Bonus Video 2 - 10 Day Electric - Stone Roses D G A with Riff

Welcome to this jam track video where we are checking out a sort of simplified Stone Roses-esque lead and chord progression, which we can play over this 80s style jam track. If you've never heard of the Stone Roses, that doesn't matter at all. All we're really doing here is checking that we can play the D, G, and A. Major chords, along with a little melody, one of our first lead lines in this series, and Stone Roses and other kind of early indie songs are fantastic for easy lead lines, there's so many good ones. But here's one I came up with which sounds a little bit Stone Roses, and I've also gone to the crunch setting. Um, on my epiphone list Paul, any guitar's absolutely fine, but give it a little bit of bite, a little bit of overdrive, doesn't have to be, this is 4 out of 10 on the crunch setting, and I've also, uh, still gone for some chorus on this sound as well. That's my D major chord, G. Well the full G chord, I'm gonna go for this one though, this G5 chord, and then a one finger. A major or a power chord. D. And the melody we're gonna go for is this. It repeats exactly the same. And finishes on an A major chord, which a lot of quite simple riffs or even harder riffs do. 3 repetitions and then a tail, the tail in this case being just the strum of the A chord, is a very common thing, even riffs like Enter Sandman do the same thing. 3 repetitions and then a tail is quite common. Um, but here we have our first finger. Uh, assigned to this fret 2 on string 3, and the third finger is at fret 4. This little finger stretching stuff that we looked at earlier and the blues riff from the previous level all helps with this stretch, but we can do a more of a jump rather than a stretch if you're struggling with this. Beat 1 is actually silent, so 1234, and 1 and 2 and. And 4, that rhythm's really important. Fret numbers wise, that is 4. 0. 242. So certainly simple but will be difficult if that is totally new to you, as will going from playing this riff to strumming chords, which is needed to play uh many songs, at least in this style, but most songs from. The Beatles to the present day, play some single notes and then strums some chords. This is our way into that. Here's the full jam track as a playthrough, there'll be more help below on the lesson description. Join in with me when you're ready, we're gonna start with the riff. 123. From the day Finish on a D. So there's our Stone Roses style, or 80s Manchester style jam track. This is something that will be new for many of you, but does show what's possible by just learning a few simple notes and perhaps getting used to our amp settings, adding a chorus, adding a bit of overdrive, but not having to make things absolutely crazy. And if you don't have any of that, this is giving you some. Reason to look into that if this is a genre that you really enjoy. There's more help below, so check that out. And there are more jam tracks in this module that we'll be using to consolidate your skills and start you playing some easy lead parts, or at least simple lead parts and start you in this world of lead guitar playing, even at this early stage. I hope you really enjoy them.