Brent Mason - Hot Wired intro
First, a humorous quote from the Brent Mason Message Board by Anonymous:
"One day I bought a Brent Mason demonstration video
and tried to copy some"chickin pickin stuff"- now I decided to throw
my guitar into a river on a moonless winter night."
I´ve seen a couple of transcriptions of Brent Mason´s Hot Wired intro
on the web, and they´re all a bit different!
However, this is how I would play it (note: Brent also uses a thumbpick).
Note: The story behind the song being in B-flat instead of A,
which would be the most likely key, is (so I´ve been told by someone who
actually met Mason and asked him) that when the basic track was recorded, in
A, Brent thought it was a bit too slow. So, instead of recording it again, they
pitched the backing track up a semi-tone to B-flat and then Mr Mason tuned his
guitar up half a step and recorded the solo guitars. Since I didn´t know
this when I picked it out, I played it with a capo on the first fret, which,
I must admit, makes things a little confusing on the guitar neck. I´m
glad we got that straightened out...
