Guitar Lesson How To Play "Pretty Vacant" By Sex Pistols

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Guitar lesson/tutorial on how to play "Pretty Vacant" by Sex Pistols. I guess there's not much more to say haha. AS USUAL, DON'T TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY!       Please subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/SEPHGuitars?sub_confirmation=1  Please follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/joe_fit_guitarist/

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00:00Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another video.

00:14Today's going to be Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant.

00:18I don't know much about the Sex Pistols.

00:21Is it Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols?

00:23I always wondered, like, certain bands, like you've got to say the, and other bands you

00:26don't say the.

00:27I wonder what the decision was there when people want the, and some people don't want

00:31the.

00:32If you like the video, please hit that like button, subscribe down below.

00:35Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant?

00:37Stick around.

00:38Starts off with that riff that goes...

00:54What that is, is basically you can just kind of put your finger on the second fret of the

01:01A and the D, basically an E power chord.

01:05You're going to go open low E twice, two on the D twice, open low E twice, two on the

01:12A twice, and back and forth.

01:14So open, two D, open, two A, back and forth, both, everything's twice.

01:23So...

01:24Okay, pretty straight forward.

01:40My guitar is tuned, at this point I have no idea.

01:44I want to say a half step, might be a full step.

01:46Okay, so then you get into an A. So you kind of bounce off that for a little while, that's

01:59the next part after the...

02:03An A is open two, two, two, open two, two, it doesn't really, as long as you hit the

02:06open and, as long as you hit open and two of the twos, the D and the G, you can hit

02:12the B two, two if you want, two, two, two, two, two.

02:16But, open A, two D and two G, and then, you know, if you want to hit the full A, you hit

02:21the two on the G.

02:22Actually, you're not really supposed to power all the way, it's just have the open E, but

02:26then you get into...

02:47Okay, so what that is, that first...

02:53I was going back and forth between G, because again, my open strings sound horrible, and

02:58I adjusted the thrust rod.

03:00I actually took this stupid little thing off, because I didn't even know where the thrust

03:03rod was, and then you have to do it, and then I got an Allen wrench, and I still tightened

03:08it because it said to tighten it, and then the fret buzz was still there, so I have no

03:12idea what to do.

03:14So my open strings are horrible, and I try to avoid doing them, but open chords have

03:21open strings.

03:23So to make it sound a little better, I would just try to do power chords, even though you're

03:27supposed to probably do a whole full...

03:28Anyways, I don't even know, it's Sex Pistols, so they probably did power chords anyways.

03:32Anyways, it's A, it's A, G, now it could be a G, full G chord, G power chord.

03:45If it's a punk song, it doesn't necessarily matter as long as you're getting the G sound.

03:51Then to a D, to A. So A, G, D, A. See?

04:06A, G, D, A. A is open 2-2-2, G is 3, open 3, and you can do a 2 if you want.

04:15Open, open, 3-3.

04:16It doesn't...

04:17It's a G, you know.

04:18And then a D is obviously open D, 2-3-2 on the next three strings, back to an A. Then

04:25you go to a G, E, E power chord, so G power chord is 3-5-5, to an E power chord down here,

04:35not a low E power chord, a higher E power chord, 7-9-9 starting on the A.

04:41So A, G, D, A, then G, D, G, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D.

04:52And then the chorus is...

05:07I don't even know if you were able to really bounce off that 3.

05:10The chorus is a D power chord, 5-7-7 starting on the A, to a C power chord, 3-5-5 starting

05:17on the A, to an A power chord, and I think you're supposed to do the little off...

05:22As you're doing the A, you bounce, kind of do that little off the third on the low E.

05:41That's pretty much Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant.

05:45Okay, so that'll do it for another video.

05:48Hopefully it was even right, as I was doing it, I think I was having the timing maybe

05:52a little off, I don't know.

05:53Anyways, until next time, see you later, gadoosh!

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