Rain2 — The Cult

From: Porl <[email protected]>

Okay - here's 'Rain' (a 'really' easy song...) - and look at that ultra-complex Solo! Wow! Still, each to his own...

Here goes...

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'Rain' - The Cult (Astbury/Duffy)

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Song Pattern:

intro main riff chords main riff crunched chords main riff solo intro funky chord

Solo

main riff x4 (final main riff: hold final few notes longer to stress finale!)

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(this takes the form of four simple chords (D, Am, C, and G) with Only three notes of each played, one at a time, so it runs as follows...)

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Main Riff:

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Chords (for Verses):

DDDDDDD-C----------DDDDDDDC-CCCCCCC-G-GGGGGGG-D Hot sticky scenes, You know what I mean... Like the desert sun that burns my skin...

D-D-D-D-F--F-F-F-C--C-C-C-G--G-G-G I've been waiting...so long, for her... Open the sky, and let her come down...

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Crunched Chords (After 1st Chorus):

(Y'know how to do these - hand resting on strings over bridge, just Shutting them off...etc.)

DDDDDDDC--DDDDDDDC--DDDDDDDD-D-D-FF-G----

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Solo Intro:

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Funky Chord (!):

(Basically just a D (barred on the 10th fret) only just play top 3 Strings, eg:)

10th fret

Play in a "funk" fashion (ie. strumming a constant rhythm (a fast one) Lifting fingers away from frets to 'kill' the strings and create rhythm Patterns) for 8 bars...

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Solo

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C'est finis.

As for Floorshow - keep at it! It'll click eventually, it's all about Rhythm (and blagging it!)

All the best.

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