Keep Your Hands to Yourself

 

Lesson Goals:

♦ Learn D5 chord in open string position, review the E5 and A5 chords in the open position 
♦ Learn new riff in "A"
♦ Play "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"

We have obviously spent a considerable amount of time working on the Blues Rhythm riff in various combinations.

It cannot be over emphasized how important this riff is to your guitar playing so we will spend one last lesson learning another song that is based on the riff.

We will also add one little "twist" and show you a neat variation on the blues riff that you will be able to apply to a lot of other songs as well.

In thislesson we will play "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" by the Georgia Satellites. This is an easy song to play that is always a crowd pleaser.

The song is comprised of the A5, E5 and D5 chords. The only new chord for you is the D5 in the open string fingering so let's take a look at it.

As you can see, it is formed exactly the same as the E5 and A5, the only change is that the root note is the open 4th string. The diagram shows both positions we will use. Play the riff just like the E5 and A5 in both positions.

Now we can take a look at the chart for this song.

This is another rock song that is a 12 bar blues structure and a I, IV, V chord progression.

Notice that on the 7th and 8th measure there is a riff to be played over the "A5" chord. Below is the TAB for that riff.

The easiest way to play this riff is to form an "A" chord using the one finger method with your first finger. Then you are in place to do the single note picking with your 2nd and 3rd fingers on the 5th string.

Here is the TAB. Take a look and give it a try.

You will play this riff starting on the 7th measure and continuing through the 8th measure, then go right into the E5 chord in the 9th measure.

On the first beat of the 11th measure you just play one beat of an "A" chord and stop. As you can see, there are 7 beats of rests after that.

Play through the full progression. The rest of the song just keeps repeating the same thing.

Go to the video and we can play it together.