If you grew up playing in bar bands back in the 70s/80s, chances are you played “Pinball Wizard,” the seminal hit from The Who’s Tommy rock opera. But how many of us actually played it correctly?

Take a listen to the isolated acoustic and electric guitar parts in the song. Here’s what to listen for.
1. There are two acoustic guitars, one playing the low 8th note pedal note on the intro parts, which then doubles the other acoustic during the strumming.

2. The electric guitar, which plays on the intro, first verse and chorus.

3. Take notice how the electric drops out in the second verse, and one of the acoustic guitars changes to different chord inversions so it’s slightly different from the first and last verses.

4. There’s a nice long delayed reverb on the guitars that give them that big sound that we’re familiar with.