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In Deep by Andy Aledort
OPENING DAY
A time-honored technique for crafting riffs is to use one or more open strings as a drone, or pedal tone. Many examples can be found in the music of Led Zeppelin (“Whole Lotta Love,” “Kashmir”), the Beatles (“Please Please Me,” “I Want to Tell You”), Jimi Hendrix (“Stone Free,” “Spanish Castle Magic”) Aerosmith (“Last Child”), Van Halen (“Panama,” “Unchained”) and countless other places.
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