Sounds so simple to play most CCR Songs, that is until you start playing them and you realize there isn't anything simple about it. !!!! John Fogerty was (is!). a very, very talented musician,,he not only played flawlessly but was a fantastic singer and song writer, just an amazing individual and one of my favorites!!!! Way up there!!! TY Pilgrim. You know how to pick them bro. !!! 😎✌✝💕
@@lordbuttingham61 I guess you like your songs with lyrics that you can easily understand I imagine Humpty Dumpty and Mary had a little lamb will be amongst your favourites.
No, they're incredibly simple. People just love to find complexity where there is none. It's a psychosis. That, or you have no natural feel whatsoever.
Just watched 3 or 4 lessons on this song- this one is by FAR the BEST! I especially like the way you explain how the ORIGINAL was played using whole tone down tuning and E B7 A chord shapes instead of D A G! EXCELLENT!
Another great video about another great performer/songwriter. John Fogerty shows that feel and expression are the things that can make a great song, and great music can happen even if you're not the most proficient person at shredding and instrumental pyrotechnics. Fogerty's songs defy you to not feel something when you hear them. Thanks for another awesome video.
Great video. John Fogerty is a true songwriting genius like few other people. What seems "simple" is often extremely difficult to achieve. Writing a song like this is one thing----- recording it perfectly and delivering it to the whole world as a globally recognized hit for the rest of your life is another. Every Creedence Clearwater hit song was written by John Fogerty, except for "Suzie Q", which is astounding. And he's still playing live on tour to this very day.
Terrific lesson of a great tune Thom! As you noted, it looks and sounds easy until you try it! Anyway, hope that you & your little one are doing well. 👍👍🎸🎸👏👏
Another super lesson from the master teacher. Thom you bring so much life and music into the three chords, as nobody else can do. Thanks for this wonderful lesson.
Merci beaucoup for this. The 1960s were a chaotic confusing time, a time of upheaval, and Creedence was a music that touched the soul. Many of my friends had wildly divergent tastes in music, but everyone liked CCR. Great playing, great lesson.
1969, Frankie Chretien's backyard. First heard this life-changer. Rock and roll! Fell in love with Creedence that day. My Mom still won't listen to it, since I played it over and over to her ad nauseam. Thanks for the cool lesson.
Wow, the only tutorial to really explain what's going on and the subtle way it's played that makes it such a great song. You are an amazing player with a natural gift of departing your knowledge to others.
Can’t explain John Fogerty guitar without using the word "tasty"… which is a high honor. Thanks for this artfully clear dissection of a great song. Not once did you make us wince by saying "now place the third finger on the sixth fret, fourth string" the way most guitar teachers do. Very well done.
This is exactly what I was looking for! I found those other tutorials but they only explained the basic cords, never mentioned anything about the tuning John used. Thanks so much! 👍🏼🍺
Great Job on the video. I played this song back in the 70's growing up with all the great music back then. This video is great for people just learning these days.
Thank you very much Sir ! This is a really great guitar tutorial . So honest and really true . You re the best for me ! KEEP DOIN THE RIGHT STUFF ! THX
You are very skilled and have an excellent sense of how guitars really work! Thanks! I've been playing since 1964 btw so I know a thing or two about it.
Thanks Thom! This was the first song I ever learned to play with the guitar. It was 1969, just after the song was released. I was 11 then🙂 I did it Tom's way. (And still doing...) Thanks to you, now I'm not wondering anymore...📻
Excellent tutorial, and it sounds great when the guitar's tuned down! It would be really great to see more CCR song tutorials like this, since some of those are tuned down as well! I hope you will consider this suggestion. Thanks again. Best regards.
As always it is the nuances which generate that classic CCR rhythm, some people think it is simplistic, but there are lots of details when you focus in
I really appreciate the attention to detail in this video. I'm getting kinda tired of "teachers" making easy content by doing short tutorials on popular songs like this with basic chords. I would like to believe if you were learning to play a song so you could actually teach it with some semblance of credibility, you would watch the original artists play it to see if there's something you're missing. That's how I came to this video cause I felt like the plain D A G chord progression wasn't quite what I was hearing.
I've been saying this for years - about the Scotty More/Elvis influence on this song. In fact I think the track off the Sun Album which is closest to these licks is You're Right I'm Left She's Gone. So I was really pleased to watch your analysis. Maybe this is where the 'revival' part of their name comes from? :)
That was one of my first songs to learn to play, it simple and easy! Thanks for sharing it and I've started working with the drop D tuning which makes it more fun to play!!
Don't want to be a smartass, but drop D tuning normally means, that you just tune down the E string to D to get DADGBE, whilest here you tune down every string. The drop D tuning is often used when you play a lot of power chords, because you can then simply play them on the same fret with just for index finger.
There's more possibilities in drop D tuning. And I love playing my 2 guitars I keep tuned in drop D! I got 24 guitars so I do a lot of experimenting with different types of music.
I recently came across a lot more songs from CCR and this one stopped being my favourite,compared to down in the corner and born in the Bayou,just brilliant songs
Great tips n tricks! The downpitch is the killer! But you forgot the intro 'in between' strokes in the A and G chord! However anybody will find out themselves of course. Thanks anyways!
A love your tutorial. Thank you, I am pretty sure John is cutting the cords short (stops them from ringing too long) in the intro, they seem to come to an abrupt end. Am I hearing it correctly?
