“STILL LOVING YOU”
Scorpions
ONE OF THE most artfully composed power ballads from the Eighties, this dramatic song is built around a hauntingly beautiful, classical-style chord progression. It’s also one of the few popular ballads from the classic rock era that’s in a minor key. Scorpions guitarists Rudolph Schenker and Matthias Jabs, with their Gibson Flying V and Explorer guitars plugged into cranked Marshall amps, make great use of dynamic and textural contrasts and practice the lost art of rolling back the volume knobs for their instruments’ bridge pickups to around “2,” to effectively clean up their otherwise high-gain overdriven tones.
Schenker (Gtr. 1) begins the song by gently flatpicking a
