficult to "hold onto" stuff I've learned in Rocksmith. So Rocksmith will probably be how I learn the notes and transitions between notes but some stuff can't easily be learned there, like:
- Strumming style. There's a bit of strumming between the licks and if I want to sound right, I'll need to listen carefully and try mimic what I'm hearing. Maybe some YouTube videos will help there.
- Tone. You can't really "learn" how to get a certain tone in Rocksmith. I'm gonna need to experiment here. All I have is an Orange Micro Terror. Probably not gonna get the right tone with that but maybe if I put one of my humbuckers in single-coil mode, I can get somewhere close? Gonna need to listen and tweak.
And probably at least 5 other things like where to position your thumb (over the neck? at the back?) and so on.
So Rocksmith will get me started but then methinks it'll be up to my ears and eyes to complete the picture.
The plus side is I won't need to go buy/download any lessons for this. (I saw one this morning that had the lick played with bends instead of slides... I'd rather avoid the possibility of learning the song wrong.)
Another thing I could try is playing this video from Paul Davids at a slower speed. Maybe I'll do that once I have some of the lick nailed down. 0.25x speed (the lowest YouTube will slow a video) might still be too fast for the initial learning.
@V8 what are you doing to learn this one?