Geek USA - Smashing Pumpkins - Learn to Play! (Guitar Cover & Tab) 

Dude, this is absolutely killer stuff. Perfect edits that are easy to follow, great playing and both guitars included. You are an absolute winner

Great cover and great job with the simple tutorial. I've been trying to play this song for about 6 years now. I've loved this song and band for 20 years but I have a rule of not learning to play songs that I really love as I'll never do it justice, this song however is an exception. Anyways like I said I've been struggling from crap tabs to crap covers to even watching Billy play it live when pumpkins came to London and still it sounded shitty when I played. YOU though my friend have changed that and now because of how awesome you are I can play it all the way through and it sounds great. Honestly man this is one of, if not the best, guitar covers/tutorials on youtube. Your strumming and picking is perfect and timing is spot on and it sounds great. If I could give you 50 likes it wouldn't be enough.

Nailed it! Been waiting for a channel like this forever thanks man

Just using this now. Thanks for all your hard work helping us all out with these videos! You sound great as well!

James Iha deserves more recognition as a guitarist

Beautiful Strat and fantastic work. Perfection!

One thing I love about the smashing pumpkins is that they use fuzz more than distortion

How am I just now seeing this? Great job!

Thanks so much for this. I found you just at the right time where I've started to upskill enough to take this solo on. Years back I wouldn't have a hope of playing this so thanks heaps!

This is great! 🤟🏽

Btw, I just had a listen to the original track. The last 3 notes are actually bend up to pitch from half a step lower, with the very last note bent and released a couple of times as it rings out. Hope that helps 🙂

Thank you so much for making this

The ending of this song is so good

Awesomely mind blowing. Thank you. 🤘😘❤️

gah, you make it look so easy!

Awesome 🤘

thank you bro!!

Thank you for yhese videos and playthroughs grek usa edpecially.Siamese dream was the first tab book i actually bought, not borrowed or stole>;-/

That strato is awesome!! Billy Corgan signature, 🔥🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸

amazing

Great job! I’m so envious of that BC Strat. I want one badly. Billy is my favorite guitarist, probably. I would love to hear you cover some MCIS and Gish songs in the future!

Awesome. Really easy to kearn format. Very efficient.

Just need to figure the bit at the bridge where the guitar trails off and it sounds like the bias is squelching the note

Looks good n sounds great, I was looking for the quick bends at the beginning while the other guitar is droning the low e in the very beginning of the song. It’s not in either guitar part

Dude you should totally cover Jellybelly or Cherub rock, maybe even Soma if you've got time. Cherub rock is one of the greatest rock songs ever written. Although MCIS is an absolute masterpiece I've always felt that Machina doesn't get enough credit for how bloody good it actually is and Billy's guitar work is immense.

👍 Good friend 🙂 💫 👍. 🎸 🎶 🔥 Amazing sound. I love it 🎸. 🙂 💫 👍 Rock on!

can you please do thru the eyes of ruby by the smashing pumpkins? its unbelievable and i know you'd kill it

Excellent, thank you ! And i am proud to be the 666th thumb ! 🤘

So is this in the key of E minor with a major 6th being the power chord in the end riff? (The c#)

3:47

When Billy plays the slide from 3 to 7 in the intro and his the low E string open, is it palm muted or just open?

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An important part is mastering Billy's on-point rhythm strumming technique too, in my opinion. Watch what he does here, combined with the actual note guidance from this video of course because it would be very hard to tell otherwise. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j315yKGemHI.html

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Hey so when you're playing the 7-0-0-0-0 riff in the verse are you down picking all those notes?

I always find it easier to learn the solos instead of the rhythm behind the solo, but both parts are hard on this song bruh

I don't think they actually do that 3-7 E string slide on the opening riff. Sounds more like open E string with 5-7 slide on the 5th. In shows their hand position is pretty high on the arm, wich makes me think of even 12-14 slide on the 5th string...

Hey man cam you do teenage angst by placebo!!!

I always struggle with that pentatonic lick

You get that shirt from the pearl jam tour?

setup?

Hi! Thanks for the tabs and video! I found out your link for the tab is broken. Link says "Geek USA" but the downloaded file is "Shine on you crazy diamond". Plz check and fix it plz. Your work made my guitar practice fun! Thank you from S,Korea.

Nice, but I was wondering why you are remaking some of these videos?

that solo is not easy as it gets faster and faster i think im gonna try it like eddie style and tap the section at 3:10 . Great Lesson I nearly nailed it in one hour or so!! Thank you

how are you not dead? I can't even understand what's going on in this song

Ugh 2:11

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