• Song:

    Bent

  • Artist:

    Matchbox 20

  • Album:

    The Best of Matchbox Tw...

This is just the intro to the song; I'm self taught of 2 years now and I don't know any whole songs.  But, in my opinion, this has got to be the easiest way to play the intro.

You'll need some sort of distortion to make this sound really authentic; I use a Zoom 505 II effects pedal on the factory setting "A1".  It's pretty much a clean Driver Amp sound with a medium amount of gain.

To tell you how easy this is to play, I accidently discovered it while trying to work out the intro to "Sweet Amber" on Metallica's "St. Anger" album.  There are many ways to rework the fingering so you don't need to move as far on the fingerboard but I've found that using one string is the easiest.  It also helps me build speed and accuracy.  Enjoy...

                                           "BENT"
                                         MATCHBOX 20

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                             (let it ring)
                             If I fall along the way...
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