So, finally! Hi there! And here we are with this hopefully long awaited tutorial on Whole Lotta Rosie live version from “If You Want Live You’ve Got It.” So, let us get into it right away as it is going to be a rather long tutorial. Let us get right away into the main starting riff but first off, let us tune in our guitars because this one is lightly different from the other songs on this album so let us go for an A string.
Now, you can tune your A string with this one and then tune the rest of the strings, rewind until you are tuned properly and start viewing the tutorial when you are tuned properly. So supposedly now you are tuned up, let us see the very first movement there. The very first thing will be an open A. This is played rather quickly so we have this movement.
So, the first movement is done with whole chords apart from the A string and the chords are A strings that starts and kicks the chords first and then we have a C chord. It is an SUS chord. It is just to my ears three strings and these are the C, G and C notes respectively on the third string of the third fret of the A string. The fifth fret on the D string of the G and the fifth fret on the G string that is a C. Open A again, and then we have a D SUS chord same thing as before and then we have the A chord. The A chord seems to be just three strings as well. So A, E and A again.
Okay and then, we do this a number of times and Bon will start singing. So on and so fort like that and then the verse will start. They will do a last. What do I do here? Well, I keep the A chord constantly like that and I move my middle finger and my pinky finger on these two notes on the A string. The notes are C and D. I bend slightly coming back from the D notes back here. I bend slightly like that. Just a second there, you hear like that. And I use alternate at times when I remember too. I use alternate picking on the A string because you really want this passage here, this movement here. You really want to stick out on the rest. You do not want to be confusing, I mean have a number of notes meaning less notes. So you really wanted to stick out. You can also hear how to pick up and reacts to your alternate picking. You hear this buzz on your clicks like that. All right, I think I heard on the record so I like it when I hear it back from my play.
Okay, let us try not to sound too much like a metal piece, metal song, metal way of playing. Metal people will go like that a lot with a lot of distortion. This is not about metal. This is rock and roll so it got a different approach. There is a bit of that and I do that but it is just a pedal note, all right. So, from here, we are going to the chorus. The chorus will be an F. I am only playing the first three strings of this F chord and the three strings are right there F, C and F again, and then the D. They might be the infamous F sharp in there at times I think but I hear it. Other times, I do not hear it so I really do not know about this. And then A, and the G chord. The G chord here at least to my ears is the usual AC/DC G chord with the B note here on the A strings second fret muted until you only have G, D, G, D. Not even the pinky is playing the high G up here.
It might also be, it might be but it is really submerge by the power of the rest of the chord here. I think it will do anyways. This movement here is played entirely on the E string, the base E string and it is G, F sharp, G, G sharp, back to the A. And you see that, I hope you can see there is a choice of shooting. Okay, and so on and fourth like that. So, this pretty much defines the rhythm part Angus is playing here and I think it is quite similar if not really the same as Malcolm but I leave that part to you if you are more knowledgeable on distance than I am, all right.
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