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Tom Finch
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 06/17/08
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Tom Finch
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 06/17/08
Posts: 150
11/04/2017 6:29 am

Hey there, I'm glad that you are enjoying the tutorial. What a GREAT song!

That is a very good question! If you were to play this on a single guitar you would either:

1) need a double neck guitar and put a capo on one of them. Perhaps not so practical ;)

2) You could adapt the acoustic part to play with bar chords. It would be different chord shapes which would result it a slightly different sound, but it would get you through the song AND it would be good practice to transpose the the acoustic form Emin, open postion to Gmin position. Often times bands with only one guitar player will record multiple guitars on a studio recording and then have to make accomodaions in order to perform it live!

Cheers, Tom