Still Of The Night Guitar Lesson Pt.1 - Whitesnake - Intro, Verse & Main Riff

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Click here for ALL parts to this song in my Whitesnake playlist! • Whitesnake
"Still Of The Night" was released in 1987 on Whitesnake's hugely successful self-titled album and quickly became THE signature hard rock song for Whitesnake.
Co-written by lead singer David Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes, it is a classic example of 80's hard rock at it's peak.
"Still Of The Night" is quite unusual in how it is laid out. There are many different guitar rhythms and sections to learn. Besides the HUGE main riff that is instantly recognizable, you will also learn the complete solo, rhythms and interlude section.
I have even arranged the string section part for guitar just to make sure you don't get any break at all. 🙂 .
I hope you enjoy this one. It is a lot of fun to play and is a great study in 80's rock guitar techniques. Good luck!!
Carl

[@jamesmadison6650]

RIP John Sykes ! We are going to lay this Friday night in remembrance of him. I knew I could learn it fast from ole Carl. Best on the net !

[@Chris-lz1fs]

It's amazing to see just how simple the main riff actually is. Once you get it right at a slow speed, all you have to do is play it at the right speed. Well, that's the way I usually learn riffs and stuff.

[@chrisnichols2426]

Man these lessons would cost thousands of dollars in the real world...I'M subscribed for life . Thanks a million.............................................

[@xaviermurphy9797]

Chris Nichols This is the real world....

[@4572dk]

looool

[@JohnHWelch63]

These lesson DO cost thousands of dollars. Carl just hasn't gotten around to billing you yet.

[@eliwarner9727]

John Welch lol

[@artytoney2057]

11 years old was still refining your craft and still sounds amazing , great song , thanks for all your years of helping us

[@dnowitzki]

this is amazing!!! Kids today have absolutely no excuse to not know how to play guitar. (old man voice)BACK IN MY DAY YOU JUST HAD TO GUESS WHAT THE GEETARRR PLAYER WAS DOING!!!

[@bill8912328]

Jeff Roth It’s like that with anything music related today. Remember having to get your “music news” from magazines like Hit Parader and Circus magazine? There is something to be said for learning a song by constantly hitting rewind on a cassette tape or back on a CD, it taught you how to play by ear. Once you did it a hundred times you could tell by listening to a new song where they where on the fretboard or what chord they where playing. You had to actually work for it to get better. I’m not saying it’s any easier to learn a guitar today then it was a few decades ago but it’s easier to find tabs or instructional videos thanks to KZbin and apps like Songsterr and Ultimate Guitar.

[@brogoram]

But that 'guessing things' create many guitar gods own style.

[@SeaOfMadness]

I had to buy the official TAB books (££££) and save up for REH or StaLicks vids. Ha!

[@HanSolo4TheWin]

Are you kidding me Jeff Roth. I’ve been trying to do this for a week. This song is intermediate to advanced. Of course this guy can play it he’s a guitar teacher and obviously been playing for many years. Not so easy for some of us.

[@bandbm5599]

You say this like someone can just casually watch cliffs of dover and play it perfectly after one watch

[@bbeeezzy]

Nice tutorial. Thanks. It cleared up a few nuances for me. But for those wanting to really nail that main blues riff, there is one thing Carl missed: when the B-C-C# chromatic precedes it, the usual first note (B on the 5th string, 2nd fret) is not used. Instead strike the middle E first (4th string, 2nd fret). Then do as Carl said for the other times (starting on the 5th string B). It's a small thing, and easy to miss for sure (I did it wrong forever myself). But when you do it this way and get used to it, then it becomes easy to hear on the recording -- and it's even cooler imo.

[@wickedcrypto6004]

I’ve been playing guitar since 12. I only dropped out because my teacher was teaching me in Spanish. Now as adult I realize how naïve it was on my part. I lost the opportunity of learning from a great teacher. Back in the day there was no KZbin and the Internet was slow thanks to net zero. Technology has changed a game. Kids within two years are mastering Bohemian Rhapsody. Still the older generation earned their stripes through trials and tribulations. Nothing but passion sweat and tears. Fantastic video.

[@perrychartrand7389]

In the still of the night I hear the wolf howl, honey Sniffing around your door In the still of the night I feel my heart beating heavy Telling me I gotta have more🔥

[@vernonparks3898]

Thanks!

[@GuitarLessons365SongLessons]

Thank you!

[@1dswylde]

Fantastic lesson! John Sykes is very underrated! Thanks for the lesson and your gear sounds amazing! Love the dual rails 😎🎸

[@PA28140]

Thank You for this lesson. It is the most spot on lesson on KZbin. You play it very well, the tuning and tone are perfect, and you really show us "wannabe's" how it is done. I have always liked this song. IN DEPTH!!! Thanks!

[@assman97138]

I love the sound of your pick ups

[@vincevistain7434]

Seymour Duncan pickups.

[@karinroessen4379]

Have not played in years.. Got my guitar from the attic today thought this was a good song to begin with. Never played it all new.

[@Storminking]

Thanks for your awesome lessons! For those of us still trying to dial in on tone, it would be helpful if the description listed settings (i.e. used distortion at X, with a slight delay). Keep 'em coming - very helpful.

[@franks7.399]

your vids are very helpful unlike the majority of guitar lessons, you fall in the 5% of Chanel's that help with guitar

[@artytoney2057]

Thanks!

[@GuitarLessons365SongLessons]

Thank you so much!

[@jeannelamurphRN]

As ALWAYS your tone is Dead On!! Absolutely Brilliant!

[@ZZ-zj4ky]

John Sykes rocks!

[@irmaztamal21]

that Fender sound awesome & heavy

[@alanjamesh.zamorano1677]

John Sykes was a beast on guitar.

[@DavidCrites07]

Definitely

[@MrTonyMoore]

love the sound your getting!

[@jasonfredensborg7646]

This might be a good candidate for re-filming Carl. I’d love to see this with your dialed in production quality. Such a banger of a jam!!!

[@usethistobrowse8498]

I hope you see this- you got a lot better at being on guitar and camera since then

[@lfader]

Your Dimarzios sound crazy rad !!!! 💥

[@angusorvid8840]

I know! I've been using DiMarzios since the 80s and want to get another strat jus to pop in some ProTracks. I've got a double bucker strat now with a Super 3/Super 2 set that positively crush Duncans.

[@lfader]

@@angusorvid8840 Getting guitars b/c you love so many pickups is my problem to - I love Duncan's (Distortions) BUT Dimarzio's are my #1!!! I need to get another a strat to do stacked humbuckings -- insanity!! 💖💪😉

[@isMike999]

great lesson....nice sound with those hotrails.......sweet

[@kellybeane7546]

You're always my go to if I want to do a cover or just get a lesson best lessons 💯 on the web. It feels like I'm sitting with my older friends that played when I was learning and learning.

[@kellybeane7546]

Also I've seen you with a Carolina shirt and I'm an NC native

[@farligspill]

Thank you Master Guitar Teacher, Greetings from Norway

[@GhanimaGalach]

Great lesson...please, can you do a tutorial for "The deeper the love"? Really looove that song and there is no guitar lesson for that song anywhere around.

[@randallarana7429]

Tone is spot on!

[@guitarplayer4747]

Great lesson!

[@weepingmagpie1886]

I love this easy and automatic for the people

[@ronmounts8075]

Niiiiiiiiice!!!!!! Heck yess I can do this!!!!

[@Shoptakash]

bad ass tone!

[@LEWIS09D]

At last an excellent exact lesson thanks

[@jkoeberli]

this strat pretty brutal :D

[@marcohermans3207]

Awesome lesson. Somehow I can't get an harmonics on the F# on the E string yet....practice practice...

[@andrewdavies1312]

I can't do it on any 🤣. I'm not bad at guitar really. And I play mainly rock/metal but it's something I just can't do 🤷‍♂️

[@prabuaryapamungkas5663]

How was your practice🤣 Finally i got it

[@ianm139]

Great lesson such a cool riff n song

[@johnstandup8162]

Awesome lesson 👍🤠

[@loveguitars]

Excellent Lesson

[@retohorler9921]

Cool, Joe Bonamassa gives us Whitesnake Guitar Lessons.🤘🤘

[@rustbelt2708]

Good deal bean trying to learn this song . Great teaching.

[@workingmansrevolution]

I’d really like to see a video on “Slide It In”

[@Horrorfreak106]

Can you do a tutorial for their songs "Bad Boys", "Crying in the Rain", or "Children of the Night"? That'd be awesome!

[@LouGruff]

Horrorfreak106 How about the whole album?

[@TheDGrimz]

Your a good guitarist for sure

[@roisounds849]

Hi! Would you please describe how you build your tone in this class? Mainly the equalization parameters in your amp and gears. By the way, fantastic class! Thanks!

[@randybryk5264]

GREAT LESSON!!

[@neobx2]

Great lesson

[@scorpion65100]

good lesson,thanks for uploading,trying to learn it

[@vernonparks3898]

What pickups are these? They sound great

[@AnabolicFarmer]

One thing bothers me. Ive got the 87 record and the intro at 1:08 AINT the same as on the record and on every concert with Whitesnake.

[@GCKuss23]

Solved that. The first three notes are correct, after that it goes to the 2nd fret of the D string instead of the A string, then the rest as described

[@robertgainz4221]

Love the sound, what kind of pick-ups are you using?

[@RyanRossell]

That tone is amazing..what are you using to get it?

[@draggedtodeath]

nice lessons / teaching methods

[@rorygt3]

great song and lesson!! thanks!!!

[@mtp04987]

Great sound! What effects are you using? Do you run into an amp? Thanks!

[@HarleyHummer65]

Excellent!

[@tralamont]

You're a great guitarist

[@ChristopherFlynn-v4f]

I gotta ask...what rig are you running to get this tone from a Strat? Rack or pedals tuned in? Amp? Educate me. Sounds killer!

[@robbies4968]

Great tone….what gear are you using?

[@blumurder76]

Awesome!

[@filiberto2980]

Great lesson. THANK YOU...

[@manwithnoname6944]

thanks, can you please share the complete signal chain and settings?

[@EMAN-tx7lp]

Can you do Ain’t talking bout love by Van Halen???

[@b00i00d]

great lesson - thanks!

[@thereisnopandemic]

You going to show us the Cello part?

[@isaBPiazza]

Hi! Please, i didn't understand how you do at the minute 4:51, the "little octave figure", it sounds weird when I'm playing, it's not the same sound you do.

[@lynnvryett]

EXCELLENT.

[@joaquinaguinagabienes4137]

Lecciones de guitarra majistrales

[@jonbloor5064]

What a rff!!!

[@Zsword92]

Very good

[@alanseeley2717]

Great tutorial. I wish you would do give me all your love.

[@bob9644]

How do you get your tone what pedals are u usin

[@bambanghudaevi8468]

you can be sure as long as you practice often, friends

[@carlosg4537]

Thank you. Nice sound, what pickups do you use?

[@Гарик-ш9ф]

Спасибо тебе братан, ты молодец

[@ianm139]

How do you make a single coil fender sound so powerful. What amp you using please ? N effects

[@Particle67]

They aren't single coil, they are hambuckers withe single slot. Check Seymour Duncan Hot rails pickups.

[@Particle67]

Or Di Marzio DP 218 in this case.

[@levi497]

Maybe do slow an' easy by whitesnake?

[@marciogoromaru4893]

Headstock like a Peppa Pig! Great Lesson! :D

[@Gibbs199761]

i know he said that they are eric johnson pickups

[@kh888ni]

Pleeeeeease dude i need a lesson for "here i go again" please

[@Gabrovka]

How in the hell did you make that sound at 2:00? I can't 😁

[@easternag16]

It's a pinch harmonic

[@Sabres73]

This is a great lesson for a great song. But does anyone else notice that the octave part of this riff is exactly Zeppelin's Immigrant Song? I'm sure that is intentional.

[@stud1664]

its an easy riff but a hard one to nail..... wish it came more naturally to my aging fingers

[@coeurvaillan]

Someone can tell me the kind of amp or pedal? Thanks!

[@FerchitoMexico]

Your voice sounds very much like Joe Bonamassa's. Nice lesson.

[@Iceman-xx1kh]

Nice. Be good if you could actually tell folk what your set up is and effects..because there is many! Many guys just have a guitar and a crappy amp so there's no chance of this sound.

[@tapabolita]

What gauge are using??

[@luigichurch6262]

how do u get that sound with your strato? which pick up you have mounted?

[@bryceheath222]

Luigi church he’s using the bridge pickup

[@robertwilson214]

What a song,guitar sounds like a caged tiger.

[@teealeea4470]

❤❤❤

[@ИгорьКривоносов-т7м]

Отлично

[@sevjan82]

wow

[@eddiebratley8243]

Your doing nothing playing the music I love 🤟🤟

[@dyerseve45]

The only things this video is missing is tawny kitean in her prime

[@alexkobiconan]

4:52

[@Bstonz85]

One sexy riff

[@RoofsHobbyGuitar]

omg CARL please REDO this, with your modern style! Please :)

[@rangerwhiskeybreath4935]

John Sykes doesn't get enough credit... if only he didn't try to kick Coverdale out of Whitesnake

[@sebastiandiaz6724]

Damn I really can’t get that pinch harmonic

[@EVEROSFP1]

They are not EMGs.