People Get Ready Guitar Lesson - Curtis Mayfield Style with TAB
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- People Get Ready Guitar Lesson (Curtis Mayfield Style). We explore how to play in the style of Curtis Mayfield, but in standard tuning.
Here's my adaptation of the classic "People Get Ready" by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions. It's a beautiful chord progression in and of itself. But playing in the Curtis Mayfield style really brings out the beauty of it.
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Curtis Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. He first achieved success and recognition with The Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist.
Jimi Hendrix said of him, “"The best gig was working with Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions. He was a Really good guitarist!...... I learned quite a lot in that short time. He probably influenced me more than anyone I'd ever played with up to that time, that sweet sound of his, you know".
"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by the Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B Chart and number 14 on the Billboard Pop Chart. The gospel-influenced track was a Curtis Mayfield composition that displayed the growing sense of social and political awareness in his writing.
Rolling Stone magazine named "People Get Ready" the 24th greatest song of all time and also placed it at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "People Get Ready" was named as one of the Top 10 Best Songs Of All Time by Mojo music magazine, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2016, the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry due to its "cultural, historic, or artistic significance." Martin Luther King Jr. named "People Get Ready" the unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement and often used the song to get people marching or to calm and comfort them.
Various artists have covered the song, including Bob Marley & the Wailers in 1965 and 1977 and Rod Stewart & Jeff Beck in 1985. 
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WOW that was some soulful playing! Dare I say even better than the original recording
Very kind!! Curtis' play is really sweet though for sure!
@@MarkZabel To match the original recording, tune down a half step.
@@MarkZabel To match the original recording, tune down a half step.
@@MarkZabel To match the original recording, tune down a half step.
@@MarkZabel To match the original recording, tune down a half step.
You really get Curtis’s playing, lovely and you don’t overplay like so many RUclipsrs.
Thank you so much!
Simply superb work on this classic piece. Thanks for all the detail and tab on this Mark. Bravo.
My pleasure Tom. Thank you for watching and for the kind comment too!
Thank you Mark. This is an absolutely great lesson and I've been playing it all day. Much appreciated!
Thank you! I don't know how I missed this earlier, but I'm glad you liked it and enjoyed it. I know I did, so I was glad to share! See you later!
These lessons are very helpful. You have a gift for breaking down what makes things sound good in a way that's easy to understand. Thanks again!
Hi Keith. Thank you so much for your kind note. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your gift - so beautiful.
Andrew, thanks for listening and also for the very kind comment.
I cannot stop watching this, Mark. Love the way you play this. So much feeling.
Thanks so much Geert! This kind comment helped a really tough week!
@@MarkZabel That is great to know. Looking forward to the Live Stream.
Many thanks for this gift of a lesson. You have a really calm, clear and well-paced teaching style which I'm finding easy to follow.
Thank you so much Alex!
Love this style
Very nice touch! Awesome! I'm going to learn it! Thank you!
Thanks! Have fun!
Thank you... sweet chords that make all of my cells smile 🙃
My pleasure James. Thanks for watching!
You're right it was a big influence to Hendrix Bob Marley and Jeff back does incredible job
Thanks Mark for doing this great tune. Such a beautiful song & message. 1962 you say, I would have been all of 4 at the time. You have a wonderful teaching style, appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Yes, it's an all-around great song. One of the best. Thanks so much for the kind words. Much appreciated!
Can’t wait mark. Thanks great work Mark
Thank you Pete!!
Boy, Mark. I love the blues and jammin' rock, but sometimes you just need to play something just like this. Thanks!
Thanks so much! Sorry I missed this earlier. Really appreciate the support.
Not only did you give an outstanding performance you gave us excellent tablature as well. What a great song played so very well by you. Greetings from Ireland thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Kevin. Thanks for watching and for the kind comment too!
The tapping to keep time was first made very popular by the late and great British guitarist John Martyn. A great lesson , thank you.
Thanks Chris. I didn't know that about John Martyn. I need to check his playing out.
Beautiful, thank you so much Mark!
You're welcome Scott. Thanks for watching.
How did I miss this? Wow Mark...this is one of your very best!
Thank you!
Hey Mark. Thank you again for your tutorial. I love all music, rock, blues, everything. R and B hits me in my soul though. Your my R and B go to teacher. Stay safe brother
Thanks man! I appreciate it!!
Very nice as usual! Great tone!
Thanks!
This is the best version that it’s investing time working on. Thank you!
Wow, thanks!
Wonderful arrangement! Love it.
Thanks a lot!
Great performance! Great lesson! You’re an awesome musician!!
Thanks so much Juan!
Thanks Mark for the lesson, I like the embellishments , cool!
Glad you liked it!
First time I’ve stumbled onto your channel. I love your instructional approach & your playing!
Thanks!!
Beautiful rendition!
Thanks so much Kevin!
Beautiful- thank you.
You're welcome. Thanks for listening.
Excellent - thanks Mark!
Glad you enjoyed it
It's like I'm swimming inside ❤️👍
Thanks so much! This song really gets me in the right way too!
Awesome and thank you! Love this style of playing! :-)
Thanks, me too!
Don't know why I'm just now subscribing. I've learned a lot from you. Thank you.
Never too late. Welcome, so glad you subbed! Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have some suggestions for me!
Gosh that is soooooo nice. Saw that little tap how fun
Thanks David. Yeah, I really enjoyed making this one!
Beautiful stuff! Thanks.
Thanks so much Dan!
Thanks a lot! Amazing lesson, man.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
Love that style thanks!!!
Yes, I love this style too. Could play/listen to it all day.
Love that beautiful sound
Glad you like it!
Thanks a lot for this version!
My absolute pleasure Renaud. Thanks for watching!
God bless you - got me singing within three bars
Thanks!!
Can't thank you enough for this!
You're very welcome!
Great teacher 🙏🏼
Thank you so much!
Fantastic lesson, easywatch and listen to! Would love to hear more r&b licks and tricks
Thanks for the feedback Lewis! I'll get back to doing more R&B. Do you have any suggestions for me?
Great lesson and very tasty playing Mark.
Thanks!
Freaking beautiful!!!
Thanks!
Just discovered your channel and first of all I just want to say thank you; you are a brilliant and generous teacher. I'm halfway through learning this and I honestly don't think I've ever had so much fun playing guitar. I just realised this is the kind of music I want to play. It feels so good. Can you recommend any other songs like this? It's all I want to listen to. Thanks again. I'll be recommending your channel to everyone I know who plays guitar.
Thank you brother! I agree. Best music on Earth to play. Just makes you feel good inside. Few songs are as good as Custis' masterpiece, but here's a couple of playlists that I've done in the genre. Let me know what other songs I should add.
R&B Guitar Lessons: ruclips.net/p/PLSVfUQKkNUqZRGPLUQ4yCEfRnUkOE_bvq
Easy R&B Tutorials: ruclips.net/p/PLSVfUQKkNUqbd8q5HRxx-FcKtOmQBFJGR
smooth and mellow, thanks brother
Any time!
nice in-depth lesson.
Thank you!!
Nice, nicer, nicest !!!
Great one Mark. Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure. I really, really love playing this sort of music. Somehow it got into my blood early on. Thanks for watching!!
Mark Zabel
I also love these kind of chord progressions. It's so relaxing and calming playing stuff like this.
I can do that for half an hour or longer just adding some here and there or hopping to another layer on the fret board.
Btw. No guitar for me next few weeks, i fell down the stairway in my house 2 days ago and broke my tailbone and lots of bruises all over the arms and back. So i have to wait till i can check this wonderful progression.
Oh no! I hope you heal up quickly. Stairs are far more dangerous than we generally believe.
Hey Gang! Live Stream tomorrow (Sunday, March 24th, 2019) See you there! ruclips.net/video/jFPS1OJK3_0/видео.html&feature=share
great lesson, thanks bro
Thanks ... and thanks for watching!
Great lesson, thanks
Glad you liked it!
*sees busy pinky work*
*saves to watch later and stern talking to, to my pinky*
LOL!
beautiful tone
I liked how it turned out for this also. Thanks.
thanks, great lesson...will try this
Have fun!
@@MarkZabel many thanks
Hi Mark, I found this lesson and Curtis Mayfield is fantastic, Steve Cropper. These guys started this kind of playing. Let's get busy.
Thanks!
Thanks Mark! This song came out when I was ~15 so I heard it a lot then, but I really know the Chambers Brothers version a couple yrs later having owned the album, also Grand Funk had an early popular cover & then Kenny Rankin also did in the early '70s. In the believe it or not dept (all my stories are 100% true!), in 1972 I had three of the Impressions (but not Curtis) in my taxi going from LaGuardia airport to the Westbury Hotel in Manhattan, they even invited me to a party that evening but I had classes at CUNY.
My pleasure. It's one of my favorite songs from that time.
Love the Intro. Beautiful.
Thank you!
@@MarkZabel You're welcome, Mr. Zabel, you are a great teacher with an excellent taste in music. I learned a few things from you, so... thank you. 😀
Great Stuff. Thank you ✌️
Glad you enjoyed it
beautiful
Thank you!
rthat was awesome, and i really learned a lot from it. Gave me ideas on hoe to embellish my chords. Thanks a lot for sharing it with us. Plus i love the song too.
Thanks Edmund. Glad you liked it and found it helpful!
@@MarkZabel you are welcome Mark. Greetings from the Philippines! Am gonna share this to my facebook page. Hope you don't mind :)
@@edz20four Not at all my friend. On the contrary - I greatly appreciate it! Thank you for sharing!
Michael Chapdelaine has used that palm slap to keep the rhythm going for many years. It’s a great addition.
Man you got some soul....you have a new subscriber
Thanks, I appreciate that!!
Thanks Mark!
My pleasure Mike. Thanks for watching. Sorry about the tab mix-up.
Very nice!
Thanks Rick!
Excellent 🤙🤙
Thanks ✌️
Cool lesdon this is the direction ive been heading this helps
Glad it was helpful to you!
I am sure I have heard Mr. Mayfield do this one... I will run it down... I have heard Rod Stewarts version, and it is an awesome gospel type tune... Thanks so much, Mark... Take care....
Rod Stewart's version is great and Beck's play on that is typical Beck ... that is, fantastic. But the original has real magic in it. A treasure.
😎🎸 sweet licks Great finesse
Thanks so muck Rikki!
Thanks for this, Mark. Great lesson. Love Curtis Mayfield.
You're very welcome Geert! Thanks for watching!
@@MarkZabel I keep on playing this video - partly to learn, and partly to hear you play, which you do beautifully, Mark. It is amazing how such a relatively simple chord sequence can be so perfect.
Appreciate the lesson and props to the cameraman of course you
Thanks!
classic tune !! thanks .. :)
Wow, that was fast! Super-classic this one!
I am wired into the Web like a Borg .. :)
This is so good. You are the best. Thank you for this lesson and tabs!
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Took me a while , but I now hear waiting on the world to change in CM's song.
Yep. It's kind of the other way around - PGR's chord progression used by John Mayer. It's all good.
Thank you Mark for a wonderful lesson.
You're very welcome Jean. Thank you for watching!
Great instruction
Thanks!
Very nice.
@Charles Bottom Thank you and thanks for watching!
The TAB link is fixed - no longer blank. It's in the description, but here for your convenience. Sorry about that!
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I love stuff like this. Not real familiar with Curtis Mayfield I must admit. I'll have to check more into his music. Thanks for the lesson, Mark.
He got pretty funky in the 1970s and he also got into the "message songs", which is okay with me. His guitar work isn't as prevalent in later years - at least what I've listened to.
man you got it goin on great
Thanks man!
Hi there! This is such a beautiful rendition! I made my own video singing to your version of this song! Thank you!
Thanks LaTonya! I'll check out your video!
The Chambers Brothers had a great version of this song!
I'll check it out.
Smoove
Cool stuff there Mark, I picked up that "slap" on the strings/pickup from the late great John Martyn, if you've never heard of him check him out, May You Never would be a good place to start. Cheers from the UK.
I'll check it out, thanks!
I just subscribed to your guitar school, and would love to find your tablature of this tune. Thanks for the great lesson!🎸
Thanks! If you're logged in, the link is: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/courses/mark-z-s-youtube-free/lectures/29605826
To log in, go to: mark-z-guitar-school.teachable.com/
Thanks so much can’t wait to study more of your videos!
I belong to Active Melody and Brian made a lesson very similar on you tube. If your curious, put in active Melody Ep. 327.
That looks like my 2016 ES-335 though mine is the blonde version, but same hardware, and neck/fingerboard. Your tone and style sound beautiful. Thank you for this.
Thanks! Mine is a 1982. Appreciate the kind comment!
Mark I love this progression . That 335 ?? Sounds great !
Thanks, me too. Glad you're digging the 335 on this!
Its a timing thing "Slap timing" Its the way I learned to keep timing.....instead of toe tapping.
cool.
@@MarkZabel Gotta do something if it does not come natural.
Lovely playing and a super lesson, thanks! I'm a big fan of Jeff Beck's version, and when he plays the G chord at the turn around, I think he plays the F shape and leaves the 5th (A) and 6th (E) strings open. I have no idea what that chord is called but it sounds nice to me!
You're very welcome and thank you for the kind comment! I like the Beck/Stewart version too. That's an Fmaj7 chord, although it's not usually played like that. Interesting way to do it. (F, A, C, E = 1, 3, 5, 7 ... but you've got an extra E and A on the bottom doubling the notes.)
@@MarkZabel When I said F shape I meant to make a G chord. So the notes (from bottom E string to top E) are E, A, G, B, D, G. The same notes in fact as playing all open strings, but that doesn't sound right.
Subscribed! Excellent teacher!...... You wouldn't happen to be in Chicago, would you?
Thanks so much! No, I live in Ithaca, NY. I used to get to Chicago quite often ... before the COVID-19 days. Love getting to Chicago!
Very nice analysis and presentation. I wonder if on the original version Curtis is also playing a thin body (ES-175-T?) Gibson?
Thanks! I don't know the guitar used. What you suggest sounds reasonable. The only guitars I know he used were Teles and Strats, but that was later.
Of course the main difference here is tuning. That's why I'm careful to say "Curtis Mayfield Style".
Lovely, thanks. I'm just starting to explore this style of music. If I'm being honest, it sounds like John Mayer ripped this, sped it up, and stamped waiting on the world to change on the title
Thank you! Curtis Mayfield does not get the credit he deserves as a writer or a guitarist. He was quite innovative and influential in both.
There's truth in what you say about Mayer, and it's also true of many other musicians and other works of art and science - both good and not so good. We learn at largely through imitation - Newton's comment of "Standing n the shoulders of giants" and all of that. I'm a fan of John Mayer's play and I cut him some major slack generally. On "Waiting On The World To Change" the Curtis Mayfield influence is certainly there; on the chord progression, the playing style, and on in being a "message song" as well.
(Now the message of waiting for everything (the world) else to change before taking action ... not so convinced that's the greatest message. But I still dig the song's groove!)
Now I know where say it ain’t so comes from by weezer!
Love your stuff. Do you recall if your tone was straight out of your amp or were you using a pedal?
Thanks Jim. Probably was straight out of the amp, with a touch of amp reverb on.
335 😍
I know, right? :)
George Lynch has a pretty great version as well.
I'll have to check that out!
What type of guitar is that...sounds like heaven to my ears
Thank you! It's a Gibson 335 from 1982.
Gibson Dot 335
Gibson Dot 335
@@MarkZabel I've always loved that guitar nothing else really sounds like it
You hear a lot of Keith Richards in it!
Yes, Keith was no doubt influenced by the early R&B guys like Curtis.
Anyone know who the F singer is on the duet? We need a few credits on here ... It's Sunday Night show, btw, which I think was the Sunday predecessor to Night Music .. ?
Love the lesson, Mark. I don't get the tab when I pull it up. Thanks
Same here.
Here you go. ruclips.net/user/redirect?v=S2YvoW6nQHU&event=video_description&redir_token=RkQUJofVHq7pohYBvi_lQHAckf98MTU1MzQzOTc1MkAxNTUzMzUzMzUy&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fn08375ks9t2fwyg%2FCurtis%2520Mayfield%2520Style%2520%2528People%2520Get%2520Ready%2529.pdf%3Fdl%3D0