Verses: You Really Got Me is a straightforward basher. The biggest challenge is stamina. You’re doing heavy strumming through almost the whole thing. The only respite you get is the G chord at the end of the verses.
The other challenge is making sure only the notes you want ring out when you’re strumming. That means muting the g-string with your thumb and the other strings with any fingers you have free.
Solo: The solo is played by fingerpicking. It’s massively cut down from the original. You could expand it back into a full solo. But you’d need to find a way to beef it up.
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