My Secret Past
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Awesome stories Jeff, and amazing chops! We absolutely want you to show that side more sometimes.
On another note, saw your instagram post about your mom, sorry for your loss.
I’m sure every time you rev these chops up, she smiles.
Thank you very much. 🙏🏻
I was lucky to see Jake E. Lee, Steve Vai, George Lynch, Yngwie, Satriani (when he had hair, too) and others in their heyday. Sorry I missed you, Jeff!
I saw many of them too. Just a few years younger…
I grew up loving the shredders too! Great pics and stories Jeff. Like the admirer at 4:29
I do remember that evening!
Amazing! One of the better blues guys around here went to school with us. We were playing alt rock stuff, and he was totally into the whole Yngwie thing. Then one day he discovered SRV, and he became a blues guy. He, however, would never admit it, but we all know. LOL!
Haa...Jeff.....you could have fooled us all......a shredder...😅.......but...as Oscar Wilde (i think) said......" You start life as a firebrand and arsonist, but you end up being a fireman / fighter"......from shred to blues rock...how nice...but you got there....and i'm greatfull for it....and thx for your insights.....very true.....cheers.
Thanks!!
The hair was so fantastic!!!
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Definitely more of the hard rock side please 🙏🏻
ronnie le tekro tnt he’s got that i love his thing
Well I would never have picked it....... Awesome! 🎸🎸🎸
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Wow Jeff, those 🎸 chops, and that hair!
Well at least I held on to one of them.
Yes...more is more !!
That hair! So killer, but the guitar skill (and teaching ability) is what makes me dig your videos.
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First! This video warms my heart. Jeff is the best!
Thank you my old friend in shred!
Never underestimate a musician, you never know where they've been. Wayne Bennett had a great story about it in GP magazine long ago ;-)
Oh cool. I’ll see if I can find that.
That is awesome, loved it!
love that yng. strat
Awesome! Multiple style skills = mega versatility and much more interesting sounding music. Thanks for sharing your deep dark secret…..👍🏼
Lol thanks!!
Yes to more of this!
Ok! Sounds good to me!!
Many thanks.
What an incredible STORY
I agree 😂
I had to work hard to hold it in, but on the inside - my inside feelings LOL - I was so fan boying getting to meet and chat it up with you back in May at The Iridium when you sat in with Matt. You’re a great influence to have and a gem of a guy. Thanks again for everything.
@@mikewentworth9819 thanks Mike! I appreciate that! It was great meeting you!
Rock on. 👍👍 Jeff!! Was wondering since you are on the east coast if you know Vito Bratta? 🎸🎸🙏🙏
Saw him play but sadly never met him!
Well said Jeff. I agree 100% with your point about what a guitar player should be or work towards.
I too was in love with all those guys in the 70s and 80s.
I just heard a great old live recording of space child (U FO) Schenker could turn it down or up at will like few did and do.
Thanks for being here!!
Man, the Liquid Hips bit you included was awesome! I love your outlook on chops/technique and also playing with emotion and feel. I definitely think you should post more of the music from your old bands. Rock on Jeff!
Thank you!
Thank you for your candid reveal.... thanks brother
Thanks for watching!!
Wow I didn't expect that. Awesome to see and yes more metal. But please more blues too.
Love this
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Fantastic to hear about this! Never would have guess you played that stuff or had that hair! Knowing about your background makes me appreciate your playing a lot more- it’s putting meat on the bones. When I first started studying art, looking at it, engaging with it, I found Picasso’s very early work (10-12 years old) is mind blowing. I saw his portraits in the Prado and was rocked backward… so THIS is where the great artist came from!?! And of course you can see it anchors him in his age and gives huge incite into his amazing vision that seems to have sprung suddenly like a lightning bolt from god. I think all artists have this kind of awakening, this epiphany- that moment when the light bulb goes on. And this post gives us your backstory- now we ought to have that story about the day the blues caught you upside the head.
Thanks man! I really appreciate this post, as always!
Love it! The good old days.
Ha! Let’s start a band!!
I left a comment on your IG for this but it's awesome you're showing this side of your playing. Would love lessons on this and would be unique as an instructor to have such a wide variety of lesson styles to draw from with such authority. Condolences to you for your loss - you are doing her proud. \m/
First off thank you for your kind words, I hope so.
I’m putting together some stuff for courses on jmguitarlessons.com and some stuff for here as well. Thanks for being here!
Insane shredding Jeff! You are right in that those old players were the epitome of "cool". Thanks for staying cool.
😂 thank you!!
O M G !!!!! Love it !
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Huge cred for your shred chops! That clip from Liquid Hips was killer! I too was early most influenced by European metal like Uli Jon Roth, Micheal Schenker and Yngwie Malmsteen.(and BTW, Jimi Hendrix). And my musical interests have grown in different directions. Your discussion about virtuosity and music being like life is so well said. The ebb and flow, dynamics and endless variations of what music can be are fascinating. Yes, I would like to hear more about you metal days. Thank you for all you do.
Thanks John!!
Jeff wow brilliant buddy, i normally love your rock blues blues
Great content!
Thank you!
I've been learning from you now for over 14 years and as we have discussed in past the love from BB King to MSG. It's been a great journey I have all your courses and find gems in every course. Keep it coming and thanks.
Thanks Jeffrey!! As always!!
The explanation for loving big headstock Strats!
Ha! Well him and that other guy… what’s his name… Jim… Jimmy… Jimi…
Great story and also Malmsteen stuff, great job, sounds great!!!
Thanks!
This is how I knew you at the NGSW! I was much more on the blues side of things, studying with Dave Hamburger, Shana Aisenberg, and Ronnie Earl, but I remember you in part because you always had great chops and looked like you were having the absolute best time. I think I may even have a tape somewhere of you and (IIRC) Angus Clark performing "Mr. Crowley," complete with dueling Ozzy impressions. It's been so great reconnecting with your music and seeing the player you've become, but there's absolutely room for this other side of your playing too!
Oh man! A tape!! That’s amazing and very funny! I appreciate it and Angus and I always had a great time on those performance nights. The NGW was an amazing moment in time. I also appreciate the kind words and thanks for being here.
Bloody hell jeff!!! Outstanding! More is more. I loved the shredders in my youth. Richie blackmoore lesson please?
Thanks!! Ok then!
@@JeffMcErlaina Richie blackmoore lesson from you Jeff will be awesome btw.
Secret to some!
I always played bass in heavy rock bands… until I was close to 50… then I went back to my roots… two 5 year stints in electric blues bands… Much more room for expression… and yes,even for bass..✌🏼😎❤️ .. Thanks for another cool talk Jeff,.!
🙌🏻 thanks Joe!
Wow! who'd have thunk it? You come off as such a Blues purist (which says a lot for the Blues, even as a pure style), but I've seen other great players that always home base at the Blues, such an essential and ubiquitous phenomenon. Great work Jeff...!
Thanks! I’m definitely not a blues purist!
Love my Malmsteen strat 🤘🤘
Jeff Mac opening for King Diamond...that made my day! 😅😅
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Long live scalloped frets!
Wow Who knew. :) Great video
miss your lessons my friend
Great little video...
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You were chopping with your ax. I texted RS at an interview. I called what he had done in the 90's to amps sounded like the guitar players were chain sawing the song in half. He said he was going for a buzz saw. From chopping songs with your ax to buzz sawing them.
What was King Diamond like? I grew up shredding harmonic minor. I love your channel. The two-note Dorian video was so helpful.
Totally killer! You truly are the whole package. Would love to see some course about heavier styles
Thanks!
When I saw the title, I had hoped you'd show pictures with your big hair metal phase, and you did not disappoint!
I’m here to please.
Nice video. Thank you!
I’ve just recently TRULY discovered Michael Schenker (I knew of him but I hadn’t really dug into his repertoire) - he’s one of my top ~5 guitarists (Michael Schenker, Gary Moore, SRV, Roy Buchanan, Malmsteen . . . in no particular order).
He is really fantastic!
A well kept secret for sure! Congratulations on the Yngwie Strat!!! I still remember my first exposure to Yngwie. It was the May edition of Guitar Player magazine. I think 85’…and the mag had a soft record called the “sound page”. And the Yngwie song on the sound page was “Black Star”. Totally changed how I hear music. Great time! Btw. Yep more hard rock stuff!
Yes! Sound page. I had his demo through the GP spotlight. Fun times!
Great video..I would have never guessed.
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Jeff. That hair!!
Great intro. 🤘 I own a charvel. I'm down with this. Love it
There I was thinking you would buy "The Duck" from that other shop!! Its really interesting because I am 100% in the shred thing but I love the blues stuff now more than ever in the last 10 years, since discovering Matt, Josh, Kirk, Robben etc where before it was more the aggressive blues stuff like Gary Moore, Norum style playing which I love. Its hard finding a balance between the two, this is a video I was hoping you would do at some point as I was really interested in how you ended up doing what you do now from where you started! Sorry to hear about your mum as well, hope your coping and doing ok!
Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻. As for the duck, man if I could have afforded it, I would have!!!!
Hey Jeff, always good to hear you let loose - I recall a Jake E Lee workout some time back? How about a euro-classic-rock primer ?
Thanks man! Thinking about it.
Mainly a Blues/Rock guy, but I bought Rising Force when it first came out, and No One, to this day, touches or matches Yngwie! Many may come close (and were probably influenced by YM), but for sheer unbridled ferocity - Malmsteen still rules! On the Blues front, I felt like you were describing Joe Bonamassa with your take on what a guitarist should be able to deliver. Joe delivers! Nice information Jeff! I’m subscribed and I also purchased your course through Brett Papa! Shout out to Brett, too!
Finally unveiling Jeff McErlain 2.0! Amazing story and playing my friend ❤
Ha!! Let’s see if my hands hold out!
Wow such cool advice ! Maybe I wonder when you know that you can’t achieve a lot (like me) just hearing honest truth like this is really great news. It confirms what it takes at same time it’s our choice as to how far to go. Anyway love Jeff’s take and bothering to tell us all this. That is exactly why I watch Jeff’s posts here. Love it
Edit ! Yeah I was blessed with meeting shredder group way back, Iron Maiden and they were the best guys. I was flying instructor at time lol so needless to say I was not musically well placed to realise how amazing they are. Not that it mattered at the time. Now I realise how awesome they were with us and gracious. Had I been able to engage, they would have for sure encouraged it more. At that time my head was full of planes lol
Thanks Chris! I’m glad you found the video useful. The best thing about music is it’s not sports!! And flying maiden around. Very cool. But yeah, I think you were correct in paying attention to the flying part!!
I KNEW IT! (Since seeing you shred the Jake E Lee guitar.) :)
A bit of a giveaway I guess!
Rising Force is one of those albums that changed me forever. classical style riffs with insane speed, it was so good it just made me laugh.
Still makes me laugh!!
It's a comedy record. Did no one notice?
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Came for a funny guitar-related story, left as a better man 😂 thanks for sharing your experience Jeff, I’m a metalhead deep in my heart as well 💪🏼
Thank you!!
Great advice and interesting, informative sentiments. Cool hat replaced the cool hair! Thank you for sharing your accomplishments with us.. "...For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" -Luke 12:48. KJB. (Must be why I own over a dozen of your very helpful courses.)
Thanks as always Sam!!
I have a whole new respect for you now! lol
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NGSW exposed me to such a variety of guitar players like Jeff and Terry, Matt Smith, Harry Jacobson, Murali Coryell, Jody Fisher, Dennis McCumber, and many more, not to mention the incredible guest artists.
It was fun while it lasted! The pay was terrible BTW…
I miss NGW, that was such a great time.
@@JeffMcErlain It still is at GWP I’m told. 🤬
@@guitrr I’ve been attending Guitar Workshop Plus. It’s not the same as the NGSW was in the ‘90s when I attended. But it’s still fun. And I’ll see Dennis McCumber there next month.
Awesome video have a wonderful day also what is your favorite hobby
I also like to shred. It's like a vacation for my brain 😂 What I don't like is when someone just plays scales up and down. It has nothing to do with music, it's just blaring scales up and down. This triggers my immediate escape reflex. It's like the songs that are on the radio these days. Arbitrarily assembled music building blocks. It doesn't get any more boring. It may sound strange, but the best piece of music I've ever heard is Anton Bruckner's sinfoni No 5 together with the NDR Sinfoni Orchestra and conductor Günther Wand 👌🤷♂️
It’s all about contrast!
Cool
Kicking it into 5th gear would be a great course to add to your lineup. Yes, please! Tasty shredding
🙌🏻🙌🏻 I like that.
i saw hades back in the day in delaware at a hole called the metal shop with either nuclear assault of forbidden and it might of been with a band called anvil bitch those days were awesome
Very cool connections and opening gigs. I signed up for the free lessons, does the pentatonic course start with the basics of pentatonics and shapes? Thanks, Jeff.
Thanks! This course goes through each shape. Then I’d move onto the connections course!
jmguitarlessons.com/p/mastering-pentatonics
Although I’m not a shred guy, I also love the players that can get aggressive when needed. I also get tired of the sleepy guitar players and the lethargic songs that go nowhere. I don’t have great technique so never could play as aggressive as I could think in my head which can be a bummer. But I’ll keep learning and there's more than one way to be aggressive.
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Jeff, you nailed the Yngwie tone; what was the signal chain (minus the fingers!!!)?
That’s my Fractal FM3 using a plexi and a boost.
Cheers Jeff
#Respect
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I knew this about you and it is pretty much like me without music school,I kind of did that on my own without going,lol.Anyway,I think it makes you the badass that you are, it is why you are able to play what you can now and the aggressive spark is what I think people love about your playing,Robben Ford calls you a badass,id take that to the grave and prob put it on my coffin !!
Ha! Anyway you can get it. One doesn’t need music school of course. As Robben said to me “Miles Davis liked my playing so I don’t care what anyone else thinks”. I kinda feel that way about what he has said to me. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Haha!! Cool!!!!!
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Yeah, Jeff. Grip it and rip it!
😂 thanks!
Given some of your runs and picking on a few lessons on truefire....I could tell😏
And to add to that, if you have pull at truefire tell them they NEED more heavy content! The place is becoming a almost exclusive blues lesson site.
Please come to jmguitarlessons.com All my new courses are there and I’m building out the heavier stuff in the coming months. As for TF and the blues it’s probably what is most successful for them.
All those licks Yngwie took from Uli yet Rising Force is a brilliant peice of guitar work with feel, technique,and everything else,anyone can learn from that record
Well. Not All 😂. But for sure Sails Of Charon clearly a major influence for Yngwie. He took it and ran. That said I do put on the Uli era Scorpions regularly. Songs!!!
More hard rock! 🤘
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You can’t hide the Schenker. We knew
Ha! Impossible for me to hide…
I knew it! A closeted shredder LOL…
The strings never touch the fret board? Great video!
Nope!
Jeff J McYngwie
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Wait . . . I must have clicked on the wrong thumbnail . . . No . . . it's Jeff's channel . . . > > > . . . Hair . . . shredding . . . Wow . . . from shred to blues. Thanks for sharing your history, Jeff! #greatrighthandchops
Ha! Thanks!!
When were you at Berklee?
88-89
I fuckin knew it!!!
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@JeffMcErlain i have, over time, developed this intuition where i can jidge an artist's restraint. I am not a great player by any means, i am pretty below average but the audience pov is pretty decent. So i knew you were holdong it back a ton.
Way Cool 😎 you went to the same school of Rock love the SCORPIONS 🦂 Love Drive was my favorite I 1st time seeing them was their BLACK OUT tour and it was a awesome show their 2nd time in the US and Iron Maiden opening it was their first time in the US and i found out Don Dokken did some vocal work on it while Klaus was still recovering from a vocal surgery so was a DOKKEN fan after hear "Paris is Burning" i was hooked even more also if you haven't seen it I'm sure you know of it but DIO did "Hearing Aid" a charity project and all the guitarist for the solo was crazy 🤪 to put it all together, but as you I do love playing blues style like the way slash and Mark Kendall from Great White play so thanks for you history of guitar and have a good weekend n happy 4th of July great playing as usual 🎸
I never felt like I could pull off fast repeating pentatonic licks. I don’t think it’s the technique but the feel that eludes me. I find it so frustrating.
I will say the Troy Grady material is really good on that stuff. Helped me quite a bit.
hard rock = yes please !🤓
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Prefer the SHRED. But love ya anyway.
Too each his own. Both can coexist.
Come on Jeff, you're not fooling us, this was Angus Clark wearing a cap!
Ask him!
Did Yngwie Malmsteen write that lick at 9:00? My guitar teacher showed me that lick when I was 14 but never told me what it was from 😂
It’s all that Bach influenced harmonic minor/ Phrygian dominant stuff. So I wouldn’t say he wrote it, but if you listen to the Bach violin sonatas and partitias you hear it quite a bit. And Paganini as well.
evh is one of the goats but do have very much similar taste like yours. YJM early albums were killer.
Agreed
I thought you were going to do a big reveal at the end of the video: your Yngwie hair is hidden beneath your hat 🤠
Ha! I wish!
So Jeff, let's put this in reverse. How do us old guys who grew up on blues/blues rock get started on shredding?
Could be a new course in there right!?!?
@@JeffMcErlain Yes! I'm in.
dude?!
Yes?!