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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2162.0. "OPENING RIFFS/LICKS NOTE" by --UnknownUser-- () Wed Apr 03 1991 17:34

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2162.1BATON ROUGE MR4DEC::DMERRIMANWed Apr 03 1991 17:356
    		
    			Need opening guitar riff(s) for 
    			
    		"WALKS LIKE A WOMAN"
    
                                            
2162.2D.A.D (Easy)BEEZER::FLOWERSI have a burning ambition...Thu Apr 04 1991 06:5524
    
    Here is a real simple opening lick (and I mean simple!) but I think
    you might be surprised at how nice it sounds......I like it anyway.
    
    Its the opening to 'Sleeping my day away' by Disneyland After Dark
    (D.A.D)
    
    D --------2~----------2~-----2~------------------
    A ---O h 3-------O h 3--O h 3--O h 2 3~---O h 2 3~
    E
    
    D --------2~----------2~-----2~-----3----2 bu 3 ld 2--------
    A ---O h 3-------O h 3--O h 3--O h 3 ----------------------
    E
    
    	You need a real twangy guitar sound with louds of reverb, If
    you have a bass guitarist handy get them to whack out the notes
    A, F and D# in a quarter beat feel, you guys can probably work out
    where the changes are.
    
    Oh yeh it is played fairly slowly (moderate?)
    
    J
    
2162.3surprise!COPCLU::SANDGRENLhep! I'm trpdd ina P11D*PThu Apr 04 1991 08:145
    
    	HA! It's a danish band!  ;^)
    
    	Poul (danish)
    
2162.4But music is universal no?BEEZER::FLOWERSI have a burning ambition...Thu Apr 04 1991 10:075
    
    
    Yeh I thought they were European.....still I really rate the song.
    
    J. 
2162.5CHEFS::DALLISONStick it to ya!Thu Apr 04 1991 11:095
    
    
    Anybody have any funk style licks or cool prgressions ?
    
    
2162.6did you think we were CHINESE?COPCLU::SANDGRENLhep! I'm trpdd ina P11D*PThu Apr 04 1991 11:1410
    
    	Re .4: Jaydot - we ARE european!!!
    
    	A short lesson in geografi: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark
    	are all european countries, located in northern EUROPE, also
    	called SCANDINAVIA! But what the heck, I could propably manage
    	to place Alabama in California as well...;^)
    
    	Poul
    
2162.7NEEPS::IRVINEyoung enough not to choose itThu Apr 04 1991 11:275
    You mean it isn't ???????
    
    %*}
    
    Bonzo
2162.8CAVLRY::BUCKNine days til ANACONDA!Thu Apr 04 1991 11:591
    Isn't this a Dup topic?
2162.9Back to the original question 8^)MSBCS::KALINOWSKIThu Apr 04 1991 12:036
    What about the Baton Rouge song...... Doesn't anyone know the opening
    riff to "Walks like a Woman ?"  I know for a fact the same question was
    asked in 1940.? and was never answered. (Only because I asked :^) Some
    one must know that song. 
    
    Brian 
2162.10XOANAN::HEISERmy son is student of the monthThu Apr 04 1991 14:581
    yup it's a duplicate
2162.11PELKEY::PELKEYWith a third less polyunsaturatesTue Apr 09 1991 18:561
How bout the opening rif for Scuttlebut of 'Couldn't Stand the Weather' ?
2162.12Sooner or later ...NEWOA::DALLISONyoumustbeoffyourtrollyreadingthisThu Sep 05 1991 05:1738
        
        This is the whole of the He Man Women Hater riff which I started to
        enter in another note, but I've lost it!
        
        BU = Bend Up
        p  = Pull off
        (n) = pitch note to be bent to
        AH = Artificial Harmonic (or pinch harmonic)
        /  = slide note
        
        			  BU
        			  AH
        E|---------------------------------- 
        B|---------------------------------- 
        G|-2---------------------2(4)--2---- REPEAT 
        D|-2---------------------------2----
        A|-0--3-4---4-3-0------------------- 
        E|----------------4-3-0-------------
              |-mute----------|
              |---fast--------|
        
        
        E|----------------------------------
        B|-3--3-3-3--3/5------/5------------
        G|-0--2-2-2-------------------------
        D|----0-0-0-----------/5------------
        A|-3-------------5/7---------------- 
        E|---------------------------------- 
        
        
        E|---------------------------------
        B|-3--3-----AH------3/5------/5----
        G|-2--2-----2-2--p-----------------
        D|-0--0-3-4-----3-0----------/5----   GO BACK TO MAIN RIFF
        A|----------------------5/7-------- 
        E|---------------------------------  
        
    
2162.13Black or White guitar hookDREGS::BLICKSTEINSoaring on the wings of dawnMon Dec 02 1991 12:3220
    In case anyone else thought the guitar hook on Michael Jackson's
    "Black or White" was as great a hook as I did:
    
    
        E ----5
        B ----5			A
        G -----6
    
        E ----5
        B -----6		E
        G ----5
    
        E -2
        B ----5			Esus2
        G -2
    
        E ----5
        B -----6		E
        G ----5
    
2162.14I heard them on a dif. set o stringsCAVLRY::BUCKSupport the coasters of America!Mon Dec 02 1991 12:4419
    -1
    
    Funny, I heard the "voicings" as:
    
    B --- 10
    G --- 09		A
    D --- 11
    
    B --- 09
    G --- 09		E
    D --- 09
    
    B --- 07
    G --- 09		F#-7
    D --- 07
    
    B --- 09
    G --- 09		E
    D --- 09
2162.15!GOES11::G_HOUSETommy The CatMon Dec 02 1991 13:145
    Interesting notation style, Dave.  Took me a minute, but I like it. 
    Gives more of a graphic representation for chords then standard tab
    does.
    
    gh
2162.16DREGS::BLICKSTEINSoaring on the wings of dawnTue Dec 03 1991 14:3326
    re: .14 (Buck)
    
    Same notes just different strings.
    
    There are two comping techniques that I often find hard to
    distinguish - one is where you play on the lower frets and
    pick above the fret board, the other is just playing higher
    up on the fret board.
    
    They give you similar sounds - my version lends itself toward
    the former, yours to the latter.  Some folks might find mine easier
    to play becauase there are no adjacent strings to worry about on
    one side.
    
    And by the way, I incorrectly transcribed the E
    
    It's:
            E ---4
            B ----5                
            G ---4
     
    Not (as I had posted):
    
            E ----5
            B -----6                E
            G ----5
2162.17DREGS::BLICKSTEINSoaring on the wings of dawnTue Dec 03 1991 14:348
    re: .15 (G_HOUSE)
    
    Yeah, I'd given some thought about how to post transcribed chords
    and I sort find that the most useful because not only does it give
    you string and fret, like most other techniques, but it also gives
    you the "shape" of the chord as well.
    
    Glad to hear that other people like that method as well.
2162.18PHAROS::SAKELARISTue Dec 03 1991 15:144
    Anybody know how to do that rif in the middle of Dire Straights' "Callin' 
    Elvis"?
    
    "sakman"
2162.19Moronic cliche question aheadGIDDAY::KNIGHTPget me a gin and pentatonicThu Jan 27 1994 20:0926
    Might not be the right place, but that wont stop me 8^).
    
    
    	I have always had trouble playing one of the standard *cliche*
    licks, and I figure it is time to get it right.
    
    	It is the start of the solo for Roadhouse Blues and it also appears
    in about a bazillion other rock songs.
    
    	------------12---------------12------------12-----------
    	----------12--------------12-------------12-------------
    	--14-B-16--------14-B-16----------14-B-16---------------
    	--------------------------------------------------------
    	--------------------------------------------------------
    	--------------------------------------------------------
    
    	You know the one, it is like a triplet feel.
    
    	What Pick direction do you guys use? or do you do it with pick and
    fingers?  Is there a better position to play this in (this fingering
    would go over a E blues progression)
    
    	Any help would be appreciated (especially by the punters at my
    gigs 8^).........)
    P.K.