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Two measures of D coming up quick–what are you gonna do?! Not that one hammer on thing AGAIN?!! Here, have some new ideas.

Improvisation Key of D Key of G

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  1. Deb Carrigan ·

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. picknGrin ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  3. Gene Sowell ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. Owen Brady ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  5. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

  6. Deb Carrigan ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

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