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My name is Joe Wiles with the Rock and Roll
Conservatory and we're looking at Deep
Purple's Smoke on the Water. 
This song is featured on Deep Purple's
1972 album Machine Head and it's
the true to life story that Deep Purple witnessed
at a Frank Zappa show when a crazy fan fired
off a flare gun in the audience setting the
casino Frank Zappa was in on fire, it burned
to the ground.
We're going to take a look at the introduction
to Smoke on the Water, as well as
the verse riff. Two key riffs if you're
going to learn this song. Lets start off with
the intro, here it goes.
Intro
All right, it's my pleasure to teach
you the world famous introduction to Richie
Blackmore's Smoke on the Water.
We're going to start with the open D and
the open G. 
We're going to pick them with our fingers.
We're not going to use a guitar pick for
this. Well, you can I guess. But pick them
like this. It's going to sound like
And then you're going to put your fingers
back to mute them so they don't ring out
too far. In fact lay your other fingers across
the strings so they don't ring out on accident.
It sounds like this.
Then you're going to take the pad of your
index finger of your left hand, put it on
3rd fret of the D and the G. Slide up to the
5th fret. Let it ring out. Repeat that same
thing, open 3, 5 on the D and G. Just like
that, okay?
To move on, we're going to go open, 3,
slide up to the 6, down to the 5. Those two
little riffs put together kind of sound like
this.
We'll repeat the first riff. Then we're
going to slide down to the third riff, or
excuse me, the 3rd fret of the D and G.
Then open. Slowly that all sounds like this.
To speed, sounds like this. One, two, one,
two, three. And we'll repeat. That's
it. It's that easy. 
\b Verse\
\
\b0 Lets take a look at the verse riff for
smoke on the water. It\'92s really easy only
two three fingered power chords. A three finger
power chord is when you have this shape with
your fingers and your index finger happens
to be on the low E string or maybe even the
A string. \
In this case it\'92s going to be on the 3rd
fret of the low E string, your index finger,
your ring finger on the 5th fret of the A
and your pinky on the 5th fret of the D. \
It would sound like this if you played it
all together. But we don\'92t, we picked it
apart like this. We\'92re going to do that
a bunch of times. The only other chord in
this verse, we slide the same power chord
down to the 1st, 3rd and 3rd. \
It actually sounds like this one, two, three,
four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three,
four, one, two, three, four, one, two, slide
down, one, two, three, four, one, two, three,
four, one, two, three, four. \
It\'92s really not that hard as long as you
know when to slide down. That slide down is
the sixth time you do it and then for the
rest of the two you slide back up to that
3-5-5. \
Lets try that to speed it sounds like this
one, two, one, two, three, four, and you can
repeat it if you want. It\'92s that easy.
Not much to it really. \
Thanks for watching I hope it helped. Make
sure you send us request for the songs you
want to learn. I\'92ll see you next time.}
