The Joker - Steve Miller Band | Guitar Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
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Learn how to play The Joker, as performed by The Steve Miller Band released in 1973 on "The Joker" album. Growing up in the 80s, I (and probably many others) got to know it as part of his Greatest Hits album. The guitar work in this song is pretty simple but a great example of how just a great melody and chorus is 90% of what you need, and don't over think the arrangement. As best I can tell there are 2 acoustic guitars throughout, one that plays little accents here and there and the other one being the main driver of the verse riff doubling the bass, and then strumming through the choruses.
The lesson covers the acoustic guitar parts as well as the lead guitar which is a very tasty open E tuning slide with a few effects on there (wah wah, possibly slow leslie, and reverb/short echo) to help it stand out.
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00:00 Demo - guitar solo
00:37 Introduction / What to expect
02:08 Lyric spotlight WTF is "pompatus"?
03:26 Drop D Standard tuning
04:34 Chord shapes you will use
04:59 Lesson - intro/verse riff (acoustic)
06:46 Lesson - chorus (acoustic)
09:55 Lesson - outro (acoustic)
10:40 Lesson - how to play in standard tuning
11:59 Electric parts - tuning, tone, technique
15:05 Lesson - guitar solo (slide)
18:05 Demo - guitar solo
18:39 Lesson - outro guitar solo (slide)
19:43 Final thoughts
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This is the Pompatus of guitar lessons. Thanks
What always amazes me in these lessons is how different the guitar parts sound when they get isolated. Sometimes the guitar barely sounds like the recording. Just when I think I understand a guitar song, 12 Foot Chain is here with to gives peek behind sound engineer’s panel! 😅
Thanks a lot for this great explanation of this nice peace of good old music, what brings back so many good feelings, so far, far away! 🥰 Greetings from Germany 🤟
Always loved Steve Miller and still do. Great tutorial 12Ft ♪♫♪♫♪
Wow this is amazing timing i been teaching myself this song with tab for the last week.
Sounds great
I like your vids man , relaxing 😎
Dropped 'D' - amazing! Love this song and this lesson. Great wah and guitar tone.
Actually D standard, even if 12 Chain refers to it as Drop D at some point
Great song and lesson!
I think maybe he was shooting for “poumpousness” with Pompatous ! The former being a real word 😁 great job . I work with this guy who always sings it in E, I just play a slide part in standard its not exact but it works…a wah helps a lot to get the tone!
Great lesson - lunch time treat ! from Les P's hometown .
I never got to the slide part before thanks for that! I had never gotten past trying to play it and sing it at the same time…..out of all of the songs I play I still have more trouble with that song than any other…..
You totally nailed the slide parts!
Nice work. For practical purposes when playing this with a band, it also works well to just use a standard tuned acoustic with a capo on 3…as for the slide, you nailed it. Open E (or F) is the way to go. I prefer to use an Open E guitar, but put a capo on F, this allows the electric to do some of those parts you mentioned for that 2nd acoustic, especially during the chorus.
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day doug ❤😊
Gotta do Jungle Love sometime. It's one of his best, imho. Fun altered tuning jam. 😎
gotcha covered, did that a while back ruclips.net/video/7kh6xSjOzv8/видео.html
@@12footchain if you listen to his many live performances of the Joker on Wolfgang’s vault they blow the studio version away. For example the beacon theatre NYC may 7, 1976
Pink Floyd’s “Dogs” is in the same tuning. Epic tune! 👍🏻🎸🤘🏻
Pompatus is a word used when you didn't think up "sussudio."
Bwaahahaha
Which part does Steve Miller play live? since parts are in different tunings
Nice attempt on the slid3. Pretty close
???? He nailed them 99.9%!
@BeatlesCentricUniverse no one will.match the recorded line. Not even the original musician
@@halcooper3070 I get that. But he was incredibly close.
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse it was meant entiry.as a compliment
Pompetutes
Better yet, don't!