Sandra Szabo - Broken - Guitar Solo Tab

When No One Is Looking

2016 5:01

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About Broken

Fingerstyle or light picked playing tends to suit a song like "Broken," where the emotional weight lives in the space between notes rather than in aggressive strumming. In E Standard tuning, you have everything at your disposal without any retuning, so the focus stays entirely on feel and phrasing. The challenge here is restraint: keeping your dynamics controlled and letting chord tones breathe. Sandra Szabo writes in a way that rewards careful attention to how you voice chords and how softly you can play while still projecting. If there is a recurring chord change or melodic phrase that feels slippery at tempo, use the Practice Toolbar to loop it slowed down until your fretting hand stops rushing. Rock songs built on quiet intensity like this one often catch players off guard because the difficulty is in control, not speed.

• Playing in E Standard means no retuning is needed, so you can focus entirely on tone and expression from the first note.
• The emotional core of this song rewards a light touch: work on your picking or strumming dynamics rather than raw technique.
• Practise any repeating chord transitions with the Practice Toolbar looped at a slow tempo to lock in clean, even movement between shapes.