Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play one of the chord progressions from the Joe Satriani song Always With Me, Always With You. So this particular song I’ve done previous lessons in the past on some of the melody lines and leads from it, but this is a really cool chord progression and it’s and it’s relatively short so you could like make a recording of it or use your looper and then it’s really fun to solo over the top of. I also think this is a really good progression to work with because you have to palm mute every note and then you’re arpeggiating the chord; so it’s a really good exercise for that.

Right now we’re offering this really cool free chord chart and there’s a link in the description that you can download it and print it off in PDF format so you have every chord that you could ever need for whatever you’re doing all in one place; it’s really a useful handy tool.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.

Joe Satriani Chord Progression

All right so our first chord is B add 11 (Badd11) and a lot of these chords have big crazy names, but they’re not too terribly difficult to play. So for this first chord here, Badd11, my first finger is on the second fret of the A string, my third finger is on the fourth fret of the G string and my fourth finger is on the fourth fret of the B string and the high E string is open. So we’re going to pick this starting on the A string so it’ll be; A, G, B, E, B and G and this is in three four time (3/4) and this is all completely made up of eighth notes, so it’s just one and two and three and one and two and three and… So let’s just run through the chords and then we’ll work with the actual technique. So you have two measures of it so you play it twice… Then we have E minor seven add nine (Em7add9) and for this we’re going to put our first finger onto the first fret of the G string, our second finger onto the second fret of the B string and we’re going to pick this starting on the low E; so we go E, G, G and then we’re going to take our fourth finger and pick up the fourth fret of the B string and then take that back off so now we’re back down to the second again and then follow that with the G string, so one and two and three and. Then we have F sharp suspended four (F#sus4); so first finger here is just going to barre the second fret across all the strings and then we’re gonna put our third finger onto the fourth fret of the D string and our fourth finger onto the fourth fret of the G string and now we’re going to pick E, D, G, B, G and D, one and two and three and, and that’s the first four measures and then those repeat three times. So there’s actually one more chord that comes in the second part of this and that other chord we have is G sharp minor 11 (G#m11). So what we’re going to do is we’re just going to take this F#sus4 chord and we’re going to keep that shape, but we’re going to take our second finger and bring it over and pick up the fourth fret of the low E string and then take our first finger and put it on the second fret of the B string and do the same picking, excuse me, so the third finger should be on the third fret of the D string and I was on the G string. So we’re on the fourth fret of the low E string, the fourth fret of the D string, fourth fret of the G string and the second fret of the B string… and then the rest of the chords are just the same ones we’ve done except the very last one and we’ll just get to that when we when we get to that point, it’s pretty easy. So the first thing I would do is work on getting the chords down in the transitions and then you can work with this part of it. So he’s palm muting every single note, so it’s really challenging to be able to consistently get every note palm muted… So all I’m doing is just taking this part of my hand right here, just this edge here and I’m resting it right across the bridge; so if you’re too far forward it’s just dead sounding and if you’re too far back it just sounds like the open string, so if you find that sweet spot it’s just dampening the note and it still rings out for just a second. So it’s really hard and kind of hard to find that sweet spot especially if you’re new to this technique. So one and two and three and one and two and three and, and now we switch to that Em7add6… and then the F#sus4 and then it would just start over again… So it’s difficult to consistently get every note palm muted, so just keep at it, and if you notice consistently that it’s a particular string that you’re not getting the palm muting on, like say maybe it’s your B string or your G string, so just move your hand until you find that spot and then just scoot your hand up to those strings… so that way you’re getting them all muted. Alright so that section repeats three times… and after it repeats three times we go to that G#m11; so I’m just going to keep my third and fourth fingers where they are and bring my middle finger to the fourth fret of the low E string and my first finger down to the second fret of the B string. Then go to the Em7add6 and then to the F#sus4. So this is where we’re going to have this change so now all I’m going to do is remove my pinky from the fourth fret of the G string and put my middle finger down onto the third fret of the G string… and that’s where it wants to send you back to the top, back to the to the B voicing. So I’ll just play the first four measures from the third time through and then play these last four measures… and then it would just simply start over again.

Conclusion

All right so there you have it, the chord progression or one of the chord progressions from Always With Me, Always With You by Joe Satriani. Like I said aside from this just being a cool chord progression and some kind of different chord voicing’s and different chord ideas than maybe you’ve used in the past, but it’s just the whole technique of keeping the whole thing palm muted the whole time that you played as you know part of the challenge, but it’s just it’s a really great exercise and this progression is really fun to solo over. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction – Harmonize Your Own Riffs W/ Dyads

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads video lesson. Today I’m actually going to be teaching you one of my own riffs from a song I wrote. What I want to show you with this is a way that you can harmonize your own riff. This riff originally was played on two guitars and honestly I prefer the way that sounds, but we ended up being down a guitar player and had to play live and had to play this song and without the harmony it just doesn’t quite sound right; so I figured out a way to do both parts at the same time. I thought that would be a good lesson for you guys to show you how by using dyads and double stops how you can create your own little harmony. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Riff Melody

All right so this riff is entirely just on the D string and it’s got this sixteenth note kind of a thing going here. So you’ve got four sixteenth notes and then we’re going to go to the 15^th fret. So in between there’s four 16^th notes of the open D string in between all of these notes except in a couple of places and I’ll explain when we get there. So we’ve got frets 15 14 17 15… so we go 15 14 17 15 and then 14 15 again, so between the 14 and 15 there’s only two in between… so that’s the first part. Now we’re going to come down to the 12th fret… 14 10 12 and then two… Then we’re going to come down to 10 to 9; so that’s like half of the riff right there. So the second time through it’s got a couple of differences so we start off again with frets; 15 and 14 17 15 19 17 20 19 17 15 14 and then 15 so it’s the same, but here we have two sixteenth notes… all right so that was guitar one of Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Temple Of The Sun

So the song is called Temple Of The Sun by the way, so if you want to hear the original song it’s on YouTube and Spotify, it’s called temple of the sun and the band is called Sonic Prophecy.

Riff Harmony

So anyhow the song starts out with just the one guitar and then the whole thing just starts over again, but a second guitar comes in doing a harmony… So it’s just harmonized in thirds and so one problem with that was the one of the notes is actually on the 24th fret so you don’t have 24 frets it’s hard to play and you can’t play both of those parts at the same time. So what we’re going to do is the harmony line that’s up here… we’re going to do it all on the G string. So our first one we’re gonna do the same and add that harmony. So we’ve got a major third there, so if you remember from the dyads video that I did before that you know you have all these two note chords, like power chords… but there’s a whole bunch of other ones; so if you haven’t seen that video I’ll leave a link for it here so you can check that out. So we’ve got this shape is a major third, so here’s our root and our melody line and then it’s just one fret down on the on the G string, that’s a major and then to make it minor there’s a fret in between. So we’ve got; major, minor, minor, major, minor, major, major, minor, minor, major, minor, minor, major, and minor again. So here I’m on frets; 15 and 14 and then 14 and 12 and then 17 and 15 and back to 15 and 14… then 20 and 17 and 15 and 20 and 19 and 17…
That’s it… now you know How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Conclusion

All right so I hope you enjoyed Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and you got something out of it. If you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below and let me know if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson or if you just have a question about Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs. I try to check all that stuff out and answer as many of them as I can. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so that you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you an easy finger picking riff. This is the intro for the song Holiday by the Scorpions. So it’s a fairly simple riff and a great one for beginners for finger picking. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.

Holiday Chords

All right so the first thing let’s just go over the chords that we’re going to be using in this. So we’ve got D minor; D string is open, I’m on the second fret of the G string with my second finger, third fret of the B string with my third finger and first of the high E with my first finger. Then we have D minor over C, so that’d be written Dm/C minor so we’re going to continue to have that same D minor chord, but now we’re going to move our bass note from being the open D string to the third fret of the A string and I’m going to use my pinky for that. Then we have B flat major seven (BbM7); so what we’re going to do is we’re going to leave our second and third fingers where they are and our first finger is just going to bar across the first five strings, so now our bass note will be there on the first fret of the A string B flat, my second finger is still on the second fret of the G string and my third finger is still on the third fret of the B string, my first finger is picking up that first fret of the A string and it’s also picking up the first fret of the high E… Then the next chord we’ve got from there we have A suspended four (Asus4); so again we’re going to leave our third and our second and third fingers where they are and we’re going to take our first finger and we’re going to put it on to the second fret of the D string. And then the last chord is just A5; so this is kind of a different it’s not like your regular power chord A5 we’re going to take our first finger and what I do is I just bar it so it’s going across the second fret of the first three strings and then my fourth finger is going to come up here and go across the fifth fret of the first and second string…

Finger Picking Pattern

Alright so the picking pattern for this is P-A-M-I-A-M-I-A. So if you’re new to finger picking, um I did a lesson quite a while ago where I go over the basics of finger picking and stuff and so you’ll understand what the PIMA stuff is and all that is, anyway I’ll just leave a link for that here you can check that out. But in a sense what it is we’re doing here is on this first chord, on the D minor, our thumb is playing the D string, our first finger is playing the G string, second finger is playing the B string and third finger is playing the high E. So your thumb that’s P, so your thumb is P your first finger is I, your middle finger is M and your third finger is A. So the bass note is the D string and then the high E with your third finger, B string with your middle finger and G string with your first finger. So I’m just gonna call this out basically off the strings; one, two, three, four, one two, three, four, five, six. So we’re gonna go four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one. All right so that is basically the picking pattern throughout the whole song, there’s just some slight variations of what strings are on and we’ll cover those as they come.

Holiday Riff

So starting off with that D minor, so again so we’re; four, four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, and then we’re gonna move to our second chord the Dm/C. So we’re going to take our pinky and we’re just going to bring it up here and put it on the third fret of the A string and now we’re going to do that same picking pattern but now instead of our thumb playing the D string it’s going to play the A string but we’re going to everything else stays the same. So now we’re 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 1, but the difference is on that last time we go to the high E we’re going to remove our first finger so that it’s open. So we’ve got… Then we’re going to move to our BbM7, so I just remove my pinky and leave my second and third finger where they are and just lay my first finger across the first fret, same picking pattern that we just did and again we’re going to end it with the high E string open. So here we’re; five, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, open and then from there we go to our Asus4, so again we’re leaving our second and third fingers where they are and my first finger is going to move from the first fret here of the A string to the second fret of the D string. So now our thumb is gonna go back to the D string, so now we’re back to four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one and then we’re gonna go to that A5. So I just take my first finger and just drop it where it’s at so it’s going across the first four strings at the second fret and then I’m going to bring my fourth finger all the way up here to the fifth fret on the B and E strings and the same picking pattern. So the whole sequence slowly; four one two three one two three one and then move our pinky to do the Dm/C… with the open high E and to the BbM7 to the Asus4… So that’s P A M I…

Conclusion

All right so I hope you enjoyed that and you got something out of it. If you like the lesson be sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson by myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play two Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros that are completely chordal  based. They both are utilizing using the shape of just the open D major chord. So for those of you who don’t know when you’re playing this D major chord you’re only playing three notes, so you’re playing the first, third and fifth note of the major scale, so that’s why they call this chord a Triad. So I did a lesson before on triads so if you have not seen that and would like to get some further information so this will all kind of make more sense to you and stuff I’ll go put the link right here for that and you can check that out.

All right so be sure to get the click on the link so you can get the tabs for Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros and easily follow along and let’s get close up and take a look at what we’ve got going on.

Eight Days A Week Chordal Intro

All right so the first Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros I want to show you is how to play the intro for the song Eight Days A Week by The Beatles. So this one’s really easy because it’s just using this D chord shape; so you know I’m fretting the second fret of the G string with my first finger the third fret of the B string with my third finger and the second fret of the high E with my second finger. So for this we’re just going to take that shape and we’re just going to move it around because it is a movable shape. So we start off here in the D position and then we just move that shape up a whole step, so now your first and second finger at the fourth fret and your third finger at the fifth, then we’re going to move it up from there a step and a half so your first and second fingers are on the seventh fret your third finger is on the eight fret. So that whole thing just repeats.

All right so that’s it for this Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intro, it’s pretty easy.

End Of The Line Chordal Intro

So the next Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros I want to look at is the intro for the song End Of The Line by The Traveling Wilburys; so this one also is going to utilize using that same shape. So we’re going to start off with our first and second fingers at the seventh fret and our third finger at the eighth and then we just move down to the second fret, back to the original D position, so then we come back up to where we were already and then move it up a whole step and then we’re going to go to a different shape. So in that lesson I was talking about from before on triads goes over all these shapes, they’re rooted on the first second and third strings, so then when we’re playing this shape here that looks like D, we’re actually playing what is called the Second Inversion; so you have your Root Position, First Inversion and Second Inversion.

So on this End Of The Line, we start off then we come back up, move it up a whole step one strum and then we’re gonna do this first inversion chord shape here. So for this I’m barring my first finger across the high E and the B strings at the eighth fret and my second finger is going on to the 11th fret of the G string; and I’m not sure, I think I just may have said this wrong, this is actually I’m barring at the 10th fret, I think I said the eighth fret but I mean the 10th fret, so first finger is barring the 10th fret of the B and the E string and my second finger is picking up the 11th fret of the G string. Then we come back to the seventh and eighth frets again. So we go nine back to seven or that one we just did that first inversion one, back the seven and eight then we’re gonna come up here and we’re gonna lay our first finger all the way flat across the first three strings of the twelfth fret and then the D shape again and now we’re up on 14th fret and 15th fret so we’re playing the D, we’re just a whole octave higher.

Conclusion

All right so I hope you enjoyed Easy Killer Chordal Classic Rock Song Intros and got something out of it. If you like the video be sure to give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson either by myself or one of the other instructors here at GuitarControl.com. As you can see these triad shapes are really useful. They’re great for just an alternative chord voicing, especially if you’re playing with another guitar player. So I really recommend checking out that other video. Anyway, that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

If you love classic tunes like these then you should check out our 1970s Guitar Song Collection