Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 54 minutes ago
Jammin' with PAUL RODGERS!
Sometimes you just need something with three chords, and if that's played in an open-tuning, even better!
Paul Rodgers has one of the great rock/blues/soul voices … so when I came across a vocal track for Can't Get Enough, it was time for me to lay-down some backing vocals and then bust out four guitars to replicate Mick Ralphs' ultra smooth, dark, sweet growl tone. The brown sustain sound is all amp and cabinet driven (Ampeg V4), with no overdrive or distortion boxes. There are two guitars for rhythm (they used a Tele and a Strat) and two tracks for the harmony solo. Similar to the original recording, I used an open-tuning on the homemade rhythm guitar. For the Stratocaster rhythm guitar part, I used a standard tuning with the neck DiMarzio stacked humbucker and musically throws in a few Eb's in the chorus (which is not on the original, but I just like how this blends). The rhythm parts are freeform and sort of follows the original, but I cut the guitars out for a bar in the middle of the harmony solo (then came back in after two heavily reverbed snare hits). The lead guitar parts were played on a Line 6 Variax 700 for the high harmony (this guitar screeches better) and a Line 6 James Tyler JTV-89 for the lower harmony and the outro lead (this guitar has better sustain), again both with no overdrive boxes.
Ralphs wrote the song in open G tuning (G, G, D, G, B, D) but Rodgers want to sign it in a higher key so for the recording he used open C ( C, C, G, C, E, C ... the G-string and high E-sting are playing the same note, so the outside strings are lower than normal and the inside strings are higher). The first harmony solo was performed on standard tuning, but the last solo used the open C (just to make you re-learn where all the notes sit). The bends are ridiculously hard to reach when tuned this high, especially the 1 1/2 bend where it is easy to break the B-string (that is tuned 2 1/2 steps up to be an E), so in the end I just used standard tuning for this as well.
For the video, I struggled with making a love video, but the lyrics state "I Can't Get Enough of Your Love" eighteen times, so what else can you do? I decided to flirt with copyrights and grabbed a bunch of love scenes from the movies, stretched them out, then added a some head-on shots of the guitars so you can see the fingering I used.
I also remixed the tracks to knock out various guitars … so you can play along and jam virtually with Paul Rodgers as your lead singer.
Here are some other remixes …
One Guitar Missing … youtu.be/xEfb25N_6Zw
No Lead Guitar … youtu.be/bH3RJilbzRE
No Rhythm Guitars .. youtu.be/FGOzm3xcPe0
No Guitars … youtu.be/_afmm745uPk
Jammin' with PAUL RODGERS!
Sometimes you just need something with three chords, and if that's played in an open-tuning, even better!
Paul Rodgers has one of the great rock/blues/soul voices … so when I came across a vocal track for Can't Get Enough, it was time for me to lay-down some backing vocals and then bust out four guitars to replicate Mick Ralphs' ultra smooth, dark, sweet growl tone. The brown sustain sound is all amp and cabinet driven (Ampeg V4), with no overdrive or distortion boxes. There are two guitars for rhythm (they used a Tele and a Strat) and two tracks for the harmony solo. Similar to the original recording, I used an open-tuning on the homemade rhythm guitar. For the Stratocaster rhythm guitar part, I used a standard tuning with the neck DiMarzio stacked humbucker and musically throws in a few Eb's in the chorus (which is not on the original, but I just like how this blends). The rhythm parts are freeform and sort of follows the original, but I cut the guitars out for a bar in the middle of the harmony solo (then came back in after two heavily reverbed snare hits). The lead guitar parts were played on a Line 6 Variax 700 for the high harmony (this guitar screeches better) and a Line 6 James Tyler JTV-89 for the lower harmony and the outro lead (this guitar has better sustain), again both with no overdrive boxes.
Ralphs wrote the song in open G tuning (G, G, D, G, B, D) but Rodgers want to sign it in a higher key so for the recording he used open C ( C, C, G, C, E, C ... the G-string and high E-sting are playing the same note, so the outside strings are lower than normal and the inside strings are higher). The first harmony solo was performed on standard tuning, but the last solo used the open C (just to make you re-learn where all the notes sit). The bends are ridiculously hard to reach when tuned this high, especially the 1 1/2 bend where it is easy to break the B-string (that is tuned 2 1/2 steps up to be an E), so in the end I just used standard tuning for this as well.
For the video, I struggled with making a love video, but the lyrics state "I Can't Get Enough of Your Love" eighteen times, so what else can you do? I decided to flirt with copyrights and grabbed a bunch of love scenes from the movies, stretched them out, then added a some head-on shots of the guitars so you can see the fingering I used.
I also remixed the tracks to knock out various guitars … so you can play along and jam virtually with Paul Rodgers as your lead singer.
Here are some other remixes …
One Guitar Missing … youtu.be/xEfb25N_6Zw
No Lead Guitar … youtu.be/bH3RJilbzRE
No Rhythm Guitars .. youtu.be/FGOzm3xcPe0
No Guitars … youtu.be/_afmm745uPk
