Guitar Lesson: Learn how to play Lonely The Brave - Backroads

Lonely The Brave's Mark Trotter shows Total Guitar how to play the arpeggio riff from Backroads
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[@thonius6489]

This song fills my soul with so much happiness, its just so unreal ❤

[@AssassinGreen]

Great to have met Mark hanging around onstage after the gig in Norwich OPEN venue back in May. Very willing to chat with us and friendly. Have really got into the band over the last few months and their new album churns out even more great tunes. Thank you for the tutorial Mark :)

[@shaminky]

My favorite recent band, they rock!! cant wait for the new album :)

[@TruBasist]

Thank you! I just love this song

[@punjabik]

Essentially, the riff is a run of arpeggios played on the first, second and third strings, but those position changes need to be well-timed. We advise practising two picking patterns: ‘third string, first string, third string, second string’, and then reverse the first and second strings to get ‘third, second, third, first’. The hardest part of the riff comes as Mark changes patterns, so practise slowly to begin with. You could start out playing the riff in a simplified manner, fretting notes only on the third string and leaving the first and second strings open. Then you can introduce the second-string fretted notes.

[@Franck-Sieurin]

Hi, would it be possible to have the tablature please? :) Thanks

[@hennareytutorials]

Here's a tab: www.acousterr.com/tab/backroads-redux-lonely-the-brave and here's a tutorial in case you need one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ3PgXt6gdqifrs

[@Highervibesofficial]

What thing is it in

[@Highervibesofficial]

I ment tuning

[@alvarojavier2276]

+geminijets101 Standard tuning

[@Rafisrevenge]

i wonder if it would have sounded better if he played this one with es335