Acoustic Cover: Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
This is an acoustic version of the song Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard that I worked up for a gig about a year ago. The crowd loved it as my last song of the night, joining in on singing the chorus loudly.
I dropped the key down to better fit my vocal range and changed up a the lead melody lick to make it more of a percussive acoustic riff that carries a little bit better without a backing band and has some momentum.
This is not in the same key as the original, because I can’t sing that high. I’ll make more “instructiony” version of this soon, but for the time being here’s the chords. This is not in the same key as the original, because I can’t sing that high.
INTRO:
Hard to write out…it’s a little pentatonic lick in A that happens on the A and D strings in the pentatonic box that starts on E string 5th fret (A).
VERSE:
First half is A5 power chord. Second half is A5 with a little back and forth thing on the E 3rd fret (G)
PRE-CHROUS:
D-G (take the bottle)
D-G (shake it up)
C-F (break the bubble)
C-G (break it up)
CHORUS:
C-F-G (pour some sugar on me)
G (in the name of love
C-F-G (pour some sugar on me)
G (c’mon fire me up)
C-F-G (pour some sugar on me)
G (i can’t get enough)
A5 (I’m hot, sticky sweet…)