Regarding Dust in the Wind. It was actually Kerry's wife who walked into the kitchen while he was playing that finger "exercise," and commented on how beautiful it was...and she said that he should try to make something out of it! Um...mission accomplished!
Moral of the story: practice around someone (helps if they're a massive hit songwriter) who will hear you warming up, then barge in and say "what's THAT!?"
@@guitarfriendtim Or... just go to guitar center and play the same scale over and over really loud until someone writes a hit song with your scale and gives you millions of dollars and co writing credit and a major tour and you will never have to work again a day in your life.
I love how so many people (me included) used Dust in the Wind to learn Travis picking! And the ACDC riff picking helped me so much with syncing both hands. I never knew these started as exercises, but I used them for that, because they're great for practice!
Paul, you are a master. I started the acoustic adventure programme and I love it. I can't recommend it more 😊 It's like having you as your private teacher, a luxury ! Cheers from Melbourne!
I love Next Level Playing! So much good information and it's very nice to know what to practice! When I feel like I've mastered all the modules I'm 100% getting Electric Elevation!
Great examples. While learning to play Irish jigs and reels it often felt like had taken what could have been a boring arpeggio exercise and twisted it to make it more fun to play and hear.
I originally learned to play the "Satellite" riff with that box shape, but after listening to the original recording and hearing the various string noises at certain points, I shifted to playing it as a moving series of power chord shapes. It's a different kind of challenge--all that movement increases the risk of a missed or bad note--but I think it sounds more accurate to the recording.
12:03 slight correction. While it is true that the studio recording of the intro to “Thunderstruck” is picked (in classical terminology, pizzicato) rather than legato, Angus Young usually does play it legato live. It frees up his hand to throw the horns.
Super gaaf Paul. Ff bellen met Dominic. Ik geniet trouwens van je online curses. Ik speel al een tijdje maar toch voor de beginners cursus gekozen. Veel waardevolle theorie en nog steeds leerzaam genoeg voor mij.
Another classic exercise that became a legendary riff is Sweet Child O' Mine. I remember first hearing Thunderstruck and thinking that it was pretty crazy sounding, then I thought nah, he's probably just doing hammer ons and pull offs most of the time and this is how I figured out how to play it. Then I saw the music video showing him clearly picking along to it... dang nabbit, time to learn it again. Also, I never did get it good with picking it like that as I was always more a fingerstyle picker over using a pick. People say it's harder, but I just cannot seem to get the hang of figuring out where the strings are when holding a pick.
always really cool vidéos ! But, as a professional photographer, the way the lighting in your videos is made is always flawless is really astonishing me !! You have the "most beautiful" guitar channel.
Great video. Some really cool stuff. If it's okay I'd like to add one more to the list that is more than 40 years old but still can be heard all the time. When I was a kid, my guitar teacher was the one and only Randy Rhoads. I went every Friday to take a lesson at Musonia, the music store owned by Randy's mom. The first day I was there, Randy gave me a finger warm up exercise that I had to do whenever I practiced as a warm up. It was a short riff than later went on to become the opening of Crazy train...note for note. I remember driving one day and the song came on the radio. I hadn't spoken to Randy since he left to go do the Blizzard thing. But I heard that warm up coming out of my speakers and I could not believe what I was hearing. To this day it still blows my mind.Thanks!
You can learn all the theory in the world, and while it is tremendously helpful, in understanding further, somehow going against the grain of what is expected in theory, you find yourself musically and stumble upon great transitions. Blues seems to be the easiest understandable breakthrough to introduce this. If you play while playing and find something pleasant to your ear, odds are it sounds great to others also.
My short stubby hands have been DYING when I play Edge of Desire John's way. Using my thumb is killing me. Definitely gonna try to play it your method from now on!
I had never heard Satellite before now (to my shame) but as soon as it played I heard Edge of Desire. That song is very special to me; takes me right back to discovering John Mayer with friends at school. Very cool to learn that two wonderful songs were born out of exercises. Brings new meaning to the phrase, “Practice makes perfect.”
I'm pretty sure Dimebag Darrell also came up with the Walk riff (or maybe it was I'm Broken?) while warming up for a rehearsal. Shame Dimebag isn't featured as much as he should be on guitar channels.
I forget which song, but one of GnR's classic songs was from Slash warming up. Axl heard oit and camecup with lyrics on the spot and then Duff joined in. It might have been Sweet Child of Mine
Sweet Child o' Mine was also a Practice Exercise... Slash Played the into pattern and the story says that Axl rushed down the stairs and had instand the melody for the song in his head
Finally you show the private stock PRS again. I see it hung up in the background on some videos, but I don't recall you using it since your solo video. Such a gorgeous instrument. I immediately knew it must be Edge of Desire once you mentioned that type of riff inspiring John Mayer. Didn't know it started as an exercise, but that could be why the way John plays it is harder than it needs to be. Not much of an exercise if you aren't pushing yourself in some way. That said, the way you play it and he plays it does sound quite different to my ear, but I'd have to break it down to figure out why. Is it purely different string timbre or is there more to it?
Thank you Paul. I didn't know that they had begun as 'warm-up' riffs. Nicely played, as always! I do know that the Sweet Child o' Mine intro was an exercise originally, though. I was waiting for that one. Too obvious, perhaps... ; ) Best wishes.
Have always wondered if Robert Fripp started the intro to "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt III" as a guitar exercise. I have used it as such for many years. Does wonders for comfort with cross-picking
I heard somewhere that thunderstruck started off as a legato riff but when it sounded better picked so thats what was recorded. Also damn the prs fretboard looks good.
My neighbors might not come over in their sleepwear to give me a beating if you can solve the volume spike problem that I experienced at 4 am (poor sleep habits), when you switched from your own playing to the Dust In The Wind rendition by its author; that kind of spike makes me turn down in a panic enough to where I can't understand a thing you say after the clip is over because now it's way too quiet, and I have to weigh the risk of blasting my neighbors again if there's another unexpected volume spike, against the fact that I need more volume to hear you clearly. I love your production overall, as well as the top notch content, and I respect your superior expertise, because I have no clue how you do your cool effects and transitions, so don't take this as disrespect. I only thought since I enjoy your work, you might want to know that if you can get the volume more steady, I would be more inclined to watch all the way through, depending on the time I watch it. The likely result of turning it off and thinking I'll save it for the daytime, is that I'll forget and miss the experience, and you'll get one less view of the video. Obviously that's no big deal, except if you lose a view from me, you might be losing views from others too.
I guess the misconception re: Thunderstruck being an "all legato" riff came from the video for the song, which showed it being played that way (at least during the intro). Right? You can hardly blame guitarists at the time; the technique looked COOL AF 🙂
Paul. What shirt are you wearing? It looks great and comfy. You have some great clothes man. You should do a video of your wardrobe or favorite brands. Great style.
I recently got to know "Neon" by John Mayer was a result of him not being able to exactly replicate a slapping technique taught to him by Tomo Fujita. These stories are always so interesting !
