Chords for Ernie Ball: String Theory featuring Mick Mars

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I started [C] playing guitar when [G] I was like seven years old.
One of [G] those little wind-up Mickey Mouse [C] guitars.
[Cm] I learned how to tune it and started picking out whatever was popular at [Dm] the time, and
at that time it was, you know, [Cm] Frankie [F] Avalon and Elvis Presley.
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_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] Probably the most [G] influential to [A] me was Mike Bloomfield.
People like Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Jim Neuhand.
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Kinks changed my life quite a bit.
It kind of introduced me to the [Eb] raspy, gnarly [G] guitar, Dave [Gm] Davies.
Then I'm like, wow, that's cool.
I really like that.
A different, new tone.
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_ _ [N] My tone comes through many different combinations of amps, the way they're hooked up.
If you could have been there, you would have seen my rack mounts, plugging them in and
out to see which way it sounded the best.
So this thing sounds better first than this one, than this one.
No, let's try this one.
That sounds better.
That sounds better.
And just playing around with stuff forever and ever and ever.
It's taken me years to get to this point of where my tone could be like a couple guitar
players up there.
But I'm not stopping there, of course.
It's still experimenting with different sounds, different tones, different tunings.
Pick up an out-of-tune guitar and play it.
Play it through something you never played it through before.
I'm still playing around with stuff.
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_ [Am] [A] I [Gm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ _ always try to think of a little bit out of the box, a little to the left.
Everybody does 4-4-4-4.
If you listen to Beatles, they go like more of a waltzy kind of a thing, which is a 3-4
or 6-8.
And then it comes back into the 4-4 again.
That stuff is great for me to listen to.
The way that I'm writing songs now, usually get like a drum beat here in my studio or whatever.
Just play a bunch of riffs over the [G] top.
Going back listening, I go, OK, I like this and this, this, this.
Then I'll play the higher strings for a [F] certain [C] melody.
[A] I'm not going to reinvent music by [C] any means, [G] but I may be able to go, [Dm] oh, that's a little
bit [A] different [D] than what I'm hearing.
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_ [D] _ _ [Ab] _ I started using Ernie Ball strings when I was around like 14.
I had borrowed the first electric guitar that I was really playing, and it was a Gibson Melody Maker.
I busted a [D] string and I went down to the music store, asked for a set of guitar strings,
but give me two Es.
And he went, huh?
And I said, well, the strings on my guitar are bendy.
He went, oh, you want light gauge.
So my first back Ernie Balls.
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[G] I used to [Eb] use 10 through 48 [F] for quite a while.
[Dm] And then I decided to go up to 11, [N] so I used 11 through 50.
When I [D] dropped to them, [F] I used [Bb] [A] 52, [Ab] 54.
[G] Give [F] just the right amount of that [Dm] ballsy sound. _
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_ Motley started in LA.
Nicky and Tommy were already playing together.
I put an ad in a paper.
They were looking for a guitar player, and they found my ad.
I actually auditioned them.
[F] They don't know.
But anyway, no, we went over there and it clicked.
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When I come out with my solo project, my first record will give me a key to that door I need to open.
[D] I'm [Dm] definitely going to lose some fans, because it [F] doesn't sound like my old man.
If it does well, then I [Gm] know I can go another further, another further, another further,
and keep [A] reinventing.
And I want to keep evolving, to keep moving, to keep that [Bb] motivation going.
You stop learning, you might as well just put [Am] your guitar down.
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