Thanks again, you have no idea how grateful guys like me are for what you do. I have to say I’ve been play since I was 16...I’m 62 now... still consider my self a so so player, also being tone deaf doesn’t help, some of the best things that have ever happened, electronic tuner, the internet and guys like you... ps my wife says I have to many guitars.... I then show her yours..😂
I've tuned along to albums for years oh my friend sales crazy I was not tuned in 440 but if you can tune and hang up without busting string you do pretty good PS I just wanted to tell you thank you to teach see songs people that don't know them you're very kind to do that I remember when I was in bands I play drums in the early years my guitar players are really good used to turn away so they said I was stealing their r i f f s anyway keep up the good work I'm 63 I've been at it a while you inspired me to pick up my acoustic about a year ago when I started watching keep up the great work Jay Jay
i use to watch your videos back on you old channel sorry to hear about how that went down but its inspiring to see youve got a new channel and a bunch of content for me to tune into i will be watching and keep up the great work
The Stone were famous for not worrying about exact tuning. I remember a piano player saying he could not figure which key they were in and the wasn't Ian
I ALWAYS enjoy … and learn a ton through your lessons .. this tune is special … haven t heard in years ! Original version was released In my senior year high school 50 sum years ago .. (it’s a long song !) My guitar then was my Sears Silvertone acoustic from 1965 catalogue … $17.95 with ‘hardboard’ (cardboard) case … still have it Your guitar here sounds very quick and responsive .. sounds very good.
So, about tape speed. When Derek and the Dominoes added the Coda to Layla, the Coda was recorded on a new reel. In order to match up the original (short) version to be in the same key as the Coda, some thumb on reel magic by Tom Dowd was required. Tape speed could explain the funky tunings on some of these old songs.
I think Mr. James is a guitarist in a pretty prominent band in the U.S. I've seen some of his guitars clearly numberd, only time I've seen that is with pro's, playing sets with axes for various songs. 👍👍
This is pretty much the same key that I was taught to play this, but there are some subtle variations in chord shapes which add a little extra to your version.
I was playing around with this the other day, and something that sounds interesting is playing the Bb as Bb sus2, fingered (1)-1-3-3-1-(1). That's a barre on 1st fret and use ring and pinky on fret 3, strings 3 and 4. I strum that mostly on the middle 4 strings to get the Bb bass and the sus2 note (C) on top. Full disclosure: That C is the melody note, and this may just be my crutch to help sing a C note over a Bb major chord! :^)
I have watched your lesson approach mature into some very good learning tools. Your singing is a big help as are your explanations and often times rock history lessons too! My go to channel on you tube to cheat my way into learning a song. Thank you!!!
“ The magic to this song was the addition of ‘recorder’ by Brian Jones. Originally Keith played the piano with no guitar, evidently? , on the Ed Sullivan clip.”
Actually in that era there was a lot of tape speed fluctuations on TAPE . Sometimes deliberately sometimes not. Anyway according to many sources including Keith Richards himself with Mick Jagger in many interviews not claiming credit, the song was entirely written including lyrics by KEITH. There are many other sources that say Brian Jones helped write the music butgot NO credit. Anyway THANKS GOOD JOB AS USUAL.
There are a lot of recordings from the 1960's and 70's which are not in standard pitch. It could be, as mentioned, that the guitars may have not been tuned to any other instruments that had a more fixed pitch because it wasn't necessary. More likely it was the tape machines play back speed that had been altered slightly, often because the recorded song's tempo was thought later to be slightly too slow or too fast, they didn't want to re-record the backing, the digital technology we have now to change playback speed without affecting the pitch wasn't around then. The classic example is 'Strawberry Fields forever', two different recording sessions a semi-tone apart edited together by speeding one up and slowing down the other until their pitches matched somewhere in the middle. The Beatles (or rather their producer George Martin) first began to use tape speed creatively on their 'Rubber soul' album, recording a piano break on a slow speed, and playing it back at standard speed it sounded more like a harpsicord. Other reasons for these discrepancies could be that a master tape was recorded at one studio but mixed at another, and the machines had not been maintained or calibrated perfectly. For guitar, a chromatic tuner is useful to give better guidance on fine tuning for those who aren't (literally) attuned to hearing the notes they need to match. There are hundreds of electronic tuners available, ones with a jack socket input or simple clip-on ones for those acoustic guitars that have no form of pickup. There are also phone apps too that can do the same job. You need something that has a chromatic setting that shows a gauge of -50 to +50 on it's display. One that only has standard EADGBE guitar tuning won't do the job in this case. A chromatic setting will show a display measured in 'cents' . 'Ruby Tuesday' in this case is about -40 cents below F (or rather +10 cents above E) , so this song is only very slightly sharp. I do tabs for the ultimateGuitar site, and always include some guidance in cents if a song needs specific fine tuning to match it's pitch and to play along with the record.
If you sit down and try to play along with Strawberry Fields Forever, you’ll find that the two parts don’t quite match up. At almost exactly the one-minute mark, the pitch does change on that edit.
@@jamesjames9275 Haven't checked it out, but I'm guessing with George Martin's attention to detail and ear there was a compromise to be made. His judgement call seems to have been that the primary thing was to try to make the tempos match the best he could, if there'd been a bigger tempo change on the edit than any pitch difference it would likely be more noticeable to the average listener.
It’s actually called perfect pitch and is probably mostly genetic and brought out by exposure to music before the age of 7. To see a great example of PP view Rick Beato testing his son at various ages by playing piano chords and his son names all the notes.
According to legend Keith did not put a lot of effort on exact tuning. Heck he even left off the E string off many compositions. Genius follows few conventionalities.
