I hate Mr Brightside

[GearAddict]

I really, really want to play this but I just can't play the fecking riff. I know most of the people on here can play it easily and that makes it worse. I can almost manage it while sitting down with my hand craned around the fretboard in a painful and unnatural (for me) manner but there's no way I can play it standing up. Even sitting down, that last stretch requires a Father Ted Lovely Horse "wait, I can get this" moment.

Aaaargh. Fecking Killers. All their songs sounds so easy and so punters expect you to be able to play them but they're never easy.

[Sporky_McGuffin]

Does it not rely on a weird tuning?

[monquixote]

As far as I remember the Killers guy does it in a different tuning with one string a semitone sharp.
You can do it in standard but it's a stretch.

[Lustycourtier]

Its very easy. Why would you need a string sharp? We play it in C# and cant see where the stretch is?

[ChrisJordan]

I hate Mr Brightside

That is a shame, he speaks highly of you.

[GearAddict]

Its very easy.

You, sir, are a ballsack.

[Lustycourtier]

You, sir, are a ballsack.

Maybe I play it differently. the first two 'bass' notes (C#, C 16th 15th) I play on A string and F# on E string 14th so cant see the stretch?

[stickyfiddle]

It's not easy , but once you get your fingers used to it it's tolerable. More of a contortion than a stretch per se.

Mr Keuning plays it tuned down half a step, fingers thusly: X-17-16-19-17-0

First finger on D string, second finger on A string, third finger on B string and pinky on G string. Then for the 15th Fret G/F# (bass note of 3rd time around, depending on the key) swap to use your first finger for the E string and second finger on the D string




In my band we play it in standard tuning, with the top E tuned to D, and fingered: X-15-14-17-15-0

which has the effect of being a semitone lower than the original

[Danny1969]

I play it in D, no stretch needed just

17
16
19

Then

0
15
19

Then drop the D to a C# then G etc

That works well enough in standard tuning

[RocknRollDave]

It's not easy , but once you get your fingers used to it it's tolerable. More of a contortion than a stretch per se.

Mr Keuning plays it tuned down half a step, fingers thusly: X-17-16-19-17-0

First finger on D string, second finger on A string, third finger on B string and pinky on G string. Then for the 15th Fret G/F# (bass note of 3rd time around, depending on the key) swap to use your first finger for the E string and second finger on the D string




In my band we play it in standard tuning, with the top E tuned to D, and fingered: X-15-14-17-15-0

which has the effect of being a semitone lower than the original

Oh my god, I actually play it right!

Well...in theory I play it right...how many times I actually hit the right string at the right time is open to debate.

Been playing it three years, still cringe when I get to this song on the setlist.