Hello and thanks for visiting my channel GuitarGary. The channel is dedicated to guitar tutorials and how to accurately play the guitar parts to rock and pop classics, for both electric and acoustic guitar
Gary, new Subscriber this was an awesome tutorial and I'll tell you why, 1. Tone - I would like to know the amp and the settings you used but I know a lot of reverb. I know it's not all the guitar because i've owned that very guitar and did not get the tone I wanted even with a Vox Tub Amp 2. Options - You gave several different ways to play the licks and the chords. I've seen dozens of videos on how to play this song over the years, yours was refreshing. I've seen the variations you did here but never in the same video where I can hear the tonal variations side by side. I'm impressed. Thanks Gary --Pat Brown Round Rock Texas
Thanks so much Pat it makes it all worthwhile to receive a kind comment like this. I’ll be honest I can’t remember the exact tone settings but my amp is one of the early / first USA made Fender Hotrods on the gain channel but only a very small amount of gain maybe 3 or so on the dial. I usually keep bass, treble and all other amp tone settings around 5. I was using a Boss Compressor and an old Boss CH1 Super Chorus. Reverb was from the amp, I might have had a bit of delay too and if I did it would have been only minimal / low level volume and for that I would have been using my old Boss DD3. If you check out some of my other videos I show my pedals, I think on my U2 Bad pedal settings there is a still of them - I’ve had these pedals and amp for years but have recently bought a Boss GT1000 Core which I’m really enjoying and it does it all. I’ll be making some new videos soon and using that. Glad you found my channel 🙏🤓🎸
Saw LC recently acoustic and again with band in January Manchester. Thanks so much for your kind comments and for supporting my channel, glad you found it 🙏🤓🎸
greatest smiths song ....millions of chords. Johnny plays it in his interview with the lads at That Pedal Show on RU-vid and you can see his hands perfectly.
The guitar solo is so underwhelming. Good thing they broke up. This sort of average music is better being released by morrissey under his own name. Yes we appreciate things more as time passes simply because we keep coming back to it. If you just heard many of the strangeways songs once, if it were by any artist but the smiths, most of them wouldn't have much calling you back.
Gary you did an excellent job with the lesson, but that arpeggio absolutely did me in! 😅 Absolutely no fault of yours, just can’t get my head around it
Hiya thanks I promise you will get the arpeggio. Try just playing the melody on single strings, a lot of the first part is just an open 1st string whilst you play the Am chord. Play Am then alternate between hitting the open 1st string (E) and the 4th string (D) which you are fretting at the second fret from capo as part of the Am chord. It’s ok to catch the open A string with D2 - I think there’s three chimes of the open 1st string. Then staying on Am, pick the melody from the second string (B) which you’re already fretting at the first fret from the capo as part of the Am chord. Again alternate with the lower strings in the chord, D string and you can catch the open A string. Then hit B1 twice, again it’s all part of the Am chord, then take your finger off B1 and play it open, before playing G2 then open G string. All the notes are right there and you’re just picking them out whilst trying to keep the wider chord going to fill the sound out. Same principle with the second but. Good luck and let me know how you get on! 🤓🎸👍
really appreciate the work that's gone in and would like to put a 'simpler' version of this down. For the 'break' bit is it e-D-CC, e-D-CC (strummed second time). Just wanted to clarify the point. Thanks - and a fantastic walkthrough.
Amazing lessons! Thank you very much! I just miss some videos showing you playing the full song with your guitar over the original record. Please do it! Cheers from Rio!
Thanks so much I’ll take that on board. Sometimes there’s copyright problems with using the original records and so that’s why I don’t do it. Glad you found my channel and thanks for your support 🙏🤓🎸
great video gaz, best version I have seen along with the other English fella. like most Smiths lessons, some versions are better than others :) cheers from Australia.
@@jasonmelo9379 to be fair you need to know the song, I know it like the back of my hand and grew up with it but I get it if someone isn’t as familiar with it, thanks for your feedback 👍
So confusing, because you played the ending refrain in the beginning of the video! Like you did part 1 and part 3 and left out part two. So I'm thinking, this doesn't sound right. Because the second part you played in the beginning actually is the refrain at the end! Other than that great lesson.
Hey there. Great stuff. Actually it is an E minor it’s not the first time you do the B7 or whatever it is and then you go to G on the first one but every time you go back to that B7 you go to the E minor than the 7 then the D- you can see them doing it in the official video and when she plays acoustic yeah so it’s in there it’s just not out every time thanks man sounds great
Hi they are original record shop promo posters from the Rough Trade label, I had them framed. You see them on Ebay but they’ve become collectible now so not cheap 👍🤓
Great song taught brilliantly again by yourself, Gary. I remember listening to this song many, many years ago, every morning, during the dark, winter months, through my Walkman, waiting for the bus to go to work.
Hiya Jordan, I do, but can’t say I’ve ever been really into them and don’t play any of their stuff sorry. I’ll keep it in mind and hoping to be putting some new videos up soon 👍
Hiya thanks they are old Smiths promo posters that they used to use in record shops, from the Rough Trade label. You can see them on Ebay but they’re quite collectible now so not cheap. I just got them framed. 👍🤓🎸
The Long Ryders Yeah! Andy Kershaw loved them and introduced them on Whistle Test BBC2 back in earlyish/mid 80s I guess. I loved them too from the first song. I have two copies of Native Sons bc I wore out the first one. That early evening Whistle Test with Kershaw, Mark Ellen and David Hepworth brought loads of great bands to the attention of this music starved fan in the Mild Mild (South)West. Long Ryders touring UK this year I believe, sadly without Tom Stevens (RIP)
