ACDC - Back In Black...hands up!

RandallFlagg

Hands up who struggles with the timing of the little bluesy lick after the first couple of chords in Back In Black?

It's the bend on the A to G on the 3rd string that does it for me :-(

Alterlifeson

Yep, every once in a while i'll nail it but 99% of the time its a fail.

fretmeister

Not anymore.

But I've been playing it since 1989 and spent about a decade being addicted to that band.

gusman2x

Yup, how is something so easy, so difficult.

bloodandtears

gusman2x said:

Yup, how is something so easy, so difficult.

overthinking..

stratman3142

I think the trick is to just pick the first note of the bend on the A, and then play the rest of the notes on the G string as a let-down-bend followed by a pull off to the open G.

RocknRollDave

The harder part is not fudging up the chromatic thing at the end of the second part of the riff, for me

Winny_Pooh

It's that bend, more stiff so close to the nut.

professorben

I can play it no problem. 

Teaching it however.......

professorben

Winny_Pooh said:

It's that bend, more stiff so close to the nut.

Phnaar Phnaar. 

doogz84

I don't have a problem with it, but on a vaguely similar note, Zep - Black Dog. If I listen to the drums too much, it puts me right off and I'll fuck up what is otherwise, a very straightforward riff.

57Deluxe

RocknRollDave said:

The harder part is not fudging up the chromatic thing at the end of the second part of the riff, for me

I have derived a cheat mode for this. In the heat of the fight no-one notices!

http://i65.tinypic.com/2z9irrd.jpg

Strange as it is - I have got an 8 year old playing the main chord riffs on a nylon 3/4 acoustic with just 2 finger chords!
Em Dsus2 Asus2

usedtobe

My mate, who was a pretty good player, and an ac/dc nut, couldn't get it 'right'. Pissed him off, no end! I can't get it right, either!

mr-mac

Andy,.main guitarist at our jam has it nailed,.  I always struggled with it but recently twigged I was probably, because I was struggling, coming in 1/2 1/4 beat too early.  Once I delayed it just longer than I felt I should it seems to play a lot easier (even though playing it quicker)

randella

Years of playing that riff and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) have meant I've got the bend on the G pretty much nailed.

AC/DC are one of those bands though - you think it's simple stuff and then you put the record on and play along and, all of a sudden, you sound very shoddy

octatonic

I don't have trouble with it- the main issue I see is both guitarists in a 2 guitar band trying to play it t the same time, which can make it sound weird if their timing is slightly off.
Better to decide who is going to be Angus and who is going to be Malcolm.

The other thing I see people doing is ripping out some ridiculously fast modal solo over it.
That doesn't work for me.

mudslide73

I have always struggled with this.   I've never found a singer willing to do it so I've not had the motivation. I'll have another go when I get home. 

Dominic

My headfuck riff is the 12 string intro to Dead or Alive ............easy to play but so easy to fuck the timing when it goes from the double stops to the A 

NelsonP

mr-mac said:

I was probably, because I was struggling, coming in 1/2 1/4 beat too early. 

Yep, that's where I'm at!

FX_Munkee

I can do it without thinking, but that's probably because I used to play in an AC/DC tribute band
IMHO the trick to making all AC/DC sound "right" is super tight timing. Once you're in that groove everything tends to fall into place.
Getting my 10 year old son to do it right is another thing, though.

Collings

I suspect i don,t play it correctly but no one notices at a gig really as long as you maintain the feel.