Halfway through measure 11 he changes the 3 note chord slightly. Just to be sure the Triplet things are preceded by a "T" (mute with thumb on 5th string) and then "T" slap with thumb on 5th string - "I" mute with Index on 4th string - "T" Mute with thumb on 5th string). I even tried a left hand slap but the way I've written it seemed to match the recording the best. I believe he plays these T(humb) I(ndex) T(humb) but there are many different ways to achieve this. In measure 9 we get into the triplets that I love (that everyone misses). You can hit all of these first note in a measure low C's with a slap and it would sound great. Go watch some bass vids on youtube if you don't get the sound you want. Mayer has huge thumbs and this is a skill to learn. He slaps some and just plucks the others. In measure 8 we get the first of many OPEN 6th string thumb slaps. In measure 7 he frets the 3 note chords (and almost all that follow) by barring with his pinky on the 3rd and 4th strings
It's a great time saver (Antoine Dufour taught me that one). A great thing to get into is slapping the wound bass string you are going to play next. A note on muted slaps or clicks, most people seem to slap the whole face of the guitar (A la "More than Words") or they just slap the low E. The first (0) he misses the mute and plays the 4th string open, the next "X" is a slapped with the thumb and the second "X" is a muted ghost note. In measure 6, the (0), x, x, is an example of how Mayer uses his thumb for these "muties" and slaps. In fact I'm glad he missed a few because that was the clue that he was doing those "muties" on the 4th and 5th strings. Also in measure 4, the (0) on the 4th string and all that follow from time to time on the 4th and 5th I'm pretty sure are missed muted notes, but they sound cool open like that so no worries. In measure 4, he starts the first chord snatch with a slide in. In measure 1, he plays all those bass runs with thumbed downstrokes. Here's a link: Neon live intro from WhereThe Light Is.PDF It's like rewriting Shakespeare in Pig Latin and telling everyone that is how you perform it. That is kind of why I named my Blog Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
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This is a pet peeve of mine, nice people who post tabs and videos of themselves showing others how to play something totally wrong so that it propegates like a virus and then they make videos and it gets worse. I just submitted it to a John Mayer discussion group to chew on. I went into Guitar Tabulature Obsessive Compulsive Disorder mode and bend my ear around it for a few days. No one was doing the triplets, no one was doing the muted ghost notes. There was some guy who had somehow managed to record himself playing the bass riff with the timing backwards.
I went googling this week to see if anyone tabbed it but found mostly well-intentioned but incorrect versions penned by the tone deaf Internet masses. I heard this tune in a cabin with a wood burning stove and no electricity last week and the jazzy intro he did really clicked with me.
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