Part 1: Verse and Chorus
The chords and sounds are easy and there is nothing sophisticated about the chords themselves. So, it seems easy because it is just three chords but the way you play them on the record in live – live is probably played a little looser because it is very hard to play it like it is played on the record live. Just for one song, there is a lot of energy going away for that. So, you have to wait, you see that pause there. I was talking about pauses. There is a pause there and so like that and then you stop. You have to stop for the right amount of time. I go like that when I do not have a timing machine to help me out or I am out playing on the record. It is going to be good enough for now.
And then, you have the little lick that many of you have been asking me about. About tabs, I do not use tabs so stop asking me please for tabs because I never use tabs. I do not use tabs and I do not write tabs. And the little lick goes like this. For the fingering, Angus said he uses his pinky. I do not see the picture actually of him doing like that and if you watch it like you see that he does it like that, this is pick. I think this is picking so finally.
It is very important that you have timing when you play these notes with – it tricky. It sounds easy and it is a no blues thing. Yes, I also use a different fingering every now and then so that does not really matter. It should matter. Maybe there is some difference there. If you can learn how to play it like he does, that will be better. There is always a reason for everything. But it is an old blues thing. If I were you and actually the way I do it, I did this like 2000 times probably maybe more.
So, you get it right because it is not – nor – it is – and this note or this phrase actually is very important. It goes up, comes down again and then pull G like that. It is straight timing like that. Sound simple, but then we go to the second part and there goes the swinging part. The swinging starts there and we have this other progression of chords.
Now, I am sure you can hear the swinging here and the timing. Can you hear this part here? This is a very important movement. On the original record, they do it like this. Both of them live. They tend to do it three strikes like that because it is easier and probably it is not as messier as on the original record to do like, but on the original record is like that. So, let us try and do this part all together.
We did not see this part. So, this is another swing part seemingly Angus love a lot and it is just notes. It is individual notes being played. There are probably lots of tabs which are correct on this and here also only two but seem probably fingering and the proper notes played. Probably not the proper way of playing it but at least the way it sounds on the records both the original recording and the live. The two versions are slightly different for a reason that probably we will discuss later.
So, this is how it goes. Do you see this? Yes, it is beat. Flat pick on the strings and that it is. On Angus pattern on the original recording, it is slightly bent on a couple of notes. I am going to show that now. You see, these two notes here are bent, slightly bent just half tone probably. So, first two ones are okay. This is a bent slightly, this is also bent and the last one is not bent.
So, if you will try that, you will see how it sounds a lot more like the original thing and sounds cooler. If there are more pleasure in hearing it back for the listener and for yourself when you play it if you get it right. But live, they seem to go like this. They do stuff like that a lot.
End of part one.
Please see part two for bridge and solo.
That it is!
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services