These NICK BOWCOTT adventures are always so informative, and entertaining! Love his style of making learning FUN! If I had a teacher like NICK in the late ‘60’s when I started, I wouldn’t have gotten bored! This lesson/video I’m definitely saving for my son when he gets outta school today! ATTA Boy NICK! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🎸⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Awesome lesson on an awesome lick. When I first learned guitar it took about a year to reconcile why the simple version didn't "play" with the album. I learned the power-chord solution you mentioned. Now, I see the real trick... If you didn't already say it, I woulld call this the double-stop version.

Sweetwater has some great on-screen talent, but Nick is the most fun to watch.

Great video!!!

Blackmore sets us straight: “The thing is, I’ve seen people play it, and they always seem to strum it. I actually pick the notes with two fingers at the same time, the thumb and the first finger. Just the two notes.” Plucking the strings like that gives the riff a slight but important differentiation from strumming. Removing the delay between the two notes sounding that occurs when strummed, however small it may be, really cleans the riff up. Blackmore explained. “But they should be pulled and not picked.”

In 1996 I snuck paper and a pencil into the local shop and wrote down the tabs for green days brain stew (analog piracy) and thats how I learned to play a power chord

Love these videos, Dude! Please keep em coming! 🤘🤘

It amazes me how many versions of the same songs are out there. (KZfaq, internet pages, and tab books.)

" Can we have everything louder than everything else "?

It's a great riff! My first one was Day Tripper, but Smoke...Water is a great one! I never learned the rest of the song....lol.

Purchased my guitar from you guys in 2020 and now I really need help as I don't want to give up trying to learn guitar, but without someone to help I just may have to. My problem is that I have small hands. As IamMorrison says if you don't have our tiny sized hands you just can't relate. So a C-Chord is doable for me on 25.5in scale guitar but getting to a different chord is a struggle. Not a serious problem I am just bringing that up. Where my problem lies is my wrist to the tip of my longest finger is 6.5 inches. Hard to make chords. Now here is the one that made me quit for six months as I was in 24x7 pain with a loss of mobility and that is I cannot get calluses. It is a hereditary issue as they begin to grow, and I go to bed one day to wake up to baby soft fingertips again where everything is painful. SO painful that I do bad things, subconsciously, to stop the pain and it hurts my wrist and thumb joints. How can I play the guitar without calluses? I ask because with them the notes ring out more, but when they go back to soft the strings around the touching fingers are dead due to the pudge caused my a soft pressing onto a hard. I do not have Gorilla grip/Kung-Fu death grip as I work hard to not.

yuur right…my first eva

No. Matter what you get out of this I know you’ll never forget, smoke on the water, Uncle Nick 🤟🏻

Tip... Never use a pick playing this riff.

Not me, Wanted Dead or Alive and Bed of Roses were the firsts rifts learned 🤔

Way too difficult to tell where your fingers are. I'm used to Truefire where there's no guessing what notes you're fretting.

Am I having deja vu? Wasn't this posted a few days ago?

Because what the world needs now is more people playing smoke on the water at the music store 🤦‍♂️

I’ve seen this before. What happened? 🤔

1973 has come & gone. Where are the new mega rock bands ? And what’s with this old dude’s t-shirt? What’s he hiding? It should read LETS GO BRANDON - FJB!