Why didn't I know this 50 years ago? I got out my chord encyclopedia book and hunted up every diminished chord form, and have been wrapping them up in minor blues licks. Wow. A brand new world has opened up. It's been a long time since I got up, ate breakfast, and headed off to the guitar room to practice. Thank you Eric!
5:41 "I'm thinking of this chord shape (Fm), it's not from nowhere". Very strangely my favorite part of your lesson. I often find that many instructors lack empathy towards their students/viewers; simply mentioning where the note is being pulled from helps the student get inside your head and view the phrase within the context it appears as opposed to just copying fret positions. Keep it up, great stuff here.
Thanks! Yeah - it's really important to try to understand why things sound cool! Even if it's not 100% perfect music theory, you want to have some sort of explanation for yourself of where the thing came from. John Lennon for example - he didn't know music theory, but he knew thousands of songs. I think he invented some sort of system for himself to make sense of it all. And then wrote "I am the Walrus!"
Easily the best sounding guitar instruction video I have encountered on RUclips in a long time. Should be a template for budding guitar instructors. I learned something useful as well! Thanks.
Thank you! I think getting a rich tone, with just the right amount of gravel, out of the guitar is so important - it's the voice of the instrument. I'd always rather listen to a few notes played with thoughtful, luscious tone than a million notes with thin weedly sound :-)
Yeah! There's many great plays who can do the "playing out" thing, but it always sounds academic. Marc is so soulful, even when he's completely atonal!
Yer hands down the sickest teacher on the interwebs. Isolating these concepts of Marc’s is really the way to teach, or teach oneself, but we all benefitted from like you said sometimes weeks of rewinding party videos in Paris. I’ve been trying to understand Marc from a Cuban perspective, a gypsy jazz perspective, and then a blues country and rockabilly side. He’s all and none of them, he’s guitar parts falling down stairs. If ever you feel like dipping into this further, we’d all benefit tremendously from it. And if ever you want to visit Cuban or gypsy jazz concepts as it relates to Marc, even better. Thx a ton man.
Dude thanks so much Jason! I totally agree about Ribot - he is all things and yet completely his own thing! I continue to dissect his playing everyday - right now I'm working out his crazy fuzz-jazz work on "Hoist That Rag." Stay tuned for that one!
Eric Haugen I’m here for that one when you drop it. I’m still trying to gain citizenship to whatever fictional country has Hoist That Rag as their national anthem haaahaa. I’ve been playin 27 yrs now (god help me) and am only now diving hard head first into theory. Being from Miami (and not Latin except by aggressive proxy) I’m trying to understand Cuban methods and habits like I said hopefully to meet Marc in some strange middle, since I secretly want to apply it to minor Waitsian blues. I’ll be waiting for anything you send down the line. Thx for writin back ;)
I've recently discovered your videos and I keep coming back to them. Your playing is one of the most unique and inspirational I've seen on RUclips. Thank you for sharing them.
My pleasure Jonathan! Stay tuned - there's always more skronk coming! I've got a Ribot-esque version of Nick Cave's "Up Jumped The Devil" on the way.....
You do something better than every other youtube guitar instructor. You start every video with you jamming on what you're about to teach so when we're browsing we can immediately know if this is a lesson we wanna learn. Thank you! With everyone else I have to skip over 5 minutes of talking and try to figure out when the person is going to demonstrate.
+GaryDee119 I too, watch RUclips guitar vids so I have a good amount of empathy for what people are looking for 😎. I try to come up with cool ideas with good tone, and then precisely and patiently explain the though process so folks can take the ideas and make them personal. I think it's working! Thanks for letting me know!!
I love Tom Waits. The man is an universum in itself. Marc Ribot is my favourite guitarplayer. In 2019 I Saw him in Rotterdam with Ceramic Dog. He does so many different things; it's unbelievable. I discovered your You Tube video's last week. I think they are pure gold. Thank you very much !
Great stuff. I stumbled across the blues/harmonic minor/diminished thing years ago because I play metal, blues, and jazz. I'm glad to see someone sharing the knowledge. Keep up the great work, brother!
I love your teaching style. It breaks down the licks at an easy to follow pace without being slow. More importantly, it explains some of the theory behind the licks, so that rather than just learn the solo verbatim, I have some themes that I can try when creating my own ideas.Easily my favourite guitar page on RUclips at present. Keep up the good work.
At 8:37 I think you had the most important part of the lesson. When I'm integrating elements of a new genre into my toolbox, the biggest challenge is finding the places where I can make it a new part of MY playing. The little thumb trick tying your own E-String notes into the pattern goes beyond just teaching a new tool. It stimulates me as a student to consider the many ways I can create with my tools and integrate the new tool to work harmoniously with what I do.
Best instructor on youtube. So nice to have someone teaching things who doesn't speak from their almighty "Berkeley School of Music" high horse... you are very descriptive and relate complex theory back to very simple theory. Rock on man!
Thanks buddy! I always remember that theory came second to actual music. It's all too often that trained musicians use their knowledge of jargon to intimidate other musicians. I disagree with this practice wholeheartedly. To me, we're all peers!
Great video. I've only been playing for a couple years and while I couldn't play everything exactly like you I could follow the theory and logic as you explained why you were playing certain things. I had a lot of fun playing along and trying to understand. Thank you!
I have watched this 10x, and some of your other Ribot vid's, since i found it yesterday.. nice work Eric. Ribot has been a fav of mine for over 20yrs..you have done an excellent job on relaying Marc's technique and explaining it nicely. excellent teaching skills. excellent musicianship demonstrated here. Subscribed and Notifications for this channel are ON! I vote Eric the most unpretentious and coherent guitar teacher on RUclips that I have found...
Eric, you are killing it. You are generous with your information and that will serve you well. I have been playing for 37 years and I learned so much from your lessons, I want to slap myself. Thank you. Please continue your studies on Marc. Maybe get into some of the Prosthetic Cubans stuff which is crazy groovy stuff.
I remember watching this video maybe a year ago and feeling super out league by the fantastic sound and playing you showed. I managed barely to play the licks proper these days. And when I tried to shift the ideas in keys I also failed. Today in the woods I remembered one of these "falling out of the window with confetti in your hair licks" and watched this lesson again. Since I have a basic overview of scales and their connections, from there their harmonized chords and so derived inversions I had super great fun watching this! by understanding the concept behind that style in fact! Also using the Strymon Deco but going into my Big Sky for a little reverb - with I guess is pretty fine with the Gretsch and the Blues Junior (made in USA). So thanks again for this tasteful lesson. I somehow have the feeling that your videos have a big part in me understanding guitar. I know that one of the reasons I finally startet with theory was more or less the will to understand what you are talking about in this video. You know flat 5ths and triads and stuff. Once clear, it is way easier with MUCH more benefit to watch your lessons. Wich I will continue...
Went down a rabbit hole today and stumbled upon your channel... this is incredible. I'd been looking for lessons involving guitarists I like, like Verlaine and Ribot and here it is. Now to dig in....
One of my subscribers said "...it feels as if Ribot and all his equipment are being pushed down the stairs rolled up in a carpet." Such a perfect analogy!
Loving all these Ribot lessons. Your tone is like an ice pick. If Marc ever gets amnesia he'll have to come by Your channel to relearn his chops. Thanks again for the great lesson.
Thanks Michael! I remember watching a Metallica documentary where they had to use RUclips to relearn how to play their earlier material :-D So you never know!
I also love the Coltrane Equinox, backing track. I'm already digging the minor harmonies that I'm plucking out on that one on my own. Keep up the great work work Eric for us rock kids (now geezers) that want to play more jazz, and I'll explore your website for more gems that I may have missed.
Excellent! My favorite players are jazz-ish - rock guys who know enough jazz to be interesting without being full-on fusion :-) Mark Knopfler, Marc Ribot, Jeff Skunk Baxter
Awesome video Eric! For a long time I've felt like I hit a major wall in my guitar playing, and I've been focusing on other instruments instead. But this video gave me some great lick ideas and I'm hooked yet again to my guitar! Thanks a bunch and keep up the great work!
Now THIS is my kinda solo - quirky, jagged, wonderfully discordant, subtlety complex, has a signature sound and above all....has a healthy absence of pinch harmonics, sweep picking, tapping or being played at 500 notes per second!!! 🎸👍👍👍🎸 Great video.
Thanks Tom! I learned a long time ago that I was never gonna be able to play like Eddie Van Halen. On that day, I went weird and never looked back - embrace the strange!
Eric Haugen Embrace it indeed, my fellow axeman!! 👍😆🎸 Another guitarist I really like for his style of solos is Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age. But then I'm a big QOTSA fan in general anyway 😉 By the way, _very_ nice Mustang. I like the finish on it as it's quite unique. Always considered getting a Mustang but I have quite large hands, so I don't know if the neck/fretboard might be a bit too diddy.
Yeah, but sweep picking, um.. Sweep pivking uhhh.... Nope. Can't find a point to it either. Not musical. Show off stuff. And no i can't do it and i tried lol so forget it
Great Lesson! I like how you really develop where the melody is coming from with respect to the chords. You take a lot more from this video rather than just stock lead parts. Thanks!
I've never heard of Marc Ribot.... till now. Wow! I need to get me some of that music. Awesome lesson! I really like your approach to teaching. It's thorough, yet not tedious. Keep it up!!!
So, I've never owned any Tom Waits music before. I did read the Wikipedia entry about Rain Dogs though. That sounds like a great album. What's funny is that I was reading the article while waiting for an Uber. I was waiting on the corner of 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis.
Thank you. I've been looking a long time for someone who explains a lick in relation to the harmony, like you do. Please do continue the good work. You're doing an amazing job.
The opening jam also reminded me of some Peter Green, Danny Kirwin, Jeremy Spencer riffs with early Fleetwood Mac. This will certainly diversify my blues playing. Many thanks!
Hi Eric, I've recently discovered your channel and have been really enjoying your videos. I'm basically a rock/metal player, but love any guitar based styles. Of late, I've really been concentrating on expanding my playing vocabulary and your vids have helped open the door to some new (to me) styles, techniques and players. Cheers
Excellent! I have a lot of love for classic metal! Judas Priest, Scorpions, Metallica, Sabbath, etc. I am amazed by the musicianship of all the new metal out there as well! That stuff is no joke!
Only discovered you a few days ago. Absolutely love your videos. I was stuck in a rut but now I have a lot of tasty licks in the trick bag now and I'm hooked. I subscribed 2 minutes into the first video. Keep em coming and thanks a million!!
Another brilliant lesson. You definitely do some of the most tasteful and interesting guitar lessons on RUclips. At least to my ears anyway. Thanks for demystifying more of Ribot's style.
Right on, great video and what incredible taste you have. Hardly no one picks a legend such as Mark to base a video on. I've never commented on a instructional video before, so you are doing something right. Keep it up and if I ever make some money, I'll toss you some thanks for taking the time and helping others learn.
Thanks for all these cool lessons! I'm a huge fan of Marc Ribot, Ry Cooder, and a bunch of other guitarists that play a little "out of the box." It's really cool to get some insight into other players' playing styles.
It truly is my pleasure! I love all the usual guys as well - Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Perry, etc - but it's more interesting for me to investigate the oddball players.
Really great to listen and learn from. The explication is clear and concise and the toanz are spot-on. Great distillation of a style, opening interesting avenues of interpretation that is quirky yet not abstruse. Ribot is the rocker's jazzman.
Well done Eric, I'm rapidly building a file "things to learn" from your lessons and this is going in it. I'm into the disjointed, falling down the stares idea.. I've gotta master it! Well done!
Great stuff, Eric! Will you please do a video for "Hoist That Rag"? One of my favorite guitar solos I've ever heard, and I think you would nail it. Thanks man!
Trevor Baum great solo!!!! It definitely has that Cuban Tres flavor.... you should look up some vids on the Tres and Cuban son, great music and can also serve as a little secret sauce in your arsenal.... it has for me :)
Thanks a lot for tackling guitarists like Marc Ribot and Ry Cooder... These guys deserve much more attention than what they are getting, and your lessons are ace in bringing their sound and musical ideas to the masses. I imagine that you must have a big list of things to transcribe and teach, but could you please please please add Marc Ribot's "Aurora en Pekin" and Ry Cooder's "Secret Love" (with Manuel Galban) to that list??? Cheers!
Man that silvertone has a great vintage sound. I have a 1961 Valco "Dwight" amp, slapped some NOS 6973's in it and yeah, to me there's nothing like the old stuff. Speakers too I feel like are so important, as they say the tone is in the cone. Sounds great, also, fantastic lesson. I like oddball tricks over blues, really enjoying these.
Ooooh I luuuurve those old valcos! The speakers on this ol 1484 are long blown, I’ve got a Jensen mod 50 and a WGS g12 q in it now, and it sounds pretty, pretty good 🤙
@@EricHaugenGuitar Nice, WGS never did mean wrong. Big fan of Jupiter Speakers though for that old Jensen sound, threw one of those in an old Tiesco Checkmate 25 and it sounds like a meaner Princeton Reverb.
Great unique lesson man. I can’t wait to try some of this and incorporate it into my playing. I like how you breakdown what your playing over. That’s something I’ve been trying to do myself and connect the dots. Thanks!
Yeah! I think of it as double-vision: the ability to see the the chords while you solo over them. It’s not easy, and it’s impossible to master, but everyday we get a little bit better!
Thanks so much Brian! For me, it's not enough to know an exact solo or riff. I like to really get inside the heads of my favorite musicians, and see if I can think like they can!
I love it! Excellent melodic content that is so rare these days. Many players, and far too few composers. Got that stray cat swagger down pat. Good luck with it.
Some of those notes are so out, they're in. It's not just the altered notes, but the ones before and after that you use to set them up. I really love chromatics like that. Steve Morse is really good at that skill also.
Just as nice and helpful as the other ones, thanks a lot! Just discovered your channel couple of days ago, just the best i have found since 3 years guitar learning on youtube. It already taught me a bunch of great tools. And you perfectly translated in words the spirit of this "meaaaaaaaaaaan" bend on the 11th fret of the B hahahaha
Spot on! I often find that bass players make the best lead guitar players - the way you guys think of chords/harmony in a practical way translates so well to guitar!
Great video! But could you explain the diminished triad sub? Is it full or half diminished, and it's a Cm half dim leading into the Cm chord? So it's actually a little bit early coming into the next bar?
Ah yes the Ddim triad. There's a lot of mystique around diminished triads - one of the main ways you can use them is as an "approach" chord. So if you wanted to get to Cm, you could play a Bdim triad. Aaaaaand because dim7th chords are symmetrical, they invert every three frets! So you can play Bdim, Ddim, Fdim, and Abdim and they'd ALL lead back to Cm!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Thanks for the reply! So the substitution is a dim triad a semi-tone below the chord you're aiming for? ( e.g.Bdim leading to Cm) Thanks so much for doing this series! Ribot is one of my favourite players but it's hard to find lessons on his style, I'm working my way through all of these videos and I've already learnt so much from them (after almost 20 years of playing!)
Eric - check out Eddie Bert's trombone solo on Work Song, from Mingus' Live at the Bohemia album. I happened to put it on soon after working on your awesome Ribot solo, and the similarities are striking. Reminds me, too, I'm pining for a guitar arrangement of Jump Monk (same album). Lots of potential in the chords/harmony, and the sax and piano lines would be great grist for guitar. Wish I had the skill to do such a thing!
:-) Sir, i love your musicality! i'm a huge Tom Waits fan, and through studying Marc Robot, you seem to have imbibed both the soul of the music, AS WELL as the technical understanding of what's going on. i love too, that you left in your "fluff", and i loved your addition, thumb referencing the root an octave down, staggered in with the solo. It's been one of the most enjoyable guitar lessons i've had. It was a breeze in summer, while i learned new things. Great playing sir. Many many thanks. Psychedelic tezZO
Thanks so much for this Eric!! Im so happy to find other Ribot fans out there up for looking closely at his style, thanks for sharing so openly.. I transcribed some of his acoustic work from Masada Guitars, the sounds he gets there are just brilliant. Out of interest, would you recommend transcribing any of the solos on Coltrane's Equinox to supplement this? Or indeed any particular Ribot tracks songs you'd recommend transcribing to start out with?
Those Masada records are excellent! I think the go to standard for jazz transcriptions is anything off of "Kind of Blue." The phrasing and pacing of those solos is more transcribe-able :-D For Ribot, is all starts with Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" foe me. That was the record that absolutely blew my mind wide open.
Great stuff Eric, all i need to do is hear what you're doing and im able ti cherry pick the bits i dont know, so cool, love MR's style, especially the way an out of tune guitar makes him play better and sleazier
Have you tried Squiers equivalents of the Mustang? I've been offered a great deal on a used Classic Vibe Mustang for only around 200 euros which is pretty tempting. Plays and sounds pretty great for what it is.
Oh yeah in general the Squier Vintage Modified and Classic Vibe series are great guitars - especially for the money! You may want to upgrade the pickups in them eventually, but it's not necessary.
Why didn't I know this 50 years ago? I got out my chord encyclopedia book and hunted up every diminished chord form, and have been wrapping them up in minor blues licks. Wow. A brand new world has opened up. It's been a long time since I got up, ate breakfast, and headed off to the guitar room to practice. Thank you Eric!
That's so cool! I'm happy to have inspired you! I bet you've come up with some nasty new licks!
Thanks Don for the inspiration headed to the jam room
"Every Marc Ribot guitar solo sounds like he's falling down a staircase." That is the most accurate statement I've ever heard in my life.
I can't actually take credit for that one - I'm pretty sure someone else commented with that on another one of my videos :-)
Its a evh quote. Something about falling down stairs and landing on your feet every time. @@EricHaugenGuitar
5:41 "I'm thinking of this chord shape (Fm), it's not from nowhere". Very strangely my favorite part of your lesson. I often find that many instructors lack empathy towards their students/viewers; simply mentioning where the note is being pulled from helps the student get inside your head and view the phrase within the context it appears as opposed to just copying fret positions. Keep it up, great stuff here.
Thanks! Yeah - it's really important to try to understand why things sound cool! Even if it's not 100% perfect music theory, you want to have some sort of explanation for yourself of where the thing came from.
John Lennon for example - he didn't know music theory, but he knew thousands of songs. I think he invented some sort of system for himself to make sense of it all. And then wrote "I am the Walrus!"
Easily the best sounding guitar instruction video I have encountered on RUclips in a long time. Should be a template for budding guitar instructors.
I learned something useful as well! Thanks.
Thank you! I think getting a rich tone, with just the right amount of gravel, out of the guitar is so important - it's the voice of the instrument. I'd always rather listen to a few notes played with thoughtful, luscious tone than a million notes with thin weedly sound :-)
Having a large brick-walled studio can't hurt.
I'm a lucky duck! That's actually just my living room - it is pretty big, though :)
Jan Kafka I'm ALWAYS amazed by Eric's intros. The one from "how to use Hendrix doublestops..." is my favourite.. its truly amazing
I only use Eric's vids now, I spin the list and pick one at random and I'm never disappointed! Great lessons great inspiration
This is probably the most underrated guitar channel
Aww shucks thanks so much Horatiu!
Still rings true to this day
Seriously my favorite guitar lesson of all time right here. All praise the wonderful, ugly-yet-beautiful, complex tension of Marc Ribot!!
Yeah! There's many great plays who can do the "playing out" thing, but it always sounds academic. Marc is so soulful, even when he's completely atonal!
Never seen you play before.... you had me within the first few notes! So refreshing, reminded me of Danny Gatton, fabulous!
That's high praise indeed! Thanks so much! If I could only hope to be 1/64th the guitarist he was I'd be happy!
Yer hands down the sickest teacher on the interwebs. Isolating these concepts of Marc’s is really the way to teach, or teach oneself, but we all benefitted from like you said sometimes weeks of rewinding party videos in Paris. I’ve been trying to understand Marc from a Cuban perspective, a gypsy jazz perspective, and then a blues country and rockabilly side. He’s all and none of them, he’s guitar parts falling down stairs. If ever you feel like dipping into this further, we’d all benefit tremendously from it. And if ever you want to visit Cuban or gypsy jazz concepts as it relates to Marc, even better. Thx a ton man.
Dude thanks so much Jason!
I totally agree about Ribot - he is all things and yet completely his own thing!
I continue to dissect his playing everyday - right now I'm working out his crazy fuzz-jazz work on "Hoist That Rag." Stay tuned for that one!
Eric Haugen I’m here for that one when you drop it. I’m still trying to gain citizenship to whatever fictional country has Hoist That Rag as their national anthem haaahaa.
I’ve been playin 27 yrs now (god help me) and am only now diving hard head first into theory. Being from Miami (and not Latin except by aggressive proxy) I’m trying to understand Cuban methods and habits like I said hopefully to meet Marc in some strange middle, since I secretly want to apply it to minor Waitsian blues. I’ll be waiting for anything you send down the line. Thx for writin back ;)
Sounds like a killer Tom waits song. Love it
Thanks man! That's music to my ears!
Maybe because Marc Ribot plays guitar on Tom Waits CDs :-)
Love this Marc Ribot inspired lesson! Diminished licks and tritones are some of my favorite musical tricks!
I've recently discovered your videos and I keep coming back to them. Your playing is one of the most unique and inspirational I've seen on RUclips. Thank you for sharing them.
Thanks so much, Joe!
I really appreciate it!
I've been watching this video for 7 months, and have really enjoyed growing/learning along with it and your other Marc Ribot videos, thanks!
My pleasure Jonathan!
Stay tuned - there's always more skronk coming!
I've got a Ribot-esque version of Nick Cave's "Up Jumped The Devil" on the way.....
You do something better than every other youtube guitar instructor. You start every video with you jamming on what you're about to teach so when we're browsing we can immediately know if this is a lesson we wanna learn. Thank you! With everyone else I have to skip over 5 minutes of talking and try to figure out when the person is going to demonstrate.
+GaryDee119 I too, watch RUclips guitar vids so I have a good amount of empathy for what people are looking for 😎. I try to come up with cool ideas with good tone, and then precisely and patiently explain the though process so folks can take the ideas and make them personal. I think it's working! Thanks for letting me know!!
I love Tom Waits. The man is an universum in itself. Marc Ribot is my favourite guitarplayer. In 2019 I Saw him in Rotterdam with Ceramic Dog. He does so many different things; it's unbelievable. I discovered your You Tube video's last week. I think they are pure gold. Thank you very much !
The Waits/Ribot combo is everything! Those two complement each other so well it's magical!
Great stuff. I stumbled across the blues/harmonic minor/diminished thing years ago because I play metal, blues, and jazz. I'm glad to see someone sharing the knowledge. Keep up the great work, brother!
Thanks Michael!
Yeah this crossover happens a lot in metal! It's prefect for the sinister-ness 💀
Brilliant. Love your lessons. I like that you explain where the notes are coming from in relation to the chords.
Thanks so much Dieter!
For me, everything has to relate back to a chord structure, otherwise I can't remember it :-)
I love your teaching style. It breaks down the licks at an easy to follow pace without being slow. More importantly, it explains some of the theory behind the licks, so that rather than just learn the solo verbatim, I have some themes that I can try when creating my own ideas.Easily my favourite guitar page on RUclips at present. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much, man!
Tone is right on, approach is killer, thanks for the great video!
It's my pleasure, Clay! Thanks for tuning in!
Damn that tone in the beginning! Nice job man didn't expect that from a mustang
+Ricky Weimann Thanks Ricky! Yeah mustangs are tricky but with a little bit of tweaking they can really sting 🐝⚡️
Ricky Weimann like a baby Jaguar - a wild kitten with needle-sharp claws and teeth.
Good lord this is some tasteful playing - honey to my ears. This channel is a goldmine brother. Kudos to you.
Thanks so much, Sari!
This is the first lesson I've seen of yours, very good work! Definitely worth a few repeat followups.
Thanks so much, Rich!
This Haugen guy, I tell ya
At 8:37 I think you had the most important part of the lesson. When I'm integrating elements of a new genre into my toolbox, the biggest challenge is finding the places where I can make it a new part of MY playing. The little thumb trick tying your own E-String notes into the pattern goes beyond just teaching a new tool. It stimulates me as a student to consider the many ways I can create with my tools and integrate the new tool to work harmoniously with what I do.
Excellent! I love inspiring people to find new things!
There are only relatively few good inspiring guitar instructors on youtube. You are one of them!
+Michel de Vries Dude, Thanks so much!
Best instructor on youtube. So nice to have someone teaching things who doesn't speak from their almighty "Berkeley School of Music" high horse... you are very descriptive and relate complex theory back to very simple theory. Rock on man!
Thanks buddy! I always remember that theory came second to actual music. It's all too often that trained musicians use their knowledge of jargon to intimidate other musicians. I disagree with this practice wholeheartedly. To me, we're all peers!
I'm really glad you're out there ding interesting stuff like this. Know it is appreciated and enjoyed. Thoroughly.
Thanks Ryan! I have fun trying to get inside the mind of my heroes :-)
The tone blew my mind man, so beautiful. Awesome lesson!
Thanks Agustin!
Great video. I've only been playing for a couple years and while I couldn't play everything exactly like you I could follow the theory and logic as you explained why you were playing certain things. I had a lot of fun playing along and trying to understand. Thank you!
I have watched this 10x, and some of your other Ribot vid's, since i found it yesterday.. nice work Eric. Ribot has been a fav of mine for over 20yrs..you have done an excellent job on relaying Marc's technique and explaining it nicely. excellent teaching skills. excellent musicianship demonstrated here. Subscribed and Notifications for this channel are ON! I vote Eric the most unpretentious and coherent guitar teacher on RUclips that I have found...
Gosh! Thanks so much! I'm really blown away by the positive response I've been getting!
Eric, you are killing it. You are generous with your information and that will serve you well. I have been playing for 37 years and I learned so much from your lessons, I want to slap myself. Thank you. Please continue your studies on Marc. Maybe get into some of the Prosthetic Cubans stuff which is crazy groovy stuff.
I remember watching this video maybe a year ago and feeling super out league by the fantastic sound and playing you showed. I managed barely to play the licks proper these days. And when I tried to shift the ideas in keys I also failed. Today in the woods I remembered one of these "falling out of the window with confetti in your hair licks" and watched this lesson again. Since I have a basic overview of scales and their connections, from there their harmonized chords and so derived inversions I had super great fun watching this! by understanding the concept behind that style in fact!
Also using the Strymon Deco but going into my Big Sky for a little reverb - with I guess is pretty fine with the Gretsch and the Blues Junior (made in USA). So thanks again for this tasteful lesson. I somehow have the feeling that your videos have a big part in me understanding guitar. I know that one of the reasons I finally startet with theory was more or less the will to understand what you are talking about in this video. You know flat 5ths and triads and stuff. Once clear, it is way easier with MUCH more benefit to watch your lessons. Wich I will continue...
Yay! This makes me so happy to hear!
I'm helping the world enjoy weird guitar more!
Give us MOOOOORE of those 5th diminished lessons 👏👍👍👍
Will do!
I'm working on a "what to do with diminished chords" lesson as we speak - stay tuned!
I still have my Silvertone twin twelve purchased for me by my dad in 1966. You make it sound as it should!
Dude that's impressive!
That one was tough, but i finally got it ! Some spledid licks there. Thanks for the lessons, and all the hard work you put in them.
My pleasure Fred!
There's so many little motifs in here to play around with!
Went down a rabbit hole today and stumbled upon your channel... this is incredible. I'd been looking for lessons involving guitarists I like, like Verlaine and Ribot and here it is. Now to dig in....
Yay!
Welcome to my tasteful and slightly weird dojo!
never thought i'd see a marc ribot tutorial, props for even trying. You're killin it
@eric haugen Wes's lick is from ~25 seconds into the head of Four on Six but I'm sure it's all over his discography
Aha! There it is! Thanks!
Enjoyable to watch, even if I don't learn anything, you have a gift of teaching and being entertaining.
Thanks again!
Love this. "Falling down stairs". Perfect.
One of my subscribers said "...it feels as if Ribot and all his equipment are being pushed down the stairs rolled up in a carpet." Such a perfect analogy!
Loving all these Ribot lessons. Your tone is like an ice pick. If Marc ever gets amnesia he'll have to come by Your channel to relearn his chops. Thanks again for the great lesson.
Thanks Michael!
I remember watching a Metallica documentary where they had to use RUclips to relearn how to play their earlier material :-D
So you never know!
Great tone, great lesson and I appreciate the introduction to Marc Ribot. Mind blown; love it. Subscribed. Thanks
Thanks Peter!
Ribot is a real modern anti-guitar-hero genius! Those Tom Waits records wouldn't have been nearly as good without him :-)
I also love the Coltrane Equinox, backing track. I'm already digging the minor harmonies that I'm plucking out on that one on my own. Keep up the great work work Eric for us rock kids (now geezers) that want to play more jazz, and I'll explore your website for more gems that I may have missed.
Excellent! My favorite players are jazz-ish - rock guys who know enough jazz to be interesting without being full-on fusion :-) Mark Knopfler, Marc Ribot, Jeff Skunk Baxter
Awesome video Eric! For a long time I've felt like I hit a major wall in my guitar playing, and I've been focusing on other instruments instead. But this video gave me some great lick ideas and I'm hooked yet again to my guitar! Thanks a bunch and keep up the great work!
+TangiersIntrigue Excellent! I'm happy to help give you some new ideas!
One of the most interesting stuff on a guitar here on the web since years.
Great lesson. You have definitely turned me onto Mark Ribot's style of playing.
Excellent!
He really is one of those guitarists who is instantly recognizable from just a few notes. He's got so much personality!
Now THIS is my kinda solo - quirky, jagged, wonderfully discordant, subtlety complex, has a signature sound and above all....has a healthy absence of pinch harmonics, sweep picking, tapping or being played at 500 notes per second!!! 🎸👍👍👍🎸
Great video.
Thanks Tom! I learned a long time ago that I was never gonna be able to play like Eddie Van Halen. On that day, I went weird and never looked back - embrace the strange!
Eric Haugen Embrace it indeed, my fellow axeman!! 👍😆🎸 Another guitarist I really like for his style of solos is Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age. But then I'm a big QOTSA fan in general anyway 😉
By the way, _very_ nice Mustang. I like the finish on it as it's quite unique. Always considered getting a Mustang but I have quite large hands, so I don't know if the neck/fretboard might be a bit too diddy.
Yeah, but sweep picking, um..
Sweep pivking uhhh....
Nope. Can't find a point to it either. Not musical. Show off stuff. And no i can't do it and i tried lol so forget it
Great Lesson! I like how you really develop where the melody is coming from with respect to the chords. You take a lot more from this video rather than just stock lead parts. Thanks!
+Jack McFaul Thanks Jack! I try to keep things creative, concise, intuitive and fun. I'm glad you liked it!
@@EricHaugenGuitar SS CD
WOW. will head over to your site tonight. just simply killer. stuff here man...thank you...
This stuff is fun for me! Take a handful of observations and organize them into a new solo!
Killer stuff!!!! I've been a ribot fan since high school and always wanted to play like him.
Thanks Jay! I think I'm starting to understand SOME of what he can do :-)
I've never heard of Marc Ribot.... till now. Wow! I need to get me some of that music. Awesome lesson! I really like your approach to teaching. It's thorough, yet not tedious. Keep it up!!!
+Evik James Cool! I'd recommend Tom Waits "Rain Dogs," and "Big Time." Both are great records that really showcase Ribot's style 😎
So, I've never owned any Tom Waits music before. I did read the Wikipedia entry about Rain Dogs though. That sounds like a great album. What's funny is that I was reading the article while waiting for an Uber. I was waiting on the corner of 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis.
+Evik James dude! That's crazy! I was just in Minneapolis!
Check him out with john zorn on the 'Masada' stuff- cool surf guitar sounds at times
Been playing for 12 years and learnt a lot from this video.
Excellent! I'm happy to help!
Thank you. I've been looking a long time for someone who explains a lick in relation to the harmony, like you do. Please do continue the good work. You're doing an amazing job.
Yeah! It's all about how melody and harmony interact to create the magics :)
Thanks for tuning in!
The opening jam also reminded me of some Peter Green, Danny Kirwin, Jeremy Spencer riffs with early Fleetwood Mac. This will certainly diversify my blues playing. Many thanks!
That's high compliment indeed! Thanks so much!
many beautiful tones in there - great runs - very nice lesson well presented, good timing !
Thanks so much! It was a fun one to put together!
Have just discovered your videos. Love them! You're a natural teacher.
Thanks so much!
Hi Eric, I've recently discovered your channel and have been really enjoying your videos. I'm basically a rock/metal player, but love any guitar based styles. Of late, I've really been concentrating on expanding my playing vocabulary and your vids have helped open the door to some new (to me) styles, techniques and players. Cheers
Excellent! I have a lot of love for classic metal! Judas Priest, Scorpions, Metallica, Sabbath, etc.
I am amazed by the musicianship of all the new metal out there as well! That stuff is no joke!
Your explanations are amazingly clear, that's a rare gift, mate. I love how you always talk about the thinking part of the process. Best regards.
Thanks man!
At my core, I'm a pragmatist - I'm always looking for the simplest explanation of why things sound cool :-)
Brilliant job here, spread the word that Ribot rules!!!!
Thanks Marcus! I shall spread the Skronky Gospel to all!
Only discovered you a few days ago. Absolutely love your videos. I was stuck in a rut but now I have a lot of tasty licks in the trick bag now and I'm hooked. I subscribed 2 minutes into the first video. Keep em coming and thanks a million!!
+alan burke Excellent! Thanks for your support - I'm happy to help!
Another brilliant lesson. You definitely do some of the most tasteful and interesting guitar lessons on RUclips. At least to my ears anyway. Thanks for demystifying more of Ribot's style.
Thanks so much! It's really exciting for me to find all the other like-minded guitarists out there. We are not alone!
Eric Haugen Glad to hear we are not! Team skronk all the way!
I've bought a beaten up epiphone wilshire especially for your stuff like this, it just nails that tone
Nice! Those are friggin' cool guitars
@@EricHaugenGuitar yeh its got that spikey tone of yours that I cant ever seem to get with my other guitars
Right on, great video and what incredible taste you have. Hardly no one picks a legend such as Mark to base a video on. I've never commented on a instructional video before, so you are doing something right. Keep it up and if I ever make some money, I'll toss you some thanks for taking the time and helping others learn.
+John Williams Thanks so much John! great minds think alike!
All of a sudden I have a new favorite RUclips channel
Awesome! Thanks!
More and more I am researching and learning I keep coming across this dude's awesome videos so I finally subscribed.
Thanks Bennett!
Welcome to my chill little corner of the Internet 🍻
Thanks for all these cool lessons! I'm a huge fan of Marc Ribot, Ry Cooder, and a bunch of other guitarists that play a little "out of the box." It's really cool to get some insight into other players' playing styles.
It truly is my pleasure! I love all the usual guys as well - Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Perry, etc - but it's more interesting for me to investigate the oddball players.
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Subscribed on the strength of the intro alone... top stuff!!
Yay! Welcome!
Really great to listen and learn from. The explication is clear and concise and the toanz are spot-on. Great distillation of a style, opening interesting avenues of interpretation that is quirky yet not abstruse. Ribot is the rocker's jazzman.
Thanks so much! It's true, Tom Waits and Marc Ribot are what got me listening to Jazz in the first place. Them and Steely Dan :-)
Well done Eric, I'm rapidly building a file "things to learn" from your lessons and this is going in it. I'm into the disjointed, falling down the stares idea.. I've gotta master it!
Well done!
+vendetta vendetta Cool! chop it up! Stab it! Break it! (In a musical way) 😎
Great stuff, Eric! Will you please do a video for "Hoist That Rag"? One of my favorite guitar solos I've ever heard, and I think you would nail it. Thanks man!
Trevor Baum I agree . Eric, This is the song I was talking about at our last lesson.
Yeah that's a good one! It's actually in my pile of halfway-done transcriptions :-) Once I perfect it and get it exactly right I'll put it up!
Trevor Baum great solo!!!! It definitely has that Cuban Tres flavor.... you should look up some vids on the Tres and Cuban son, great music and can also serve as a little secret sauce in your arsenal.... it has for me :)
HELL YEAH! PLEASE
What a beautiful guitar! Terrific tone and nice playing!
Thanks so much!
Thanks a lot for tackling guitarists like Marc Ribot and Ry Cooder... These guys deserve much more attention than what they are getting, and your lessons are ace in bringing their sound and musical ideas to the masses. I imagine that you must have a big list of things to transcribe and teach, but could you please please please add Marc Ribot's "Aurora en Pekin" and Ry Cooder's "Secret Love" (with Manuel Galban) to that list??? Cheers!
Ooooh good ideas! I'll add them to my list!
Good call on both!
Out of context but thought some of you may appreciate some fuzzy Ribot Porn Thanks Eric ! ruclips.net/video/rJz1Xiejzlw/видео.html
Okay where were you when I started playing?! I've been looking for someone like you for ages. Please do even more lessons. Don't stop. I'm hooked.
Thanks Julian! Don't worry - I'm full of ideas for videos - plenty more to come!
Great! Love your playing, nice going!
Eric you never cease to impress. Great playing
Awww thanks man - those flatted 5ths! That's where it's at!
this is the first video of yours I've ever seen. absolutely fantastic stuff
I'll be watching many more
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thank you
It's my pleasure! Thanks for tuning in!
Man that silvertone has a great vintage sound. I have a 1961 Valco "Dwight" amp, slapped some NOS 6973's in it and yeah, to me there's nothing like the old stuff. Speakers too I feel like are so important, as they say the tone is in the cone. Sounds great, also, fantastic lesson. I like oddball tricks over blues, really enjoying these.
Ooooh I luuuurve those old valcos!
The speakers on this ol 1484 are long blown, I’ve got a Jensen mod 50 and a WGS g12 q in it now, and it sounds pretty, pretty good 🤙
@@EricHaugenGuitar Nice, WGS never did mean wrong. Big fan of Jupiter Speakers though for that old Jensen sound, threw one of those in an old Tiesco Checkmate 25 and it sounds like a meaner Princeton Reverb.
Great unique lesson man. I can’t wait to try some of this and incorporate it into my playing.
I like how you breakdown what your playing over. That’s something I’ve been trying to do myself and connect the dots. Thanks!
Yeah! I think of it as double-vision: the ability to see the the chords while you solo over them. It’s not easy, and it’s impossible to master, but everyday we get a little bit better!
amazing lesson! Many thanks. The intro goes on repeat...
Thanks so much, Eric. I'd been wondering for a long time how he makes those sounds; very helpful!! :)
Cool! I'm happy to help inspire my fellow skronk enthusiasts!
Man you always deliver something killer and fresh!!!! My favorite channel!!!!
Thanks so much Brian!
For me, it's not enough to know an exact solo or riff. I like to really get inside the heads of my favorite musicians, and see if I can think like they can!
@@EricHaugenGuitar same here brother!!!! You are right man,its more than just guitar licks, it's the soul and inspiration behind those licks!!!
I love it!
Excellent melodic content that is so rare these days.
Many players, and far too few composers.
Got that stray cat swagger down pat.
Good luck with it.
Gosh, thanks so much! I never noticed how much this solo sounds like Setzer but it totally does! Bonus!
I join the crowd here; Great lessons Eric! Greetings from the ultimate North (Norway) here!
Thanks my Norwegian cousin! My grandfather was from Bergen! I still have family there :)
Bergen is my hometown, too! Beautiful town for guitar practicing, with 300+ rainy days a year. I love rain dogs!
Whoah! Small world!
My wife loves the rain - maybe we should relocate back to Norway!
Man, it is quite the challenge to make it sound as awesomely skronky as you do. Getting a major workout here.
Always good and informative Eric. I hear a little Robben Ford stuff in there. Very Cool
Oh yeah I think I know exactly what lick you're talking about!
One of my favorite videos you've made.
Thanks Eric!
It's real fun to play skronky like this :-D
Some of those notes are so out, they're in. It's not just the altered notes, but the ones before and after that you use to set them up. I really love chromatics like that. Steve Morse is really good at that skill also.
Hey man, you are tearing it up on that intro song! Beautiful playing.
Thanks brother!
Just discovered your channel. I love your instructional videos and your taste in music. Nice tone, too.
+Nathan Fisher Thanks so much Nathan!
Just as nice and helpful as the other ones, thanks a lot! Just discovered your channel couple of days ago, just the best i have found since 3 years guitar learning on youtube. It already taught me a bunch of great tools. And you perfectly translated in words the spirit of this "meaaaaaaaaaaan" bend on the 11th fret of the B hahahaha
Thanks so much, Jan!
I'm so happy to help all my cool guitarfriends out there!
Great stuff, as a bassist, I try to work these little slips into my playing when and where I can, cool vid.
Spot on! I often find that bass players make the best lead guitar players - the way you guys think of chords/harmony in a practical way translates so well to guitar!
Great video! But could you explain the diminished triad sub? Is it full or half diminished, and it's a Cm half dim leading into the Cm chord? So it's actually a little bit early coming into the next bar?
Ah yes the Ddim triad.
There's a lot of mystique around diminished triads - one of the main ways you can use them is as an "approach" chord.
So if you wanted to get to Cm, you could play a Bdim triad. Aaaaaand because dim7th chords are symmetrical, they invert every three frets! So you can play Bdim, Ddim, Fdim, and Abdim and they'd ALL lead back to Cm!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Thanks for the reply! So the substitution is a dim triad a semi-tone below the chord you're aiming for? ( e.g.Bdim leading to Cm)
Thanks so much for doing this series! Ribot is one of my favourite players but it's hard to find lessons on his style, I'm working my way through all of these videos and I've already learnt so much from them (after almost 20 years of playing!)
Love from France ! Your vid is like a vitamin cocktail for inspiration !
Excellent! I have some cousins in Paris, actually - you have a lovely country!
this is the best guitar lesson i ever seen on youtube, thank you Eric!
It's my pleasure! I'm glad my tastes and teaching style resonate with you!
Brilliant lesson Eric , I'll be sharing the ideas with my guitar students if that's ok ...rock on man !
Of course! Share the tricks!
Great tone Eric! If my memory serves me correctly Houndog Taylor used an 1884 Silvertone amp with a cracked speaker or something to get his funky tone
Thanks! That sounds about right about Hound dog :)
Eric - check out Eddie Bert's trombone solo on Work Song, from Mingus' Live at the Bohemia album. I happened to put it on soon after working on your awesome Ribot solo, and the similarities are striking. Reminds me, too, I'm pining for a guitar arrangement of Jump Monk (same album). Lots of potential in the chords/harmony, and the sax and piano lines would be great grist for guitar. Wish I had the skill to do such a thing!
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll go check that record out and see what I can deduce! I love Mingus.
:-) Sir, i love your musicality! i'm a huge Tom Waits fan, and through studying Marc Robot, you seem to have imbibed both the soul of the music, AS WELL as the technical understanding of what's going on. i love too, that you left in your "fluff", and i loved your addition, thumb referencing the root an octave down, staggered in with the solo. It's been one of the most enjoyable guitar lessons i've had. It was a breeze in summer, while i learned new things. Great playing sir. Many many thanks. Psychedelic tezZO
+tezzo55 Cool! It's my pleasure, man!
Thanks so much for this Eric!! Im so happy to find other Ribot fans out there up for looking closely at his style, thanks for sharing so openly..
I transcribed some of his acoustic work from Masada Guitars, the sounds he gets there are just brilliant.
Out of interest, would you recommend transcribing any of the solos on Coltrane's Equinox to supplement this? Or indeed any particular Ribot tracks songs you'd recommend transcribing to start out with?
Those Masada records are excellent!
I think the go to standard for jazz transcriptions is anything off of "Kind of Blue." The phrasing and pacing of those solos is more transcribe-able :-D
For Ribot, is all starts with Tom Waits "Rain Dogs" foe me. That was the record that absolutely blew my mind wide open.
Really nice work, been going through your videos - so much to learn!
Any chance of a lesson on your approach to transcription?
Oooh good idea!
I should do a walkthrough of how I break stuff down!
Thanks, this is great playing and, as a lesson, very well explained.
Is this the same chord scheme as used in Tom Waits' Dead and Lovely?
Sure sounds like it!
I think Dead and Lovely hangs on the chords longer, but yeah, totally Cm Fm and G7 :-D
Just wanted to listen a few seconds but you kept me watching the whole video, also subscribed and gave it a thumbs up, GREAT!!
Thanks so much, Hernan!
Great stuff Eric, all i need to do is hear what you're doing and im able ti cherry pick the bits i dont know, so cool, love MR's style, especially the way an out of tune guitar makes him play better and sleazier
Have you tried Squiers equivalents of the Mustang? I've been offered a great deal on a used Classic Vibe Mustang for only around 200 euros which is pretty tempting. Plays and sounds pretty great for what it is.
Oh yeah in general the Squier Vintage Modified and Classic Vibe series are great guitars - especially for the money! You may want to upgrade the pickups in them eventually, but it's not necessary.
Great stuff ... first time I've seen your work. I really love this arrangement ... very cool. (And excellent explanations.)
Thanks so much, David!
LOVE your videos man. Great taste. Great chops.
THANKS
Thanks so much, Abraham!
And congrats! Your channel is great! I learn a lot here.
Thanks man! That's what I love to hear!