If You Want Blood by AC/DC - Rhythm Elements

So okay, finally we have made it once again. If this way of shooting works and you like it let us try our first practical thing and this time it is going to be a tutorial I have never done which if you want live you have got it, all right. You know that I would concentrate on Angus parts but we have to give also some tips or just figures of Malcolm pattern which I think it is really amazing and in fact he will start with this kind of thing here with the pedal notes, all right. And so, he does a lot of that pedal notes and especially back in those years I think he was keeping the band. We said that already and he said that himself already. So he was trying to keep the band in tight rhythm and keep himself to keep a tight rhythm and the pedal notes actually serve a lot for this purpose to kick yourself and to keep kicking the rhythm, all right.

So, it is called the pedal notes when you hear this thing and how do you do that. Well, you personally mute the string you are playing. It can be an open string or not, all right. So, partially mute sitting with your palm on the bridge of the guitar if it is an SG or Gibson type of guitar. And then, so you partially mute. This is how it would sound if it was a completely open string with no – it is very mysterious sounding. I like that very much. Everyone likes it.

Can you hear I am letting go some given point right now I do that by intuition. I am not even commanding anymore that now I have to do this. You have kind of develop a memory after trying to play it wrong for quite a long time as it happen to me and finally when you start getting it right you will hear that it comes out to you, all right. These are the chords that Malcolm is doing. It is an A and D.

Common A that we have seen many, many times. Let me turn off the guitar a bit. Okay, A and then D and then there is a final little thing that he does. With my pinky finger I am going on the G note on the high E string. This is a regular D. You see I am using again the pedal note a bit right there on the D string. I use that to keep the timing right, tight, kicking and to prepare myself to strike again in fact my hand is still moving and it keep some certain rhythm. Hopefully the right rhythm and we will use this to launch itself my left hand and my right hand for the other movements.

You probably cannot hear that as much as I am doing it probably right now I am exaggerating this kind of thing but just do to understand what you have to do possibly in what terms you have to think although not always it conscious thing that we are doing while we are playing this, sometimes some sort of assimilated muscle memory, all right. Angus will come in after a few times that Malcolm has started the song and we will just strike an A chord. And then, come in, in the same pattern as Malcolm is doing. I think it is a same pattern actually. I do pay attention closely there might be something different. For example for sometimes I was wondering how they are doing this or this but evidently it is that thing. It sounds more correct, all right.

And finally we come to the first chorus and actually the chorus pattern which is like this. These are always the basic chords that we have seen already so many times. It is an A and then G, open G. Remember I mute this, I mute the B note which is on the 2nd fret of the A string, it is muted. Then, you have it. Now, you finally can hear why I muted. It is still kind of a bass frequency in there and you do not want to have it messing around with the G base string which already gives some bass frequency of course.

Now, there is a funny peculiar thing this song and some other song I think on Highway to Hell and probably Back in Black and probably on forward. I have a D chord where this note which is an F# is not being muted. Probably sometimes we cannot hear it because post production tends to cut some high frequencies and few notes get lost. This as well for example but if I hear well properly if I strike to hear properly I will hear that F# in there or at least sometimes and of course the two guys of course want it t