Regardless, when it's played up to speed, it sounds just fine. For example, the X indicates a mute, It's hard for me to hard whether or not he's muting the note, hitting the open A string, or doing other wise. It's hard to tell whether or not Luther's making a mistake. Sometimes Luther's note are very hard to hear. Most of the hammer ons are from open strings to the frets that I've noted.) (Note about the hammer on and pull off: It sounds like Luther does this quite a bit in the solo, I'm note sure if it's intentional. Then we have the solo (how I play it, anywho) Inbetween the E and B notes the should be a 'and a' strum of a E chord muted. Intro: Luther also does a little strumming in the beginning. I've seen guys play the beginning of the solo in three different positions, but the notes are always the same. In order for these tabs to be correct, you'd have to tune up, or add 1 to all the numbers and/or play with a capo. Luther is tuned up a little bit more, so he's almost in the the key of F and a half. They are tuned up 1/2 step, so their E chord would actually be an F. This is tab I made for the live at Folsom Album.

Those Eb one the D strings are supposed to be played as 8th notes, like in the regular boom chicka boom. After the first lick he hits the B in the same manner as the E above. He continues striking the E string on beat one of each measure. Luther then goes back down to the nut (to the E chord), hit the low E string and strums a full E chord in rhythm. There's been arguments for years how to play the A section between us Luther Copy cats, but I know that he utilises open strings and the following positions. Luther also did bass runs between chords. Luther's boom chicka boom was basically a bass line with an extra note thrown in, often the root note of the chord they were on only up and octave. The intro to 'I Walk The Line' follows this nearly note for note Still looks pretty nice.Luther's lead stuck to major scales, here's and 'E' major scale played out. If I were going for perfection, I would have used a satin clear instead of gloss after the decal was in place. After it dried, I taped over the tuners and fretboard and sprayed the headstock with clear acrylic to blend the decal and seal it in place. It also did not bend when I squeezed the water out. The extra heavy coats of clear acrylic made the decal very stiff and it went into place easily. Use a paper towel or rag to squeeze out and absorb the excess water. Soak the decal until it releases from the backing and place on headstock.

Cut the decal out leaving 1/8' (3mm) around the lettering. After I cleaned the headstock of the old decals, I wiped it down with denatured alcohol.

After you print, you have to spray clear acrylic over the print. I printed the 'Luther Tribute' on water slide decal paper for inkjet printers from Amazon. I scraped the Squier decals off with a razor blade first.

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