Irish rock band U2’s career is littered with multi-platinum selling albums and legendary concert performances, including Live Aid and live at Red Rocks. One was the third single to be released from their hugely popular 1991 album, AchtungBaby.
Often with ngerstyle lines you can simply assign your ngers to speci c strings, but things aren’t quite so straightforward here. Take a look at the tab and you’ll see that in bars 1,
2 and 3 alone your rst and second ngers move across all of the top ve strings. Still, each phrase can be distilled down to a bass note and two higher notes, so use your thumb (p) on the low notes and your rst (i) and second (m) ngers for everything else.
Just like U2’s original recording, the guitars in our backing track are in standard tuning. Be aware that live versions are mostly played in Eb tuning (a half-step down) if checking out concert footage on YouTube.