How to Play "Dream on" on the Guitar

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JOE WILES: We're going to take a look at number 39 on our top 80 most downloaded guitar tabs on the internet. And it's Aerosmith's "Dream On." Let's take a look. Now we're going to spread this across a couple of segments because there's a lot to get here, okay? For the first chord form, we're going to put our index finger on the 5th fret, excuse me, on the 4th fret of the high E string, your middle finger on the 5th fret of the G string, and your ring finger on the 6th fret of the B string. It sounds like this, okay? Now, with your right hand, we're going to be doing a back and forth pattern with our index and middle finger. These two thumb. These two thumb. It looks like this. Always answering with that G string on your thumb. Okay? Remember that. In fact, this note is an anchor for the whole riff. That note never changes, okay? So, this is our first chord form. The next one is going to be a little bit different. Index finger on the 3rd fret of the high E string, the middle finger on the 4th fret of the B string and ring finger that same note on the 5th fret of the G string. That call and answer sound like this. We're going to switch these two fingers around. Watch how it works. So, our next index finger is on the 3rd fret of the B string and our middle finger is on the 4th fret of the high E string. Our ring finger stays the same. That sounds like this, okay? Now, we're going to replace our ring finger here with our pinkie, okay? Then, my index finger is going to be on the 2nd fret of the B string and my middle finger is going to be on the 3rd fret with a high E string. To that same call and answer bit. Those series of chords in a row sound like this. To continue, we come back up to the original chord, the one we started with. Now, we're going to put our index finger in that anchor position on the 5th fret of the G string. We're going to put our pinkie up here on the 8th fret of the B string and our middle finger on the 6th fret of the high E string. Okay, so far this is it. From in this position, we keep our index finger on the 5th fret of the G string, but we're going to stretch out our pinkie to the 9th fret of the B string and our ring finger to the 8th fret of a high E string. And that's the last chord set in the first half of the introduction. All together, it would sound like this. And then we start again on the second half with the same chord. That's about the first half of the intro. The second half is a little bit different. We're going to explore it in the next segment. I'll see you there.

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