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Day 1 – Ants In Your Pants
Responses
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Allman bros, john lee hooker,van morrison
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I picked that up nice
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“Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton
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Fun stuff. I love when it’s easier each time.
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Maria Lena, Sleep Walk (steel guitar), Apache
This was fun and I was better this time around…small win there -
Listen to Taj Mahal – Stagger Lee! It’s all vibrato guitar.
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Fun technique. Dazed and Confused uses lots of vibrato
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Good one! I can’t get that descending theme out of my head now!
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How about “Whiskey and You” by Chris Stapleton
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Works like a charm…
Small win – I came, I played.
Have a good evening. -
This was fairly simple and it sounds good
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My first thought’s are of Hendrix’s Hey Joe; also the riff to The Animals’ “It’s My Life.” I also notice that these are 60-year-old songs, LOL.
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Love vibrato, looking forward to this week. One of my favorite players was Paul Kosoff who uses great vibrato in Free’s “Fire and Water” his lead break comes in at 1:50 https://youtu.be/q13EUUsIsFE?si=PI7lNQcxuuqFwmvZ
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I played along pretty weel My only issue is using the correct fingers consistently.
How about Eric Johnson as a Bravado player. -
Tommy Emmanuel’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. What a masterpiece!
https://youtu.be/0cHeNscKZN0?si=w0TKGxHGeScUZzl9 -
-+Was able to follow Tony today. My ifingfers *t iussye us yusiubng tge riuggt
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Well, that was oddly difficult.
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Forgot to mention when thinking of vibrato experts:
Peter Green!!!! Here’s a great example, which was clearly the precursor to Black Magic Woman, written by Peter later: https://youtu.be/cC48etW-Xs4-
Peter Green and Eric Clapton sort of played musical chairs in “John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers” band. Eventually Eric took some of John’s guys and formed Cream, later Peter took most of John’s group and formed Fleetwood Mac.
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Had good time playing today.
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Find it easier to do it without anchoring the thumb, anyways….
Some examples:
Santana – Samb Pa Ti
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird Solo
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb either solo -
this should help my lame solos each Wednesday.
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That was a fun lesson, and my middle finger did well on it. I agree that BB King would probably be the master, but any blues player as in Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and more modern John Mayer, Kenny Wayne Shepard as in Blue On Black and I believe you can hear that in some of Guns and Roses songs, and Slash is a blues player. I am looking forward to the rest of the week, and I know this will get more difficult as the week goes, but it is the only way we will progress. I am here, had fun and that is my big win for the day!
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Took off last week was on vacation. Nice and easy to get back into the swing.
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Thanks for posting, I’m a big fan of Sting and Dominic Miller.
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This was pretty straightforward. Carlos Santana really sustains notes with this technique. I am going to try to incorporate it. Happy wiggling.
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Vibrato is coming alongo!
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Well, its a work in progress. I think which guitar you use probably also contributes to just how much vibrato you can make? . . . I hope lol,
I’m sure John Denver must have used it extensively but nothing comes to mind. I know heather Alexander most certainly used it, but I bet she used it more on fiddle than guitar. -
Okay, session 225, and this one went easily and did not take much effort or time. Looking forward to something more rigorous tomorrow.
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Back at it after a two week break; this was an easy re-entry lesson and made me feel accomplished!
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Very easy, did it at 1.25 speed! Sometimes got my fingers mixed up though, it is actually faster and easier for me to just silently slide up to another fret. I will work on correct fretting, it is an important skill.
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Showing my age here, Johnny Winters was a master at it !
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Correction: the performance was on 9/11/2001. Here is a link to Fragile, performed that night:
https://youtu.be/ubWucJtio0M-
The entire Sting / Tuscany concert is also available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ubWucJtio0M?si=FesH7xOuLkWLEP8J
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Vibrato: Sleepwalk-Santo&Johnny
Crossroads Blues – Robert Johnson
Coming Home-Delaney&Bonnie feat Eric Clapton
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton
I’m not sure if these are good examples of Vibrato but it sure sounds like they each do something to sustain the notes they are playing. -
BB King!
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well, that was pretty cool. finally an easy challenge!
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The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
It was the first song I thought of. I looked it up and
it called it Spaghetti Western. Is that the Vibrato technique? -
Mark Knoppfler of Dire Straits e.g. Sultans of Swing
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from Carlos Santana to Stevie Ray Vaughan
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The challenge is not too hard today. Since this is not a technique that I use ordinarily, this will be a useful skill to learn. In terms of songs using vibrato, I think of B.B. King or David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, particularly on “Wish You Were Here”.
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Fun with the Classical guitar vibrato style, Favorite vibrato song George Harrison “My guitar Gently Weeps” Classical : Conceirto de Aranjuez
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Love Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive and the Guess Who who uses vibrato, Loved the exercise and tip to use the thumb as lever on back of guitar arm.
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Most difficult with index, wonder why? Easier thank last time.
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After completing the lesson as presented, I had some fun with the scale by bending a note then doing the vibrato on the adjacent note. You can throw some slides in there too and then do the vibrato on the adjacent note as well – keeping the lesson in that BB King style we played last week.
A lot of great songs and artists mentioned so far – makes me want to go on YT and listen to them all.
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Clapton uses vibrato quite often. Using my pointer finger on the third fret to create vibrato revealed a weakness. I’ll have to spend some time on this one.
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John Mayer’s Gravity solo. Love it.
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Greg Koch holds his chords/the guitar neck in certain ways to allow leverage to use vibrato in much of his chord playing, acoustic and electric.
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Fuel to the fire by Rory Galagher.Electric,but good vibrato.
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How about Blue Jean Blues by Billy Gibbons?
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, “You Got Lucky”. The guitar solos have excellent vibrato.
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Another tool for my guitar toolbox. This will be an interesting week of instructions. I hope everyone is doing well, and I can’t wait to practice the different vibrato techniques.
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Elmore James “Dust My Broom” Slide playing with a lot off Vibrato, Justin Johnson, all of his acoustic music has a lot of slide with Vibrato
Congratulations, !
Challenge complete
Come back tomorrow for your next challenge
Allman bros, john lee hooker,van morrison
I picked that up nice
“Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton
Fun stuff. I love when it’s easier each time.
Maria Lena, Sleep Walk (steel guitar), Apache
This was fun and I was better this time around…small win there
Listen to Taj Mahal – Stagger Lee! It’s all vibrato guitar.
Fun technique. Dazed and Confused uses lots of vibrato
Good one! I can’t get that descending theme out of my head now!
How about “Whiskey and You” by Chris Stapleton
Works like a charm…
Small win – I came, I played.
Have a good evening.
This was fairly simple and it sounds good
My first thought’s are of Hendrix’s Hey Joe; also the riff to The Animals’ “It’s My Life.” I also notice that these are 60-year-old songs, LOL.
Love vibrato, looking forward to this week. One of my favorite players was Paul Kosoff who uses great vibrato in Free’s “Fire and Water” his lead break comes in at 1:50 https://youtu.be/q13EUUsIsFE?si=PI7lNQcxuuqFwmvZ
I played along pretty weel My only issue is using the correct fingers consistently.
How about Eric Johnson as a Bravado player.
Tommy Emmanuel’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. What a masterpiece!
https://youtu.be/0cHeNscKZN0?si=w0TKGxHGeScUZzl9
-+Was able to follow Tony today. My ifingfers *t iussye us yusiubng tge riuggt
Well, that was oddly difficult.
Forgot to mention when thinking of vibrato experts:
Peter Green!!!! Here’s a great example, which was clearly the precursor to Black Magic Woman, written by Peter later: https://youtu.be/cC48etW-Xs4
Peter Green and Eric Clapton sort of played musical chairs in “John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers” band. Eventually Eric took some of John’s guys and formed Cream, later Peter took most of John’s group and formed Fleetwood Mac.
Had good time playing today.
Find it easier to do it without anchoring the thumb, anyways….
Some examples:
Santana – Samb Pa Ti
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird Solo
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb either solo
this should help my lame solos each Wednesday.
That was a fun lesson, and my middle finger did well on it. I agree that BB King would probably be the master, but any blues player as in Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and more modern John Mayer, Kenny Wayne Shepard as in Blue On Black and I believe you can hear that in some of Guns and Roses songs, and Slash is a blues player. I am looking forward to the rest of the week, and I know this will get more difficult as the week goes, but it is the only way we will progress. I am here, had fun and that is my big win for the day!
Took off last week was on vacation. Nice and easy to get back into the swing.
Thanks for posting, I’m a big fan of Sting and Dominic Miller.
This was pretty straightforward. Carlos Santana really sustains notes with this technique. I am going to try to incorporate it. Happy wiggling.
Vibrato is coming alongo!
Well, its a work in progress. I think which guitar you use probably also contributes to just how much vibrato you can make? . . . I hope lol,
I’m sure John Denver must have used it extensively but nothing comes to mind. I know heather Alexander most certainly used it, but I bet she used it more on fiddle than guitar.
Okay, session 225, and this one went easily and did not take much effort or time. Looking forward to something more rigorous tomorrow.
Back at it after a two week break; this was an easy re-entry lesson and made me feel accomplished!
Very easy, did it at 1.25 speed! Sometimes got my fingers mixed up though, it is actually faster and easier for me to just silently slide up to another fret. I will work on correct fretting, it is an important skill.
Showing my age here, Johnny Winters was a master at it !
Correction: the performance was on 9/11/2001. Here is a link to Fragile, performed that night:
https://youtu.be/ubWucJtio0M
The entire Sting / Tuscany concert is also available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ubWucJtio0M?si=FesH7xOuLkWLEP8J
Vibrato: Sleepwalk-Santo&Johnny
Crossroads Blues – Robert Johnson
Coming Home-Delaney&Bonnie feat Eric Clapton
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton
I’m not sure if these are good examples of Vibrato but it sure sounds like they each do something to sustain the notes they are playing.
BB King!
well, that was pretty cool. finally an easy challenge!
The Good The Bad and The Ugly.
It was the first song I thought of. I looked it up and
it called it Spaghetti Western. Is that the Vibrato technique?
Mark Knoppfler of Dire Straits e.g. Sultans of Swing
from Carlos Santana to Stevie Ray Vaughan
The challenge is not too hard today. Since this is not a technique that I use ordinarily, this will be a useful skill to learn. In terms of songs using vibrato, I think of B.B. King or David Gilmore of Pink Floyd, particularly on “Wish You Were Here”.
Fun with the Classical guitar vibrato style, Favorite vibrato song George Harrison “My guitar Gently Weeps” Classical : Conceirto de Aranjuez
Love Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive and the Guess Who who uses vibrato, Loved the exercise and tip to use the thumb as lever on back of guitar arm.
Most difficult with index, wonder why? Easier thank last time.
After completing the lesson as presented, I had some fun with the scale by bending a note then doing the vibrato on the adjacent note. You can throw some slides in there too and then do the vibrato on the adjacent note as well – keeping the lesson in that BB King style we played last week.
A lot of great songs and artists mentioned so far – makes me want to go on YT and listen to them all.
Clapton uses vibrato quite often. Using my pointer finger on the third fret to create vibrato revealed a weakness. I’ll have to spend some time on this one.
John Mayer’s Gravity solo. Love it.
Greg Koch holds his chords/the guitar neck in certain ways to allow leverage to use vibrato in much of his chord playing, acoustic and electric.
Fuel to the fire by Rory Galagher.Electric,but good vibrato.
How about Blue Jean Blues by Billy Gibbons?
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, “You Got Lucky”. The guitar solos have excellent vibrato.
Another tool for my guitar toolbox. This will be an interesting week of instructions. I hope everyone is doing well, and I can’t wait to practice the different vibrato techniques.
Elmore James “Dust My Broom” Slide playing with a lot off Vibrato, Justin Johnson, all of his acoustic music has a lot of slide with Vibrato