Learn to play "The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle with Billy Howerdel

Learn how to play The Outsider by A Perfect Circle with guitarist, songwriter, and founding member Billy Howerdel.

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Ever wondered how to play The Outsider by A Perfect Circle? In this exclusive clip from Riff Lords, Billy Howerdel breaks down one of the trickiest songs in his live set, walking through every section of the track and explaining exactly why it’s such a difficult song to pull off on stage.

The Outsider, released as a single from Thirteenth Step, the second A Perfect Circle album, is actually played using two different guitars in two different tunings. Billy’s main guitar sits in C sharp standard, while the second is an all-open B guitar, tuned low B, F sharp, mid B, mid B, high B, high B, which he plays with a slide. This is why it’s so hard to play! You need two guitars.

However, Billy breaks down the main riffs for you in this The Outsider guitar lesson, playing the song at full speed, then slowing it down and stripping the effects away so you can hear exactly what’s happening. He demonstrates the clean intro, starting with the pointer finger on the seventh fret of the A string and spreading out into a 7 9 9 shape, along with the flourishes and slides he adds on top. He then breaks down the riff section, 0 3 5, 0 3 5, and 7 on the A string, played with no pick and using a hammer-on from the third to the fifth fret.

Billy also covers the heavier chorded version of the same riff that arrives halfway through the song, explaining why landing those chords cleanly is far harder than playing the hammer-on version, plus the big bridge riff in E that he thinks of as sitting slightly ahead of the beat, which gives it that push, making the song drive really hard when the heavier section kicks in.

If you’re an A Perfect Circle fan, a Billy Howerdel fan, or simply looking for the ultimate guitar lesson on The Outsider by A Perfect Circle, this is a must-watch lesson from the guitarist who actually wrote the song.

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