Just purchased this and am working on it...wow. Excellent work out on so many levels...! To self: so you think you know your open chords and strings.. 😅. Excellent excellent lesson....
Thank you so much for the kind words my friend. 🙏🏻 I’m so glad you found this lesson to be useful. Don’t hesitate to check out some of my others too! I really appreciate your support 🍻
Wow what a lesson, your playing is spectacular. While listening to you play I was repeatedly reminded of a country song I remember from when I was a kid ... The Tennessee Waltz. You would play a killer version of that tune.
True, he certainly incorporates a lot of Americana and country touches. Certainly helps to have a wide palette of colours to choose from.. that's what jazz is all about IMO 🍻
I love the tone and the beauty in the simplicity and how it builds. Would love more lessons like this as the ideas are so applicable to the music I play with others.
Why have I only discovered this talented man just now? I'm a confident player but lack the little tricks and trills which he demonstrates so well. His playing is sublime. Thank you!
"cowboy chords" get a lot of ridicule from many guitar players, but this approach really boosts their musicality - beautiful lesson, I'm getting on it right now
Then those alleged guitar players are just strange. Must be music majors. Learning to make music only enjoyable to other music majors. Replacing heart and soul with more notes. Bad trade.
Hey Alex, Thank you for posting all your studies. After playing and studying guitar for more than 50 years, it’s nice to see a fairly comprehensive study of open chords in Americana style. Well done. Fantastic playing.
I have always gravitated more towards playing using open chords. It does seem that most people are in a rush to get to the more complicated and fancier ways of playing that overlook using open chords, but I have found that there's so much to do and learn by embellishing and working within open chords.
@@AlexFarranGuitar I thought about it last night, and it appears that what you do is build a melody using chord notes and transition notes and then build other chords around those notes using various voicings and inversions. Have I got it right? If so, that's what I've been trying to do with my music, but I am no where near as knowledgeable or skilled at it as you are.
@@footsgrandson I had that issue too. There are a few things you can try, most of which depend on the type of pickups you have. The first thing you can try is to adjust the height and angle of your pickups. That helped with both my electric guitars, but not completely. If your pickups are the type with a slotted screw head, you can raise or lower each individual pole, but only do this after you've adjusted the overall height of the pickup itself. One of my electric guitars has that style of pickups, and it worked great. My other guitar, however, does not have the adjustable poles, so I did something I wouldn't recommend unless you are willing to buy all new pickups. I tapped on each of the magnets in the pickups until they were all even and lowered a bit. In other words, I took out the arch the magnets made in my pickups. This can easily break the pickup, but I got lucky and mine didn't break. Try that method at your own risk. Or.....you can take the guitar to a reputable guitar shop and have them do all the adjustments for you.
This is exactly why I love this channel… we can find some great materials like this ! It’s seems simple to play and all guitarist have heard this style and think that easy to play but I think we must to play that properly to sound good… so that need to take the time to work this tab correctly .. thank’s Alex to your good job … great quality of guitar lesson as usually 👍👌
Thank you for the comment my friend, that really means a lot! Absolutely correct.. many players secretly struggle to get their open position chords and transitions between them clean. Every note had to ring out 👌🏻💫
Yeah Alex the difference is made in the détail…play the right two or three strings together and not another… here is the work ! I never take before the time to play this style with the good rules and now it’s done … it’s a real happiness because this play in open chords sounds so great 👍thchuss my friend
Another thing: thanks for having relatively advanced content in which you don’t explain the position of each finger, string and fret. If people are trying to play what is in this lesson, they don’t need that. It’s why I skip most lessons after a minute or so.
Ah thanks mate, that's so good to hear.. getting that balance right is something I put real thought into, and I agree that breaking things down into fret numbers is tedious and almost misses the entire point in the effort to advance one's playing.
Well, me again... I just became a Patreon member... I scrolled through about 20 lessons and loved everything I saw...then I saw The Rain Song and said, okay he's already the best teacher on you tube... and then one of my absolute favorite LZ songs...😊 just had to swing back by and say thank you for all the lessons and covering many genres and artists.
Just discovered you via algorithm. I’m a “master of none” guitar player who’s wheelhouse is blues/classic rock but love jazz, classical, country, etc. I’ve always enjoyed the beauty of Americana style but haven’t quite put it all together. Your sound is beautiful and your instruction has opened up things already. Subscribed! Cheers!
Fabulous lesson as always! I'm wondering if you could do a lesson where you just go through every open position chord and show all the tricks and variations you use ("Here's what you can do with an Am chord; here's what you can do with the B7," etc.). It wouldn't work for a composition but would be super helpful. Thanks either way!!
Thanks for the comment buddy. Hmmm, I think that’s a cool idea. I’ll give it some thought and see if I can find a way to put the examples in little short musical contexts 👍🏻
Alex, Brian of Active Melody got me off zero to a solid foundation, Adrian over at Anyone Can Play Guitar showed me what I needed to set my sites on next, and your lessons are the pièces de résistance. I will be purchasing individual lessons as I work through the tastiest ones for me. Great job, love your playing style, and approach accumen. Cropper and Dupree were my early benchmark players. Cheers, Mike
Very good job, sir. Of course, Tony Rice's iconic LP from 1983, Church Street Blues, is a masterpiece of this way of making a guitar sound its absolute biggest and most beautiful -- using the techniques you showed in this lesson!
Thanks buddy 🙏🏻 One of my all time favourite flat picking records by one of my all time favourite players. Definitely some of his influence creeping in as ever, but a very different approach and execution of course in that we’re going for big spacious washes of sustaining chords as opposed to filling in all the spaces with intricate lines. Just shows how much scope and freedom we really have on this incredibly versatile instrument 👌🏻😍
thanks Adrian, a great lesson that also helps me link fingers to ears. Because of the slow pace I can hear where the chords, double stops and hammer ons are "voice leading" and try to pull that sound without always looking at fingers and fret position. Just play on slowly and see my if fingers can start to find the right landing spot by feel. Nice
when you put 99% of your brain hard drive into interval awareness, other important things like peoples names get mis filed. I've commented a good many times before and do know your MR A Farran, big apologies. From now on I will only divert 98% of brain hard drive to creative learning😉 ANother lesson learned.
Haha no need to apologise buddy, just thought it was worth mentioning 😂 I always appreciate your comments and enthusiasm my friend. Don’t let it stop! 🍻
Two CD's come to mind: Mr. Lucky by J.L Hooker and the song featuring Ry Cooder is: This Is Hip. The other CD is Bop Til You Drop by Rt Cooder It's the best one.
This is an excellent lesson! Really going to help me dress up my chords. Would you consider does this for all of the popular guitar keys on your patreon? This same style lesson in D, E, G, and A would be incredible!
Great lesson once again. Thank you. Daniel Lanois has always been a huge inspiration for the chords/texture playing. Glad you mentioned "Not dark yet". Your lessons are pushing me beyond and I hope to purchase an individual lesson one day. Seriously thinking about becoming a patron as well.
Thanks for the comment buddy, I’m so glad you’re finding the lessons to be inspiring. It’s hard to find someone who you resonate with stylistically isn’t it? Glad you’re a fellow Lanois fan also buddy. Hope to see you on the Patreon sometime 🙏🏻🍻
I sure enjoy your videos. Your playing is terrific and you have the talent and ear to embrace the individual character of each style you are playing. I love learning all these bits and pieces of different styles and mix them in with the bits and pieces I learned from someplace else. I can’t play all the different styles but I end up playing with the hodgepodge of stuff that in the end just sounds like me. Anyway, tip of the hat, sir. Well done and thank you.
Great lesson. I’ve never been a solo-oriented guitarist. I just don’t have the hot licks or brashness to pull it off convincingly. Instead, this is the kind of thing I hear in my head. David Rawlings with Gillian and Adam Levy’s work with Nora Jones are also both exemplary for this stuff.
Thanks Rob, glad you enjoyed it. Oh for sure, you mentioned a couple of fantastic players there. I will be doing a lesson on a Dave Rawlings vibe very soon 👌🏻
oh wow, what ag great lesson. I downloaded the tab as I was watching. Really looking forward to working on this one (still working and really enjoying the Americana Soul lesson) ... I hope you'll share more in this space, thank you!
Fantastic lesson. Thankyou. Do you ever talk about your tone. I know it’s contentious but it’s a very lovely sound today. Shall be re watching this many times
Thank you my friend, I appreciate the comment! 🙏🏻 I do have a “Tone Talk” section in most of my videos, but basically it’s always the same, very simple stuff. A telecaster of some sort into a Deluxe Reverb circuit (whether my vintage 69’ Fender or this Emprize Falcon clone). 👍🏻
Another gem. You hit me where I need it, one of those people who have not paid enough attention to open position. And loving that tele! Interesting, hollow but without the thinline f-hole. It really sounds gorgeous. (Another thought - slow 3/4 is not so easy to play really well ...?)
Thanks buddy, glad you found it useful! 🙏🏻 Yes, I love that it’s fully hollow but without the f-holes.. it’s a really smart guitar 👌🏻 interesting thoughts re: 3/4 playing.. I guess for some people they don’t play too many tunes in that time signature. It has a such a beautiful lilting feel to it though and gives us a sense of more space somehow 😎👌🏻
Thank you Alex. I just stumbled on your channel. I play mostly Americana Roots music, this will really help! Great lesson and looking forward to more. Thanks for sharing, nice playing!
Were you using a bit of tremelo in your signal path? I fear some new electric players may try these moves with no reverb and no trem and wonder why they dont sound as nice. Players that likely will benefit from this instruction on open voicing chords with hammer ons and pulloffs also may need some words on appropriate tone settings.
Goshdamn Alex! I always get so much out of your videos.. And your playing - regardless of genre - is absolutely stellar. Will 100% be signing up for your patreon, dude. Holy moses.
A fantastic study into what can be achieved in the ‘open’ position, very nice indeed. Mark Knopfler has already had a mention but he was the inspiration behind me wanting to learn the instrument back in the early 2000’s. 👍😎
Hey there, love your channel! New subscriber as of yesterday. Thanks for the amazing content! I’m curious if you have any videos on your sound setup? I love the thick warm tone you have and wanted to know where it comes from.
Hey buddy, thank you so much, I really appreciate the comment 🙏🏻 In most of the videos I mention a bit about my tone and gear used but have yet to do a dedicated “gear” video but will likely do one soon. The thing is, my setup is always very minimal/simple. Usually a tele of some sort, or an old Archtop into a vintage Fender amp with a splash of reverb and sometimes some trem from the amp too. I use some light overdrive sometimes also. I favour Nobels, Bluesbreaker and Klon type circuits for that 👌🏻
Thank you my friend, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏🏻 The weather is a bit cold here but at least the sun is shining and spring feels a little closer! 👌🏻🧡
Great lesson ~ I’m an open position FAN too ~ lots of folks like to try to push away from them because it appears to be less sophisticated…? The possibilities are heavenly
Sweet mate,, kinda know all these sounds - but you did it in a slightly different flavour to me so was like a fresh thing....I froth on how limitless the guitar is!!
I really hope you're doing music full time: RUclips, teaching, etc. Your techniques and style have studio musician written all over btw....so something to think about. Also, the Partscasters you come up with are wicked.🔥
Thanks man, I appreciate the sentiment. Indeed, I’ve been a full time musician for many years now. A mixture of teaching, session work and regular gigging/touring. Getting into the RUclips/Patreon thing lately has transformed things hugely and added a whole other dimension and I’m really loving it! 🙏🏻🍻
Love this one Alex... I only follow your lessons on my nylon Cordoba gk negra pro... i always want to break out the tele... but i love the nylon so much... is that wrong!? I so love secondary dominants in conjuction with a quick passing min7b5s, addicted to rewriting my compositions involving that stuff at the moment and that's all thanks to your amazingly easy to digest approaches to discovery, in about a year there is a noticeable difference in my tone pallet! Thanks man!
That’s so good to hear Stuart! Thank you for the comment mate🙏🏻 I don’t see anything wrong with playing this stuff on nylon string at all! Do what you prefer 😎
Oh yeah!.. I love that album! I need to revisit it. Back when it came out I spent some time transcribing some of the tunes. Loved his version of The Beatles “Anna” too 👌🏻😍
My opinion is that virtually all folk based western music except super tight bluegrass is better in open tuning, even a lot of material people typically don't bring there. It just takes some practice to get the minor voicings, and honestly I have played standards in open tuning, just muting stuff and doing shell voicings to get just the major sevenths and nines and all that. But anything in the whole singer songwriter area is going to sound four times as good if you can figure it out in one of the many open chord tunings. Here are a couple fun ones not as often used. C G D F C E - play an a major shape and then take it off and you are playing the beginning of coyote by Joni. This tuning is very rich, many many possibilities, have done numerous new songs with it. E A C# E A E. putting the third low gets some really neat cello-y things happening. E G# B E G# E - this is one of Curtis Mayfields, does not work on every guitar, is amazing tho. Finally, D A D F A D just D minor... John Fahey used this, it immediately makes you write differently.
Sometimes I start watching a video and I know I’m not going to be able to enjoy it as much as I want to, so I have to come back. Can’t wait to dig into this after the rugrats go to bed.
Always "come correct," so much so that even you guitar comes dressed for dinner. (Credit for that last bit goes to Christies auctioneer for Mark Knopler's guitars),
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Just purchased this and am working on it...wow. Excellent work out on so many levels...! To self: so you think you know your open chords and strings.. 😅. Excellent excellent lesson....
Thank you so much for the kind words my friend. 🙏🏻 I’m so glad you found this lesson to be useful. Don’t hesitate to check out some of my others too!
I really appreciate your support 🍻
You just don't see much of this kind of stuff on RUclips.
I spend hours trying to find stuff like this but always come up short.
Thankyou😊
Ah thanks buddy, I really appreciate the comment. So glad you enjoy the lessons 🙏🏻🧡
Wow what a lesson, your playing is spectacular. While listening to you play I was repeatedly reminded of a country song I remember from when I was a kid ... The Tennessee Waltz. You would play a killer version of that tune.
Thank you Malcolm! 🙏🏻 Ah yes, I know that one very well!.. I always teach that to new students! Maybe I should do a video on it too 👍🏻
In the jazz realm I always think of Frisell as the master of this kind of stuff, I'd love to start bring that sound into my playing more.
True, he certainly incorporates a lot of Americana and country touches. Certainly helps to have a wide palette of colours to choose from.. that's what jazz is all about IMO 🍻
Frisell’s playing with Lucinda Williams is great check the ghosts of Highway 20 album
For sure, his album Nashville is full of pearls
Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) kind of introduced me to Bill Frisell as he's a fan too.
@@AlexFarranGuitar WEST of EASTWEST Frisell album is king of ringing tele goodness
your tone and touch is literally the tone I have in my head, it's INCREDIBLE!
Ah man, thank you my friend, that means a lot. You are a very toneful player yourself! 👌🏻
Beautifully played and insightfully explained well done 👍
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻
What simple open chord playing belies subtly and sophistication. With a great deal of detail and craft. A real treat for the connoisseur.
Thank you for commenting. I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
I love the tone and the beauty in the simplicity and how it builds. Would love more lessons like this as the ideas are so applicable to the music I play with others.
Thanks for the comment mate, I will certainly do more videos in this style 👍🏻
Why have I only discovered this talented man just now? I'm a confident player but lack the little tricks and trills which he demonstrates so well. His playing is sublime. Thank you!
Ah man, thank you so much for the kind words! 🙏🏻 Really glad you enjoy the video lessons buddy. Thanks for commenting 🍻
Hearing Ray LaMontagne 🎶 Let It Be Me! Great videos! Much appreciated!
Glad you liked it mate! Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
"cowboy chords" get a lot of ridicule from many guitar players, but this approach really boosts their musicality - beautiful lesson, I'm getting on it right now
You’re so right buddy, glad you appreciated the lesson 🙏🏻
Then those alleged guitar players are just strange. Must be music majors. Learning to make music only enjoyable to other music majors. Replacing heart and soul with more notes. Bad trade.
@@BeefNEggs057 hard to argue with that 👍🏻
Hey Alex, Thank you for posting all your studies. After playing and studying guitar for more than 50 years, it’s nice to see a fairly comprehensive study of open chords in Americana style.
Well done. Fantastic playing.
Thank you mate, really glad you enjoyed the video 🙏🏻
I have always gravitated more towards playing using open chords. It does seem that most people are in a rush to get to the more complicated and fancier ways of playing that overlook using open chords, but I have found that there's so much to do and learn by embellishing and working within open chords.
For sure man, it’s a huuuge world of possibilities!
@@AlexFarranGuitar I thought about it last night, and it appears that what you do is build a melody using chord notes and transition notes and then build other chords around those notes using various voicings and inversions. Have I got it right? If so, that's what I've been trying to do with my music, but I am no where near as knowledgeable or skilled at it as you are.
For me, on electric, the reason I shy away from open strings is because of that darn G string! It’s so loud and ringy.
@@footsgrandson I had that issue too. There are a few things you can try, most of which depend on the type of pickups you have. The first thing you can try is to adjust the height and angle of your pickups. That helped with both my electric guitars, but not completely. If your pickups are the type with a slotted screw head, you can raise or lower each individual pole, but only do this after you've adjusted the overall height of the pickup itself. One of my electric guitars has that style of pickups, and it worked great. My other guitar, however, does not have the adjustable poles, so I did something I wouldn't recommend unless you are willing to buy all new pickups. I tapped on each of the magnets in the pickups until they were all even and lowered a bit. In other words, I took out the arch the magnets made in my pickups. This can easily break the pickup, but I got lucky and mine didn't break. Try that method at your own risk. Or.....you can take the guitar to a reputable guitar shop and have them do all the adjustments for you.
More pearls of wisdom from the master.
Brilliant as always Alex 👌
Thank you Karl, I appreciate that. And thank you for making such a beautiful, inspiring guitar! 🙏🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar 🙏🙏
Fantastic video!
Thanks so much mate! 🙏🏻
This is exactly why I love this channel… we can find some great materials like this ! It’s seems simple to play and all guitarist have heard this style and think that easy to play but I think we must to play that properly to sound good… so that need to take the time to work this tab correctly .. thank’s Alex to your good job … great quality of guitar lesson as usually 👍👌
Thank you for the comment my friend, that really means a lot! Absolutely correct.. many players secretly struggle to get their open position chords and transitions between them clean. Every note had to ring out 👌🏻💫
Yeah Alex the difference is made in the détail…play the right two or three strings together and not another… here is the work ! I never take before the time to play this style with the good rules and now it’s done … it’s a real happiness because this play in open chords sounds so great 👍thchuss my friend
Great stuff as always!
Oh man!.. Thank you Jeff, I really appreciate that!🙏🏻🤩
Just what I’m looking for. Very tasteful stuff. I am at the point where I am ready to tackle this more advanced style of playing.
That's great! Let me know how you get on with it! 🙏🏻
Another thing: thanks for having relatively advanced content in which you don’t explain the position of each finger, string and fret. If people are trying to play what is in this lesson, they don’t need that. It’s why I skip most lessons after a minute or so.
Ah thanks mate, that's so good to hear.. getting that balance right is something I put real thought into, and I agree that breaking things down into fret numbers is tedious and almost misses the entire point in the effort to advance one's playing.
What a beautiful guitar...
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Alex, you always have something tasty to offer. Thanks man.
My pleasure buddy! Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻
Simple though very beautiful!
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻
Simply brilliant!
Thanks buddy! Glad you liked it 🙏🏻
You are welcome, dear Alex! I do think your taste and style are unmistakable!
Congratulations!
Well, me again... I just became a Patreon member... I scrolled through about 20 lessons and loved everything I saw...then I saw The Rain Song and said, okay he's already the best teacher on you tube... and then one of my absolute favorite LZ songs...😊 just had to swing back by and say thank you for all the lessons and covering many genres and artists.
Ah man, thank you so much for the kind words and enthusiasm! Very happy to have you here with us my friend. 🙏🏻
As usual a ton to unpack here. This is a style of playing that really appeals to me so thanks for posting this gem!
My pleasure Mark, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
Just discovered you via algorithm. I’m a “master of none” guitar player who’s wheelhouse is blues/classic rock but love jazz, classical, country, etc. I’ve always enjoyed the beauty of Americana style but haven’t quite put it all together. Your sound is beautiful and your instruction has opened up things already. Subscribed! Cheers!
That’s so good to hear buddy, thank you for commenting! 🙏🏻
Fabulous lesson as always! I'm wondering if you could do a lesson where you just go through every open position chord and show all the tricks and variations you use ("Here's what you can do with an Am chord; here's what you can do with the B7," etc.). It wouldn't work for a composition but would be super helpful. Thanks either way!!
Thanks for the comment buddy. Hmmm, I think that’s a cool idea. I’ll give it some thought and see if I can find a way to put the examples in little short musical contexts 👍🏻
If anyone can accomplish that, it's you. Thanks again!!
@@AlexFarranGuitar
AMAZING!! Great Job!!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Love the F minor in there for sure 👍
Thanks mate, glad you dig it!
Alex,
Brian of Active Melody got me off zero to a solid foundation, Adrian over at Anyone Can Play Guitar showed me what I needed to set my sites on next, and your lessons are the pièces de résistance. I will be purchasing individual lessons as I work through the tastiest ones for me. Great job, love your playing style, and approach accumen. Cropper and Dupree were my early benchmark players.
Cheers, Mike
Thank you Michael, I really appreciate the comment my friend 🙏🏻
you're quickly becoming my go to YT guitar channel. Such beautiful playing and great instruction. Thank you!
Ah thank you Stephen, I really appreciate that 🙏🏻
Beautiful tone and composition
much gratitude
Thanks for the comment buddy, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Beautiful chords man, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching Bogdan, great to see you here buddy 🍻🧡
Very good job, sir. Of course, Tony Rice's iconic LP from 1983, Church Street Blues, is a masterpiece of this way of making a guitar sound its absolute biggest and most beautiful -- using the techniques you showed in this lesson!
Thanks buddy 🙏🏻 One of my all time favourite flat picking records by one of my all time favourite players. Definitely some of his influence creeping in as ever, but a very different approach and execution of course in that we’re going for big spacious washes of sustaining chords as opposed to filling in all the spaces with intricate lines. Just shows how much scope and freedom we really have on this incredibly versatile instrument 👌🏻😍
Thank you for another great lesson, Alex. Your music and playing is always beautiful, elegant, and soulful.
Thank you so much, that’s very kind of you 🙏🏻🧡
This is wonderful. I find myself playing this kind of thing more and more, so this lesson fits right in. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for the comment Mike, I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
What a brilliant lesson. So glad I’ve discovered you as your playing is beautiful & your tone sublime. You are a source of inspiration to me now
Thank you Paul, I really appreciate your comment my friend! Glad you enjoy the lessons 🙏🏻
thanks Adrian, a great lesson that also helps me link fingers to ears. Because of the slow pace I can hear where the chords, double stops and hammer ons are "voice leading" and try to pull that sound without always looking at fingers and fret position. Just play on slowly and see my if fingers can start to find the right landing spot by feel. Nice
Thanks so much for the comment Adam, really glad you found the lesson useful. Just a note.. I’m Alex, not Adrian 😂
when you put 99% of your brain hard drive into interval awareness, other important things like peoples names get mis filed. I've commented a good many times before and do know your MR A Farran, big apologies. From now on I will only divert 98% of brain hard drive to creative learning😉 ANother lesson learned.
Haha no need to apologise buddy, just thought it was worth mentioning 😂
I always appreciate your comments and enthusiasm my friend. Don’t let it stop! 🍻
just beautiful.. the kind of playing I would aspire to
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it. Definitely attainable with some dedicated practice 👌🏻😎
Awesome lesson! Thank you!
Im on it!
My pleasure! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
Thank you Alex. This is more my style of playing than jazz so I am able to get all of it without struggle. Wonderful tutorial
Awesome Stephen, glad you enjoyed the lesson! Plenty more where that came from! ;)
Super cool stuff❤
Thanks buddy, glad you think so 🙏🏻
Two CD's come to mind: Mr. Lucky by J.L Hooker and the song featuring Ry Cooder is: This Is Hip. The other CD is Bop Til You Drop by Rt Cooder It's the best one.
Great records, good recommendations buddy 👌🏻🍻
Thanks for the tips. I have always Ry Cooder but sometimes forget how great he is. Cheers!
Way cool Alex! Sweet tone too!
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
yeah . This is great ! Love it
Thanks mate, glad you like it 🙏🏻
What a beautiful peice of music, if I never get good enough to attempt to play it, its a joy to listen to. Great guy great video thankyou.
Thank you Gary, that’s really nice of you to say! I’m sure you can learn it with a solid practice routine though! 😉
Another shot of inspiration. You are for fure a musical monster Sir
Thanks for the comment! So glad you found the lesson inspiring 🙏🏻
This is an excellent lesson! Really going to help me dress up my chords. Would you consider does this for all of the popular guitar keys on your patreon? This same style lesson in D, E, G, and A would be incredible!
That is a great suggestion Jared, I’ve immediately added it to the list 👍🏻
You give hope to the slow handed of us thanks.👍☮️
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitarslow handed of US….. opps 😂
Love your clean sound. Bridge pickup on your ax is beautiful.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Just became a Patreon member. This is great stuff. Those 2nd inversion chords really make this sound like a baritone guitar.
Thank you Mark, I really appreciate your support and enthusiastic words my friend. So glad you enjoy the lessons 🙏🏻🍻
That's what I wanted for a long time. Thank you! ❤
I’m so glad you enjoyed it my friend, thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Really rich lesson!!
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it!
Good, Better, Best, Alex.
Thank you buddy! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Gorgeous, Alex. Just gorgeous.
Thanks Karl! 🙏🏻
Great lesson once again. Thank you. Daniel Lanois has always been a huge inspiration for the chords/texture playing. Glad you mentioned "Not dark yet". Your lessons are pushing me beyond and I hope to purchase an individual lesson one day. Seriously thinking about becoming a patron as well.
Thanks for the comment buddy, I’m so glad you’re finding the lessons to be inspiring. It’s hard to find someone who you resonate with stylistically isn’t it?
Glad you’re a fellow Lanois fan also buddy. Hope to see you on the Patreon sometime 🙏🏻🍻
Duke Levine is a must for this style.
Duke is one of the best!
Oh for sure, Duke is a beautiful player 👌🏻
I sure enjoy your videos. Your playing is terrific and you have the talent and ear to embrace the individual character of each style you are playing. I love learning all these bits and pieces of different styles and mix them in with the bits and pieces I learned from someplace else. I can’t play all the different styles but I end up playing with the hodgepodge of stuff that in the end just sounds like me. Anyway, tip of the hat, sir. Well done and thank you.
Thank you so much my friend, I really appreciate the kind words 🙏🏻
Great lesson. I’ve never been a solo-oriented guitarist. I just don’t have the hot licks or brashness to pull it off convincingly. Instead, this is the kind of thing I hear in my head. David Rawlings with Gillian and Adam Levy’s work with Nora Jones are also both exemplary for this stuff.
Thanks Rob, glad you enjoyed it. Oh for sure, you mentioned a couple of fantastic players there. I will be doing a lesson on a Dave Rawlings vibe very soon 👌🏻
This is very awesome! Thanks so much. BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks Richard, glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
dude, that tone, wowza!
Thanks man! 🙏🏻
That's some pretty picking'!
Thanks buddy, glad you like it! 🙏🏻
Wots that guitar. Sounds great. Looks great. Sounds almost baritonish at times
Thanks buddy. That’s my Karl Longbottom hollow telecaster. He makes beautiful instruments 👌🏻
oh wow, what ag great lesson. I downloaded the tab as I was watching. Really looking forward to working on this one (still working and really enjoying the Americana Soul lesson) ... I hope you'll share more in this space, thank you!
Thanks for the comment and for your support Nick, I really appreciate it 🙏🏻
Oh most definitely much more to come in this style. 😎
Fantastic lesson. Thankyou. Do you ever talk about your tone. I know it’s contentious but it’s a very lovely sound today.
Shall be re watching this many times
Thank you my friend, I appreciate the comment! 🙏🏻 I do have a “Tone Talk” section in most of my videos, but basically it’s always the same, very simple stuff. A telecaster of some sort into a Deluxe Reverb circuit (whether my vintage 69’ Fender or this Emprize Falcon clone). 👍🏻
Thanks for the response. Do you gig? I’m from nottingham would love to see you play live.
Another gem. You hit me where I need it, one of those people who have not paid enough attention to open position. And loving that tele! Interesting, hollow but without the thinline f-hole. It really sounds gorgeous. (Another thought - slow 3/4 is not so easy to play really well ...?)
Thanks buddy, glad you found it useful! 🙏🏻
Yes, I love that it’s fully hollow but without the f-holes.. it’s a really smart guitar 👌🏻 interesting thoughts re: 3/4 playing.. I guess for some people they don’t play too many tunes in that time signature. It has a such a beautiful lilting feel to it though and gives us a sense of more space somehow 😎👌🏻
Wish i stumbled upon your channel sooner. You got a nice relaxing flow going on here. Definitely gonna subscribe and give a thumbs up. Take care.
Thanks buddy, I appreciate that 🙏🏻
Thank you Alex. I just stumbled on your channel. I play mostly Americana Roots music, this will really help! Great lesson and looking forward to more. Thanks for sharing, nice playing!
That’s great Dave! Sounds like we have a lot in common. Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Were you using a bit of tremelo in your signal path? I fear some new electric players may try these moves with no reverb and no trem and wonder why they dont sound as nice. Players that likely will benefit from this instruction on open voicing chords with hammer ons and pulloffs also may need some words on appropriate tone settings.
Indeed!.. just some very subtle trem and a splash of reverb. Will do a tone video sometime soon for sure. 👍🏻
60s in and I hit subscribe. Stunning.
Thank you!.. I really appreciate the comment and the sub :)
Very nice.
Thanks buddy 🙏🏻
Wonderful video and content 👍🎸 best to you brother
Thanks mate, much appreciated 🙏🏻🍻
Who couldn't love that ! Thank you ... subscribed & liked !
Thank you my friend, I really appreciate it 🙏🏻
Goshdamn Alex! I always get so much out of your videos.. And your playing - regardless of genre - is absolutely stellar. Will 100% be signing up for your patreon, dude. Holy moses.
Thank you Matt, that really means a lot 🙏🏻 Thanks for your enthusiasm, kind words and support my friend 🍻
Knophlers Get Lucky album is a brilliant one. Monteleone is so good. Thanks for todays lesson!
Thanks for the comment buddy. I agree, a fantastic album!
A fantastic study into what can be achieved in the ‘open’ position, very nice indeed. Mark Knopfler has already had a mention but he was the inspiration behind me wanting to learn the instrument back in the early 2000’s. 👍😎
❤ love it ❤
Thank you! 🙏🏻 Nice name btw 😉👌🏻
John Levanthal on Shawn Colvin’s A Few Small Repairs
Thanks for the comment buddy, I’ll check that out 👍🏻
Hey there, love your channel! New subscriber as of yesterday. Thanks for the amazing content! I’m curious if you have any videos on your sound setup? I love the thick warm tone you have and wanted to know where it comes from.
Hey buddy, thank you so much, I really appreciate the comment 🙏🏻
In most of the videos I mention a bit about my tone and gear used but have yet to do a dedicated “gear” video but will likely do one soon. The thing is, my setup is always very minimal/simple. Usually a tele of some sort, or an old Archtop into a vintage Fender amp with a splash of reverb and sometimes some trem from the amp too. I use some light overdrive sometimes also. I favour Nobels, Bluesbreaker and Klon type circuits for that 👌🏻
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Alex also how is the weather today ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you my friend, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! 🙏🏻 The weather is a bit cold here but at least the sun is shining and spring feels a little closer! 👌🏻🧡
Hawaiian slack key cowboy guitar. LOL Beautiful guitar and sound.
Thanks buddy, haha that sounds like a genre I could gel with 😂🍻
great sound teles thick
Thanks man!
IK think this is what Floyd Cramer was going for in "Last Date". I suspect that a version of this could be worked out using what you have presented...
Interesting! I will check that out
Great lesson ~ I’m an open position FAN too ~ lots of folks like to try to push away from them because it appears to be less sophisticated…? The possibilities are heavenly
100% agreed mate! 👌🏻🍻
Sweet mate,, kinda know all these sounds - but you did it in a slightly different flavour to me so was like a fresh thing....I froth on how limitless the guitar is!!
Cheers buddy! 🙏🏻🍻
Really Great Job. 👏👏
Thankyou. ❤❤❤❤
You're welcome buddy, thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
W0W! Who knew. Thanx!
My pleasure! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
Beautiful tone 😮💗☮️✨
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻
I really hope you're doing music full time: RUclips, teaching, etc. Your techniques and style have studio musician written all over btw....so something to think about. Also, the Partscasters you come up with are wicked.🔥
Thanks man, I appreciate the sentiment. Indeed, I’ve been a full time musician for many years now. A mixture of teaching, session work and regular gigging/touring. Getting into the RUclips/Patreon thing lately has transformed things hugely and added a whole other dimension and I’m really loving it! 🙏🏻🍻
beautiful
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
You are a really cool guy ❤
Ah thank you, so are you my friend!!🍻
@@AlexFarranGuitar ❤️
I am guilty of not working as much in open position, time to do this.
Nice one Matthew, have fun with it 🍻
@@AlexFarranGuitar not as easy as it looks to make it all ring and sound sweet, but i am getting it.
Love this one Alex... I only follow your lessons on my nylon Cordoba gk negra pro... i always want to break out the tele... but i love the nylon so much... is that wrong!? I so love secondary dominants in conjuction with a quick passing min7b5s, addicted to rewriting my compositions involving that stuff at the moment and that's all thanks to your amazingly easy to digest approaches to discovery, in about a year there is a noticeable difference in my tone pallet! Thanks man!
That’s so good to hear Stuart! Thank you for the comment mate🙏🏻
I don’t see anything wrong with playing this stuff on nylon string at all! Do what you prefer 😎
If you get a chance check out ‘the fade out’ by Duke. Your lessons are excellent and cover all the music that I’m into. Great Charlie Christian stuff.
Oh yeah!.. I love that album! I need to revisit it. Back when it came out I spent some time transcribing some of the tunes. Loved his version of The Beatles “Anna” too 👌🏻😍
My opinion is that virtually all folk based western music except super tight bluegrass is better in open tuning, even a lot of material people typically don't bring there. It just takes some practice to get the minor voicings, and honestly I have played standards in open tuning, just muting stuff and doing shell voicings to get just the major sevenths and nines and all that. But anything in the whole singer songwriter area is going to sound four times as good if you can figure it out in one of the many open chord tunings. Here are a couple fun ones not as often used.
C G D F C E - play an a major shape and then take it off and you are playing the beginning of coyote by Joni. This tuning is very rich, many many possibilities, have done numerous new songs with it.
E A C# E A E. putting the third low gets some really neat cello-y things happening.
E G# B E G# E - this is one of Curtis Mayfields, does not work on every guitar, is amazing tho.
Finally, D A D F A D just D minor... John Fahey used this, it immediately makes you write differently.
Interesting thoughts and I can certainly see some logic to it! 👍🏻
Nice job BTW.
Thanks buddy!
Good day sir, Alex,, what kind of guitar you using?? A telecaster thinline??? sounds really fantastic!!! thanks for the lesson, by the way.
Thanks buddy! The guitar is a Karl Longbottom’s T16 fully hollow tele and it’s just amaaaaazing 👌🏻
Sometimes I start watching a video and I know I’m not going to be able to enjoy it as much as I want to, so I have to come back.
Can’t wait to dig into this after the rugrats go to bed.
Thanks buddy, I hope you enjoy it when you get a chance to watch it! 🙏🏻
Lovely tone! What amp and tremolo are you using?
Thank you buddy 🙏🏻 The amp is an Emprize Falcon (very much like my vintage Deluxe reverb), and the trem is coming from the Strymon Flint pedal. 👌🏻
great stuff - but for me that 4 over 5 is an 11 chord. whatever, its a top lesson. excellent
That’s cool man, however makes it make the most sense to you is all good 😎👍🏻
Always "come correct," so much so that even you guitar comes dressed for dinner. (Credit for that last bit goes to Christies auctioneer for Mark Knopler's guitars),
😀 Ah thank you my friend, I appreciate the comment! This guitar really is a stunner! 😍👌🏻
Watched the opening sequence dozen times
Thanks mate, glad you liked it! 🙏🏻