I’m sure I saw an interview with Francis Rossie where he said the B and Top E strings are tuned together and the opening riff is played on 2 strings! If you see the old black and white footage of Quo doing it on Top Of The Pops, you can make out Rossie barring both strings , not just the B string! Thanks for the instruction video - nice guitar 🎸👍🏻

Best quo song ever. A really cool psychedelic tune.

Brings back a lot of memories for me. One of the very first songs I learnt on guitar back in 1969 when the "Pictures Of,,," was in the Australian charts and I was in high school. It impressed the girls and it was a tad easier to play than Hendrix.

A good teacher who has patience and shows you different way of doing thing. Thank you for your time..

You maked a great lession. I´m a pure beginner in playing electric guitar and this video inspired me to sit on the PC and the AMP with my new guitar at home to learn this absolute famous song. Thank You so much!!!!

Well done,one of the more underrated songs from then.

simplicity at its best. so 60's yet so great. I was born in 67 and think I missed out on a fantastic era. to be in your late teens in the 60's would have been an amazing time. ah well. . . I had duran duran and human league lol I was more into my metal anyway hey ho.

You've just convinced me to buy an electric guitar.

Good lesson. I'm a pretty decent guitarist, but a good teacher with good lessons is a good refresher course :)

This guy is good good teacher I remember that song

Thanks dude, these lessons really helped me. Due to you I have been able to actually finish a tune all through for the first time. The Undertones Teenage Kicks lesson you did has worked wonders thanks.

Fantastic as a complete novice Ive just learnt my first riff !!!! Fantastic 👍

Well presented mate,clean and precise, keep em coming

Thank you for this superbly delivered tutorial, much appreciated.

Great lesson. One of my favourite psychedelic songs. Glad you went into the effects side of things, being new to electric guitar I don't know much about effect peddles so that explained a few things. :)

Thanks for lesson, I try it!!! I love Status quo👍♥️🎸

Very nice, as a beginner I plan to make this my first song to learn and play.

The original recording Francis Rossi tuned down the high E to a B then left it slightly flat that's how you get that resonance between the two strings other than that a great tutorial

Excellent work as always. Many thanks 😃🙏🏻

Great lesson. So simple, sounds great. Thank you. 😎

with your help I was able to learn this song in one hour many thanks

Loved this, was a youngster when these guys were around, always wanted to learn to play, but just never did, pity

This must have been buried l just randomly found it thanks none friends never heard of it found it when I lived north staffs

Great lesson man, thank you.

I played this song in a garage revival band. The challenge was getting the wah-wah in the verse accurately. I just couldn't get my foot to co-operate.

Well done!!

muy buena clase de esta bella cancion de status quo de 1968 thanks

This song used to creep me out when it was playing on the radio. (I’m old) There were no modulation pedals then. It was tape flanging for sure 🎉

Its the underwater effect sounds awesome i have it .thanks for showing me the notes brother

Fuck! I love this song so much :D

Adrian, just curious as to what make/model wah pedal you used? There are so many of them now. I’m looking to use one for vintage sounds like Cream and the Status Quo you played. One of the best KZfaq teachers out there! Thank you!

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merci beaucoup, you are a good teacher !

Seen this over and over just for the entertainment.

Very helpful.

Late 60's classic rock song learning to play great fun!

I know this one from the Camper Van Bethoven cover too

I think I discovered the gimmick sound to this song. If you tune the top (thin) E string down 2 frets (to D) & play it open as a drone string it sounds pretty psychedelic.

Good stuff! Camper Van Beethoven does a really solid cover of this song as well.

Cool lesson

Nice lesson

Love this song. Such a strange one, so different to the 3 chord wonders the quo churned out in the 70s and 80s

Thank you

That was awesome!! What amp are you using ?? sounds great !!

Very nice… thank you.

Fantastic ! Thank you so much , a really informative lesson in which hopefully an idiot like me may be able to grasp !

Thanks so much

Watching live, it looks like the G and B strings are tuned in UNISON to get that lick. KZfaq Status Quo LIVE plus a phaser thing

I just started playing, and I got the first riff down, but could there be an easier way to play the next part?

Love the Wawa peddle great lesson Need cord sheet

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Rossi did not use an effect. He simply tune down. The B string to a E and just get the string just above the E string. There you got the flanger effect. Of course you must play on both strings. Goodluck

I love the suggestion to 'work it out for yourself'... I agree. Don't spoon feed everyone!

can anyone tell me what he is doing to his d chord. I'm looking up charts and stuff but my d chord doesn't sound as cool s his and I can't figure out what he's doing

I love the wah wah pedal.

This will most probably sound arrogant, but: I do believe people should try and find out what the notes of this rather simple and slow lick are by LISTENING to it lots of times and getting closer to it by trial and error. (No offence to the tutor!) That's what I did in 1966. I am certainly not a brilliant guitar player, but it did help me immensely to rely on my ears and figure it out for myself.

Sounds better if you detune the high E to B and play the riff on two strings.

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But why this riff is a kind different of original recording of that song from 1968?

Status Quo were also known as 3 Cord Wonders 😊

Hi can it be played without bar chords

Tune your E string to B and play the main riff hitting both strings at the same time, leave the E string open, thats how you get that twang sound. I think that's how I remember it, I don't have a guitar now to try it out as I got a serious arm and hand injury a few years back.

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Thanks. Love this song. I'm a very elementary guitar player - have noodled around for decades, but still am ignorant as to many chords/shapes. A minor suggestion - when you added the wah pedal for the final rendition of the chords, you used different fingering than in either of the previous two versions you demonstrated. It momentarily - maybe more than momentarily - freaked me out. But in the end, I now know THREE fingering options for these chords. (be mindful of how sensitive those of us who don't have anywhere near your expertise might be to such changes).

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What's are the chords

Maybe just me, but it isn’t the same without the wah pedal added.

The E should be tuned down to a B

This song needs the wah wah pedal.

Know one realized to this day that this song aint by satus quo its camper van beethoven

Freaking Google, I want the song by Status Qua. 😠😆

Needs the phasing

Darn I was hoping this was the Ozzy_type o version with the pick slides

Ozzy osbourne cover is so much better then the original in my opinion