If Good Times Bad Times Led Zeppelin is giving you a hard time, here are some good tips on how to conquer the various challenges:
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Video Transcript
Good Times Bad Times giving you a hard time? Challenges on the fretting hand and challenges on the plucking hand – let’s break it down.
[ 🎵🎵🎵 Ari plays the main riff 🎵🎵🎵 ]
Make sure that you get a good handle on this. And while you’re at it, pay good attention to what your plucking hand does. I am strictly alternating and I bet you are too… when going up – but as you keep coming down again, it’s really tempting to rake.
[ 🎵🎵🎵 Ari demonstrates the plucking 🎵🎵🎵 ]
Having a consistent alternate plucking pattern under your belt is a huge asset because you don’t have to think about it. It’s automated. [ 🎵🎵🎵 ]
Then put it together. [ 🎵🎵🎵 Ari plays the main riff 🎵🎵🎵 ]
I watched the videos with John Paul Jones and that’s not necessarily what he does, but I highly recommend that you get this kind of fingering under your belt because it gives you, in most situations, the best starting point. You can always expand from there.
More Good Times -type rockin’ bass tips:
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