I was fortunate to see the original Pretenders lineup live in the late 70’s. I loved James H. Scott’s guitar playing and it’s tragic we lost him at such a young age. He was brilliant.
@DS Louie In a Music magazine from the 1990s he made the list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of the w20th Century . It said when he passed away he definitely left a void that couldn’t be filled .
As a young novice guitar player I always thought of the Kid solo as a definitive classic. When I finally got this song under my belt it felt like a great achievement. It still cheers me up to play it.
I am now 60, been playing since I was 14, and can honestly say .... Adrian you are the BEST teacher anywhere - on RUclips, FB, Guitar Institute, one-to-one.... You really are the best! Huge thanks for bringing such easy clarity (and perfection) to the world of guitar... Massive thanks from me, up here in the beautiful city of York.... (UK)
Awesome! James died on my 15th birthday. I was already gigging playing 80's MTV hits. He 's still an influence on me as a 49 year old! Still playing with 9 guitars-3 basses-2 kids-a wife and a mortgage! Never stop playing kids! Great job Adrian!
He was such a hero to me back then... I was 15 too... found out about his death in Guitar Player Magazine, just as I was polishing off the solos to Kid and Tattoo Love Boys. So sad.
@@JohnLueckenotte I was 18, driving home from high school graduation rehearsal, in a great mood. Then I turned on the radio and found out my biggest guitar hero had died. I think they said "Well there's another dead rocker in the news..." So sad.
I'm one of those players that will only need to watch your intro - you playing it through at regular speed. You film it so well and clearly and play it so cleanly that it tells the whole story right there :)
I don't play guitar but I still love seeing you break it all down. I appreciate your attention to detail, and your respect for the solo especially, which (as you point out) is just perfectly conceived and executed. The entire song is a small miracle, and the solo a miracle within that miracle. It makes you believe we can all, if the stars are aligned just right, be touched by a higher power.
Man - this is one of the best tutorials I've seen on YT ... what a song and I will be practicing until I have this down. JHS - what a guitarist and a shame his career was so short lived. :(
HOLY CRAP!!! I was just getting depressed b/c I can't find any James H. Scott (Pretenders) tab books, ESPECIALLY this exact song!!! James is the most underrated guitarist ever in Rock.I'll be studying this for weeks on end. THANK YOU!!! You're a Godsend!!!!
Many many thanks for taking the time to show this. Honeyman-Scott was a beautiful guitarist and this is just a classic. Saw them live at Bath Pavilion, Chrissy had a see-thru telecaster and Honeyman-Scott bent down and handed my brother his plectrum after the gig!
taylorcarsfareham No problem, thanks. That's a great story - you're very lucky to have seen the great man live. Hope your brother still has that plectrum!
You’re a fantastic guitar player & your lessons are broken down & explained with great appreciation by not just myself but countless other guitarists out there
This has quickly become my favorite RUclips channel. You pick the best songs. Upload as many Pretenders and Smiths song that you can stand. I'll be over here in Ohio learning them from you!
Very well crafted lesson. Taking the pieces of this tutorial and applying them elsewhere, can carry you in many different directions. Will spend many hours during just that with this tutorial. Thank you, Bert Clark
I'm in Contenders the Pretenders Tribute and that is, note for note, how I play it as well. Well done. Maybe my favorite solo in the whole 90 minute Pretenders set we do.
Thanks for this! JHS has always been a favorite of mine and I remember too when he passed. Showed so much musical maturity and mastery at such a young age...A tragic loss indeed. Very much enjoyed this lesson and admire your playing and teaching ability. Great lesson. Thanks again and God Bless.
I picked up an old copy of Guitar Techniques that had the Kid Iesson in. I Managed to get the chords from it. There was no cd so it looked up yourself on RUclips. After a week of trying to learn the song from the GT tab without much success, I had the whole song worked out in less than 30 minutes, not to the highest standard but I now know all the parts. Shows the progress that can be made with a good teacher compared to a magazine. Thanks or the lesson.
Hey Adrian, I attempted to replicate this tutorial about two years ago and crashed on the rocks. However, revisited this wonderful lesson this morning and was pleased with my second effort at this song. Your dedication and passion for music is a standard which motivates folks like me, searching for that melodic tone. Thank you!
Nicely done! I'm glad to see you are still putting out videos. At the 25:10ish mark, you talk about an arpeggiated part that Scott is playing. I listened to it and I believe the arpeggiated part he is playing is... (all triads I am showing are indicated by their fret numbers on strings 1, 2 and 3 in that order) 1st triad: 7-9-9; 2nd triad:9-9-9; 3rd triad: 9-10-9; 4th triad: 11-12-11. The picking pattern is 3-1-2-1 for all triads.
great stuff - researching kid now after decades from first loving it and Chrissy being onstage two days ago in glasto looking fantastic still and sounding even better, her voice hasnt deteriorated with those decades, god bless thanks for this, was interested in the very end guitar outro, probably is much like the solo youve done well to document already
I wish when I was a kid that I could have had a guitar teacher like you. Maybe I would’ve learned to enjoy playing it more and stuck with it. You’re an amazing instructor and very talented.
Thank you Adrian! An excellent lesson of one of my all time favorite guitar solos! You have an excellent, very thorough teaching style. Thanks for taking the time to make your lessons. Much appreciated!
Fantastic. Love the intro. The solo is beyond me yet. I need to figure out the chord shapes and then it will make sense. I really appreciate the selection of songs you pick.
I think JHS is one of the best inventing all those great tunes.Amazing how back in those days so many great players and bands as a whole. Now we have Corp crap! Thank God for RUclips ,and Thank You Sir for your instruction and playing!!! Please keep teaching all this old great music!
excellent lesson for an excellent song - as was your brass in pocket one. Believe me when i say your lessons (i have watched many of them) have done a lot to make me a better guitar player. i am greatful.
Super lesson, thank you. My favourite guitar solo ever. Any chance you could one day cover Blondie’s ‘Picture This’, another song with a lovely chiming solo?
Wonderful. I might add though, hit 5th fret harmonic at the end (5th fret high E string). That overtone raises the pitch by an octave, and really makes the ending shine!
Thanks again for another great lesson Adrian! Between you and Allison Bennett we have the best resources on RUclips for British guitar greats-keep 'em coming!
DUDE , YOUR LESSEN IS STUNNING . YOU KEEP GETTING BETTER, SO THANK YOU FOR KINDNESS !! AND SHARING YOUR FINE GUITAR PLAYING . ACROSS THE POND FROM SO. CAL ON THE COAST . 🙏🎃🇺🇲
Your ability is way beyond mine. I'm mostly a singer who sucks at guitar but find it a necessary evil when other musicians aren't present. I love this song. I keep hoping for a cowboy chord version, but the song is fairly intricate, so my hoping might be in vain. Nice job. I watched the whole thing even though there's no way I'm going to try and replicate it.
many thanks for good video. your presentation is so easy to understand for me, also clear and reasonable!!! i agree with many acclaims below. youre an excellent teacher for sure.
There is a great interview with James HS on RUclips - that includes him talking about all the guitar layers for recording Kid. He sounded like such a nice guy; what a tragedy. And thanks for this breakdown Adrian, you're looking quite fresh-faced here! 😀
Dude awesome page ! - you've cleaned up my Kid solo and namecheck some of my all time fav guitarists, Johnny M, Jimmy HS, Prince, etc as well as throwing in some cool jazz and finally Breadfan riff !! Thanks so much u are the MAN !
Fantastic - thank you !! I really like your tutorials because they're concise, easy to follow and most importantly (to my ears) correct !! Any chance you could do The Pretenders 'Middle of The Road' - none of the versions on youtube seem to be right.
Fantastic Lesson! I've wanted to learn this song for years and can now play it. Thank you. Do you think you could do a lesson for the Pretenders song "Don't get me wrong"?
Spot-on; bravo. On the original the solo sounds tracked to me, but I'm open to the idea of maybe ADT or a really short repeat analogue delay. Certainly fattens things up.
Early The Pretenders is one of my favorite bands. Honeyman-Scott was a huge fan of ABBA and you can hear the influence because he was very melodic as ABBA was as well. Actually this particular song is very 50s lullaby, hence the I VI IV V progression like many '50s pop songs. Think "Angel Baby" by Rosie and the Originals.
gretscher Yes this song has a definite 50s feel to it. Didn't know Honeyman-Scott was an Abba fan but it makes sense - great songs, chords and melodies. Fascinating stuff.
Great Lesson. I"m a massive fan of James Honeyman-Scott..Can you do more please.."Message of Love" from 2nd Album or "Tattooed Love Boys" from 1st album. Thanks.
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I was fortunate to see the original Pretenders lineup live in the late 70’s. I loved James H. Scott’s guitar playing and it’s tragic we lost him at such a young age. He was brilliant.
@DS Louie In a Music magazine from the 1990s he made the list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of the w20th Century . It said when he passed away he definitely left a void that couldn’t be filled .
James Honeyman Scott came up with some brilliant guitar riffs.
As a young novice guitar player I always thought of the Kid solo as a definitive classic. When I finally got this song under my belt it felt like a great achievement. It still cheers me up to play it.
Great Mystery achievement that is!
I am now 60, been playing since I was 14, and can honestly say .... Adrian you are the BEST teacher anywhere - on RUclips, FB, Guitar Institute, one-to-one.... You really are the best! Huge thanks for bringing such easy clarity (and perfection) to the world of guitar... Massive thanks from me, up here in the beautiful city of York.... (UK)
Awesome! James died on my 15th birthday. I was already gigging playing 80's MTV hits. He 's still an influence on me as a 49 year old! Still playing with 9 guitars-3 basses-2 kids-a wife and a mortgage! Never stop playing kids! Great job Adrian!
He was such a hero to me back then... I was 15 too... found out about his death in Guitar Player Magazine, just as I was polishing off the solos to Kid and Tattoo Love Boys. So sad.
@@JohnLueckenotte I was 18, driving home from high school graduation rehearsal, in a great mood. Then I turned on the radio and found out my biggest guitar hero had died. I think they said "Well there's another dead rocker in the news..." So sad.
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I'm one of those players that will only need to watch your intro - you playing it through at regular speed. You film it so well and clearly and play it so cleanly that it tells the whole story right there :)
This solo eluded me for many years, thank you.
Your lessons are first rate and your Telecaster tones are always stellar. Well done, sir!
Saw the original line up in '82 then saw them in 2023. Her voice is still brilliant.
I don't play guitar but I still love seeing you break it all down. I appreciate your attention to detail, and your respect for the solo especially, which (as you point out) is just perfectly conceived and executed. The entire song is a small miracle, and the solo a miracle within that miracle. It makes you believe we can all, if the stars are aligned just right, be touched by a higher power.
Man - this is one of the best tutorials I've seen on YT ... what a song and I will be practicing until I have this down. JHS - what a guitarist and a shame his career was so short lived. :(
For sure. Very Sad...
HOLY CRAP!!! I was just getting depressed b/c I can't find any James H. Scott (Pretenders) tab books, ESPECIALLY this exact song!!! James is the most underrated guitarist ever in Rock.I'll be studying this for weeks on end. THANK YOU!!! You're a Godsend!!!!
Many many thanks for taking the time to show this. Honeyman-Scott was a beautiful guitarist and this is just a classic. Saw them live at Bath Pavilion, Chrissy had a see-thru telecaster and Honeyman-Scott bent down and handed my brother his plectrum after the gig!
taylorcarsfareham No problem, thanks. That's a great story - you're very lucky to have seen the great man live. Hope your brother still has that plectrum!
You’re a fantastic guitar player & your lessons are broken down & explained with great appreciation by not just myself but countless other guitarists out there
My all-time favourite song and I've just about mastered it after several years of trying to crack the solo. Excellent tutorial!
One of my all time favourite guitar players gone far too soon. The opening riff is brilliant as is the solo. Thank you for the this excellent lesson.
This has quickly become my favorite RUclips channel. You pick the best songs. Upload as many Pretenders and Smiths song that you can stand. I'll be over here in Ohio learning them from you!
Very well crafted lesson. Taking the pieces of this tutorial and applying them elsewhere, can carry you in many different directions. Will spend many hours during just that with this tutorial. Thank you, Bert Clark
The best tutorial I've seen on RUclips. Ever. Fabulous job. Thank you!
I'm in Contenders the Pretenders Tribute and that is, note for note, how I play it as well. Well done. Maybe my favorite solo in the whole 90 minute Pretenders set we do.
This video was a big help. I usually hate guitar tutorials that go on for this long but this song in particular needed it.
Thanks for this! JHS has always been a favorite of mine and I remember too when he passed. Showed so much musical maturity and mastery at such a young age...A tragic loss indeed. Very much enjoyed this lesson and admire your playing and teaching ability. Great lesson. Thanks again and God Bless.
I picked up an old copy of Guitar Techniques that had the Kid Iesson in. I Managed to get the chords from it. There was no cd so it looked up yourself on RUclips. After a week of trying to learn the song from the GT tab without much success, I had the whole song worked out in less than 30 minutes, not to the highest standard but I now know all the parts. Shows the progress that can be made with a good teacher compared to a magazine. Thanks or the lesson.
bloody hell. you don't mess around. best instructional video i've ever seen, and that's just 50 seconds in.
The guitar in this song is just sublime, who would have thought to begin the solo on the low G? Just fantastic, Rest his soul
I totally agree with you: absolutely one of the best solos ever! Thank you for teaching us this! 🙏
Hey Adrian, I attempted to replicate this tutorial about two years ago and crashed on the rocks. However, revisited this wonderful lesson this morning and was pleased with my second effort at this song. Your dedication and passion for music is a standard which motivates folks like me, searching for that melodic tone. Thank you!
Well Done !!!!!! and you're right, it is one of the best pop rock guitar solos ever.
Thank you! I've been playing a bit of it incorrectly forever, and I agree wholeheartedly...one of the most fabulous, soaring solos ever conceived. :-)
Nicely done! I'm glad to see you are still putting out videos. At the 25:10ish mark, you talk about an arpeggiated part that Scott is playing. I listened to it and I believe the arpeggiated part he is playing is... (all triads I am showing are indicated by their fret numbers on strings 1, 2 and 3 in that order) 1st triad: 7-9-9; 2nd triad:9-9-9; 3rd triad: 9-10-9; 4th triad: 11-12-11. The picking pattern is 3-1-2-1 for all triads.
Really the best lessons on RUclips. Thank you so much for your time,tips and knowledge. From Tokyo Japan.
great stuff - researching kid now after decades from first loving it and Chrissy being onstage two days ago in glasto looking fantastic still and sounding even better, her voice hasnt deteriorated with those decades, god bless
thanks for this, was interested in the very end guitar outro, probably is much like the solo youve done well to document already
Nice to see a young dude appreciate the true timeless rock guitar songs
Thank you for a clear and precise breakdown,very generous of you to share your knowledge,much appreciated 🙏
Well done. My all time favourite solo by JHS. An inspired solo - Genius playing. JHS was one of the finest.
Totally agree. One of my favorite solos!
I wish when I was a kid that I could have had a guitar teacher like you.
Maybe I would’ve learned to enjoy playing it more and stuck with it.
You’re an amazing instructor and very talented.
Thank you Adrian! An excellent lesson of one of my all time favorite guitar solos! You have an excellent, very thorough teaching style. Thanks for taking the time to make your lessons. Much appreciated!
Dude simply put you are a talented dude and have great taste.. appreciate your lessons.. fabulous
Great breakdown of a good song. Really learned that solo!
this lesson never gets old
This was an amazing lesson, never thought I'd be able to play this solo, thank you !!
Fantastic. Love the intro. The solo is beyond me yet. I need to figure out the chord shapes and then it will make sense. I really appreciate the selection of songs you pick.
I think JHS is one of the best inventing all those great tunes.Amazing how back in those days so many great players and bands as a whole. Now we have Corp crap! Thank God for RUclips ,and Thank You Sir for your instruction and playing!!! Please keep teaching all this old great music!
excellent lesson for an excellent song - as was your brass in pocket one. Believe me when i say your lessons (i have watched many of them) have done a lot to make me a better guitar player. i am greatful.
Love this lesson. Adrian is great- love the songs he decides to use in his videos.
Great song, utterly perfect lesson. This is one of the best tutorials I've seen on RUclips. Thanks!
Go Adrian!! Bob from USA. Excellent. A great bunch of songs....you are on a roll.
I fad trouble finding accurate guitar tabs online. It was great to look at this video and get tips on learning this song fully. Thank you for sharing.
Super lesson, thank you. My favourite guitar solo ever. Any chance you could one day cover Blondie’s ‘Picture This’, another song with a lovely chiming solo?
Excellent lesson, my favourite guitar solo.
Thank you.
One of my favourite guitar solos. Thanks so much for showing how to play it.
Wonderful. I might add though, hit 5th fret harmonic at the end (5th fret high E string). That overtone raises the pitch by an octave, and really makes the ending shine!
ADRIAN, YOU ARE THE BEST, MY "GO TO GUY"!!! EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE...CARRY ON SIR!!! from Hampton, VA (HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!)
Absolutely brilliant, one of my most favourite solos ever, just mesmerising, Thankyou!!
Thanks again for another great lesson Adrian! Between you and Allison Bennett we have the best resources on RUclips for British guitar greats-keep 'em coming!
James was such a terrific guitarist
DUDE , YOUR LESSEN IS STUNNING . YOU KEEP GETTING BETTER, SO THANK YOU FOR KINDNESS !! AND SHARING YOUR FINE GUITAR PLAYING . ACROSS THE POND FROM SO. CAL ON THE COAST . 🙏🎃🇺🇲
Fantastic, many thanks for this lesson! Such a cool solo. Bring on those Pretender lessons!
Thank you so much!! I've wanted to play this solo my whole life. Made my day.
Outstanding! Just what I was looking for - cheers, mate!
This guy is good. I always played the chords C Am F G sometimes G7but was not quite right. Glad I learned the right chords from him.
I see C Am F and G are the chords until the chorus with the variations.
First time I heard the solo on this song it was like so amazing. Great lesson thanks.
Looking forward to learning this and seeing how good I can get, thanks!
Another fantastic choice of song. Really enjoying your stuff Adrian keep it coming.
Your ability is way beyond mine. I'm mostly a singer who sucks at guitar but find it a necessary evil when other musicians aren't present. I love this song. I keep hoping for a cowboy chord version, but the song is fairly intricate, so my hoping might be in vain. Nice job. I watched the whole thing even though there's no way I'm going to try and replicate it.
many thanks for good video.
your presentation is so easy to understand for me, also clear and reasonable!!!
i agree with many acclaims below.
youre an excellent teacher for sure.
I like your teaching method. You break it down nicely and identify the multiple guitar parts. Just subscribed to your channel. Thanks Man
Thanks fella. Really well explained. One of my favourite solos.
Thank you! Honeyman was always so in the pocket! Great lesson! 🍀
There is a great interview with James HS on RUclips - that includes him talking about all the guitar layers for recording Kid. He sounded like such a nice guy; what a tragedy. And thanks for this breakdown Adrian, you're looking quite fresh-faced here! 😀
So sweet. JHS is one of my fav players.
Hello, Adrian. Thanks for all your effort in producing some great guitar tuition.
Thanks for your lesson it really helped me! One little I thing, I believe he played harmonic at the 5th fret of the same string. Thanks again!
Great Adrian...love the song...and the tutorial...
5 STARS!
--Van
I always considered this a perfectly crafted guitar solo....tone, feel and note choice.
Excellent work, fella ! JHS is one of my inspirations, never could figure out that darn solo ! Cheers !
sweetknuckle That's great to hear. Glad you enjoyed the lesson.
You are a terrific teacher. Thank you.
Excellent! Thanks for posting this tutorial, Adrian!
Dude awesome page ! - you've cleaned up my Kid solo and namecheck some of my all time fav guitarists,
Johnny M, Jimmy HS, Prince, etc as well as throwing in some cool jazz and finally Breadfan riff !!
Thanks so much u are the MAN !
You're too kind - thank-you!
Lovely work. Thank you!
Fantastic - thank you !! I really like your tutorials because they're concise, easy to follow and most importantly (to my ears) correct !! Any chance you could do The Pretenders 'Middle of The Road' - none of the versions on youtube seem to be right.
Thanks, yes I'd like to do more Pretenders as there's a lot of great stuff across the the different eras of the band. So...maybe!
Thank you Adrian - learnt 'This Charming Man' from your video, played it live last weekend - so much fun !!
Fantastic stuff, Adrian. Many thanks.
Fantastic Lesson! I've wanted to learn this song for years and can now play it. Thank you. Do you think you could do a lesson for the Pretenders song "Don't get me wrong"?
excellent, I've asked a few for a lesson on this thanks another great lesson clears a lot up..... still well my friend.
Spot-on; bravo. On the original the solo sounds tracked to me, but I'm open to the idea of maybe ADT or a really short repeat analogue delay. Certainly fattens things up.
Nice job. Clean. Cool tele.
Yeah, that was well explained with fret,string and finger and phrasing bro !!....keep up the good work dude !!
Early The Pretenders is one of my favorite bands. Honeyman-Scott was a huge fan of ABBA and you can hear the influence because he was very melodic as ABBA was as well. Actually this particular song is very 50s lullaby, hence the I VI IV V progression like many '50s pop songs. Think "Angel Baby" by Rosie and the Originals.
gretscher Yes this song has a definite 50s feel to it. Didn't know Honeyman-Scott was an Abba fan but it makes sense - great songs, chords and melodies. Fascinating stuff.
Great Lesson. I"m a massive fan of James Honeyman-Scott..Can you do more please.."Message of Love" from 2nd Album or "Tattooed Love Boys" from 1st album. Thanks.
Wow, that was beautiful!
Fabulous! Thanks Adrian!
that was brilliant Adrian
Love JHS, definitely great! Thanks for posting......
Excellent Adrian, i like Pretenders very much, first era mostly.......try English Roses plz
These lessons are great! Thanks for them.Any chance you could do Mystery Achievement?
Yes! Please!
Great job on this song - thanks!
Finally nailed the solo...! Thanks for your help...... :)
Whaou absolultly perfect !!!
You rock!! Great lesson! Cheers!