Chords for Halestorm's Lzzy Hale Plays Her Favorite Riffs

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What's up everybody this is Squeegee with the music experience and Loudwire's gear factor.
I am here with her riffness
Hi!
Her shredness, her _ _ badassness
The Queen Lizzie Hale.
Hi, I need you to just like walk into like the grocery store.
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_ We're big on riffs on the show.
Awesome.
Right?
We are big on riffs and one of the things that I always find the most interesting is
_ What makes up an artist?
_ Musically, so what are the riffs or ingredients? _ _
_ Awesome, well, I mean for one _
So I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock.
Thanks to my dad, right?
So
_ [E] So _ [A] [Bbm] I was a very abnormal kid I was like
listening to Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath and Dio and all that when I was like in sixth grade much to my _ _ _
Young friends chagrin when it was because this is like around like 96, right?
So there was like TLC and Backstreet Boys and everything.
I was listening to Sabbath.
So
_ strange thing that happened with
With my introduction to Sabbath was I was listening to the Dio years first
So I loved Dio's voice and and so my dad when [G] when I first got a guitar was like, okay
Let me just show you something just so you can get the ball rolling and like make yourself feel like you're cool because my dad
Was not [Bbm] into like _ let's teach you Mary had a little lamb, you know, which I'm very thankful for you know, so
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So we started with heaven and hell so
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Yeah, so and then so then my mom right?
My my mom was like well
You know, I'm glad you listen to all these guys stuff, but maybe you should listen to some girl shit, too
So she went out she went out and got me
Joan Jett's greatest hits
Alive heart CD Pat Benatar the whole nine yards and I was like wait there
There are there are girls that do that too, you [E] know
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know, so so then you're doing this and you're like, oh my god, I can I can do both of these things
Yeah, you know and then from there.
So this is this is how I worked.
This is how I operated _ _ I
Was writing my own songs and then I started just kind of showing my dad
Riffs that I had made so what I started doing
was I started having these like small show-and-tells, you know for like family like check this out and
so I did this thing that ended up on our first record _ and
It still kind of freaks
_ My guitar player out because when I [N] showed it to him, he was like, what are you doing?
But that was but that was the refer it's not you.
This is like when I was a [Dm] teenager
So, you _ _ _ [Bb] know, so I was doing this like slap thing
_ Thing and it's like it wasn't really playing it was just percussive.
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_ _ when I started doing that when I was a teenager, I'm like well [Bb] shit
When is the soonest I can do this out with my band, you know, so
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What I love about I miss the misery is that we decided [Am] to do
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Like just kind of a melodic riff on top of that that went with my vocals, which this was when I was discovering
_ That I [B] can sing, you [Db] know and play at the same time.
So I do that same [Bb] thing with like _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ You know, it's like it's okay I can sing and play at the same time sweet, you know, so when you're [A] doing like
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can harmonize with yourself and so it's like there was a there was a light bulb that happened in in
My mind _ it's like what I need to [Bbm] do is chase what gets me excited
Instead of trying to chase something that is not exciting
_ Maybe
[F] That maybe makes everybody think
That I'm this or I'm that you know, it's like I'm not gonna be in Bay Mountain
I'm not gonna be you know, but what I can be is me and so what is that and then you just [Bbm] kind of _
Expand almost upon that.
So for me even when I'm doing
_ _ _ [E] Even when I'm doing leads
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_ _ It's based on things that [Bb] I can sing
_ [E] _ [F] _ _ You know and so when I'm writing riffs and [Bb] when I'm writing
Leads it's coming from this vocalist standpoint.
There's some days where you sit down and you play _ you're like
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Okay, that's cool that sounds great
Let's write a song to that and there's sometimes where you have like the idea of the song in mind
But you're not quite sure what you need.
Okay, we need a riff there what to do
so I'll [Bb] end up literally pigging piggybacking off of something that I sang because
I've always been a much more natural
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Singer than maybe I am a guitar player.
So instead [Bbm] of thinking of that as a handicap
I kind of use it as my secret weapon _ _
_ _ _ _ Of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ course, I it was weird because like so I went I went _ Sabbath do to like right to _ _ like
Old school [Bb] trudgy, you know, like like early
_ and early Ozzy and then and then I worked my way toward, you know, just like I I
Love the 80s stuff too.
So it's just great when he had a solo career _ _
But it's interesting because when I first heard
Ozzy's voice because I you hear all this stuff.
It's like Prince of Darkness and now again
This is a mishmash because like I'm a child of the 90s.
So like heavy music to me was like
_ _ [F] Metallica and and you know
There was [Gb] Rammstein
we had some stuff and [Bb] there was the new disturbed album had just come out and so you hear all these rumors like he's the
Prince of Darkness _ and I'm like
Doesn't [Gb] sound like the Prince of Darkness to me.
[B] He's just singing his song.
It's great
Also, I'm gonna [Bbm] fast forward because I think we should mention heaven to hell in here too because it's kind of [Bb] part of the same band _
But there's a song called
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Fear on that that first that heaven and hell record the devil, you know, which is [Bb] amazing
[A] Like
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ that shits so good but um, but that's Tony I owe me for you
He's just a riff master
You know how like slash like again [B] one of the most amazing riff masters ever [Bbm] like he's a pentatonic
Bulldozer, you know [Bb] he _ and talk about somebody who [B] owns who they are, you [Bb] know _ _
Like he basically [G] I will not butcher slash for you, but but
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[F] _ know like that he does all those like _
The just the bluesy riffs, you know
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Like it's like all in that little area in that box and [Ab] it's like to me that inspires me too because he's one of the
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