-14 DETAILS that Make the PURPLE RAIN SOLO Legendary! Learn guitar from me at: www.the-art-of-guitar.com Art of Guitar T-shirts: my-store-11499138.creator-spr... Facebook: / fansoftheartofguitar / theartofguitar Thanks!!!
Space in solos is so important to me. I often find shredders don't move me emotionally and it's because there are too many notes for me to latch on to any or to rest anywhere. Great job pointing out the details.
Damn you played this beautifully! The tone is just perfect👌, I could listen to you play it forever. I love this solo so much! Such a special song for me I listened to it so much when I was in my teens. These details are just awesome, they really do add so much to the song. Prince is pretty much the reason i'd love to get a Tele some day. That's a Nashville Tele you have there isn't it? Really looking forward to the website lesson😊🤘🏻🔥 Happy 40 years to Purple Rain. I remember hearing of Prince's passing on the news and man that messed me up, can still remember the day.. but his music will live on💜
Awesome job man, nailed the tone and everything. Purple rain is a great album and movie! Thanks for doing it justice and it’s nice seeing someone else have as much appreciation for it!
Look up “Prince Concert 1983: First Avenue”. The concert was for charity and was the debut of guitarist Wendy Melvoin and the songs from Purple Rain. And the live recording of the song itself became the recording on the album (with some edits). Even the “Woo!” is from an audience member and that solo was improvised on the spot.
Absolutely it was the exact version minus 1 verse that didn't make sense to the song. Also Jungle Love was the live version by The Time (since we were on live Purple Rain stuff).
Live in Syracuse is such a journey for me to listen to, every time. Purple Rain’s solo (including its intro lead guitar riffs) is absolutely epic. Thank you for making this video brother. I’m committing to playing with this solo this week because of you.
Excellent video!! I’ve been a huge fan of Prince ever since Purple Rain came out. Great memories driving around in my mom’s Camaro with her listening to this album! He was such an amazing artist! Truly missed. Thanks for this video, really enjoyed this!
Proud to be a metalhead standing with you in unifying admiration of The Purple One,my friend! Great jacket,by the way. Prince and Duran Duran are way more metal than people realize.
Awesome vid!❤️ I just watched your video on the intro.. and i checked cause you said you'll make a video on the solo, and here i am😅 Im a keyboard player who fell in love with prince's music in 2021... now's 2024 and i just picked up the guitar... my progress is good so far, and I really want to learn this solo💜
Nice playing and cool you break it down like that. Would be awesome if you did the same with the solo from the 2004 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" collab😀
Great demo thanks! Would be great if you did a break down on the guitar sounds. @10:26 - I feel he does the single note on the first fret (also slightly muted) as it doesn't have as much power/tone as higher up, so it sets up the importance of the melody to follow. I've noticed that in a lot of his songs, even on keyboard, kind of a ghost note, but not quite. It also looks cool!
Details matter so much for Prince. All those little bends, mutes, rests, and grace notes all feel intentional and important. He really mastered the guitar and knew exactly how to extract what he wanted from it in a way only a few have achieved. One thing I also like with this solo that I find many miss is how every note almost feels "late". He really squeezes every bit of sustain from each note and it creates a constant tension and release that gives the solo its emotion. It's very easy to mess up since in the excitement of a solo we tend to rush.
A few years ago someone posted the concert footage that Purple Rain was taken from. The solo was longer in the original and they cut it for the album. Prince's people had it pulled and I haven't seen it since but I know there's an MP3 of the full version out there.
There is a video on the vertex effects youtube channel with wendy melvoin that you may want to have a look at as she shows some tricks and well she ought to know. Kool channel man. I love how you brought out the prince style jacket. Making music is one of the best pleasures in life.
terrific lesson and content. One issue- the solo was edited from the 83 live performance. The motif- great content- is from the film footage is not the same from the live perfomance. Probably doesnt matter much but something to consider.
I rarely comment on videos. And I've been waiting for more videos with Purple Rain since u did the different ways to play the intro. Please make a step by step tutorial for an intermediate player on all Prince songs starting with this one. I'd pay good money for that. Prince is tricky to learn both the showmanship and the correct notes. Everyone has there own variation but I want to know what he did so I can truly appreciate one of the greatest of all time. RIP
Really nice job! As someone who has studied Prince's guitar playing for nearly 40 years, there are a few tiny details to improve on if you wanna recreate the record - some of the longer runs are hard to get just right, and I think you've got an extra couple of notes on that bit around 0:49. As for the little motif that some folk think is a trill but is actually just delay, Prince always does a little slide up the string after each phrase, it's not so audible to be honest so you can totally skip it, and of course Prince messed around with the solo a lot over the years just to keep things interesting. Awesome job.
Love your technique Mike, you never stop amazing! Spectacular review!! Never a fan of Prince, but I got on my ass when I watched "my guitar gently weeps"!!! He stole the entire video, I never knew he was so freaking good with the guitar (and other instruments)....what a loss!
this might seem like a big task but is it possible that you could make a video on the purple rain solo from the syracuse concert in 1985? That’s my favorite solo of all time and i have a few parts of it figured out like the beginning but a lot of it is hard to figure out. His tone in that concert is also very interesting and is a whole other discussion entirely.
Mike you're a great guitarist and you play this solo really well, but the reason it's legendary is because Prince played it, and I'm yet to hear a cover of it that had the same soul as the original. This isn't a criticism; just a statement of how f-ing awesome Prince was.
No offense intended here. I do like your videos and I'm not saying your playing didn't sound good. Just being factual about the beginning of your video by saying that no, you don't "have it down", nor did you get it "just like the album". Ironically, you did seem to match it note for note afterward, while break it down note for note. 😅 With one exception at about 8 min: I think you're missing a note between the 2nd & 3rd note you play. I.e., it should be; "da.. da-da da... da-da da da da" instead of the "da.. da.. da da da" that you're playing.
@@TheArtofGuitar Thanks for steering me there, but that's not what I was saying. I don't think there's a trill there. I said that it sounds like you're missing ONE NOTE, which I'm not even saying has to be a different note. I.e., whether it's a different note, or the same note plucked upward instead of downward (which can change its sound a bit), I have no idea. I didn't examine his video before watching yours. But basically what I'm saying is that it sounds like you're missing ONE PLUCK (with no trill action, just one pluck). So imagine that while playing you aren't lifting and pressing to get more notes without plucking. That's not it. Finger stays on the neck and one more pluck. That's what's missing. Same or another note dunno. But it's missing. 🙂
I have found Prince's guitar playing very over rated. I mean, it's good, don't get me wrong. But "legendary"? Not really. From what I've seen he plays almost exclusively in the pentatonic box. Kinda 'meh' as far as I'm concerned. It works great for the music, though. It fits just fine.
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