Phil, I came to Christ in 1981, at 23 years old. I left behind a life of heavy alcohol and drug use. Prior to coming to Christ I was into hard core Rock, but wanted to change my lift completely. Your Song, "Spend My Life With You" was one of the first, and most inspirational, Christian songs I heard. The Lord used your song to touch my soul on a very deep level, and I appreciate your work and artistry. I'm now a beginning/intermediate guitarist, and have a love for both acoustic guitars as well as for finger-picking style. I would absolutely love to learn to play "spend My life With You." I hope and pray that you would at least consider making a lesson teaching it. your fan, and Brother in Christ, Bob
Phil Keaggy I have just discovered your music today and I'm sucked in, you are truly blessed and are a great inspiration. I'm excited to hear more so thank you and God bless.
Thank you for a wonderful show Friday in Jax. I’m the guy who hadn’t seen you since your birthday in 1985 in Miami. God bless you, brother! You’ve been such a huge blessing in my life and guitar playing. I’m gonna try to get this. Beautiful.
I think I have had every one of you're taps and CD's that you ever put out, the problem is I give them away, when I play them for friends. They all ways want them. What a wonderful gift.
Such a Wonderfully Talented Guitarist! "I threw that in" he says "Elvis Presley Moment" So funny too! Sometimes You Sound Like Paul McCartney in lots of your Rock N Roll stuff from earlier yrs. I was just listening to something off of Sunday's Child-Tell Me How You Feel-If I had never heard of Phil Keaggy I might have thought it was Paul.
Happy 2024 to ya, Phil! Seeing this vid I'm reminded of you playing an auditorium in Duluth probably 15 years ago, and I gave the stage manager some CDs to pass along to you. I feel a bit disappointed at MYSELF for doing that. I did not realize that 1) it was basically me showing off and 2) you were probably getting CDs from guitarguy fanboys at every stop on the tour back then. I'm learning! Much older and SO much wiser.
Two people don't like talent. I saw Phil when I was 15. I was so inspired to improve my playing and take more chances with my playing. So blessed to have seen him live.
Give me a couple of months watching this video and practicing a little every day and I think I just might could learn this. The closeups really help me see just what's going on.
I don't know about metal, per se, but Phil is no stranger to amazing electric guitar, or fantastic vocals. And as Chuck Berry warned, he never loses the beauty of the melody. Check him out. This tune is off one of my top albums, Beyond Nature. Phil, you are the best. Now you help others by sharing your secrets. Amazing. Bless.
I'm still stunned.. I've always thought he was head and shoulders above most guitar players.. but man.. He makes it look so easy.. If I hadn't been playing so long I'd be discouraged at how good he is and how bad I am in comparison :)
He's referring to his song "Like an island". Another song you should check out, it's really nice as well. It's from his "getting closer" album, now out of print. And it's also on his "time 2" album too.
mhdking, Phil actually has 2 dvd's out - an electric method and an acoustic method where he does a lot of this stuff here in a very teachable way including tab transcripts. Both are available on his website currently!! Success to your guitar playing! Richard
I usually play in E tuning,but Phil makes it easier to learn how to play in different Tunings.Still trying master EADGBE tuning and playing,and I've been playing for 30 years! Phil Still Top Dog! Great Guy,Fine Musician,A Man After God's Own Heart Too! He might be playing around my area soon.Can't wait to see him for the first time!!!!
This is so beautiful Phil. ...kinda makes me wanna cry. I don't know if you personally read these comments, but if you wouldn't mind putting up some lesson/practice exercise videos or something I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one. Take care
@Glenn: Phil just released an entire instructional course on JamPlay: www.jamplay.com/guitar-lessons/phil-keaggy. Here's a recent announcement from his Facebook fan page: facebook.com/groups/471964696169927/permalink/1642707115762340/. I haven't seen any of the material yet, but it looks great.
He definitely has an ear for it, but actually it is very easy to switch between standard and DADGAD tuning. Only 3 strings change tuning, and they move by a single whole step, which is an easy interval to hear. Then when you are in DADGAD, since it is DSUS4 tuning and very "open" sounding, and since you only changed 3 strings, it is easy to pick out the strings that are out of tune and quickly adjust them, as he did in the video. Notice he wasn't in tune right away and had to adjust.
I've been playing guitar for 12 years (fiddling with tunings for about 5 years) and I still don't have the balls to tune/detune a guitar as violently/efficiently as these guys do. Maybe thats whats holding me back!?!
Yeah, I hear that. I have really good relative pitch so if I have one note that I know is in tune, I can tune all the rest of the guitar strings by ear from that note. But if all of the strings are in random notes I get lost and have to whip out a tuner to get a base pitch in my head. If you're tuning in DADGAD, I have noticed the easiest way to do it is to get the bottom D in tune and then play 12th fret harmonics, two strings at a time. It's easy to hear the dissonance and tune that way
If he played metal scales and metal music aswell, i have no doubt in my mind he would be mind blowing. He is mind blowing now but pass him a high destortion guitar and id probs shit myself.
If you want to get good at guitar, make practice enjoyable for yourself. The key for that is to learn to improvise. Find a repeating loop of some chords, figure out what key they're in, and play some notes in that key. Repeat until enlightenment.
most metal players hide behind their speed. this is actually well written slow tempo yet complicated song. all those metal guitarists are usually doing nothing but power chords and scales. expand your knowledge.
Well than maybe I should sell my vintage Epiphone E230TD and my car in order to get this one. LOL No man I'm not that good I guess. A Godin will do it for me. Thanks for the info
He says at the beginning of the video that he's using DADGAD tuning, but half step down. So you would have C# G# C# F# G# C#, not the standard Eb or D#. ;)
That's a Ryan guitar: ryanguitars.com/. Luthier Kevin Ryan is a friend of Phil's, and I know Phil admires Kevin's guitars, though I haven't seen him play them in any of many concerts I've been to. Phil's main recording and performing acoustic guitars are Olson guitars: olsonguitars.com/. He's also often used Langejans guitars in the studio and on stage: www.langejansguitars.com/index.htm (alas, Del Langejans is retired from guitar making). In his early days as a solo artist, he played a Mark Whitebook guitar. Whitebook had a short guitar building career because of a bad sensitivity to sawdust, but he made a big impression. James Taylor also used to play a Whitebook, but now plays Olson guitars. More on Whitebook at JT's site: www.james-taylor.com/forum/topic/interview-with-jts-early-guitar-builder-mark-whitebook/.
Its time to get right with Jesus. nobody is automatically gonna go to heaven at the end of it, we all have lied or stolen or had sex before marriage and the punishment is hell. Jesus died so you can get a clean slate and forgiveness of future sins if you repent of them if you commit them, so you receive the gift of forgiveness by following him. When you start you have to stop sinning willfully, and follow his word and obey it, strive to do those things. That’s following the Lord Jesus. Read the Bible and find wisdom.
In the case of a DADGAD tuning it's easier to be fluent due to having 3 strings tuned the same. It's hard not to sound good in some cases. Especially like an open D or G tuning. Keaggy is amazing though. mad props.
how can you say something like that? No he is not. Especially playing this easy listening acoustic music. Much better metal players and jazz players, and hell acoustic players. classical players... certainly this is not the greatest thing you have ever heard
