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About Feed My Frankenstein

With its stomping E minor riff locked in at 120 BPM, "Feed My Frankenstein" is a rewarding study in hard rock rhythm guitar that sits right in the pocket. The main riff is built around low-E string power chords with a driving, repetitive feel, so locking in your pick attack and keeping the groove steady are the real priorities here. In E Standard tuning, nothing is re-fretted awkwardly, but getting the riff to sound heavy and controlled at tempo takes more practice than it might seem. The verses demand tight muting between chord hits, and if the transitions feel sloppy at speed, use the Practice Toolbar to loop the trickiest bar slowed down until the muting is clean before pushing the tempo back up. Alice Cooper and his band landed a crunchy, mid-forward tone on this track that rewards a bridge humbucker and a touch of gain. As a piece of Hard Rock rhythm playing, the song is a solid workout in confidence, consistency, and pick control.

  • The song is played in E Standard tuning in the key of E minor, so no retuning is needed and the open low E string anchors the main riff naturally.
  • Tight palm muting between power chord hits is the key technical challenge, making it a useful exercise for right-hand control and rhythm precision.
  • At 120 BPM the tempo is moderate, which means any sloppiness in chord transitions is clearly audible, so practise with the Practice Toolbar at reduced speed first.

How to Play Feed My Frankenstein

Tuning: E Standard · Key: E minor · Tempo: 120 BPM · Difficulty: Medium

Use the section loop to isolate a passage, drop the speed below 100%, and set the metronome to 120 BPM to build it up to tempo.

Fender Telecaster
Guitar

Fender Telecaster

Alice Cooper's original band occasionally used the Telecaster for bright, cutting tones that sliced through the dense Marshall crunch on tracks like 'School's Out.' Its twang provides sharp articulation contrasting the warm humbucker thickness Cooper preferred.

Gibson Les Paul Standard
Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Standard

The Les Paul Standard delivers the warm, singing sustain that defines Cooper's classic era solos and rhythm crunch when paired with Marshall Plexis. Its balanced PAF humbuckers give Cooper responsive dynamics, from controlled verses to saturated solo tones.

Gibson Les Paul Custom
Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Custom

Michael Bruce and later players like Ryan Roxie relied on the Les Paul Custom for its thicker body resonance and hotter output, providing the sustaining lead tones and aggressive rhythm crunch essential to Cooper's theatrical hard rock sound.

Gibson ES-335
Guitar

Gibson ES-335

Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter used the semi-hollow ES-335 for warm, singing lead lines with natural breakup, capturing the '70s solo era's melodic sophistication while the semi-hollow body added organic warmth against Marshall's aggressive gain.

Marshall JCM800
Amp

Marshall JCM800

The JCM800 became Alice Cooper's tone foundation from the '80s onward, delivering tight, mid-heavy gain with note clarity that cut through dense arrangements on 'Poison' and beyond. Its responsive push lets Cooper shift from controlled verses to explosive solos.

Seymour Duncan JB
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Seymour Duncan JB

Hotter ceramic humbuckers like the Seymour Duncan JB powered Alice Cooper's '80s sound, delivering saturated gain and compressed sustain for arena-filling solos while maintaining the midrange definition the JCM800 amplified.

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