Channel: New Secret Guitar Teacher

Category: Music

Tags: playsir mix a lotriffthe shadowslearnincredible bongo bandsecret guitar teacherguitarhank marvinapacheclassicinstrumentallicktutorialsugarhill gang

Description: Learn the classic guitar riff that's been covered and sampled by everyone from the Sugarhill Gang to Swedish jazz guitarist Jorgen Ingmann, Fatboy Slim and of course the Incredible Bongo Band. For more lessons, downloads and courses visit secretguitarteacher.com Abridged Script: For this episode of Classic Licks and Riffs I thought I would show you through the lead part of one of my favourite guitar instrumental tunes – Apache by the Shadows. Here’s a demo of what this lesson covers… I’m playing that over a simple backing track that’s slightly slower than the original, to make it a bit easier to learn. I’ll include a short segment of that backing track at the end of this video for you to practise along to. If you are watching this as a SGT.com site member, you can download an mp3 file of the full version of the track from the link below the video screen. Now let’s look at the detail, starting with the intro. Notice that these licks all come in after the first beat of the bar. So, you hear the rhythm guitar play the Am chord… then play…...hear the D chord… This line is played through twice. But then the timing reverses and you have to start the next phrase one beat ahead of the start of the bar. So immediately you have played the last lick of the intro… you have to locate this E note on the 2nd fret of the fourth string like this… and that leads into this nice easy-to-play section which is also played through twice. Then for the next line you need to play the first note ahead of the chord change to Dm… then it’s back to a repeat of the first line again. Any problems following that, then Tab is available. Click on the link below the screen if you are watching this as a member of the SGT.com site, otherwise please contact me for a free copy of the Tab to go with this lesson, email resources[@]secretguitarteacher[.]com The next section involves playing a pair of notes from the F chord with a fast rhythm something like this, then finishing with the notes E and A from the Am chord. Now my advice with this is not to get too hung up on hitting the exact right number of notes. Rather, just make sure that the rhythm you use to play the two notes fits neatly into the timing of the rhythm guitar. Then we are back to starting the phrase after the main beat again. The phrase played over the C chord here will probably take a bit more practice as it is played quite quickly. This then starts to repeat but heads off up the fret board over the change to C7. This is the bit of the tune that causes most problems, especially for less-experienced players. So here is some detailed advice to help you if you need it. The trick here is to know exactly where you are going, ahead of the move up the fret board…3rd string… with the 2nd finger… sliding up to fret 9 then add the note at fret 8 with your 1st finger, back to the note under your 2nd finger then move this two-fingered shape straight up to frets 11 and 12 where, I am simulating what Hank Marvin did with the whammy bar on his fender strat by sliding the shape down a fret and back. Of course, if you are using a guitar equipped with a whammy bar, then simply use that to get the effect. The double-stop sliding technique is not easy for less-experienced players, so if you find yourself struggling, I think it is okay to cheat a little here and simply play these separately. After that, we repeat the first part of the phrase then it is back to the fast bit over the F played exactly as we showed you earlier. As promised, here’s a segment of the backing track to help you practice this. Have fun!