CULT OF PERSONALITY - Picking analysis

Hello guys,

I wanted to see if we can analyse the song Cult of Personality by Living Colour and figure out how to play it.

Here’s a video of it for reference:

So I was thinking maybe we can start by figuring out what would be the best way to play the main riff:

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There’s also like a modified version of the riff (the PRE-CHORUS) that goes like:

We can start by analysing this and then we can talk about the solo:

You can see this section of the solo in the video, from 3:12 to 3:36