If you want to challenge your fretting hand, this is the song for you! The notorious opening riff is extremely hard to play and perform as it requires a very consistent fretting hand, doing legato lines up and down the neck. Thomas walks you through it nice and slowly, as well as the rest of the track and the solo.
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Riff: Arpeggio Riff
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- My name is Joe Wiles with the Rock ‘N Roll Conservatory and in this video we’re going to take a look at AC/DC‘s Thunderstruck from their Razors Edge record. Now there’s a lot of controversy over the opening guitar riff in this song. Whether it’s all left-hand tapping or whether we use a guitar pick on it or on some notes or all the notes.
- The Thunderstruck Guitar Lesson Videos will clear up all confusion about exactly how Angus Young plays the intro in 'Thunderstruck'. You will be playing this classic lick in no time! Every note of this hard hitting track is dissected in these video guitar lessons including all the rhythm guitar parts and solo.
The opening riff, which is super cool, is quite simply two single string arpeggios followed by a cool run on the B string using the B mixolydian scale. Here are those arpeggios and scales:
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Chords: Powerchord riffing
There are a lot of riffs throughout the song, which Thomas walks you through in the lesson. It can get a little confusing as to when they come in, but the chords we are using are shown here, and the great news is that there are only
Theory: A Mixolydian
Thomas takes time to explain why this song is in the key of A mixolydian, rather than A major. The song really uses chords form teh key of D major (the D, G and A) but as the song revolves around A, this is the mixolydian mode of the D major scale. If this stuff blows your mind, you may want to check out this super cool theory course on modes: https://www.yourguitaracademy.com/courses/the-modes-part-one.
Ac Dc Thunderstruck Guitar Tab
Scales: B Blues (Minor & Major)
As with most of AC/DC soloing we are using both the Major and Minor pentatonic, just like we do in blues music! As Thomas walks you through, we are using shapes across the neck, so it's best to show you all the shapes across the neck of each key. Use the Angus Young licks to see how to beautifully blend the two!
Thunderstruck Guitar Tutorial
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Thunderstruck Ac Dc Guitar Tab
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