Joe Satriani - Circles

Here is a really great song to learn how to play. This tab is from some place on the internet. I would have made the tab myself but this is close enough. If you listen to the song you can hear where you might need to change some things around. this is the acoustic beginning of the song before it goes into Jo's guitar solo and heavier part of the song. Here is a link to listen to the song. This is a live version so he has a more elaborate beginning than what I tab for you here. Right when the drums start and then he plays is where the tab starts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APUZj-nV2lE

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P.M. stands for palm mute. You mute the strings with your picking hand so make the notes sound cut them off to stop the sound.

Again I apologize for the quality of the tab. Consider it your opportunity to use your ears instead of relying on only your eyes.

Developing Smart Fingers

This exercise involves diminished chords. The key to this exercise is to first learn the seven chords. Once you have the chords down then try the exercise. Play each chord clean and accurate and then mute the strings with your picking hand and move to the next chord. Take your time and play this exercise very slow and make sure you are playing the chords clean without any buzz or open strings. Play the chords up and then back down the neck. Once you can do that then you can try and pick up the speed a little bit.

Example 2 is a good variation to play that can really help your fingers muscle memory. When picking for example 2 us a down up up up down up up up.

Here is the tab. Click image to enlarge.

This is an exercise from a Joe Satriani guitar book in case you were wondering.