You should have some fun with this intro. It isn’t difficult, and all based on barre chords, except for the very first measure.
Here’s what it sounds like looped at the normal tempo of 120 bpm:
Mary Had A Little Lamb by Stevie Ray Vaughan
How Hard Is It?
This song’s intro is an instrumental featuring the guitar. It helps make this blues song very unique. It’s not for the faint of heart, though. There are a few quick passages that may trouble some players.
Video Demonstration
In the video below I’ll play the entire intro for you:
“Mary Had A Little Lamb” Guitar Tab
Breakdown:
Hurt – Part 2
There’s nothing fancy about the chorus to Hurt. The four-measure chord progression of G, Am, F, and G just repeats over and over. The strumming pattern is just straight eighth notes, but we’re not going to strum it with your standard up and down strumming. Watch the video lesson for the details:
You’ll Be Mine- Stevie Ray Vaughan
This is a Vaughan rendition of a Willie Dixon song. The verses and bridge are 16 bars (or measures) long instead of the standard 12. It’s blazing fast too, at 184 beats
per minute. There is a heavy use of muted strings to create a percussive sound.
Intro
Bang Your Head- Quiet Riot
Sunshine Of Your Love- Cream
Here is the riff with the suggested fingerings:
Stairway To Heaven Part 3
Now, it’s time to put it together! Practice playing both parts together.
No Stairway?
This intro from Stairway To Heaven has been the butt of a few jokes over the years because it seemed that every time you went to the music shop someone would be hunched overplaying it.
Maybe you’ll remember the scene from the movie “Wayne’s World”:
Changing To The Interlude…
The tail end of the riff changes when leading into the interlude. It’s just a two-note walk (A and B note) into what will be a C in the next measure (not shown).
Born On The Bayou- CCR
Learning To Fly- Tom Petty
Life By The Drop- Part 3
Verse
The verses of the song are 16 measures long. Each verse has 4 lines of lyrics, so if you do the math you’ll come to find that each line of the lyric will last 4 measures.
[Verse 1]
Hello there my old friend
Not so long ago it was ’til the end
We played outside in the pouring rain
On our way up the road we started over again
The chord progression for the verse is A, E, F#m, D and each chord gets a measure.
