Chords for Adam Rafferty "Superstition" - Guitar Lesson Part 1 of 2

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_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
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_ [Gbm] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] Greetings friends, how are you?
This is Adam Rafferty and I'm going to give you a little
lesson here on how to approach the groove and I'm going [D] to show you how to play it,
_ the groove on Stevie Wonder's Superstition.
[Bb] _ I put a video up about a year ago and I've
gotten a million, well not a million, I've [N] gotten several emails from you and I'm delighted
that so many people enjoyed it and I've gotten a lot of requests for tablature. _
So I finally
finished the tablature for it and there will either be an address here _ on the screen or
somewhere as to where you [D] can _ download the tablature from.
But I wanted to show you one
of the trickier spots and I realized video was a much better medium than tablature alone.
So I'm going to show you how I approach it and it's [Bb]
similar but different from the way
some other people approach it and if I break it [Eb] down for you I think it will make it easier
to play it and have a lot of fun.
_ So first thing is, [E] _ I'm playing the bass line actually
a little differently from the original Stevie Wonder recording because I'm trying to sort
of mimic the sound of a whole band so I had to decide what to leave out and the original
bass line is just four on the floor. _ _ _
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See?
_ _ _ _ And I realized I wasn't getting the feel that
I wanted overall from that.
So here's what I'm doing, here's the bass and drums part.
It's very simple. _
One, two, _ three, [Gb]
four.
That's it for each measure. _ _ _ _
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And in case you're not sure what I'm doing, I'm wearing a thumb pick and I'm just landing
the flat part of the thumb pick on the low E string.
_ Okay?
And it's kind of hitting the string
and the string's kind of hitting the fret so I'm getting this [E] _
_ _ sound and it's very relaxed.
I'm just
putting my hand back into a playing position.
I'm not _ _ bashing, I'm just putting it back down
the way a drummer _ closes _ a hi-hat and the sound comes out.
_ _ Okay? _ _ _ _
_ Okay.
_ _ That's my click.
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_ _ _ Got it?
Okay, now _ _ over here, left hand.
I am barring my first finger _ and there's more than
one way to do this so you might want to experiment.
_ I'm barring my first finger on the fourth and
fifth strings, second fret.
It's like the notes of any minor chord.
But [D] there's a reason I'm
barring it.
So with thumb, index, middle, I'm [E] _
going_
_ Right?
That's the first three notes.
_ It's going to go_ _ _
Now the next note, here's where the little magical thing has to happen.
You got to [D] go_
_ Hear that?
_ So we need to hear the note D _ and we need to have a click at the
same time.
And this is where I probably racked my brain for about six months.
It's very hard
to pluck _ _ and _ _ [E] do that sound at the_
I was trying to do it_
To pluck a D and to get the drum sound
at the same time.
And you need both.
_ It then occurred to me, hey, I need to make the [Eb] D happen
with this hand and make the drum sound happen with this [D] hand.
So I figured, why not do a hammer
on?
See?
Watch.
If I just hammer a D on, I'm playing the fifth string, fifth fret.
_ [Ab] Ah, it's [D] that.
_ _ _ _ But I'm