Live, guitarist Dean DeLeo usually just improvises some slide guitar work on a standard tuned guitar. I have decided to just focus on the guitar chords for this lesson since the slide guitar parts require an open tuning. There is also a quick little bridge section that contains an repeated arpeggio picked pattern. Later on in the song it is repeated though. The chorus then kicks in which is made up of a simple standard open G major chord moved up the fretboard.Īt the end of the chorus there is a cool little riff that is just played once the first time you hear it. The opening chord progression contains just two chords with a slight embellishment on each.
There aren't any bar chords to contend with and the strumming patterns are very simple as well. "Big Empty" is one of the easier Stone Temple Pilot songs to play. However, the chords are still exactly the same as the original recording with electric guitars.
I have stripped it down to just an acoustic guitar with this one, like they played it on their Unplugged performance.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS DOWN CHORDS HOW TO
The song ends on the same riffs we've already seen so far, with occasional lead frills thrown in.In this Big Empty guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all of the guitar chords for this Stone Temple Pilots' hit. Solo - The solo mainly uses the D pentatonic minor and D blues scales with plenty of 'off-bends' (bends that don't quite hit perfect pitch).Įnding - Just after the solo there is a simple variation of the main verse riff. Check out the Core Skills section on harmonics to learn how to do this technique.īridge - This riff is a littler harder than the verse / chorus parts, but not by too much. Don't keep your finger on the string! We show it that way so you can tell what note is sounding out. So you have time to move hand position between harmonics. Although we show each harmonic dot as staying on the string remember that harmonics are just a light touch on the string, pick, remove finger instantly. They will be over the fretwires at frets 5, 4 and 10. Harmonics - Play these 3 natural harmonics. If you don't have a whammy bar you can slide up the strings and back down again. Whammy up - Strike the F5 chord and then pull up your whammy bar, slowly, and then return it to the resting position. In Drop D tuning this means you need to use 2 fingers to play the octave chord properly. That means you are playing two A notes together (an octave apart). It's just like a powerchord except the middle note is muted. Here we point them out:Ī octaves - This is an octave chord strike. Once you know those parts the rest of the verse / chorus parts are the same but sometimes with little fillers added. Mute between chord stabs with your fretboard hand to get the choppy stop / start effect.Ĭhorus - This riff is more fluid, but not much more difficult. There are only 2 chords ( F5 and D5) Make sure to use downstrokes to get a bit more beef into the chord stabs. Verse - This is a short and simple riff which makes up the bulk of the song. Also, it provides backing for the solo (which is why we kept it in). Occasionally you can hear the backing guitar do something a little different (just a whammy bar down here or there). There are 2 guitars here, but they play the same riffs so we have condensed everything into 1 animation so you can easily play it on 1 guitar. To learn more about Drop D tuning click here. Just pluck the middle D string and then tune your Low E string down until it matches.
To tune your guitar to Drop D from standard tuning is easy. The wonderful thing about Drop D tuning is that you can play 1 finger powerchords.
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