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AC/DC Tutorial – Malcolm Young Playing Tips (Part 1)

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    rpatzelt
    Posted at 10:47h, 13 December

    “carateritics”, huh? πŸ˜‰

    I just love both videos from this series….hope you will remember “something more” for the 3rd part πŸ™‚ And please forget the “sorry for my english” part – you can speak even in chinese but make “interesting” (that’s the word? πŸ™‚ ) tutorials.

    Congratulations and thank you for sharing that!
    Radu.

    (Btw, Fil, welcome back and I think you’ve got here a nice contributor, don’t you think? Of course if Felix agree with that…)

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 13:55h, 13 December

      Haha! Thanks dude, love your words! xD I might do some workshops on certain songs … I would love to do a Gone Shootin’ workshop … lets see^^

      And of course I would agree to do some teamplay! πŸ˜‰

      Greetings!

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    Super Bass
    Posted at 03:25h, 12 December

    Hey great work Felix.Are you playing the Gretsch through that Vox AC-30 behind you or some other amp?
    What amp settings would you recommend for Malcolm?

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 19:31h, 12 December

      Heyho! In this Video, I use Guitar Rig 3 to get my sound (and I’m VERY happy with it! =) ) I would recommend clean settings with lots of mids and TONS of Treble! πŸ˜‰ SOme Bass is also not wrong, but treble is what you need for mal and rather Clean distortion. Better more Volume than Gain πŸ˜‰

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    Dave4433
    Posted at 21:32h, 11 December

    Why haven’t I seen Your collaboration with Fil here yet ?
    You two would make the best cover of any AC/DC song, I think πŸ™‚

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 19:29h, 12 December

      Truly, I would LOVE to do so! … I just dont know, if Fil likes to make collabs^^ But I think a few mor with AndrΓ© are no problem^^

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    Devil'Fingers"
    Posted at 20:13h, 11 December

    Felix, you are definetely one of the best “Malclolm” guitar players on yt (if not the best)

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 19:27h, 12 December

      Thanks dude!! =)

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    headwhop26
    Posted at 17:24h, 10 December

    I just got myself an Double Jet in the mail off of Ebay, so Im going to be studying this quite thoroughly. Ive always liked your videos on youtube (Ive been subscribed for some time) and this was a great time to put this video up!

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 19:27h, 12 December

      Thank you very much! Good choice of getting a Gretsch! I never regret it! =)
      Greetings to you and your Gretsch! πŸ˜‰

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        headwhop26
        Posted at 02:04h, 13 December

        Thanks! At the moment, it needs a little bit of maintenance, it has some terrible string buzz and I need a Filtertron to put in there, because the current mini-humbuckers are so low output its almost quiet.

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    anthonyportlock
    Posted at 13:44h, 10 December

    Great tuition :), i include my body movements when playing and love to play malcom covers i find to move definatly helps and you can see it when malcom plays, unfortunatly i dont have many backing tracks with malcom taken out πŸ™

    Hope to post my own covers soon but need to get a decent camera first πŸ˜€

    Ant
    Salute!

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 17:20h, 10 December

      You can create the backin tracks yourself! Just load Audacity (free adio-editing software) with this you can delete the left audio-channel which contains Malcolms guitar track in nearly every song πŸ˜‰

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    Lemmiwinks
    Posted at 18:41h, 29 November

    nice natural finish you got to the electromatic! sanded it yourself?:)

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 19:14h, 29 November

      yup πŸ˜‰ On my YT-Channel is also a video of this stripping^^

      Greetings! =)

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        LeroyKincaid
        Posted at 00:34h, 30 November

        Hey Snooker, your electromatic isn’t a semi-hollowbody is it?

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          Thundersnook
          Posted at 10:37h, 30 November

          Unfortunatley not, but at the left and right side there are some big cavities, which let this guitar sound much louder when plyed dry compared to an all solidbody guitar. But its not a complete semihollow thats correst. πŸ˜‰
          Greetings!

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    rjofig
    Posted at 21:31h, 28 November

    Good stuff!
    Question about hammer-ons: I hear the open chord/hammer-on in many songs (like you say for example in Jailbreak and Long Way to the Top); I also seem to think there are hammer-on in power chords down the fret when Malcolm plays in songs like High Voltage, Go Down – but I’m never sure if it’s a hammer-on (say you bar strings A,D,G on fret 5, then hammer-on strings D,G on fret 7) or sliding the entire power chord from say C to D. Any hints there?
    Thanks!

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      RiffRaff
      Posted at 22:58h, 28 November

      Yeah I wonder that too.

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 07:39h, 29 November

      Interesting suggestions! As far as I know whenever it comes to an A-Powerchord, Malcolm plays it open on the second fret (I cant remember him seeing grabbing it on the 5th position) but your right with hammering powerchords in High Voltage! He actually do that in ther verse when hammering the E-Powerchord in the 7th Position and hammering with the pinke on the 9th fret. Sliding is done also but not as often as the hammering stuff. Remember Guns for Hire πŸ˜‰

      Greetings! =)

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 07:50h, 29 November

      Just checked Go Down: absolutley correct! Sliding Powerchord from C to D in this on! Well spotted! =)

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        rjofig
        Posted at 00:37h, 30 November

        Technique-wise, I think I have an easier time with a hammer-on with my ring finger ‘hammer-barring’ the two higher notes of the power chord than sliding. Anuway, probably a good idea to practice different variations to mix things up. Thanks!

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    banane
    Posted at 17:11h, 28 November

    Nice video, thanks. Looking forward for part 2.

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      Thundersnook
      Posted at 17:38h, 28 November

      part 2 is linked on the end of the video, or look on my YT-Channel =)

      Greetings!

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      Kinglance
      Posted at 18:52h, 28 November

      http://www.youtube.com/user/snookerkingexe#p/a/u/0/STd-IcDTpXI This is the link of the second video… And I have to say… Great tutorials, amazing sound! Very nice Gretsch! Thanks for the nice lesson! And “For those about to teach, we salute you” πŸ˜€ (I’m studying to become a teacher for kids between 6 and 12 years old (primary school)). Gr from Belgium, J-L

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        Thundersnook
        Posted at 07:41h, 29 November

        Greta to hear, Kinglance! I hope you teach them how to rock!? ;);)

        Greetings! =)

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          Kinglance
          Posted at 16:53h, 29 November

          Today I teached them a song about Saint Nicholas. πŸ˜€ I played my acoustic guitar πŸ™‚

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    TORVICK
    Posted at 14:48h, 28 November

    ACDC: Simple but not easy, exactly! Thanks for the tutorial, it’s very interesting to see your point of view about malcom’s playing.

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