You Aint Seen Nothing Yet is a solid song by Bachman Turner Overdrive. I like listening to it well enough when I happen to be listing to a Classic Rock station. I never realized how much fun the rhythm is to play until I tried it.
I don’t use the same finger positions that BTO does for the A and the neck E chords. Like I’ve said before, I don’t really practice the guitar very often. If you listen to my songs you are probably hearing literally 10% of my total playing time.
Randy Bachman uses a c-shape fingering on the opening A up the neck and the pinky hitting the A octave on the A string. He uses the same fingering on the next D chord. I’d have to take a few days to get my pinky fast enough to keep up with the rhythm. So instead I decided to wimp out and just do regular bar A and C chords. I think it sounds just fine for what it is.
Since it was now so simple, I was able to have fun strumming away on the rhythm. Playing the rhythm from the verse my jam, man. This was just the second take I did of the song. The first take sounded good until I hit the break and completely forgot how the song went. Take two.
That opening guitar was also a lot of fun. I don’t think I got the notes exactly right, but it was close and I liked how it sounded. I made a second copy of the track and added some delay. I played around with the two levels until I found a balance I liked.
The lyrics are pretty easy, mostly a copy of a hundred other songs I’ve done for BBFB (Beginners, winners, spinners, sinners, dinners). I planned to break up the last line of the break (“we’ll help you find a Bat Book you will neverrrrr forget”) into two separate lines and to be honest I just did it like this expecting to replace it. But it grew on me and I left it in. Sha na na na. na na na na. hey hey hey goodbye.
I played my Les Paul with the pickup selector in the center position. I didn’t want to make the rhythm sound too icepick-y and it was just dull on the neck pickup only. Playing with the tone knobs I was able to dial in a solid tone. I was going to try some distortion on it, but I like the simplicity and fun of the guitar like this.
I don’t know why I didn’t use the Strat, I probably could have gotten out a better tone than this with some work. But with a Les Paul you just have to plug it in to get a solid sound. I really like the options these two guitars give me.
Anyway, enjoy it. It was fun to do.
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