Many, many, many, many thanks for this I've been waiting over 25 years for this lesson. I'd resigned myself to the fact that Malkmus' mysterious intricacies would be lost in time like Stonehenge or the pyramids or something. Until this evening..... 👍👍👍😆
I have ALWAYS!!!!! ALWAYS wanted really good high quality super accurate easy to follow lessons on Pavement songs. I do and can learn songs by myself but having a high quality teacher like yourself makes things so much easier, way more fun, and is a huge huge huge help. You provide everything I could ever want in a guitar lesson, especially when learning songs. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
I've been a fan of Pavement and 'Cut Your Hair' for a long time but this video really made me realise how good the guitar parts are. I'd be very interested in a 'Gold Soundz' video!
This was one of those "Oh shit, I gotta learn this right now" videos. Thanks for putting it out! Been wanting to learn some Pavement for a while but haven't seen many good resources.
I play in that C A D A B E all the time lately. The middle 4 strings are basically an open tuning, the high 4 are normal chord shapes and the low three give you super chunky major and minor triads. Heaps of Pavement songs use that particular tuning. I think one of their best tricks is Spiral playing in standard against that, it sorta humanizes Malkmus' parts...Crazy Horse's his Neil Young....Ernie's his Bert etc.
Great video! Sonic Youth used the same idea with tuning low strings to CGD. Thurston used CGDGCD a lot on their late albums and there are a lot of great melodic riffs on these records: Reena, Peace Attack, Rain On Tin and others.. Also, it is one of the easiest SY's tunings to achieve with standard set of strings, so, a great point if you are going to make a lesson on their song some day😉
Thank-you. Excellent info about Sonic Youth. I have been wanting to look at some SY on my channel, have been slightly put off by the need to change string gauges, set-up etc. Songs with the CGDGCD tuning might definitely be an easier place to start. I'll have a think about it and see if I can come up with an SY lesson later in the year.
Thanks for introducing me to this band. I've been listening to their stuff for hours now and I love it. Secret Knowledge Of Backroads is outstanding. I've got a new musical interest. Thanks again.
thanks for doing this! Personally, I'd love to see you explain "Grounded" from Wowee Zowee or "Church on White" from Stephen Malkmus' first solo record (lovely solo/lead part in that one). Cheers!
Wow awesome tutorial so excited to learn this after my class today. Another awesome tune to learn from these guys would be silence kid, love that song and it has an awesome guitar part on it
Here's a song by Pavement. I'm going to play a few parts. (Proceeds to do the dual guitar parts and then gets to the face melting part and remains without "rocker face"). Man, I love this channel and all of your videos. You're a great player, and you deconstruct songs slowly and build up to show the viewer how it's done. It's a great thing for those of us who are beginners. Can you PLEASE break down anything by the Replacements or Paul Westerberg?
Awesome lesson as always!! By the way, could you make a lesson on how to write songs on alternate tunings? Most of my favorite artists use them (Joni Mitchell, Bon Iver, Elliott Smith, Red House Painters, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth etc etc). But when I try to come up with something in a tuning other than standard it always sounds weird (and not in a good way). Could you give us some tips? That'd be much appreciated!
Thanks for the great lesson, Adrian! I would love to see some more Pavement lessons in the future, maybe you could consider doing "Range Life", "Gold Soundz" or "Here"?
Pavement! Though you chose my least favourite song of theirs haha. Mate, you're making really useful and entertaining vids - economical and on-point presentation, no stupid clickbait frills and enviable guitar playing, plus great music taste. If you do a song I know the original will be worth checking out. And I'd love to see Ann Don't Cry or Cream of Gold dissected.
I had the same thought. Pavements been my fav band for about 15 years and this is my least fav track. Still had to learn the song tho and a great lesson nonetheless
Watching this took me down an early 90s US alternative rock rabbit hole and pleasant it was too, thanks! Any chance of an Eddie Kurdziel era Redd Kross (Phaseshifter and Show World albums) song? The band have a great back catalogue but I recall those two albums especially as having many choice picks.
Pavement is one of those bands I listen to for a month straight and then don’t listen to them again for like three years. And then I put them back in randomly and ask myself why I never listen to them.
Very interesting tuning, not a band that I ever appreciated, a former work colleague was and probably still is heavily into them. He tried to pique my interest, but I just never got it. Nevertheless a quality lesson, thanks for taking the time to cover the less appreciated bands, never stop. 👍 😎🎙🎸✅
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I’ve been alternating between this tuning and regular tuning on my Jazzmaster for years using 10s with no issues. I would never have expected it but Jazzmasters seem to be pretty forgiving when it comes to changing between tunings.
