Smoke on the Water Guitar Lesson Easy

Hey, everyone. My name is Lauren, and welcome to my music studio. We're going to do a simple lesson today for you to get some work playing the guitar. And it's Deep Purple Smoke on the Water. So what we're going to do today is a simple bass riff in that song. So it's just going to work on our building our hand dexterity. And it's just going to be on this thick string, the top string, which is the low E string, and that's it. We're just going to stay on that string. We're not going to worry about any other strings. And it goes like this.

So pretty familiar to most people. It's a fairly popular song. And so we're going to talk right now. We're going to break it down into small parts for you so that you can practice at home. So. And start working on your finger dexterity. So the two fingers we're going to use for this, actually, we're going to use three fingers. We're going to use our first finger. We're going to use our third finger and our pinky. So I'm going to call out numbers, and I'm going to use four numbers. 0, 3, 5, and 6. When I say 0, it's just you're playing the open E string. When I say three, you're going to put your first finger on the third fret. When I say five, you're going to put your third finger on the fifth fret. And when I say six, you're gonna play with your pinky. That's gonna be the tough one. Now, if you're having trouble and you're like, oh, no, three, five, six, you'll notice at the top of your guitar and also in the front here, there's these dots. Those represent the odd numbers. Now, some people have their dot might start at the first fret, some people, it starts at the third, and some people at the fifth. All it marks is the odd numbers. So that's kind of like a little cheat for you to find your frets quickly. So you'll have first, third, fifth, fifth, seventh, ninth. And then the 12th is marked with the double dot. But the ones we're really going to be using are the three and the five. So that should be your second and third dot. Or for some people, it might be your first and second dot. Depends on what your guitar, how they designed your guitar. So we're just going to start off with the first three notes, which is.

Going to be 0, 3, 5.

Let's do that again.

0, 3, 5.

Good. Now the second part, we're going to do four notes.

It's going to be 0365. Let's do that again.0365.

So now we're going to put those two parts together.

So we got 03500365.

And then we get the part at.

The end, which is 03530.

Let's do that last part again.

03530.

So now we're going to play through the whole thing.

So we got the first part, which is 0350365.

And then the last part.

03530.

So now let's try the whole thing through. Go real slow.

0350365, 03530.

And then as you practice through, might feel a bit awkward if you've never done this before. It's kind of weird getting your hands manipulated around that. That's alright. You're going to build some muscle memory as you keep doing this more and more and eventually you'll be able to just play it just like the song.

Just like that. So practice through, Practice through really slow and just get your hands used to, you know, positioning, fretting each string and making it sound out. If you're hearing kind of this muted string or this check and make sure that you're fretting your finger as close to the top of the frets. The top of the fret is where the metal is, so if you're all the way in the back here or if you're on the fret, you're going to kind of get this little buzzing. So it takes a lot less pressure to push the string down when you get closer to the front of the fret. So make sure when you're fretting that you do that. And that's really all we have for this lesson right now. There are a couple other lessons for you to take a look at, so check those out and you can keep building some hand dexterity so that you can start working on chords. Have a good one. Hope to see you soon.