From: Porl
Okay - here`s `Rain` (a `really` easy song...) - and look at that ultra-complex
solo! Wow! Still, each to his own...
Here goes...
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`Rain` - The Cult (Astbury/Duffy)
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Song Pattern:
intro x2
main riff x2
chords x2
main riff x2
crunched x1
chords x2
main riff x4
solo intro x1
funky chord x1
solo
main riff x4 (final main riff: hold final
few notes longer to stress finale!)
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Intro:
(this takes the form of four simple chords (D, Am, C, and G) with
only three notes of each played, one at a time, so it runs as follows...)
e:---3-----1-------------------
B:--2-----2--------------------
G:-0-----0-------0-------------
D:--------------2------0-------
A:-------------3------2--------
E:-------------------3---------
(D) (Am) (C) (G)
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Main Riff:
e:-1-0-----1-0--33-1-0-------0--------
B:-----33-3----1-------11-1-3-313-----
(Here comes the rain...oh here comes...)
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Chords (for Verses):
DDDDDDD-C----------DDDDDDDC-CCCCCCC-G-GGGGGGG-D (x2)
Hot sticky scenes, You know what I mean...
Like the desert sun that burns my skin...
D-D-D-D-F--F-F-F-C--C-C-C-G--G-G-G (x2)
I`ve been waiting...so long, for her...
Open the sky, and let her come down...
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Crunched Chords (After 1st Chorus):
(Y`know how to do these - hand resting on strings over bridge, just
shutting them off...etc.)
DDDDDDDC--DDDDDDDC--DDDDDDDD-D-D-FF-G----
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Solo Intro:
e:-------------------------------------------
B:-3-1-0-----0-3---10-----3-1-0-----0-3--310-
G:-------2-01--------2----------2-01---------
D:----------------------0--------------------
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Funky Chord (!):
(Basically just a D (barred on the 10th fret) only just play top 3
strings, eg:)
e||---|---|-- - - - --|-o-|---|---
B||---|---|-- - - - --|-o-|---|---
G||---|---|-- - - - --|---|-o-|---
D||---|---|-- - - - --|---|---|---
A||---|---|-- - - - --|---|---|---
E||---|---|-- - - - --|---|---|--- - -
10th
fret
Play in a funk fashion (ie. strumming a constant rhythm (a fast one)
lifting fingers away from frets to `kill` the strings and create rhythm
patterns) for 8 bars...
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Solo:
e:-10---10----1-0------1-331-0----10---------1-0---10----1-331-0---10-------
B:----3----33-----33-3---------3-----33-313-3---33---33-3--------3----33-313
G:--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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C`est finis.
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As for Floorshow - keep at it! It`ll click eventually, it`s all about
rhythm (and blagging it!)
All the best.
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