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    My friend says that AC/DC has some pretty simple stuff for guitar. since I'm just learning how to play could anyone tell me if this is true? It seems hard.
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    Some of it is simple, like Highway to hell, but other stuff is awfully hard, like i know a guitarist who says hells bells is awfully hard, because you have to change and hit really fast

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    Hey HEY! Keep it G-rated! :p

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    lol ahah

    ya i started doing some acdc when i first started guitar, its fairly easy, but of course the first song i chose to learn was closer to the heart by Rush lol
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    AC/DC stuff is among the easyer Rock to master. Malcolm likes to use open chords and most of their songs are in A or D, so you don't have to struggle with as many bar chords. As far as Angus' solos, learning how to play with vibrato is the real trick. This is just a matter of paractice. Just about all of his improv work stays inside the pentatonic "box" so once you learn those simple scale patterns playing his solo's are also comparatively easy. As far as his sound, he actually uses very little distortion. My understanding is that he plugs hid SG straight into his Marshall with a channel for clean and one for dirty. No reverb, no delay, no flange, no chorous, no noth'n.

    I don't have a way to draw you a scale pattern, but I think I can describe one for you to start out with. Lay your fingers across the fret board (anywhere) with each of your fingers covering one fret position. Your index is #1, middle #2, ring #3, pinky #4.

    Here's the pattern:
    Low E (big string at the top) play 1 & 4
    A (next string down) play 1 & 3
    D (next string down) play 1 & 3
    G (next string down) play 1 & 3
    B (next string down) play 1 & 4
    E (little string at the bottom) play 1 & 4

    Moving your hands up and down the neck will change the key, but the pattern remains the same. If you're not tone deaf, you can find the right spot and jam with any blues and many rock songs. Learn to bend the strings and mix up the pattern a bit and it'll start to sound musical.

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    sometimes i think u forget that we are drummers RD

    cuz you know none of us will understand that!
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    You will if you lay your hand across a guitar fret board (the part with the wires on it), number your fingers 1-4 and follow the directions step by step. You'll get a kick at how cool it sounds just to run up and down that pattern. If you (not you personally, Amp) are tone def, then forget it. Please do us all a favor and never touch a guitar.

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    Did I kill this thread, or what?

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    lol
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    That scale is exactly the same as the blues scale... are they one and the same RD?

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    I've wailed on a few axes in my time. That is the very first scale (and power chord) progression that most guitar teachers will have you doing. I think I learned pentatonic scales and moxolidian scales after that. Can't remember that far back anymore.

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    Yeah, its the first scale I learnt when I used to play guitar too. I guess its because it's so simple to remember...

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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsbells58
    That scale is exactly the same as the blues scale... are they one and the same RD?

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    Yep, also called the blues scale. It's easy and I think it's a good motivator for guys starting out with improv. There's so much you can do with it. Check out Ace Frehley's solo on "Love Gun". Almost the entire solo falls within this pentatonic box (i.e. there's very little wrist movement).

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