American Football - Never Meant (Guitar Tutorial)
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Here's a quick explanation of the guitar parts on American Football's track "Never Meant" from their first LP in 1999.
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Guitar 1 is in FACGCE tuning
Guitar 2 is in DAEAC(#)D tuning and capo'd at the 3rd fret (creating FCGCEF tuning)
0:00 Info
1:00 Part 1 Gtr 1
4:34 Part 2 Gtr 1
6:09 Part 3 Gtr 1
7:25 Guitar 2 Info
7:59 Part 1 Gtr 2
9:51 Part 2 Gtr 2
10:39 Part 3 Gtr 2
12:23 Part 4 Gtr 2
16:46 Part 5 Gtr 2
19:18 Wrap Up
It needs a touch of crushed high school dreams to really make it perfect.
Haha true, needs more emotions
Those are already implied
Bro we all gonna make it
i was going to learn this song but i ended up just noodling around in that tuning for like an hour it sounds so amazing
It's great isn't it, open tunings are a lot of fun!
we just lived the same life
I finally got over being intimidated by trying a new tuning and now I'm mad that I didn't try it earlier. Such a beautiful sound.
Just started playing guitar 3 days ago after 4 weeks of playing bass and 11 years playing drums. After making huge progress on the bass and the guitar I try to play this song and your tutorial helped me to play it faster and cleaner. Thanks dude
No worries at all. That's really awesome to hear! Glad I could help you out :)
Nice skills. I'm also convering ftom drums to guitar
HOW TF DID YOU LEARN THIS AFTER ONLY 3 DAYS ON GUITAR DFDJDKDNFJFODOW
After 4 years of guitar 6 on bass and 1 on drums, i wish i learned drums first. Way harder than it looks and still struggling
@@romangonzalez648 Surprisingly, it was the opposite for me. I seem to be naturally inclined to play drums. I’ve only used a set a handful of times, but as long as I had someone playing guitar for me to make a beat off of, it came really quickly to me. Just wish I had the money for my own set because I haven’t played in years now
I don't know him personally but Mike kinsella is my cousin. Kind of glad he doesn't know how much a fanboy I am of him. I started to figure it out through bad blood by Owen having a girl a year from a year behind me in high school in the video and then from my mother knowing we are related. Crazy. Gotta love the Midwest twinkle
Nice 👍
Most calming voice ever 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 Thanks so much Dave! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Haha thanks Ness :)
I've had this video open in my tabs for about a couple days now, going back to it and practicing... I'm making progress, so I wanna say thank you! This tutorial is awesome. I'm so glad I came across this video. Cheers!
That's so great to hear Emma! Really glad I could help you out and that you're chipping away at it. Good stuff! :)
Great tutorial! straight to the point, mentioned the different tuning, and explained it at a great pace. Thank you!
Thank you so much, glad I could help! :)
im trying to learn how to play this having never played anything on the guitar before
Aiming high. I like it 👌 good luck!
how's it coming along??
I'm going to try this on gutqir I have a little exprince but I play bass
Howd it go?
Better then smoke on the water. You should also learn the riff from “Where is my mind?” Too, nice techniques used in there, also it’s a bit simpler than this riff
You're an excellent teacher Dave.
BiG Stinko thanks so much, very kind of you to say :)
I gotta say thanks man being that im quickly becoming an American Football and just math rock fan in general. I feel like this song is the perfect song to inspire someone from this genre so thanks for doing a lesson on.
Yeah this song's a great entry point for math rock type stuff for sure. Glad I could help you out :)
an amazing emo riff right there ha! this is not an average math rock
Dude thank you so much!! You helped me out a ton, I’ve been wanting to learn this song for ages
Glad I could help you out Cody :)
this song is really easy to play and gorgeous
Glad you enjoy playing it :)
Just learned my first song thanks to you man. I'm definitely gonna check your whole discography. Thanks a million bro!
Hey thanks so much, really appreciate it! My pleasure, glad you found it helpful :)
@@davedoingguitar not a problem, you broke it down perfectly for a beginner to learn. Props to you my friend:)
Hey, I just want to thank you for your tutorial it's the best on the internet!
The closest lesson to recording ive seen so far, thanks, couldnt get some parts of 2 guitar
DIRKA V TRUSAH thanks so much :)
so beautiful… thank you
You're welcome :)
I finally figured out the timing for the opening and realised I was doing extra notes on the top c string. This is a great tutorial, thank you!
You're welcome! Glad I could help you out :)
i picked up the guitar a few weeks ago, and i just learned this thanks to you!
Nice one Oliver! Glad I could help you out :)
Bro thank you. I've been in a guitar rut for a long time and came across your video and the one for stay home. I never play alternate tunings so this was a really great learning experience. I had to stop and rewind the video about 100 times but I got it! Learned them both sitting on the floor with my acoustic :)
You're welcome Jeff :)
I definitely go through ruts with my playing where I won't even look at my guitar for a couple of weeks at a time, but it's something I always come back to. It can be tricky keeping that motivation up. I'm really glad to hear I could give you a little boost to carry on with it and learn some great AF tunes :)
you do it with such ease it makes it look so easy 😔😔
Just takes some practice. Take it slow, go section by section, and you'll get there :)
Thankyou so much been wanting to learn this for ages!
SAM B-H happy to help! :)
New video for Summer Ends up now - ruclips.net/video/On9TsORio1Y/видео.html
added this onto playlist will be back after i start learning this as a complete noob on guitar
I was a complete noob too, everyone is at some point. Just take it slow, learn piece by piece and you'll get there. Main thing is to take your time and reinforce the right things. Just takes time 👍
absolutely terrified of tuning up but i’ll give it a go
You and me both
Great tutorial, thank you for the help
Casey King my pleasure! Glad it helped you out :)
This was nice. Thanks for the tutorial!
No worries :)
Learned how to play this thanks to you! Cheers!
Tread of the Frogs my pleasure! Happy to help :)
THANK YOU!
No worries at all :)
Never been a Gibson fan, but whatever your setup is makes me a fan 😎 love the tone.
Hey thanks so much J Cruise! I’ve had my Epiphone Les Paul for about 13 years, still goes alright haha. From memory for this video I’m just going through some reverb and into the amp. Amp is a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and the reverb is from a Strymon Flint
@@davedoingguitar Thanks for letting giving me the rig rundown! I'm gonna continue to check out Gibson (now Epiphones) and see what I can find. Thanks again! Awesome channel by the way!
@@jcruise24 No worries at all, and thanks for the kind words :)
Yeah I'm a gibson/epi fan (got this guitar when I started cos i wanted to be Jimmy Page haha) so I reckon they're worth checking out. Good luck on your search!
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You're welcome
Thanks!
No problems 👍
thank you
You're welcome! :)
5 minutes in, great tutorial. Only closing it to do my virtual homework.
Mehmet Âkif thanks so much! Hope the homework is short and reasonably painless haha 👍
thank you
You're welcome! :)
Thank you so much m8
You're welcome :)
is there a way i could get away with doing the second guitar part without a capo? just wondering since i dont have one atm and its my favorite guitar part of the song
Great Vids, Dave.
During this Lockdown, are you considering doing anymore vids, perhaps? 😁
Hey VL! Thanks so much. Yeah i'm indoors bouncing between creative things. Been making some ludicrous music (link in bio) the last few days but i'll aim for a couple more tutorials as well because it's been a while since i've put anything up. I haven't forgotten about those couple of tunes you're after either! Hope you're staying safe!
@@davedoingguitar that's great to hear that you're playing and staying creative!
Stay safe, brother.
Cheers!
i’m getting there
Great to hear :)
F A C G C E
looks simple enough
idk if im putting the capo on wrong, but when i play the other stuff w/o the capo it sounds good. i put it to the same tuning. but then i put the capo on, and it sounds very different from what youre playing. not sure why!
The guitar with the capo is tuned differently to the guitar without the capo. Tunings are in the description and also mentioned at the start of each guitars individual section for reference :)
At 15:18, you talk about the 4th chord..Is the person playing this part not the one that does the bend on the string? :o
Hey Joseph, yeah you're probably right. You mean the bend that happens at 2:53 in the original recording? I'd say yeah it's this second 'rhythm' guitar that plays that little bend that I forgot to mention. Good pickup!
Just made a tutorial for Honestly today. Hope you like it!
ruclips.net/video/n7op8fwKbZo/видео.html
ahhh this is so amazing, can't wait to try it out! getting a guitar soon so i'm a total beginner, do you think i could tackle this right away (obviously knowing it might take some time before i'll actually be able to do it correctly) or is this too hard? should i wait a little longer and start off with easier songs?
That's so great you're getting into guitar Charlotte! Nice one 👍
I would probably recommend this not being the very first thing you ever have a go at when you get your guitar, maybe have a look at doing a few picking exercises, learn some basic chords/songs and learn how to use a few common techniques such as sliding, hammer-ons and pull-offs (a quick search in youtube will help you out here).
This doesn't mean you can't give Never Meant a shot though. This tune will be quite challenging (being accurate with your picking/having notes ring out while you play other ones/it's in an odd time signature/it's in a non-standard tuning so scale patterns and chord shapes won't be transferrable to other songs etc) but hopefully my explanation of it is simple enough to follow along with. Obviously, like you said, it'll take a bit of time, but it's like anything - start slowly and learn it bit by bit. Start with the main riff and play slowly so you make as few mistakes as possible and then add the next few notes and build it up this way until you can play the whole riff. Once you've got it all together, start speeding it up a bit until you're at the same tempo as the song. And if it's not working, just set it aside and come back to it down the track and have another go.
If you give it a shot and are struggling with something, just comment again and I'll try and help you out.
Welcome to the guitar haha. Hope you like it 😃
@@davedoingguitar Thank you so, so much for such a detailed reply! I was already planning on learning some basic chords etc first, but I also figured that trying to learn some songs right away will keep me motivated! Since I'm a total newby I can't yet really tell how hard any given song actually is, but I've got a few others lined up that seem to be way easier than this, so I'll start with those before I tackle this one. Might even be a nice motivation of sorts, something to look forward to, as I've always liked this song quite a lot. Thanks for all of the tips and thanks for the nice welcome! :)
@@davedoingguitar Actually, are there any songs you'd recommend to a newby? Maybe not as the first thing ever, but a good beginner song? I've been having a rather hard time finding any useful advice on easy indie songs especially, which is what i'm looking for. And thanks again!
Sorry for the slow response.
My pleasure Charlotte :)
Yeah learning songs is absolutely great for motivation rather than getting bogged down in theory or technique when you're first starting out. I had lessons for 7 or 8 years which was really great, but I found I learnt just as much by jamming along to music I like and figuring things out by ear. I learnt a lot of The Beatles (which are great for learning lots of interesting chords and chord progressions) and classic 60's/70's rock like Led Zeppelin and Hendrix and Cream which are all obviously guitar heavy tunes and a good mix of chords and single note riffs which I found useful early on.
What sort of Indie bands are you into? I could check some out and try to point you in the right direction as to what to learn if you like?
Yeah fellas I snapped the b string on this, careful out there!
Yeah that is a risk. Watch out for that!
To everyone here I highly recommend checking out Dave's single 'a cramp of the lower intestine', it's crazy good rock and roll extravaganza.
It'll grab you by the seat of your soiled pants.
therealmonikers.bandcamp.com/album/a-cramp-of-the-lower-intestine
Hahaha thanks! Apparently I make ridiculous stuff like this in isolation. Got more on the way too so stay tuned!
Thx learned this just for the meme
Memes are life. Good stuff!
Which pedals r u using to get that tone ?
Hey Andres, from memory this was pretty clean. Probably just a bit of reverb which I get from a Strymon Flint. My amp is a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I think that's about all I was using in this video :)
F a c g c e
Reckon you could do a 'five silent miles' guitar cover??
Great tune. Will see what I can do :)
Oh wow you replied :-)
Thank you so much!!!
Keep up the good work man,
Your channel is great, as is your playing!!
Have a great day cobber!!!😋
Yeah I normally reply sooner but had a break from RUclips stuff. But back on it now :) Thanks for your support mate, I really appreciate it! :)
DAEAC#D how are you supposed to know how to tune it to that? i cant find a youtube video or anything showing how
You'll need to get your tuner out and do this -
Guitar 1 (from low string to high string)
E up to F
A stays as A
D down to C
G stays as G
B up to C
E stays as E
And for guitar 2
E down to D
A stays as A
D up to E
G up to A
B up to C#
E down to D
Then once you've tuned to this put a capo on the 3rd fret.
@@davedoingguitarwow thanks i think you would reply yourself appreciate it! for guitar 1 i just found a video of someone tuning and matched up the sounds, if i dont have access to a tuner could i just listen to each note and tune to it(like listen to an open D and tune the E down to it? i think i tried doing that and messed up because i was tuning up)
@P A No worries :)
Yeah absolutely, if you haven't got a tuner then the best way is to match them from another guitar or off a keyboard (though I'd recommend getting a tuner if possible if you're going to be playing a bit of guitar). I give an example of guitar 1 tuning at 0:33 and guitar 2 tuning at 7:35 so you can tune from there.
Also a general rule for alternate tunings is the note you're tuning to is probably fairly close to the standard tuning. If you see that you've got to tune your G string to an F, you're going to be tuning down to that because F is only a small distance away from G - just 2 frets below. Whereas if you try tuning the G string up to F you're going to be trying to tighten the string up 10 frets and if you do this your string will snap. If the note you're tuning to is quite a distance away (4-7+ frets away) then you'll definitely be tuning down.
Basically the most you'll ever see to tune a string up (sharper) from standard tuning is about 3 frets worth otherwise you get into string snapping territory.
Hope this helps :)
i love you
Cheers!
i’m not rlly sure how to tune this. i don’t have a physical tuner just an app
Hopefully your app has a mode where it will be displaying whatever note you're playing and not just saying you're really sharp/flat and trying to lock you in to standard tuning. So once you're in that mode, tune to this -
Guitar 1 from low to high
E up to F
A stays as A
D down to C
G stays as G
B up to C
E stays as E
And for guitar 2
E down to D
A stays as A
D up to E
G up to A
B up to C#
E down to D
Then once you've tuned to this put a capo on the 3rd fret.
Hopefully this helps. If you're still having trouble then I would really recommend grabbing a tuner as this will making playing along with this and other songs a lot simpler for you. Or grabbing the app GuitarTuna which i have on my phone. It has the mode I mentioned above and is free so should sort out your issue :)
@@davedoingguitar i actually dk have the guitartuna app but it only shows me if i’m rlly flat or sharp, could u tell me how to make it not do that??
I'm really sorry I think I've lied to you. I just tried doing it and unless you're willing to pay money it seems you can only tune to standard tuning in that app. Having a look at some other apps now to see if it's possible on a different one :)
@@davedoingguitar ah it’s oki maybe i’ll just invest in a real turner seems worth it!!
Yeah if you're going to be playing a bit of guitar it most certainly is worth grabbing one. Can get them for about $12-$15 and they just sit on the headstock of your guitar and save a lot of hassle 👍
how do u tune G to A sir? i mean, is it tuned up or down? in guitar tuna, G to A tune (down) is -100 XD
For guitar 2 you mean? Yeah tune it up. Only going up a tone (2 notes) so it won't stress your string to the point of snapping. Same distance as the B to C# for string 2 :)
So hard, I'll never be able to play this
Just like anything, take it slowly and break it down into small parts. Try learning the first three notes, get that down and then move on to the next three notes. Once you've got them down, join them up with the first three you learnt and so on. Might take some time but you can get there 🙂
same :(
@@tohereknowswhen779 I gave up playing guitar for real. Broke my guitar three weeks ago. Kind of regret, but then I think I'd never be able to play lots of things I like and I feel a bit better (although I know I should have given it to someone).
@@maximoplfhope u start up again soon
how are we supposed to know how to tune to the different ones wish you showed how
Hey jenag jrjc, you’ll need to get your tuner out and do this -
Guitar 1 (from low string to high string)
E up to F
A stays as A
D down to C
G stays as G
B up to C
E stays as E
And for guitar 2
E down to D
A stays as A
D up to E
G up to A
B up to C#
E down to D
Then once you've tuned to this put a capo on the 3rd fret.
Your comments for guitar 1 says tuning is in FACGCE but your video says open D for the first string plucked. I don’t get it. There is no open D string.
Tychiballs808 Tychiballs808 For the purposes of talking through things I just refer to the strings as standard tuning even though they’re tuned differently. So when I’m playing the 6th string, I’ll still call it low E even though it’s tuned to F. 4th string I’ll refer to as the D string even though it’s a C etc. I find it makes things a bit easier to talk about rather than remembering the alternate string names. I make mention of this at around 2:00.
davedoingguitar yes I did hear you mention that part and I understand but the sound your guitar actually makes is an open D. When I pluck my 4th string which is tuned to C, which is what it says in your comments on how i should tune it, it does not sound like yours. After I changed that string to D now it sounds great.
davedoingguitar so your comments should actually say guitar 1 should be tuned as FADGCE not FACGCE.
Tychiballs808 Tychiballs808 I’ve just rewatched through and also tuned my guitar to what I say in the video and guitar one is definitely in FACGCE tuning. Not sure what you’re hearing sorry. The song is in C and the open 4th string is the root note
davedoingguitar well idk then. Could be my tuner was off. After practicing i did throw out the battery because it was dead so maybe my 4th string wasn’t tuned properly. ??? Thanks anyway and thanks for posting this video.
Also it's a polyrhythm right?
What part are you referring to?
wanted to learn but I have a floyd rose >:[
thanks bro it helped a lot
im waiting for more videos, maybe more midwest emo stuff
cheers
Krzysztof Chmielewski no worries. Yeah I’ve got a list of things I’m slowly getting through so should be more on the way soon :)
@@davedoingguitar cool :)
mans sounds like sammygreen
"Let me put this guitar in a different tuning then capo it so it's in the same tuning" American Football why
It’s almost like you literally have no idea what tuning is standard. The capo brings it nowhere near standard tuning.
@@SnailHatanhe didn’t say putting it on the capo brought it up to standard tuning, he meant it would bring it back to the tuning of the first guitar in this tutorial.
Well I may need to get some lighter stings first.
Can't hurt
GT2:DAEAC#D