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Pinch of Snuff
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Pick Direction 6
The Pinch of Snuff
This tune is fairly straightforward as far as pick direction goes. Note that the final part of the tune (the 9th bar!) departs slightly from the usual pattern.
When
you come across syncopation, what's usually happening is that
two notes are being sounded as one to give a off-beat emphasis. In the
first line of tab below (Ex.6) you'll notice that there are a few
instances where you have to play two upstrokes in a row; this can seem
wrong at first. However, if you were to play each note separately, as in
the second line of tab below, you'd see that the upstrokes are in
exactly the right place, on the off-beat. Again,
if you were to play the whole bar as eighth notes, you'd see the
upstrokes are in the right place (see example).
[MIDI] of this tune available.
The Pinch of Snuff
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