Jack here, Jbf music and guitar lessons, I couldn’t find a
short lesson with tabs, so thought I might as well do one. This is one of those songs
that’s annoying slightly out of tune, so if you want a slow backing in tune to practice
over check the time stamp in the comments and description; where I’m just playing
the rhythm at 50% speed; if you want to try it faster, just use the cog in the bottom
corner to speed up the video. What I’m gonna do now is talk about the
nuances, how to get it more authentic sounding and a few things to watch out for. Obviously
a Stratocaster, or single coil guitar will sound more like Ritchie Blackmore; but I mean
that’s not that big a deal. I think Mr. Blackmore was going for a bit of a country
vibe here in general. In terms of the tone and style it’s very staccato, meaning short
and snappy notes . There are a lot of partial pinches here as well, I think he’s holding
the pick close to the tip, using a combination of left hand muting and I suspect pick muting.
So using the tip of the pick to mute a string; you can use your right hand palm as well,
6 and half a dozen. A fairly strong pick attack will help
get the right sort of clarity as well.
Yeah, so let’s just go through it bar by bar. It starts on the off beat, the & of 1.
So coming in from the last section you’d count 1&2&3&4&, 1&; might take a few goes
to get, but count along and it should fall into place pretty well. So first beat if a
rest, hit that pre bend on the & of 1. The rest of the bar, just keep the notes short
and staccato. This pre bend on the 4th fret I think is a raunchy ¾ tone; could be mistaken,
but seems to fit. The next bar these pull off, I don’t think the ¼ tones is by design,
more from pulling down on the string to get a stronger sounding pull off; so rather than
trying to bend it here I’d just do an aggressive pull of and that little bend should just sort
of happen. Some whammy bar vibrato; in all honesty I’d just do normal vibrato playing
this live; less likely to go out of tune that way! These 5th fret on the B string are a
good example of where I’d do the aforementioned pick muting; play the note, mute it with the
pick, and repeat. The next bar again that aggressive pull off sound, and maybe rush
the pull offs ever so slightly; try and think of the sound you want to get; that snappy
clear sound when doing it an a lot of the time your muscle memory can sort of manifest
the sound without having to put too much thought into it. On that note, a lot of what I’m
teaching here is being like, reversed engineered; I’ve learned the solo and was more focused
on getting the vibe, which just sort of slowly happens over the course of learning it; then
I’ve tried to deconstruct the subtle elements I’m unconsciously adding to try and demystify
what’s going on. Yeah, anyway the next bit I really cool and alternate bend; lesson card
in the top right for more on that. This 4th fret is being bent 3 times, but in different
directions, I’d go up, down, up. You can go down, up, down, but the former way sets
me up better for the next bar. But I’m only picking the note once, then doing these alternate
bends.
I think there’s a tiny rake here; that note in brackets; just
helps this note pop a bit more. Again keep that staccato thing going. I think the bend
is on this 2nd fret om the G string up ¾ of a tone, it could be the 3rd fret, up a
semi tone and a quarter- so a have a listen for yourself and see what you think. Again
some aggressive pull offs. Maybe a slight pinch on that final 4th fret; but I’d keep
it on the subtle side, I you opt to put one in.
This 7th fret is fairly heavyil muted. And again just keep these last two bars very clear
and punchy. You can end on the 5th fret, but I’d go back to the chorus riff for the singer
to come back in for a final chorus; depends on how you’re playing this one though.
Check out some of the other solos and lead line lessons I’ve done. Or click this one
for some riff lessons. But yeah, leave any suggestions, share, like and enable notifications
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