Burning Pile

How to play Burning Pile by Mother Mother on guitar

These are the sounding chords. With a capo on fret 3 you play Em, G, D, C#, E, A and more, the shapes the player above shows.

Burning Pile is a strong song to learn if you want a driving, tense feel that still stays catchy. At about 120 BPM, it has a steady push that makes the rhythm feel urgent and energetic, so it is satisfying once you lock in the groove.

You will lean on a mix of open shapes and barre shapes, with the harder grips on Gm, A#, D#, and F#. The opening progression, Gm - A# - Gm - A#, is the main change to watch, since it asks you to move cleanly between two barre chords without losing time.

Start by practicing the opening two-chord loop slowly until the switches feel automatic. Then add the open shapes from the chart and keep your strums even, and only after that bring the tempo up in small steps until you can play the full progression smoothly.

Use the play-along above to follow each chord change in time with the music, or learn the shapes first with the chord diagrams below.