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I started talking theory with one of my guitar playing buddies the other day. He interrupted me and said, “you are going to ruin the mystery of music in my life”. What he fails to understand is; for every mystery solved, ten more appear. There is no end to learning and I’ll get a leg up any way I can.
I just love those gospel-influenced 12/8 blues changes. Once you start being able to navigate them, they really do inspire you (the soloist) to tell your own story of heartbreak and despair, mixed in with humor and hard-won wisdom, with a dash of hope for better times just around the corner. Art forms don’t get better than this.
Jeff wow, what a great job on this"Sometime after awhile", Peter Green has always been my favorite guitarist, I was lucky enough to get to see him in Portland, Oregon about 15 yrs ago with the Splinter group, when he was on it was amazing.
Thank you so much for this lovely tribute to Peter Green. He fully deserves it. During Peter's periods of lucidity, he was the sweetest, most articulate, most spiritual bloke you can imagine. My compatriot Isaac Guillory(another brilliant guitarist who deserves greater recognition than he gets) introduced me to Peter in mid 1980s London. Again, thank you, Magister. Shalom.
That was funny when you laughed after pulling off that long cascading riff… my wife says she always hears me laughing when I’m playing guitar.. because I do the same thing..! Lol.! That was awesome,by the way.!👍🏼❤️
Jeff you are hugely talented, I wish I had only 20% and I would be extremely happy, please keep these vids rolling they are totally inspirational. Thank you. 👍🏻😎👊🏻
Jeff, this is awesome here, thanks for the video, i grew up on Peter Green, Danny Kirwin and jeremy Spencer was a Very Huge Asset to the early Mac, Sound, Cousin Figel
Not knowing Theory, is like being Blind, you only have half of the story, some people can do it, but most great player have to know it to survive, as it may be the only job around at the time, if you can read music. You know where go and why you go there, what will fit, and what won't. Timing, is a must.
Hubert Sumlin who played with howlin wolf, also had out of phase pickups. I have a push/pull pot on my 335 for out of phase sounds. I rely on the middle position to much to have it always out of phase, but I do love an out of phase sound for some things
Jeff - This is great. Thanks for introducing this tune to those of us that didn't know it (me, anyway). I've added this to the list of cool blues tunes to convince my band to play, or at least jam on. It's a great workout for simple to complex stuff. I'll come back to this one many times I'm sure. Keep up the great work!
Yes, definitly took fromm B.B. but i was listening intently this week to all the grets, B.B., GREENY, CLAPTON, PAGE, BECK, MOORE, ETC, and i think green may have been the most chilling...His playing had so much feeling that cant be taught or copied...HHIn his few healthy years in the 60's he really made a mark.....theres a song, Got a good mind,,,, i beleive...Live, wowwwwww what a atalent..And i have to mention Rory Gallagher, another GEM!
What the flip, I been away in mountains of Wales with no wifi for five weeks and I come back to find you have been so productive it's hard to know what to play first. Decided on this one as I big fan of Peter rip. Giving my age away, I saw him several times in 60s also Christine Mcvies Revolver always in small local clubs/colleges. Once again you show a different side to your outstanding playing. So impressed I am downloading your advanced solo lesson so that I can take it back to Wales with me. Kind regards keep safe. Dennis
Thank you Dennis. Man, I’d love to have seen Peter in the 60’s! All of them actually. I appreciate the kind word and thank you for picking up my course. I really appreciate it!
Have you ever watched John Mayer's long Instragram vids (on youtube)? When he gets going... he plays the blues by himself like you mention... but he hits chord stabs ... and then riffs. He has a wicked fire about the way he attacks the guitar those times. His phrasing is so vocal and the ways he approaches notes is like a slide player, with all the micro bends galore. Gets me so amped up watching those.
I always look on guitarists has Artists, the guitar is the canvas the hand the brush, Pete was up there with Davinci..Picasso, Rembrandt, etc,etc,...he was born to play.
Amazing teacher and player! Hey Jeff question do you have lesson on how to know when to stop an idea for each chord , to keep track and timing of each phrase? Hope that made sense. Thanks
I don't know if Peter was throwing in a few Chromatic notes or if he was exploring the Melodic Minor scale? If you think Melodic minor the scale frees you up to play more like Greeny.
The pickup went in to the shop to be unpotted so it would sound like Clapton's. The tech mistakenly wound the wire backward. Peter wanted to try it like that . But, it sounded best with the poles facing to the inside. Everybody liked the Honk and how fat the Les Paul sounded so he kept the guitar in that set-up. Selmer Music London did the historic work.
Jeff McErlain you do a hell of a job teaching the subject matter my friend! I’ve purchased and worked through all of your truefire courses and have watched a lot of your TH-cam content. I actually discovered you by searching “Peter green lesson” on truefire haha! I can tell we share a similar affinity / admiration
I'm off to bed. So, I will leave you with this. Your playing is inspiring. You play in the genre that is still on the cusp of being enomorouse You play fast and furiously. And I will assuredly grab one of Foxfire blues tutorials and make thousand bootleg copies to sell for $05. on the Sunset Strip.....sarcasium, sarcasm!! Lol!
@@JeffMcErlain I must have taken something when I went off to bed. I realized the time the following morning. I enjoyed watching you play. Your sound is so crisp. What's your signal chain? I have no idea what I was trying to say with "enomorouse!" WTH?
Jeff, to purchase a package of instruction we are supposed to have an updated Flash Player. Chrome is no longer supporting Flash Player, anymore. Other platforms are also dropping Flash Player from their sites. This makes selling/purchasing your lessons impossible. Please advise!!! I personally, liked Flash Player. But Adobe has newer products they are pushing, I am told.
Great lesson as usual Jeff, looking for part II. On another note since you have both Two-Rock, the Classic Rev signature and the Bloomfield what are the main differences since I am looking for one of those, I like clean amps good platform for pedals and currently own an old Studio Pro 35. Thanks
Thanks! Both are great. The Bloomfield is a bit more Dumble like with a great od channel. More mid forward. The Signature is like the best Super reverb I have played. If I had to choose for me it’s the Bloomfield. But it’s close, but for a pedal platform almost solely, the signature. But it’s close...
How long does it take to learn to put OIL in your car? Did some body teach you that? How do you remember how to put the oil in or were you born with that ability....drives you crazy doesn,t it. No response necessary man,thanks for the lesson. If a student doesn't enjoy practice he should take up stamp collecting,regardless of the "hobby" or "profession". I guess that's why most "professions" choose THEM rather than the other way around! (P.S. my favorite is the grandma that has a 6 year old that can play ANYTHING and better than you)
Jeff next time just tell them you've been studying this stuff for 30 years. Also since chords are the building blocks of music. You should learn as much as u can about them. How are they built? What is a diatonic chord progression? What is a 3rd or a 5th & why do u stack them? lol Stuff like that. Confuse the hell out of them. Then if they keep coming back. You'll know that you may not be wasting ur time. lol
Some people are lazy and don’t want to learn. Instant gratification is the way people think these days. Everyone wishes they had natural ear and talent like their favorite guitar hero that had no formal education. But they learned theory on the neck whether they can read music or not.
Hi, Steve- I'll give it a shot... On most chords Jeff is using F major pentatonic (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, or F G A C D), so a sub-set of F major (Ionian). It's probably better to think of these particular tones and how they each sound over the chords. Then over the Bb7 the key subtly changes (you might say to Eb), but the only change needed to these notes is to use Ab instead of A (the b3 of F instead of the 3 of F). This gives a Dorian pentatonic scale (1, 2, b3, 5, 6) if you want a name for it. (The Ab is the b7 in the Bb7 chord. This is why F minor pentatonic sounds better over the IV7 chord in blues, Bb7 here). I find it helpful to play the arpeggios first and then add tones to make it all hang together. Cheers.
@@SRHMusic012 Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the response. As to what those last few sentences of my query; I took an Ambian for the first time that evening, I am pretty sure. I am a blur to writing that. I don't even know what I was trying to say.
@@SRHMusic012 I want to add, I really dove into this video. I got that appregio down @ 00:40 I really want to understand a bit more theory of what I am playing. You have a great sound and I hope to see more of your videos posted. I love Peter Green. Electric Blues really speaks to me, and Peter had a unique voice.
@@SRHMusic012 I get it! The arpeggio is Ab. This is in the Dorian shape. The rest falls in. Fminor Penti or F major. Thank you. If you have any more music sheets in Dropbox please let me know. I am eating this up.
I really appreciate your efforts here but Why does nobody (except Greg Koch once) cover Danny Kirwan. Maybe it's because no one can do his vibrato. Everyone so Focused on Peter and Danny flies under the radar. It's HIS leads you are hearing on "OH WELL" . IMHO Peter n Danny were on par w Duane n Dickie.
I started talking theory with one of my guitar playing buddies the other day. He interrupted me and said, “you are going to ruin the mystery of music in my life”. What he fails to understand is; for every mystery solved, ten more appear. There is no end to learning and I’ll get a leg up any way I can.
I just love those gospel-influenced 12/8 blues changes. Once you start being able to navigate them, they really do inspire you (the soloist) to tell your own story of heartbreak and despair, mixed in with humor and hard-won wisdom, with a dash of hope for better times just around the corner. Art forms don’t get better than this.
I love that sound
Wonderful Blues playing!
Thank you!!
Jeff wow, what a great job on this"Sometime after awhile", Peter Green has always been my favorite guitarist, I was lucky enough to get to see him in Portland, Oregon about 15 yrs ago with the Splinter group, when he was on it was amazing.
Thanks and that’s great you got to se him. I know he’d have glimpses of his old self at times. I wish I had seen him.
Thank you so much for this lovely tribute to Peter Green. He fully deserves it. During Peter's periods of lucidity, he was the sweetest, most articulate, most spiritual bloke you can imagine. My compatriot Isaac Guillory(another brilliant guitarist who deserves greater recognition than he gets) introduced me to Peter in mid 1980s London. Again, thank you, Magister. Shalom.
Thank you and you are welcome. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, I really appreciate it.
The intro playing is just so good, wow
Wow! That is the heart of The Blues.
Somethin' in your DNA speaks to me. Just beautiful, soulful, crying blues. Thankyou.
Ah thank you!! I really appreciate that!
always such a GREAT JOY listening to your playings & tutorials - THANKS SOOOO MUCH, Jeff!
Just absolutely wonderful. A big, big thank you.
Thank you!! I appreciate you letting me know!
Thanks Jeff , you are a great blues guitar player & teacher. Keep up your good work & being a positive affect on every one.
Yeah brother, lay it down!
Yeah man!!!
That was funny when you laughed after pulling off that long cascading riff… my wife says she always hears me laughing when I’m playing guitar.. because I do the same thing..! Lol.!
That was awesome,by the way.!👍🏼❤️
Jeff you are hugely talented, I wish I had only 20% and I would be extremely happy, please keep these vids rolling they are totally inspirational. Thank you. 👍🏻😎👊🏻
Ah thank you!!
Jeff, this is awesome here, thanks for the video, i grew up on Peter Green, Danny Kirwin and jeremy Spencer was a Very Huge Asset to the early Mac, Sound, Cousin Figel
Dude you're giving away all your secrets! Love it😊 thanks for sharing
Thank you for the lesson. I bought a few courses from Truefire and many of them you were the teacher. Really enjoy your teaching. Cheers from Brazil!
Thank you!
OMG Jeff love your playing so much you blew me away truly inspirational
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 thank you.
Really like this playing
Fantastic, as usual. You're my #1 instructor !
Thank you!
How nice to hear that Les Paul in your blessed hands, I have learned a lot. Thank you.
Now I'm going to part 2.
Thank you so much. Part 2 will be coming soon!
Love the tone and phrasing Jeff. Spot on................
Thank you!
oh my god. Im flying Mr. Jeff. Love from Indonesia
Thank you Jeff, it´s always inspiring to hear you.
You are most welcome and thank you!
Sweet guitar 🎸 playing
Thanks!
Just a GREAT JOB!!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL PLAYING JEFF!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
I'm glad to see that nothing I posted made it on your sound board. Thanks Paul!
Thanks for doing this video- so much to dig in and learn here. A treasure trove!
Truly inspirational
Fantastic Jeff - enjoyed this so much - please keep this up !
Jim Haubert here, love your playing, loved Peter Green, missed this today as I am back at work, my favorite style of music, thanks, you're the best!!!
Thank you Jim!!! 🙏
Not knowing Theory, is like being Blind, you only have half of the story, some people can do it, but most great player have to know it to survive, as it may be the only job around at the time, if you can read music. You know where go and why you go there, what will fit, and what won't. Timing, is a must.
Yes!!!!
Well done Jeff...excellent!
Thank you Charles!
Hubert Sumlin who played with howlin wolf, also had out of phase pickups. I have a push/pull pot on my 335 for out of phase sounds. I rely on the middle position to much to have it always out of phase, but I do love an out of phase sound for some things
Jeff - This is great. Thanks for introducing this tune to those of us that didn't know it (me, anyway). I've added this to the list of cool blues tunes to convince my band to play, or at least jam on. It's a great workout for simple to complex stuff. I'll come back to this one many times I'm sure. Keep up the great work!
Excellent! Thanks for checking out the video and posting. It’s a great tune!
Great content, thanks!!!!
Great playing Jeff, love it.
Thank you Frank!
Yes, definitly took fromm B.B. but i was listening intently this week to all the grets, B.B., GREENY, CLAPTON, PAGE, BECK, MOORE, ETC, and i think green may have been the most chilling...His playing had so much feeling that cant be taught or copied...HHIn his few healthy years in the 60's he really made a mark.....theres a song, Got a good mind,,,, i beleive...Live, wowwwwww what a atalent..And i have to mention Rory Gallagher, another GEM!
What the flip, I been away in mountains of Wales with no wifi for five weeks and I come back to find you have been so productive it's hard to know what to play first. Decided on this one as I big fan of Peter rip. Giving my age away, I saw him several times in 60s also Christine Mcvies Revolver always in small local clubs/colleges. Once again you show a different side to your outstanding playing. So impressed I am downloading your advanced solo lesson so that I can take it back to Wales with me. Kind regards keep safe. Dennis
Thank you Dennis. Man, I’d love to have seen Peter in the 60’s! All of them actually. I appreciate the kind word and thank you for picking up my course. I really appreciate it!
Ha, but then you would be as old as me! Have downloaded course to use off line and looking forward to seeing how I fare. Dennis
Excellent groove my friend!!!
Thanks Ken!!
Thank you so much
Thank you and you are very welcome.
Peter play it like time didn't exist. The sound was just coming out of him because, it was how he felt at that moment.
Have you ever watched John Mayer's long Instragram vids (on youtube)? When he gets going... he plays the blues by himself like you mention... but he hits chord stabs ... and then riffs. He has a wicked fire about the way he attacks the guitar those times. His phrasing is so vocal and the ways he approaches notes is like a slide player, with all the micro bends galore. Gets me so amped up watching those.
lotsa tasty stuff in there
Not Peter Green but a wonderful man.
I always look on guitarists has Artists, the guitar is the canvas the hand the brush, Pete was up there with Davinci..Picasso, Rembrandt, etc,etc,...he was born to play.
I like that you don't "muck it all up," with all that "hybrid" picking. One pick, one string, Peter Greene mean...
Hi jeff ever consider doing a peter green minor blues lesson? The supernatural maybe?
Amazing teacher and player! Hey Jeff question do you have lesson on how to know when to stop an idea for each chord , to keep track and timing of each phrase? Hope that made sense. Thanks
Maybe Ain't nobody's business is the other blues with the same changes you were thinking of.
That one a a little different with the III major chord. But very similar yes!
I don't know if Peter was throwing in a few Chromatic notes or if he was exploring the Melodic Minor scale? If you think Melodic minor the scale frees you up to play more like Greeny.
The pickup went in to the shop to be unpotted so it would sound like Clapton's. The tech mistakenly wound the wire backward. Peter wanted to try it like that . But, it sounded best with the poles facing to the inside. Everybody liked the Honk and how fat the Les Paul sounded so he kept the guitar in that set-up. Selmer Music London did the historic work.
Lottta someday after a while licks in that intro, great playing Jeff!
Made this comment before getting to you speaking about exactly this haha
Definitely my favorite version of that song
Mine too!
Jeff McErlain you do a hell of a job teaching the subject matter my friend! I’ve purchased and worked through all of your truefire courses and have watched a lot of your TH-cam content. I actually discovered you by searching “Peter green lesson” on truefire haha! I can tell we share a similar affinity / admiration
Zach Echols thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the lesson and the TF stuff. I really appreciate it! And long live Peter Green.
Ummm! I give up! That’s awesome. I’m gonna take up eating pizza
Lol!
Better order a few for me too.....
altadena57 lol!
I'm off to bed. So, I will leave you with this. Your playing is inspiring. You play in the genre that is still on the cusp of being enomorouse
You play fast and furiously. And I will assuredly grab one of Foxfire blues tutorials and make thousand bootleg copies to sell for $05. on the Sunset Strip.....sarcasium, sarcasm!! Lol!
Ha! Thanks for checking it out. I think you were posting during the replay! In live usually at 4pm ET on Wednesdays.
@@JeffMcErlain I must have taken something when I went off to bed. I realized the time the following morning. I enjoyed watching you play. Your sound is so crisp. What's your signal chain? I have no idea what I was trying to say with "enomorouse!" WTH?
"Someday, After a While" changes.
Yup!
HI JEFF NICE VIDS,,,,,,,,,,,,HOW ABOUT PLAY THE CHANGES OVER THE CHORDS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,DIFFERENT MIND .SET, SLIGHTLY. SAME DIFFERENCE.
I thought it was the hats I was drawn in by, but it turns out it's the guitar playing
Lol! Whatever gets you here!
Jeff, to purchase a package of instruction we are supposed to have an updated Flash Player. Chrome is no longer supporting Flash Player, anymore. Other platforms are also dropping Flash Player from their sites. This makes selling/purchasing your lessons impossible. Please advise!!!
I personally, liked Flash Player. But Adobe has newer products they are pushing, I am told.
dam it jeff was green better than clapton. indeed he was. he actually had the blues.
Great lesson as usual Jeff, looking for part II. On another note since you have both Two-Rock, the Classic Rev signature and the Bloomfield what are the main differences since I am looking for one of those, I like clean amps good platform for pedals and currently own an old Studio Pro 35. Thanks
Thanks! Both are great. The Bloomfield is a bit more Dumble like with a great od channel. More mid forward.
The Signature is like the best Super reverb I have played. If I had to choose for me it’s the Bloomfield. But it’s close, but for a pedal platform almost solely, the signature. But it’s close...
Jeff I can’t find this on TrueFire.
Hey Jeff. Could u tell me what gauge strings you use on your Les Paul. Thank you in avances.
10-46!
Is this backing track on your Peter Greene course?
Mama says tri-tones are the Devil's music. lol
Is your "Chat Board" Not Functioning?
How long does it take to learn to put OIL in your car? Did some body teach you that? How do you remember how to put the oil in or were you born with that ability....drives you crazy doesn,t it. No response necessary man,thanks for the lesson. If a student doesn't enjoy practice he should take up stamp collecting,regardless of the "hobby" or "profession". I guess that's why most "professions" choose THEM rather than the other way around! (P.S. my favorite is the grandma that has a 6 year old that can play ANYTHING and better than you)
peter was a big fan of hank marvin too.
That’s right! Thank you.
@@JeffMcErlain no problem jeff, sometimes hank gets forgotten about when it comes to who players influences are.
🍃💐💯
Could do without the 20 ad breaks! Nice playing Jeff...
20!?!
Just tweaked a few things. Hopefully that's better now, I'm new to this stuff!
the code isn't working :(
He certianly did not sound as polished as he really was. That was "his" beauty.
Jeff next time just tell them you've been studying this stuff for 30 years. Also since chords are the building blocks of music. You should learn as much as u can about them. How are they built? What is a diatonic chord progression? What is a 3rd or a 5th & why do u stack them? lol Stuff like that. Confuse the hell out of them. Then if they keep coming back. You'll know that you may not be wasting ur time. lol
Some people are lazy and don’t want to learn. Instant gratification is the way people think these days. Everyone wishes they had natural ear and talent like their favorite guitar hero that had no formal education. But they learned theory on the neck whether they can read music or not.
I think it been this way for a while, but it does seem worse today. Maybe I’m old... 😃
I still like to know what Mode we are starting on and the scale so I can get my bearings.
Hi, Steve- I'll give it a shot... On most chords Jeff is using F major pentatonic (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, or F G A C D), so a sub-set of F major (Ionian). It's probably better to think of these particular tones and how they each sound over the chords. Then over the Bb7 the key subtly changes (you might say to Eb), but the only change needed to these notes is to use Ab instead of A (the b3 of F instead of the 3 of F). This gives a Dorian pentatonic scale (1, 2, b3, 5, 6) if you want a name for it. (The Ab is the b7 in the Bb7 chord. This is why F minor pentatonic sounds better over the IV7 chord in blues, Bb7 here). I find it helpful to play the arpeggios first and then add tones to make it all hang together. Cheers.
@@SRHMusic012 Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the response. As to what those last few sentences of my query; I took an Ambian for the first time that evening, I am pretty sure. I am a blur to writing that. I don't even know what I was trying to say.
@@SRHMusic012 I want to add, I really dove into this video. I got that appregio down @ 00:40 I really want to understand a bit more theory of what I am playing. You have a great sound and I hope to see more of your videos posted. I love Peter Green. Electric Blues really speaks to me, and Peter had a unique voice.
@@SRHMusic012 I get it! The arpeggio is Ab. This is in the Dorian shape. The rest falls in. Fminor Penti or F major. Thank you. If you have any more music sheets in Dropbox please let me know. I am eating this up.
@@stevesolo16 Just to be clear - I'm not Jeff M., but thought I'd give it a shot to outline the ideas. Cheers.
I really appreciate your efforts here but Why does nobody (except Greg Koch once) cover Danny Kirwan. Maybe it's because no one can do his vibrato. Everyone so Focused on Peter and Danny flies under the radar. It's HIS leads you are hearing on "OH WELL" . IMHO Peter n Danny were on par w Duane n Dickie.