this came out in 1976 and every power band heavy metal band took this power accords and made it in to their stuff Scott Gorham and Phil Lynott co wrote a song that will be immortal, its rather sad they aren't in RNR hall of fame
I've had 4 speeding tickets in my life. Two of them were due to this song, one was due to Sammy Hagar's "I can't drive 55", and the other was because I just gave my Dog a bath and wanted to dry him by going 90 mph with my windows open. The last one actually got me laughed at by the trooper who was also a Dog guy. While I was signing the ticket he was petting my dog.
Underrated? you been living under a rock? Phil Lynott and the gang used to be one of the biggest bands in the world. Theres nothing "underrated" at all with these guys they were brilliant ...
theyd played it so effortlessly live in 76, was just watching a vid, I would be a basketcase trying to play all the guitar stuff correctly and change at the right time live, amazing stuff, thanks. Robertson was only 20, how could he be so good at such a young age especially before internet?
Great lesson!! The six part harmony parts are great! A great way to practice these licks in different positions. Thanks for providing such an amazing tutorial on this great classic song!
Hi Jamie. Your playing is fantastic, and your breakdown of the song is pretty much spot on, with the exception of the "middle eight" section. It's not a Dsus4 to D - it's a G chord with the G on the high E string and a D on the B string with the G string open and then to a D. You can clearly hear Philip playing a G on the bass, and playing an A in the Dsus4 chord clashes with the G. To quote yourself "You've Been Playing It Wrong!" I don’t mean to be a pain in the ass, but I've played the song with Thin Lizzy live, and also with Philip as a solo act.
Hi Sean.. Oh wow!! Really.. I'll check that out.. maybe I'll have to shoot part 2 haha. Thanks for the heads up, its great that you've bought my attention to that part.. I'll have a listen.
It's something I did wrong myself when I first learned the song Jamie, but when I went back to learn it "properly" I realised it wasn't a Dsus4 but actually a G chord. You're a fantastic player Jamie and I love your lessons@@SixStringAlliance.
Jamie, I almost feel the need to advertise your channel On various Guitar groups so You can get more followers lol , so we can keep getting awesome content like this, the community definitely needs ya 🤟
haa...Jamie....just come across your channel (1st time !1??) when i picked up guitar again in 2009 (after not playing for 25 years !!) i got back in with your lick library videos......helped me a lot back then....cheers and thx....keep an eye on your channel now....should have more than just short of 10k though....🙂
Wow.. great stuff Jamie... an incredible breakdown of a piece of rock history! Spookily I've been listening to Lizzy a lot over past few days. I always thought I could do a decent boys are back.... but hey guess I was quite a way off... look forward to re-learning this from your transcription. The Gorham / Robinson duo was very special... thank you!!
difficult to say who's my fave all time band...but Thin Lizzy are equal 1st place...a ton of epic tunes from all incarnations of the group, some killer funky grooves and rock at it's best...awesome upload man...checking out Warrens vid next. \m/
Thanks for your efforts here. Tabs across the internet are all over the place re the verse chords (it's clearly not all major and minor chords...). Appreciate the polished transcription!!
I always thought the single-note triplet-feel thing went up at the end, ending on an F#, not an E. Just goes to show - we don't always hear what we think we hear!
good stuff. Thanks. I've been wandering around yt and seeing a lot of people playing it all sorta ways. This is what I was looking for. good sheet maing!
It's crazy I have went my whole life without hearing anyone talk about Midge Ure until today where I heard it twice. Once from Philip McKnight and once from you.
Dave Kilminster did a good transcription of this in the Dec 2000 issue of Guitar Techniques magazine with the Dm7 chord with the bass player playing the f note of the chord. He also used the f sharp sus4 chord which I think sounds great in the chord progession..
Love this Jamie. Tried this approach to Black Night after seeing Steve Morse play around with the riff in a similar fashion. This harmonic writing/playing can become addictive & overdone if not careful. Good communication as always!
Wicked yea in the old days we just played it two part harmonies so awesome you broke it down but dam now I have to play it with all the harmonies going up the scale ha ha man back in the old days no internet no tab pick up the needle back and forth it sucked thanks man for deciphering that you rock
I wrote a Thin Lizzy tab book back in the 90’s and wrote it out for two guitars. I did the same on a Thin Lizzy DVD I did. It was cool to dig deeper.. glad you enjoyed it 🎸🎸
A+ to you, and also A+ to having access to isolated guitar tracks and footage of live performances. Whodathunk, the internet is actually good for a few things. How good this & Thin Lizzy actually are, I'll leave that for someone else to have an opinion about. But, as far as I'm concerned; who the heck am I??? You've done some good work here sir. I intend to pass this along to the folks that I teach guitar lessons to. Thank you once again, and cheers!
The 3rd in the fill sounds pretty good as the first note as well as the 5th before the last note actually both dont sound that different actually could play different ways and still sounds good. could end on the 6th too and its ok sounding. sounds like a bit of pinch harmonic on 1st note. On the last chord of verse can instead of playing low E drop that 5th to the E in next octave
Great job on that the best I've seen I like how you're about everything plus the armies at the end always give me a hard time now that I know there's that many guitars in it I will rework it to fit a two guitar player scenario thank you so much for that and you're right thank you
I always played an F#m7sus4 instead of just the F#m7. Same chord except adding your pinky to the 3rd string 4th fret. It's a fuller sound and you'll realize it adds the missing ingredient to the somewhat bland sounding F#m7. I haven't listened to the recording in years, or at least haven't played along with it. It could be that they don't play the sus4 part on every F#m7, but I'm pretty sure they do. Especially when they get to the part where they play the Dsus4 to D triplet riff, where he sings spread the word around, guess who's back in town, then repeats it. The middle part ends on that F#m7sus4 and it's pretty obvious as it stands out. But great video man. Thank you.
On my original Total Accuracy book I wrote it that way, but listening now to the available isolated guitars, one guitar is an F#m7 and the other is an F#5, but he keeps hitting the sus4 every so often. I don’t think it’s intentional but it sounds very cool!
Thanks dude. Little more complex than I thought. Good job mate. Hope yours and you are well an prosperous. By the way mate your playing my dream guitar right down to the color. Is it nitro?? Gary Moore wasn't in on this hit was he ?
Thanks!! No this isn’t a nitro finish, it’s the Les Paul Modern, but it’s slightly different to the production one cosmetically. Gibson were kind enough to send it to me for some work I do for them on their app. No Garry Moore wasn’t on this track.
I knew this song was subtle. But not THAT subtle. Thanks for a fantastic breakdown. Also, it reminded me of trying to play this in a party covers band once. And the drummer just being totally unable to get the swing, which made it sound horribly lumbering and pedestrian.
Thanks!! Just the stock pickups in my Les Paul Modern, straight into the MESA Bandlander, and running direct out of the on board CabClone IR. Im using one of the stock MESA IR's, straight into my interface. Thats it.. Just a bit of ambience form the Ocean Way Reverb on the UAD.
On that last harmony part, before it goes back to the harmony that is after each chorus, Brian Robertson starts on 5th fret B string and plays it on the B and G string. Live anyway.
I'm sure I mention in this video that the fingerings were a combination of a variety of players, and not 100% to the recording. Plus I alway feel the the interpretation of a song is a personal thing. I actually worked very closely with Brian Robertson in 1999 when I transcribed the "Jam With Thin Lizzy" transcript booked. We both performed together on the CD.
@@SixStringAlliance Yes i understand. It was just a reflection since i’ve been a Thin Lizzy fan since 1978 and Robbo is my favourite guitar player in Thin Lizzy. I’ve watched him play it and you can also see it on the LAD video. I know they all may have played it differently like Gary Moore did the harmony part after the chorus starting on the second fret. You played it like the studio version and they played slightly differently on the LAD album. Like that intro lick end on a F# on the D string. No offence ment.
@@matsandersson8857 no offence taken at all my friend.. I love getting feedback and input from viewers. Im not one of tho precious types haha.. thanks for joining in 🎸🎸
It’s correct.. trust me. I wrote an official Thin Lizzy book, I work on Brian Robertson’s official VHS which I transcribed plus I have a Thin Lizzy DVD released. I spent a while correcting mistakes on the book and DVD with this lesson. Whilst it’s impossible to know for sure, plus the material Scott Gotham teaches isn’t what he played, I feel this is pretty much on the money. But ultimately play what you think and feel, music is music, there’s no rules.
@@SixStringAlliance No Fmaj7th is F, A, C & E. Dmin7 1st inversion is F, A, C & D. but you are correct in saying Fmaj can always be played instead of Dmin7 as the whole chord is already a part of Dmin7. Fmaj7th over a D bass note would be Dmin9th
Wow, Jamie Humphries?!?!?...haven't see or heard from you in quite a while myself?....Are you still involved with that "other guitar lessons" company ???...Ummm, the one with the initials "L/L"???... The reason being, is that once Michael Caswell passed away suddenly, it kind of broke my guitar heart and my playing spirit... I had spent so much time and money on DVDs, internet lessons, and practice, that once a "guitar tutor hero" of mine just went away I lost the joy honestly... Many of those DVDs/Videos/Etc DO include you as a massive part of my collection by the way!!!...(A LOT of those Play Like Floyd DVDs I have are you brother!!!...) You, Caswell, Kilminster, and Danny taught me SO MUCH more than I had ever had over dozens of years of magazines and books...But by this time I am WAY past the "WannaBe guitar God" and just was playing for fun.... Great to see your shaved head pop up on screen again!...Peace, dude...👍✌🤘🎸
You hear a guitar fill, which is what is shown here . I trust track isolation. The bass is doubling the guitar fill. Listen to it you’ll hear it, even Gary Moore’s live version include him playing this fill.
No it’s not. An F major does not have the note of D in it. And F major is 1st F, 3rd A, 5th C, and Dm7 is 1 D, b3 F, 5th A, b7 C.. The F major triad is a 1st inversion of Dm7. A 1st inversion of F major would be A:C,F.
@@OliverSutton1962 you said Dm7 is the same as an F 1st inversion which is isn’t. An F major chord and its respective inversions do not contain a D. How ever a 1st inversion of a Dm7 chord contains an F major triad. The common mistake with this song, which is the mistake I made in my original tab book is to play an F major chord, which although harmonically is an inversion of the Dm7, they clearly include the D in the bass of the chord, as well as making use of close voice leading from the D major chord to the Dm7, not shifting up to an F major. Harmonically yes the same notes but not the same context. But again you said Dm7 is the same as the F 1st inversion which it isn’t, F major is the same as the 1st inversion of Dm7, they’re two very different things. F major 1st inversion, A,C,F; Dm7 1st inversion F,A,C,D. The chord in this song against the F bass would be written Dm7/F which is a fist inversion of Dm7, not F/A which is an F major 1st inversion. Maybe you’ve got your terminology mixed up in your originally post.
Very cool lesson! Thanks! One of my alltime favourites. I think we all realize from time to time that we didn´t play something the correct way. Recently I saw a Ernie Ball commercial where Steve Lukather plays his rhythm part of "Beat it". He plays the section with the double stops on the B and G string. I and probably every other player on the planet played the correct notes but on the wrong pair of strings. It definitely makes a difference. Another example is the relatively simple riff in "Hotter than hell" from Kiss. In every transcription I have seen there is that one wrong chord which I always felt was wrong but nevertheless got it right until I saw a video where Paul Stanley showed the way the riff is actually played (the chord is simply a G powerchord on the D and G string over the open A string. I could go on and on.......Never trust a transcription!
I think every book transcribed in the 80's/90s/00s should all be re-transcribed using the best of modern technology and shared thoughts on various fingerings/positions/pick strokes etc. via youtube and other online video sources. Some of the stuff transcribed back then is woefully bad.
Yeah there’s some pretty dire stuff out there. I did round 18 transcription books back in the 90’s for Muisc Sales/Cherry Lane, and they still stand up pretty well. But back then transcribing was very hard. I had an Akai Riff O Matic that would allow me to sample about 10 seconds of a track and slow it down.. how things have changed!!!
Maybe I should have called it "I've Benne Playing It Wrong" hahaha. I certainly learnt some new things when I re-listened this track.. Thanks for watching :)
It’s still not clear to us simpletons where in the bar you’re playing the power chord s. From my calculation you’re hitting the mute chord on the 1 beat and the power chord in the “1 and” beat?
@@SixStringAlliance i just looked at a pro tablature website. The chords are pushed from the 1 beat 1/8 th beat into the previous measure.... such a cool 😎 sound
Question.... your tab shows standard tuning, but you say its in Eb on the video, which is it? Love it either way, just trying to clarify for myself. Thanks!
Hi Jeff.. Yeah the song is in Eb tuning.. If that tab says standard, it just means my transcriber didn't change it, but it makes no difference to the tab. You can play it in standard or Eb, depending on situations. I did it standard for Lick Library. Jamie
Theres no lie.. if you watch the video i say "Maybe I should have called the Video Ive been playing it wrong". Or maybe the title just doesn't apply to you?
@@danielsauriol if you watched the video you’d see it was in fact a bit of fun based on the fact that I myself had transcribed it wrong for a Thin Lizzy book I wrote 20 years ago. But no worries, block away.
Oh well.. I find comment like this intriguing.. a guitar tone is subjective, to say it’s terrible is pretty inaccurate and slightly arrogant. Is it the correct tone? No. Is it a free RUclips video? Yes. And yes the G and B on a Les Paul are very hard to tune perfectly. I’m the main tutor on the Gibson app and come across this a lot. Also with SG’s, which are even more unstable. Either get it in tune open, or tune it to a chord. But again it’s a free RUclips video. I normally don’t reply to comments like this, but you caught me on a day when I find opinions as annoying as my out of tune G and B strings.
@@stevecharlton145no worries.. I’ve had a lot of tuning comments. I’m not really a Gibson player outside of doing the Gibson app. I struggle with the intonation of the Les Paul, it’s a great guitar but a pig to get in tune in different positions. When I record with it I end up retuning to chords depending on position I play in 🤣 I’m a Music Man user mainly. But yeah I appreciate the tone wasn’t correct, it was more about correcting my old book I transcribed. Sometimes it can be a bit of a blow when you put a lot of hours producing a lesson and comments can be a little too negative, especially when you consider the hours of work it takes to produce something like this, all good tho
No offense dude, but...I don't believe that you had any part in writing or playing on the original track of this song, so...Ask Scott and Glen/Gary, how it was done!
What’s your favourite Thin Lizzy Riff?
Ummmmm
Dancin in the moon light
Cowboy Song right before the first solo.
EMERALD
Opium Trail🎸🤟🏻
this came out in 1976 and every power band heavy metal band took this power accords and made it in to their stuff Scott Gorham and Phil Lynott co wrote a song that will be immortal, its rather sad they aren't in RNR hall of fame
It makes the Hall look really bad. Their music was very inspirational for bands that are already in the HOF!
Exactly!
I've had 4 speeding tickets in my life. Two of them were due to this song, one was due to Sammy Hagar's "I can't drive 55", and the other was because I just gave my Dog a bath and wanted to dry him by going 90 mph with my windows open. The last one actually got me laughed at by the trooper who was also a Dog guy. While I was signing the ticket he was petting my dog.
Hahaha, great story
Awesome. Those power chords will do that to a fella
That third guitar made a lot of difference
You really nailed this iconic peace
Thank you 😊🎸
Absolutely amazing breakdown of this iconic guitar part! Thanks Jamie! You Rock my friend
Thanks Warren
@@SixStringAlliance you’re very welcome! This is one of the best videos on Thin Lizzy ever!
Thin lizzy is a really underrated band in rock history... So many hits, beautiful songs (black rose, chinatown, sugar blues) tkx Jamie, we want more
Underrated? you been living under a rock? Phil Lynott and the gang used to be one of the biggest bands in the world. Theres nothing "underrated" at all with these guys they were brilliant ...
Absolutely underrated. Just like Beethoven in the classic genre…
theyd played it so effortlessly live in 76, was just watching a vid, I would be a basketcase trying to play all the guitar stuff correctly and change at the right time live, amazing stuff, thanks. Robertson was only 20, how could he be so good at such a young age especially before internet?
Thanks Joe. Yes Robbo was awesome back in the day. I had the pleasure of working with him on a project back in 98. A true legend 🎸
Neil Schon Rick Derringer, Colin James...all teens
This song is on my all-time top 20 playlist.. could hear it once a week for the rest of my life
It’s a timeless track for sure
Saw them at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago around’79
That's amazing!
Yes! Amazing!
Great lesson!! The six part harmony parts are great! A great way to practice these licks in different positions. Thanks for providing such an amazing tutorial on this great classic song!
Hi Jamie. Your playing is fantastic, and your breakdown of the song is pretty much spot on, with the exception of the "middle eight" section. It's not a Dsus4 to D - it's a G chord with the G on the high E string and a D on the B string with the G string open and then to a D. You can clearly hear Philip playing a G on the bass, and playing an A in the Dsus4 chord clashes with the G. To quote yourself "You've Been Playing It Wrong!" I don’t mean to be a pain in the ass, but I've played the song with Thin Lizzy live, and also with Philip as a solo act.
Hi Sean.. Oh wow!! Really.. I'll check that out.. maybe I'll have to shoot part 2 haha. Thanks for the heads up, its great that you've bought my attention to that part.. I'll have a listen.
It's something I did wrong myself when I first learned the song Jamie, but when I went back to learn it "properly" I realised it wasn't a Dsus4 but actually a G chord. You're a fantastic player Jamie and I love your lessons@@SixStringAlliance.
Jamie, I almost feel the need to advertise your channel On various Guitar groups so You can get more followers lol , so we can keep getting awesome content like this, the community definitely needs ya 🤟
Joseph. Please do!!! It can be a little frustrating; I feel my content is good. But it’ll grow. I love doing this 😊🎸
Very nice thanks,I have always loved this album, Robertson is a great guitar, and Scott Gorham and you too.
Best
Thanks Christian
Saw Thin Lizzy in Seattle when the first album came out and I'm fortunate enough to play this song with my brother in our local band. You nailed it!
Thanks for watching
This is an excellent lesson video. You've absolutely nailed each part. Great playing and tone to boot. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers! 🤘
My pleasure!
Been waiting for a decent take as well, cheers.
haa...Jamie....just come across your channel (1st time !1??) when i picked up guitar again in 2009 (after not playing for 25 years !!) i got back in with your lick library videos......helped me a lot back then....cheers and thx....keep an eye on your channel now....should have more than just short of 10k though....🙂
Thanks for checking in. Glad the old Lick Library material helped!!
Wow.. great stuff Jamie... an incredible breakdown of a piece of rock history! Spookily I've been listening to Lizzy a lot over past few days. I always thought I could do a decent boys are back.... but hey guess I was quite a way off... look forward to re-learning this from your transcription. The Gorham / Robinson duo was very special... thank you!!
I was surprised at how incorrect I had been playing it. I hope you enjoy this new version
Robertson.
difficult to say who's my fave all time band...but Thin Lizzy are equal 1st place...a ton of epic tunes from all incarnations of the group, some killer funky grooves and rock at it's best...awesome upload man...checking out Warrens vid next. \m/
Thanks!! Yeah it was fun to do both this and Warren’s video. It’s a great track
Thanks for your efforts here. Tabs across the internet are all over the place re the verse chords (it's clearly not all major and minor chords...). Appreciate the polished transcription!!
Thank you!! Glad you found this helpful
I always thought the single-note triplet-feel thing went up at the end, ending on an F#, not an E. Just goes to show - we don't always hear what we think we hear!
good stuff. Thanks. I've been wandering around yt and seeing a lot of people playing it all sorta ways. This is what I was looking for. good sheet maing!
Cheers Tony, Glad you enjoyed!
It's crazy I have went my whole life without hearing anyone talk about Midge Ure until today where I heard it twice. Once from Philip McKnight and once from you.
More Thin Lizzy!
Yes! I agree! I’m a huge fan!
Dave Kilminster did a good transcription of this in the Dec 2000 issue of Guitar Techniques magazine with the Dm7 chord with the bass player playing the f note of the chord. He also used the f sharp sus4 chord which I think sounds great in the chord progession..
Yes Dave is a great guitarist, transcriber and a very good friend of mine 😊
@@SixStringAlliance Now, thanks to your transcription I've had to advertise for 4 more Guitarists.
Love this Jamie.
Tried this approach to Black Night after seeing Steve Morse play around with the riff in a similar fashion.
This harmonic writing/playing can become addictive & overdone if not careful.
Good communication as always!
Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment
You're an amazing teacher and player. I always enjoy you're vids Jamie
Thank you.. more on the way.
Absolutely brilliant at last this song is dissected in a way I can understand.
Thank you!! Glad the lesson helped
Amazing breakdown. Thanks for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That verse progression is just sheer genius.
It’s a masterpiece
Wicked yea in the old days we just played it two part harmonies so awesome you broke it down but dam now I have to play it with all the harmonies going up the scale ha ha man back in the old days no internet no tab pick up the needle back and forth it sucked thanks man for deciphering that you rock
I wrote a Thin Lizzy tab book back in the 90’s and wrote it out for two guitars. I did the same on a Thin Lizzy DVD I did. It was cool to dig deeper.. glad you enjoyed it 🎸🎸
the best I have seen so far. Just wish the actual written note part was included
Hi Dean.. you’ll find a link for the tab that goes with this lesson in the video description. Glad you enjoyed the lesson, and hope the tab helps 🎸
A+ to you, and also A+ to having access to isolated guitar tracks and footage of live performances. Whodathunk, the internet is actually good for a few things.
How good this & Thin Lizzy actually are, I'll leave that for someone else to have an opinion about. But, as far as I'm concerned; who the heck am I??? You've done some good work here sir. I intend to pass this along to the folks that I teach guitar lessons to. Thank you once again, and cheers!
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed the video
The 3rd in the fill sounds pretty good as the first note as well as the 5th before the last note actually both dont sound that different actually could play different ways and still sounds good. could end on the 6th too and its ok sounding. sounds like a bit of pinch harmonic on 1st note. On the last chord of verse can instead of playing low E drop that 5th to the E in next octave
9:30-10:05 One of my favorite chord progression ever!
Especially the Dm7. So good
It’s epic!
Great job on that the best I've seen I like how you're about everything plus the armies at the end always give me a hard time now that I know there's that many guitars in it I will rework it to fit a two guitar player scenario thank you so much for that and you're right thank you
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed the lesson
Fantastic work, Jamie!
Thank you! Cheers!
They used Traynor amps on the entire Jailbreak album.
I think i’ve red it was Carlsbro amps. But i know that you know this. Do you know wich model?
I always played an F#m7sus4 instead of just the F#m7. Same chord except adding your pinky to the 3rd string 4th fret. It's a fuller sound and you'll realize it adds the missing ingredient to the somewhat bland sounding F#m7. I haven't listened to the recording in years, or at least haven't played along with it. It could be that they don't play the sus4 part on every F#m7, but I'm pretty sure they do. Especially when they get to the part where they play the Dsus4 to D triplet riff, where he sings spread the word around, guess who's back in town, then repeats it. The middle part ends on that F#m7sus4 and it's pretty obvious as it stands out. But great video man. Thank you.
On my original Total Accuracy book I wrote it that way, but listening now to the available isolated guitars, one guitar is an F#m7 and the other is an F#5, but he keeps hitting the sus4 every so often. I don’t think it’s intentional but it sounds very cool!
On Scott Gorham’s RUclips lesson he clearly plays F#5 not F#m7.
Awesome breakdown and lesson gonna be my first song I learn on my brand new Ebony coloured , Epiphone Les Paul
Thank you, and congrats on the new guitar!! Have fun
Thanks dude. Little more complex than I thought. Good job mate. Hope yours and you are well an prosperous. By the way mate your playing my dream guitar right down to the color. Is it nitro?? Gary Moore wasn't in on this hit was he ?
Thanks!! No this isn’t a nitro finish, it’s the Les Paul Modern, but it’s slightly different to the production one cosmetically. Gibson were kind enough to send it to me for some work I do for them on their app. No Garry Moore wasn’t on this track.
I knew this song was subtle. But not THAT subtle. Thanks for a fantastic breakdown.
Also, it reminded me of trying to play this in a party covers band once. And the drummer just being totally unable to get the swing, which made it sound horribly lumbering and pedestrian.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching
Very well set out video on all levels. If only all the guitar instruction videos were this good!
Wow, thanks!
Great video! Thanks very much! 👍😎❤️
Thanks for watching!
That Les Paul is absolutely beautiful.
Thanks!! It’s a Les Paul modern, stunning guitar
That LP is worth more than everything I own!!!😢
Your tone is amazing!
What’s your signal chain?
Stock pickups?
Thanks!! Just the stock pickups in my Les Paul Modern, straight into the MESA Bandlander, and running direct out of the on board CabClone IR. Im using one of the stock MESA IR's, straight into my interface. Thats it.. Just a bit of ambience form the Ocean Way Reverb on the UAD.
Thank you!! Great Playing and tutorial !!!
Thanks you!!
On that last harmony part, before it goes back to the harmony that is after each chorus, Brian Robertson starts on 5th fret B string and plays it on the B and G string. Live anyway.
I'm sure I mention in this video that the fingerings were a combination of a variety of players, and not 100% to the recording. Plus I alway feel the the interpretation of a song is a personal thing. I actually worked very closely with Brian Robertson in 1999 when I transcribed the "Jam With Thin Lizzy" transcript booked. We both performed together on the CD.
@@SixStringAlliance Yes i understand. It was just a reflection since i’ve been a Thin Lizzy fan since 1978 and Robbo is my favourite guitar player in Thin Lizzy. I’ve watched him play it and you can also see it on the LAD video. I know they all may have played it differently like Gary Moore did the harmony part after the chorus starting on the second fret. You played it like the studio version and they played slightly differently on the LAD album. Like that intro lick end on a F# on the D string. No offence ment.
@@matsandersson8857 no offence taken at all my friend.. I love getting feedback and input from viewers. Im not one of tho precious types haha.. thanks for joining in 🎸🎸
@@SixStringAlliance Thanks! Keep up the good work👍
So the harmonies are A major pentatonic 4ths across the board.
still skeptical this is right. i play the bm7 then the bm7 in the 7th position, which gives easy access to the riff part
It’s correct.. trust me. I wrote an official Thin Lizzy book, I work on Brian Robertson’s official VHS which I transcribed plus I have a Thin Lizzy DVD released. I spent a while correcting mistakes on the book and DVD with this lesson. Whilst it’s impossible to know for sure, plus the material Scott Gotham teaches isn’t what he played, I feel this is pretty much on the money. But ultimately play what you think and feel, music is music, there’s no rules.
Thanks for the breakdown. I love this song. Ps. Dmin7 has an extra note to Fmaj. D,F,A,C vs F,A,C
Thanks.. Yes it obviously has an extra note, but Fmaj7th is a 1st inversion of Dm7, so its the same s playing of of the b3 of Dm7
@@SixStringAlliance No Fmaj7th is F, A, C & E. Dmin7 1st inversion is F, A, C & D. but you are correct in saying Fmaj can always be played instead of Dmin7 as the whole chord is already a part of Dmin7. Fmaj7th over a D bass note would be Dmin9th
Awesome work!! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
God, that Lester is gorgeous 😍
Great vid!
Thank you! 😄
Umph, did it very much the wrong way, this takes a lot more work. But it sounds a lot better. Thanks for giving me a new challenge!
Glad it helped!! Thanks for the post
I had no idea Midge Ure played with Thin Lizzy!
He’s a very good guitar player
Damn, you did ALL the work. Bravo! A+++++++++
Thanks for watching!
🤔, thought it was a Fm instead of the Dm7 , I’ll try it !
Thanks for this video. :)
My pleasure!
Wow, Jamie Humphries?!?!?...haven't see or heard from you in quite a while myself?....Are you still involved with that "other guitar lessons" company ???...Ummm, the one with the initials "L/L"???...
The reason being, is that once Michael Caswell passed away suddenly, it kind of broke my guitar heart and my playing spirit...
I had spent so much time and money on DVDs, internet lessons, and practice, that once a "guitar tutor hero" of mine just went away I lost the joy honestly...
Many of those DVDs/Videos/Etc DO include you as a massive part of my collection by the way!!!...(A LOT of those Play Like Floyd DVDs I have are you brother!!!...)
You, Caswell, Kilminster, and Danny taught me SO MUCH more than I had ever had over dozens of years of magazines and books...But by this time I am WAY past the "WannaBe guitar God" and just was playing for fun....
Great to see your shaved head pop up on screen again!...Peace, dude...👍✌🤘🎸
Hi no I left LL around 3 years ago. I’m about to launch my own academy but I also teach on the Gibson app. Glad the old DVD’s helped you.
Awesome 👌
Thank you !!
After the opening power chord you hear a bass run, NOT a muffled guitar string. Watch Thin Lizzy videos of The Boys are back in Town and youll see.
You hear a guitar fill, which is what is shown here . I trust track isolation. The bass is doubling the guitar fill. Listen to it you’ll hear it, even Gary Moore’s live version include him playing this fill.
The Dm7 you refer to is also F 1st inversion .
No it’s not. An F major does not have the note of D in it. And F major is 1st F, 3rd A, 5th C, and Dm7 is 1 D, b3 F, 5th A, b7 C.. The F major triad is a 1st inversion of Dm7. A 1st inversion of F major would be A:C,F.
@@SixStringAlliance The F major triad is the chord I was referring to and as you point out I was correct.
@@OliverSutton1962 you said Dm7 is the same as an F 1st inversion which is isn’t. An F major chord and its respective inversions do not contain a D. How ever a 1st inversion of a Dm7 chord contains an F major triad. The common mistake with this song, which is the mistake I made in my original tab book is to play an F major chord, which although harmonically is an inversion of the Dm7, they clearly include the D in the bass of the chord, as well as making use of close voice leading from the D major chord to the Dm7, not shifting up to an F major. Harmonically yes the same notes but not the same context. But again you said Dm7 is the same as the F 1st inversion which it isn’t, F major is the same as the 1st inversion of Dm7, they’re two very different things. F major 1st inversion, A,C,F; Dm7 1st inversion F,A,C,D. The chord in this song against the F bass would be written Dm7/F which is a fist inversion of Dm7, not F/A which is an F major 1st inversion. Maybe you’ve got your terminology mixed up in your originally post.
Can you play white lion little fighter a tutorial complete please excelent your channel congratulations
Thank you!! I’ve had some requests for White Lion, so I’ll have to see if I can do some. Thanks for the suggestion.
How bout the chords in the instrumental section? Was a little hard for me to hear it
I just showed the main parts.
Great, great lesson! 👏🎸🔥
Glad you think so!
missing the phone-holding pumpkins, 7/10.
if you read phils voice he really like that mid range he rarly goes higher on this track
Very cool lesson! Thanks! One of my alltime favourites. I think we all realize from time to time that we didn´t play something the correct way. Recently I saw a Ernie Ball commercial where Steve Lukather plays his rhythm part of "Beat it". He plays the section with the double stops on the B and G string. I and probably every other player on the planet played the correct notes but on the wrong pair of strings. It definitely makes a difference. Another example is the relatively simple riff in "Hotter than hell" from Kiss. In every transcription I have seen there is that one wrong chord which I always felt was wrong but nevertheless got it right until I saw a video where Paul Stanley showed the way the riff is actually played (the chord is simply a G powerchord on the D and G string over the open A string. I could go on and on.......Never trust a transcription!
Still a great tune
Fabulous song
Outstanding!!!
Glad you like it!
I think every book transcribed in the 80's/90s/00s should all be re-transcribed using the best of modern technology and shared thoughts on various fingerings/positions/pick strokes etc. via youtube and other online video sources. Some of the stuff transcribed back then is woefully bad.
Yeah there’s some pretty dire stuff out there. I did round 18 transcription books back in the 90’s for Muisc Sales/Cherry Lane, and they still stand up pretty well. But back then transcribing was very hard. I had an Akai Riff O Matic that would allow me to sample about 10 seconds of a track and slow it down.. how things have changed!!!
Thankyou for the video its a great help
Glad it helped
@@SixStringAlliance thank you
The most common mistake is in the second half of the verses, 9 pit of 10 players use f major but the cool missing chord should be d minor 7th ,
Yes I cover the in this lesson.. I too am guilty of that mistake on my old Lick Library lessons of this track.
@@SixStringAlliance ,,great to see you still spreading the word with your fantastic playing!
And of course, Brian!
Thanks! Gad you enjoyed it!
I'm leaning The Boy are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy classic.
Good luck 😊🎸
Do Mesa Boogie Impulse Response plugins work with Pro Tools First?
You can get the MESA Dyn IR’s for Two notes Wall of Sound, which will work in Pro. Tools
You've Been Playing It Wrong! no new info here i disagree with the subtitle great player you are for sure
Maybe I should have called it "I've Benne Playing It Wrong" hahaha. I certainly learnt some new things when I re-listened this track.. Thanks for watching :)
@@SixStringAlliance sure thing my man
Did he say “Midge Ure” ?!??!!
Yeah.. Midge Ure played guitar for Thin Lizzy.
That’s a great tutorial 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
It’s still not clear to us simpletons where in the bar you’re playing the power chord s. From my calculation you’re hitting the mute chord on the 1 beat and the power chord in the “1 and” beat?
That’s correct! The chords are on the “off” beat, and are pushed
@@SixStringAlliance i just looked at a pro tablature website. The chords are pushed from the 1 beat 1/8 th beat into the previous measure.... such a cool 😎 sound
You do realise on here scott gorham has a sit down and plays through the song so who better to learn from than the man himself.
good to know, i didn't play it wrong
this song is really good for beginners to understand rock
Well done
Question.... your tab shows standard tuning, but you say its in Eb on the video, which is it? Love it either way, just trying to clarify for myself. Thanks!
Hi Jeff.. Yeah the song is in Eb tuning.. If that tab says standard, it just means my transcriber didn't change it, but it makes no difference to the tab. You can play it in standard or Eb, depending on situations. I did it standard for Lick Library. Jamie
I actually prefer it in G
Get on with it then
Come on man you can watch a dozen videos and live . They play it different on almost all.
This isn’t about the live version. This is about the studio version, the layering of the parts during the outro.
Hold off the distortion,
Speed things up, dude
I do my videos at my pace.
No, i don't.
What’s the fucking tuning Jesus Christ that simple question is impossible to find easily in the video. PUT IT IN THE DESCRIPTION
So, I've been playing it RIGHT the whole time. What's the lie in the description all about?
Theres no lie.. if you watch the video i say "Maybe I should have called the Video Ive been playing it wrong". Or maybe the title just doesn't apply to you?
@@SixStringAlliance: If you watch the TITLE, it says: "You've been playing it wrong!".
It's all about clickbait.
**** I automatically block the channel of videos titled" - You're Been Doin' It Wrong ************** ******** POMPOUS CLICK BAIT *******
@@danielsauriol if you watched the video you’d see it was in fact a bit of fun based on the fact that I myself had transcribed it wrong for a Thin Lizzy book I wrote 20 years ago. But no worries, block away.
Tuning...you have been tuning it all wrong. The guitar is not in tune with itself,
of course the guitar is in tune.. listen to the original its called phasing.
did you eat paint chips as a child?
3 and a half minutes to start the tutorial. To much talking.
🤣🤣 ok then.
Played with to much distortion.
Guitar is slightly out of tune. Probably g or b string. Terrible guitar sound an all. Too much gain
Oh well.. I find comment like this intriguing.. a guitar tone is subjective, to say it’s terrible is pretty inaccurate and slightly arrogant. Is it the correct tone? No. Is it a free RUclips video? Yes. And yes the G and B on a Les Paul are very hard to tune perfectly. I’m the main tutor on the Gibson app and come across this a lot. Also with SG’s, which are even more unstable. Either get it in tune open, or tune it to a chord. But again it’s a free RUclips video. I normally don’t reply to comments like this, but you caught me on a day when I find opinions as annoying as my out of tune G and B strings.
Wasn't intending to be condescending or thinking I know everything. You're obviously a good player and I'm a massive lizzy fan. Hats off
@@stevecharlton145no worries.. I’ve had a lot of tuning comments. I’m not really a Gibson player outside of doing the Gibson app. I struggle with the intonation of the Les Paul, it’s a great guitar but a pig to get in tune in different positions. When I record with it I end up retuning to chords depending on position I play in 🤣 I’m a Music Man user mainly. But yeah I appreciate the tone wasn’t correct, it was more about correcting my old book I transcribed. Sometimes it can be a bit of a blow when you put a lot of hours producing a lesson and comments can be a little too negative, especially when you consider the hours of work it takes to produce something like this, all good tho
@SixStringAlliance no hard feelings mate. Keep on rocking
Not even close please at least listen properly to the track. Its fkd up from the start
ffS TUNE your guitar...geeez
hahahaha.. or Mr TU12
No offense dude, but...I don't believe that you had any part in writing or playing on the original track of this song, so...Ask Scott and Glen/Gary, how it was done!
No offence, but when did I claim I had anything to do with the writing or playing on this? I’d have been about 5 years old at the time 🤣
@@SixStringAlliance party on Garth!
Amazing lesson Jamie!
Thank you!!