Chordplay - The Chords of TNT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Here's the next Chordplay episode with 'The Chords of TNT.'
After I created the recent Headbanger's Ball episode, I randomly found myself wrapped-up in TNT's web of music all over again, and I honestly hadn't listened to in a number of years.
It was refreshing to revisit and hear those great songs, melodies, riffs, chords/progressions, licks, and solos again, and that led me to create a double-header of lessons surrounding Ronni Le Tekro, starting with this Chordplay episode.
Ronni also received a lot of requests/suggestions from viewers in the last month (or so), so here's a chord-based lesson surrounding the player you voted #2 during the month of September.
This lesson features some chord ideas coming from a number of classic TNT songs and riffs - from 10,000 Lovers and Tell No Tales, to Intuition, Desperate Night, and much more. There's something for everyone when you're studying the music from a player as talented and musically random as Norway's own Ronni Le Tekro.
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It's nice to see TNT get some love! Ronni Le Tekro's a beast!
Ronni has been my undisputed guitar hero since I was 13. I remember getting Knights of The New Thunder for Christmas and just being utterly blown away by it... TNT forever!
Back in the Day Me and My Friend Rich always did Like TNT
Ronnie LeTekro is still one of my favorite guitarist. 10,000 Lovers is the Tone Zakk Wylde was going for when he recorded No Rest For The Wicked! Great Lesson! Thank You!
Tekro was a riff master, Harnell was a monster metal singer (totally underrated and out of this world), plus the bass/keys and great Drumming. Killer band.
Ronnie is insanely talented. He did a trick live with multiple guitars like a magic show. Dude absolutely shreds on a level near Michael Angelo. Plus his sense of melody is so excellent.
I saw him open for Stryper and Loudness and I thought he was the highlight of the whole gig.
That was an awesome tour - all 3 bands were on fire. Ronni wore his little wizard hat and poked his looping guitars with a magic wand - it was hilarious and awesome! No one was live-looping back then.
I remember Akira Takasaki had these huge LEDs running up both sides of his stack that were a "VU Meter" and showed the audio peaks in his jams.
I'm jealous! Having said that...I saw them at a premier bar in Kansas City called The Lonestar. They were supporting the release "Intuition" and a local radio station was promoting it and they didn't even play their music! The cost of admission.....$1.02 (KY102, were the radio stations call letters). Ronnie Le Tekro did the multiple guitars on stands like you mentioned. Backing tracks were in full for force for the backing vocals. But still... it one of the best shows that I hopefully will never forget. I truly witnessed greatness that night!!!
Ronnie is one of the best hard rock/metal guitaists ever. He’s also a really great songwriter and producer. There are several more TNT albums with great guitar stuff to discover on Spotify etc. I was lucky to see TNT live in Stockholm at the Hard Rock Café back in 1988. Amazing experience. 🎸😍✌🏻
Desperate Nights is my fav riff too. Drums in half tempo makes it soar like there's no tomorrow.
10,000 Lovers is one of my favorite songs.
Ronni made me buy my first guitar as a 17 year old punk 10 years ago, a strat haha. My favorite player still.
Thanks for the Ronni Le Tekrø! I will definitely be re-viewing!
Saw TNT in 1987 on the Tell No Tales Tour with Loudness & Stryper where I jumped the fence to meet them & saw them again in 1989 on the Intuition tour in San Francisco. A couple of the best shows I've seen ever!!! \m/
The outro to Desperate Nights is awesome coupled with Tony belting over it!
Dave the work you put in & the accuracy of the material is appreciated!👍🤘
Good to see someone knowing and respecting them.
Ah yes, probably my favorite band from the 80s, the only band that perfectly mixed progressive metal and glam metal, I’ve always been fascinated by ronnie’s chord choice and songwriting, lots of progressive elements
Ronni Le Tekrø was a favorite of my former guitar teacher, Don LaFon. His band, Six Minute Century, actually recorded a cover of "Seven Seas".
Ronni was so under-appreciated.
I believe that could've be very different if they would have toured America more often. I love listening to Ronni, but he kind of encapsulated himself by not doing world tours. Which is fine, maybe he wanted it that way. He is so unique to listen to, it's always a treat to listen to what he has come up with!
Sweet. Always loved the way Ronnie plays. His picking is just sick. Most folks would have to put a pick on a drill to keep up with his picking hand. Always liked the solo in Everyone’s a star. Seems like you and I like the same stuff.
That actually has been done before! Haha.
(Paul Gilbert)
Ronni tunes the A string down to G on the song "Intuition" and on "Everyone's a star". Great videos. Ronni frets the "Desperate Night" riff very different.
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Thanks for this set Dave!
Ronnie's "machine gunning" is like nothing else.
Love his solos, but his elegant playing on Without Your Love is stellar.
Listen to the "My Religion"album...incredible!!
Great, loved that as a child of the 80's/90's rock world. Kingdom Come, please :-)
This was awesome! Thank you! But judging from the comments, I think and hope there will be parts Two, Three, Four, and hopefully Five on Ronnie Le Tekro and his amazing riffs and solos. You started it! Please, please finish it! Loved your selections, but there is so much to be covered and examined. We know you are capable to the challenge! Hopefully you've heard Engine. The riffage there is brutal as well. There are some great ones on My Religion and All The Way To The Sun too. His tone is glorious to say the least. So happy you did these on TNT. We sure would love to see more. Very inspiring!!!!!
Ronnie LeTekro was perhaps the most underrated guitars of his era.
Tony Harnell will be in Nashville w/ Stryper on the 12th!!!
I "played" guitar many many years ago. Your channel has consistently been both educational and entertaining, all while bringing back the music of my "youth". Thank you. :)
honestly, don't remember tnt, but i youtubed them and i love them. thanks for turning me on to them. sometimes, i think they remind me of what a bastard child between queensryche and rush would sound like.
Cool David,one of my favorite players of that era. Ronni had a great tone and some creative chords and riffs. Thanks for taking us inside his playing. \m/
Their 2010 album my Religion is fantastic. BTW, Ronnie gets his tone by using a Boss BF-2 flanger with the manual knob all the way up and all other knobs rolled completely off. It acts like a notch filter.
The 'My Religion'-album is from 2004. The album from 2010 is 'A Farewell To Arms' (or 'Engine' as it's called here in Norway).
Yeah it boosts the mediums and gives a dry sound.
So cool lessons!!! Thank you so much for share!!
Best regards
Ronnie is a killer player. He always had a great tone. I remember he did the mids trick with a flanger pedal.... Awesome Dave thanks bro
As you said at the last riff "I love it" and me too. Thanks for your very inspiring lesson.
Nice work! Can you do an Ace Frehley early Era lesson?
This is awesome! I am friends with Tony, since he sang in a band with my brother in their teenage years. Sadly, I only got to see the full band of TNT live with Tony once and unfortunately did not get to meet Ronnie, because he was already on the tour bus, by the time I got back stage. That was the only show I got to see in the States, in the Philadelphia area.
Cool lesson, thanks!!
David what are you playing through? Really like the sound.
Ronnie is a Beast on Guitar. Wished I would've heard him sooner.
I really appreciate you bringing awareness back around to many overlooked 80's guitar players. It's cool to see how everyone was inspired by Eddie and then added their own twist to the whole shred style. Mahalo from Hawaii!
I loved this band. Such a great unique sound. They played well together. Damn, I gotta go hear this now!
TNT was awesome!! Thanks! 🙌
i love your channel and the way you open it all 👍🏼🎸🎶🙏🏼
Excellent David, yeah I've been a huge Le Tekro/TNT fan since I first heard them back in 1984 - if you do a part 2 of this I'd love to see a breakdown of "Klassisk Romance" - thanks for all the fantastic lessons!!!
"Knights of the New Thunder" and "Tell No Tales" are my 2 favorites by these guys. The song "Tell No Tales" is freaking epic. You need to highlight "Seven Seas" that song was awesome and his solo is ridiculous.
Impressive sound and excellent walkthrough the gems. Forever shine on !!
Another great video Dave thank you very underrated guitarists extremely underrated band
Really dig Last summer’s evil. What a killer track
Very cool thanks
Yes!!! Great selection of tunes! Thanks David!
10,000 LOVERS IN ONEEEE!!!!
Uffff Seven seas. TNT favoritaaaaaa!
I really enjoyed this video man!! Love TNT since '85!!!
Your doing God’s work bro. Keep it up. Btw, Tony has a new Starbreaker album out with a killer version of Priest’s song Starbreaker.
So glad I came across this. Le Tekro is a genius on guitar. I'll stick to flute, I praise all guitar players, you are awesome! By the way, you explain very well. Precise and clear, thanks.
One killer lesson. You answered some questions I've had for years. thank you
Fabulous lesson - Ronni had a stunning tone , licks beyond belief with amazing melody and he ploughed his own path . Thanks for this - loved Tell no Tales & Intuition - I came to believe Ronni had 6 fingers to play those licks !!!!
Oh this lesson sure brought back memories. I had the intuition album . Awesome record for sure will have to search out the others !! Thanks dude !
Nailed it again Dave! Keeps getting better and better.
TNT chords!!!! Thanks, David!
Awesome. Thanks for breaking down some of Ronnie’s riffs
Saw them at the Palace in LA for Intuition. They were so bad ass live. Today, they'd be hazed for all the sampled vocals and backup vocals, but sill a great band and Ronni had amazing tone.
Fun fact, I was at that show as well, with some friends of mine that included Paul Gilbert (boom! Name drop) Paul loved Ronnie and TNT, I just thought people might be interested to hear that.
@@MarkKirbyMusic Haha, namedrop. Probably saw you there. I remember seeing Paul in his KISS shirt. Those were the days!
Nice, rocking on this 🙏nice run through on the songs bro,great job !!! Dave!
Thanks David... amazing lesson as always... was a huge fan of TNT back in the day.
What would be great for chord play... check out T-ride... I swear you will be an instant fan.... extremely underrated and most don’t know about the former Satriani student
Im from Norway.I like your channel.Love the Van Halen stuff....you are good!!...I have gotten 2 guitarpicks from Ronni.(And a drumstick from Diesel) ........10000lovers is good......but....Ready to leave is my favorite.Sick.Seen them live a few times.In a different setting too......Bad Habitz,a night of Thin Lizzy......Ronni and friends playing Thin Lizzy.Good times!!...Tell no tales is good yes......and Desperate night is awesome.......sick live..........keep up the good work!!........this is a link to live Bad Habitz......Ronni.....Morty Black from TNT...Willy Bendiksen on drums.....Jon Pedersen or Jimmy Iversen on guitar and I think Bjørn Boge on vocals th-cam.com/video/vdKiCy4fYSY/w-d-xo.html here is another song from probably the same gig th-cam.com/video/9IGFR-e7dIk/w-d-xo.html here is a whole show..... th-cam.com/video/QUTLSrezOgE/w-d-xo.html
Tuesday morning in Finland..cup of coffee.. two new episode.. yep yep.. me like
Such a great video, thank you!
Great
Love that first riff
00.18 its the heading out to highway chord!! cool lol - surely the gr8test chord ever
Just found your lessons recently and I’m loving them. Love Ronni, he’s such a unique player. Thanks for this lesson 🙏🏼 👏🏼🤘🏼👍🏼
Wow, keep it rolling, right in my "wheelhouse" Huge Thanks.
Great to see someone give them some credit...one of my all time favorite bands...Thanks for u work on this one...I subscribed...all the best...😊🎸
So cool. I could never break down Ronnie’s tunes. Nice. If you ever eat a chance to break down Steve knight from Cry Wolf, that would be sick!
Some tnt riffs reminds me of Nuno Betencourt. Well, Nuno reminds me of Ronni.
That last riff is really groovy!
The Desperate Night riff is killer! That was always one of my favorites.
WOW, that´s great. Thx a LOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Haha, hit like by the third strum again! 10,000 Lovers was a staple at the big hair clubs back in the day 😎. So glad you are covering this classic!! All these years later I got serious about playing and have always loved all these songs. Thanks Dave!! 👊🏻
Great lesson.. I knew the guy who made the 1/4 step quitar for him...Bernie Hamburger from Westland Michigan
i absolutely love your videos...you play a lot of 80’s stuff that nobody else covers...wish you have some tabs to go along though.
COOL. A buddy posted the Tell No Tales post on his FB page then this video pops up. \m/ Back to Spotify for the catalog. LOL
Hi David, yeah, like those kinda licks and rhythm Style. Maybe you can do some chords and licks from Y&T, top lesson !!!! THX :-):-):-)
MORE from TNT pleeeease!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah!
Love what your doing. Would love some harry kody
Yeah, really dig in on that pinch harmonic. Dig in, there u go at 12:19. 👍
Intuition is their best album.
Good one dude. I have Tell No Tales on vinyl. Better volume on this particular video bro. I can hear everything well. Dont change anything. Great stuff here🤘😎👍🎸🖤
Cool
Forgive this off topic and even late w/respect to this btw, cool bit of your postings, but still trying learn navigation on variois spots if the net on these rascally devises.
But, I was wanting to suggest an April Wine ChordPlay episode at least even if not also a 3Lick one.😎
And I also wanted to note the similarity between the 10,000 Lovers riff and the riff from Foreigner's 'Hot Blooded.' Not a direct thing as much as the fretboard work and vibe involved althogh if memory serves, they bith are happening in the same central 5th fret position. Neat stuff to realize as I did while listening to 'Hot Blooded' before picking up the gtr to attempt to play that tune again after having tinkered with the '10,000 Lovers' riff yesterday.😎
Check out Stephan Forte from Adagio, or Alex Masi.....
Tell no tails sounds better slowed down.
"Intuition" sounds like B.V.S. from Steel Panther. Satchel stealing intros, hehe. A textbook 80's style riff. Nice!
Listening to the second riff reminds me of king's x so is there a ty tabor chordplay?
Lost in Germany!
th-cam.com/video/dM9TUK6THDw/w-d-xo.html
Doug Marks Lesson from the 80's band HAWK
Great content. Only problem is I end up buying a lot of the music you feature as I missed some of the bands your featuring.
I've yet to see a video from David that wasn't a band that should be in every rock & metal fans' collection. Def. no exception here.
Desperate Knight
I hadn't heard Intuition before. When you were talking about the root note changes under the double stop progression, it immediately reminded me of the song Higher Place by Journey, where they use that near identical chord progression throughout the chorus and bridge-chorus. Considering Higher Place came out 12 years after Intuition, it's likely that's where the progression came from. Jack Blades from Night Ranger is the primary songwriter for that one. On the original studio recording you can clearly hear the keyboard (from J Cain) driving that progression home, but a guitar can do it just as well. Here's a good example of that with Canadian TH-camr Mark Day doing an excellent guitar cover of it. th-cam.com/video/7fvjvNExIWw/w-d-xo.html
And you picked 5 of my favorite TNT songs...thank you! I've always wondered what Ronnie's "1/4 Stepper Guitar" is all about. I assume it's a technique? Any Idea? It's listed in the liner notes of "Tell No Tells" or "Intuition" if I remember correctly.
Scott Perrin It’s a custom made guitar with quarterstep intervals on the high frets (12th and above if i remember correctly). You can hear it in the solo on Wisdom from the Intuition album.
@@MatsJonason thank you so much!
Scott Perrin Actually, It has double frets from the 1-15th fret so that one can play quartertones without having to bend the strings. It’s really cool. It was built by Bernie Hamburger Guitars in the US. ✌🏻
Here is a pic of it. It had a Kramer logo on the headstock (they endorsed Ronnie at the time). Very bad pic but at least you can get an idea how it looks. www.black-sabbath.com/vb/showthread.php?37436-Quarterstepper-Guitar
@@MatsJonason I've always loved the "Wisdom" solo but couldn't really figure out how to play it exactly right. This would be why! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. Now that I see guitar in the link I remember seeing a pic of him with it.
How about Heavy Load, who are also from Sweden. Or Loudness from Japan? Would love to see them done.
great tone! What is your rig?
Thank you!
Be sure to watch the 'Guitar Tone & Amps' episode from the Brewster's Millions of Rants series on this channel to learn more about the amp I use in these videos.
Thanks for watching and take care!
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Ronni eier
I wish I understood the fret board better .....
I always thought seven seas was a Helloween song lol!
Now we're talkin'!
\m/ HELLOWEEN \m/
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