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Note the tuning for this song is Drop D tuning
E 1
B 2
G 3
D 4
A 5
D 6
Believe it or not I am a big Status Quo fan. The songs where some of the earliest songs I ever learned and my first ever gig in a band was as rhythm guitar in a Quo tribute band.
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Whatever You Want by Status Quo. Written by Rick Parfitt and Andy Bown, it was released on the album of the same name in 1979 and has become one of the band’s better-known works. It originally appeared on the band’s 1979 album Whatever You Want and was later re-recorded for their 2003 album Riffs.
The song commences with a quiet introduction, containing a guitar playing notes from chords. Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi used chorus, fuzz and flanging effects on their guitars. This lasts for approximately 26 seconds, and fades out towards the end. After this, the guitar picks up once more with a D-minor riff, and 40 seconds into the piece, the familiar D-major riff of the song begins, accompanied by drums from the 56 second mark.
At 1 minute, 11 seconds, all audio pauses for approximately half a second; at this point, the lyrical portion commences. The music returns as soon as the first lyrics are heard. This pause creates a short-lived dramatic start to the song, which lasts for a total of four minutes.
The song is guitar-oriented, like most Status Quo songs. During recording up to three guitar ‘layers’ were used, though it can be played with two: rhythm guitar and solo guitar. The other instruments are a bass guitar, keyboards and drums. The lyrics are multi-vocal; for instance the ‘Whatever you want’ part is sung entirely with two voices.
The guitar low ‘E’ string is tuned to a D (the song is in the key of D). This is required to play the intro and also the low strumming after the intro. In this later part a flanger effect is used together with the ever-present overdrive/distortion effect.
Within the United Kingdom, the song reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 1979.
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