"Under My Thumb" Chorus- Lead Guitar

The Rolling Stones

  • Lesson Type

    song

  • Instructor

    Jon MacLennan

  • Time to Finish

    7:16

On all of the choruses of “Under My Thumb,” the lead guitar continues to play single note licks, similar to what we learned for the verse. In this lesson, we’ll show you how to play these single note melodic lines.

By the end of this lesson you will have learned:

  • Alternate picking
  • Hammer-ons
  • Pull-offs
  • Slides
  • Double stops
  • Syncopated picking