Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers - ZZ Top | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers as performed by ZZ Top (specifically the guitar played by Billy Gibbons).

The energy in this song is incredible, the sound that Billy gets on his lead tone sounds like the tubes are literally cooking and he is maxing out whatever amp he was using paired with his Les Paul. And did you catch
the "early days fingerboard tapping" technique here? I know Eddie Van Halen must have, right?

Signal chain: Les Paul bridge p/u...Fulltone OCD...Boss Blues Driver...Boss GE7 EQ...Xotic EP Booser...Fender Tone Master Deluxe Reverb

00:00 Introduction - what to expect
00:57 Getting tone, my equipment settings
03:58 Lesson - Rhythm Guitar parts
06:39 Lesson - Lead Guitar section
17:16 Demo - lead guitar section
18:29 Outro approach
20:02 Final thoughts

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[SyntagmaStation]

Thank god someone did a competent lesson on this. Thanks man!

[seachild]

100% my favorite ZZ Top song. Thank you so much for this!

[blakegilliam-tg]

Sir you totally nailed this. This is so on the money thank you very much. First Billy gibbons lesson that actually sounds like Billy gibbons. You picked up so well on the nuances of Billy gibbons, that's the secret to his tone and vibe. Cheers

[rexmonarch]

Down here in southwest coastal Florida drinking AndyGator beer and learnin' some ZZ licks -- thank you sir.

[-Atmos]

I've played along with this song hundreds of times wrongly .
Thanks for showing the correct way to play it .
Billy Gibbons is a guitar Great, that's for sure .

[mmikeyhignight]

Thanks, I just rolled out of bed with this song in my head and decided to learn it, but enstead of figuring out the chord arrangement myself, I figured I'd just let you do the hard work so to speak. Thanks, you aways do a fantastic job brutha!

[TonyDeRosa]

Hey! great lesson. I like the way you deliver it, good format. I used to play this in the 70's and 16 year old me couldn't do the tapping thing very well. EVH probably had no issue which is why i went back to school.
I did see an interview with Eddie where he said the first tapping thing he learned was LZ Heartbreaker. And pinch harmonics was Leslie West.
Billy did both and I'm sure Eddie knew it.

[allanmurphy-uxym]

Thank you for clarification of the songs.

[richardallen]

That was righteous. Dude Ya Nailed It !

[kevincaldwell]

Thanks so much! You make this simple ( the rhythm, anyway ) for me to play, even with my handicap! What a blast it is….. to play it correctly!

[eroks]

Billy G had his fingers layed down across fret board a lot always allowing muted strings everywhere. Which attributed to his iconic style layed back chill left hand. Tells ya. Relax 😂

[eroks]

Great song bro. Saw billy in Laguna like 15 yrs ago car and all. Long leather coat. Lol vintage memories. He was checking out of hotel ahead of me. Had goose bumps. So cool 😎

[klauschrist]

Great ZZ Top lesson. Everything sounds very real, thanks from Europe. KayCee

[aaronlalli]

Always wondered about some of those phrases, outstanding job!

[liborsionko]

The height of blues rock solo subtlety

[jerrywalaszek]

Thanks, I will be hitting you up sooner than later!

[charleskinsey]

Great song hottest leads, ,i agree with you about Eddie getting the idea for the tapping from this song and took it to a whole new level . This song really cooks :)

[lauraandrews]

Great job on this! Love that Les Paul, and I've been thinking about getting that Tone Master Deluxe Reverb, sounds killer.

[MrYatesj]

Love that LP. Great Lesson Great Song. Keep'em Coming!!

[LAboomR]

Great choice
Billy !
On 10 🤘🏼cranked baby,
You nailed it amigo
The beard & stash look cool,
(accents the eye brows)