Love Aint No Stranger

Whitesnake

"Love Ain't no Stranger"

A-Intro/First Verse

The song begins with (Jon Lord's) wonderful keyboards. The keyboard parts

mainly outline these chord changes, that could be strummed if you don't play

with a keyboard player.

Who knows where the cold wind blows? I ask my friends, but nobody knows...

| | | | | | | |

Who am I to believe in love? Oh, oh, oh. Love ain't no stranger...

| | | | | |

B-Second Verse

The acoustic guitar enters, arpeggiating the same chords(almost). It is pos-

soble that the slide in the Bsus2 chord should be a hammer-on. It is also

possible that I just have tin ears, but I do think I hear SOME sort of grace

note there. Anyway, it is just a detail, so if the fingering is tricky to you,

forget it.NOTE: What I call "dive bomb" slide has nothing to do with the thing

you do with the whammy bar. I just don't know what else you call those long,

fast slides down the low E-string.

Strum chords and let ring.

|-----------|---------------| Played 5 times, |----------|-0------------|

|---------3-|-------------2-| and then... |-0--------|-2------------|

|---2----0--|---2------s-4--| |-4--------|-2------------|

|--0----0---|--2----(2)/4---| |-4--------|-2------------|

|-----------|-0---2---------| |-2--------|-0------------|

|-2---3-----|---------------| |----------|---------xxxxx|

Verse 2:(with rhy.fig1) xxx=Electric guitars enters,

I looked around, and what did I see? with a "dive bomb slide"

Broken hearted people staring at me...

All searching 'cause they still believe.. Oh, oh, oh...Love ain't no

stranger!!!

C-Main Riff/Third Verse

()=These notes are there, but I can't make out if they are played by the

hammond or another guitar. They don't have to be played by this guitar, anyway.

|------------|------------|-------------|-----------|---------|--------------|

|-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)-----|-----------|-------With- drum-fills-|

|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|-----------|---------|-2------------|

|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|----2------|-(2)-----|-/---(2)------|

|--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2----0-|----2------|-(2)-----|-4---(2)----s-|

|------------|------------|-------------|----0------|-(0)-----|-----(0)--xxxx|

Let E5-chord ring

Make sure to nail that staccato rhythm, and to shake that last B5-chord in

every bar a little. (Maybe it would make more sense to place the 2/4 bar

after the A5-chord, but that's one for the music theory guys to think about.)

|---------------|------------------|-----------------------|------------------|

|---------------|------------------|-------------------3---|------------------|

|-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|-------------------2---|----------4-2-4---|

|-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|--------2----------0---|----------4-2-4---|

|-------2-0-2---|----------2-0-2---|--------2--------------|----------2-0-2---|

|---------------|------------------|--------0--------------|------------------|

Verse 3:

I was alone,And I needed love. So much I'd sacrifice for all I was dreaming of.

(With Rhy.fig3)

I heard no warning, but a heart can tell... I feel the emptiness of love I know

so well...

D-Chorus.

Those slighly muted G5-Chords are the key to the fat, chunky sound. I don't

really remember if those "extra" chunks on the open and fifth fret of the A-

string really are on the record, but experiment with 16th-note chunks there.

It can sound very cool...

|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|

|-*=Slight-Palm-Muting---------------|-----------------|-------------------|

|-------------7--2-|-(2)-------------|-----------7---7-|---2---------------|

|-*-5-*-*-*-5-7-p2-|-(2)-------------|---*-*-*-*-7-pp7-|-pp2---------------|

|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-00-|-(0)-------------|-p-5-5-5-5-5-555-|-000---------------|

|-3-3-3-3-3-3------|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-------|-------------------|

Let Chord Ring.

Chorus: Love ain't no stranger... I ain't no stranger...

Love ain't no stranger... I ain't no stranger to

with Ry.Fig2.

[----------4-----------]

love... no ,no ,no...

E-Fourth Verse

With Rhy.fig.3 ( 2 times)

Can't hold the passion, of a soul in need...

I look for mercy when my heart begins to bleed.

I've known good loving, I'm a friend of pain.

But when I read between the lines it's all the same...

F-Second Chorus

with Rhy.Fig4

[--------8----------]

Love ain't no stranger.

I ain't no stranger.

Love ain't no stranger.

I ain't no stranger to love...

E-Guitar Solo

The rhythm part behind the solo is a semi-distorted electric, playing a pro-

gression almost like the one in Rhythm Figure 1. The chords are the same, but

I think they are arpeggiated a little differently. Play that, and nobody will

notice. The solo is a slow beautiful melody thing, that should not be hard to

figure out. I haven't transcribed it, since I work out my own leads for the co-

ver tunes I learn.(Try it, it's great fun).The last three bars of the rhythm

part goes something like this.

|-----------|----|-----|

|--3--3-----|----|-----| Then the song comes back to rhythm figure 1.

|--2--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-|

|--0--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-| [--------8---------]

|---------0-|-0--|-(0)-|

|--2--3-----|----|-----| With Verse 1. "Lord have mercy...

Love ain't no stranger!!!"

F-Agressive part.(Dunno what else to call it)

Play this part aggressively(Why do I keep giving these instructions? You know

how the record sounds. Oh, well...).

with Ry.fig2, 1,5 times, then... |------------|-----|------------|

[-----6------] |------------|-----|------------|

|-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|--9-7-9-----|

|-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|--9-7-9-----|

|-2-0-2----0-|-(0)-|--7-5-7-----|

|------------|-----|--------xxxx|

G-Fifth Verse/Last Chorus.

w.Rhy.fig3 (two times)

[-------8--------]

I was alone, and I needed love.

So much I'd sacrifice for all I was dreaming of.

Can't hold the passion of a soul in need.

I look for mercy when my heart begin to bleed.

w.rhy.fig4 (two times)

[------8---------]

H-Outro

Turn down the volume knob on your guitar a bit for this tone. This is mainly

Rhythm Figure 1, again with some different arpeggiations.

w.Rhy.Fig1

[-----6-----] |-----------|----------|-----|

|-3--3------|----------|-----|

|-2--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-|

|-0--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-|

|---------0-|-0----2-2-|-(2)-|

|-2--3------|----------|-----|

"I ain't no stranger..."