Hide Away (Freddie King) Guitar Lesson with Backing Track + TAB

In this guitar lesson, you get a note-for-note transcription in TAB, complete with rhythms - Practise with Backing Track!

Hide Away | TAB

There are seven verses to work through here, so it’s best to let each one speak for itself. Take your time, and use the original recording as your reference point.

It’s not actually that difficult to play Hide Away. The challenge is that it never really stops—it’s like playing seven solos in a row. This is why it’s listed as an Advanced Electric Song, rather than Intermediate, even though the scales are all pentatonic.

Let’s start with verse 1, without the honky-tonk.

Verse 1

The scales here are E major pentatonic, up until the final A7 chord in bar 10, where we introduce the note A. This comes from the E minor pentatonic and sets up the scales used in the following bar when we return to the E chord.

Verse 2

We begin with a trill, hammering on and pulling off quickly in the first bar, followed by E major pentatonic phrasing.

There’s a chromatic run leading into the honky-tonk comping over the IV chord. It climbs up to the dominant 7th before dropping back down.

The turnaround is similar to verse 1, but not identical.

Verse 3

Here we enter the section where bass-line riffs take over. The first is a nod to The Walk by Jimmy McCracklin, released three years before Hide Away.

Verse 4

Verse 4 introduces another bass-line riff, this time referencing Guitar Boogie Shuffle by The Virtues.

Verse 5

We begin with an E9 chord in an unusual voicing, followed by a clear reference to another Freddie King tune, The Stumble, released on the same album as Hide Away.