Song · 1978
Runnin' with the Devil
- Artist
- Van Halen
- Released
- 1978
- Guitar
- Eddie Van Halen
- Riff
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.
Runnin' with the Devil 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
- A♭ major
- Chords
- Db · Eb · Ab · Gb · Ebm · Fm
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
- Db
- Eb
- Ab
- Gb
- Fm
- Ebm
- 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.
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