"You're ALL" playing Saxon-Crusader intro wrong!!!

Speeddemon

Speeddemon

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Wassup @Bad.Seed :p
I figured that 'rent' is due, so lemme do a little pet peeve of mine about EVERYONE doing something wrong...
Difference is, I won't go against my own advice two weeks later. :ROFLMAO:

Anyway, on topic:
Check this:
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/saxon-crusader-tab-s18330t2

or this:
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/saxon/crusader-tabs-508575

or this:
https://www.911tabs.com/link/?5795580

or this:


I've played this song in a rock/metal cover-band around 2007-2009 and I had to play the clean intro. At the time, I basically followed the Ultimate-Guitar/YT Guitar Mates version, of a base grip around the A minor chord, and do the E-D-C high notes with open high E string and fretted D and C on the B string.
But as the years passed by, I felt something was off with that clean arpeggio... All those runs end on an E (2nd fret D string).

So once I started playing it around the 7th position
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-9-----9----
---7-----7--
-----0-----0
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with a low 'ringing' A string, this sounded way more accurate.
I just loaded the song in Amazing Slow Downer, dropped the speed to 50% and lo and behold, the little arpeggios all end on the A string, not an E note!


And JK of course with the title, there's probably plenty of you guys playing it right, but I figured it doesn't hurt to point out that multiple online tabs are wrong, including YT guitar lessons. Sure, their version doesn't sound *bad*, but it's not accurate.

EDIT:
This tab has the intro correctly, too bad that's the ONLY part it has correct... :eek: :
http://metaltabs.com/tab/3855/index.html
 
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I just love some Saxon getting some love on the forum.
 
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Saxon kind of bored me tbh. Nothing ever really stood out with those guys. Unpopular opinion maybe
 
I had tickers to see Saxon last year and couldn't go because I went to see a buddy's show. I wish I would have seen them.
 
japetus said:
@Bad.Seed fuckin CALLED OUT NOW WHAT
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Oh he'll probably label this as 'hatin' ' or something... These days calling someone out on their BS is either jealousy, bigotry, misogyny, racism, etc....
To think that someone would actually own up to their doings/mistakes... you know, like not releasing a video with 5 high-output humbuckers 2 weeks after... Nuh-uh. No, sirrey. We're all jealous haters, that's whassup. :censored:
 
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