Gary Rossington Guitar Lesson - How to Get His AMAZING TONE and Play Style 

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Tom. Gary's first solo in t for Texas. At Asbury Park live 1977. OMG. the harmonics he pulls out of that 1959 les paul. Even made Ronnie look over at Leon. With a big grin on his face. Even Ronnie was amazed at some of the sounds Gary could bring to the table. Definitely an amazing thing to see and hear.

Tom it is Great to see you pop up again. Gary was such a nuanced player, very few realize the outstanding guitarist he was and his unique contributions. Such a humble guy also. One of the reasons he never got the recognition he deserves. How cool it would have been to see you step in and carry on his Legacy in the band since they're carrying on. Of all bands, if Johnny is able to keep on, they deserve to because they always made the music bigger than their own persona, even Ronnie. Your fans are going to jump & shout that you're back, you've been missed !!!

Where you been hiding. You like vanished. Ed King was my guitar teacher back in Vineland NJ ,real cool dude

Hi Tom, love your love of Skynyrd. Saw them live many times. While Gary was not a fancy guy, or amazingly fast guitarist, he is nearly unreproducible in terms of his tone and creative personality. I think of him as a “tonologist” adding tone and skeleton to the songs they did. Thank you for carrying the Skynyrd torch for many years!

Great lesson/info here man! Thank you! Worth pointing out that Gary LOVED Paul Kossoff and FREE. Totally all over his playing style..

Gary Rossington is my favorite lyrical player. And like David Gilmour he could also funk out, but he also had great country chops. He played through Hiwatt earlier I know...well when Hiwatt came out in '69ish. Allen Collins said they dimed out their Peavey Mace amps, and rolled the guitars volume back. Watch *Freebird - Old Grey Whistle Test 1975*. Eat up everything Skynyrd. 3 good docs, full concert b&w video with Steve Gains ripping it up. RIP Gary Rossington.

Gary has been my inspiration since the mid 1970’s when I first started playing guitar. Thanks Tom for the Skynyrd songs you’ve helped me learn. It’s good to see you on RU-vid again

Great playing! Beautiful Les Paul. Gary will be missed! His influence on rock guitarists will live on.

Tom, thanks for this video here, Gary had a way of Playing Guitar that No One Else that I have ever heard Before, He was My Favorite Tasty Guitar Player, May he R.I.P. He will never be Forgotten, He was the Man , Cousin Figel

Finally someone that actually talks about how to get amp setting… hope you do one about Keith Richards, love ur channel…

Excellent instructional video on capturing Gary's tone and techniques. Thanks for taking the time. I'm guilty of being one of those metal skynyrd guys too... 😄😎 It's just fun chasing tones and putting a heavier edge on some of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes... without doing injustice to the original tune. I love skynyrd just as much as you do. You've done equally excellent work covering Allen Collins tecniques too. Thanks for those videos as well. Anyway..plz keep up the good works. I enjoy your insights and observations on everything Skynyrd! 👏🏻🙌🏻✌🏻

As always, Tom, you nail it perfectly

Great video Tom. Wonderfully informative on capturing Gary‘s guitar tone. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Always enjoy hearing you play Skynyrd. One day I want to hear you do some Rossington Collins and Allen Collins Band stuff. Keep rockin' brother!

Glad your back again...keep em coming!

So glad to see you posting videos again.

Very helpful tips! Thanks Tom!

Great video. Very informative will have to get one of my other amps on the go.

Good to see you doing Skynyrd related videos again!

Hey Tom nice to see you back. Hope you going to be around for a while cuz I could use some more lessons from you you are the master at Lynyrd Skynyrd lessons I was pretty sad when you took off to play golf but your back dude cool God bless you😎

Love your playing. Love this music!

Thanks Tom! Great work. I like that your videos have some meat on the bone.👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you, great instruction. You are the Skynyrd professor. Their music is timeless.

Informative video on a subject I like very much! Thanks!

Great job. You're really deep in Gary Rossington.❤

Good to see you back Tom!!!

Glad your back! I learned all my Rossington stuff you.

Keep em coming Tom.

Great video tutorial. It's really refreshing to see someone putting forward the relevance of the guitar/pickups/amp instead of just pushing a pedal as being an easy solution. And another thing - Tom is the first musitian that I've seen who gives advice on how to hold a pick. Brilliant!

Glad your back i bought your Tuesdays Gone Tab a while back.. good stuff

You got that Gary tone setting nailed Tom. Kind of like "second helping" tone! As far as Allen goes, I always wonder if a guitar/amp tech for Allen is still around these days and done any interviews on youtube. My point is...I wonder what Allen's amp settings were on his Peaveys.

I just wanted to drop a quick comment to thank you for all of the extremely useful info you pack into your videos. FINALLY I understand how to get that power amp overdrive that so many of us want. I play through a Blackstar HT 40, which is a fairly high gain amp. I was relying on preamp and pedals in searching for tone, but I think my search (and pedal buying spree) is over. Even on this amp I was able to get a really good tone last night by cranking the channel volume and keeping my gain down around 3-4. Couple this with turning up the mids and raising the bass and treble like you said and Wow! Instant 1976 southern rock tone. And your other tips on how to hold the pick for pinch harmonics and rolling the guitar volume off for clean tones are priceless. I could go on and on. I’m a working musician playing in 2 classic rock cover bands. You would think I would know this stuff already. 🤔 I can’t wait to put all of this to work on my next job this weekend. Thanks again!!

Your killin'it, bud!

Gary was a masterful slow hand player. He played very tasty chops.

Wow, I just found your guitar stuff! I already love your stack and tilt content. Thanks Tom.

Welcome back! You’ve been missed!

So perfect

Nice video man. That framed poster behind you advertising the Cardiff Wales Nov 4th 1975 tour date >>> I was there as a young teen, balcony centre front row, Capitol Theatre. It was an awesome gig. Got to see them twice more at Bristol Colston Hall in '76 & '77 before the plane crash. Been a Skynyrd fan ever since. Seeing Gary playing his Les Paul that November night inspired me to eventually get my Les Paul Std TSB in 1979.

Go Tom! Glad to see you doing this again. I was talking to someone about Akybard and thought of you so I came to YT.

Great lesson Tom. I just got a Les Paul Special, and I'll be setting up my amp as you suggested and working on all the techniques you described.

Good to see you putting guitar videos out again! I'm also a Saguto golfer!

So Very Cool, Thankyou. Awesome Lesson, so many great licks and tips. Gary's loss hit me harder than maybe it should have, but considering I have been a HUGE fan since my early teens it is Understandable. He has been one of my major Inspirations and Idols that has motivated me to be obsessed with Guitar. Big loss. All the Best. Cheers from Australia.

Nice job

One thing Gary use to do in the 70's was keep the volume on the guitar at 10 on the neck pickup for his solo's and backed off around 5 on the bridge pickup for rhythm parts

Damn. I’ve learned more about playing , tone and amps in the last 25 mins than I have the last year.. 👍

Welcome back Tom! We sure missed you. Very nice upgrade in guitar choice. As I said in your other Rossington post, not sure what happened a few years ago when you went from Skynyrd to Golf....you must have hit your head pretty hard 😲 Comin' Home was the right thing to do. 🙂

God, Golf, Guitar...and Skynyrd...Right on Tom

Enjoyed the video. Always liked Gary's playing. He's the reason I bought a Les Paul.

Extraordinarily accurate Skynyrd tone and playing. A little stunned. 😮

Great video, mate! Huge fan of lynyrd skynyrd and all their pickers playing styles. I'd say all of my favourite solos are either gary or ed. Unfortunately for me, finding anyone who likes them here in Melbourne Australia is impossible, lol. Keep up the videos, and you got a new subscriber! Nik

What happened to all of your videos you had on the past? Were you forced to remove them? Hopefully they will be available even if it's for purchase.

I love how Gary's solo technique seems to have a southern drawl. He was one of a kind. (As we all are.) But Gary stands apart more than most other pickers.

Holy cow - I was just watching this and realised you're the golf guy! cool! We have very simar interests!

Been a long time since we Rock and Roll I hear ya I have a Les Paul custom probably told you already sometimes I use my SG just because the cut away it's easier to play the high notes I just recently got it and Gary RIP glad to see you again if you turn that amp well that's true I'm typing this while you're talking anyway keep them coming 🤘🇨🇱

Awesome lesson and channel. Ive been studying their guitar parts on my USA made Fender strat lately. Do you recommend the Boss Kattana ( not sure of the spelling of it) amp for home practice ? Great to see you keeping their legacy and music alive to the next generation. Cheers mate!

Just came across this video. Im listening on my phone. That katana sounds really good, even coming out of my phone.

Love this! Thanks. Which version of the Katana is this?

I love my Symore Duncan Pearly Gates humbuckers (PAF style modeled after Billy Gibbons's Pearly Gates 1959 Les Paul.) Those Seth Lovers sound amazing as well. You can't go wrong with SD pickups.

I'm gonna get right on that buying me a Les Paul... I like the way you're thinking 😵‍💫

Wow you look just like the Saguto golf chap. Great tone.

i practice on a solid state fender dsp thats old, when i go to my 65 twin it's totally different. basically go for a good blues sound. it's southern rock. like your channel

Dude, it is great to have you back! I had searched for your videos, but could not find any of them. I even went on a guitar forum and asked if anybody knew your name because I couldn’t remember. I too, am a Bossa katana MK1 user. Do you think that my Epiphone ES - 335 would be good enough for the Rossington tone?

Awesome video just what I was looking for I have the same amp can you tell me the the exact settings or a picture of the top of the amp. Thanks!

The solos in "That Smell" are probably my favorite solos of all music. One other guy you might check out and talk about is Joe Perry from Aerosmith. He's another great lead guitar player that people don't talk about anymore.

Crazy to think, in 77’ Garys guitar Bernice was only 18 years old. Thats like having a 2005 model today.

Hey Tom...Glad to see ya back to playing guitar... give those golf balls a rest.( good stuff though)...I always wondered why southern guitar players like Skynyrd sounded so good but different? Was it walkin's to licks or just lots of riffs, chuck berry style? Never understood why others didn't play that way? Just sounds awesome to me.....I know you've got this style down and so glad your back to showing us how its done!! Thankssssss

I own 2 peavey mace's, one head unit and a 2x12 combo, heavy as sin but has that skynyrd sound!

Hi, can you tell me the kind of pick up used in the bridge to get this sound? By the way, you do an awesome job of demonstrating Gary's style, thanks.

SICK... I GOT ALL THE TOYS... INSPIRED... TO LEARN HOW TO USE IT,!😊 LOVE SKYNYRD... YOU MIGHT DO SOME DICKEY BETTS DUANE STUFF TOO?😊

Really good video, but can you do the Steve Gaines/Ed King sound? Thanks

Nice stuff, the tuning on Simple Man is Eb, key being Abm cheers

I wish there was a way I could give you 10 likes per every video that you put out.

I'm nearly 60 now, Back in the day, guitarists used their volume to clean up their distorted sounds and when "the jam" part of a song started, they simply turned up their volume. This also lent to "dynamics" in a song, a part which a lot modern bands leave completely out because they use pedals. Pedal boards WERE NOT a big thing in what is now known as classic rock. They got all their tone from volume, the amp, and the guitar. You really don't need a lot of pedals. What you really need is a GOOD AMP, a DECENT guitar (Gary even play Squiers), and use your volume and TONE knobs to get your signature tones. Capos were also used on a lot of songs, "Freebird" and "Hotel California" are examples. One other tool used was a slide. Gary used both a capo and a slide on Freebird. Of course the music industry saw DOLLAR SIGNS from selling "Guitar Effects" and today the market is SWAMPED with guitar effects. Not that effects don't have their place, but you do not need 10 or 15 effect pedals, unless of course you are doing some really complex unique one of a kind song. KEEP IT STUPID SIMPLE is the original phrase experienced musicians used, not keep it simple stupid, which was used to stealth insult a underexperienced musician. It's the SIMPLICITY that makes the songs great, not numerous guitar pedals, effects boards, or some other mythical gadgetry. So, if your an aspiring guitarist, if you take this advice to heart, you'll go a long way because it's the proven technique that works over and over. You'll learn to "finesse" the tones out of the guitar because you DON'T have a gazillion effects, which makes you a better and better guitarist over time.

Actually there are a bunch of univibes on the market right now. They definitely aren't cheap though. The various Sabbadius vibes and the Pedal Pawn Gypsy vibe are some good ones.

Another excellent vid, but tell us about that amp you're using, there's one at the local pawn shop but not sure of the model. I got say for Skynyrd anything you're the guy.

3 to 10 on simple man was dead on thanks

Any tips on the pickup position switching. I never seemed to get the right Gary lead tone out of my bridge unless the tone was waaay rolled back.

What sort of tuner do you use for setting up your guitar? Do you set your own guitars up?

Can't wait to figure out those tricks with EMG's😒

I been trying to get the tone right for Blackfoot, "Highway Song",,,this tone for Lennard is pretty close, but I still feel more sustain I need,,and I wonder if it's the guitar sometimes, or a sustain pedal ? Or,,, maybe just the settings on the amp ?

Tom do you also do Golf lessons, I swear you have a twin on RU-vid doing gold lessons too. ;-)

Hey Tom Katana’s are very popular can you make a short or a video of your settings one day

So what you're saying is More Metal Skynard😲

Rossington, Skynerd or any other player/band this is good tone advice. Guitarists using WAY TOO much gain these days in my opinion.

Could be a lesson on tone alone. Plus, I never heard about fatter necks vs thin necks before. Interesting, I have a fat Telecaster neck with a 9.5" radius, and I notice how it feels so much more comfortable when I play it than my thinner modern necks with 12" radius'.

want to get a boss katana. whwt model are you playing?

Talk about slow hand, Gary should have got that nickname. Can barely even see him playing half the time because he's so I don't know how to explain it. but it doesn't look like he's playing the guitar sometimes.

Gary put JBL's in his peavey amps in the 70"s just for reliability, but all the break up in his tone was all from the amps.

The peavey mace has a phaser built in. So they didn’t use pedals once they started using peavey.

Can you please send me a pic of the amp settings for a good Lynyrd Skynyrd or Gary Rossington tone?

Peacock pedal works also

ok played my 59 and sounded good but my 50's just plays better for me, but i;m stickin to the 59 for this.

Did you download any patches for your Katana or just using the amp regular?

Tuesday tone is better on the FOX live one anyway. I didn't like what Al Cooper did on the studio version.

Uhh. Guitar playing comes from the soul.

Is that the 50 or 100 watt Katana ?

Man I’m glad your back on here! Great video make many more! I love Gary playing. I made a RU-vid as well check it out I’m just getting started.

That smell is a great song. (At first. I heard gain at 12. Wow his amp is better than Nigel. ? His amp s had 11. But. 12 ??? U Ment 12 o’clock

While it's nice to emulate the greats or your favorite players Sometimes, I think it's important to find yourself. Your own tone, style & licks. Modern music is kinda boring. not much creativity. it all sounds the same. Just saying ..