Elliott Smith's Right Hand Technique, Other Times

Sorry for the sloppiness.

Songs are "The White Lady Loves You More" and "Easy Way Out".

Again, not even kind of a little bit of a tutorial - more an attempt at a demonstration of why this is tricky and weird and fun. Elliott has a way of making his thumb so much louder than his index and middle finger in these songs and it's difficult to replicate - for me anyway. His thumb is so much louder that a lot of people ignore the triplets all together and just play eighths instead, which is almost what it sounds like is happening if you're not listening closely enough.

Left hand is likely not accurate; just figured it out by ear real quick so I could work on the right hand.