The Beautiful People Guitar Lesson - Marilyn Manson

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In this guitar lesson video, I am going to show you how to play Marilyn Manson's biggest hit "The Beautiful People" note-for-note on the guitar.

You will need to tune your guitar to Dropped "D" tuning which will mean starting from the 6th string you will tune D A D G B E. That will then allow you to play all of those power chords with just one finger.

In this The Beautiful People guitar lesson, you will notice that almost everything revolves around the main riff or some sort of variation of it.

There is a lot of muted strumming being used throughout most of the song in order to fill out the sound a bit. I will demonstrate towards the beginning of the lesson how to get a nice and thick muted strum sound. After that, if you know the song well, you will know when and where that technique is being used.

After you learn the main riff, you will pretty much only have one more section to learn which is the pre-chorus. However, this pre-chorus uses only single notes playing a descending chromatic line and is extremely easy to play so nothing to worry about there.

One more thing before I go, there is a slight variation of the main riff played at the end of the song. At the end of the video lesson, I will show you how to play this variation as well.

Carl...

[clintjohnson]

One of the most iconic riffs of all time and so easy to play

[davidphillips]

Been an amateur guitar nerd since I was 10. I already kind of knew how to play this song, was searching to learn other MM songs and this came up. In the first 10 seconds of the song you casually threw something out that that just changed my entire outlook on how I've been doing muted chugs for all kinds of songs. Thx brother, that helped. Awesome vid too, I should add LOL

[hrodgarthevegan]

This is gonna be my first song I practice, stoked that it's simple and iconic. It was one of the songs that really made me love metal.

[thejohngates]

0:50 muting
2:46 lead in
3:52 ending riff 6-3-5-O

[JeremyFancher-lx]

Dude thank you for all these videos man. You’ve helped me so much

[thehunter]

Definitely adding this to my to learn list, such a simple badass riff from John 5. He knows how to make the guitar sound amazing. Thank you for the awesome tutorial as usual 🔥🔥🤟🤟

[ripreigns]

Thanks Carl! Could you possibly do a video on how to play tourniquet? Thanks! 🤙🏽🤙🏽

[roderickpatterson]

Carl, I do wish you would play the entire song all the way through! Either at the end or the beginning. Doesn't matter. I doubt I'll play this song but say "Accross the Universe" "Hey You" & "Bron-Ur-R", etc. especially ones with alternate tunings or the many songs dropped a half step, EG: "Dee" . Thanks for your lessons, it saves me so much time and beats sheet music/tablature!
Will send some $ after the 3rd. Everyone should send at least 5 bucks! if we all sent $5-10 bucks it would add up!
But again, playing the song as a whole after the lesson will help from going to one's library or searching youtube and switching back n forth since I don't have a "window type option".
THANKS CARL!

[jjrighteous]

Easier than I thought, if you are a bit of a amateur or beginner than this is a good song for you to learn

[roberthancock]

Great lesson!! This riff is so incredible! Thanks, Carl!

[herculesbrofister]

whats great about this is #1, it's instantly recognizable to so many people, #2, it's super easy to play as is, #3, it's super easy to embellish on, like some PM (16th note alternate picked, or whatever sounds good to you) 0-3-2-0-0-0 or 0-6-3-0-0-0 or sumptin when there's not normally much/anything going on.

[SMASHx]

This is great! Never felt compelled to subscribe to a channel until now. Thanks, Carl!

[ChiAeNima]

Easy af. Ideal for beginners !! Cool lesson as always.

[kyleduke]

You look like Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore

[millyyz]

could you teach how to play the fight song by Marilyn Manson

[villadrifft]

The best skill needed to flocking amazing ratio in a song period end of story call her a day good night beautiful people

[potatoalien]

Above all the tutorials a watched. This is the only one that i can understand lol.

[forceofchaos]

since ive been loving you by led zeppelin?

[trtlife]

What distortion settings would you recommend. Using plugins in Logic Pro. Thanks

[anishbatki]

Can you a lesson for This Is Halloween