I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys is a great 21st Century rocker for electric guitarists! From their Whatever People Say I Am ~ album I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor is a straight ahead, fun, high energy garage-rock number with clear and distinctive electric guitar lines.
Chords: F#5 E5 C#5 B5 A5
Pick or Fingers? Use the pick ; you won’t get the hard-edge tone of the original without it.
Acoustic or Electric? Electric . . .
Lead guitar : the lead guitar part in this song features F# Minor pentatonic, across the fretboard and string bending up high on the 3rd string. Remember to use three fingers to control the bending action and don’t use your pinky ; it’s not strong enough to bend up a whole-tone without the bigger fingers assisting.
How does the lead timing work? Bar 3 displays eight equal quavers; these are all half-beat notes and the bar adds up to four beats. In the following four bars you see shorthand notation that is describing the same thing as Bar 3 ; each number with two diagonal slashes through the stem is a note that is to be played as four equal quavers. This type of shorthand notation simplifies the appearance of TAB and saves a lot of unnecessary repetition in a chart.
Relevant pages in Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 : to learn more about the scales, picking, bending technique and TAB reading used in this chart see pages 8 - 10, 13, 19 and 25 - 26
Relevant pages in Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2 : and to learn more about power-chords, Rock rhythms and how to read rhythm notation see pages 4 - 9 and 16 - 19
Need a bit of help?
Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 : Suitable for beginners, this very helpful book is for entry-level to intermediate guitarists who want to improve their lead guitar skills. Presented with TAB throughout to assist, EGSS1 will consolidate your core lead guitar skills like hammer-on, pull-off, string-bending, pentatonic and blues scales, and more. All techniques are explained clearly and then applied to cool solos throughout the book. EGSS1 will help you build a rock solid foundation for your guitar soloing!