Chordplay - The Chords Of Saxon
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- Hey everybody! Here's the next episode of Chordplay with The Chords Of Saxon. I've had a number of requests for Saxon and this episode kicks off Metal Month during the month of October on the LNL channel - so grab your battle axe and let's dive in!
Saxon are legends of The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal that exploded during the late 1970s/early 1980s, alongside other important groups from that era - including legends such as Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Diamond Head, Budgie, and many more!
The chord-based and rhythm guitar examples in this lesson came from four classic Saxon albums and include tracks such as Never Surrender, Strong Arm Of The Law, Dallas 1PM, Princess Of The Night, Wheels Of Steel, 747 (Strangers In The Night), Crusader, and more!
Needless to say, if you're a Saxon fan, a fan of early metal groups, a player looking for some new chord ideas to stick in their bag of tricks, or maybe you've been waiting for more Metal Month lessons since last October - this episode is totally for you! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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Thanks Dave ... they never gave this band enough credit.
My favorite Saxon album is the Power and the Glory.
Mine too.
Wheels of Steel. The title song from a record that changed my music listening forever.
Thank you, love these early riffs from Saxon. Was a stepping stone into more thrasher metal for me.
Love that early 80's metal, my High School years
Saxon definitly opened the door to metal for me in the early 80ies. Loved Dallas 1 p.m and most of all 747. Thanks a lot.
Paul quinn,dough scarret and Graham Oliver are the most underrated guitarist on the planet
I keep going back and listening to Saxon over the last year. Much better times and music!
Another great lesson Dave! Wheels of Steel reminds me so much of a Kiss riff.
Let it begin Metal Month is here starting with some of the new wave of British heavy metal Saxon cool !!👍🤘
I saw saxon and accept back in the 80s
I saw Saxon 2 weeks ago and Accept last year 😊
Hey! Lovely to see Budgie, one of my favourite bands, get a namecheck-why haven’t they had some time on your excellent channel?They had crunching riffs and delicate acoustic pieces-but they were well before the NWOBHM, nor did they consider themselves a Metal band, so you can’t really include them in that list. A wonderful day to all.
I agree totally, in for the Kill and zoom club
One of your best videos…. Thank you so very much!!!!
I agree with you on that 3rd finger slide in wheels of steel... definitely
Great video Dave! Saxon was one of my first metal influences back when I was starting with metal as a teenager in 1983-84. Denim and Leather is my favorite Saxon album. So glad you covered Princess of the Night. One of the first metal songs I ever heard. Also Never Surrender. I just wish you could do a little more of the other songs on that album, they're all great, great riffs, but also some great solos, so it would be awesome if you did entire songs in the future, like Fire in the Sky, And the Bands Played On, and Denim and Leather. Thanks man, keep it up, love your channel, you rock!
Thanks. Never heard their music before, now I'm obsessed lol 🎸
Saxon is a old time fav. This is really simple, but so bad ass. I really enjoyed this. So cool.
Thanks David! I remember buying Wheels of steel when it came out and putting the free sticker on my leather jacket. I was 16. The only other thing of theirs I bought was Strangers in the night. I still have the singles. Looking forward to some more NWOBHM chords. ✌️
PS Hello to any other Soundhouse members.
I guess I was 16 too when I put that Saxon sticker on my jeans jacket. 1980 was the best time to grow up as a metal kid. 🙂
I remember seeing them on MTV early 80s. Thought they were pretty cool metal for the day. I want to say they had one guitarist that had his guitar on a swivel like on his belt buckle so he could swing it to spin like a fan blade. It looked trippy. no one was doing that, or since. idk
My last concert before Covid closed everything. March 07, 2020, Saxon, Diamond Head, Tygers of Pan Tang and Doro. And the first time I saw Saxon again after 40 years. :-)
Hell yes! Saxon kicks a$$! Thanks Dave. Crusader!
Thanks for this lesson David! I love the 80's Saxon albums, and Dallas 1PM is on of my favorite songs! This is gonna be a great month for LNL!
I LOVE 79-81 Saxon
Great lesson!! Love Saxon and Paul Quinn's playing is amazing.
Picked up Strong Arm of the Law when it came out. Incredible album to compliment
Judas Priest, AC/DC, Scorpions. Sixth Form Girls into Dallas 1pm is 10 minutes well spent.
Thanks Dave!
There's no better way to open the metal Monday! Saxon is my all time metal favourite band, thanks for this lesson. Please consider making some Virgin Steele music for Metal Monday, they really deserve respect 🤘🔝🎸
Love it, was just listening to them, saw them a number of times in the 80’s always a great show
I love Saxon. Thanks so much. I agree I always slide or drag when playing Saxon riffs. It sounds and feels right even if it's not. Like in The Hunger Years.
Great stuff Dave. There would be no metalica without saxon!
Thx for the saxon riffs, have a great weekend 🤘
I got to see them open for Iron Maiden.
I never bought a Maiden album.
I still have my old Saxon albums! 🎸👈👍
Strong arm of the law is one of my favorite tunes by Saxon but there are many. Saxon is the most important bands that never made it big in America. Most people domestically do not know Saxon, sadly, even though they were huge in England and parts of Europe (Germany). Doug Scarratt added a more modern metal sound on certain albums since 90s, IMO. Also, some of their more recent stuff is outstanding, Battering Ram and their most recent album, Carpe Deim, come to mind. Saxon opened for both Rush and Triumph in the early 80s. Thanks for the great lesson. I requested Saxon at least 10 times.
Great! Sounds little bit like cat, scratch fever
Graham Oliver has admitted that's where he got it from!
Thanks for this awesome video. So many cool riffs 😃
I love all the horror doodads you have sprinkled around. Metal month rules \m/
Love it that you did a Saxon one! They were my first live gig, way back in 1980.
Thanks, for such a band for which the words Criminally Underrated are too fair a description, They surely have some of the most kick ass hard rock / metal riffs of all time in their extensive ouvre
Happy Metal Month Everyone!!!!! Let's go. Thx Dave great lesson. Saxon never got their due, especially in the States. Keep up the great work 🤘
happy rocktober dave! 🎉
About blew out my speakers in my ‘74 Chevy Luv truck back in very early ‘80’s playing “ Stayed awake all night “ while on top of San Diego Civic center parking structure at after midnight a couple of times in my youth…. Got the cops called on us a few times for “ Disturbing the peace “ as my truck had a sleeper shell on bed and 1200 watts of 3 amplifier and dual crossover 10 speaker system in it at the time ( 😁). Used to rattle the high rises in the area in wee hours of the morning. Loved Saxon back then, along with a bunch of other bands . Thanks David for another great video here 😎👍
Haha , my bad , I was thinking of Krokus 🤔😆. Saxon was also amongst my mix of bands from those days ….
I used to have Saxon on one side of a cassette I made, and Krokus on the other 🤟😎🤟
Nice how you explain that static chord with open string in Strangers in the Night. They do something similar in Dallas 1 PM as an intro to the solo, with open G string.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH...
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DISCUSSION AND VIDEO ON SAXON...
THANK YOU..
Awesome!
Dallas 1pm
You were Blessed with an Amazing ear
Dude I appreciate your videos my friend. Glad you did Dallas 1pm what a great track
I met Biff a couple of times, he was friends with the first band I was in....even lent me an amp when mine blew once. I was a little star-struck as I had worshipped Saxon since I was younger.....especially Crusader!
Road to 100k subs Dave!
Edit: Dallas 1pm - perfect
I think as the yrs have gone by saxons guitar playing sounds more technical then there 80s material. Luv the band truckloads of great songs.
Great lesson mate seen Saxon so many times you are a great teacher and player 🎸🎸
Brilliant ,I've been listening to a lot of Saxon while browsing the Net and this Video popped up,I think you have got the songs right, a bit of Cat Scratch Fever here and there, I did see them Live twice in the 90's .In 1978 the 10th Anniversary Tour of Black Sabbath, support band Van Halen? who did not turn up but Diamond Head did weird, now Brian Tatler is in Saxon . by the way a new Single and Album yes another one great.
saxon now that's a blast from the past really enjoyed this one
Saxons kicks ass
Looking forward to a Saxon Part 2! Too many wonderful riffs from this band! Keep it up!!!
Dallas 1pm 👌
Saxon! Excellent Chordplay Episode! Thanks, David!
What I Love in this channel, aside the wonderfull licks that you can learn, is that it always make me feel Im 15 again. 😎🤘
And yes. Still listen to The Eagle has Landed live album frequently 🤘🤘🤘
Great lessons as always my friend. The first band I ever saw live, right here in my hometown of Sheffield. In many ways the reason I ended up wanting to play guitar too. I've had the pleasure of meeting Graham Oliver and him and his family all seem like really super lovely people. Saxon and Def Leppard grew up and started out within 10 miles of each other and both helped get that NWOBHM movement on the road.
Graham lost the tip of his index finger on his left hand in an accident and gave up playing for a while.
He had to relearn how to play again and a few years later was on national TV with Saxon playing their first hit single.
Awesome, been a fan since 1980! Now how about some Tygers Of Pan Tang with John Sykes? 🤘😸🎸👌
Wheels of Steel. Love Saxon. Princess of the Night, Watching the Sky & Warrior are 3 of my favorites that immediately come to mind. Oh yeah, love Dallas 1 pm. They often cover subject matter that’s off the beaten track.
Great lesson. I love their use of arpeggios.
Killer shirt!
Love a bit of Saxon. Great riffs and D1PM has a cracking solo. Biff Byfords wife had a hair salon in my town 😊
Love Saxon … my favorite band from that era … I’ve seen them live so many times and met them as well several times … They actually opened for Iron Maiden me 38 Special in 1983 … Princess of the Night was the first video I saw from Saxon on MTV back in 1981 … That song is played with down strokes and really fast … try playing along with the recording for accurate tempo … Paul is playing the main riff and Graham is playing single notes … so hard to play at tempo 😎 … thanks for the trip down memory lane David … led me to dragging my guitar out of the closet and playing those riffs again … 😎
Rock the Nations they got harder on that album. Saxon is awesome
As soon as I saw Saxon I was hoping you would play Princess of the Night! Loved playing this riff since since Jr. High in 83. Song had a lot of energy back in the day.
It's one of the first songs that I ever learned on guitar. Love that album.
Power & the glory & redline both have great pinch harmonics
Now I know where King Diamond got the chord progression for Them 😉 (747 Strangers in the night)
Dave, could you do a chord play on the band Simon from their Let Love Show the Way album? Thanks
I think of the legend pat Travers with possibly the first pinch harmonics ???
They were my introduktion to metal.
They should have made a bigger splash.
They still rock though.
Watch Saxon Get Your Act Together with Harvey Goldsmith Spinal Tap 2
That first song sounds like Ted Nugents " Cat Scratch Fever ".
Thank you. Could you give us the Motocycle man riff ? Is it on standard tuning or in Open G ? Thanks again for your answer
🤘⚡️🤘🎃☠️👺
OK so you're getting closer, but still not Diamond Head😂 As someone who grew up in England during the NWOBHM period I, like many others, know that while very bad management ultimately screwed Diamond Head they were, live, a more potent and more popular musical force than most in that NWOBHM roster.
You May me return teen
Saxon are a killer band with terrible image issues Graham Oliver was the only one who didn’t look like a rent boy crack head.
Thanks. Enjoyed.
All These years and I never really thought of WOS as Cat Scratch Fever.
Nice clip on YT of Graham Oliver talking about the touring relationship and jamming with Randy Rhoads and all the Schenkers etc trying his V.
Great stuff Dave. There would be no metalica without saxon!