PAUL GILBERT TuKeRo POWERCHORDS AND ONE HUNDRED GUITARS MAKE FOR ONE HELL OF A ROCK TUNE! | TURE ROCK Like Rec, ren frm Paul Sone Ear fifth smo album Barmg roe (Orgon, sums up the mind lowing talent thats Pal © 2002 CGilbere within dhree minutes 18 «party user mares | clase, fll of rock clichés, tongue-in- cheek yries and some frighteningly ‘quick guitar playing. While other 803 Shredders have struggled to find 8 ‘modem audience, the former Mr Big sritarst has carved out a niche al of his ‘we, wth leer Iris, amaring guitar playing, and above al, great song-writing Pal explains where the ince idea for mal-tacking 100 guitars came from: "Te been accumulating guitars for quite ‘long ine now, so I've collected over 100 of them. Whenever a new visitor comes over they always ak, ‘Do you play all these So I realy though I should use ‘hem all on one song. I tracked all he pars including the solo 100 times” As well av ting his signatire Taner 300 fie with DiMarsio Tome Zone pickups and many assorted electrics, he Also sed acoustic guitars and basses tren forthe solo! For our version we recorded over 25 guitar pats, but after the tenth time we found the overall son wasn’ much bigger! “The basi sound that Paul uses is 2 mildly driven valve sound from a Laney CGHUOOL head through a 2:12 eab, and inevitably the richness ofthe Final guitar sovnd comes fom all of the added ‘overtones of using so many diferent sits. Ifyou want ge fly close fo Gilberet sound, don be tempted! to crank p the distortion, because even the Teupat asgultarsound us rige humbucer dan oeéresund that ie crnchy fers oes and ite ty when playing doublestops. We wed» POD wit the Bri Gah Selced andthe Eset show above Yu may wart ws boos te mid tach or thes. soo in this omg ses silky overdriven sound, rather thn fll-on meta Technically, the song isnt that har to play although youl have wo be on Your toes for the relatively simple Posrerchord changes, and also be aware ‘ofthe srg mutes and rests in between Perhaps suprisingly, the soo is very ‘Simple witha catchy Chuck Bery-esqoe intr. OF couse, his being a Pal Gilbert J so, there are some frighteningly tricky ‘sections, and this reserved forthe repeated final pentatonic lek. We're sure ‘you can appreciate cakes yes of Practice to reach these speeds (four notes 3 190bpm ~ ouch, so You might prefer to use two-hand tapping vo mail? That ‘aid, overtime you should build up the ‘Stamina reqited to do these third Bier pall-ofs well STEVE ALLSWORTHghee Y LEARN TO PLAY ll I LIKE ROCK, a HE TS ingest card shapes siglo the en Paya ate oh rng rn bores ah ft hr cea yeaa ay rig ght Tele hand mae re ‘ceed by ing the gh nyu na ange lig SI Tiijages F-e——i— fF ‘ie met vor aoa ob ah teas 2d tach ‘intone ey tue sound fect sth at per tana i ° — EEE EES Peep iILIKE ROCK m LEARN TO PLAY ‘fe th tial hack Bery-tpe double stops in bers 1-6 you ned to bend the Tt ret Bp gradual wile picking Digi othe bend onthe vey ast ‘otto ett up the ul tone he rapid all-in the nest sabre re very hard tprform cary suse sbght amount of a uting ta maka the ‘ots punch. Pl then descends down a tadeark yori bus sale run (ote the aeional Band FF ots) Aan? “ws ‘Tie section repeats the allen of he ma fad then shes with S ard CS cords that low the snare drum prec The esbundng ATs chord ‘woo wecs {Sthen rounded of with rodetasie RS chor 90 om cata HOHE 2003