Now, there’s some interesting stuff going on here.
Firstly there’s an open, rung out note that beds under the riff. It’s the open A string so you don’t have to do anything complicated to make this happen, just hit it!
This note naturally stops ringing when you hit the F (8th fret, A string).
When you hit this note you need to slide up from the 5th to the 7th fret on the D string (positionally G to A) and you’re off!
There are also NO pull-offs. I originally thought that the 10th fret G to 7th fret G was a pull-off but listening carefully it’s a pair of picked notes.
There’s some naturally occurring emphasis in there too; some notes are naturally struck a little harder or softer than others but not so much that it really requires the use of accent marks to indicate. Just feel it and play it and it will sound right.
But the proof is in the hearing! Here’s the audio for the JTR tab. I think you’ll agree that it’s right when you hear it.
Read and listen along…