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

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On 17 Nov 2003 00:12:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
>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.
>
>I've sort of half managed it physically, but the hammer on is totally
>drowned out by the rake.  I've watched as carefully as the camera
>angles allow, and it doesn't *look* like he's doing this, but it does
>*sound* like it !
>
>Does anyone know the way ?  There's got to be a way...... ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kev.