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FROM NOTHING PT 2 Song by the Foo Fighters

!Level: Beginner-Intermediate (solo Int-Adv)

Oct 2014

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Something From Nothing !I’ve already given you the blurb on the song in part 1, which Im assuming you've

read so lets not spend too long here. I’m using a slightly more distorted setup on

this guitar track but other than that you want the same general rock setup as

before. Lets get cracking!

!VERSE !We don't play on the intro (10 bars long) so lets dive into the first bit of lead of the

song, the Verse. This is played with a slide on the track but then they also have

three other guitars so help cover when its time to take

the slide off etc. Because of this Ive arranged it for

bends (pre-bends to be precise), to retain the slide like

quality without having to mess about with one in the

heat of battle. Pre-bends can be tricky so I’d fully

recommend just looping this first box till you get the

hang of it. From there we play the same thing and just

put an ever lower note on the end:

Next up some straightforward notes. The only thing that needs some work is

ensuring you time the slide so that as it arrives at the target note you pick at the

same time. Watch the

video for an example.

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HEAVY BREAK HARMONY LINE Next up we have a nice harmony part to complement the Heavy break the rhythm

guitar plays. Rhythmically we are tracing over the top and playing the following:

Like the heavy break we play this twice then end with the following notes that line

up with the three chords the rhythm guitarist plays:

!!The very last note is used

to slide back into the verse

(at fret 9) which we will

then repeat.

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After verse 2 we then go back into the heavy break harmony line once more only

this time we leave the 2 off the end and just sustain the 6th fret note for the whole

bar.

RIFF OVERDUB !!We then move into the first riff section.

Were going to support the rhythm

guitar by playing similar notes but

higher up the neck. 8 times through

please then we can move on to

something more interesting!

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SOLO 1 Its more of a lead break than a solo admittedly but lets enjoy it all the same! We

start off with this great lead line built off an A minor pentatonic scale, but sliding in

from the position below. I explain the best fingers to use in the video so check it

out.

Play this line twice then we will move on to some octaves, lasting two beats each,

before moving to an A major chord strummed six times and ending in mutes to

match the rhythm guitar:

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NEW RIFF OVERDUB AND DIMINISHED SECTION We then return to the riff overdub in the same position but this time we are going

to extend the overall sound by introducing some extra notes:

!!I have detailed the fingers I prefer for

this in the video. We will be playing it

twice before briefly departing to play

some clashing diminished chords and

lead.

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You will strum the chord (see chord box for shape) four times before

shifting the same shape down the frets and then repeat the movement

before playing that nice little bit of lead at the end. The lead is

deceptively tricky so make sure you follow the fingering described in

the video exactly. We then move back too the New Riff overdub a

further 8 times.

!HEAVIER RIFF OVERDUB At this point the song steps it up a gear and the extra guitars start making more noise

based around an E power chord. Either 1 or 2 below:

!!All the while the New riff overdub from the previous

page rages on for another 8 repetitions. My solution is

a somewhat crude one where we simply hold the first

E power chord position whilst trying to maintain the

high movement of the Riff. Ultimately it definitely steps

up on my cover recording so Im pleased with the end effect, though it does mean a large

stretch for your little finger.

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MIDDLE RIFF, SOLO 2 AND HEAVY BREAKDOWN After this we return to the Middle riff. The rhythm guitar will be repeating this section

four times however we only join it for the first repetition. We will play it identically then

break off to play the second ‘solo’ which is a modified version of the first, that moves

around a few different chords and positions.

!!!!!!The first position is based around an E minor chord and pentatonic. Pay attention to the

melodic shape of the run and compare it to the second riff. The shape is very similar but is

being played over a D power chord. The D chord in this case is ‘implied’ to be major by the

notes in the riff.

We now have the same riff beginning on C and again it is being implied as a major chord

before the pattern finally changes over an A chord. This time you begin the riff as

expected but half way through the bar we break off to join the rhythm guitar on an F

power chord, hitting it twice. We then repeat the lead line from the start with different

amounts of F chords at the end. The second repetition we have a single strum (below left)

and on the last repetition (below right) we mimic the mute and strum of the rhythm

guitar. We then completely mimic the rhythm guitars part on the heavy breakdown (see

PDF for part 1 for tab)

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MAIN SOLO !Time for the scary solo! This took some listening to on my part for sure. Positionally it was

given away by watching a live performance on Letterman but it was still very hard to pin

down on account of the fact that it fades in, fades out and is audible very low in the mix.

Because of this its not working in the composition as a feature, as a solo usually would,

but rather as a textural device, to create excitement without being too obvious. Very

effective I would say. It is very fast and will require serious practice, being primarily based

around the subdivision of 32nd notes (8 notes per beat). Lets take a look at bar 1:

!We start with an 8 note pattern which we repeat twice (underlined Red above). Remove

this and treat it a separate exercise working to build the speed. Next we have a smaller 4

note pattern which we repeat 3 times (underlined Blue above) which again can be looped

individually to build speed. The last 4 note pattern (underlined in Green above) is entirely

unrelated, and this is where the solo begins to move down the strings. On to Bar 2:

! Bar 2 has a mixture of 32nd notes and 16th note triplets (6 notes to a beat so slightly

slower). This mixing of rhythmic subdivisions can be confusing if you're not confident with

them so listen to the video if you're unsure. We are descending with a mixture of hammer

ons and pull offs between fret 2 on the G, D and A strings. This whole section is very

reminiscent of the descending run in Long road to ruin (check my channel as I have a

lesson covering this too!).




OUTRO The outro section is a collection of four small riffs that we play through, so quite simple

really.

!First up we have less of a riff, more of a sound. I

think this is likely a slide part but we can do it with a

drawn out bend. I strum it also to keep it ringing out

strong, in 16th notes so four notes to a beat. We

play this four times.

!We then encounter this dissonant octave idea that is

just holding a minor third (G note) underneath our

open E string root and just strumming away. Four

repetitions of this please!

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!! We then encounter this riff which is mimicking

our rhythm guitar riff but playing a set of

harmonised notes as octaves. Its a squeeze up

there so make sure you're careful to keep the

shape consistent as you move it. How many times

through? Thats right. Four.

!Here we are at last at the end. You will recognise bar

one from the rhythm guitar part. We mirror it and

stick a different chord at the end. Its an A7/C# but

really all you're doing is playing the same set of notes

as the rhythm guitar further up the neck to thicken

out the sound. 

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