Big Country Chance guitar lesson

Close up play through and description of Stuart Adamson’s guitar parts from The Crossing album favourite Chance.

[@MrMhdw]

Thanks for this 👍

[@RobUttley]

Brilliant, thank you. Going to see if I can get those harmoniser/pitch shift sounds out of the librarian on my Katana MKII 100!

[@timjx3675]

Great lesson thx🎸👍 Stuart was a fantastic musician

[@vinnievincent4015]

brilliant - will be learning this weekend

[@roberttodd2414]

sounds like a cossack dance or something, adamson is very underrated

[@stevengribbin8075]

Hey Nice video, what setup have you got for that tone

[@marshallheadkt66]

Pitch transposer set to detune to give a chorus effect for most of the song, switching to a high octave effect for the high guitar motifs after each verse, and delay set to the 1/8th notes matching tempo of the song. Any digital delay will do - I use Korg SDD 2000’s. Amps were two 1983 Fender Showman solid state 1x12 combos, one clean, one dirty, selected via an AB footswitch.

[@jimir68]

All played on a “Dan Smith” Strat just like the ones Bruce and Stuart had in the early 80’s

[@Mudge07]

Great demonstration of the open sound Stuart and now Bruce use in this anthemic song. The closing rallentando ( yup a real word) and accompanying power chord slide allow the tune to gently apply the brakes to a firm, fan favourite.

[@georgerichardson7728]

magic big man, thanks a lot

[@jkeaney7]

I can't play the guitar but this is amazing. Well done 👏

[@Lukeclayson]

Hi! Loving your videos, how are you getting the clean tone so close to what’s on the record?

[@marshallheadkt66]

Neck pickup, clean amp sound with careful setting of the mid range to get some ‘clang’ to it, a bit of delay timed to the pace of the song and detune chorus on the verse/chorus parts and high octave pitch transposer on the high licks.

[@Lukeclayson]

@@marshallheadkt66 thank you. I currently don’t have a pitch shifter so have been trying to get the detune sound with a chorus pedal but it’s so hard to nail. It’s either too much or too little. Oh and I only have an analogue delay so that’s also very tricky to set to the tempo of a song haha.

[@marshallheadkt66]

@@Lukeclayson a chorus gets close but won’t sound identical. Chorus effectively plays your guitar back but alters the pitch up and down a tiny bit, whereas detune plays a note just slightly out of tune with your guitar, so they do sound a little different

[@guitarman1129420]

For the bit @ 2:24 you can just play D 12TH FRET G 11TH FRET B 10TH FRET then ...

[@marshallheadkt66]

That would be the same notes, but not how Stuart played it. One of his trademarks was playing melodies up and down one string, as in this particular lick.

[@RobUttley]

@@marshallheadkt66This is something I've seen Billy Duffy do live too, he seems to play his melodies along the string rather than across the neck, certainly for some classic Cult songs anyway.