Song · 1973
Keep Yourself Alive
- Artist
- Queen
- Released
- 1973
- Guitar
- Brian May
- Riff
- Harmonized guitars
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Riff
A short, catchy figure repeated through the song: the part everyone recognizes first.
Harmonized guitars
Several guitars play the same line at different pitches, in harmony.
Keep Yourself Alive chords
What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.
- Key
- F major
- Chords
- F · C · Am · Dm · B · Ab · Db
Here the guitar mostly plays solos and riffs: these chords are the ones its lines outline, enough to back it or improvise over it.
The progressions that come back
- F
- C
- C
- Db
- Ab
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
Same guitarist
Same techniques
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