Do Anthing You Wanna Do

This punk song was originally done by Eddie & the Hot Rods, then covered by Thin Lizzy and later by Guns'n'Roses I think. My run-thru probably owes alot to the first two.

This is one of those easy electric songs everyone wanted and is on Chordie. It's nearly all one barre chord shape and will get you speeding up and down the neck. It walls into 4 parts.

1) Intro and Chorus 2, E A F#m. Ok forget how you learnt how to do open E as a beginner, make it now with your little, ring and middle finger. Strum strongly on bass strings then whizz up to 5th fret and get that first finger down flat. Play strong and clean, now back to 2nd fret but lift that flat finger so it still holds the bass E string but let's the thin strings scream out. Tickle the thin E to death and blend into the E shape again. It's dang-dang-wahahahaeee.

2) Verse, B A E. OK after that powerful intro the guitar will be buzzing so just form a cheat's B and strum just a couple of it's strings sparingly. Same for open A and E but make sure you're using the barre E shape for the next part.

3) Prechorus. It's that barre shape up 2nd 4th, 5th and then 7th fret. That's F#m G# A B. Then back down again 5th to 4th to 2nd to zero (that's the E shape). Play clean and strong to really lift then fall.

4) Chorus 1, the scorching 'why don't you' bit. You should be on zero fret E then fly up to 5th fret and then 7th fret for 'ask them' and then to really give the song punch all the way up to 12th fret. This is E again but will scream out if you really let loose on it.

The only really difficult bit is then getting back to F#m on 2nd fret from 12th but if you've really got the guitar buzzing that should cover your slide back up the neck.

Set your amp to a modern hi-gain type setting, but not too much reverb. Enjoy.