How To Get The Original Rockabilly Sound
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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This is the long due and much requested lesson on how to get an authentic rockabilly sound! I hope it helps some of you pickers out there.
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I just got hired as the guitarist in a rockabilly band at 70 years old. This does help!
Well done
thats awesome
Not if you're going to masquerade as an "expert" on rockabilly. Congrats on the hire.
@@weavethehawk Why would you think that??? I've been into rockabilly since I was 7 years old and I'm now 71!!!
@@tmilwaukee Your answer is his answer 🙄
I think as you get older, there's this need to go back to your roots - for those of us who were very young when we first heard this sort of sound, it left a lasting impression. Thanks, Randy
Great comment and true.
I'm 20 and from North Carolina and I've always loved the early Sun records stuff especially Luther's tone I've been chasing that tone for myself and I finally got it with help from my grandpa built or own homemade electric guitar completely from scratch and we bought 2 Gibson ga5 LP reissue tube amps we put 12au7 preamp tubes in and modified the second amplifier we put a built in tape loop machine for onboard slapback echo just like a Ray Butts Echosonic amp for my strings I use thomastik flatwound 10 gauge strings pure nickel for the 2 high strings I use 26 36 from a Ernie ball 7 gauge strings pack so I can bend easily
You know why I like 50's rockabilly guitar because you wanna move to it, it's thrilling, it gets the blood pumping and the licks are so tasty and I so love reverb and slap back echo. :)
If it's retarded then what are you even doing watching this video? Go search for something nuance and artsy you pretentious douchebag.
@@076657 😂 lol can you do better?? Although rockabilly is alil predictable it's no where near as predictable than pop rnb and grime that's where you should focus some frustration the difference is rockabilly actually requires a musican and not a synth pad and sample loops. It's crazy right u have to have talent to actually play rockabilly who would have known 😊. Simple in concept perhaps but it is nothing without technique you don't even need to understand music to make anything popular these days and no I'm not just blowing smoke i play guitar and produce music on fl studio and I shit you not i can make a track in about 15 min with ease. Pick up a guitar and tell me how easy it is to play this shit with actual attitude and groove because I bet you would be stiffer than a tree.
James Somogyi I bet its extremely easy. Its all pentatonic bullshit over and over and over in the same key. The kind of licks you should use a couple of times during a solo. But instead youre playing them ALL the time as if we had no ears.
@@076657 you are definitely not a true musician. You think that the contemporary sound is moving? Without the past in music there is no present.
@@alexanderhammer688 rockabilly music is not a base for anything. Much more complicated sophisticated stuff had already been done when it appeared. Impressionism is far more modern than that and it happened in 1900. Bach is much cooler and it's much older.
If you said, Charlie Christian set the ground for all electric guitarists after him, yes, we look at the past and realize he was a fucking genius. But this music is nothing but dumbed down version of better music. Music for dumbasses, basically. Not a foundation for anything interesting.
Randy: That 1994 photograph of the Crazy Boys looks like it was taken in 1955. Maybe in some club in Memphis down the block from Sun Records. Awesome!!
Randy has a real authentic sound and feel , great vids . Most "Rockabilly" playing online seems cheesy and a generic modern interpretation. Richter is playing the real deal . I'm all ears .. thanks for these little gems.
*Pulls out B.C. Rich* and here is Angel of Death Strut!
A 60s Harmony H1214 Archtone with a P90 will thrash, too.
Bow to goat lord pesant !
Lol!
J .R I thought you were joking.
I am a man in my 50's and i love rockabilly music. Been listening to rockabilly and rock n roll since i was a kid.
Im 33 and I love rockabilly
Same I've been in to rockabilly since I was about 4 years old I'm a rockabilly rebel from head to toe......:)
Im 53 and been listening to rockabilly since i was 13, id say the johnny cash sound got me addicted as my father would always be listening to him,.rockabilly rules 👍
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@@phil393 same story here brother Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly I never really liked Elvis that much though
B.C Richabilly. Nice example of tone in the hands. Everything else are props to get us in the mood/ mindset.
Listen close and you can hear this style in almost every modern guitar solo ever recorded. This is gold
Seeing these in depth instructions sheds light on how technical wizards like Chet Atkins could get so devoted to the art form and spend a lifetime refining. It's a dichotomy of the greatest and worst aspects of learning guitar for me. That no matter how much you play there is always ways to improve and progress. Great stuff!
Guitar players focus WAY too much on gear. Not enough on how they play
@Hank ok gear snob
I like the part where you say "...and if I feel good, I play better, It's very simple". That lesson should be stressed and amplified more often, in every guitar playing course.
Spot on there
Yeah, but it can work the other way, too: sometimes I feel uncreative, unfocused, whatever; I play awhile, and walk away refreshed.
I took advice about this from Ted Nugent 35 years ago, everytime I record I put on fresh socks!
I'm 6'2, also kinda tall. I can relate. Playing my Gretsch onstage makes me feel more comfortable. Great video!
If you got a small empty room the echo for Rockabilly is to die for, try it! I had recently put down a tile floor and needed a break so dragged in my little tweed Gibson amp and whoowa!..decided from now on to keep most of that room empty as possible, the hard tile surface helps too. It also kills for blues tones.
I wish more players had the understanding of guitar that you have, I agree with everything in this video! Great piece, cheers
Rockabilly rules....I love that sound.....it drives me crazy!!!!
Finally someone gets it right awesome
Killing the game with the Bc rich rockabilly, and great knowledge! Subscribing
At 5:04 when you played the same riff on three guitars back to back, it was really interesting to me to hear the difference. I like the Tele best of the three on that riff, but I was also kind of surprised that the BC Rich played clean through that amp had almost a resonator sound to me -- a lot more twangy than I would have expected from that maker.
I never clicked with the country and blues connection in this genre - top lesson well presented. Cheers fae Bonnie Scotland, rocking the Glens up here.
The twangy telecaster sounded the most like rockabilly from the 50's to me, especially more like the live performances I have heard (missed the real thing by several decades). He's right though, you can play any kind of music on any guitar.
I have also learned from experience that vintage gear is not essential. When I played in a Rockabilly group, I used my 1976 Ibanez Les Paul copy through a Music Man 210 hybrid amp (four power tubes and preamp power section). For slapback, I used a Guyatone analog delay pedal. It did the job. Vintage gear is cool, but very expensive. Use whatever works and within your means.
In my profile picture beside my homemade electric guitar is my modified Gibson ga5 LP reissue hybrid amp it sounds like any other tube amp but me and my grandpa modified mine with a built in tape loop like an Echosonic amp
This is no joke! Many rockabilly guitarists from the 1950s played BC Rich guitars in the studio, but on stage they used hollow-body Guilds and Gibsons so as to fit in better with the fans' genre expectations. BC Rich was indeed the secret weapon or rockabilly back in the day!!!
I doubt that because BC Rich was founded in 1969
@@99_bones DUH. It is sarcasm.
Enjoyed the vid - very well done. You have a pleasant style. Thank you.
Wow, the BC Rich sounded really good!
respectfully disagree! His hands sounded really good! that tone was awful and didn't do his playing justice lol
yes it did but too much pitch for a good rockabilly sound.
golden rule for all Guitar videos in YT: show the Pickups-Switch!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was an excellent video and I love how you make the case for paying close attention to playing the music before you worry about the gear. I love what you do!
hey dude thanks for giving the true knowledge like this out here nowadays its all about money and not true heart and soul!
How I got the sound is I started out as a hillbilly. Then I started to rock, & it snowballed from there.
Awesome tutorial to get the rockabilly sound my friend! Yay! :)
it's very interesting what you explain about mixing melodical themes from the song with the bluesy improvising. I've often wondered why the blues scale seemed to be so inevitable in later rock-music guitar solos: in rockabilly there's still the freedom to use other scales, which (imo) is one of the reasons I like it so much. I think it's even not just themes from the melody of the song at hand that are being tossed in, but all sorts of quotes: maybe other songs, folk tunes - for all I know maybe even fragments of children's songs. While listening to Cliff Gallup I've often wondered where he got some of those lines from: there's something - I don't know how to put it - maybe "liberating" comes close, or "joyful"? - to how he does that. Compared to that I often find the run-of-the-mill rock guitar solos strangely limited, even boring, despite that they can be technically brilliant.
+Lúthien Merilin I fully agree with you. Later rock solos just bore me, because it's usually improvising without any theme, just noodling. Cliff Gallup was heavily influenced by Charlie Christian
+Lúthien Merilin I couldn't agree more
You should check out Kurt Cobain's solos, no im seriouse, not technically brilliant but wow very interesting
Klasse. Die Verarsche am Anfang trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf.
Man that Guild is a beauty.
Great clip Randy, keep em coming buddy.
The tele sounded best. Thanks for posting this stuff, man. There are still a bunch of us out here
Yes, but what brand pick is it? (just kidding) Good lesson.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreaaaaaaaaaatttttt
Omg, you killed me with that comment dude ✌👌
That was great. I must say though that silly Peavy Solo has got more mojo than many commercial tube amps. I use one for busking and it never ceases ti surprise me.
Great - haha - now I want a BC Rich...
Great video and good advice.
Best regards from Marburg!
My friend, that was an amazing, inspiring and well played demo! You are a great player and you know your rockabilly music thank you very much
Thanbk you Todd for your kind words!
I guess to summarize what Randy's saying, a clean amp, good delay pedal (using slapback), and a guitar that plays well is all that matters. I've gotten acceptable sounds from an Ibanez Gio (basically a strat copy with 2 humbuckers), and an epiphone 58 korina explorer (humbucker guitar with pickup screws removed to simulate single coil response) trying out both roundwound and flatwounds (flatwounds definitely more preferred). It really is about WHAT is being played and HOW its played. Gear doesnt matter, its just that back then they played with what was available to them. And Gibson and Fender just happened to be there and reliable and eventually people really just got into them because they were good instruments, but anything that sounds good can work.
great sound ]Loved the buddy holly video you did .you got the sound pretty much spot on ,nice one }
Absolutely wonderful. It's not about tricks, it's what you bring to the music and whether you're willing to put in the time and work at it. You have such credibility. Just listening to you makes me feel more confident about learning and playing. Thanks a million, Randy!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it
Superb. Very clear + informative. Well done.
The rockibilly style is one I want to learn. I'm just learning guitar. I guess I have a 50s heart about me.
That guild sounds really great.
It's hard to believe that I've been following Randy for 7 years. Time flies.
Great video! I have had the same experience trying to get that 50s sound for electric blues music. A lot of it is the players. You have to have a certain feel to your own playing before the gear can make a difference.
brilliant explanation.
Wonderful. Loved the video, my friend.
Brilliant. Thank you man, you sound great and you know how to get a point across.
I love that rockabilly sound and that song by Eddie Cochran Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie
Beautiful Guild! Good video!
3:13 Fooled you! HAHAHAHA
How much does the hairdo have to do with it?
69zenos1 it's the last 5% of what you need
Better than dressing in scruffy shell suits and back to front caps lol
I always play better on a good hair day and I’d be willing to bet most people play better when they’re looking good. The ladies appreciate it too!
jts3339 wish I still had my quiff. Its in a carrier bag in the wardrobe now! Got to keep rock in kid!
I just got home from hospital and these kinda comments made my day, thanks for the humour boys and the lovely music Randy
Nicely done, it's so easy to get wrapped up in the gear game instead of focusing on what really matters.
I agree, Your fingers are what makes your sound!!! Gear is very fun to play with of course, I have many guitars, amps and pedal boards!!
Excellent video! You have done a great job here, Randy! Your explanations are very clear and thoughtful. Thank you!
Very good lesson. Thank you.
Hm, there's a lot I could add, that I should probably save for my channel, but here's just a couple of omissions. Flatwound strings were what the Gretsches, Guilds and Gibsons of the era came with, stock, and most players stuck with stock, and fairly heavy gauges, at that. You don't necessarily need them, but they don't hurt, and it makes the double-stop slides a bit easier. (and the bends a little harder) A Bigsby tremolo is your best bet for an authentic tone; it's basically that or nothing where it comes to wiggle bars, and it's not just about the big hunk of metal; it's about where the bridge lies under your picking hand, because the biggest secret is to lightly palm mute the low strings and let the treble strings ring, and this holds true whether you fingerpick, Travis pick or use hybrid picking A standard Telecaster works too, but palm muting is why everybody took the bridge cover off and used it for an ashtray. You can hear Randy doing this throughout the video, I'm just surprised he didn't mention it; it's how you get the alternating bass to thump.
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I agree with many things you've said except for the Bigsby tremolo. There were lots of Fender Strats in use as well, most famously probably on Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll and on some of Buddy's recordings.
I should've mentioned the palm mute, you're right. It's a big part too.
Sir,you deserve 100 x's the subs you have..Salute...
Would love to see Setzer walk on stage with that B.C. Rich axe
Great video ! I like the emphasis that it comes down to what you're doing with your 2 hands (more than what gear you are using)! I love that Guild ..
Thank you for telling the truth brother, hawk forward!
So much great information every vid you make! TYTYTY 🎸🤙😆
Can I have that Guild when you're done with it?
That might take some time though ;-) Unless you have Gretsch Roundup to trade
Had a 57 Silver Jet but it's gone now. Should have kept that one.
popoaggie I'd have traded a kidney for the silver jet!
In 1960 I bought a Guild Starfire III. Paid just over 500 for it. Played lotsa gigs with it...still have her...won’t part with her. Memories!
@@popoaggie I can relate to that just a little too well on a more modest level... From 1983 to 1986 I owned a solidbody guitar called a "G&L G-200," which had a hardtail bridge and a pair of humbuckers with coil-splitting (3-position splitter switch: double-coil, single-coil, and single-coil with bass boost). It yielded both Stratocaster and Telecaster-type sounds with a total of 9 tonal options. But I was eventually hankering for a guitar with a whammy bar, so I traded in the G&L in for another guitar ("Peavey Impact I," rather like a Strat with a bridge humbucker). Then, just a few months later, I came across a column in "Guitar Player" magazine ("Rare Bird" column series by George Gruhn)... and there was the "G&L G-200" being featured in the column! Turns out that there were only 209 made! (AAAAAARGH!) I was HORRIFIED... (I have since seen two of them for sale online within the past couple of years... one was over $2000 and the other over $4000.) I sure do hate learning lessons the hard way!
WELL DONE MR. RICHTER
Hello my friend,
i am a death metal guy and i tell you the same in metal. If you play hard, it sounds hard.
Btw:
Why does a metal guy coment this vid? I bougth a coupel of days bevor my first gretsch guitar because i am total impressed from this swinging feel of your music. This is great! So dynamic an full of live 😀. Now i practise rockabilly style guitar over the clean cannel of my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifire and i think it sounds not so bad 😊
Cool video and greetings from hell 😁🤘
I think it's the same in any style of music and other parts of life as well. If you have the best tools at home that doesn't guarantee you to be a great handy man.
I love all your tutorials! you play very well. I am( trying) to learn how to play rockabilly guitar. What type of guitar do you play?
Thank you Oliver! I play a 1958 Guild X-175 and a Baja Telecaster
Randy Richter thank you! those guitars sound great.I play a strat now but I am looking into getting a gretsch 5420.
Did u bother watching
Drummers used brushes a lot more back then. Don't forget the brushes, drummers!
I'm still not convinced about the equipment. To my ears, the BC Rich and Peavey transistor amp sounded pretty convincing.
Great video... Thanks
I am so impressed!! You explain things so well.
Thank you! It's not so easy in a foreign language, but I try my best
I could understand all you say! There was no barrier.
If you're having language difficulties - we'd never know - it doesn't show :)
Randy, you are a joy to listen to any time of day. It's an hour past my bedtime and I'm pretty much glued to whatever you'll come up with next. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed this!
IMHO Rockabilly is a blend of gospel blues country and mtn or bluegrass music....high energy music played with the instruments and amps at hand lot of the old guitar pickers used to"tune"their amp to the room being played using gain treble bass and placement of the amp...course as the crowds got bigger so did amps and p.a.s....as tubes gave way to linear transistors the sound gave way to a louder harsher sound with fewer even ordered overtones and harmonics...keep up the videos👍they're thought provoking and instructive.
Brother I dig ya'lls style.....keep up the goodwork Cousin......
Very nice, I like the Peavey delta blues 15 amp. I usually play naked with a sock on my bait n tackle just kidding nice
Rockabilly rules!
Excellent video thank you
Randy I just found your channel,you are great! Please keep doing covers and lessons Of the late Great Mr Carl Perkins,and other "lesser'' rockabilly's too :)
Thanks for the kind words. I will keep the lessons coming when time allows me to do so.
He's talking about the original real Rocka Billy! Whitch is the best
Known and played by the Greats in guitar ! I think the older style is
Mutch ritcher Scotty more sounding ! Older style ! This guy is good makes it look so darn easy! Light fingers on
Kneck ! Sound is amazingly cool!
Great point... to get that true 50’s sound I need to get a BC Ritch guitar! Thanks for the great advice! Do I need a special cable and a flat top hair cut?
Great lesson! Thanks, it's always cool to learn new licks like this... 👍
Good video, thanks for taking the time to make and upload. Regards from Ireland.
Wow, what great musical skills. I played enough High School music to recognize real talent and your skills are amazing. This was very interesting. Thank You.
That was great Randy, many thx buddy. Subbed too.
cool video man!!!! I like how you show the B.C.rich beast man but the better quality B.C.'s have a great tone variety like a USA bich or a mockingbird you have varitone, phase switches all sorts of cool tonal ability .... but again man really cool vid
Wow what a great video! You really prove a point. Bravo 👏
I like the feeling of dwarfing a Telecaster and having my left hand completely wrap around the neck. I miss my Tele :(
Love to see you with a Guild! For me its a 1966 Guild Starfire V custom, Bigsby delete, clear finish, Haggstrum floating bridge. Had her over 50 years now.. Nice setup, nice playing! Thanks for posting!!
Excellent tutorial!!! Awesome how that Dean sang then the B.C. Rich screamed..AWESOME!!!
.........It's the style of PLAYING, not so much the equipment....who would've thought....???
I like the woody sound of the guild. I have a chet atkins gretsch but it sounds more metal like
Yes, Gretsch has a unique sound
Rockabilly with BC Rich...????????????? Bleachhhhhhhhh...!!!!! :P
i still have my 52 tell iam from the rockabilly i had aband the ply boys ian in RBH OF FAME JOETHESHAKER RBLEGEND
8:40 mmm... folsom prison johny cash
You sound just like Elon Musk dude! Great playing man 🎸
The best rockabilly teacher on the planet. You inspired my music. I only love the early 1950’s rockabilly scene it’s so cool
Same
Want-to-be's think it's the equipment, real musicians know it's in the hands of the musician. Great video.
this is most definitely a different in sound ,that's just your opinion but there isn't... the fifties instruments hollow-body sounds warmer and Fuller also with the tube amp
The Uranium Rock solo sounds nearly exact like the one on "Ubangi Stomp" haha
your tips are really good!
And I love the gear that you use, though I myself play a bit "heavier", with a bit distortion and not rockabilly at all (just some songs), well Setzer-influenced.
And you are right, it's true that you don't have to use echo. When you said that, I thought of the king of rockabilly Carl Perkins, and then you also said it!
I remember, months ago, sitting around 3 hours on a friday evening, to listen out note by note the intro of Perkins "Roll over beethoven" riff (not the new recorded version, i mean the great, unfortunately unreleased at that time 50s version), which is very very unique, to come up with it on the next day to play it at a gig. wonderful!
You're right, it doesn't sound like Uranium Rock at all. Stupid me...
I'm glad you like the video. And I have to agree with you on Carl Perkins. I haven't heard anybody sounding close to Carl on his SUN recordings. That goes for singing and picking.