Go back one album to 1981, High N Dry is easily their best and hardest rockin album. A masterpiece of raw rock.

Man ...your production on the video for the guitar sounds amazing. EXCELLENT TONE and effects.

Nice always loved these

grew up on the 1st 3 DL albums. Pete and Steve were an awesome duo also.

Just found this channel. Best video I’ve seen on the guitar in a while

Cool video. All that guitar greatness was Steve Clark. 👌

What a great video! Some of the best guitar music of the 80s…thx!

Man great lesson 👍👍 these songs remind me of high school when I was just starting to really play guitar . Thank you

Thanks for the lessons Marty, that LP is really sweet looking. I learned a lot so please keep making more lesson videos.

Love the early Leppard good stuff 👍

Steve Clark always had some cool chord voicings and I really enjoyed learning clean intros like Foolin and Bringing on the Heartbreak their use of the different triads and splitting the parts between two different players was completely different than the clean parts in all the thrash stuff I started out on. I’m sure it’s not completely unique to Def Leppard but their parts seemed more methodical and planned out to set a mood . I always played that bridge riff in too late for love different than that

Great lesson! I always give two thumbs up to anyone who uses readable tabs or chord charts. I'm not a mind reader or can I see what you're physically doing so well that tab & charts don't make for a complete lesson. Definitely worth a follow. Thanks for posting.

Added to my fav's list..👍.thank you Marty.

New to your channel. Loving it. Great teacher easy to follow. Thank you!

Good stuff! Thx

Good stuff. After Mutt Lange produced "High and Dry" (A great album), he really leaned into their AC/DC-esque sound but did with them what I think he wanted to do with AC/DC after "For Those About to Rock" (another great album). I'm sure Angus and Malcolm fought tooth and nail and was why Mutt found more time on this hands and creative control with Def Leppard. Mutt is quite an accomplished musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer, and that wasn't lost in these albums. "High and Dry" is an epic album in its own right with songs like "High and Dry (Saturday Night)", "On Through the Night", and "Bringing on the Heartbreak". But it's no coincidence that their sound was very close to the raw, untamed offerings of AC/DC. Sticking with Joe Elliott's strong tenor voice, Mutt knew the keys of A and E were going to be the staple of Leppard's set list. Heck, even the iconic "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is in C#m, borrowing heavily from both A and E. They knew how to craft great tunes and their concerts are still pretty epic. Joe had the appeal to bring the ladies and when they added Collen, all bets were off. The stadiums were packed with rockers of all kinds, and whether people love or don't Def Leppard, they brought rock to the masses in a time when people had declared rock a dead genre.

Hi Marty, good choices, high and dry, mirror mirror, so many.

Love the tone on those first Def Lep albums

Awesome lesson as always😊

Excellent!!👍 love that Paul and Very Nice AMP Collection!!

I haven't played my guitars for over a month. Dealing with some headache and ear issues, as well as general work burnout. But, i found your AC/DC video yesterday, and now this one-these will be what i will be working with as i get my **** back together during the holiday time off. Thank you-great choices of songs/artists, and the perfect way to demo/teach the riffs.

Sweet!

Great stuff, I basically learned how to play guitar playing along to this back in the day. Before that it was just punk power chords. What an album.

Another great lesson Marty! You have been helping me tremendously in learning VH and Def Leppard. PErhaps you'd consider doing a full lesson on Animal? Keep these vids coming man! Oh, and most excellent Hoovie's Garage shirt!

I remember seeing Def Leppard opening for Ted Nugent when they were barely 18. Funny story: My band got a late call once in the 1990's to play the local city sponsored Oktoberfest. As we took the stage the Oktoberfest talent director pulled me to the side saying: "You guys aren't going to play three solid hours of Def Leppard are you?".....I assured him not to worry. "We play everything from ZZ Top to well, ZZ Top!" I said. When it was all over that Saturday night they invited us back for next year.

Tap out that intro to Foolin' on the twelfth harmonics and you've got Girl Gone Bad!!!

Bro!! I wish I had that guitar!

Great lesson Marty!! Have you done Hold on Loosely by 38 Special? I looked but I couldn’t find it. I’d love to learn how to play the solo and outro for this song. You’re the best teacher for these older songs Marty. I always come to you to learn the most accurate ways to play guitar parts to what I grew up with. Thank you sir!!

Great lesson! Love’n the Def Leppard lessons! Notice the Hoovies Garage shirt … Tyler is from my town here in Wichita. See him all the time during Saturday Cars & Coffee get togethers! Cool guy and fun channel 👍

Hey Marty! I watched your buddies documentary yesterday. The 1st 30 years of Steve Vai. I must say it was rather good. He is a very smart man, that Stevie is.

Valeu demais 😎😎😎😎

I love the idea of showing multiple intro's.. Next up High n Dry!

Great lesson! Can you PLEASE do a Def Leppard lesson for "Tonight" ? It's such a cool song -- struggling with finger positions.

Thank you. I really enjoy your channel. Do you have a Def Leppard tone video for dialing in Def Leppard tones?

LET...IT...GO!

Cool lesson dude .. I love the 80s best music ever . You remind me alot of Ben Eller are you two related? Anyways New sub for ya dude rock on

Great lesson ! Would b sweet if next is 4 riffs from hysteria

So just a couple of helpful bits... on the first one: use your first and second fingers to play the first two cords, then use your ring or pinky to add the C on the 5th fret. An alternate way to play photograph which I think adds a little more umph because it's based on an E power chord on the 5th string 7th fret. With your first finger bar the two middle strings at the 7th fret... think of this as your anchor. Later in the song, you can slide it down to play an open A with it. With the anchor in place let's play the riff... bar the same two middle strings on the 9th with your ring finger. This is the lower half of the E power chord I was talking about. As a matter of fact, if you want a more bassier sound, you can have the anchor finger include the E (5th string on 7th fret) and/or the open E 6th string. The second chord requires that you rock that ring finger up to just hold the 4th string on the 9th and add the middle finger to the 3rd string 8th fret. The third chord is made by just moving that ring finger down to the 3rd string on the 9th fret. The fourth chord is to just play that anchor (bared 3rd and 4th strings on the 7th) . I also like to add 2nd string 10th fret with my pinky. Now as we get into the song I tend to let the tip of my first finger in that anchor position touch the 5th string to mute it and on occasion chug a bit on that open 6th E string. Enjoy!

Loving these Def Leppard riffs! I learned a couple new things. Thank you! What's the backstory of that gorgeous weathered LP?

That was pretty awesome man! Sick tone. Very crunchy and airy. Are you going into and amp & mic cab or Sims? I dig the Custom also. Is it a ‘70s? Cheers. 🤘🏼

Hey Marty!!! Great work!!! What pickups do you have in that Custom??

Nice paul! I got a 1983 Gibson les paul custom pearl white and 2011 blk classic custom! Thanks Marty ps hope skippers doing well!

You always have great tone. Do you have a Spark Amp and if so, any links to your presets? Thanks!

You can send me that fine LP after the Holidays Marty. No problem. Thanks

Holy shit dude are you wearing a hoovies garage shirt? Tyler's a great guy fun channel for years. Amazing what he's able to acquire and of course bring it over to the car wizard to fix LOL.

Aloha Marty! Braddah, I can say the same thing for every video you do….You have MOJO in da fingahs, great guitar technique, awesome amp tone, excellent note articulation and execution with tasty embellishments. Furthermore, your verbal instruction and phrasing of what you want to say is excellent with the english language….seriously, it’s not broken down and slangy…..a lot of people out there really have lousy speaking skills but your grammar is perfect as an instructor. Brah….You get’em brah….you know how fo’ talk da kine teacher kine stuff! Mahalo nui loa Marty, for sharing your time with us. Aloha….

Hey thanks bro! Love the Def Leppard production and structures - thanks for this informative lesson. Gonna go practice some 🤘 Word from ‘Bama

amazing group thanks for the lessons after the holidays got to learn a couple how's the Skipper doing

What gear ? That tone is amazing ?

That tone was killer. What amp was that or are you using a Kemper?

The bridge part in too late for love is a wrong but other than that pretty good lessons man!

Great tone ...can you tell us on how to get it.

@HooviesGarage brought me here

the bridge on too late isnt right well its partial right so you start of it is right then ending isnt right i'll try to get a video of it up if your interested sorry its a song ive just been tunneled on lol

Are you pla1ying thru the Friedman or the AX8 on this vid?

You know the deal Marty! anything Steve n Pete done, was a fist to the Eye of Rock n Roll. Those 2 guys were a hell of team. Chip n Dale Poser Phil played his part to a T. Nice video Marty!!

I hit the 4 twice than go to the 3 part.

Cool. Subbed. LP man myself.

On Foolin': Why would you play 5-4 on the G instead of 5G - 0B? 🤔

Your playing foolin wrong. But over all pretty awesome.

Steve Clark and Pete Willis were a great duo in layering their parts. After this album your lessons are on, obviously it wasn't the same band and I lost interest. But great lessons. Honorable mentions Rock Brigade, Wasted, Sorrow is a Woman.

Pyromania is their best. So much better than Hysteria

Def Leppard's best work was when Steve Clark was alive & in the band. Not a huge fan of Phil Collen, especially after I saw DL in 2007 and Vivian Campbell took a back seat to Phil during any shredding parts. Meanwhile, anyone who's ever played Dio knows that Vivian can run circles around Phil. I get that Vivian was there to play like Steve, who wasn't a big shredder. But it was still a bummer to see Vivian let Phil play the guitar hero.

Xmas come early, love DL. Cheers Marty

The songs notes are not correct, nor are they being fretted properly. But if this is what you want to teach people more power to you. The songs don’t have to be played just like Steve and Phil. It’s your version, not the correct version.

You are playing the intro to Foolin wrong.

Let it go is fun

too late for love was my favorite song on the album,besides billies got a gun.i literally wore out 2 cassettes and got this album at launch before the radio murdered it with overkill. the second part in A sounds completely different than you are playing it.check this out for reference..... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gp6Xn6Zeq6iagKs.html at the 2 minute mark,sounds dead on,this is how ive always played it as well. ...that les paul is pure unadulterated sexy and makes me miss my 72 lpc and jcm 800 100 watt stack..................your tone,phrasing all perfect

Marty could you include the patch or fractal 8 settings for your tones when making your videos? Just a quick screen shot would do, half the battle is getting the right tone and you seem to hit the nail on the head every time.m with the tone, it would be so helpful.

marty,your being spammed by scammers piggy backing comments.......i dont know if you realized this