Greg Douglass is awesome. He was my guitar teacher in the late 90s in Oceanside, CA. I was in high school. Taught me a lot of good stuff and super fast. Was playing in bands only a year later. I only later in life appreciated how awesome it was to have him as a teacher.
This was the best. Everyone else on RUclips has it wrong. Trying to do it in standard tuning. I saw a video of Greg Douglas playing this with his own band in a small outside venue and got a glimpse of the fretting hand here and there, but nothing solid. This was really, really good! Thank you! Fun to play and a lot of cool things going on not normally found in rock/pop tunes.
A lot of cool stuff happening in what , maybe 3 minutes ? Always wished they kept jamming on this for a couple more ! Song rocks !! Thank you for the breakdown. Peace from Philadelphia
Dude, you NAILED this one! I have always loved this song and nobody else did it justice. Another prominent RUclips guitar tutor acknowledged that it's done in Open A tuning and then did the lesson in E Standard. It was choppy and he was totally dragging. If you can't play it in tempo and you're the teacher, what chance do I have, lol? Gimme a week (bc I suck, ha ha) and I will be playing Jungle Love as it was meant to be played. Grateful!
Oh my stars - this is awesome. Look: I've played forever, graduated in '79, and have a *bit* of street cred. But - this was one of those songs I just relegated to the "what a cool song - sounds like fun!" category. Once, I HAD tried to play this in standard tuning, but - well, you know... Thank you! EDIT: Oh man - that is so fun... love that bridge section. Again - thnx!
Great lesson! Lowell George used Open A tuning and played killer slide guitar. Check out Little Feat’s “Time Loves a Hero” album. “Hi Roller” is a fun tune to play 😎
Great lesson…this song is a very intricate one to play. Your lesson is the only that actually plays it properly. It’s too tricky and weird in standard tuning. Thanks and great contents. ✌🏻
I listened to a bunch of folks trying to play this in standard tuning, and it just didn't work. I sorta knew it was an open tuning, but couldn't figure it out. Thank you!!!
Sounds great, man. Good stuff. As for the tuning falling between A and B flat... Tape stretch. Same problem in the studio we used all have with old cassettes.
hi...first off...great complex riff structure.....love it..and its so doable, with the "right" tuning...i'll get onto that next best mo....cheers again....
Yep, open A - oy . . . but that's the ticket! :D Should've figured that out from the harmonics alone, but somehow just not intuitive, heh. Many thanks for the lesson!
I think the producer sped up the instrumental track just a smidge from the original A tuning to add a little speed to the song. That explains the A#/Bb issue. Nice job on this one.
I forgot to mention that I have this song in standard tuning. Not sure why Hal Leonard couldn't figure it out to tab it out in open A tuning. It's sound about the same but the harmonics is harder to pull off way up in the neck. This makes Douglas's version easier to play.
As regards the tuning being a little flat or sharp on the album, I've found that many a rock 'n' roller would just tune to the guitar not to A 440. But hey, ain't that rock 'n' roll. Anyway, I've been playing a long time, but I just LOVE coming to your videos to learn the songs so much more quickly or sometimes just to compare to see if you're doing anything different. Love your playing, very smooth and fluid. Oh, and one more thing, to me the guitar on this song is like a rhythm/solo, if you know what I mean. Sure, it's rhythm playing, but it's next level as it moves about so much, thus the solo element. Anyway, thanks for all you do. LOVE your videos.
I’m really enjoying this tutorial video. Not sure if anyone else has mention this already but I used a digital tuner and I think your Open A is at 452 hertz.
Out of all of the "how to" vids out there yours is the closest in playing and tone that I have heard yet! A list of the gear you used to get there would be nice, Great vid!
Always loved this song... specifically for the (biting) guitar part. Thanks for the video! As a youngster learning and figuring out the guitar parts I would have never guessed the odd tuning. The older me has a collection of guitars in various tunings... looks like I need another guitar for "open A". The wife is going to kill me 😬😄.
Wow! I did a tutorial on this song...which I played guitar on... but this really gets down to the nitty-gritty. You, sir, are a fabulous teacher. (Some songs are just baffling. During the Covid lockdown, I went down into my Dungeon of Noisy Toys and figured out "Native Stepson" by Sonny Landreth. I met Sonny and told him what I'd done. His eyes widened and he said, "You learned it by ear?") Your tutorials are amazing. Keep it up.
Greg, your the guy who came up with these amazing guitar riffs? It's outstanding creativity & playing for sure! It's got to be some of the the best guitar stuff I've ever heard. I remember trying to figure it out when I was like 16 and was unable as it was much too advanced with the tuning and your incredible playing thanks for the great guitar music.
So, I'm an idiot and didn't realize that you sir, are THE Greg Douglass who recorded this originally! Thank you very much for your super kind words and thank you for the great music you gave us all!
@@12footchain You are far from an idiot, my friend. Your lessons are top of the food chain all the way. I'm about to move to Oregon, where I will be putting together a (one would hope) workable online teaching system. (I may be hitting on you for advice with your kind permission). Your kind words mean a lot, as do Mr. Williams'. Legacy means a great deal to me and while I'm not a household word, knowing that my music has meant something makes my day.
Dang!Alternate tuning/s..Learning Guitar(properly)is H-A-R-D!!THAT'S why I play several Instruments VERY well.Cuz it's too hard(nearly impossible)to master,and REALLY emerge as an accomplished guitar player.Aside from Style,Original Songs..You also Gotta have you're own unique TONE!!
Thank you so much. I learned this a few years ago and lost the very-hard-to-find correct tab in the correct tuning. Such an elegant yet badass guitar tune. The pinnacle and epitome of rock riffery 🤘😎 You’ve gotten closer than anyone else I’ve seen. The octave intro was a mystery to me until I saw your vid. Just a friendly correction though, the pickup into the first chorus is actually 5th string fret 2-4, 4th string fret 2-4-5, then up to the 9th fret. And the first variation lick in the verse is a little simpler, it starts with an open 4th string, then 5th fret on the 3rd and 2nd, instead of 2nd fret on 3rd and 1st fret on 2nd. Cheers ✌️
This is a great lesson and very accurate. But in a cover band there's no time to deal with the tuning changes and intricacies of it all. I am a stickler for accuracy but I play it in standard and swing it like VH would. It sounds great and passable, even though its an interpretation. Nice job! and thanks for posting.
thank you! For this I used a plain old TS-9 tube screamer (had since mid 90s) drive about midway, Boss EQ-2 pedal boosting low mids slightly. I almost always run stereo out into 2 amps, in this case one went to my Fender Deluxe tone master, and the other into a '64 Super Reverb. Both mic'd with 57s and blended in my DAW.
What an awesome lesson! I love your passion and your taste in music! It would be great if you could give a lesson on “Roll with the Changes” by REO. Gary Richrath is one of my favorite guitarists. Thank you!
Just found a vid with a Jungle Love tutorial from Greg Douglass himself on JD Pinckney/Pinckney Custom Shop YTchannel. Bottom line, 12ft pretty much nailed it right down to the slide on the little finger. Greg uses a thumb pick which I can't ever recall seeing a rocker do before, lol. I think of it as a country piece of gear, I guess, but my dude can still play at 70+ yrs old, ha ha.
@@12footchain It's a truly crunchy, juicy, delicious guitar jam. I love the tone and his rhythm chops. Be a ROUGH song to play and sing at the same time. He mentions in the vid that one YT vlogger got it right; I think he's referring to you.
I got here trying to figure out if this was open A and here it is. But I think that part at 8:02 might actually start like you did on the 9th fret, and then finish on the third and second strings (both at the seventh fret first, then third string, ninth fret and second string eighth fret)
So I just watch Greg explain how he played the song. The video is on YT. You are close but there are a few areas that need touching up. Greg’s tab isn’t very good so you could improve in that area with your superb Guitar Pro skills 😎
I think that you should give a safety warning to viewers to please use protective eyewear when tuning up to Open A! Especially the 2nd and 4th strings... I was doing it with my eyes closed and cringing the whole time :)
@@12footchain actually it is probably exacerbated by the fact that i have 11-49 or 11-52 strings on most of my guitars. and now, i just watched a rick beato video where he was singing the praises of lighter gauge strings, so i am rethinking this decision that i haven't revisited for 20 years :)
@@Bob.Silverstein if 7s and 8s are good enough for Billy Gibbons, then 9s are good enough for me. I used to do 10s normally for years, but im never going heavy ever again. I just don't think it makes all that much difference, don't make it hard on yourself
We covered this in my band, and I could never get to sound right. Now I know why! Man how in the world did you figure it out? Great job! I thought he was using an octave divider.
I agree that your tone is good but how come none of these videos sound like Steve Miller's version of the song. Sorry but album version of the song sounds completely different then this or any other version
Ned....I recorded the song. I was in and out in 30-40 minutes. I used an early version of a Quilter amp called a ...wait for it...Duck! 100% transistors! The guitar was a 1965 Epiphone Riviera with those little, weeny humbuckers. They had middle end for days and had a kind of "Squonk!" sound. I now play a Quilter Mach 3 and it gets no better. I think Mr. Chain came very close.
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I've loved this song since i was about 14. And finally at 60 i can play it!!!
Greg Douglass is awesome. He was my guitar teacher in the late 90s in Oceanside, CA. I was in high school. Taught me a lot of good stuff and super fast. Was playing in bands only a year later. I only later in life appreciated how awesome it was to have him as a teacher.
Wow, how great is that!
This was the best. Everyone else on RUclips has it wrong. Trying to do it in standard tuning. I saw a video of Greg Douglas playing this with his own band in a small outside venue and got a glimpse of the fretting hand here and there, but nothing solid. This was really, really good! Thank you! Fun to play and a lot of cool things going on not normally found in rock/pop tunes.
A lot of cool stuff happening in what , maybe 3 minutes ? Always wished they kept jamming on this for a couple more ! Song rocks !! Thank you for the breakdown. Peace from Philadelphia
Anytime I see some play this, I'm reminded just how awesome that original recording is. I've never heard the tone fully replicated
Dude, you NAILED this one! I have always loved this song and nobody else did it justice. Another prominent RUclips guitar tutor acknowledged that it's done in Open A tuning and then did the lesson in E Standard. It was choppy and he was totally dragging. If you can't play it in tempo and you're the teacher, what chance do I have, lol? Gimme a week (bc I suck, ha ha) and I will be playing Jungle Love as it was meant to be played. Grateful!
Oh my stars - this is awesome. Look: I've played forever, graduated in '79, and have a *bit* of street cred. But - this was one of those songs I just relegated to the "what a cool song - sounds like fun!" category. Once, I HAD tried to play this in standard tuning, but - well, you know... Thank you!
EDIT: Oh man - that is so fun... love that bridge section. Again - thnx!
finally decoded. This song frustrated me for years. Thanks! 12FC - I'll sleep a bit better now 😊🙏
Awesome I have been trying to learn this for a long time you nailed it
Great lesson! Lowell George used Open A tuning and played killer slide guitar. Check out Little Feat’s “Time Loves a Hero” album. “Hi Roller” is a fun tune to play 😎
Great lesson…this song is a very intricate one to play. Your lesson is the only that actually plays it properly. It’s too tricky and weird in standard tuning. Thanks and great contents. ✌🏻
I listened to a bunch of folks trying to play this in standard tuning, and it just didn't work. I sorta knew it was an open tuning, but couldn't figure it out.
Thank you!!!
Sounds great, man. Good stuff. As for the tuning falling between A and B flat... Tape stretch. Same problem in the studio we used all have with old cassettes.
Super original guitar work. Guy was gifted.
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Excellent break down...THANK YOU
hi...first off...great complex riff structure.....love it..and its so doable, with the "right" tuning...i'll get onto that next best mo....cheers again....
Yep, open A - oy . . . but that's the ticket! :D Should've figured that out from the harmonics alone, but somehow just not intuitive, heh. Many thanks for the lesson!
I think the producer sped up the instrumental track just a smidge from the original A tuning to add a little speed to the song. That explains the A#/Bb issue. Nice job on this one.
OUTFKNSTANDING SIR ,Much Appreciated!!!
We always wanted to do this in our cover band but I could never figure it out! Thanks!
Great lesson. I've been looking for the correct way to play this song. Thanks!
I forgot to mention that I have this song in standard tuning. Not sure why Hal Leonard couldn't figure it out to tab it out in open A tuning. It's sound about the same but the harmonics is harder to pull off way up in the neck. This makes Douglas's version easier to play.
Those studio recordings from the 70s were all analog of course, so they true key is almost always a quarter to a half step flat or sharp.
Excellent lesson, Thanks!
You nailed it. Thank you.
That was amazing! Thanks!
Great tutorial! Thanks so much!
As regards the tuning being a little flat or sharp on the album, I've found that many a rock 'n' roller would just tune to the guitar not to A 440. But hey, ain't that rock 'n' roll. Anyway, I've been playing a long time, but I just LOVE coming to your videos to learn the songs so much more quickly or sometimes just to compare to see if you're doing anything different. Love your playing, very smooth and fluid. Oh, and one more thing, to me the guitar on this song is like a rhythm/solo, if you know what I mean. Sure, it's rhythm playing, but it's next level as it moves about so much, thus the solo element. Anyway, thanks for all you do. LOVE your videos.
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Sounds awesome
I’m really enjoying this tutorial video. Not sure if anyone else has mention this already but I used a digital tuner and I think your Open A is at 452 hertz.
F'ing A, Cotton, F'ing A. Outstanding video!
lol! Cotton? not familiar with that expression. What does that mean?
@@12footchain it's a line from the movies Dodgeball. With the open A tuning, it seemed appropriate.
Out of all of the "how to" vids out there yours is the closest in playing and tone that I have heard yet! A list of the gear you used to get there would be nice, Great vid!
How did I miss this?! 🤘
Always loved this song... specifically for the (biting) guitar part. Thanks for the video!
As a youngster learning and figuring out the guitar parts I would have never guessed the odd tuning. The older me has a collection of guitars in various tunings... looks like I need another guitar for "open A". The wife is going to kill me 😬😄.
Haha! Or if you have open g, then use that and capo up 2. But I'll always advocate another guitar though :-)
Wow! I did a tutorial on this song...which I played guitar on... but this really gets down to the nitty-gritty. You, sir, are a fabulous teacher. (Some songs are just baffling. During the Covid lockdown, I went down into my Dungeon of Noisy Toys and figured out "Native Stepson" by Sonny Landreth. I met Sonny and told him what I'd done. His eyes widened and he said, "You learned it by ear?") Your tutorials are amazing. Keep it up.
Thank you very much!
Greg, your the guy who came up with these amazing guitar riffs? It's outstanding creativity & playing for sure! It's got to be some of the the best guitar stuff I've ever heard. I remember trying to figure it out when I was like 16 and was unable as it was much too advanced with the tuning and your incredible playing thanks for the great guitar music.
So, I'm an idiot and didn't realize that you sir, are THE Greg Douglass who recorded this originally! Thank you very much for your super kind words and thank you for the great music you gave us all!
@@12footchain No your not an idiot, you have an AWESOME channel & thank you too.
@@12footchain You are far from an idiot, my friend. Your lessons are top of the food chain all the way. I'm about to move to Oregon, where I will be putting together a (one would hope) workable online teaching system. (I may be hitting on you for advice with your kind permission). Your kind words mean a lot, as do Mr. Williams'. Legacy means a great deal to me and while I'm not a household word, knowing that my music has meant something makes my day.
Dang!Alternate tuning/s..Learning Guitar(properly)is H-A-R-D!!THAT'S why I play several Instruments VERY well.Cuz it's too hard(nearly impossible)to master,and REALLY emerge as an accomplished guitar player.Aside from Style,Original Songs..You also Gotta have you're own unique TONE!!
Great tune and yeah Greg makes it look easy but its a bit odd yet very cool.
that was cool thank you.
Thank you so much. I learned this a few years ago and lost the very-hard-to-find correct tab in the correct tuning. Such an elegant yet badass guitar tune. The pinnacle and epitome of rock riffery 🤘😎
You’ve gotten closer than anyone else I’ve seen. The octave intro was a mystery to me until I saw your vid. Just a friendly correction though, the pickup into the first chorus is actually 5th string fret 2-4, 4th string fret 2-4-5, then up to the 9th fret. And the first variation lick in the verse is a little simpler, it starts with an open 4th string, then 5th fret on the 3rd and 2nd, instead of 2nd fret on 3rd and 1st fret on 2nd. Cheers ✌️
This is a great lesson and very accurate. But in a cover band there's no time to deal with the tuning changes and intricacies of it all. I am a stickler for accuracy but I play it in standard and swing it like VH would. It sounds great and passable, even though its an interpretation. Nice job! and thanks for posting.
Can you post the pedals/amp settings you are using? You mentioned it in the video but I can't find it . Great job on this song. Outstanding!
thank you! For this I used a plain old TS-9 tube screamer (had since mid 90s) drive about midway, Boss EQ-2 pedal boosting low mids slightly. I almost always run stereo out into 2 amps, in this case one went to my Fender Deluxe tone master, and the other into a '64 Super Reverb. Both mic'd with 57s and blended in my DAW.
@@12footchain thanks. I am trying to dial the sound in with an OCD pedal and fly-rig...not having 100% success yet
Great lesson! Love the channel. Is that a 6 string guitar?? WOW 😎
What an awesome lesson! I love your passion and your taste in music! It would be great if you could give a lesson on “Roll with the Changes” by REO. Gary Richrath is one of my favorite guitarists. Thank you!
Awesome, funny you say that, RWTC is coming soon, it's on my short list
@@12footchain I can’t wait! Thank you!
Just found a vid with a Jungle Love tutorial from Greg Douglass himself on JD Pinckney/Pinckney Custom Shop YTchannel. Bottom line, 12ft pretty much nailed it right down to the slide on the little finger. Greg uses a thumb pick which I can't ever recall seeing a rocker do before, lol. I think of it as a country piece of gear, I guess, but my dude can still play at 70+ yrs old, ha ha.
Thanks. And search thru the comments on my vid, you will see Greg himself commenting on my vid too. Love his work on this song
@@12footchain It's a truly crunchy, juicy, delicious guitar jam. I love the tone and his rhythm chops. Be a ROUGH song to play and sing at the same time. He mentions in the vid that one YT vlogger got it right; I think he's referring to you.
I would love to see you take on Ry Cooder's work in Memo from Turner!
I got here trying to figure out if this was open A and here it is. But I think that part at 8:02 might actually start like you did on the 9th fret, and then finish on the third and second strings (both at the seventh fret first, then third string, ninth fret and second string eighth fret)
So I just watch Greg explain how he played the song. The video is on YT. You are close but there are a few areas that need touching up. Greg’s tab isn’t very good so you could improve in that area with your superb Guitar Pro skills 😎
Your pickguard only has 5 screws. I'm not a tele guy, is that normal?
The 50s era telecaster had fewer screws. Mine is a 70th anniversary broadcaster so they did all the specs to match the first ones, which included that
I think that you should give a safety warning to viewers to please use protective eyewear when tuning up to Open A! Especially the 2nd and 4th strings... I was doing it with my eyes closed and cringing the whole time :)
Lol I did the same
@@12footchain actually it is probably exacerbated by the fact that i have 11-49 or 11-52 strings on most of my guitars. and now, i just watched a rick beato video where he was singing the praises of lighter gauge strings, so i am rethinking this decision that i haven't revisited for 20 years :)
@@Bob.Silverstein if 7s and 8s are good enough for Billy Gibbons, then 9s are good enough for me. I used to do 10s normally for years, but im never going heavy ever again. I just don't think it makes all that much difference, don't make it hard on yourself
I agree and I'm gonna try lighter strings now. Maybe I'll suddenly be a better lead player! ;)
Wow you work fast :)
Yep. You see the shout out to you at the end?
@@12footchain ha! Cool. No I had stopped just before the end but went back now and saw it. That's as famous as I'm ever gonna be ;) thank you.
We covered this in my band, and I could never get to sound right. Now I know why! Man how in the world did you figure it out? Great job! I thought he was using an octave divider.
You can fake it pretty well without the slide, IMO.
Agree
I agree that your tone is good but how come none of these videos sound like Steve Miller's version of the song. Sorry but album version of the song sounds completely different then this or any other version
Can you point me to an example of an album version like you referenced? Nothing I can find sounds much different to me
Ned....I recorded the song. I was in and out in 30-40 minutes. I used an early version of a Quilter amp called a ...wait for it...Duck! 100% transistors! The guitar was a 1965 Epiphone Riviera with those little, weeny humbuckers. They had middle end for days and had a kind of "Squonk!" sound. I now play a Quilter Mach 3 and it gets no better. I think Mr. Chain came very close.