Spoonman

I was playing this main riff wrong my entire life.

There are some quick chord changes in the main riff that I hadn’t picked up on before. 30 years later, I’m still discovering things in these songs! Growing up in the 90s, Soundgarden were one of my favourite bands, and I’m so glad to dive deeper into this one and find those little nuances.

In measure 2 before the change to the A5 chord (7th fret), there’s a quick change back to the 12th fret. Also, before the 3rd fret power chord in measure 3 (F5), there a quick change to A5 (7th fret).

When I learned this song back in the day, I had left those 2 chords out and played it much more simplistic.

As well, I didn’t know how to play Kim Thayil’s awesome guitar solo – it had seemed too much like a chaos of D minor pentatonic notes at the time. Totally cool to get this one down note for note! This definitely opens up the door to doing more Soundgarden in the future.