I'm Dave with Guitar Tricks and today I'm going to show you how to play the legendary rock anthem 'Smoke On The Water' as made famous by Deep Purple. I am committed to enhancing the site and making free lessons and info about the guitar available to you. 'Smoke On The Water' is in the key of G minor, 4/4 time at a tempo of about 113BPM. After family, my other passion is this website. I currently work as a part-time professional musician and actor. My instruction has focused on advancing practical rather than theoretical knowledge and making learning fun! I have a "healthy" collection of electric guitars and enjoy working on them, setting them up, modding them, etc. I have taught guitar in the classroom and also privately. This is the song that I have taught as the first ever song to over 300 students. I have been an educator for 32 years and a working musician for 40. This first guitar riff for many, many guitarists.
The topic is broken down into multiple lessons for easy learning - Come As You Are, Redemption Song and Smoke on the Water.
I have been involved with music and specifically guitar since 1963. In this Guitar lesson, Bobby Koelble teaches Smoke on the Water as part of our Guitar series on Basic Guitar Song Melodies. Smoke On The Water is one of the top guitar songs learned by. From the 1972 album Machine Head, Deep Purple's classic story and classic guitar riff are featured in this, your Smoke on the Water guitar lesson.īut with the rolling truck stones thing outside We will be working on a bass line in this video lesson as opposed to the actual guitar part.