Chords for Pipeline Guitar Lesson - Intro Riff & Rhythm
Tempo:
47.1 bpm
Chords used:
B
Em
Am
E
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
You've got your surfboard out, got it waxed up, ready to go.
This is an absolutely famous surf riff [Bb] and there's a lot more to this song than what
I have time to show you here, but I'm going to show you some of the basic pointers to this song.
This 16th note slide thing that they do, I don't even know what you'd call it, it's just,
[Ab] I started at the 15th fret and just slowly go through it.
It's like one e and a two e and a three e and a, and you just slowly slide down, you
want to set [E] yourself up so you can hit that low e, open string at the bottom, right?
And I'm just going one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a, and then of course
the very first riff.
So when it's played a little faster, [B] the hard part is getting this played seamlessly.
And this move is very cool and it [Abm] has to do with your down up picking.
It uses the sixth and fifth string, it's based [Em] on e minor.
In some of the versions you'll hear the e minor, like the second guitar will play the
high e minor, the low one, depends [F] on the version, but, and there are different arrangements
of the different versions, some live versions, some not.
I'm just going to give you the basic changes.
[Em] But this is the e, and it's down up, down [B] up, down up, down up, your pick.
[E] And what's happening is you strike the e down, open, [B] and then you strike the b, which is
on [E] your fifth string, second fret.
So you go [B] down on the e, up on the b.
Now, just as you're ready to strike the [G] sixth string again, you go to the g.
So you take your second finger and drop it down on the [Gb] g, pick that down, and then [E] pick
the b up.
In the end you get this sequence.
The notes are, and [Db] it's really fast, and it's slightly muted, my right [Em] hand, the palm.
Depending on the version, it can go on for like eight bars, and then you'll hear the
second guitar go, do an e minor, sometimes they have tremolo on it, depends which version,
right?
But that's the e.
[B] Then you have that main guitar [Bm] riff that goes.
[F] Well, while that's going on, the rhythm guitar [Em] is going on the e, so it goes.
Right?
That's your rhythm part.
Then it moves over to the a.
Same [B] thing as c, [Am] right?
It moves over to the a.
[Em] Same picking technique, same [Am] fingering, and that's underneath [B] the lead line.
While that's being played, you're playing e, right?
So you start with this.
Most of the [Em] time it's eight bars in the versions.
Then the lead guitar.
Then it [Am] changes to the a.
Here's a cool part.
[B] It goes to a b, just a power chord will do.
[C]
C.
[B] Power chord is, this is one and five, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're really
in trouble, you're really a newbie.
But it's just a fifth string and a fourth string.
It's always the same pattern, of course, on your guitar, and that is that if your root
is on the fifth string, your five will be on the next string underneath it, in this
case the fourth string.
It's always one string over and one fret spacing between it.
So this is the b, this is my root, this is the b.
[C] C.
C and the coolest trick of all, [B] and I could get into a lot of theory about this, it's very intelligent.
The original writer of this song was a heck of a guitar player for his time.
He really did know his stuff.
It's a b power chord, and then you [A] take your first finger off and hit the a while your
third finger is still down on the fourth string.
And for the sake of simplicity right now, we'll call that an a.
[Am] Once you're done with that, you strum the a minor chord once.
One, two, three, four, and then you're back in.
[Em] Back in for another round.
[Am]
[B] [C]
[N] And then on we go.
Hey, I'm missing the lead guitar, but I managed to get by without it.
Hope you have fun with this riff, it's an awesome riff.
Wax up the surfboard and head on down to
This is an absolutely famous surf riff [Bb] and there's a lot more to this song than what
I have time to show you here, but I'm going to show you some of the basic pointers to this song.
This 16th note slide thing that they do, I don't even know what you'd call it, it's just,
[Ab] I started at the 15th fret and just slowly go through it.
It's like one e and a two e and a three e and a, and you just slowly slide down, you
want to set [E] yourself up so you can hit that low e, open string at the bottom, right?
And I'm just going one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a, and then of course
the very first riff.
So when it's played a little faster, [B] the hard part is getting this played seamlessly.
And this move is very cool and it [Abm] has to do with your down up picking.
It uses the sixth and fifth string, it's based [Em] on e minor.
In some of the versions you'll hear the e minor, like the second guitar will play the
high e minor, the low one, depends [F] on the version, but, and there are different arrangements
of the different versions, some live versions, some not.
I'm just going to give you the basic changes.
[Em] But this is the e, and it's down up, down [B] up, down up, down up, your pick.
[E] And what's happening is you strike the e down, open, [B] and then you strike the b, which is
on [E] your fifth string, second fret.
So you go [B] down on the e, up on the b.
Now, just as you're ready to strike the [G] sixth string again, you go to the g.
So you take your second finger and drop it down on the [Gb] g, pick that down, and then [E] pick
the b up.
In the end you get this sequence.
The notes are, and [Db] it's really fast, and it's slightly muted, my right [Em] hand, the palm.
Depending on the version, it can go on for like eight bars, and then you'll hear the
second guitar go, do an e minor, sometimes they have tremolo on it, depends which version,
right?
But that's the e.
[B] Then you have that main guitar [Bm] riff that goes.
[F] Well, while that's going on, the rhythm guitar [Em] is going on the e, so it goes.
Right?
That's your rhythm part.
Then it moves over to the a.
Same [B] thing as c, [Am] right?
It moves over to the a.
[Em] Same picking technique, same [Am] fingering, and that's underneath [B] the lead line.
While that's being played, you're playing e, right?
So you start with this.
Most of the [Em] time it's eight bars in the versions.
Then the lead guitar.
Then it [Am] changes to the a.
Here's a cool part.
[B] It goes to a b, just a power chord will do.
[C]
C.
[B] Power chord is, this is one and five, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're really
in trouble, you're really a newbie.
But it's just a fifth string and a fourth string.
It's always the same pattern, of course, on your guitar, and that is that if your root
is on the fifth string, your five will be on the next string underneath it, in this
case the fourth string.
It's always one string over and one fret spacing between it.
So this is the b, this is my root, this is the b.
[C] C.
C and the coolest trick of all, [B] and I could get into a lot of theory about this, it's very intelligent.
The original writer of this song was a heck of a guitar player for his time.
He really did know his stuff.
It's a b power chord, and then you [A] take your first finger off and hit the a while your
third finger is still down on the fourth string.
And for the sake of simplicity right now, we'll call that an a.
[Am] Once you're done with that, you strum the a minor chord once.
One, two, three, four, and then you're back in.
[Em] Back in for another round.
[Am]
[B] [C]
[N] And then on we go.
Hey, I'm missing the lead guitar, but I managed to get by without it.
Hope you have fun with this riff, it's an awesome riff.
Wax up the surfboard and head on down to
Key:
B
Em
Am
E
C
B
Em
Am
_ You've got your surfboard out, got it waxed up, ready to go.
This is an absolutely famous surf riff [Bb] and there's a lot more to this song than what
I have time to show you here, but I'm going to show you some of the basic pointers to this song.
This 16th note slide thing that they do, I don't even know what you'd call it, it's just,
[Ab] I started at the 15th fret and just slowly go through it.
It's like one e and a two e and a three e and a, and you just slowly slide down, you
want to set [E] yourself up so you can hit that low e, open string at the bottom, right?
And I'm just going one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a, and then of course
the very first riff.
So when it's played a little faster, [B] the hard part is getting this played seamlessly. _ _
And this move is very cool and it [Abm] has to do with your down up picking.
It uses the sixth and fifth string, it's based [Em] on e minor. _
In some of the versions you'll hear the e minor, like the second guitar will play the
high e minor, the low one, depends [F] on the version, but, and there are different arrangements
of the different versions, some live versions, some not.
I'm just going to give you the basic changes.
[Em] But this is the e, and it's down up, down [B] up, down up, down up, your pick.
[E] And what's happening is you strike the e down, open, [B] and then you strike the b, which is
on [E] your fifth string, second fret.
So you go [B] down on the e, up on the b.
Now, just as you're ready to strike the [G] sixth string again, you go to the g.
So you take your second finger and drop it down on the [Gb] g, pick that down, and then [E] pick
the b up.
In the end you get this sequence.
_ _ The notes are, and [Db] it's really fast, and it's slightly muted, my right [Em] hand, the palm.
_ _ Depending on the version, it can go on for like eight bars, and then you'll hear the
second guitar go, do an e minor, sometimes they have tremolo on it, depends which version,
right?
But that's the e.
[B] Then you have that main guitar [Bm] riff that goes.
[F] Well, while that's going on, the rhythm guitar [Em] is going on the e, so it goes.
_ _ Right?
That's your rhythm part.
Then it moves over to the a.
Same [B] thing as c, [Am] right?
It moves over to the a.
[Em] Same picking technique, same [Am] fingering, and that's underneath [B] the lead line. _
While that's being played, you're playing e, right?
So you start with this.
Most of the [Em] time it's eight bars in the versions.
Then the lead guitar.
_ _ Then it [Am] changes to the a. _
_ _ Here's a cool part.
[B] It goes to a b, just a power chord will do.
[C] _
_ C.
_ [B] Power chord is, this is one and five, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're really
in trouble, you're really a newbie.
But it's just a fifth string and a fourth string.
It's always the same pattern, of course, on your guitar, and that is that if your root
is on the fifth string, your five will be on the next string underneath it, in this
case the fourth string.
It's always one string over and one fret spacing between it.
So this is the b, this is my root, this is the b.
[C] C.
_ C and the coolest trick of all, [B] and I could get into a lot of theory about this, it's very intelligent.
The original writer of this song was a heck of a guitar player for his time.
He really did know his stuff.
It's a b power chord, and then you [A] take your first finger off and hit the a while your
third finger is still down on the fourth string. _
And for the sake of simplicity right now, we'll call that an a.
_ _ _ [Am] Once you're done with that, you strum the a minor chord once.
One, two, three, four, and then you're back in.
[Em] Back in for another round.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ And then on we go.
Hey, I'm missing the lead guitar, but I managed to get by without it.
Hope you have fun with this riff, it's an awesome riff.
Wax up the surfboard and head on down to
This is an absolutely famous surf riff [Bb] and there's a lot more to this song than what
I have time to show you here, but I'm going to show you some of the basic pointers to this song.
This 16th note slide thing that they do, I don't even know what you'd call it, it's just,
[Ab] I started at the 15th fret and just slowly go through it.
It's like one e and a two e and a three e and a, and you just slowly slide down, you
want to set [E] yourself up so you can hit that low e, open string at the bottom, right?
And I'm just going one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a, and then of course
the very first riff.
So when it's played a little faster, [B] the hard part is getting this played seamlessly. _ _
And this move is very cool and it [Abm] has to do with your down up picking.
It uses the sixth and fifth string, it's based [Em] on e minor. _
In some of the versions you'll hear the e minor, like the second guitar will play the
high e minor, the low one, depends [F] on the version, but, and there are different arrangements
of the different versions, some live versions, some not.
I'm just going to give you the basic changes.
[Em] But this is the e, and it's down up, down [B] up, down up, down up, your pick.
[E] And what's happening is you strike the e down, open, [B] and then you strike the b, which is
on [E] your fifth string, second fret.
So you go [B] down on the e, up on the b.
Now, just as you're ready to strike the [G] sixth string again, you go to the g.
So you take your second finger and drop it down on the [Gb] g, pick that down, and then [E] pick
the b up.
In the end you get this sequence.
_ _ The notes are, and [Db] it's really fast, and it's slightly muted, my right [Em] hand, the palm.
_ _ Depending on the version, it can go on for like eight bars, and then you'll hear the
second guitar go, do an e minor, sometimes they have tremolo on it, depends which version,
right?
But that's the e.
[B] Then you have that main guitar [Bm] riff that goes.
[F] Well, while that's going on, the rhythm guitar [Em] is going on the e, so it goes.
_ _ Right?
That's your rhythm part.
Then it moves over to the a.
Same [B] thing as c, [Am] right?
It moves over to the a.
[Em] Same picking technique, same [Am] fingering, and that's underneath [B] the lead line. _
While that's being played, you're playing e, right?
So you start with this.
Most of the [Em] time it's eight bars in the versions.
Then the lead guitar.
_ _ Then it [Am] changes to the a. _
_ _ Here's a cool part.
[B] It goes to a b, just a power chord will do.
[C] _
_ C.
_ [B] Power chord is, this is one and five, you know, if you haven't seen it, you're really
in trouble, you're really a newbie.
But it's just a fifth string and a fourth string.
It's always the same pattern, of course, on your guitar, and that is that if your root
is on the fifth string, your five will be on the next string underneath it, in this
case the fourth string.
It's always one string over and one fret spacing between it.
So this is the b, this is my root, this is the b.
[C] C.
_ C and the coolest trick of all, [B] and I could get into a lot of theory about this, it's very intelligent.
The original writer of this song was a heck of a guitar player for his time.
He really did know his stuff.
It's a b power chord, and then you [A] take your first finger off and hit the a while your
third finger is still down on the fourth string. _
And for the sake of simplicity right now, we'll call that an a.
_ _ _ [Am] Once you're done with that, you strum the a minor chord once.
One, two, three, four, and then you're back in.
[Em] Back in for another round.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ And then on we go.
Hey, I'm missing the lead guitar, but I managed to get by without it.
Hope you have fun with this riff, it's an awesome riff.
Wax up the surfboard and head on down to