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Blind Dogs by Soundgarden - Guitar lesson

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Blind Dogs is a Badmotorfinger outtake from 1991. It first appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 movie The Basketball Diaries, which was based on Jim Carroll’s novel. The next release would be in 2014 for the compilation Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path. It's demo version would be released in 2016 on the 25th anniversary re-issue. Said demo is significantly longer with it's 7.20 minutes, rather than this studio version's 4.39 minutes and has some different parts and lyrics.

With this dragged out phrasing, thinking of the time signature as 2/2, 2/4, 4/4, 8/4 or even 16/4 makes no difference at all to me. A large chunk of this song are two rhythm guitars playing variations of the same thing. Then there is a lot of gnarly background noise and feedback coming from another guitar track, which I found I could replicate well enough with both natural and artifical harmonics and a wah pedal. Ultimately, there are three lead guitars during the bridge, of which two play the interlude in octaves and a third plays a mini solo.

Regarding this interlude, I notated it how I have seen them play it live. Up and down one string - Which is pretty much the opposite of economy of movement! But such is typical of Soundgarden. Just like trichordo bouzouki. I fucking love it.

The tuning for all guitars is Drop D (DADGbe), though the penulatimate note played during the outro is actually the C below. I notated two different ways of reaching this note, depending on whether or not you have a tremolo system. Thanks to @philconwayinstruments and @victoreeeeee for helping me figure out how to signify this in my tablature. This will also decide whether you will play some ornamentations behind the bridge (like Kim Thayil and I do), or opt for playing them behind the nut instead, or use a tremolo arm to bend the pitch of or vibrate the string, alternatively.

So you can hear all the different guitar parts, I cut this together from the intro to jump into the second chorus, which then plays all the way through the bridge (repeating the verse structure), the interlude and the outro.
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