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Old 01-04-2017, 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by stanron View Post
I just did a search on

"opening little strum on Margaritaville"

and got loads of videos showing how this is played. None of them showed the open D string being played. They all just play the first two strings. On one of them the instructor says that on the record this intro is played on keyboards, not guitar. If the open D string is giving you grief, don't play it.
Agreed on avoiding it for this song. One of the reasons I'm doing certain songs is that it will force me to learn something such as a technique. If indeed I should play all four strings then that would make me work on muting of various kinds. However, I'm more than happy to work on that somewhere else!

Thanks for the input.
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