Roller - April Wine. Awesome Riff of the day #4 and how to play it
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Bangin' out another in this weekly series of underappreciated, underrated riffs of the 70s, 80s and 90s. This is part 4 featuring one of my favorite bands growing up during the 70s in Canada. Hope you like it. Cheers.
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I'm 58 years old and I have never forgot April wine they are still one of my favorites
Came across your website today looking for a lesson on Roller. Great job on the lesson and I love that you offer lessons on songs you can't find anywhere else. The best collection of lessons I have seen yet. Keep up the great work!
i live in NB. myles was born in woodstock snd just died in Halifax..grew up on there music, i love playing there music. roller is a great intro tricky to play, they had great riffs
I love the band talk before the lesson! Like listening to a radio show
As a Canadian kid from the '70's as well, I've always loved April Wine. There is a cover band that plays on Fremont Street in Vegas all the time called Alter Ego. Roller has been in their set for as long as I have been seeing them there. Always makes me happy when I hear that little bit of CanCon in the US!
Great songs and an amazingly good live band. If you didn't see em', you really missed out.
As a proud Canadian who grew up in the 70s, I'm glad someone as talented as yourself Kelly is showing some love to a great Canadian band! Have you thought about doing a lesson from my favorite Canadian band, The Band? Love Halifax, as a teenager I still member walking across the old bridge! I wouldn't trade growing up in the 70's in Canada for all the iPhones in the world! Thanks Kelly 👍 🎸🇨🇦
First concert I ever saw was April Wine at the Metro Centre! Corey Hart opened for them. Great band, great song, great times…..thanks for this cool lesson.
April Wine. Hahaha. I'm now reminded of Traiker Park Boys. Ricky. Hahahahahahaha I love that show!!
The fact that they didn't make it "big" north of the boarder is a shame, It would have been well deserved but there is something that for me says good. Like may Canadian bands, what makes them great is the Canadian in them. April Wine, Triumph, The Stampeders, Lighthouse, Blue Rodeo, The Hip, Foot in cold water, The Guess Who, Goddo, Rush and countless others. It is something that makes me extremely proud to say I Am Canadian and these are My bands. P.S. April Wine will always for me be from the East Coast. I knew Ritchie and Dave in school when i lived in Westville.
Joni mitchell, Neil Young, max webster
Great video. This is my favorite April Wine tune. Was supposed to see them in April... but, like the 20 other shows I was planning to attend this year, it was canceled
Common ! We were into April wine in Houston in the late 70s and 80s . Everyone knew there songs and yes there were many that took you by the throat emotionally!
Its a hard riff for me, I've been playing it wrong for quite some time. Now I have to re-learn it the right way. A new challenge! Thanks for posting!
👍👍 great band.!.
Never thought they got the respect they deserved
Fantastic narration, opinion and storytelling. Best video I have ever seen on “the boys”. The greatest Canadian band for me. RIP Myles.
Excellent choice! Thanks for sharing this with us!
I love the 3 part call and response solo of this song.
Small town NWT here. Thanks for your insight on April Wine and the riff. Soundtrack of my youth also. Seen them in Edmonton a few years ago and didn’t disappoint. Myles and the band were tight. Just awesome!!
I gotta comment again. Excellent video man! Subscribed!!
I saw them several times during the height of their fame. They were very beloved by those of us in the 70's and were never forgotten. I still listen to them today and have several CD's. They were a solid, quality and exceptional band that should have been as well known as Journey, Rush and Styx....
Greatly enjoyed listening to April Wine on Boston radio stations.
Loved April Wine! Seen them in Souix Falls, SD in 1978 or 79 can’t remember which one? Front row, they kicked ass!
Thanks wanted to learn that lick since late 70s...I got er down now!!! Thanks
I’m having an easier time learning the solo than I am this riff!
great tutorial...very cool riff and very tricky to play at speed (will have to practice this for a while to get it right)...thanks!!
YOU AND I GREW UP LISTENING TO SAME EXACT/PRECISE MATERIAL..
YOUR VIDEO'S ARE ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL..
Why are you YELLING?! ;-)
The solo is one of my all time favs!!
Not to mention their blues stuff! These guys are incredibly talented and can do it all. Love April Wine, thanks for this riff vid!
i forgot how to play this riff, good lesson ! thanks for all
Dude you did it perfect!
very cool! thanks You sir!
Yeah I grew up with them and can’t remember how many times I’ve see them live. I even seen them in 2001 in the Bay Area when I moved to the states with my American wife. Hahaha all the Canadian’s were waring their hockey jerseys including myself. lol. This lick was why I started playing guitar many moons ago. Love your licks keep them going.🇨🇦🎸
Sing it brother 😉…… great lesson..thanks
your the best guitar instructor on youtube ,,thank you
My pleasure!
I agree
I'm from truro myself as well, so it's cool to see one of the best videos I've seen be from an hour from my home town.
@@tylorpyke9171 thanks man! Greetings from Halifax.
Great stuff. I'm 59 years old. I loved April Wine. Of the Canadian bands, I favored them over Triumph, and even with Rush (at the time). April Wine was a big influence on me.
Roller, I like to Rock, Gypsy Queen and Schizoid Man stood out. They should have been much bigger than they were.
I've seen twice and once right here in Niagara. Seen them at Front 54 it was called back in the day. Always loved April Wine Band, and you're right. they Never got the the fame they Absolutely Deserved..
HELL YEAH. Such a rockin' tune. Love "I Like To Rock" so much too.
Excellent video. Thanks for the April Wine love. Diggin it in Peterborough Ontario.
Fantastic band. Takes me back
Love me some April wine!
I was raised on April Wine and while this is one of my faves I really think Rock n Roll is a Vicious Game is my all time favorite! Great lesson!
Rock and roll is a vicious game is one of the greatest songs they ever wrote. Easily in my top 3.
Hot on the wheels of love is my favorite song
Btw, your biggest fan! Excellent quality and very very Interesting and informative show man!!
Wicked, dude. Love April Wine, and love the commentary to this tutorial (I almost always skip past the gibber-gabber). Saw them only twice when they opened for Heart (I believe) in the 80’s. ROCKester boy who loved the Canadian Rockers! 96.5 WCMF -Long Live Rock!
Nature of the beast was a world wide phenomenon
Hey, thanx so much Kel..........great job!! From Bramalea/Brampton here (just north of Toronto). My old singer from '87 got a hold of me the other day after losing touch for 2 decades. We are getting together tomorrow to re-connect/jam, and thought i'd suprize him with this song (he could sing it like no tomorrow back in the day! But that was a loooong time ago....lol). Cruel, yes........but that's what us old folk like to do sometimes right?? Cheers, and thanx again for teaching me/ re-learning/blowing the cobwebs off this awesome song :)
Spent my teenage years in Brampton/Bramalea. Know it well.
Oooh this is cool and different.
Just started watching your videos, I found you on reddit with drop dead legs earlier today lol and right from the beginning I couldn’t stop thinking in my head “he looks like Diamond Dave” and after now learning your from Halifax you are now confirmed to be the “Canadian David Lee Roth” lmao love your videos so far becoming a fan and just to throw it out there I’m from Kingston Ontario lol I love the old Canadian bands
Hey Ethan, thanks for that! No one have ever said that I look like David Lee Roth, haha. I'll take it. Early Dave. Not the way he looks now. Just need to keep growing my hair back, de-age about thirty years and I'm all set.
Harder Faster tour. First concert. No! Teaze was first these guys were 2nd. Anyway great riff great channel and great city man. I worked at Woodside 17 or 18 years ago and hated when the job was over. Use to love Bearleys I think it was. Peace man and thanks for showing me that riff. I always wanted to learn it.
Oh ya 87 cruisin in the mustang april wine, marino, JPriest blastn through the speaks 🤣😂😁🤣
I remember that song and that band 😎
Awesome video and great track! On the hammer on part (0h2h4)…I usually hammer on the 2 then slide the 2s to the 4s. To me sounds smoother. Regardless great playing and just listening about the band was enjoyable and o too 👍🏼
Nature of the beast hit hard in Europe during the NWOBHM era, along greats like Y&T Black Tiger. But for me, it was First Glance and Harder…Faster that carry a special place.
Couldn't agree more with you about April Wine deserving more success than they achieved. In the 70's they used to put on great concerts in the old forum or at Natal Day festivities and they wrote some great tunes. It is a little unclear why some bands just don't succeed while others do - perhaps it just comes down to a little luck at the right times.
That band is so Groovy ;)
I saw April Wine live on April 8th, 1979 (45 years ago)
California World Music Festival, LA Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
One of the tightest sets I've ever seen; they pulled-off Roller perfectly!
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Thanks for this.. I never could quite 'get' that riff, but now it's mine... 😁👍
You make the picking pattern look so easy, Down on the E string & Up on the A/D strings.....Any tips or keep trying
Hummm🤔 what about Moxy.....Moon Rider😃
Canadian Rocker's 🎸
This is similar to Drivin n Cryin. Fly me Courageous.
Say Hello, Enough is Enough, I Like to Rock, Roller, Rock Myself To Sleep, Runners In The Night, Wanna Rock, Big City Girls, All Over Town \\m// \\m//
Your slow is my fast lol
The band started only 4 blocks from where I'm living now on Kay street. Seen them a few times, the only band from Canada using 3 guitars to attack your ears. Cool!!
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bad mgmt -> no US breakthrough
Never balk at Gene Simmons.
Oh wow! I knew you were originally from up north but didn't know you were now in Halifax. I've actually been researching that area as there is a good possibility I will be departing the u.s to raise my son elsewhere. That is, if the current status of the u.s doesn't change.
Wise choice man. I'm stunned with what's going on down there. Good luck my friend.
@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar thanks!
Kind of has that weird picking like beaten around the Bush AC/DC
...spoiler alert: the first six minutes is about the entire history of the band 😉
April Wine never received the acclamation they should have. Just like Night Ranger.
Thanks dude !! U must be at least my age 55 !! Great stuff
Btw most r playing with too much dirt even with the marino stuff but you are not neither is frankie !!!
They never got huge cuz they were from canada...same thing happened to The Hip!!!!
Great lesson! I’m subscribing. I couldn’t agree more, April Wine is way underrated. Look at a band like Kiss, highly successful but their songs aren’t nearly as good as April Wines.
Bad ass teacher
They never souled there soul .