Chords for Shocking Blue - Venus - How to Play the Solos - Part 1

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_ _ _ _ _ [C] Hi, [F] I'm Paul, _ [Ab] the Hot Rod [G] Anglican, [Bbm] and I'm going to see if I can [E] explain to you how [G] I play the [Dbm] various lead
guitar [F] sections from the hit song [Bb] Venus by Shotgun Blue.
_ _ [Em] Okay, this first very short lead,
it's only three pick strikes and four notes, and it comes into the [G] song right around 17 seconds, so I'll
play the record for [B] you now. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Okay, so it's just [E] _
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It's going to start on E.
[A] It's going to end [E] on a lower E, which is the ninth [Bb] fret of the G [E] string.
_ _ So those first and last notes are an octave apart.
[G] You're going to_
_ [E] The high E string,
_ you're [Db] going to already have
the [G] G string
[E] fretted at the 11th fret, and you're going to bend it [A] down.
You're going to be bending it, and then you're going to let it go.
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I'll show you that close-up in a second here.
_ Okay, I'm going to start [Bb] with my pinky finger on
_ the E string at the 12th fret, my [Bbm] index finger on the [A] G string at the 9th fret, and those are both [E] E notes _ _ _
an octave apart, and in between [Dbm] I'm going to be fretting the G [Bb] string at the 11th fret,
but I'll have it [B] bent up
_ to [Gb] start the solo, _ _ _ and then I'll [E] be releasing it and then letting [Gb] off.
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_ This next [A] lead
_ [B] is a little bit [G] higher up the neck.
_ This one starts about 57 seconds into the song.
[F] It sounds like [Em] this.
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_ Okay, that's really the [Bb] central lead of the [E] song.
You've got to get that one right.
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_ _ _ _ _ Now I'm going to try to see if I can show that to [Gb] you up close and break it apart into its parts.
_ Okay, we're [Bbm] going to see if we can do that, break it down, and [C] you're going to start with your _
middle finger on the G string, _ [Bb] and you're going to be sliding up to the 16th fret, _ and
I tend to bar both the B and [Gm] the E string, but the important one is the E string because you're going to be fretting the
E string at the 15th fret, _ and you'll be_
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_ _ _ _ Then you're going to [D] slide the index finger down.
I [G] let the ring finger get the 15th_
E string at the 14th fret from there, but you're going to go _ 16, 15, [D] 14, 14, _ [Bb] 12, 12.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Now you're going to have to get your pinky over to the B string at the 12th fret. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ There's a [Ab] hammer-on down here on the _ [E] D string.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ And you wait out on this E, [Dbm] hold it [Bb] out long, and then you're going to need to do two eighth notes on the
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hammer-ons on the D string the first time through.
It's different the second [B] time through.
The first time you hold [E] on to the E [A] longer and do the
_ _ [E] eighth notes.
[A] The second time it's [Em] all quarter notes, so [E] it's_
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_ Then some more hammer-ons. _
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[E] _ _ _ _ One of the reasons I let this_
_ when you're on the A string, slide down is because later, right after that, you're going to have [Em] to go into_
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_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ You're going to be down there anyway, [E] so_
[A] Let's try that [G] again. _
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