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1. Welcome!: Hi, My name is Jacob Lam. I'm a musician, a teacher, and the owner of lamb lessons. In this course, we're
going to be looking at 12 iconic rock rips on
the electric guitar. Now, if you've got an acoustic guitar,
that's absolutely okay. We can play those on
the acoustic as well. We have tabs, close-up views of the hands and step-by-step
instructions. So when this course is done
and you've reached the end, you'll be able to show
off songs that everybody recognizes in a group
of your friends, or just play for your own enjoyment and
take the songs further. I'll see you in there.
2. How to Read Tabs: Now for this entire course, we're going to be learning
these rifts using tabs. So if you know how to read tabs, you can skip this
video completely. But if you're not quite
familiar with tabs, Let's do a quick overview
on how they work. They're really easy and
useful for learning rifts. Tabs look like sheet music, but they're a little
bit different. There are six lines and these six lines are the six
strings of your guitar. Now, the thickest
string of your guitar, closest to your face, if you're looking down at it, is on the bottom of the tabs. The thinnest string most towards the floor when
you're holding your guitar, is actually at the
top of the tabs. We have the thickest, lowest string working our way
up to the thinnest string. Now, instead of dots, like sheet music would
put, we have numbers. And these numbers are
very simply just what fret you're going to press down. Now, the fret that
we press is over the string that we press
it down on. So e.g. if I wanted to put the third
fret on the fifth string, well, I'd put the
number three on the line that matches
up to the fifth string. If I moved my three here, well now I'd be playing the
third fret on the six string. If I moved it up here, well now I'm playing the third
fret on the first string. If I want to play two
or even three notes at the same time, I'm just going to
put the numbers on top of each other like this. If we're familiar with
something like a D chord, then if we write it
out in the tabs, a D chord entablature
would look like this. That's how tabs are used. And just like sheet
music or a book, we read left to right. And then we have multiple lines and we
read top to bottom.
3. #1: Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes: Well, as you may have
guessed, our next breath is seven Nation Army. The nice thing about this one is that the riff in the chorus is exactly the same as
the risk in the verse, just with one little tweak. So if we can learn the riff, the verse, the main riff, we know the bulk of the song, and so we may as well learn
the chorus together as well. We're sliding around
just one string here. So let's take a look at
the riff, nice and slow. So we're going from the
seventh fret to the 10th, back down to the seven. And then we're working
our way down 532. Now, we're repeating
that many times. Now to get to the chorus, we use two chords. First one is a g, and we'll play it
as a power chord. So I have a G power chord that I'm going to hit eight times. That I'm going to slide
it up two frets to an a power chord, eight times. Again. That's our transition from
the verse into the chorus. Now we're playing
the same exact riff. The only difference is
we're adding in a note. We're adding in a note, one string down on the
fourth string, and two frets up. So kinda like the first
two notes of a power cord. So again, I'm following
that same pattern. But that note is also following its kind of like a harmony
to my main melody. The other difference
in the chorus is that it's broken
into two parts. We have our main riff, like we just played. The second time through. We do a little bit more
sliding back and forth. I'll show you what I mean. Right here. Instead of just going down, we come back up and then down. So first time
through, second time. So now let's take the whole
thing from the simple riff of the verse to those two chords
played eight times each. And then to our chorus riff
split into two sections.
4. #2: Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple: Another classic
song to learn using tabs is Smoke on the
Water by deep purple. Now, this song is played
using the middle two strings. So the fourth string
and the third string. Whatever fret we're playing
on the fourth string will also be playing on the third
string and vice versa. Now, simply, we're starting with the open to middle strings. The hardest part of
this song is going to be aiming are
picking hand so that we're not hitting the fifth or the second string that are right around the
notes we're playing. So it'll take some
practice to aim rightly. But let's take a look here. We're playing the two
middle strings open. And I'm going to take
my two middle fingers or my first two fingers, whatever is most
comfortable for you. I'm going to put them
on the third fret, again of that fourth
and third string. I'm going to slide
them up to the fifth. Now we're going to
pause and we're going to think of that as our first little
section of the riff. There are three
sections to this href, and that's the first one. We're just walking up 03.5. And you'll notice that
I'm putting some vibrato again on that fifth fret. Now, the second part of the
riff is almost identical. But before we hit the five, 03, and then we go
a little higher, we go six and down to five. So we kinda jump over where we landed last time and
slide back down. So 03, all the way up to
six and then down to five. So first little section 35, second section of 365 are very last section starts
same way as the first. We go, oh, 35, and then
we walk back down, 3.0. We can kind of think of it as a little mountain coming
up and back down. So altogether, we're walking up. Again, walking up and back down.
5. #3: Come As You Are - Nirvana: The next riff we're
going to learn is come as you are buying nirvana. Now, this one is so repetitive. I'll show you the main riff and the two chords that are
used in the chorus. And that's the bulk of the song. You'll notice at the beginning
of the tabs that are first note has
parentheses around it. We're going to use that
to mean that we only play that the first time
through the riff. So we have two examples of the open six
string being played. But the second, third, fourth, fifth time through we're only
going to play one of them. Here's what I mean. Here's
the first time through. Now, my second time through, I'm going to hit once
and then work my way up. So unless I'm playing that
href for the first time, I'm going to skip
the first zero. Let's play through
it a couple of times and see how that
ends up sounding. Right? Now, we have two things that we want to be really cautious
of when we're playing. The first, you'll notice
again that we're using some vibrato on
that second fret. The second is that I'm keeping
my finger out of the way enough that when I'm hitting
the open fifth string, my second friend is
still ringing out. So we're kind of building
two shapes here. And here. Now we're going to learn the
two chords for the course. It's kind of like
a major bar chord if you're familiar with them. Except we're not going
to bar our first finger. We're going to play the open
first and second string. Here's the shape if
you're not familiar, my first finger
is going to go on the second fret of
the sixth string. My ring finger is going to go on the fourth fret of
the fifth string. And my pinky is going
to tuck behind it on the fourth fret,
the fourth string. So, so far I've built
a power chord shape. Now, my middle
finger is going to tuck between all of them to get the third fret
of the third string. Now, if we were
playing a bar chord, I lay my first finger down
to bar all of the strings. But going to lift the top
part of my first finger up. So we have to open strings. I'm going to slide that up
to reach my second chord, which is the same shape. But instead of starting
on the second string, we're starting on
the fifth string. So after I play my riff, I'll enter into
those two chords for the chorus and strum them
a few times like this. Now we also want to
look at the timing of those chords for the course. In the tabs, we've gotten
each shape written out once, but we need to know
how to strum them. Well, there are a few
things to look at. First of all, the lower
chord starting on the second fret is played
a little bit slower, more like irregular
strumming pattern. The second chord played
from the fifth fret. We're just hitting down and we're playing
them as eighth notes. So slow, fast, slow, slow, fast. The other thing we
want to figure out is how many beats they last for. They're each going to
last for four beats, but they're played
very differently. Or lower chord has got
a strumming pattern. Down, down, up,
up, down, up 1234. Our second chord, we're
hitting eighth notes. So we're going to be
hitting them eight times over the four beats. 1234567, down, down, up, up, down, up 12345678. Now the last time through, we do six times instead
of eight times, because those last two beats
will be our walk up again. Back into our room. When you play that last
time, one more time.
6. #4: Back In Black - ACDC: Now I like to work in
terms of patterns. And I think of this song as
three chords and two ribs. Now we play those three
chords and a riff, three chords and a riff. The three chords
are very simply ie, d and an a. Now, we're not playing
the whole court, but we're playing the first
three notes of every chord. So for E, I'm going
to play just the six, fifth and fourth string. For D, I'm going to
play just the fourth, third, and second string. And then for a, just the fifth, fourth, and third string. Now of course we know
that e is played once, and we can hear that D and a
are both played three times. So altogether, we've got the first three notes
of E played once. The first three notes of
D played three times. And the first three notes
of a played three times. One last note on the chords. Before we look at the two riffs, It's nice to let
chords ring out, but in this case we're going
to choke them a little bit. We're going to meet when
we finished the courts. So I'm going to play E and instead of
letting it ring out, I'm going to take my right palm and I'm going to place
it on the strings. Just like that. I'll do the same thing when I've
hit my d three times. Same thing with the a. This is going to give it
more of a punchy feel rather than letting it ring out. And we can hear the difference. Let me play through
these chords, letting them ring out a bit. Now, I'll choke them. There's a big difference
and it sounds a lot more like the original song when
we meet with our poem. Now, we have two riffs that we need to put
in-between these courts. E.g. will play our chords
and then riff one, and then our chords
and then riff to. Now, here's riff number one. Let's take that bit by bit. We need pull offs
and we need bends. Now real quick, if you
don't know what those are, pull-ups or when we play a note, we pick and we hold the fret, and then we pull our finger
down in back to pull off. Now we play the open
string without picking it. So e.g. I. Can play the third
fret of the first string. Then without picking,
I'll hold my pick away. I'm going to pull my
finger down and back. To open up that string. I'll do the same thing
on the second string. Pull off and have my finger kinda land on that
first string to stop it. Finally on the third string, we need to use a bend. So I'm going to hold down the second fret of
the third string. I'm going to bend it
up and back down, and then pull off again. So altogether. Now, pulling off that last
note can be difficult, especially after a bend. So we have absolute freedom to pick the open third
string instead. Now let's speed
that up and put it after our chords and see
where we're at in the song. That's sounding
pretty good so far, but we need our second RIF. Now, this one is going to
center around one note, and that note is the second
fret of the fifth string. So we're going to
focus on this note, and we're going to kind
of work our way up to that note. I'm
playing this note. And then the fourth fret
of the sixth string. We'll play that
center note again. And this time the
open fifth string. Once again, we'll play
that same center note, and then the first fret
of the fifth string. And then that center note twice. So we can think about it as one steady nodes and the
lower note raises up to it. So altogether the riff. Now, let's put that
in the context of our courts law. Right? Now we've got
our three courts. Riff number one or
three chords again, and riff number two. Let's see if we can play it
all together. Nice and slow. That sounds like
back in black to me. One other note here. This is the way a lot
of people teach back in black and it is the right way to play the song in many ways. But there's one little
trick that I like to do. And it's the second time
around in the chords, we play something called an a over C Sharp instead of an a. And if we do it this way, you may think that it sounds
more like the original song. I believe that it does. So here are the first
time through our courts. And then the second time
through our chords, I'm going to play the
first three notes of an a. But instead of an
open fifth string, I'm going to use my pinky
to reach the fourth for it. Let's try the whole
riff one more time, using this a over C sharp. The second time through.
7. #5: Beat It - Michael Jackson: The next time that
we're going to look at is beaten by Michael Jackson. Now, this song is really fun to play with all the power
chords in the verse, but we're going to
look at the main riff, at the intro of the song
and in the choruses. Now, the actual song, the whole guitar is
tuned down by one step. So we're going to play
in regular tuning and learn all of the tabs and the
fret that we need to hit. But if you want to play
along with the song, you're going to need to
take every string of your guitar and move it
down by a half step. We start on the open six
string as low as we can go. Now again, I like to
work in patterns. So we have this little shape
that we're working up. Third fret of the sixth string, second fret of the fifth string, fifth fret of the fourth string. So altogether I'm working
up so far, so good. The rest of the first
part of this riff is gonna be on the
fourth string. Now, just like we did
with back in black, we're muting those
last two notes. We're choking them out so
that they can't wring out. A lot of these rock songs
again are pretty punchy. So there's a lot of
muting involved. A second way we can mute, instead of using our right hand, wrist is using our left hand
just to lift up on the note. Not enough so that
the string is open, but enough so that we're
touching the string without pressing down the fret. So again, here I am
on the open string. And I'm just touching
my left hand down to mute out those notes and my right
wrist isn't doing anything. Let's see where we're at so far. That's pretty good. Now,
the second time around, it's almost identical, except instead of hitting
the last note twice, we only hit it once. So first time through, we played last note twice. Second time through we
play the last note once. They are kind of opposites. Here's our whole riff for the intro and
chorus to beat it. There are two things that I'm
doing that you might find change how the song
sounds when you play it. First one is, I'm
tossing in hammer on when I moved back up to
the fourth, now, e.g. right here, instead
of just picking the next note, I'm hammering on. Now a hammer on is the
opposite of a pull off. Again, if you're
not sure about it, we play a lower note
and we pick it. And then we slam
our finger down, we hammer it on to play that
note without picking it. The other thing I'm doing is
I'm adding a bit of vibrato, which is just when we
move the string back and forth to give a note
a little bit of life, almost like a singer is singing the note right there
on that second fret, instead of just hitting it. I'm shaking it a bit. Something really important
is that you want to move your fingers to
adjust the string. Rather than moving your whole
arm to shake your guitar. What ends up happening when
you shake your guitar is the string doesn't
really move that much. Rather you're just
kind of moving. The whole guitar is a unit. Make sure you're moving
the string itself. Let's listen to the
riff one more time with those two changes in there, and we'll see if they
give it some life.
8. #6: Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne: Next we're going to look at
crazy train by Ozzy Osbourne. Now, this is often one of the first rock songs
many guitarists learn. And it's widely recognized
by just about everyone. We're going to learn
both the opening riff and the chords for the chorus. Let's start with the main riff at the beginning of the song. We're starting on
the second fret. In fact, we're centering
around the second fret of the sixth string will hit
the fourth and the fifth. So a lot of
back-and-forth there, and now we'll hit second
fret of the fifth string, open string, and the fourth
fret of the sixth string. And we end on the open six. So there's a lot of back and
forth. If you'll notice. We're jumping back and
forth between notes. And we're going down and up
the riff in the second half. What I mean is in
the first half, we're going back and forth as a lot of
back-and-forth. 565656. Then the second half
we're going down the riff and back and back down. Patterns like that always helped me to memorize and
visualize what's actually happening and
remember songs down the road. So altogether, one more time. I want you to notice something
fourth time through. Right there we pause and we replace the
fourth time through with D and E. So again, playing that
fourth time through. And then we're into the
chords for our verse. Now the way to think about
this one is you've got an open fifth
string and a chord. And the open fifth string and a chord and the open
fifth string cord, fishing cord back and forth. So I'm going to play my open fifth string
and I'm going to use my palm to mute
just a little bit. I don't want to choke
the note completely. I want to put it right over
the bridge so that we can still hear the
note too far back. My notes ringing out
clearly, too far forward. I don't have a note at all. So pull it back till we can hear it ring out just a little bit and
it's a little muted. Now here are our four chord
shapes that we're doing. First one is 76.5 on the fourth, third, and second string. Now, all of our chords will
be on these three strings. So I have here, I'm sliding down to 64.5, sliding down one
more time to 42.3. This is the same exact shape. Just slid down. And then I end with
an a chord, 22.2. So one more time through. Now we need to put the fifth
string in over those notes. So I'm going to play it four
times between the chords, except the first time through.
Now here's what I mean. We have three muted hits. And then our first
chord, four hits. And the second chord foreheads, and the third chord, foreheads. And the fourth chord, it sounds a little
bit confusing. But let me show you
how that's played. So 123, 12 341-234-1234. Well, definitely need
alternate picking to go back and forth when
we're playing. And it's tricky at first
to go between muting notes and then
playing open cords. Open, mute, open. You'll notice as
well that what we're really playing is
just an a chord. E, a D, back to a, right. Here's a, this one here. Because an e lower down is d. And then we land on. So our ref is really they were just playing them in different
places on the neck.
9. #7: I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett: Our next song is, I
loved rock and roll. Now, this one relies heavily on power cords and passing tones. Passing tones are notes
that we hit quickly to lead us into the next note, we literally pass the tone. It's like a stepping
stone that even rhymes. So we have power cords
and passing tones. Now, looking at the song, every single passing
tone we've got is the third fret on
the sixth string. So I have three
different chords here. I have first three
notes of an E, just like we used
in back in black. First three notes of an a
and then a power cord for B. And between those, I'm adding
in my passing tone, e.g. we'll start with, and we play these chords in
chunks of two, right? So I'm hitting E twice
and then twice again. And you'll notice once again, we're choking out the note. We're cutting off the cord
so that its punchier. So I'm hitting E for
two groups of two. After that, I'm going to
hit that passing tone to a for a group of two and
B for a group of two. Let's pause right there. We have e, e, passing tone, a, and B. Ie, passing tone, egg thing. We finish off with a
passing tone again. So altogether, that's one half of it and the second half is
almost identical. The only difference is
that in the very end, we're hitting the B
passing tone and one more 0s all quickly, e.g. passing tone and the E.
So first time through, the second time through.
10. #8: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana: You'd be hard pressed
to talk about the most iconic riffs and skip, smells like Teen
Spirit by Nirvana. Now, this song is completely centered around the
power chord shape. Now if you don't know
the power chord shape, we may want to
familiarize ourselves. Very simply. It is a starting fret. We will use the first
fret as our example. Our next note is going to be a string away and two frets down. Then our next note will be the same fret on
the next string. So we have this shape
here that we can move anywhere around the guitar, starting on the
first two strings, that is strings six
and string five, the shape changes a bit
if we start it from the fourth or the third string. But typically you'll
see it used from the six and the fifth string. Now with smells
like Team Spirit, we are using that shape and moving it like we just
showed that you can do. And it's very repetitive. This is the intro
and the chorus. For the verses of the song. It's really two notes, and so we'll go
over that as well. So to start, we're going
to start our root note on the first fret of
the sixth string. And then build that power
chord shape on top of it. Our next chord is the same fret, but starting from
the fifth string. So every finger is going
to shift down a string. Now we do that same thing, starting from the fourth
fret of the sixth string. And then move it shifted down
again to the fifth string. The hardest part of this song
is going to be the timing. How quickly we hit each court. There's typically
a slower hit and then two quick hits like that. Now the goal is to take
that idea and speed it up. Now by the time
we get to the Vs, things are really,
really simple. We're playing the first
fret on the second string. And the first string. Just like this. We're letting that ring
out every eight beats. When we get into the pre-chorus. Now we can hit it a
little bit faster. We'll double time. And then we come right
on back to the chorus, which is our power chord shape. Again.
11. #9: Iron Man - Black Sabbath: Now we're going to look at
Iron Man by Black Sabbath. Now, just like smells
like Teen Spirit, this song centers around
that power chord shape. But just like seven
Nation Army were sliding around on one string, we're not jumping back and
forth from string to string. So power cords and a lot of sliding are going to be
themes for this song. So we'll take that
power chord shape and there's something I
want to mention first, for our power chords, we've got this three-note shape
that we're moving around. If that ends up
being too difficult, we can always turn it into a two note shape by just focusing on the
first two notes and taking the pinky
off. Instead of. Now of course,
three notes sounds more full than two notes. But if two nodes is where
we start, that's great. We'll get comfortable
with it and then we'll bring in that third note. So all we need to do is look at the starting point or the root node of each
of these power chords. We're going to start
on the second fret. And that's our first
power chord shape, and we slide it up
to the fifth fret. Now, this is our first slide. We're going to hit the
fifth fret again and slide it up to the seventh fret. Okay, so that's where
things get tricky, is every single note sliding
up 25 and a slide to seven. And then we'll hit
seven on its own. So hint, hint,
hint, slide. Right. Now that vibrato thing
that we talked about, we can also apply them to full power cords and
it's always nice to toss in when you're holding a note or a chord for a long
period of time. Now this is probably the
trickiest part of the riff. We're going to raise our
fingers all the way up to 10.12 for our power cord. So our third and pinky are
on the double dots there. And we're going to hit and slide down by one fret three times. So slide, slide, slide. Now again, if three
fingers is too difficult, we can do it with two. If we're finding the slides
too difficult as well, we could always hit twice. It'll sound a little
bit different. But the goal is to get
the notes down first and we can get all
the finance in later. So, so far Let's
see what we've got. We're almost there. We're ending the same
way we played earlier with the five and the seven. We're just hitting from
the fifth fret twice, and then the seventh twice. So now the nice thing about this riff is how
repetitive it really is. It's playing through
the verses of the song. So when we get it down, then we can just keep playing
it along with the song. Let's take a look at
it one more time.
12. #10: Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses: Sweet child of mine is like the Holy Grail of
new guitar riffs. And so we just have to learn it. Talk about iconic. Now, something that may help
demystify this riff for you is that almost the
entire thing is same. The only thing that changes is the starting note
of each section. Now with the root note changing, Here's what I mean. Pretty much the entire riff. Does this. The only thing that changes is the starting root
note of the riff. So following this pattern, Here's the first note that
we put in front of that. Then we just change
that starting note. Change the starting node again. Go back to the first one. If we can get those notes down. We know pretty much
the entire riff. So let's take a
look at this with the first note here,
the starting note. We're on the 11th fret
of the fourth string. Then our primary riff here, we're going to the 14th
fret of the second string, 13th fret of the third string, 11th fret of the third string. And let's stop right there. It's a great little
rough right there. Now the second half
here we're jumping to the 14th fret of
the first string. 13th fret of the third string, 13th fret of the first string, and back to the 13th fret
of the third string. You'll notice this is just
jumping back and forth and sliding that top
note down by one. So altogether starting note. Now once we've
played that twice, we're going to jump
into our next one. So we'll play it twice. Now we're changing
our starting note and everything else is the same. Instead of the 11th fret
on the fourth string, we're moving to the 13th
fret on the fourth string. Everything else is identical. Now again, we play that twice, so we're changing
our starting note to the 11th fret of
the third string. Everything else
again, identical. Then again to the beginning. Note. If you're following along in
the tab PDF with this class, you'll notice it
says to beginning. And that just means to play
the first measure again, at that section, we're finishing the same
way as we start. So we play the first
measure twice, the second measure twice, third measure twice, and put the first measure
their twice again. But then remember to
play it when you repeat. So e.g. playing our first
root, now, repeat it. Change the root. Now. Repeat it. Change the root. Now. Repeat it. Now back to the first root. Note. Repeat it, and then
we start the riff over.
13. #11: Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream: Take a look at
sunshine of your love. Another really repetitive one, but you'll notice that some
harmony comes in later on. To start this song, we're going to play the 12th
fret of the fourth string. We're just going back and
forth between the 12th, ten and back to the 12th. Now we're moving down to the fifth string and doing a
little chromatic movement, which just means from one
frame to the next in a row. So that will be 1,211.10. Now, we're going to work on a little slide
with some vibrato. The song has a lot
of soul to it. So we're going to slide up
8-10 on the sixth string. Hit that eight again. Back to the ten. Let's try that motion
one more time. So altogether, the 12 to ten, the chromatic and the slide. Now, once we've played it twice, we're going to bring
in the harmony. The same thing, but
we're adding a note n. When we go 12 to ten. Well, on the next string, on the third string, we're going to add in
a note that's lower, one fret lower than the
note we're playing. So when I play 12th, my next note is going to
be 11 on the third string. One fret lower. When I come to ten, it's gonna be the same thing. So I'll just slide it
all down and back down. Coming back to my chromatic. Now, I'm jumping up, instead of coming back down. I'm jumping up right there, jump up the octave. So I'm at the 12th fret
of the third string. Now I know this one's hard. This is a lot of changes. Some of our other songs have
been really repetitive. This one is changing
quite a bit. But nice thing about these videos is we can always
go as slow as we need. Watch him back as many
times, as many as well. So we're bringing
in our harmonies. Chromatic. Coming up to the 12th fret of the
third string, 10th fret. And then back to
our starting. Now. Let's do twice each. Here's our first ref, bringing in the harmonies
and go in high. Something you may notice I'm doing is I'm actually playing some rhythm into the song by
purposefully hitting mutes. I'm just adding in some
mutes between my notes. Now if I play without commutes, here's what I get is fine. But adding in these
kind of ghost notes, these mutes can add a
lot to the background without your listener really
noticing what's happening. So what I like to
do is I like to put maybe two mutes down that chromatic ref,
something like that. Playing in rhythm in all of these rifts can make a
huge, huge difference.
14. #12: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd: This time through, we're
going to be looking at Sweet Home, Alabama. Now, just like our first
song, Back in Black, Sweet Home Alabama
has chords and a ref. Now, back in black
we did E, D to a. And then our risks. Sweet Home Alabama is working
around the chord's D, C, and G. Now, it's not playing
those as full chords, but breaking up the notes a
little bit of D, C, and G. And then we put a riff
in between the chords. So let's start by learning the chords and how we're
playing them as rifts. First of all, we have a D where we're hitting
the root note twice than the second
string. The third string. Now, you can put your first finger down like
a regular d if you'd like. But we're not playing that
string, so it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
if we play it with the finger down or off. Then we have our C, which has played the same
way too on the root note. Third fret on the second string. And then to open
strings the third. And so it's a variation
on a C chord, but your root is still see. Then we come to g and again
we have two on the route. And we hit the open
fourth and third string. And again that third fret
on the second string. So this finger stays where it is pretty much
the entire time we're playing the chords to, to, to. Then hitting those
three strings. That's how we're
managing the chords. Let's take a look at
that one more time. We have dy, C, and G. Then all we need is
to figure out how to put the riffs in-between the courts are first riff is a lot of hammer ons and offs. So here's our first riff, starting on the
open fifth string, we're hammering onto
the second fret. We're doing the same thing
on the fourth string, open and hammering on. So we've worked our
way up the notes. Now we're pulling off. So open string second, open string second,
and pull off. And we finish with the second
fret on the fifth string. Hello off. Back on the second fret. So it's all open string
and second fret, hammer on and pull off. So here's the whole
thing together. And with our chords. Okay, that's the first riff. Now we play through
those chords. Again. We're onto
our second RIF. Now our second RIF
looks very different. We're going to play
the second fret of the third string and pull off. So we're on the open string. Once we've pulled off, we're actually going to
hit the string again. Hit the open string again. The blend of pulling off
the string and then hitting the string gives us the sound that we're
hitting the string twice, even though we're pulling
off once and picking once. We're gonna do the
same exact thing, starting from the fourth fret, second fret, fourth fret. Then we've got the first fret of the second string and
slide it up to the third. And that puts us right back in position to start
the chords again. So second fret, fourth fret. Hello, wide up to the third, from the first to third. And then we're right
on back to our chords. So let's pause there. Let's take a look
at the first run through in a second
run-through years, the first time through. Now we're onto the third
time through the courts. And here's what's
really cool about this. We're doing the
first riff again, the third time through. So again, we can play. Then there's only
one more to learn. A fourth, fourth part. So part number 123. And now for replaying
through the cords. And this is the easiest one, the fourth one is the easiest. We play the open fifth string and hammer onto the second fret, just like we're playing the
other first and third riff. But now we're just
going to pick the open, the fourth and third string. So altogether we hammer on and
pick the next two strings. So here's the whole thing. Will play through it twice. I'll name the sections
the first time and then play silently
the next time. Here's the first run through. The second, third, and fourth.
15. Final Project and Congratulations!: Thank you so much for running
through this course and you made it to the end of
the learning portion, super exciting. Hopefully you had fun
learning and playing the songs and you feel comfortable to share them
with people around you. As a final project, we're going to keep
it really easy. Just pick whichever one
of these riffs you've liked the most are
found the easiest. Play it recorded
however you can, and then post it in
the projects or rooms. You can share however
you would like, whether it'd be just
audio or if you have a way to share video as well. Or if you're a little bit
cameras shy or recording shy. You can also post maybe just listing what
your favorite rif was and then how you managed it if he found
it easy or difficult. Thank you so much. Again, if you have
any questions, you can reach out to
me at Jacob at lamb lessons.com or you can visit lamb lessons.com
for more tutorials. And I'll see you guys soon.