Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top | Guitar Lesson 

Yes!!! More ZZ Top! After years & years of inaccurate tabs, this will clear the air of how it's played. Thank you!

If there is anything that I've learned about Billy over the years - it is that he like to be economical in his playing. He likes to stay in one region of the fretboard. This great lesson proves it! Thanks!!

I think “Fool for your Stockings” would be a good one too.🎸🎶

Finally I've found a guitar lesson for guitarists.....thank goodness we didn't spend 10 min on the intro at snail speed with what finger is on which fret on which string!

Fantastic lesson and that's a sweeett SG

I'm so glad you got the E tuned down to D up top. Most guys on RU-vid miss that. Now you have street cred! Will subscribe!

Happy Holidays from South Texas! Thanks for your great channel!

I have a 1972 SG special. Love it. Thanks for the tutorial.

Thank you for opening up a big door for me, with this awesome song.

Played this years ago.. and I was all wrong. Thank you so many. Love your videos.

Great lesson, my man. That's how you do it right there! Show it to me just look you would if I was in the band.

Open D on 1st string - what a difference! Great lesson too.

ZZTush approves this lesson, I do a couple things different but that’s the mystique of the gut-fiddle…

Well , right off the bat you sure got a Great tone . This is a song I really love to learn . I been a ZZ Top fan since. Rio Grande. Mud. Would you consider “ Just Got Back From Babys

your attention to detail is awesome

Very nice.

Great job on this one. Always appreciate a video on The Rev's work.

That was nice , I never hear in the riff before. But I heard a little Edgar Winters---- Frankenstein in the riffs. that Billy G. threw in there.

Great job as usual! Please figure out how to do the complete outro and show us because that technique is so important to make this a complete jam. It’s just a bada- - part. When that song starts, I can hardly wait for that part. You are very helpful with these lessons. Thank you!

Thank you (not the other Zz top song) but for playing cheap Sunglasses right and not butchering the hell out of it like every other person I've seen playing the song. Once you learn how to play it correctly, it's totally frustrating to see somebody not hybrid pick the d and the g string while they're playing the 6th and the 5th string and not tune the high e down to D. In fact, it's infuriating not because they're bad people As everybody plays it that way originally, but because 20 years ago I sat do we n with the CD and spent a month goofing around with it and then I saw Billy gibbons play it live so I had this revelation and figured out what the hell was going on. I first figured out that he was hybrid picking the main riff from the f to the G to the B flat to the C. But when I saw that he was playing the intro slide on the first three strings up in the second and third fret position it dawned on me that she dropped to D. if you don't play it that way and use great muting and dampen the strings the minute each portion of the riff is complete you're not going to be playing in the pocket the way Billy gibbons plays it secondly when he goes into the solo and he's playing the C minor 7th to the b-flat major and then the D Minor 7th to the D major, he's using hybrid picking for the chords that underlie the solo if you don't play that portion with the right groove and you can do it with the pic as well but you just have to be very disciplined and really damp in those strings and use a lot of strokes, if you play that part correctly, the solos so easy and sound so cool the key is to obviously have the right equipment as far as a guitar with humbucking pickups and to have a great amp with the right amount of saturation and power tube distortion. Anything that is based off that Fender Tweed bassmsn circuit like a high-powered Tweed twin or a marshall plexi or even a good matchless or a bad cat etcetera, the power tubes have to be loud enough and warmed up enough you can get those great pinch harmonics and you also have to play on the right portion of the string so that you're playing what would effectively be 12 frets above the pinch harmonic note to really get that note to squeal and get the harmonic content. It's a kind of song that once you learn it and practice it for a few hours everything will make sense and you will be able to play it live and sound authentic I'm not suggesting it's easy to sing and play perfectly in the pocket like that, because gibbons was so underrated when it comes to being a great rhythm lead and singing blues player lots of people assume his stuff it's so simple but that's because they are not playing it correctly when you are using the hybrid picking and playing it up to speed with the notes properly dampened while singing and doing that in a three-piece band with great syncopated rhythm section with the bass and the drums having a perfect symbiotic relationship with the guitar and vocals , you end up with the untouchable Blues i Rock power trio that is ZZ top. Everything they did from Zz top, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Deguello is their best shit by far. The 80s were ok but it was extremely commercial and over produced. Still great but I like the heavy Texas blues like blue jean blues, fool for your stockings, waiting for the bus which is more of a boogie into Jesus Just Left Chicago which is a great kind of gospel Blues, and their boogies like La Grange, Rush, Just Got Paid, their interpretation of Sam & Dave with the soul on I thank you, the boss cheats sunglasses, The Rock and Roll Lucy shuffle of I'm bad I'm Nationwide. I believe that 71 through 79 was the band at their best as far as recordings.better than their straight ahead rock. like Sharp dressed Man in the legs I did like give me all your love and I thought that was a pretty ballsy blues rock sort of boogie with a little 80s twist. I just think it's a shame that unless you're in your 60s or 70s or you are a blues guitar and blues rock guitar fan also you've heard all the cool ZZ top shag carpeting guitars, silly videos and songs like Sharp dressed Man song still as a cool riff but who gives a s*** they can do better than that

Waaaay Cooool!!! Doesn’t get much better than this!!!

Great song choice and great lesson

Excellent lesson

Thank You!

I love it

Super cool lesson, thanks. One to consider would be “Hear me calling” by Ten Years After, although I personally like the energy of Slade cover on their live album, Alvin Lee does some great blues on the original. Keep up the good work, you have a really good teaching style and you really pay attention to the details. Cheers

Where has your channel been all my life!! Great tone and great instructions. SUBSCRIBED!!

love it!

Brilliant!

Not a single lesson on 'Mr Ten Dollar Man' or 'El Diablo' . Please , please 🙏 ! Will have a heart attack if seeing both guitars being presented on the Ten Dollar one !! Thank you for the lesson !!! Happy/healthy 2024 for you and your family sir !

Please do "Manic Mechanic" in the future!!! I want to see if I am right.

Great stuff! Thanks!!👍

Absolutely stunning sound. It does not get any better than that. Love your lessons and content from day 1?

Sure would appreciate some Ten Years After lessons. Alvin Lee!!

That Bogen is perfect to recreate Leslie West's Sunn PA tone. Your next tutorial, maybe?

As usual…. Awesome

Thanks!

It would'nt surprise me. Gibbons has a LOT of telecasters. some custom some Fender

Been watching you guys especially on harder to nail tracks by other amazing bands and just blown away radioactive by the firm was a great one you guys nailed. Hoping for some Thin Lizzy I love their song Sarah you dont see it on here and no one nails it. I would love to see you guys do it hopefully you see this! Happy Holidays to you guys the team.

My man l excellent . I’m enjoying Patron

What a fantastic video have a good weekend also what is your favorite year from the 2010s ❤😊

Gotta say, You're the absolute best @ figuring out songs and showing how to play them. However on this song, although you have all the notes exactly correct, It's my contention that Billy did this in open G.

Vaughn does a lot of "tone" work for WGS as well.

Merry Xmas Doug!!!

Paul McCartney was once asked; "What is it like to be in the greatest ever rock band"? He replied;" I don't know, I was never in ZZ Top"! True or not, still funny.

Openg on alb7m standard s9lo

Could be correct but all I can hear is p90s throwing me off.

Use the back, rough side of a Herco pick for better pinch harmonic’s…

Thanks!