Legendary Space Knight (2nd Section)

This one was written by my friend, Phobos I during his peak years. If you witnessed the guitar lesson I taught him on stream last week, you'll understand me when I say that his chops have been in a state of steep decline lately. It only feels right now that I pay some tribute to his former glory days. One can only hope he'll eventually rediscover his stride!

We looked at another section from this tune a few months back, so check that one out to find the perfect companion to today's riff.

TAB is attached as a PDF and Guitar Pro file. Refer to that to learn this, but I will break down some of the isolated shapes and describe them in this post. Feel free to drop and questions or comments below.

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Conceptually, you will basically be alternating between low palm muted notes, and rhythmic chord accents on strings 2, 3, and 4. The chords can be broken down as follows:

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--7-----3-----3-----3----
--7-----4-----2-----4----
--7-----5-----2-----5----
--x-----0-----x------0----
--7-----------3-----------

The names of these are: Bm7, G/A, G6/9, G/A

Again, the lowest note of each chord will be palm muted, and the 3 notes on top will be played open.  Note that at the end of measure 5 when the riff is about to start over, I walk up chromatically to the 7th fret on the low E string, and it repeats the first 2 chord shapes.

Then, at the end of the riff (measure 8) I go all the way down to the open low E string and play the following shapes:

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--0----0----0-----------------
--2----0----2---7---8---9----
--0----2----3---5---6---7----

The names of these chords are: Em7, D/F#, G, A, Bb, Bm

The first 3 of these chords have each string / note played seprately - string 6, 5, then 4.

The last 3 power chords each require one stroke. 

After this, the riff pretty much repeats starting on measure 10. We divert away from it a little early though, and when the low shapes come back we do a quick run up to this power chord:

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---5-----
---5-----
---3-----
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Hang out on this power chord for a moment and then the riff is complete!