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Temple of the Dog

rock ballad from the grunge era is chock full of cool chords and offers a great lesson in songcraft, arranging complementary guitar parts and arpeggiating chords to transform them into a rich melodic accompaniment. The swirly, trippy intro figure that begins the song, performed by Stone Gossard on an overdriven Les Paul, routed through what sounds like a Leslie rotating speaker cabinet, with both its slow and fast settings used (on an electronically doubled track), is performed with a flowing eighth-note triplet rhythm, with all the notes of each arpeggio

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