Question for GFY guitar experts.
 

Help me settle an argument with someone.

The intro to Thunderstruck is Angus actually picking each note or is heavily amplified hammer-on and knock-offs? Does he do it differently live?

Oh and since someone's going to ask if I was right or not in the argument, I said it sounds picked in the studio and not picked live.

He is picking every note in the studio version

Yeah I got that part. But live, is it hammer-ons and knock-offs or am I just wrong?

This live version you can tell he is picking every note also

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IlejfA5NCbQ

Well I guess I owe someone lunch then. Damn you Ice, damn you. :{

I have seen both ways live, but when he is showboating live he is doing hammer ons and pull offs. I find it really hard to do hammer ons and pull offs on that song and not hold the e and g strings because if I don't they resonate and it sounds like shit.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

Here he is hammering it https://youtube.com/watch?v=qhXCBUCQTQM

I say that makes it a tie. :)

Nah... I'd say you still owe them lunch :1orglaugh

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Thunderstruck Tab by Ac Dc, www.Ultimate-Guitar.Com

Intro: (guitar 1)
E------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B--0h4p0h7p0h4p0h7p0h4p0h7p0h4p0h7p0h|4p0h7p0h4p0h7p0 h4p0h7p0h4p0h7p0h|
G------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

E----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B--5p0h8p0h5p0h8p0h5p0h8p0h5p0h8p0h|5p0h8p0h5p0h8p0h5 p0h8p0h5p0h8p0h|
G----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E----------------------------------|--------------------------------|

E-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B--12p0h10p0h9p0h10p0h9p0h7p0h9p0h5p0h|7p0h4p0h5p0h4p 0h5p0h4p0h5p0h4p0h|
G-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Let me try this a lil'. I prefer picking each note if I remember correctly though..

I have seen them play over 10 times. He picks each note.

It does sound like a hammer but it's not.

bummmmmmmmmmppppppppppppppppp !

wow, so you are going off a prefilmed mtv video? ROFL