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Neely said

Sea Belt said

When I try to play alongto this song, those 5 notes the electric guitar does deep down, beginning with the open E note at the bottom, I know the first note is E and the last one is Eb, but I can’t quite figure out the 3 notes in between.  At least one of them always seems off.

  

I haven’t even tried the lead part. I was going to recommend songsterr.com because that’s where I usually go for lead parts I can’t get by ear, but they don’t have the lead guitar part on there! It’s 1 in the morning for me, but I’ll try to figure it out tomorrow either on piano or guitar (depending if I am at school or home). I do know there is a full band recreation that some guy did on YouTube, so you could look at what he’s doing at that part. I don’t have perfect pitch, but I have had good luck lately with doing things by ear.

Edit: @seabelt I figured it out this morning, i think!

open low E 

Then go to the A string and walk up chromaticly from the second fret to the 6th. 

The notes would be: E, B, C, C#, D, Eb 

  

I actually was incorrect about the first note being the low open E string.  The first note is actually D, which is dropped down by loosening the E string.  I took out my guitar, dialed up Too Many People on YouTube and finally determined the notes:

D – G – B – D – Eb

Although  it’s a stretch for my fingers to press B with my index finger then reach up to press D then Eb on the same string with my ring finger, I prefer to do these all with the bottom two strings:

D – G (using bottom E string)

B – D – Eb (using the bottom A string)

it sounds smoother and more like the song rather than

D – G (using bottom E string)

B  (using the bottom A string)

D – Eb (using the D string)