neon is pissing me the hell off need help

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:50 am

TaylorsBaby225 wrote:can you get a recording up, i want to hear someone besides mayer play it

fire already has one, you should ask him to put it back up

DMBFreak84 · Post by **DMBFreak84** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:55 am

isaac wrote:lol. learning stream might be just a little harder than Neon.

not really, i learned stream and can play it pretty well, but i cant get neon for the life of me, its all about style my man, all about style

The Man of The Hour · Post by **The Man of The Hour** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:48 pm

Here's a clip of how I play neon - the bass notes could use a little more emphasis but I decided to take this recording

http://webpages.charter.net/davefletcher/neon.mp3

moffatt7291 · Post by **moffatt7291** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:09 pm

nice....howd you learn to do it? did you practice it a lot? i cant get the 16th beat thing down...nor can i get it to sound like that...sounds like i just hit the base not and then pick the next notes...wtf?

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:24 pm

moffatt7291 wrote:man...calm down...too bad there is no sarcasm button on the computer. just sayin that i got a bunch of friends that think they are badass at guitar and it woulda been cool to learn that and play it but its too crazy hard.

It's always fun to show people up...

I hear ya.

The Man of The Hour · Post by **The Man of The Hour** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:24 pm

Well, I am slapping the bass notes with my thumb, like Mayer does I believe. I started out just slapping those 5 notes perfecting it, perfecting the rhythym and the overall sound of the slapping. After I got that down, I moved on to the higher notes, throwing those in even if I messed up. By the way, I use all of my fingers except my pinky to play it, I can get increased speed that way, but that's just preference.

moffatt7291 · Post by **moffatt7291** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:43 pm

its the damn rythm that has me i think....any way you got the rythm down in particular?

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:58 pm

moffatt7291 wrote:its the damn rythm that has me i think....any way you got the rythm down in particular?

stop trying to play just like mayer, the whole 16th note strum pattern isn't really necessary to play the song

The Man of The Hour · Post by **The Man of The Hour** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:33 pm

It is really hard to explain, best advice is to just keep listening to it and playing it, maybe use a program to slow it down to half speed to get the notes right. It took awhile for it to click, and that's normal, it's not the easiest piece of music..

isaac · Post by **isaac** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:43 pm

i still suck at slapping. meh. any tips on how to do it?

The Man of The Hour · Post by **The Man of The Hour** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:50 pm

I rest my hand on the bridge usually and slap with the jointy-part of my thumb is. When you bend your thumb, you'll see the big crease, you want to hit with the hard bone on the side right there. In between the crease on top and on bottom. That usually gets the most sound. And only let that part of your thumb hit the string too.

isaac · Post by **isaac** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:52 pm

where exactly are you hitting the string itself? i've figured out where to hit it with my thumb...just no clue where to hit the string.

The Man of The Hour · Post by **The Man of The Hour** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:54 pm

I can hit any part of the string and get the same sound out of it..
again only let that part of your thumb hit the string to get the most definition out of it

Edit - have to head to work i'll talk more about it with ya later

isaac · Post by **isaac** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:57 pm

hm...all right.

thanks a lot. i'll work on it.

moffatt7291 · Post by **moffatt7291** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:16 pm

this song is hard...can you post an mp3 of just the slapping you did to practice the rythm before you added the other notes...that may help me.