Wanted Dead Or Alive Guitar Lesson Videos – Bon Jovi
In this Wanted Dead Or Alive guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this legendary song by Bon Jovi in its entirety.
The tuning is standard tuning, E A D G B E. The acoustic guitar parts are played on a 12 string acoustic.
I will start the lesson video by demonstrating how to play that instantly recognizable intro. From there I will cover all the sections of the song in the order that they each appeared on the original recording. This includes grabbing my strat to show you how to play Richie Sambora's killer pinch harmonic fueled guitar solo!
By the way, if you don't know how to play pinch harmonics yet, just check out my lesson on how to play pinch harmonics on the guitar .
Thanks for watching! Carl..
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Wanted Dead Or Alive Guitar Lesson - Bon Jovi
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Carl
Thanks for the site good stuff from difficult passages
How about more riffs like from Alice Cooper’s classic album
there are some good lead passages in Poison, Hey stupid and Feed my Frankenstein
Keep up the good work
Hi there.. nice wok, easy to follow. Any chance for some tabs ? There is a small section with the strumming in the verse I am not quite following.
Cheers
Hey Chris, thanks for watching!
Unfortunately, I am not legally allowed to post TABS for any song outside of the public domain. Hopefully you will be able to just follow along with the video to that part and quickly TAB it out for yourself.
Wish I could help you out more. 🙁
Carl..
No worries thanks for the reply.. after many replays I finally got it. Very happy and it’s coming along nicely.
Now working on the chorus… ur vid is really helpful, making a lot of progress after being stagnant on it for a couple of months.
Cheers
very good lesson will learn more
fantastic playing carl i have learnt some good stuff from your site
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Great lesson. Real easy to follow along.
Thanks Carl! Love the song and I’m anxious to learn it! What is your set up on this? Distortion and a delay?
Yeah usually a little delay and reverb along with the gain sounds. It helps fill out the sound a bit.
My setup it a Fractal Audio Axe-FX II straight into my computer. 🙂
Is there an non-electric version of the solo we could learn?
Hey Carl,
Im a recent premium member, although I’m too afraid to post a video question for you yet since I am a beginner, but I am learning a lot from you. I am 57, just picked up the guitar with no prior music experience and am having fun with your lessons. My video questions in the future should be pretty entertaining for you while I figure out simple man, dust in the wind, and wanted dead or alive!!
For now I wonder if you have any section of the website dedicated to amp settings and known/published pre–sets to match certain sounds in certain songs. On the electric I can follow your lessons but I have no idea how to make the amp sound right! Like I said, total beginner. I have a fender mustang III. Any suggestion on how to learn what all the dials do and how to “get that sound”.
Thanks for all you do! I’m having a lot of fun! This is cool…
Don
Hey Don, great to hear from you! I am looking forward to helping you over the next year with your playing.
Don’t worry about rushing to send in a video. No big deal, we can still do a lot through email. But when you are ready it will be really good for your playing!
I don’t have a lot of tone videos on the site. I am thinking of doing more in the future but it just isn’t something I have focused on.
I currently use a Line 6 POD HD500X for all of my videos. Brand new, one those things cost about $500 but you can probably grab one used for around $300.
I can get any tone I want from it and never need any amp at all. Do a google search on it and see what you think. I feel starting with something like that to craft tones will solve a lot of your tone frustrations.
Even if you don’t want to create your own tones with the HD500X, Line 6 has a place on their website where they and other PODHD500X users have uploaded tones to match most of the popular guitar tones you have heard. You can just download that tone into your POD for free, store and your done. You can store 100’s of tones and recall them all with a push of a footswitch. That is actually what I do a lot for the tones I use in the lessons videos. 🙂
Great lesson, the solo is a lot of fun 🙂
Is there are particular set up that is easier to get pinch harmonics out of?
A good amount of gain helps. Humbucking pickups as well. Not sure if set up differences would matter except that just overall ease of playability (string height etc…) makes a difference for just about any technique you are trying to perform.
That first intro pic took a while to learn but its a good pic.