What a great tutorial! The way you explain really captures the excitement of the song. Any chance you coukd explain the suspended e to b chord bit as i cant make it out. Thanks for posting .
in the E5 chord (7th fret A string / 9th fret D string) the suspension is adding the 9th fret on the A string while still fretting the 9th fret on the D string. On the D5 (5th fret / 7th fret) it's the same motion, adding the 7th fret on the A string while still fretting the 7th fret on the D string. MY APOLOGIES FOR JUST NOW REPLYING!!!
I keep coming back to this tutorial. think I like it as much as the record! it'd be great if you could do something on sylvains guitar work as he's so overlooked. am I right in saying the suspended hammer-ons are usually played by him?
+MrRizlaSmoker thanks! i was actually just jamming this 20min ago with a johnny thunders cover band that started today. good fucking times! if you're in the dc area, we'll be out sometime this summer, BUT, a 'suspension' is a term used when you add the second scale degree to a chord, or the fourth. what this does is it 'opens' the chord tones in a way that can just go on and on and on (think tom petty's 'free fallin'' hook which is built around a Dsus4 to a Dsus2). on the e power chord, the suspension is adding f# (the 9th fret on the a string) right before hitting the b power chord (which has f# as its fifth scale degree), and on the d power chord, the suspension is its second scale degree, which is e. a scale degree is the succession of notes that build a chord. in this tune, the E7 chord (that this tune is built on) is: E (1), F#(2), G#(3), A(4), B(5), C#(6), D(7), E(octave, or 8). this tune is built on 'seven' chords (an E blues of E7, A7, B7) that, in their respective scales all have a MAJOR 3rd and a MINOR 7th. in other words, before you play the b power chord from the e, you need to hammer on/pull off the ninth fret, and then from the d power chord to the a power chord, you need to hammer on/pull off the seventh fret. gives it that wonderful bounce that comes out in that hook. jam away, dude.
+jivesideproductions Hey I was thinking, you should do a Personality Crisis lesson. Some of the licks he does are quite hard to work out or sound different when he plays them (I'm thinking of the one with the double stop on the e and B to big bend on G in particular) would be pretty cool to see that done right
