Improving is by fay my favorite way of playing. Playing songs is great too, but there's something more truthful about the musician's music when the music draws from emotion rather than memorization. I get more of those 'chills' when it's improv, especially when I'm the one playing ;) I read this somewhere, but it goes "You can't lie in music" ---By the way, excellent job man!
I may never understand why this song is so captivating. I am not one who generally likes a "freeform" type of song but there are a few and this is one. You did a fantastic take on this masterpiece. I loved Michael Hampton's rendition but this is on par with his for among other reasons, the clarity of the picking. I will lean back and listen to this in those quieter moments. Thanks.
The chord at 2:06 was perfection. I haven't even finished the video. I needed to say that! EDIT: Finshed the video, and now I feel like an idiot for mentioning that. It was nothing compared to the whole video especially after 5:35. Amazing cover man, one of the best out there...
What a pleasure it was listening to your cover.Truly exquisite. The one thing I would have liked to see was your face included in the vid. I know...sounds really weird and downright creepy. I just like being able to see a musicians face as they play. I love the emotion that shows in their expressions. I hope you enjoyed performing this. It hurts...but in a good way. Don't know how else to explain it. I guess that's what you get from a classically trained musician! Thank you for amazingly executing one of my favorite songs. x
Haha I get it, you can see my face in all my other videos I'm not sure why I decided not to include it in this one. I definitely enjoyed performing this, I love long guitar solos, I'm glad to know you enjoyed it too. Which instrument do you play? Thanks for the kind words :)
The kind words were well deserved. What are some of your fave solos? And how did you learn to play-are you self taught? I've been playing the clarinet for 15 years. 15 years of classical training and 6 years of jazz. I do love playing it, however, I've always had a soft spot for the electric guitar. Ever since hearing Carlos Santana perform when I was a kid. Do you happen to take any requests by chance? =)
Meyra Kurtar I dunno, that's a difficult question to answer, haha. I'm self taught. Awesome, I really like jazz, it kind of melts my brain trying to get my head around playing it though (at least the more complex stuff). Haha, I guess it depends on what the request is, I haven't learned a guitar solo in a pretty long while I generally just improvise.
Muffin Man good for you. I tried teaching myself guitar....it didn't end well needless to say. If you do well improvising then you'd do really well in Jazz. But I feel ya. "Melts my brain" is the perfect phrase for that! I find improvisation extremely difficult to do. All the theory they try to teach goes in one ear and out the other haha. Well some of my favorites are "while my guitar gently weeps" with Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney, "Moondance" by Van Morrison and "Take 5" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I would love to hear you play the first I mentioned. I know you lean towards improv, but I would like to hear you interpretation if you're ever interested. If you're not comfortable doing that I completely understand and don't take it personally. It's just been a joy conversing with you =) x
That deserves a 10 minute standing ovation. You shine at 5:37 HARD. Seriously that is the best cover I've seen anyone do on here. How long did it take you to learn it?
I don't generally make ant comments on any of these sites , but when I heard this ...Improv of Maggot Brain I was f___ken blown away!!! As we used to say when I was in the Army it was OFS.... outfuckingstanding!!!!!!
Hi Francis it’s me again I was thinking the other day about Maggitt brain and the musicians who have covered it and what kinds of sounds they created and I remembered your version. Can you tell me more about how you get the sound you have going for the first four minutes? And then at the five minute and 40 second mark I think it comes back with a bang but it’s different. More echo for one thing. I would really love to know how to re-create the sounds you have if you can describe how you get them that would be very helpful to me. Sound deliveries huge impact on the listener and I really like what you’ve done here.
Thanks! Ds-1 into the flashback, really can't remember what the settings were it was a long time ago haha. When you see me lean down I'm turning up the feedback/mix on the flashback.
+Hamed Livs I think like 6 - 7 years, you don't need to give your hand just practice and you'll get there. :) You'll definitely never play like this with one hand anyway, playing guitar's a lot easier if you have both. :P
this is just like i dont know, angelical something like that, whats the effect at 05:00 that sounds like water jhhaj, great one, i got it in my play list
@@parliamentofwolves9753 thanks broseph, I hope you do consider it. Everyone knows maggot brain bops hard af but eddies other great work doesnt get nearly as much attention as it could. The goose, for example, showcases his super funky rhythm playing as well as a really nice, subtle little solo w a Les Paul in the last half of the tune. Def listen w headphones.
I'm just palm muting (placing part of my right hand on the strings, choking them off slightly), this makes the delay more obvious because the sound is more percussive. Hope this helps :)
Very nice cover man! But I'm wandering, did you know how the song was created? I'm a big fan of it so I understood that Georges Clinton, while he was under LSD, told Hazel to play like if someone told him that his mother's dead but he figure that it was false. Soooo did you thought about something special while playing? ;) By the way, I'm very impressed by your prestation. :D Congrats!
Thanks man! Yeah I've heard that story, I don't think I thought about anything in particular while I was playing though. I guess I just tried to give off the same feeling I get from the original. Maybe I missed a trick though, next time I do a solo I'll imagine that my cat's dead. ;)
MsGn123 Thanks! For this video I'm using my Fender Lonestar stratocaster into a Vox AC15VR on the clean channel with a Boss DS1 pedal for distortion and a TC Electronic Flashback X4 for delay. I recorded my amp with an AudioTechnica MB2K dynamic microphone. I don't know what kind of gear you have but maybe buy a DS1 pedal if you're looking for a similar sound, they're pretty cheap, around £40. I would say gear isn't the most important thing, just keep practising and make the most of what you've got, you'll get there eventually. :) If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
I'm not sure what the settings were, the Flashback X4 has tap tempo so I just used that rather than messing around with the delay time, throughout the video when you see me lean down i'm changing the delay level, and I think the feedback as well. For the ds-1 I probably had the distortion on full or close to it. I don't really mess around with the tone knob a lot, there's kind of a sweet spot where it sounds good otherwise it sounds too harsh or too warm I think it's just to the right of 12 o'clock. I think I applied some pretty drastic EQ to the track rolling off some of the highs and boosting the mid range, the ds-1 can be pretty harsh. Hope this helps :)
Thanks, this was 100% improvised (maybe I should have made that more clear, haha). I tried to mimic the feel of the original and I guess I nicked a few phrases but it's all improvised. I'd advise just practising improvising over the backing track, I've never really been one to learn other people's solos note for note. Maybe that's to my detriment though who knows? Good luck :)
+Eric Clement If you look in the description I list the gear I used, I used a TC Electronic Flashback X4 for the delay and a Boss DS-1 for the distortion. When you see me leaning down I'm changing the feedback and the delay level on the Flashback. Hope this helps :)
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did you just improvise traditionally, or did you kind of sit down and feel out which parts you wanted to go crazy on, or was it just spontaneous? I am sure the answer is no, any chance for tabs?
All you freaking never cease to amaze often imitated but never learn how to play it that's not the way he did it and not that's not the way it supposed to be did
Maggot Brain is So Much Fun!
Amazing job, dude. A lot of emotion and I feel you accurately expressed a lot of the nuances in the original.
Improving is by fay my favorite way of playing. Playing songs is great too, but there's something more truthful about the musician's music when the music draws from emotion rather than memorization. I get more of those 'chills' when it's improv, especially when I'm the one playing ;)
I read this somewhere, but it goes "You can't lie in music"
---By the way, excellent job man!
+Him Bookoo 100%, there's something magic in improvisation that you just don't get in composed music. I love that feeling of discovery.
Him Bookoo right there with ya bro
So true. Everything i play is improvisational after the first 10 seconds 😅
Gives me goosebumps every time I listen to this song! One of my favorites!! Great job 💋
Michelles World Thanks Michelle!
i didn’t think someone could make an already perfect song sound even more perfect.
Хорошо подчеркнуто пространство. Динамично, Культово!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I enjoyed this so much the first time, thoughtI'd listen again....Get Down Brother!
Nice job, my friend. Great feeling.
THANK YOU for the backing track!!! We need more people like you on Internet hahaha.
Congrats from Brazil!
Best cover I have ever seen, ever
Dude...so funkin good...Eddie would be proud...My mind is officially blown!
absolument génial !!
dude whole song is on point.....especially that solo at 5:40.....rock on man
Holy fck second part gave me goosebumbs. Great job.
Thank you for this.
Great, great cover man! Keep rocking! =D
Absolutely wicked mate.
thanks for sharing the backing - gorgeous performance
Very nice, man! You really got the vibe going!
Svetoslav Spasov Thanks man :)
Wunderschön gespielt, vielen Dank
Most Excellent work!
Thanks bro!
Stunning work, sir. :)
Beautiful...well done
had never seen this one before, great job man! can totally feel some eric johnson in your licks, you get a like from me.
I may never understand why this song is so captivating. I am not one who generally likes a "freeform" type of song but there are a few and this is one. You did a fantastic take on this masterpiece. I loved Michael Hampton's rendition but this is on par with his for among other reasons, the clarity of the picking. I will lean back and listen to this in those quieter moments. Thanks.
This really means a lot, thank you :)
The chord at 2:06 was perfection. I haven't even finished the video. I needed to say that!
EDIT: Finshed the video, and now I feel like an idiot for mentioning that. It was nothing compared to the whole video especially after 5:35. Amazing cover man, one of the best out there...
Thanks, it means a lot! You're way too kind.
Nothing you don't deserve.
I was a boy when first here maggot brain you do understand what you doing...one of the best so far keep it up please...
Thank you very much for the kind words 🙂🙏
Bravo 👏
Exelente gracias por compartir esperemos sigas con más vídeos como guitarrista individual ánimo
My kind of man ♥️
Ur impro just fits so perfect in that song
Thanks man!
Excellent.
All I can tell you is :
:O
Great cover !
Thanks man :)
Great playing!!!
Hey Messiah!
thank you !!! :)
this is made with very good producing.
Man this is 🔥🔥 got a neil young vibe mixed with Hazel
Very Nice!
Bravissimo
love that ending
Still listen to this most days man! Have been for well over a year now haha
That was amazing, thank you very much for sharing, also big thank you for the backing track. Much appreciated.
Thank you, no worries! 🙂
awesome
What a pleasure it was listening to your cover.Truly exquisite. The one thing I would have liked to see was your face included in the vid. I know...sounds really weird and downright creepy. I just like being able to see a musicians face as they play. I love the emotion that shows in their expressions. I hope you enjoyed performing this. It hurts...but in a good way. Don't know how else to explain it. I guess that's what you get from a classically trained musician! Thank you for amazingly executing one of my favorite songs. x
Haha I get it, you can see my face in all my other videos I'm not sure why I decided not to include it in this one. I definitely enjoyed performing this, I love long guitar solos, I'm glad to know you enjoyed it too. Which instrument do you play?
Thanks for the kind words :)
The kind words were well deserved. What are some of your fave solos? And how did you learn to play-are you self taught? I've been playing the clarinet for 15 years. 15 years of classical training and 6 years of jazz. I do love playing it, however, I've always had a soft spot for the electric guitar. Ever since hearing Carlos Santana perform when I was a kid. Do you happen to take any requests by chance? =)
Meyra Kurtar I dunno, that's a difficult question to answer, haha. I'm self taught.
Awesome, I really like jazz, it kind of melts my brain trying to get my head around playing it though (at least the more complex stuff). Haha, I guess it depends on what the request is, I haven't learned a guitar solo in a pretty long while I generally just improvise.
Muffin Man good for you. I tried teaching myself guitar....it didn't end well needless to say. If you do well improvising then you'd do really well in Jazz. But I feel ya. "Melts my brain" is the perfect phrase for that! I find improvisation extremely difficult to do. All the theory they try to teach goes in one ear and out the other haha. Well some of my favorites are "while my guitar gently weeps" with Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney, "Moondance" by Van Morrison and "Take 5" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. I would love to hear you play the first I mentioned. I know you lean towards improv, but I would like to hear you interpretation if you're ever interested. If you're not comfortable doing that I completely understand and don't take it personally. It's just been a joy conversing with you =) x
,👍👍 fantastic
i have goosebumps holyshit
That deserves a 10 minute standing ovation. You shine at 5:37 HARD. Seriously that is the best cover I've seen anyone do on here. How long did it take you to learn it?
To elaborate it’s pentatonic scale licks, which will help you learn by ear. Very powerful solo
I would listen to this on the bus
Nice tone
Thanks Man ! Ode to tha True Greatest ☝. ✌! and i like dat you put YOU in Your version. 😋COOL BRO 👍!
Great man! Maggot Brain - Funkadelic (cover) ^^
Wouw man
I don't generally make ant comments on any of these sites , but when I heard this ...Improv of Maggot Brain I was f___ken blown away!!! As we used to say when I was in the Army it was OFS.... outfuckingstanding!!!!!!
Hi Francis it’s me again I was thinking the other day about Maggitt brain and the musicians who have covered it and what kinds of sounds they created and I remembered your version. Can you tell me more about how you get the sound you have going for the first four minutes? And then at the five minute and 40 second mark I think it comes back with a bang but it’s different. More echo for one thing. I would really love to know how to re-create the sounds you have if you can describe how you get them that would be very helpful to me. Sound deliveries huge impact on the listener and I really like what you’ve done here.
Can you please tell us how did you connect the boss and the electrónic flashback? (And wich settings u used?) thanks awesome improv!
Thanks! Ds-1 into the flashback, really can't remember what the settings were it was a long time ago haha. When you see me lean down I'm turning up the feedback/mix on the flashback.
alwazzz luv
Beautifully Done!!!! BRAVO!!! Is this a 3/4 scale guitar?
Thanks Robert! Just regular scale 😶
damn. i like this more than the original tbh
That's it...............
For how many years have you been playing!?
I would give my hand to play like this... Getting a guitar tomorrow!
+Hamed Livs I think like 6 - 7 years, you don't need to give your hand just practice and you'll get there. :)
You'll definitely never play like this with one hand anyway, playing guitar's a lot easier if you have both. :P
do you want Exchange your Guitar with an Ibanez Jem 77b
2:07 ...shit just got real...
this is just like i dont know, angelical something like that, whats the effect at 05:00 that sounds like water jhhaj, great one, i got it in my play list
I jam to it most days, yesterday I did sideways, check it out... Hope you enjoy!
That was really cool. You should cover eddie hazel’s solo on the goose by parliament
Thanks! Never heard that I'll give it a listen 🙂
@@parliamentofwolves9753 thanks broseph, I hope you do consider it. Everyone knows maggot brain bops hard af but eddies other great work doesnt get nearly as much attention as it could. The goose, for example, showcases his super funky rhythm playing as well as a really nice, subtle little solo w a Les Paul in the last half of the tune. Def listen w headphones.
Hi. Nice playing. Where did you get the backing track? mind sharing..?
+seb sal Thanks! I made it myself, I'll upload it and post a link for you. :)
thanks man :D !
This should work: drive.google.com/file/d/0ByQZ5LIKfp--NTNrclVMU1RydDQ/view?usp=sharing
Have fun! :)
+Muffin Man
Thank you :D !
What effect did you use at 4:40 ? :)
I'm just palm muting (placing part of my right hand on the strings, choking them off slightly), this makes the delay more obvious because the sound is more percussive. Hope this helps :)
Muffin Man Just palm mute ^^ My bad :)
MrGabinxix No worries :)
Very nice cover man! But I'm wandering, did you know how the song was created? I'm a big fan of it so I understood that Georges Clinton, while he was under LSD, told Hazel to play like if someone told him that his mother's dead but he figure that it was false. Soooo did you thought about something special while playing? ;)
By the way, I'm very impressed by your prestation. :D
Congrats!
Thanks man! Yeah I've heard that story, I don't think I thought about anything in particular while I was playing though. I guess I just tried to give off the same feeling I get from the original.
Maybe I missed a trick though, next time I do a solo I'll imagine that my cat's dead. ;)
+Muffin Man haha I'm looking forward for it ;)
Now you should be called Sir Francis.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i loved it!
Wich scales and tones did u use?
Mostly E minor pentatonic with some other E minor notes thrown in. :)
+Muffin Man tnks man! Great impro!
No problem
Great job! can you share how can i make same sound?
MsGn123 Thanks! For this video I'm using my Fender Lonestar stratocaster into a Vox AC15VR on the clean channel with a Boss DS1 pedal for distortion and a TC Electronic Flashback X4 for delay. I recorded my amp with an AudioTechnica MB2K dynamic microphone.
I don't know what kind of gear you have but maybe buy a DS1 pedal if you're looking for a similar sound, they're pretty cheap, around £40. I would say gear isn't the most important thing, just keep practising and make the most of what you've got, you'll get there eventually. :)
If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
Muffin Man oh thanks! ^_^ can you say settings for delay and ds?
I'm not sure what the settings were, the Flashback X4 has tap tempo so I just used that rather than messing around with the delay time, throughout the video when you see me lean down i'm changing the delay level, and I think the feedback as well.
For the ds-1 I probably had the distortion on full or close to it. I don't really mess around with the tone knob a lot, there's kind of a sweet spot where it sounds good otherwise it sounds too harsh or too warm I think it's just to the right of 12 o'clock. I think I applied some pretty drastic EQ to the track rolling off some of the highs and boosting the mid range, the ds-1 can be pretty harsh.
Hope this helps :)
TY so much! ^_^
i want to play this exactly like you did. was this partially improvised? I assume so it doesnt sound exactly like the original.
Thanks, this was 100% improvised (maybe I should have made that more clear, haha). I tried to mimic the feel of the original and I guess I nicked a few phrases but it's all improvised.
I'd advise just practising improvising over the backing track, I've never really been one to learn other people's solos note for note. Maybe that's to my detriment though who knows?
Good luck :)
+Muffin Man you are purely awesome lol I am a les paul guy, i guess i have to steal my friends strat so i can use the whammy like you!
+Eric Clement Thanks! Les Pauls are cool too, I do love my whammy though :)
+Muffin Man what effects, if you don't mind me asking, did you use>?
+Eric Clement If you look in the description I list the gear I used, I used a TC Electronic Flashback X4 for the delay and a Boss DS-1 for the distortion.
When you see me leaning down I'm changing the feedback and the delay level on the Flashback. Hope this helps :)
You better play that shit boy!!!
You're invited to come participate in our Maggot Brain Guitar Jam Session at the Funk Parade in Washington DC on Saturday May 2, 2015. We're setting a world record for the most guitarists performing a funk song.
For more information: LandtheMothership@gmail.com facebook.com/events/1514658292092385/ [live or virtual participation]
did you just improvise traditionally, or did you kind of sit down and feel out which parts you wanted to go crazy on, or was it just spontaneous? I am sure the answer is no, any chance for tabs?
That was ILLNice vibrato bro
МОЛОДЕЦ!!!
СПАСИБО! (google translate ха-ха :P)
Muffin Man google рулит!
Muffin Man now you know two Russian words
Antonsamoylenko haha, taxis?
I do not understand you. What does the word "taxis"? Greetings from Russia!
Reminds me of David Gilmour/ Pink Floyd
Thanks, no higher praise 🙂
All you freaking never cease to amaze often imitated but never learn how to play it that's not the way he did it and not that's not the way it supposed to be did
Jesus tapdancing Christ!
Thanks man :)
you got it, it's but no as organized man. for real. The notes that begin follow with just those notes that come back in as reasinantinb#
Jon Winder Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say :S
I don't follow either. Nice tone and great playing. Keep playing!