Back in Black - How to Play Back in Black by AC/DC on Guitar

You're watching HowToPlayAnySong.com. My Name is Joe Wiles with the Rock N' Roll Conservatory and today we're taking a look at AC/DC's Back in Black. It was from the album of the same name back in black that was released in 1980. The song is a tribute to the band's former singer Bon Scott after Bryan Johnson replaced him after a death. In this video we're going to take a look at the introductory riff, the start out riff in the song and we're going to take a look at the chorus riff. Let's take a look. The introduction for Back in Black starts with what we call a three finger power chord. It's an open E power chord. It's basically the open E string, 2nd fret of the A string and the 2nd fret of the D string. Hit all those at the same time. You can actually use one finger for those two parts. Sounds like this. Then we're going to hit a D-5 chord which is an open D string, 2nd fret of the G and 3rd fret of the B. We're going to hit that three times, hit all those three. Then we're going to hit an open A power chord. It's an open A string, 2nd fret D, 2nd fret G. Hit it three times. That part sounds like this. Then it answers with a really simple pentatonic riff starts on the 3rd fret of the high E string and then you'll hit it open. You'll go to the 3rd fret of the E string then open, 2nd fret of the G but we're going to give it a bend and then we're going to pull our finger off with out picking. That's called a pull off. That riff sounds like this. Altogether the first riff and that little lead line afterward sound like this and so on. Now on the fourth bar of this song they do another turnaround riff. That riff goes like this. It starts on the 2nd fret of the A string, we're always going to go back to that one. Then we're going to lay our ring finger down to the 4th fret of the E string, low E string here. Go back to the 2nd fret of the A, pinky to the 5th fret of the low E string, back to the 2nd fret of the A. Stretch your pinky all the way to the 6th fret of the low E string, back to the 2nd fret of the A string. Then all the way to the 7th fret of the low E string and slide it down and then we start the riff over. Put together the third and fourth bar of Back in Black sounds like this, like that and we repeat the first four bars of the song over and over again into the verse even. This is what the first four bars sounds like really slowly. Then we repeat and so on. This is what that sounds like to speed one, two, one, two, three, four and so on. Hey, thanks for watching. Make sure to check out HowToPlayAnySong.com to watch the rest of this tutorial and to request video tutorials of any song you want to learn. I'll see you there.