Electric Guitar Day 10 - The Best Electric Guitar Song EVER?

Welcome to day 10 of this 10 day electric guitar challenge. I hope this has gone well for you. Let us know how it's been going on in the Discord community, if you've chosen to be a member of Andyguitar.co.uk. This is where you can get support from like-minded guitar players, you can ask questions, and you can even ask me anything on the regular weekly live streams, which are also for members. This final video is gonna. Teach seven nation army. This is where everything kind of comes together, from a single note riff to movable power chords and just general rhythm guitar techniques for electric guitar. This is one of the most common first riffs for many guitar players, but when we start to add the power chords and play the riff in the chorus and, and play along to the original recording, it's at a much more higher level. However, this is appropriate for even total beginners. We have a full band version of this song, you'll see that video below where you can play along to me and the Andy Guitar Band. It's from a few years ago when I had shorter hair, but you can jam along with us and see everything that we're playing and get that feeling of joining in with a band, but being able to see where you are in the song. Before we start with that, let's have a close up and learn the main riff, then look at how to play the power chords and all that kind of thing. Let's do it. That is the main riff of Seven Nation Army. This uses an octave pedal technique to be able to get it to sound like a bass, but seeing as this is for total beginners, we're not gonna do that, we're just gonna learn it all the same way that we can play the main riff in the chorus, which is from fret 7 on string 5, which is an E note, it's the octave of this E. And we're gonna go 77, 10, with the little finger. And then back to 7, so 77, 10, 7. And now what we do, like with power chords, we slide down this first finger to the next two dots on our guitar at fret 5, which is a D note. Right, 3, which is a C. And then a B at the 2nd fret. Let's play that super slow together. 234. Let's double check those notes one more time. 23477, 10, 753. 2 77 10 753. 2, using those dots as the marker points, which is what they're designed for and why, why they exist on the guitar. We have one variation to that that happens in the chorus, so that just repeats, for the whole song every time you hear just that bass part when it's just the bass guitar on its own and we play that on guitar. In the chorus, we have the secondary riff after the regular one. There goes 77, 10, 753532. So it goes back on itself. There, it goes back on itself, when we get to the 3rd fret, you go back to 53, and 2. Fairly straightforward, let's give it a go together. 234. Let's go for that one more time, on its own in isolation. 234. And But how this happens in the song, in those choruses is. We play the normal riff first. And then The fancy one. So normal one, fancy one, and that just repeats, normal one, fancy one, normal one, fancy one, for however long the chorus lasts. Beginners who are wanting to emulate that original recording as closely as possible, want to check out where the notes ring out and then where they're short. So it's long. Long, short, short, short, long. Along and emulate what you're hearing and you're in control with how long these notes ring out for by how long you keep the fingers down. And when you relax them, don't lift them off the strings, keep them on the strings, and that's how we get. That can take a little longer to develop, but it's really worth doing. And the only other thing in the song is going from the 3rd fret to the 5th fret in this fashion. 1. 67812345678. And then the tricky bit is to go then straight back into the riff. Uh At the end of the chorus as well. But no matter what happens after that 333 and 555, you're going back to that main riff. If in doubt, just play. Throughout this whole thing, even just the basic one, and you'll be fine. That's all we're gonna look at in this video, because we have a full band version of this and more longer in-depth tutorial to help you play this riff. I'll leave that. In the immediate video below, along with just the band version so that you can play along to that as well. There are more songs in that band version, and you can learn how to play the power chord version and get moving your fingers around more like this. But that is something that will be developed over time, longer than these 10 days. And if you're wanting more help with any of this, or you've enjoyed this programme and you want more things like it, check out the Andy Guitar Beginner Electric course. It is the most comprehensive thing that I can give for beginners to take them from a total beginner or even around where you are now with a bit, little bit of experience. Most of what we've covered here with single note riffs has been at level one. And level 2 of that 10 day programme, including single note riffs, basic major and minor chords, E, A and D major, like the wild thing riff, and also a little bit more sliding around the fretboard and doing a bit more stuff. That was all at level 1 and level 2. You might be able to kick on from level 3 onwards, but if you wanna get a, get the feel of it, perhaps start from level 2 to consolidate your skills from here. That's what I'd. Recommend, you've got those more helpful videos, more help with Seven Nation Army down below, and remember you can get more help directly from me in the weekly live streams that we offer with the Andy Guitar membership and in the members only Discord, where you can get peer to peer support. Get support from like-minded learners wherever you are in the world. People even post videos of themselves playing, and we have things like open mics. Sunday, which is a really wonderful thing. Those are my top tips for what I can provide and we provide here at Andyguitar.co.uk to support you with your guitar journey. I hope you check out some of those extra content that we have in the Andy Guitar membership, and if you do, I will see you over there. Take care guys, be very proud of yourself. You've done a great job getting this far. I hope to see you again. Bye bye.