i love this song, personally instead of just playing 'Am' in the chorus i just barr the 5th fret playing only the bottom 4 string hammering on and off the seventh fret on 'e' i play it the same way as listed above by everyone else.
i posted a video on youtube showing what i mean...
hey i noticed your in vitorville, by any chance do you know of anyone interested in starting a smiths/early 90's moz cover band? let me know, by the way i'm juju
i'll definately drop by... and i finally started playing headmasters ritual in open e with capo 2nd fret.... IT'S EASIER THAN I EXPECTED thanks too all the vids on you blog lol :thumb::thumb:
i can't lie most of the songs are very hard to master. it took me about 2 years to get 'girl afraid' just right and i still fumble with the intro from time to time. i'm having trouble with 'headmasters ritual' because the timing has to be done just right .especially trying to play it in...
i'm a huge fan of the blogand used it many times when i couldn't figure out songs using the smiths chord book, thank you for taking your time to share marrs work with the public. just wanted to get that out there.
oddly enough i use a firstact delay pedal....the cheap beginner brand... i was bored and saw it at toys-r-us one day and it turned out to be a great pedal for the marr style reverb/delay that i've been using for years. if you set it right you can get great effects for such songs such as 'girl...
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