I learned to play it, and there’s just something extra he puts into it. It just sounds so powerful coming from him and whoever plays it in the recorded version.
It was simple in its complexity but so masterful in its intricacy. The bass player had his own runs and added his key moments when Chris gave him small spaces.
We all know that Chris is a vocal hero and a hell of a song writer but now, thanks to you, we also understand what a guitar champion he is. Generational talent for sure.
This guy has helped me so much as a guitar player he helps you unlock things on your own and puts you on the path to figuring things out instead of just showing hey play this note for not he shows you what YOU CAN DO instead of what your supposed to do
Not the best, but actually a truly great player. Maybe because of their feel for melody, structure etc. Great singers and songwriters really know what to do with a guitar if they master the language. My favourite songwriters are often great players: Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Neil Young, etc., etc.
I love watching Chris Stapleton reaction videos and this is the first guitar listen. Absolutely awesome to watch people not just nerding out over the voice, but also getting excited about the instruments being played! Nice video
@@READERSENPAII He's way more country than most they play on country radio,just because he doesn't limit himself to only country nobody does these days.
He is not country, and by no means moderno. He comes from the legendary Steeldrivers Blugrass band and he is a singer, throw any genre at that Guy and he Will kill it. I hear more Soul than anything when he wings (even bluegrass)
Mike, I am SO GLAD you mentioned how good the jazzmaster sounds. I am a singer first, but the reason i bought my first electric guitar was based on his tone and sound off traveler. Its so killer.
Have you done a video for Chris Stapleton “Whiskey and You”? It is one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard and would love to see you do a video for that. Thank you for what you do...you are amazing!!
So obvious this song is part of a set they all performed somewhere. I got a chance to see the intro to this. The way you're speaking about the band, he introduces his band members. He highlights every one of the musicians. If you get a chance check it out. It's just cool
Wow, watching this for the first time and hearing that you got those oysters from PEI when Chris Stapleton just played here, I love it! PEI is a gem come visit
Glad you're doing this, been listening to this version for a couple years now and love it, he's not massively technical as a player but he just owns it. Sometimes that's all you need.
@@markchavez738 Teles are awesome, but the jazzmaster is better. Its just not as popular or common, but the sound and chime from a JM is somehing else.
Hello from your neighbor in Maine! Here’s an early performance of Chris, his wife and his bassist, playing a stand up base, at the Grand Ole Opry. So good!
Michael. A couple of observations: #1, that’s an early Fender Jaguar, p90 pick ups that work perfectly with #2 which is (I believe) the real secret of this performance and the reason it would have blown us away if we had been there...those two (count em TWO) Indian blanket cover boxes on stage which I believe are Leslie cabinets! I’ve listened to a lot of Chris’s music and I dig it, a lot, the vocals were great on this video but not his best guitar solo technical wise. He drops into a lot of basic stuff and even throws some Chuck Berry licks in there, a lot of hanging on whole and half notes repeated for a long time because he’s playing to the timing of those spinning speakers. Its really quite clever and I don’t think we can fully appreciate what the crowd got to hear at this show and why he chose to play it like he did. Correction: I said Jaguar and it’s really a JazzMaster. I get em mixed up. I hear the corrections coming, lol.
great post. i don’t have the knowledge that you do, but what you said makes sense and confirms my experience from hearing him live. As great as his records are, his live performance has that something special that the recording just doesn’t capture fully. It’s an energy, or a sonic dynamic- i don’t have the musical vocabulary to express it or explain it, which I’m sure you could. But however good he is on record, his live sound has that +1 that I don’t hear on his records.
@@patrickschrepel7471- yup, I had added a correction above already. I’m suspicious of edited comments sometimes so I just added to the end. They do look a lot alike and I get them mixed up sometimes 😬
@@rustyaxelrod Sorry. Didn’t catch that. I always hate trying to correct people, but since Michael was pointing out that tone, it’s all Jazzmaster and Princeton Reverb. I’ve owned both a Jazzmaster and a Jaguar and actually bought the Jag by mistake a long time ago because I had seen someone playing a Jazzmaster and wanted that tone.
Hi there this is the first video ive seen from your channel im not trying to learn guitar or anything but i love how informative you are and how you explain everything.
I love this breakdown, particularly the part about the band complimenting Chris. I've seen him do a set basically just him and his guitar and usually w/ a great singer that's the best because the band distracts. I think that's why acoustic unplugged sets are really popular. However, the way Chris uses the band, etc. actually makes this version better IMO. It builds tension and takes you on a ride the singer songwriter performance, while still amazing, doesn't.
Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers are two at the top of their game. Worked their balls off and you know must've put up with serious lows. Not that many many others don't, or don't deserve this or that but Chris and Tyler are locked in their own ways and style, learned from staying at at they're beyond powerhouses. Chris has earned all those awards with his raw power. Tyler Childers will someday be in those shoes, let's just all hope the city folk aren't number from Stapletons domination when Tyler's reaching those heights
He's incredibly talented to say the least. He's also an accomplished songwriter. There's a video from CMT Crossroads here on RU-vid featuring Keith Urban and John Mayer performing Keith's smash hit: "Sweet Thing" with a legendary guitar solo at the end by the two of them. You'd really enjoy it.
Watch these videos all the time. I have no idea what your talking about 90% of the time with the guitar jargon 😂. My wife bought me a guitar for Christmas two years ago. Had a couple lessons and didn’t grasp any of it. It’s been hanging on the wall ever since 😩. Keep grinding fella and thanks for the videos.
Learn 3 chords and start singing a song that you love. In a week or two you should be able to play the song fully. And then you will be hooked, and have a passion for life. Do it man.
Pick it back up Moose and learn a CCR song. Most of them are super easy with basic chord changes. I put mine down from time to time, but always pick it back up again.
Does the guitar accompany that VOICE or does that voice accompany the guitar? What a rich performance. I love Chris Stapleton and I love your channel and vibe, Michael. New subscriber, so catching up is so much fun! Thank you for sharing your passion. It’s inspirational and some kind of wonderful. Carry on!!!
I don't play the guitar, but I am so impressed with your ability. You may as well have been talking in gibberish when explaining the techniques, but you're amazing!!
I dont play. No idea what your talking about. But its amazing how it takes you almost 30 seconds to pic up the playing. Whether its music, art, construction, etc, I love to watch and listen to people that can see through fog and explain what and how its happening. Props!!
I’m only 3 years late to the conversation, but I just had to say I’m super impressed with your knowledge and your guitar skills. You’re a super cool vibe 😎
Let me preface this so you get the train of thought I'm on without freaking out on me. I DO like this song and Chris's playing, however. When I first heard the soloing Chris does at the end I thought that's VERY simple and elementary soloing that sounds like someone who doesn't fully understand the scales they're playing so they're limited in their note choices to a point that you get long drawn out licks of one or two notes repeating because they have nowhere else to go in their mind. Watching more closely though, you realize the dynamics and that his style of music lends itself to the early blues feel of his guitar playing. Which is one trademark of real early blues music. Certain licks just drag and drone on sometimes which doesn't always please my ear personally and I recognized his playing here as such. But it's appropriate. It fits, it works, and when you LISTEN you can hear it's not just some 12 yr old learning blues licks with nowhere to go in his mind. It's all planned to give a certain raw unfiltered sound to the music.
No Chris knows what he’s doing. Sometimes simplicity is way better than continuous shredding that nobody can remember. I bet you remember this song though. I’m not into into country but Chris is a special one. Thh he and a few modern country guitar slingers and singers are great. Chris, Keith Urban and a few more. Like Vince Gill as far as a great guitarist but his songs are kindve getting old. Big still he’s a great player and singer. But Chris has one hell of a voice and he’s willing to play with current RNB singer guitarist HER. He’s also played with Mayer. He’s not stubborn that’s for sure. He’s willing to expand.
I know a lot of people don't like they way he stops the video and tries to figure out the music, but I really enjoy it. I love playing guitar but don't know a lot of theory so this really helps to understand what's happening.
I changed a PCB based EL84 amp (Hayden Dual Mofo) into a Brownface Princeton on the strength of Chris Stapleton's tone, with a turret board, new transformers, all new valves (6V6's, obv.), in fact the chassis and cabinet are the only original parts left, oh, and the fused IEC socket LOL. It's got a 12" Alnico and sounds great. I love the bias-vary tremolo, so swampy.
The bass player is JT Cure from Elkhorn City Kentucky (according to Chris's introductions at 2018 FarmAid, preceding Tennessee Whiskey). He also has songwriting credits with Chris.
Mani wish I would have found you years ago when I was trying to teach myself the guitar. Stapleton is probably the best artist around this generation and I’m not a fan of country but damn the blues gets me every time
It s a Fender Mustang or Pro with P90s on the bass neck pickup. Any decent P90 in the neck on a Fenderish type amp on the break of overdrive will do. If needed use a cleanish boost/very slight overdrive.
Waaay late here but I hope by now you've learned the names of these 2 other very talented bandmembers: JT Cure on base has been with Chris for over 20 yrs., Derek Mixon on drums, almost as long.
Check Steeldrivers, brilliant band, like no other, It should be national heritage. Stapleton kills it there and they have great tunes, vocal choruses, and that magical fiddle. When bluegrass transcends any genre to be great, they are amazing
I know you are more guitar focused but one of my favorite bass lines of all time is in the song “I Was Made To Love Her” by Stevie wonder. That is a all time favorite song of mine with a all time bass line that goes along with it. I love your reviews and I think you’d love that song
You are a great teacher ..... I am a teacher also but in visual arts.I play guitar and transfer my visual knowledge of core art into music . Now you may think I am BS. ing but hey I have done it in visual and created Abstract Realism now I am on my way of doing in music . Seriously would Love to meet you one day on a professional level and share my experiments and experience .... May God bless you and you alike .... MarHak The love Artist ....
Thanks for all of the awesome videos. I’ve only been playing guitar for 10 months. I really enjoy your knowledge and the fact that you share it here. Can you please do a reaction to Guy Clark’s song “The Guitar”? I’m sure you’ve heard it but if you haven’t it’s an awesome story that I think you’ll enjoy.
what am I supposed to do with my crush on you cuz you're so real and have such real things to share that make our appreciation of music so much deeper! dang, brah!!
Blanking on his name right now, but fairly certain the drummer is from West Monroe Louisiana, and is definitely newer than the bass player. They've got a great sound going, reminds me of SRV and Double Trouble a lot actually. Switch Stevie's guitar with Chris's voice as the focal point maybe (which makes sense). But what stands out (to me) is they all are very focused on a sound and tone(s) that goes together and creates something musically greater than the sum of its parts.
Bass players name is JD Cure from my hometown here in Kentucky Chris is from Paintsville which is about a 45 minute drive from where JD is from. Both eastern Kentucky hillbillies like me
