Neon by John Mayer

[cobaltblue]

I know SOOO many questions have been asked about this song, but I have now succesfully learnt this the wrong way, and am confused about what John is exactly doing during this song. If anyone could answer these questions for me I would be most grateful:

1) What is the rhythm of the hitting on the wood part of the guitar? And how is he exactly hitting it?

2) I am confused as to what the thumb is doing as well. The way I play it now, the thumb stays on the 6th string where it does the tapping, but even when I try to approximate the wood tapping it feels like I should move it.

That should be about it. On the first question, a recording with really loud hits would be most helpful but ill take whatever I can get. Thank you in advance to anyone who can take the time to help me.



EDIT: This is for the Inside Wants Out version.

[jsgksu]

There was a video somewhere with a person who had tabbed the song out (Johns version is actually kinda wrong) and he did a great video, I still cant play it right, but its funt o watch. Hopefully someone will know what Im talking about and have it to send to you.

[cobaltblue]

I have John's video from Carson's show (if thats what your talking about), but I still cant tell.

[djs488]

hmm, i used to have a tab I wrote out with rythmn and tap notation that I used when I was learning the song. I'll see if I can dig it up for you.

[jsgksu]

No, this is a video someone made of themselves, with the camera focused directly on his hands, slowed down at times, it would help a lot but I still dont have the desire to sit down and try to learn it because its damn hard and dont care that much.

[DRMusic]

that song is krazy

[kf2817]

there are good videos over at http://www.jmtabs.com including a slowed down version

[Davey45]

Heres an eleven page discussion on playing the song.

http://p090.ezboard.com/fjohnmayer3640f ... 1641.topic