Playing 'Crazy Train' on Guitar

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JOE WILES: We're going to take a look at number 12 on our top 80 most downloaded guitar tabs on the Internet, and it's "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne. Let's take a look. Now, we're going to learn this introductory phrase in two parts. Now when the song begins, the bass starts playing. But when Randy Rhoads kicks in his guitar, this is the phrase that you play, okay? So your index finger on the 2nd fret of the low E string, your ring finger on the 4th fret of the A string, then we're going to use our pinkie to come to the 5th fret and come back off. Okay? We're palm muting all of these, which means you just lay the side of your hand lightly against your strings, okay? We're going to hit that low E string twice, then to the 4th fret of the A, back to the E string, then to the 5th fret of the A string, back to the 2nd fret of the E string, 4th fret A string, 2nd fret E string. That phrase sounds like this. Okay? Then the next phrase, we're going to bring that index finger to the 2nd fret of the A string and kinda switch it around. We're going to use the pinkie on the 5th fret of the E string and our ring finger on the 4th fret of the same string, where it's going to go 2nd fret A string then 5th fret E string, 4th fret E string, back to 5th fret and again, then you end up on an open E string. Okay? Slowly, those two riffs together sound like this. Open string, back. To speed, that riff sounds like this. Join us in our next segment, we're going to take a look at a rock and roll great. It's "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry. I'll see you there.

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