So, today we’re looking at “Ride On”. Why “Ride On”? Well, it’s been asked a number of times and since the beginning—since when I did it. And also I think it’s a great chance for two other very important reasons, the first one being the fact that it is a Blues and so I feel it close to me, but also I notice that many of you feel it close to you. And it’s probably one of the reasons why you listen to AC/DC as well. That is the fact that you can always—well, many times you can hear and also feel an underneath Bluesy rhythm. Even in the hardest songs, you can still probably feel that at times.
So, it’s the underlying sole of AC/DC even plainly stated so by the band. Rock and Roll and Blues have very common roots, if not the same roots actually. So, that’s another reason, so we’re going to talk about Blues while seeing and playing that “Ride On”. And also, the last fact is because the solo that we will debunk into note by note fashion is usual and even more accurately so I hope this time.
The solo is a number or licks added together that Angus used very many times. So, it’s once again one of those choices where you ask me, “can you show typical Angus Young licks and stuff like that that he uses for the solos that we can start to build up on this and do our own solos” which is exactly what I did and what I still do to this day using his licks as my own licks. And that I changed slightly here and there or probably just add up as they were. Okay, so these are the reasons why we are going to go into Ride On and of course last but not the least of course because it’s a great, great song that it’s always a pleasure to listen to and to play back when we have time, all right. So, let’s get into the rhythm pattern right now right away. So, as used previously let’s begin tuning the guitars together.
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And let’s get into it right away. The song starts with the basic C chord.
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Just strum gently and make sure your C note on the first fret of the B string.
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Now, these two are basic C chord.
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And an F chord.
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Instead of going with the breit here, I’m just using my index finger here on the first fret of the B string.
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So, it’s easy to switch between these two chords in this fashion.
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And then let’s add breit to the F chord.
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And let’s do a B flat.
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This is a power chord. It’s very easy to obtain, index on the first fret of the A string. And then on the D string on the third fret and on the G string on the third fret again.
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Just these three strings are played.
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Not solo on the F chord or with the breit. You can actually hear some color there.
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At least the string is played.
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And then a regular—well it’s not really regular but regular for AC/DC, it’s regular, G-chord.
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This one is always played with the A string muted and will be added on the third fret of the B string, a D note is added.
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And C chord.
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Again, D5.
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Let’s do it again all together.
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There goes the bridge. This is the power chord in F.
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And now, sharp F.
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And G.
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Now, in the bridge part.
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Angus adds a little thing which is just basically playing the chords, the three chords without lower octave, high octave fashion.
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Okay, it could be…
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That is instead of just doing the base single that you could be doing an F, C, an F sharp, C sharp, okay.
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I cannot really tell there, but it would not make such a great difference, all right. So, that was it. And then for the course part it is just an F, C
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C, G
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Again F, C
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And now B Flat, F.
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F, C.
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C, G.
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And G, F.
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And now, let’s get into the first solo.
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