Hi guys and welcome to new guitar tutorial.
In this video I'm going to show you how to play the riff from the song Bad Guy.
But if you prefer to learn how to play the melody
you'll find a link to
that tutorial line down below.
I'm going to show you two different ways to play the riff:
The original one as I just played where we have to tune the guitar in drop D.
And that's that the 6th string must to be a D.
And the rest are in standard
tuning.
And I'm going to start with that tutorial.
But if you prefer not to change
the tuning of the guitar,
And you want to play it in standard tuning.
I'm going to show you as well how we can play that.
And down below I'm going to write when
that part of the tutorial starts.
So choose in which way you want to play it and let's begin.
Okay. I'm going to start showing how to
play the original one,
Where we have to tune the 6th string in D.
So we get a drop D tuning.
When we have drop D we're going to play
the 5th fret on the 6th string with the index finger.
We play it two times
and we have a rest between them so we have to lift the finger.
Then we play the 8th fret with the pinky finger and back to the 5th.
Nice. After that we're going to
play the 5th fret two times. a
And again with a rest between every tone.
So we have to lift every time.
So we get:
Perfect. And to end the second measure we're going to play:
5, 8, 5 and we move that index finger to the 3rd fret.
So we get:
Ok. So putting together the measure 1 and 2 we get:
I play it one more time.
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Okay. And that's the measure one and two.
When we come to the 3rd and 4th
we just have to repeat the same thing
that we played on the first and the
second.
Okay. So putting together the measure 1, 2, 3 and 4 we get this:
Ok. So we just have to play that melody two times.
So we arrive to the measure 5
and we're going to come with the index finger to the 3rd fret on the 5th string.
And from there we're going to do the same pattern that we did on the 6th string.
Okay. So we play: 3, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3.
Okay. But now we're going to change a little.
We're going to play 3, 6, 3
and 4 on the 4th string with the middle finger.
Okay. So putting together the measure
five and six we get this:
Okay. So now I'm going to play from the beginning.
Nice. And we arrived to the last part of the riff.
We're going to come with the middle
finger to the 5h fret on the 5th string.
We play that two times.
Then index finger on the 4th fret 4th string.
Back to the 5th fret on the 5th string.
And then we play the 6th string open two
times.
But we have a rest between every tone,
so we have to mute the strings.
Okay. So the measure seven and eight sounds like this:
And that's everything. If we put everything together we get the riff from the song.
And we just have to keep
repeating.
Okay. And that's if you wanna learn how to play the original one.
If you don't want to change the tuning of the guitar,
and you want to play in
standard tuning.
We are going to need to change a little
bit.
We're going to change the two last tones of the riff.
And we start like this:
We come with the ring finger to the 3rd fret on the 6th string.
We play that on two times
but we have rest between them so we have to lift the finger.
Then we play the first fret on the 5th string with the index finger.
And we come back to the 3rd fret on the 6th string.
Then we're going to play two times that
3rd fret on the 6th string.
But we have again a rest between every tone.
So every time that we play it we have to lift to get the rest.
Do you get it?
Perfect. After that we play 3rd fret on the 6th string,
1st fret on the 5th,
3rd fret on the 6th
And 1st fret on the 6th.
So we get:
Okay. And there we have the first measure
and the second.
I play it one more time.
Okay. So that's the first and the second
measure.
When we come to the third and the fourth we just have to repeat the same thing.
So we have to play that melody two times.
So putting together the measure one, two, three and four. We get this:
Nice. After that we continue to the measure five.
And we're going to play the same
melody,
but we have to move everything one string down.
So we start from the 3rd fret on the 5th string.
Now we come to the 1st fret on the 4th string.
And now we're going to change a little,
because we have to play:
3rd fret on the 5th, 1st on the 4th, back to the 3rd on the 5th...
But now with the pinky finger we're going to play the 4th fret on the 4th string.
Okay. So putting together the measure
five and six we get this:
I play it one more time.
Okay. So playing from the beginning:
measure one, two, three, four, five and six:
And we arrive to the last part of the
riff.
We come with the middle finger to the 5th fret on the 5th string.
We play that tone two times with a rest between them.
Then we play the 4th fret on the
4th string.
Back to the 5th on the 5th string. So we get:
And now we come to that part that we have to change from the original.
Because right now we have to play the same tone but lower on the 6th string.
And that's why we have to tune down the string.
But it sounds good as well if we keep on that tone
so we play:
And then we play two times that 5th fret on the 5th string.
So putting everything together we get the riff of the song.
And we just have to keep repeating.
And that's how you play the riff from Bad Guy.
I remind you that if you wanna learn
how to play the melody,
you find the link to that tutorial down below.
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