Wild Thing
was written by James Wesley Voight, (better known by his stage name Chip Taylor) who is an American songwriter also known for his song Angel of the Morning
. Wild Thing
was a big hit for British band The Troggs in 1966, but also was played by other famous musicians including a great version by Jimi Hendrix. To learn how to play Wild Thing
on guitar, all you need to play are three easy guitar chords.
- Listen to the song in the video above so that you remember how it goes.
- Get the chords and words for
Wild Thing
. It is an easy guitar song that only uses A, D and E. It sounds great just using easy power chords, regular open chords or the Hendrix version uses an Asus4 chord instead of the standard A chord.
- Watch the video below to see how to play the chords and chord progression. It is good to use a metronome (as found in the eMedia Guitar Toolkit) to help you keep a steady tempo.
Watch this video from eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar, which uses the eMedia Animated Fretboard to make it even easier for you to see how to change between the D and G chords.
eMedia Interactive Rock Guitar also helps you master common guitar techniques like palm muting and barre chords, which are used in the middle section of Free Fallin’ and in many other rock, pop and country songs. It also includes Jam tracks to help you learn lead guitar and other great guitar songs like Tired of Waiting for You
and You Really Got Me
(Kinks), All Right Now
(Free) and others.
Intermediate Version
If you would like to learn how to play Free Fallin’ on guitar with the same chord voicings as Tom Petty, then you will need to use slightly more difficult chord fingerings. His version has the guitar with a capo at the first fret and uses the E, Aadd9, and Bsus4 chords. as seen in the video below.