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One Dozen Iconic Rock Guitar Riffs (With Tabs!)

teacher avatar Jacob Lamb, Musician, photographer and videographer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome!

      0:43

    • 2.

      How to Read Tabs

      2:08

    • 3.

      #1: Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

      4:26

    • 4.

      #2: Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

      3:11

    • 5.

      #3: Come As You Are - Nirvana

      7:47

    • 6.

      #4: Back In Black - ACDC

      9:33

    • 7.

      #5: Beat It - Michael Jackson

      5:44

    • 8.

      #6: Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

      7:07

    • 9.

      #7: I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett

      3:21

    • 10.

      #8: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

      4:05

    • 11.

      #9: Iron Man - Black Sabbath

      4:47

    • 12.

      #10: Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

      4:55

    • 13.

      #11: Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

      4:55

    • 14.

      #12: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

      7:50

    • 15.

      Final Project and Congratulations!

      1:03

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About This Class

Have you ever wanted to be able to play those classic riffs that everyone recognizes? This is the course for you! In this class we'll cover twelve of the most iconic rock riffs together. From "Back in Black" to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," you'll start on your journey to playing along with your favorite songs.

We'll be using TABs to learn our songs. Not sure how to read TABs? No problem! We'll be covering TABs in our first lesson together, so you're all set up to learn.

We'll be going over "Back in Black" by ACDC, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, "Come As You Are" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne, "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett, "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes, "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple, "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, "Sunshine of Your Love" by cream, "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, and "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Each lesson includes video tutorials with multiple angles, comprehensive tabs, and clear instruction. You can also see moving graphics that show the notes we're playing for detailed learning. There is a free TAB worksheet download to enable practice between lessons.


You'll also receive a 3-page TAB booklet downloadable here!

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Jacob Lamb

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My name is Jacob, I'm an audio/visual producer and teacher on the East Coast of the USA. I have been self-employed since 2014 working both as a musician and photographer/cinematographer.

I have found so many uses with the tools to create your own music, shoot great video and take great photos. Starting a small business? You can create your own cinematic advertisement, company jingle and nail your Instagram feed! Just want to have fun and capture memories? Playing an instrument is the greatest hobby, and the perfect photo is timeless.

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I attended Berklee College of Music in 2014 and began teaching multiple instruments in a local music studio. I then became an audio engineer at that same studio, eventually partnering with companies such as PreSonus and ... See full profile

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Transcripts

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.