Lockdown Lick 312
Lockdown Licks no. 312. “Got Me Under Pressure” by ZZTOP.
Intro riffs in style of original played on a HB35+ guitar switched to mid pickup position using neck humbucker and bridge single coil setting.
Using a NUX M8 amp set to metal with gain on 7,slight reverb.
How is it played?
a double stop riff between 9th & 7th fret on D&G strings..
on to an open EAD string double stop riff with string damping..
finishing with a micro bend pull off on E string resolving to D string at fret 2.
descending finger slide E5 chord.
Original guitar by Billy Gibbons.
Got Me Under Pressure” is a song by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator.The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. David Blayney (ZZ Top’s stage manager of 15 years), in his book Sharp Dressed Men, described how this top 20 hit song was pre-produced: Billy Gibbons and Linden Hudson (Houston engineer and songwriter) wrote the whole song and created a recorded demo all in one afternoon.