Heart - Crazy On You - Guitar Tab

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1975 4:53

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About Crazy On You

Few rock songs from the mid-1970s open with as much acoustic drama as "Crazy On You." The intro is a fingerpicked acoustic run in D minor that demands clean left-hand articulation and a confident right-hand pattern, and it catches a lot of players off guard before the electric side of the song even enters. Drop D tuning is in play here, so make sure your sixth string is down to D before you start, since several of the lower-position chord shapes rely on that open drone. Once the electric guitars kick in, the feel shifts to a driving Hard Rock groove at 120 BPM, which is brisk enough that sloppy transitions between the verse rhythm and the chorus crunch will stand out immediately. The trickiest section for most players is nailing the handoff between the fingerpicked intro and the strummed body of the song, so use the Practice Toolbar to loop that transition slowed down until the tempo change feels natural. Heart built the whole track around the contrast between delicate acoustic texture and full electric power, and capturing that balance is really what learning this song is about.

• The fingerpicked acoustic intro in D minor is the most technically demanding section, requiring clean right-hand fingerstyle control before any electric guitar appears.
• Drop D tuning is essential throughout, giving the low-end chord voicings and open-string drones that anchor both the intro and the heavier electric sections.
• At 120 BPM the electric rhythm parts move quickly, so isolating the verse-to-chorus chord transitions with a slow-down loop will help you lock in the shifts cleanly.