Chords for How To Play The Ted Nugent Stranglehold Riff

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_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ I've been asked by a couple people here to maybe go through Stranglehull just a little
bit closer than we have in the past.
The truth is that I really don't think about the notes when I'm playing.
I felt a little bit better about that when I talked to Ted and he said he doesn't really
pay attention to the notes either.
So that's always been my downfall, not really paying attention to the academic side of what
I'm really doing. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You can't see my bald head anyway.
Okay. _
_ Stranglehull is more a matter of the palm of your hand muting on the [C] strings.
It's going to spend as much time on the strings as off the strings.
And that really is the key to getting the feel and the grit of the riff. _
So what I'm going to do, it seems to help a little bit.
I did this with my daughter and it seemed to help her.
I'm going to play Stranglehull with just one hand.
I'm going to leave this hand off of it and I'll show you what it sounds like.
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_ And that's basically just the right hand.
And we're going to add in an A right here.
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[N] _ _ that gives you that classic Ted Nugent, you know, _ _ just the attitude is all in that
A.
You've got [A] two octaves together playing there. _ _ _ _ _
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And then what we do, [Cm] we're going to mash on this [A] over here in the fifth position.
This A was on the seventh fret there on [C] the D string.
Now we're going to mash on this here.
We've got an A and I think a C playing together right here on the fifth fret.
We really don't have much movement in this [A] riff.
So it's_
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ All the while you've got a chunk on that A.
Never stop the A.
And then we're just going to add this little D in there [C#] I think [G] where we go_
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_ So here it is again. _ _ _ _
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And we just end it with a G and an A. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] You can finger that however you like.
I do think this first position, G [D#] and A, is what Ted Nugent does.
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[G] _ But you could bar it if you want.
Or you could do it more classic.
[A] _ [Em] I always like this position because if you're playing any open chords here, it's in that C position.
So _ [A#] there's a little E in there I [E] think.
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This is a little thing we're going to do later.
I think it's a little upstroke on the twelfth fret.
[A] _ [N] Alternate with an A again. _
_ _ In any event, I hope that helps a little bit.
I'll try to get back to some _ more stuff on Stranglehold here in maybe the next [D#] video.
But hopefully that helps a little bit. _
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