Peter Green Guitar Riffs and Tone | Reverb Learn to Play 

Rest in peace Peter. You have inspired many

Peter green is one of the GOAT guitarists

Many of peters best solos were on the neck pup. I’ve got a mind to give up living(live at the warehouse 1970) is one of the best most emotive solos I’ve ever heard.

RIP Peter Green, truly inspiring artist.

love the way greeny comes back to the forefront in lessons lately......the mans a legend with ears of gold.....long live the green god!!

I will never forget when I saw Peter play at Pirates World Florida. It was loud! It was great! It was amazing! And inspired me to start playing guitar within a year after that. Yes! It was the Orginal Fletwood Mac Band! Bluesbrakers!

this is perfect timing for me…..i have been spinning their Play On record the last few weeks and i think it is one of the best records i have ever hear…..great video man!!!

Of all the reverb videos his lessons are my fav. Intuitive and clear, amazing.

been waiting for a Peter Green video, glad to say it didn't disappoint. Great job!

Smooth!Very smooth!Great work,Jeff!

Awesome ! Thanks Jeff. Loved Peter Green's feel and touch. This was great insight into his inspiring tone.

Great group of licks. I'm just getting into Peter Green. Thank you!

I saw (the original) Fleetwood Mac two or three times at the FILLMORE EAST in NYC back in '68 and '69. They and (Savoy Brown) were my favorite British blues bands of that era.

Thanks Jeff. Another one of my favourite guitar players. Love to see more

Rip pete sadd loss so many took up guitar because of you legend hope you meet Gary up there 👍

Riff 3 is just so beautiful and original.

Peter Green has a few very good solo albums. Well worth checking out.

Love Jeff's videos he chooses the best guitarists and he knows his stuff.

Great video Jeff. Having seen Fleetwood Mac in the early '70s, I think you have pretty much nailed Peters sound and feel.

Great video, looking forward to part 2.

Im a simple man, I see Jeff Massey, I stop everything I’m doing and watch the video 🎸🔥

I love these videos such great tones and playing. Please do more

RIP Peter

LOL most of the comments debate the whole "out of phase" bit. What I appreciate about this vid is that Jeff takes his time, tagging each note and giving context in musical notation. I very much enjoyed this demo.

Man ..this was great..with that guitar and the understanding and awareness of Peter's touch and sensitivity when so eloquently playing his riffs...so many people are not aware of him ..I am glad you are .and how daunting an endeavour it is to play with that feel. Also to explain the theory behind it of why it works is amazing too. THanks..4 riffs to work on ..100s to go..hahahaha

Awesome, love the out-of-phase sound on a Les Paul! Long live Peter Green! Next up, you guys should do Danny Kirwan. Criminally underrated, and mostly forgotten nowadays.

Jeff is awesome. Thanks for doing this.

Nice playing and lesson! Sweet axe, too, of course!

Jeff - great demo and explamation

it´s not just about turning the pickup around - you would have to turn the magnet inside to get that out of phase thing going. just sayin`

Thanks I like the way you call out the string and fret . Everybody should do that !

Nice work Jeff!! Woof!!

I learned as a total beginner of this guy and vid . So easy to understand and consider this to be the best on the net .. thank you sir .

Jeff you are an inspiration ! Thank you !

RIP Peter Green. Favorite Fleetwood Mac project is their work with Willie Dixon & Otis Spann!

Great stuff!

Thanks Jeff, nice one

I love that sound!!!!

Live, he was untouchable in my opinion

You of your best Jeff 👌

Awesome! Thanks!

When Peter Green started with John Mayall he was actually a bass player. He had to learn how to play guitar and played by ear. I would say he mastered it. He was such a kind and humble man.

Right I'm just amazed. Learning

Love ya man! Thank you so much for great guitar!!! Thank you!!!

Well done, Jeff. I did the same thing to my ES 345, with the push-pull on the bridge volume control. But when mine is in, it's the regular middle sound. Out, it becomes the P.G. sound. It gets really close to that quack ... I think Greenie took a whole lot from BB King, his major/minor crossover licks and the way he used space to get the emotion of his playing across. The famous "BB King box," especially. BB once said Peter Green's playing was "exquisitely melancholy," and that Peter's vibrato gave him goose bumps. A suggestion: Michael Bloomfield's guitar style. Never seen anyone do a good job on Bloomfield, who was a master before all the Brits we hear about. A white, American who was immersed in the blues. Very unusual style, amazing player. R.I.P. Mike Bloomfield, my first blues guitar inspiration.

Peter played clean but very loud with lots of reverb. He hated distortion; that’s why you can always hear his fingers. He loved fender amps for their clean tone, headroom and reverb. If you want the Green sound it’s got to be a Les Paul matched to a beautiful fender tube amp.

It's unfortunate that the term "out of phase" is so often used erroneously. It's like what Leo Fender did with vibrato and tremolo (though he obviously gets a pass for all of his other contributions to music). People will call the 2 and 4 positions on a Strat "out of phase" when actually it's just the two pickups in parallel with each other. What you hear in the video is a true out of phase sound, where the sound loses a lot of body and volume but gains an extra "quacky" character. It's really helpful to have a switching mechanism to turn it on or off because most people miss the volume and can find it harsh. Alternately, it helps to dial back the volume of one of the pickups just a hair when using the out of phase sound, you can kind of dial in a half-in/half-out of phase sound where you gain a little bit more body and volume but retain that distinct quack. It's a wonderful sound on Gibson ES series guitars as well, where it was a stock feature on the vintage 345 and 355 because they were usually wired for stereo.

I still listen to the 'Then Play On' album. It's amazing stuff.

Glad to see Danny Kirwan at least get mentioned. Another fine guitarist. Jeremy Spencer primarily played slide.

Sounds amazing! Wish we could get more info on the gear he used.

Green's The Supernatural (from The Hard Road album w/John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers). Lushest tone ever heard from a guitar.

Nice job, thanks .

Peter Green was a musical genius! one of the greatest guitarists of his time.

YESSSS GREENIE

Always enjoy your videos brother and out for sure Lil Peter Green sorry of his passing if I took my neck pickup and flipped upside down is that all I would have to do?

Turning the magnet around sounds authentic and you don’t have to rewire your guitar.I did it to my 2013 Signature T it works great.

Please, anyone who watches this don't expect turning your pickup around to make it out of phase. It's the bar magnet between the two coils that needs to be turned around. Sometimes, players like the slug side towards the neck, but that is a more subtle sound change than changing the magnetic polarity of the pickup.

Great video from Jeff, as always. The tone he gets on that les paul is amazing. What kind of amp is this being played through?

Great!

Good stuff

The manalishi man a true blues legend RIP Peter Green

The story I heard was he had issues with the neck pickup cutting out, so he took it to Selmer's on Charring Cross. They removed the pickup(there's photos of Peter with the neck pickup missing from his guitar) The repair chap at Selmer's rewound the pickup with "formvar" wire. He wound it in the opposite direction from the original and flipped the magnet by accident and the lead has a plastic covering. There are photos of the control cavity showing the wiring. so the magnet flip and the pickups' wire being backwards give the guitar it's voice!

I sure miss him. And as much as I love Pete Green Mac, he and claptons mayall years were the best.

Thank you Chicago

In an interview Pete said he took the neck pick up out in an effort to emulate E.C after witnessing him play all night just using the neck pup. Another story states it was removed to assist with sustain for The Supernatural. I don't care what the truth is, the result is legendary.

very good

Have a Hamer archtop setup to copy that. Run into a cocked wah you get a great single coil sizzle all bucked up. Hard to explain but fun to play.

Do some more greeny lessons!!!👍🏻

If you don't know who this guy is, he is the guitar player and singer from The Steepwater Band. Go check them out, they are awesome!

so nice. i want another LP moded after Peter's 59....before i die.

That's a really nice guitar!

i wanna know where the funk my man Jeff Massey is getting all these amazing les pauls! The beat up gold top, the faded white custom, and now this one. Reverb, we NEED an in-depth vid on these three LP's please !

Well done! Looking allways to something a bit beyond pure pentatonic.

You gotta flip the magnet (or the leads if you have a 4-conductor pickup). The direction of the pickup means nothing. Great playing though.

You can actually hear the notes swell first when they should decay...those pickups are nailing it. The playing too, killer lesson- thanks! I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, especially the older stuff. As tone goes- Peter Green had magic tone, deservedly so and only Gilmour, Page or May are in the ballpark. Trower too. My SG tribute project needs to make these sounds. Way better than normal middle tones. I understand you can rotate the magnet 180 degrees in the neck pup and get the sound that way as well as winding the coils backwards.

RIP, Peter Green. Fan since '72. Copped some lines and alot of inspiration over the years. I LOVE the options offered on this 'Paul. Would love it on my '06 Epi MIK LP Std + but think it would cost what i paid for the guitar ;) Rock On ! btw, i'll always go with the Joel Danzig from Hamer assesment,,,The neck pickup was taken a part and the magnet was installed backwards. Next time i restring my Epi, i'm flipping the pup around. Its about time. they're potted so that's all i get. Good guitar, though.

This is very nice. I can’t get enough of it. I was listening to the album end game. Heavy on the Wah. Does anyone out there know anything about this record. I don’t hear much conversation about it. ✌️

Coolest lesson to date on the channel; next do "Jumping at shadows". Ehehe

8:30 the greeny scales grin, once there, you stay there 😄

The part that you're uncertain about at the end of (riff #3) was played live by jeremy spencer, he uses similar formation (different key) in the song " Oh Well " live ( live on UK Television) in fact most of the 'lead' part is played by Jeremy Spencer live. Oh Well.

More of Jeff. We like Jeff, give us some Roy Buchanan.

ENDLICH MAL JEMAND DER WIRKLICH AHNUNG HAT!!!!!!!!!

I love another woman off the first album spot on tone pre much!

Green got that high D minor chord from Otis Rush. Check out "All You Love."

I lived through the 1960s and Peter Green touched lots of people. Maybe there were a lot of people that were out of phase with what was going on and that's why they connected?

That’s all you need - economy and taste - Greenie was the best ✌🏻🎶🎸

You forgot his famous riff from "Someday After Awhile". That's a Classic Riff.

Listen to his wah work on his solo "the end of the game"

Mick Taylor next?

I'd really love to hear a video of the "How to sound like" for Buddy Holly, one of the pioneers of Rock N Roll.

As said you don’t get an out of phase sound by just turning the pickup backwards. You have to flip the magnet inside or solder it the pickup wire the other way around. Nice playing!

Rotating the pickup 180° will not bring the pickups out of phase. You have to actually take the magnet out of the pickup and flip it over

Thats Peter right there

I think the key to Peter Green's playing is the phrasing (whén do you start the notes and when do you stop). And like the video shows, thats is hard to get (or better; you got it or you don;t).'

Its an inverted bar magnet. Flipping the pup is not the case .. so to attain full PG tone one must invert the bar magnet 180@ then install PUP backwards ,from there "THEN PLAY ON "

Thats really fucking interesting. Thanks!

Excellent interpretation

There’s magnetic and electric “out of phase”. PGs pickup was modified by accident with the magnet reversed. If you have a switch that puts the two pickups out of phase, that’s electrical and not quite the same thing as Greenie’s tone.

Are you or are you not Clegg from Eastbound and Down?

What a beautiful Les Paul.