Jamie teaches us a the backing track and lauds Malcolm's contribution and brilliance. Once again there is no written material or on-screen chord charts. OK its the B5 power chord. Its literally setting the tone and the signal chain is dripping water all over my desktop and very over driven which is some effort to emulate for many.
If you don't have the guitar toys to get this sound you are going to be frustrated. Jamie does seem to open up a bit in the sound and equipment segment where he talks about his own rig. Since in real life, Angus Youngs' is striped down to two things: Gibson SG & Marshall Plexi Head.
J. H. tells us how he prefers various booster pedals to overdrive in order to preserve his bottom end. He apologizes for not having a Marshall stack turned up really loud but says it would be impractical in the Licklibrary studio. He has a point. Tinnitus. Tinnitus is not a disease, but a condition that can result from a wide range of underlying causes. The most common cause is noise-induced hearing loss.
Then he breaks it down into licks. The first section is, as he says, a Chuck Berry lick. Its short enough to remember too. But the next lick has no resonance with me and it becomes paint by numbers busy work of please remind me why I care about Jamie's lick which I don't know vs an Angus lick I do know?. I click the forward arrow.
Solo II, Solo III, and the rest are all the same. Any decent player with a couple of hundred hours in could approximate this stuff if they practiced. Jamie can play guitar and does show us some nice pinched 6th interval stuff sounding like Pete Townsend. He has other moments too.
Sorry Jamie! But watching this you know Jamie is cheese paring the knowledge he could give us but doesn't in this production. A couple of hundred hours of guitar practice is how many? An hour a day perhaps? Say 200 hours is 200 days - say 7 months. That may or may not be optimistic. "You can get it if you really want" "But you must try and try an try"- Bob Marley. 7 months? NFW. I dare you!
Alternatively this, in my opinion is a far superior place to start learning electric rock guitar. With its own guitar chord reference book too. Possibly buy this Angus/Jamie one later but only after you have played along with the real AC/DC recordings yourself as so many fledgling guitarists have done before you! Then maybe buy this. Big Maybe! Fair Dinkum Cobbers!
'Fair dinkum, cobber' - is Australian slang - but means 'fair play to you, mate' - Or to us Yanks: 'I kid you not'. Jamie can play though.