Chords for Quick Riff #20 - Joy & Pain - Maze - How To Play

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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _
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_ [N] Hi guys, Dave here with a new riff lesson for you.
Today we're going to look at Join Pain by the group Maze.
_ _ I've just started listening to their stuff a lot more recently.
I bought the greatest hits and I'm really, really getting into it.
It's great stuff.
Okay, right on with the lesson. _
Harmony wise, we've just got an E minor [D] 9 _ for the first bar.
_ Chord wise that would be [G] _ _ _ 7th fret on [Bm] the B, G, [G] 5th fret on the D, [C] _
and 7th fret on the [Bm] A.
You hear that classic minor 9 sound.
_ [Bb] Okay, that's the entire [N] first bar.
And then you also use this for the first two beats of bar [G] 2.
_ _ [A] Then it switches to this.
[Dbm]
I tend to view this as a B11 chord.
_ Other people would [B] describe it as an A slash G chord, A over G.
Which is basically an A [A] major chord with a B in the bass. _ _
[Gb] Those notes are, you've got the 5th fret on the [Db] B, 6th [A] on the G, _ 7th on the D, and 7th on the A.
And you just allow the backs of the fingers to mute off the other two strings. _ _ _ _
So that's just on beats 3 and 4 of bar 2.
_ [Bbm]
Okay, that's the actual [Bm] chords that are underneath.
The actual riff _ _ is _ _ [A] _ _
[N] _ this.
_ Beat 1, the first half is a rest.
And then [A] we have, [B] _ _ we're just [N] hammering on from 7 to 9 on [A] the D.
[B] _ _ _ _
[Bm] Then on beat 2, _ _ we have 7th fret on the D, [Gb] down up.
[B] And then 9 and 7 _ [F] [Bb] on the D.
Again, [Bm] down up.
_ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ [A]
Right, [B] beat [Eb] 3, _ we do this.
7th fret on the G, [D] down.
[N] _
And then we're going to relax the finger, a little kind of dead note we're going to get.
Pick down again, press the [D] note up, and do an up.
So you kind of go [G] down, up, down. _
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And then on beat 4, and again it's on the second half of beat 4, we get a little half [A] beat rest.
[B] _ We get a [D] little hammer on again, [A] 7 to 9 on the D.
[B] _ _ So the first bar, _ _ _ [A] _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] that's the way it's spaced out.
Okay, _ second bar, we just have 2 on the 7th fret of the G [D] again.
_ _ [B] And let's play [Am] very staccato, [D] so you can play each note, [G] relax your [Eb] finger.
Like that, both with [Bm] downbeats. _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ [B] Then on beat 2, [A] _
_ _ 7 to 9 on [G] the G, _ down up.
And then 7 to 7 on the [A] D.
_ _ _ Again, just down up, [Em] down up.
[Am] _ Then the last 2 beats, [Gm] there's a space.
So the whole thing, [Em] _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bm] _
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[A] _ _ [N] _ _ _ that's the entire riff.
_ _ That's the majority of the song as well.
There is a little middle section where there's a chord change.
But for the actual guitar part, that's it.
So I hope you enjoyed this lesson, and I'll see you for one [Bm] real soon.
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