Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots | Guitar Lesson

[Music] hey welcome back everybody today is the day that you're going to learn how to play Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots super cool song with just amazing chords and that's what I wanted to get right uh here and uh and share them with you because I never fully learned them totally properly until uh just recently and wow it's um It's Gonna Make You Smarter if you don't know these chords and it's going to stretch your fingers a little bit but I'm going to show you how to play it the right way hey if you haven't done so already love if you can jump down and click subscribe and ring the bell a bell let you know every time I drop new content which I do every single week all my videos have jump links down there so you can go right to the part of the lesson that you want to see at any point and bypass some of my yapping and if you're looking for ways to support the channel super appreciate that there's lots of ways to do that you can jump down and click super thanks which is 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along with the chorus just softly and then there's this great tasty slide guitar part that's going over that that leads you into the main sort of harder riff of the song okay okay so let's talk about the intro chords um I'm going to show you the couple variations we're going to show you one uh chord substitutions that you can use for the a chord and another one that you can use for the E chord and to my ear you can use either versions of these okay but I'm going to show you how they all go but let's start with just the basic sort of cowboy chords All right so the first one is a C sharp minor um but I'm going to pick up my index finger so that I look at that E string to ring out because you're going to hear a lot of sort of open strings throughout this um throughout the song Ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right now let's talk about a chord substitution that you could play for the a the a chord is this a plus 2 I believe it is right you're just it's your regular a chord you're just picking up um and not playing the B string a substitution you could play for that is you know this a chord [Music] all you're going to do is pick up your index finger and you're going to let the a uh the E string and the B string ring so it's almost the same as this but but you get that note in there even though you still get the the plus two which is the important note [Applause] right so that could sound like this [Music] good good one good thing of playing it there is that you're it puts you right in position for the next one G sharp right [Music] right there's also an e substitution that you could use on this and I see him play this which we'll see later in the Riff um when you go [Music] he plays his he plays this e in version like this and I don't know if he plays it in the intro but I'm going to show it to you here just in case um okay so that e right you have your regular e and This chords the substitution for an e is you know this e right you're familiar with that shape all you're going to do there is it's exactly the same you're just going to pick up your fingers so that you let that e in the B string ring thank you right so that could sound like this [Music] right [Music] and the advantage of that is it just keeps your hand right here you're not moving up and down it just so I would just say mix and match it sounds great and he probably just played the regular Cowboy chords and that's fine too but always looking to sort of stretch a little bit right and so this was [Music] one of the new ones for me that I saw now playing over that is a very tasty uh slide uh part that he plays and it's basically it's just the vocal line again that happens on the chorus right um and uh so here's how here's how I play that um you know the most important part of this is actually getting the strings muted for the strings that you don't want to play right but here's here's how you play this part and you have a little delay on right for this part [Music] all right all right so it's just the notes when you think of the notes [Music] a major scale in in E with the relative minor against C sharp minor right because that's the chords that are happening there it's C sharp minor [Music] for the first part [Music] you're just outlining the Triad for your G sharp [Music] you pull it off but again you're doing it with your slide [Music] foreign [Music] not the cleanest but there's that part okay so now we're gonna move right into the really kicking part of the song and and the lead intro riff here I'll leave all of the links or the descriptions um below of all my pedals set up for this but basically you want to have a good sort of fat overdrive sound and you want to have some kind of chorus or detune thing going on to complement that okay so I'm on my bridge pickup here so the Riff here we go [Applause] one more time [Music] all right okay so when I watched him live um he does that I talked about that e [Music] he does play that e there um I always played it when I was learning the song and it sounds just fine if you play the regular e [Applause] [Music] that's great um but I do see him do this [Music] all right so one more time super slow I'm going to turn the volume down so you get some clarity on the notes [Music] [Music] [Music] and there's a reason another reason why he goes up here he doesn't have to but it puts you in position for right there again you know always looking for ways to find that chord shape that puts you in position sort of for the next chord shape you know now here's the chords that I think maybe 30 percent of people actually get it right and I got it wrong for years um and uh so let's learn the right way to do this riff Okay so there's some fancy expensive cords and I'll probably misname them but I'm going to do the best I can okay all right so your first chord and I'm going to turn the gain down so you get some clarity on the notes okay and then we'll turn it up and rock it out okay but here's the these are I guess this is the verse right so it's C sharp minor first chord the second chord is a G sharp think of a G sharp over a c with a c in the bass so these are all going to stretch your fingers if you're not used to these um [Music] right so right and I'm sure when you learned it you went like this right which is technically right you still have those two notes those are the two most important notes in it but that's the full cord there is a full voicing of the chord and it's this the third one is super super tough too the third one is a D sharp I mean a d uh flat rather with a B in the bass so a d flat over B how great is that chord [Music] right so why is that a d flat well here's a d flat like that is also a d flat right foreign but it's got a B in the base so the way I'm figuring fingering that is my middle finger is going over to that b first and the way I sort of move my hand to it is I make these three fingers sort of land first um uh you know if you've picture that as the part of the d flat I just use that and then my pinky comes on last on the D string which is at the third fret so those three together [Music] still hard to get my fingers to Arch [Music] but that's that third voicing the fourth voicing is well I look at it as a there's two ways to look at it you could call it an a major seven [Music] with a B flat a major seven over B flat it's kind of a cool little um symmetrical pattern with your fingers doing a diagonal [Applause] [Music] so that bass note let's pick that apart a little bit The Bass note is just chromatically going down from your a string four three two and one okay and then the other parts that are going on par on top on the other parts that are on top are moving like this foreign [Music] and then we end with our a plus two [Applause] okay so I'm going to do that again just slowly here's the chord number one C sharp minor chord number two a G sharp over C chord number three is a d flat over B [Music] chord number four a minors a major seven over B flat the other way to think of that which is probably technically more correct is that's actually a d because we were at a d flat this is like a d flat minor now and we're putting a B flat on that whatever someone will correct me it's one of those and then your a plus two [Applause] okay so let's run down those chords with the gain on I usually keep my gain around eight eight and a half on the guitar in terms of volume I'd it muddies it up I think when you go a little too far on that but [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] which we learned in the beginning [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] State Love Song hope you learned something new um hey if you like what you saw jump down click subscribe ring the bell let you know every time I put new content out there which I do every single week let me know in the comments what you thought about this and if there's another song you want me to take on and do something similar and until next week take care everybody [Music]

Channel: 12 foot chain

Views: 31,624

Keywords: guitar tutorial, 12 foot chain, classic rock, guitar demo, guitar how to, guitar lesson, guitar lessons, doug kilishek, stp, stone temple pilots, dean deleo, purple, interstate love song

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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 24 2022