“ALL MY LIFE”
Foo Fighters
ONE OF THE Foo Fighters’ biggest hits, this modern rock classic features powerful, punchy riffs built around unusual chord voicings that “cut” nicely with the high-gain tones employed by guitarists Dave Grohl and Chris Shiflett.
The song kicks off with a repeating one-bar figure consisting of a root-5th G5 power chord played in a punctuated eighth-note rhythm. When playing this part, you’ll need to completely mute the strings on beats 2 and 4, using both pick-hand palm muting (P.M.), as indicated, and fret-hand muting, temporarily loosening your grip on the chord shape. And use all downstrokes here,