DIS: 'Pride & Joy' - SRV : HELP !!! - How did he do these bars... ????

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to learn Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'Pride & Joy'.  I have the
> tablature and I've hit a problem....  From the fifth bar onwards he
> plays a walking bass line on the beat but with a quick dampened
> 'strum' on the off-beat, creating a 'un-cha, un-cha, un-cha, un-cha'
> feel.
> 
> The tab I have sounds right, compared to a video of him playing it,
> but this is what it says to do.....
> 
> -----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0--|
> -----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0--|
> -----x-----x-----x-----x--|-----x-----x-----x--2--0h-|
> -----------x--------------|--2--------x--------------|
> -----------x--2-----4-----|-----------x--2-----------|
> --0-----3h-4--------------|--------3h-4--------------|
> 
>            ^                          ^
>            |                          |
>           ***                        ***
> 
> HOW THE HELL DO YOU MANAGE THAT !!!  I can't work out how on earth
> you're supposed to hit the G (3rd fret - 6th string), then hammer it
> on to the Ab *WHILST* simultaneously raking the remaining (damped!)
> strings.

Is it easier if you slide up from the G to the Ab with the same 
finger (index)?  (Disclaimer:  I don't know the first thing about 
playing "Pride and Joy," or anything else by SRV.)

Good luck.  If it works for you the way I've suggested, you've 
learned what I think is an important lesson about tab.