Chords for Quick Riff #29 - How To Play It's Only Love - Bryan Adams & Tina Turner

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Hi guys, Dave here with a new riff [Eb] for you to try out.
[A] Today we're going to look at It's Only Love by [F] Brian Adams and Tina Turner.
One of my [Gb] favourite riffs, got [A] some great chord voicings in it, some nice cut [Gb]-offs [G] and
a little sliding lick in between.
Ok guys, I [Gb] hope you enjoy this one, now let's have a close-up.
_ _ [F] [G] Ok, first chord is a D5 with an A in the bass.
I'm holding [Ab] down the 3rd fret on the B, [F] 2nd on the G and then the [E] open D and A strings together.
[Ab] I'm also going to mute [A] off the other strings, so the back of the 3rd [Gb] finger [F] is going to
[Gb] choke off [E] the open 1st string and I use my [F] thumb to choke off the open [C] 6th string.
That way I can hit all the strings, only [Gb] here, the chord that I [D] need to.
_ _ Like that. _
Ok, that's the first chord [A] and then it's followed by a rest on beat 2, or the first [D] half of beat 2.
_ _ Like that, just put the palm on the strings to cut it off.
[Eb] _ [C] Then we change to a Csus2, keep the 3rd finger on the [Gm] B string, play the open G and we're
playing the 3rd fret on the A.
[Ab] Again, we're going to allow the back of the fingers to
choke off the other [C] strings.
_ _ _ _ _ Then cut that [G] off on beat 4.
_ [C] Then we're going to play [Ab] an Asus4, so [F] keeping the 3rd finger on the B [G] string again and then
I'm going to [Gb] barre across frets 2 [F] on the _ [E] G and D strings and we're [D] playing the open A.
So _ _ _ _ _ you'll notice the first 3 chords [B] have this 3rd fret on all the way through _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ and after
the [F] Asus4, cut that one off as [Ab] well.
_ Then we're going to play [Bb] a Bb5, _ [F] that's 1st fret on the [D] A, 3rd on the [E] D, 3rd on the [Bb] G. _ _ _ _
Then we get this little slide, [D] _ slide from [Fm] 3 to 5 on the A string, [D] _ _ then play [F] 3 on the
D, _ then we're going to play [Ab] the open D and A strings [D] together.
_ _ _ Then [Fm] we're going to get a little kind of a muted up strum.
[F] Basically what's happening [A] is he's going to move to the next [E] chord but he's not quite
holding it down yet [G] and you end up with a [E] little muted up strum.
_ _ So the next chord [Eb] is going to be an F5.
It's going to look like a normal barred F.
So [Ab] you barre across [E] all 6 strings on the 1st fret, then you're going to [G] hold down [F] the 3rd
fret on the A, [E] 3rd on the D.
[Db] _ [G] Normally you would hold down the 2nd fret on the G [Cm] string but what we're going to do
[B] is not hold it down, we're just going to mute it [Gb] off by using the [Ab] 2nd finger.
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_ If you do that, _ you end up with a very [G] wide sounding F5 power [F] chord, _ _ which is [A] what it's doing.
[Em] _ [B] The way he plays the [G] chord, he goes down, [F] then up, _ _ [G] cuts off the chord, [A] does a muted
up [F] strum [Ab] and then 2 [F] downs.
_ _ [G] _ [Dm] [G] He does that [Db] sequence [F] twice.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] I should also mention that once he's played it, he's cutting it off again.
A big part of the [E] whole riff actually is [F] cutting off [Eb] these chords in between.
_ [G] _ [F] That's the riff.
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_ [Bb] Sound wise, he's got a crunch guitar [Gb] sound with a little bit of chorus and reverb on it.
[A] I'm using a Pod HD400 for this [Gb] and I've got it set on a Fender [F] Deluxe amp [Ab] model.
It's slightly overdriven.
I've got [G] a Tube Screamer in front of it as well just to give it a little extra drive.
[D] I've _ got an analog [F] chorus on it and a plate [A] reverb _ to [F] give it that sort of sound.
_ That's basically the sound he's got.
[A] Slightly overdriven, lightly chorused [Gbm] and [Bb] reverbed.
_ [E] _ [Db] Something else I think about with this riff, why it works so well, is _ [G] that the first 3
chords have got this common note [D] in them.
They've got [Bm] this high [D] D. _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ The first 3 chords have [F] got that and I think it [Bm] acts to glue the whole thing together.
It's a [D] nice little touch.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [B]
You get similar ideas in [Gb] songs like Wonderful by Oasis.
[B] Really nice.
You've got the little [F] slide _ and then that nice [Ab] choppy [F] rhythm that he's got. _ _ _
[Db] _ _ [G] Getting back to that, [A] another [Ab] nice thing I like about [A] this is you've got those cut-offs
in between the [Db] chords so it really makes it sound punchy.
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[B] _ _ Also, because [A] it's not hugely overdriven, it's [G] much [A] easier to get those nice, [Ab] clear,
[F] crisp cut-offs in between [A] the chords. _
[C] There you go.
Anyway, [E] I hope you enjoyed the lesson and I'll see you for one real [D] soon.
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