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Venture into the warm waters of surf guitar and ace these classic, fun-to-play licks. With audio examples
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Practice your quadruple picking on QUADRUPLE-PICKED PYRAMID, below, which uses that same “Penetration”-style melody as in the first two examples. Play this slowly at first (100 bpm or slower) to get used to the 16th-note rhythms, then gradually rev up your speed.
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Quadruple-Picked Pyramid
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Take Your Riff Lower
A common technique in surf, as well as other styles of music, is to play the melody once or twice, then move the entire phrase into a higher or lower register. So, let’s play the same riff we have been playing an octave lower.
In LOW PYRAMID we moved the melody down to the third, fourth, and fifth strings. We’ll double-pick this melody, since quadruple picking over more than one string is a pretty advanced technique. But if you’d like to try, please, go right ahead. The little squiggly line on the last note means to hold the note and rock the tremolo arm gently up and down.
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Low Pyramid
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Repeat a Riff
“Wipe Out,” a hit for the band the Surfaris in 1963, uses another classic single-string riff. There are a number of ways you can play a riff like this, but let’s start on the fifth string, as in WIPED OUT, to give you more practice with alternating picking over two strings. It’s a relatively simple riff in B made slightly more complicated by the fact that you start with an upstroke on the and of the third beat.
Playing this up to speed—around 158 bpm—can be challenging. Your right hand doesn’t get a single break, so start slow and gradually increase your speed. On the upside, the repetitive riff makes it really easy for your fingers to get into a groove.
In WIPED OUT OVER E, we move the “Wipe Out” riff to the IV chord (E). Once you get these riffs under your fingers, try playing the whole song, transcribed on page 48 (Summer 2007, Play Guitar!).
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Wiped Out and Wiped Out Over E
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