Chords for Steve Stevens - Riffs, Chords & Warm Up

_ _ _ _ _ _ Well, one of my favorite ones is Whole Lotta Love.
And _ I recently realized that a lot of guitar players _ [Db] _ [Eb] go_ _ _
_ And it's actually [B] not how you play it, because [Bbm] there's the _ _ _ [Eb] _ open_
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_ Now it sounds like Whole Lotta Love, right?
So you [Db] actually_
you [Gb] play the _ [Db] _ _ _
_ two_
You pull that out of _ _ [Eb]
tune_
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ It's cool, [Db] right? _
So _ that's_
I mean, come on, you gotta throw in a Led Zeppelin riff in there.
_ _ Of my riffs, I mean, you _ know_
Rebel Yell is obviously one that kind of [Eb] put me on the map.
[N] And the interesting thing about Rebel Yell is that the_
We knew that the chord structure was gonna be [Bbm] B minor, _ _ _
[Ab] A, _ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] G_
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Very, [Ab] very basic chord structure.
[Bbm] But [N] one of the things I liked about this is that I kind of keep [Bb] this note_
_ _ _ _ As the soprano note.
_ _ _ And [Am] when we go to _ [Bbm] _ [Db] A_ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ And [E] with G, it [Gb] becomes G major 7th.
So I'm never actually [Eb] playing the bass note, [Bb] so_ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] So that kind of creates a_
Even though there's basically bass drums and guitar, it creates much more of a chord _ _ _ arrangement.
It sounds bigger than the sum of the parts, so [Am] that's a cool thing.
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_ Yeah, [Gm] another [Ab] one is [Eb] _
_ _ obviously_
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And _ [N] that's_
once again, it's just E to D, but you [Db] get that kind of_
And this is actually from_
_ _ _ _ _ It's [G] very Who-like.
That was [B] my inspiration for it.
I love [N] a lot of the Pete Townshend things, Substitute and all those kind of_
His _ sus chords and all that kind of_
He was great at arranging his guitar [C] parts.
Like Jimmy Page created [G] a much bigger _ _ chord _ voicing, even [Ab] for just three instruments.
Those guys were masters at that.
[N] _ _
_ _ So that's some of my signature things.
_ _ _ Well, obviously, with a full gain amplifier, it's hard to get things _ that_
With distortion, certain things don't sound great. _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ I mean, one of _ _ the_ _ _ _
That's a G major voicing that _ I kind of_
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ But a lot of times I'll _ use_
I'll put the fifth below the chord.
So if I'm [A] playing_
it just also [N] creates_
Once again, it widens the voicing.
So if I'm playing an _ [Eb] _ _ E_ _
_ _ [Db] _ [Eb] I _ [Db] _ _
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_ [B] _ _ [F] _ _ just [Eb] like having that_
Even if you're not really stressing that lower fifth, _ but_
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[Db] _ _ [C] _ [B] _ _ [E] It's just kind of a cool_
It [A] sounds fuller and more _ _ meaty from down here.
With that little [Eb] _
added_
Little added voicing below it. _
_ _ Well, the one that I always have to warm up_
During the course of my show, I do _ an unaccompanied solo.
And one of the things I do, I end up this solo by doing this_
It's basically an exercise.
[Db] _ _ _ And
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ that one I usually have to spend a little bit of time just_
And it's one of those_
When I don't even have a guitar with me, I can kind of_
_ _ _ I can practice it if there's an edge of a table or something.
_ And _ _ [C] _
[E] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
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_ _ _ _ _ you can also practice without_
It allows you to open the string and also [N] mute it.
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_ _ _ _ _ That's [Em] _
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kind of a_
It's just_
Get your hands ready _ and_
Warms up the muscles and the tendons and all that stuff.
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A little bit.
I mean, it depends.
[N] If we get a full soundcheck in_
That's usually enough for me to kind of get the guitar on my hands.
Get used to it.
But a lot of times, especially with Billy Idol shows, we don't_
We don't always soundcheck.
_ And so I'll get a guitar in my hands a couple of hours before the show.
Just to kind of get used to it.
And also, as simple as it sounds, just get used to having it on your back.
You know, because playing sitting down or at home, you know, it's different.
It's a different _ headspace and a different positioning.
So I like to at least have the guitar on my shoulders for a little while before I hit the stage.
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