QUEEN FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS
By Queen standards, the arrangement of Fat Bottomed Girls is a stripped down affair, with just drums, bass and a couple of guitar tracks. Instead, the trademark Queen multi-tracking is reserved for vocals rather than the guitars. The song is based around open chords, mainly using D, G, F and A. The chords are linked together using 3rd-fret-to-open-string pull-offs on the two bass strings. Add some bluesy quarter-tone bends and you have all the ingredients for Brian May’s cool, sleazy hard rock riff.
Practise the riffs slowly while focussing on accurately fretting the chord shapes. Although the song sounds loose with a relaxed strumming approach throughout, rather than the shorter single and edits.
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