In the week that The Last Of Us season 2 drew to a close, Ultimate Guitar has revealed that the HBO show had a significant impact on the songs in its tab library that guitarists wanted to play.
While there has been some criticism of the high number of ‘guitar singalongs’ that featured in the 7-episode run, large numbers of players seemingly embraced their usage. Views of Shawn James’ Through The Valley, for example, rose 894% after its emotional appearance in episode 2, and a-ha’s Take On Me got a whopping 1,144% boost in the week after it was heard in episode 4.
Views of Pearl Jam’s Future Days, meanwhile, rose by 453% in the days following the premiere of episode 6.
Episode 2’s impact also helped views of Gustavo Santaolalla’s main theme rise by 218% after it aired.
It had long been anticipated that the guitar would play a leading role in The Last Of Us’s second season. A 314ce Taylor model featured in the video game that inspired the show, and made an appearance in the trailer for season 2.
It’s also worth remembering that The Last Of Us 2 video game featured a mini game that showed you the chords to a number of famous songs, including those aforementioned ones from Pearl Jam and Shawn James. So if you’ve played that, maybe you didn’t need that guitar tab after all....
