Today, let's learn a cool and ominous riff inspired by the theme song from a somewhat obscure Italian crime film from 1969, The Sicilian Clan (Il clan dei siciliani).
This isn't meant to be an exact note-for-note transcription, and the goal isn't necessarily to memorize it, but it uses a picking pattern you can work on applying to various other progressions.
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