Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Smoke on the Water, this is the number one riff that most electric guitarists learn as their first song. Especially guitarists that stick with it, that stick with music. I've found that from interviewing the bands that I've interviewed on YouTube over the past. Last couple of years, and they all learn it in this fashion, the easiest way to play Smoke on the water is with starting with the open E string. String 6123456, so the thickest string, and that's our first note. And then importantly, we palm mute. Which just means laying all the palm of the hand over all six strings, so if any of the other strings ring out, we can silence them. Then we take our index finger and press the 3rd fret on again string 6. It's all gonna be on this string 6, and that is our second note. So 0. 3. In tab, 0 fret, and then 3rd fret, that's how it looks in tap. The next note is gonna be the 3rd fret, which for most, these would be the dotted frets on most guitars, and the ones with inlays in them. My guitar happens to have one at the 1st fret as well, but it's most common, the 3rd fret and 5th. Are the 3 notes that are dotted and have an inlay to them, and we want that slight palm mute before playing every note. We're gonna get a slight sliding noise cos we're using one finger, then it's 035. Is the start of this riff. The next part starts exactly the same, it goes 03, and then we go to fret 6, and then quickly to 5. So this is the first non-dotted fret we've played, it's in between 5 and 7, that's what we use these dots for, and the inlays for, and we play 65, in quick succession, no space between the notes. Doesn't matter what you do with the other fingers, just relax them. Those 4 notes in total for that second line of this song. Then we play the first line again. And then it's simply 30. Let me demo all of that in total just with one finger, nice and slow, play along to this as soon as you feel ready. 1234. 34. And if you have some overdrive on your guitar and you're using an electric guitar, it should sound something like that. For this particular video, I'm using my Boss Ctana again, this time on the brown sound setting to give a little bit more overdrive. All the EQ and amp settings are all at vertical, so gain, and all the NQ, bass, middle, and treble is all just vertical, so 5 out of 10. But remember, guitar type and pickup type matters, as we looked at in the very first video of my beginner electric course. Once you can do all that riff with one finger, we wanna try and use your third finger to play fret 5 and fret 6 in this fashion. This is what we want to work towards. practise of the finger exercises and jam tracks that we've looked at so far in this beginner electric course will really help with this, but the general idea is we keep the first finger hovering over fret 3 and the third finger hovering over fret 5. They can be quite flat, they don't have to be right on their tips, so this is great to go along with. Open cord work cos it will save the tips of your fingers, and we just go 2340350365 03 5. 0. Again, 234. That's what you're working towards with your practise for this lesson. You'll find some more learning materials in the video description. All the best with practising that, and I'll see you in the next video.