Chordplay - The Chords of Guns N' Roses

[@LP808]

I was 12 or 13-years-old when I watched Gn’R Live at the Ritz. I still watch it to this day at 45-years-old.

[@michaeleaster1815]

I was hoping "My Michelle" would be featured! What an ominous, menacing intro... Appetite for Destruction is in my top 3 rock albums of all time, so it's 100% cool to load up on that one. It is one hell of an album/era.

[@ericcrittenden7553]

Michael Easter it was at 8:20....

[@tonepoet]

Yeah, that opening is super sinister. It definitely helps usher in the extremely dark and quite disturbing subject matter of the tune. But it's also very killer, so there's that.

[@gabrieljohannson6777]

Michael Easter appetite was influenced 100 by Badlands.

[@___and_memes_for_all]

Check out “Neither Can I” from Slash’s Snakepit. Has another menacing intro

[@michaeleaster1815]

@@ericcrittenden7553 I meant "I'm glad it was featured" not "I'm disappointed it wasn't featured" ... thanks for the timestamp tho'

[@voronOsphere]

The "Appetite for Destruction" album is so much fun! An article/interview of Slash in Guitar Player Magazine pointed out that G 'n R almost always introduces a brand new backing riff (not used anywhere else in the song) for Slash's great solos! Thanks, David!

[@michaeleaster1815]

They also have great intros (e.g. Welcome to the Jungle, You Could Be Mine, etc) that are never repeated.

[@voronOsphere]

@@michaeleaster1815 Yep! Great arrangements!

[@teresathomley3703]

"Mr. Brownstone" is the definitive Guns N' Roses song. And you might agree with me, David, when I say that Slash was the last great guitar hero in the classic mold. You can see a Jimmy Page to Joe Perry to Slash kinda evolution, if that makes any sense (although Slash has been quoted as saying that Mick Taylor was his biggest influence.) Great video as always, dude.

[@voronOsphere]

Guns 'n Roses were definitely a radical "shake things up" band when they burst onto the very late 80s scene!

[@hotdoggravy]

Appetite for Destruction is the soundtrack of my teenage years, easily one of the greatest albums ever.

[@borinightmare]

The very first band that gotten me to play my electric guitar when I was a kid. So many great songs by GNR but my favorite song I always rocked the guitar with is Night Train.

[@yonikup2865]

The band that me get into rock and start playing guitar, great lesson man 🤘🏼

[@tonymcnamara9368]

Loved guns n roses from day one! Slash is in a league of his own as a guitarist. His riffs, arpeggios everything!

[@mookytc]

Izzy....true rock and roll warrior. Post GNR solo material is excellent as well!

[@Paul_at_9]

One of the best Debut albums ever. A real guitar treat!

[@jmata4237]

Mr. Brownstone. 👍🏼 This album rocks! A definite deserted island pick for me.

[@chriscorral6365]

Great summation on some great riffs! That Nightrain riff is one of the best from Appetite, and kudos for addressing "The Garden" and of course my favorite: "Civil War". Civil War's gotta be one of the heaviest songs on the Illusions albums. So great

[@image30p]

Nice! Thanks Dave! I love those chords from Night Train.

[@sacredgodslayer]

Trying to hit your subconsciousness...Skid Row...

[@voronOsphere]

Yes!!!!!

[@tonepoet]

After this lesson the required reading is the autobiography 'Slash'. Pretty heavy stuff. GnR in the early days was to me like the second coming of Aerosmith after Aerosmith kicked drugs and became vegan or whatever and started writing pop ballads and losing their edge. GnR was like a very talented punk band.

[@michaelmerrullo2043]

Thank you for doing a chordplay on Montrose. I was a big fan of Ronnie since seeing him live with Bob James on vocals and then working back to discover the debut. Just came across some of your earliest KZbin tutorials from 8 years ago. Great lessons! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge

[@Icedsymphony7]

You rock dave

[@guitinwidit]

I really like your channel. Great presentation and insights. When you mentioned seeing old concerts on MTV that triggered a memory from the early-mid 80's; do you remember seeing Triumph in concert on there? Are you into Rik Emmet at all? He is one of the most versatile, melodic and underrated guitarists ever - plus he sings. It's almost like he was Neal Schon and Steve Perry rolled into one - haha! Have you ever thought about doing a Late Night Lesson on his stuff? Thanks!

[@dmike03]

Thank you brother! Maybe it's cliché, but Slash is why I play guitar! I was 8 when Appetite came out and I remember riding the bus home from school listening to the radio on my Walkman. That's when I heard Paradise City for the first time and I new then I would not leave my parents alone until they bought me a guitar!

[@MikeCindyWhite]

Great lesson bro! Nice to end on that Page style lick, Thanks! 🎸🎸👍

[@richardandre866]

Saw Guns n Roses in 2017 and 2010 and Slash and the Conspirators twice up close. Amazing all three times. 2010 we were literally next to Axel during It’s So Easy.

[@RemyTrahant]

Slash's autobiography is an awesome read too, chockfull of amazing tales.

[@danielleiva9456]

I admire u Dave...your playing y so so smooth! The tone the vibrato...really good taste!!! 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

[@meadish]

For anyone who's interested, basically the same chord idea/cliche?/motif? (unsure of the right term) as in Garden can also be found in Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead, and in Parasite by Nick Drake.

[@obiem9319]

Guns and Roses. Definition of Hard Rock.

[@georgew.morrowiii118]

Another cool lesson...

[@claytonmcdonald9520]

Nice. "My Michelle" intro is a tricky bugger, but worth it. Thanks

[@jay_sun_michael]

Thanks as always, Dave! Kudos for adding "The Garden". My favorite track off UYI.

[@johnhoward2687]

Great lesson. GnR is an iconic band. Thanks.

[@claydecoursey2339]

Good stuff!

[@shanestevens1590]

Love your channel. Your a great guitarist and your content is second to none thank you so much for the entertainment and insight. Shane from cambridge England. Respect !!!!

[@toddkiggins9170]

Late night lessons is one of the best channels on KZbin! David really knows how to knock it out of the park

[@edwincrain986]

Great stuff !

[@dismalswamp72]

That was great. Sleazy cool.

[@PJCobi]

Your videos are great! I love the back stories you do. The lessons are really inspiring!

[@slimbeauharpo4687]

Great lesson man. Thank you sir !!!

[@michaelfraser7044]

Great lesson Dave! That GnR live at the Ritz is peak GnR! Would have loved to have been there.

[@yonikup2865]

It is amazing but imo it's tokyo 92'

[@konzer]

@@yonikup2865 Yep, it's the epitome of GnR sound, playin and live performance. Everything in this live is in an untouchable excellence.

[@waynegram8907]

DAVE BREWTERS, slash does some crazy extended pentatonic licks watch the new "NOT IN THIS LIFTIME TOUR Salt lake city Utah" its on youtube and make a lesson on the slash licks he does would be nice

[@warricksmythevideo]

Oh thank you so much. Also Warrant!

[@nidgeontour257]

Can you do Motorhead? I know it's very bass driven as it was Lemmy's band but Fast Eddie Clarke from the classic era and Phil Campbell the longest serving member besides Lem and notably the the last five albums are right up there with the Ace of Spades album! Thanx dude!

[@GeoffSweet]

My all time favorite Civil War was in this...absolutely LOVE it!!!

[@StealthParrot]

Speaking of Great White .. have you done them yet, I love that band. Great video thanks.

[@slashtrio]

Nice review. Early GnR were so cool and as you said a bit different from the other rock bands of the time. They had that classic rock influence (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith) but also had a punk influence (in sound to a degree but more so in attitude). New York dolls, the stooges, dead boys, Sex Pistols come to mind. I was in 9th grade when I saw the ritz show and I taped it and watched it over and over ha. Loved slash’s guitar style. Dirty blues rock. He definitely gets a lot of the pentatonic scale. Would love to see you go over a few of slash’s classic solos.

[@Tahoe814]

G n R rocks

[@adrianwoodward6029]

In the same vein can you do one for skid row for the first album please. Maybe one chords one and one licks one?

[@KajHeGeHaggman]

Great (his)story in the beginning!

[@regolithia]

The Garden is such a phenomenal tune! great vid

[@PedroSilvaMusic]

I remember that ritz concert. I knew I wanted to be a musician that night

[@CVGuitar]

1:10 how about their actual first release -- the E.P. "Live Like A Suicide" -- I remember it had Mama Kin on it

[@HeadbangersLocal]

Great lesson🤘🏻. However, we have to talk about the pics behind you . Have you ever explained what those are,meaning why you collect them?

[@Shamilt3]

Slash is a hook monster, like paige and Angus. He has the knack for great hooks

[@Kamy.GG.Official]

*Great*

[@PvtGrips-vh7ti]

I always liked the Bo Diddley beat in Mr. Brownstone.

[@malevolentramen]

When I saw him playin' Civil War on acoustic Me havin' an acoustic: What am I doin' here?!?

[@RF944]

Only poor boys take a chance on the Gardens song and dance. Cool lesson, Thanx Dave

[@MachineHeadDissent]

Have you covered TNT with the machine gun stylings of Ronni LeTekro???

[@voronOsphere]

He did! Great TNT Lesson!

[@konzer]

Thank you for covering GnR :D I requested some Slash couple of videos before and here I see this. Cool job! (new fan here :P) I hope a video about solo is comin up! I'm huge GnR fan and I'd recommend some cool lead licks in songs Locomotive, Don't Damn Me and Get In The Ring. All their songs have cool stuff in rhythm and lead sections, full of nuances, that's why imo their music is so catchy and nice to listen to. Thanks again keep it up ;)

[@dillipphunbar7924]

nice one

[@Tahoe814]

The band Junkyard is cool

[@musicworldtreasures]

You are Amazing! How about Reb Beach's Sorrow Stained Eyes solo!

[@frankiedonofrio5438]

Great video!!!!!

[@liamsellers3014]

Top class as ever! I was wondering if you would do a quick rig run down as you've played a les Paul before bUt mainly stick to strat. Sticking with similar theme band skid row made some under rated guitarest/writers Sebastian Bach always said Michele cud write some mean riffs and a quick mention for brad gillis again filling that 80s hair void. Keep up the great work it's keeping me playing after the years I out down

[@iradole8362]

I love your videos!

[@tomfoolery2082]

Ur welcome and thank u .

[@rjlong89]

Gnr rocks! And yes, theyre magical. I dig these vids 🎸🤘

[@RipVDub]

Appetite for Destruction was a breathe of rancid air in amongst all that clean (weak-ass) Glam Metal of the late 80's. GnR headed out to support AFD just as I started GIT in March of '87. Flyers everywhere in Hollywood. I agree with the 'Live at the Ritz' shows on MTV...The Cult, GnR, and White Lion were some of the best hard rock shows they had. I had GnR , White Lion, and Queensryche live in Japan on constant VHS rotation. Good memories. Always appreciate the effort.

[@sparkle99]

Listen to AFD pan left and then listen to the song again pan right... two different songs

[@tosh61]

Izzy left, Slash right.

[@trevorvogler4661]

More gunners please

[@unfcknblvbl]

Devin Townsend next.

[@romucorporation]

Very cooooolll

[@rebellemoermin6128]

Great! When I think about progression I think the song Coma is masterpiece I still don't know how to call that chord progressions (chromatic) than ?.. I wanna know about it more. At least first verse - name of chord progression - crazy!?

[@kevinnorthcott8779]

can you do The stooges next? id really appreciate it. great videos!

[@stephencomstock1625]

great stuff as usual.....could you do a chordplay on Cry of Love? Audley Freed is a super guitarist but in my opinion hes overlooked and underrated....thx man

[@rocker8692]

What about chords of Motorhead video,or chords of Rose Tattoo

[@sebastionhawk5565]

6:36 that totally comes from noodling around with the natural minor scale, concentrating on one of the modes, and, using the open string pedalling as the tonic...it looks so intricate when someone else does it, but, when you or I do it, it comes totally "naturally" and "spontaneously..." no need to write down on sheet music, just partake in the Lord's good herbs, and, let your mind weave in and throughout the strings and frets...

[@kumasan812]

Ok Dave, you played Slash, now how about the band Flash?

[@marvinjasonkenneth3969]

I think Izzy wrote that riff actually he wrote a lot of the rhythm stuff in GnR

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

One of my favorite songs ever written was when Chris Cornell joined Slash for the song _Promise._ Reminds me of what you might get if you combined The Beatles with Led Zeppelin. I was inspired to put it on now and I'm having chills run down my legs as I type this while listening. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4O4aZ2IjsahaJo Also, has Dave ever done a gear video where he talks about his setup(s)? He always has such a great tone, and although I know most tone comes from a players fingers, I'm very curious about what amp he's using in particular.

[@swvastories3498]

Izzy Stradlin is the unsung hero of GNR.

[@djohan5088]

i was 12 years old and shock with AFD cover, ahaha

[@greg77hot]

Sweaty , tattooed and intoxicated... THATS Guns and Roses

[@tone1798]

I’m new to your channel, I’m interested in the PICK COLLEGE on your wall! Please share.

[@johnkerr6141]

Only an opinion but I personally think they were the loudest, hairiest country / rock band ever - maybe it was Axl’s vocals - C and W on steroids

[@cockers6682]

Never have rated slash

[@mikeburstein1146]

Mr brownstone

[@niknarg8150]

If you would not describe in the intros of your videos how important this band was for you as a kid we could hear more than just 5-6 riffs of a band with huge discography.

[@voronOsphere]

OR he can do more than one video (which he does). BTW, the 10 minute time limit on KZbin videos has been lifted years ago, so David skipping the historical intros would do nothing to clear the way for more licks being taught.

[@steveinmidtown]

this is so...weird