Help! I'm a Dunce!

[Cygnus X1]

Can someone please walk me through the main chord riff
of "Don't Fear the Reaper?" A-G-F, right? My fingers can't figure out
how to do it...
I do the A minor, the A to G pulloff, then G, then the pull off, and I
can't past that point for the turnaround.
Am I doing it wrong? This has bugged me for decades...

Thanks.
Signed,
Dunce for the Day

[jgcable]

This is it exactly. The key is to let the open G string ring out through the entire passage. BTW.. the A to G is not a pull off. Its a standard downstroked picked note.



Am G F G
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------2-0--------0--------0-------0-
-----2----------0--------0-------0---
---0----------2--------3-------2-----
------------3--------1-------3-------

[Chasbo]

This is it exactly. The key is to let the open G string ring out through the entire passage. BTW.. the A to G is not a pull off. Its a standard downstroked picked note.



Am G F G
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------2-0--------0--------0-------0-
-----2----------0--------0-------0---
---0----------2--------3-------2-----
------------3--------1-------3-------

Yep, that's how I have always played it. I have seen Buck play it that way as well.

[Soap]

Great tune btw and thats how I play it.

[Cygnus X1]

Ok,right. I was hearing a lot more there than there really was,
for some reason. And I wasn't pulling off, I just thought I was.

I've known the leads forever, I just kept getting tripped up of the chord riff.

Thanks, jg & chas...

[skorb]

Am G F G
-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------
-------2-0--------0--------0-------0-
-----2----------0--------0-------0---
---0----------2--------3-------2-----
------------3--------1-------3-------

thanks for this John. cool to know.

isn't that first riff/chord, as you show it there, an A5?

[horns666]

Don't feel bad..may kid wanted to know how to play it last week, and I didn't know either.

Cyg, thanks for askin' and John for postin'.

[442w30]

Can someone tab out the cowbell?

[Axewielder]

Can someone tab out the cowbell?

----CB----CB----CB----CB----CB----CB----CB----CB

:ROTF:

[jacksoncsplayer]

I think we need more cowbell. SNL :ROTF:

[Rich#6]

I never noticed the cowbell before that now that is the main instrument in the song for me.

[Cygnus X1]

Can someone tab out the cowbell?

I was going to ask that next.
I'm still working on the first chord.