HOW TO PLAY JOHNNY MARR-STYLE CHORDS PART TWO

ohnny Marr’s playing can be sparse yet harmonically complex, and seemingly simple but rhythmically inventive. This is often achieved through note choices, including the selection of open strings to sound against held notes, and the rhythmic choices when playing arpeggios, for example, grouping notes in mixtures of threes and twos to play across the rhythm of the bar. Figure 1 demonstrates these methods with two three-note G major chords, both made slightly unstable by