How to Play High Voltage by AC/DC - Rhythm Elements

So, hello everyone again. Today, we are looking at “High Voltage”. The live version that you ca n find on live album “If you want blood you’ve got it”. Okay so, we’ll see the rhythm part and the solo part and let’s get into it right away. This is a good rock and roll song that I think if you’re willing to grasp Angus Young and Malcolm Young style. You should try and learn as it’s got fairly good licks in it and which are also the bases of standard rock and roll that the brothers just used and used again. Okay. So, let’s get tuned. [Demo] All right, it’s in the key of E and apparently Angus starts the intro part up here, okay. So, this is a—there’s an E string played and then there’s a knock of higher E note on the seventh fret of the A string, okay. From the ninth fret, you’ll have a consequent B note. [Demo] Okay, It is played on the D string. Let’s say again on the seventh to eighth, ninth fret okay. And then finally, you’ll have another E note played on the G string always on the ninth fret, okay. [Demo] So, this is the effect. [Demo] On the record I hear there is a harmonic there. [Demo] It sounds a bit, not as on the live version of it, so I do not hear it on the live version but it might be there, so… [Demo] How do I do this? It is just that E chord that we are… [Demo] Okay and then… [Demo] This is a D chord. It’s a power of D chord. I don’t think there’s anything special to it. I think you should be able to grab it right away and without me telling the individual notes. And then we’ll do a special thing here. Let’s play it again. [Demo] Okay, this is… [Demo] We’ve already seen this on the Back in Black for example rhythm part doing the solo, okay. What they do. [Demo] And this is a specific type of A. [Demo] Okay. [Demo] Like that. What they do is that they keep one finger on the seventh fret, on the D string that stays there, okay. But they moved the index finger and the pinky finger depending on what finger you’re going to do this with and they simply slide one fret down, okay so. [Demo] See, it’s an A chord. [Demo] So… [Demo] And the last chord is an A chord. [Demo] Okay and now Angus now here starts doing this very rock and roll Chuck Berry’s thing which is… [Demon] Okay. This is the live version remember. So, what is this? [Demo] Let’s play it together. I think its all pick, it’s not plucked, its all pick I think. And on the G string, I will start on the fifth fret. So, this is a C note. [Demo] And then just a fret, after that… [Demo] And then two strings together and these are the B and D, E string together on the fifth fret. [Demo] I think he slides there, some kind of… [Demo] He’s not picking that one. [Demo] Now, this will be the same pattern that he will use for all the three chords, there are three chords. [Demo] Okay, I’m doing the verse so. [Demo] This intro that will stay in A and that will go to E. [Demo] Now D. [Demo] Okay so I’m on the twelfth fret. It’s the same thing. [Demo] And then I’ll slide down to the twelfth, tenth fret okay. This is corresponding to a D, B key. [Demo] So… [Demo] Back to E. [Demo] Back to D. [Demo] And we go to the chorus. Okay, it’s an A chord. [Demo] That thing that you see me. [Demo] I’m only ticking together the B and E string. [Demo] Sliding them down. [Demo] Okay, A chord and then C chord, Power chord and D chord for the chorus. [Demo] And this usual pattern that we’ve seen so many times, it’s rock and roll veteran. [Demo] And that’s a G and D chords. [Demo] And back to A. [Demo] So, back to the chorus. [Demo] Okay. That was it.