In this video
h we'll play with the first finger - it's a B note. Then we're going to go to the 11th fret. Remember if we have our thumb over the top and our fingers on this angle, we can make that stretch much easier as I'm only stretching in the same way I play a C chord. The final note we play eight times is on the second string fret nine. Each note is played eight times. The next section goes 11, 11, nine, 11, 11, nine on string two. That goes through every chorus.
The Full Way
The full way of playing it does a similar thing but on pairs of strings. When we play that first note, it's not just the open E, it's actually the fifth fret of string two which is also the same E. We play them together to give us this open, big sound - makes it chime a little bit more than just one note. We then slide that middle finger all the way up to the double dot at 12th fret. To do that we have to move early - we move after the sixth strum. Then the first finger goes down to that 11th fret here and we play those together. There's a bit of tension there but it sounds good in context.
Unison Bend
After all that section we go for a unison bend. This is tough for anyone new at lead guitar - this is probably going to be too tough to be honest. We just want to go for a single note bend. But that unison bend has the first finger at the same note as we bend up to. This technique is commonly used on that last octave of the minor pentatonic scale. A nice hybrid would be to play all of the first section and finish with that easier section. This unison bend technique can take months from first attempt to being able to do it, but it doesn't stop you playing this whole song - just swap out the last bit.