Ted...

You were asking about the riff at the beginning of white squall. I hauled out the record and gave it a listen to remind me of what we did there.

There's actually three guitars off the top of the song: one Stan guitar capoed on the second fret and playing in G, and two of me capoed on the nineth fret and playing in C. (This means the song is in the key of A). Both Stan and I are playing the riff, but an octave apart.

If you were playing in G, the notes of the riff would be (the colons are the bar lines): C B A G F# G A B E C B A G DD F# A B G. The chords are Gsus4 G //: G/// : C/// : C/// : Gsus4 G// : G/// : D/// : G/// : G///. In case you're not familiar with it, Gsus4 is just a G chord with the C-note at the first fret on the second sring added.

Hope this helps...

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