Classic Deep Purple Riffs Everyone Gets Wrong (Play like Ritchie Blackmore) 

After all these years he still manages to amaze us... in Blackmore nothing is as it seems!

Glad that I didn't play Rat Bat Blue the wrong way on my video lol. I just stole the time stamp idea from yours, great feature!

A Light In The Black.

Killer sound! 🙂

Actually Rat Rat Blue, to this day I thought there was a B like you said in the beginning. I never really closely listened to the recording. Very interesting.

THANKS!!!!

Wow you nailed those details! Great video

Looking through your vids i was GOBSMACKED at no 'wasted sunsets' lesson/cover!!! C'mon now' pull yer finger out and get cracking!! 😉

No wasted words. Well done!

Thank you for your insight!

Very clever man, thanks to that! 😊

great video! also, thats funny, i never heard the B in the Rat Bat Blue riff, it was always just E and D for me lol i love that riff, sounds a lot to me like a sort of foreshadowing of the heavy metal that would come a few years later!

Great video - ive been playing that Eb and E in MIA Leo for years as well🥴 That extra A in Stormbringer always threw me, no idea it was an open string but it sounds right 👍

Great man! Just one hint from an old fellow Blackmorelogist :) - Blackmore seems to (almost) never use the “classical” left hand position with the thumb at, and perpendicular to the back of the neck (in the rock songs anyways, Blackmore’s Night acoustic technique may differ) - it is pretty much always the “blues” position with the thumb over the top of, or at the back and parallel to the neck, even when playing with his pinky - then he doesn’t straighten the wrist perpendicular to the neck as a classic guitarist would, but he rotates it even further counterclockwise instead (form player’s POV) - and sticking to this technique really helps finding the (hopefully) most natural and (hopefully) correct positions and fingerings of any particular lick, riff or a phrase. Of course, the results may vary, we can only try and do our best - there are so many variables and peculiarities in Ritchie’s playing.. Keep up the good work!

7:58: you’re playing it wrong! He picks every note

Very useful vid! And supersophisticated "blackmoreology". (Just for fun: after a while I began to check the subscriptions. And the Patkány-denevér kesergő (Komjáthy címadása), azaz a Rat, Bat Blue was written: red bed blue :)))) Azaz Vörös ágy bú :)))

I’m only gonna say it once, ITS NOT 0-3-5, it’s 55 (AD)- 33 (DG)- 55 (DG). That is identical to Smoke on The Water’s main riff.

You can't do it right from Stormbringer. Please make the review of this funky riff cause I can't find the right example of how to play it. Every youtube cover of this song is different. Thanks.

On smoke, are the last two notes slurred? I thought they were picked.

Hi Adam, would like to clarify, In the main riff "Lady Double Dealer", Blackmore uses an open A or holds it down on the fifth fret? How do you think?

Live Blackmore never played downbeats during 80/90ies in Highway Star, always alternate picking in that particular part. Maybe he did it in the studio, yeah, that could be true for a certain sound effect maybe. But Ritchie is not a guy to play downbeats usually. It’s not his style.