Can't Get Shot In The Back

[MSteve]

Essentially I'm a very amateur guitar player, but would really like to be able to play Can't Get Shot in the Back. Anyhow, anyone know how to play it? at least the basics of it.

[Crusader]

http://mgtabarchive.com/tab.html

[Seanathon]

So.. yeah.

 

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[MSteve]

Thanks!! Doesn't have Can't get shot there yet though ;)

[Dan #3]

The stop being an "amateur" guitar player. Jesus. It's that fucking simple!

Edited March 20, 2005 by Dan

[jamesg]

its there, you just have to click on "demo" after the song title, tabs come up then, and its easy to play, and sing it hickish style, ha ha

[MSteve]

1) To stop being an amateur that would require talent and time, and patience.. maybe skill. I don't have any of that.

 

 

2) I'm an idiot, and thought the (Demo) was on the next line for a song called Run... yeah I already said idiot.

[Dan #3]

That's no excuse. Eat monkey brains. That's what every real guitarist does. I thought this was common knowledge?

[msmolinski21]

Yea, monkey brains is definitely the way to go.

[Kayriss]

In order to play "can't get shot in the back", you've got to be non-amateur enough to know how to tune your guitar down a half step. (Matt does this a fair bit - it's a good skill to know). This may be why you're having a hard time figuring it out.

 

From there, it's pretty straight forward.

 

Am, C, Am, G, F (the barred one, not that crappy three finger one)

 

Plus, theres a C, G at the "pictures of out savior" part.

 

The "love ain't something I remember" part

F, Am, C.

 

Thats a very simple rendition, plus it leaves out the little stylistic stuff that makes his playing "his", but its close enough.

Ps - I know that there is a possibility that this may be completely off, but it's damn close. If you have a different way to play it, please suggest.

[leftofnormal38]

i keep wanting to bust out my guitar again but im absolutly horrible and i sold my amp. i dunno im a hopeless cause

[MSteve]

Thanks. I am able to tune my guitar down a half step.. I just can't do it until I buy a battery for my tuner so I am able to re-tune my guitar afterwards ;)

 

Also the stylistic stuff I'm not too worried about, there's a reason he gets paid to play whereas I do not.

 

But I do have a question about the F chord. What do you mean by the barred one? The only one I know uses three fingers.

[jamesg]

F sucks, many rockstars admit to cheating on it, i still have some trouble with barr chords, just more work, practice

[Ravenous Yam]

F barre chord: (low E -> high e) 1 3 3 2 1 1

[Ravenous Yam]

Oh yeah, i guess i should have explained how to do it too. Good call salad.

 

The F barre chord and Bb barre (A shape) are the hardest simple shords to play, because they take so much finger strength in your index.

[cavalier_eternal]

if you can't do barre chords, you're pretty much screwed...

 

and i thought i was pretty lousy at guitar...

 

no offense.

 

just keep chipping away at it. that's all i do.

[russic]

Just practice the hell out of bar chords . . . they just click for you one day (after the previous bloody day).

[killerofthebass]

if you don't bleed at the start you are not doing it right.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

[carv]

that song is really good, it should be in the album... replacing track 4 but that's just my opinion

[Ravenous Yam]

if you don't bleed at the start you are not doing it right.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

It's so very true though. It's like guitar initiation. You can't call yourself a guitarist until you've bled at least once from playing so much.

[killerofthebass]

I bled before I even got to try to play it. I got my first guitar at a pawn shop, it had no strings on it when I bought. So I got some strings and tried to put them with no prior knowledge of how to put strings on a guitar. That resulted a lot of blood, those strings are sharp when you tighten them too much and they snap!

[juniorspank]

I still need to hear the song.

[Moonlight_Graham]

the song goes like this on guitar:

 

bling. bling. blong, bling-bling-blong. bling-bling, bling-blong. (etc.)

 

thats how u play it.

[ecnarf]

if you don't bleed at the start you are not doing it right.

It's amazing how similar that is to sex...

 

And F isn't that hard. Come on. Try wanking with your left hand a bit, the strength in your hand just skyrockets.

 

And now my wrist clicks whenever I move it in a circle.

Edited April 1, 2005 by ecnarf

[Ravenous Yam]

Hahaha.

It's hard starting out, but once you get it its easy.

However there are many brutal jazz/extended chords that just put the F major barre to shame.