Guitar Lesson | AC/DC’s “Hells Bells”

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025

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  • @sweetwater
    @sweetwater  3 роки тому +2

    This rock 'n roll mainstay is a must-have in any riffer's arsenal! Make sure you subscribe for more lesson videos like this one!

  • @robertlee42770
    @robertlee42770 3 роки тому +2

    I LOVE seeing another lefty!!! HELL YEAH!!!

  • @rustydodge6167
    @rustydodge6167 3 роки тому +12

    Always love NICK The Sinister Southpaw’s guitar licks and lessons! Nick always gets it RIGHT! The way the songs are truly played. Hats off Brother Nick, and a thank you to SWEETWATER for bringing us this content. ⭐️⭐️💙⭐️⭐️

  • @jeffreyhutchins6527
    @jeffreyhutchins6527 3 роки тому

    As a lad I heard Grim Reaper and here I am getting a lesson from a member. Can't beat that.

  • @correametal
    @correametal 3 роки тому +6

    A Living Legend playing a Legendary riff created by another Living Legendary player! How Awesome is this!!! Nick is one of my all time Metal Heroes and such a gentleman!!! You are the Best Nick, and thanks Sweetwater for bringing us Nick's amazing talent here on UA-cam!! Hails!!!

    • @sweetwater
      @sweetwater  3 роки тому +1

      🙌🙌

    • @correametal
      @correametal 3 роки тому

      @W. I don't understand what you mean by that...

    • @Trey-jl9ru
      @Trey-jl9ru 3 роки тому

      @W. Still going today

  • @MikeUIibarri
    @MikeUIibarri Рік тому

    On the For Those About to Rock tour. The stage was dark, then a spotlight lit up the bell as it was lowered. Brian came out with a sledge hammer... My first concert. !!! That was also my introduction to mushrooms. Which are now legal in this state. Also, this is one of my all time favorite guitar guys on UA-cam. We salute you, Sir! Well done.

  • @allendean9807
    @allendean9807 3 роки тому +1

    Mr. Bowcott is a total gentleman. And GR will always be in my playlist….

  • @brentc7671
    @brentc7671 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks Nick and Sweetwater for this lesson. I find following your instruction so easy and would love to see a few lessons with the complete song.

  • @flashinthepan1965
    @flashinthepan1965 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks so much Sweetwater for bringing us Nick and this great lesson! Brings back memories of High School and Grim Reaper. I can’t think of anyone better to teach us this song. Love ya Nick! Keep rocking man!

  • @ssowinski
    @ssowinski 2 роки тому

    Love the lesson. Well done and easy to follow. Makes me want to check out all your other great videos. Keep them coming.

  • @johns4751
    @johns4751 3 роки тому

    My favorite riff of all time, taught just a bit differently than I originally learned it. So glad to have seen this. Thanks Nick!

  • @isMike999
    @isMike999 3 роки тому

    SWEETWATER RULES!!!!!!!!...and so do you Nick......thanks...great all time jam right there....

  • @YourFellowRNRSisterFan98
    @YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 Місяць тому

    Back in black is one of my favorites when I was a kid? I borrowed my mom’s copy a lot. She is a retired police women from Scotland ? And she lives in South Carolina where her kids are from. And my dad was from. Hells bells is one of the first riffs I wanna learn as a beginner guitarist.

  • @guitarman6632
    @guitarman6632 3 роки тому

    Knuckles on the back of the 12th fret , open clean channel. Perfect E bell ! I use to do that over 30 years ago in a cover band. Partying with AC/DC on their tour bus in Dayton Ohio, is the best of my rock and roll memories 👍

  • @ciaraclements221
    @ciaraclements221 3 роки тому

    Awesome Lesson ! I'm new at this and this is the first song I wanted to learn

  • @andrewwiliams994
    @andrewwiliams994 3 роки тому

    I really enjoy your videos. They push me to continue on! Played drums for almost forty years but always had a liking for the guitar. I wonder if you could include something that would greatly help us "Newbies". Mention your setup. What are you using to attain the sound. Need the iconic sound to go along with the iconic teachings. That is SO important. Thanks so much Nick for taking the time to work these out and then passing that knowledge to us all! Your lessons always bring back some wonderful memories from the past.

  • @walterwhite390
    @walterwhite390 3 роки тому

    Sounds killer!

  • @MCAlvesPortugal
    @MCAlvesPortugal 3 роки тому

    Cool 😎

  • @user-pn1bj6os9b
    @user-pn1bj6os9b 3 роки тому

    Great lesson Nick, thank-you so much. If I close my eyes while listening I couldn't tell if it was you or Angus playing!

  • @bjstein4242
    @bjstein4242 3 роки тому

    Great job Nick and sweetwater.. I feel the need for some more candy as GAS is setting in.. love the insight from Angus with Nicks past interviews.. brings me great joy to know that Angus keeps things simple but try playing it right.. or in time.. I've been trying for years to get these right.. thanks guys..!!

  • @akallio9000
    @akallio9000 3 роки тому +2

    I remember trying an experiment out of a science book when I was a kid in the '60's, it said to suspend a common teaspoon by a thread, hold the other thread against your ear and strike the spoon lightly. It sounds just like a church bell! Then in the '80's it occurred to me that the same sound should be picked up by an electric guitar, and trying to emulate this for "Hells Bells" might work. Well, it did sound quite good for a second, until the magnet sucked the spoon into the pickup, so you got "Bong... bong.. CLANK!"

  • @Horrorfreak106
    @Horrorfreak106 3 роки тому

    Damn that tone is spot on

  • @GuitarWithDofka
    @GuitarWithDofka 2 роки тому

    Nick, great story about the song being written in E 🙏

  • @SeaDrive300
    @SeaDrive300 3 роки тому +2

    Awesome lesson, Nick! The fact that you're wrong-handed made my brain work a bit harder, but the fretboard charts were super helpful. Cheers! :-)

    • @gregmican
      @gregmican 3 роки тому +1

      Left handed... 😂 I am a lefty too, we see the same things when watching a right handed lesson.

    • @akallio9000
      @akallio9000 3 роки тому

      As Nick pointed out in a video distributed on a CD in "Guitar World" 10 years ago, just watch yourself in the mirror to see yourself playing like he does.

  • @sgoldman9732
    @sgoldman9732 3 роки тому

    Great lesson!! Thanks !!

  • @rjeff753
    @rjeff753 3 роки тому

    Great lesson. Helped me clean this up. Thanks!

  • @davidkastin4240
    @davidkastin4240 3 роки тому

    Lefty guitarists Unite! ☺ Great lesson I will save and go watch Maximum Overdrive now 🎸

  • @stricknine8623
    @stricknine8623 3 роки тому

    Great lesson !!

  • @grease2542
    @grease2542 3 роки тому

    Fun and thanks. Fumbling along but should have it in a month or two. 👍

  • @TheSoulsandRevive
    @TheSoulsandRevive 3 роки тому

    Great tutorial! Cheers

  • @TommySG1
    @TommySG1 3 роки тому

    All I can say is awesome 🤟 Yes, I’ve been playing this wrong too ahah!

  • @Scott__C
    @Scott__C 3 роки тому

    Awesome stuff as always, Nick! I'd love to see you occasionally get some of these legends on with you to show these riffs themselves. It'd be like we were in the room in those interviews!

  • @iaamusic1121
    @iaamusic1121 3 роки тому

    Excellent.

  • @davidsawyer6784
    @davidsawyer6784 2 роки тому

    Love ya Nick. I really enjoy / and learn a lot watching your lessons. I also spent some time watching your history with Grim Reaper. Great stuff. Question, what happen to the hair? Being a child of the 70s, I do miss the hair.
    Thanks again for all you do.

  • @richardbrodbeckbeginninggu7330
    @richardbrodbeckbeginninggu7330 3 роки тому +1

    Is there a TAB or chords written out for this? He does explain it well but I also learn from written. And thank you for this one!

  • @jasonalbert9939
    @jasonalbert9939 3 роки тому

    Would love to see Malcolm’s part for this song. Awesome lesson 😁

  • @SidBonkers51
    @SidBonkers51 3 роки тому

    Many thanks, I learn much easier watching a lefty, something in my brain sees things clearer in a mirror image.

    • @sweetwater
      @sweetwater  3 роки тому

      Sid gets it 👆
      Thanks, man!

  • @hendriegrimberg5016
    @hendriegrimberg5016 Рік тому

    Thanks for your help ! First song try to play 🫣 never play guitar before 😂

  • @Ratchman_5000
    @Ratchman_5000 3 роки тому

    For those about to rock- Here's Hells Bells! FIYAAAAAH!

  • @ScarredPredator
    @ScarredPredator 3 роки тому +1

    Can you please do “New York Groove” by Ace Frehley?

  • @TheJudgeWm
    @TheJudgeWm 2 роки тому

    This I great. Do you have the rest of the song anywhere?

  • @richardedge2497
    @richardedge2497 2 роки тому

    Great video and thank you for making it easy to understand. Mind if I ask what equipment your'e using to get that tone?

  • @greencan853
    @greencan853 3 роки тому

    Thank U :-)

  • @jeffbucknam7393
    @jeffbucknam7393 11 місяців тому

    Question. Just finished the 1st 6 chapters on Guitar tricks. I want to now try to learn a song. I selected Hells Bells as it’s not supposed to the the hardest. However, GuitarTricks starts I believe it’s just strumming and starts with A chord 3 times (2nd fret B,G, & D). I want to learn your way though. I have a Mustang LT 25 and a Fender Squire classic Vibe 70s. I can’t get it to sound like AC/DC and I know the LT 25 will not exactly, but I was hoping you or someone could give me an idea of what settings to put the guitar on (lever, tone..) and what settings I should put in my LT 25. I would Kirk to do a custom setting on the LT25 amp including tone, STOMP, Delay, MOD, and REV settings. Any ideas? Of course each of those have settings such as STOMP you can set if your energy clean 2, overdrive, then gain, tone, mid, high…. Maybe there is somewhere for this amp to be able to have a guide on what settings to put in for certain albums or songs? But mainly for now I just want some thing that sounds like Hells bells.

  • @ahooogerhuis
    @ahooogerhuis 3 роки тому

    Are we sure he knows what he talks about when he says "just a hair slower"? :p
    Nice and quick tutorial, thanks. :)

  • @fastra3621
    @fastra3621 3 роки тому

    You need BOTH earbuds in for this....!
    😂😂

  • @loutrotechaud2598
    @loutrotechaud2598 3 роки тому

    Does anyone know if Angus used all down picking on this riff? I might have it confused with South of Heaven though. I was learning both at the same time and thought both are down picking only

  • @brenthalper4132
    @brenthalper4132 3 роки тому +1

    If that SG came from the showroom, I bought the other lefty SG standard that was right beside it.

  • @alexvasquez8352
    @alexvasquez8352 Рік тому

    wow a fellow lefty

  • @corneliuscrewe677
    @corneliuscrewe677 3 роки тому +1

    I’ll be darned, I play it almost exactly like this, except I slide back up to the seventh with my index finger instead of fretting with my ring finger before the turnaround, or “chunk #4.”

  • @therockstar7443
    @therockstar7443 3 роки тому

    Hey Nick I got a Request it’s an easy one it’s Heavy by collective soul 🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @dpgoguen
    @dpgoguen 3 роки тому

    Great lesson on Hell's Bells! Homage to Beelzebub will get Nick sentenced to the electric pew! To save Nick from eternal damnation, please write a check for $7.65 and sent it to...

  • @jamesbutterson5218
    @jamesbutterson5218 3 роки тому

    Now show us the hard part! 🎸🤘

  • @Burnt_Gerbil
    @Burnt_Gerbil 3 роки тому

    Is it me or is the cabinet turned off in the interface? The guitar just sounds like static. You need an IR enabled. 🤔

  • @PatRick-bg4dm
    @PatRick-bg4dm 2 місяці тому

    About 50 years old beginner here, I’m struggling hardest with the timing…😢

    • @AZWildk4t
      @AZWildk4t Місяць тому +1

      Same. I’m 60 and instructor told me to play using official video at .70 or .75 speed. Seems to help. Then bump up speed and muscle memory improves

  • @crazyforbeingsane611
    @crazyforbeingsane611 3 роки тому +2

    Sorry Nick a Ton is 2000 pounds. I have done the math my friend..lol. Great Video as always :)

    • @SeaDrive300
      @SeaDrive300 3 роки тому

      A British (he's a Brit, remember) long ton is 2,240 pounds, but that just makes his math even worse!

  • @MyBichSustained
    @MyBichSustained 3 роки тому

    1 ton = 2000lbs damnit!

  • @Johnny-lr5jt
    @Johnny-lr5jt 3 роки тому

    I just know how to play the bell part.

  • @BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy
    @BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy 3 роки тому +2

    You’re playing it backwards. 😜

  • @ohio342
    @ohio342 3 роки тому +1

    I am right handed and this looks weird

  • @Bixll09
    @Bixll09 3 роки тому

    Can't believe you threw the album cover..

  • @Zkillzen
    @Zkillzen 2 роки тому

    Bro maybe YOU love "A-minor"

  • @Hugh_Jaynus_00
    @Hugh_Jaynus_00 3 роки тому

    I had to beat him to def, wif his own shoe..

  • @DrPhilGoode
    @DrPhilGoode 2 роки тому

    Ya but it’s not Angus….🤣🤣 sorry there is always 1 of me. Or one of my favorites…it doesn’t sound exactly like the original. 🤣🤣 ok I’m done. Great job.

  • @recabitejehonadab2654
    @recabitejehonadab2654 3 роки тому

    Hard to follow, he’s holding the guitar the wrong way and his fat fingers obstruct/view how to play the strings on the frets .