COVER: The Smiths - Some Girls Are Bigger - "Live" Version

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2nd version of this, intended to sound like the one-off live version (as uploaded to YouTube by ferrell). I think I get slightly better at it as the video progresses.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the
• smiths
• some
• girls
• are
• bigger
• than
• others
• telecaster
• live
• brixton
• morrissey
• johnny
• marr

[49Ibanez]

I'm wasting far too much time trying to master this riff!!!

[danielearwicker]

@49Ibanez It's never a waste of time.

[pCeLobster]

whatever happened to the version of this song you did with the rickenbacker? it was sort of different from how the song actually sounds but i thought it was brilliant.

[danielearwicker]

@pCeLobster I got sick of people pointing out that it wasn't right. Watching this one now it seems quite sloppy to me. Since figuring out that way of playing it I tend to idly pick it out a lot and so I've got much better at playing it... Bejesus... more than three years ago? That has freaked me out... I have no concept of time passing these days.

[berherbi]

DC rocket73, what stupid comment!!!

[shireuven]

i like your fingers

[49Ibanez]

@dermot51 I've just about got it now,

after lots of trying, still bluddy hard to do!! :L

[dermot51]

@danielearwicker Have a gorgeous epiphone cherry red 335 and it justs hangs on my wall wanted to play like johnny buy i couldnt the mustard but the instrument is a work of art asthetically and your a fantastic player Daniel as close to Johnny as ive ever heard a guy and his guitar is like a love affair i hope i can learn to love playing again cheers mate

[dermot51]

@danielearwicker Either you have it or you dont Daniel and you obviously have it..cheers!

[dermot51]

@49Ibanez Its a cunt to learn take it from me but fantastic to listen to

[crazynoobboy]

What guitar is this?

[danielearwicker]

@buckleyboyben Yes, Marr's secret weapon is that he is not a guitarist in the usual sense, he's a composer. He just uses the guitar in the same way other composers use the piano. It's nothing to do with the sound, it's not about making noises, it's about the notes/melody/harmony/syncopati­on, which is why it affects our minds. The intro of Girl Afraid has more musical ideas packed into it than most guitar player's whole careers.

[buckleyboyben]

@danielearwicker I agree its slightly mathematical - I feel a lot of Marr's riffs can be described like that. Very crisp, precise playing - almost the anti-Hendrix in a way....Its the little things like when he has a riff shape and plays the B string as the top note first time, and then the second time around plays the high E string. Its the attention to detail and sheer musicality.

[SlamJaw]

I wish I could find a proper tab for this :(