Oh my gosh,I worked in a gretsch guitar factory, and Mr Atkins had several guitars he endorsed,he played for us, while visiting. The coolest ever!! Made it look effortless!!
He just made it look SO easy, like as if the rest of us could do it with almost no effort. But that’s one sign of a truly great player. And you can see how much he loved playing.
It *was* easy for him; he had practiced enough, and he knew his way around the fret-board well. But it's also the first few months that are the hardest for any new player, especially with regards to fretting hand posture.
We all know Chet is amazing, but I think the most impressive thing is that there's an entire orchestra that we don't even see that are keeping up with all of the transitions.
The Bill Walker Orchestra that provided the back-up music on this iconic series. They're heard on Johnny Cash's recording of "Sunday Morning Coming Down".
Chet makes it look effortless. Jerry Reed and Roy Clark, great pickers both, always looked like they were working their butt off but Chet looks like he’s just walking home from church.
Guess that's why they called him Mr, Guitar. Roy Clark made e everything he did look hard (except sing balads). It was part of his schtick. Jerry's songs DID require alot of work because they were so complicated and difficult to play....for everyone except Chet that is.
@@lulimas Ignore this guy. I don't know what his problem is. He's just replying to these comments trying to bring Chet down. This was either in 1969 or 1970. Paul started working with Chet in 1975... I don't know why but he seems to think that Chet didn't actually play boom chick style guitar? Chet played the bass line with his thumb and the melody with his fingers. Tommy Emmanuel does it, Merle Travis did it and a lot more great players do it as well. Never have I heard anyone say what this guy is saying, he's just mad for no apparent reason.
if you go practice you too might be able to, instead of standing in some king of teenage awe over some normal (if not basic) guitar skills. (im not saying chet isnt one great guitarists, it's that particular part is far from being hard)
On the material point of view don’t understand the point of having an unplugged SM57 in front with no xlr cables into it. The player : chapeau bas ! A great great gentleman
It should be required of all young guitarist that they MUST watch any thing Chet Atkins did. Far too many are in it for the flash, believing that a song is 3 chords waiting for a shedding solo. THIS is how you play the guitar. Very few, and I mean VERY few, belong in his league. NO ONE is above it. He did more chord changes than anyone this side of Jimmy Page, in ONE song. Ridiculous!
What a great , talented , generous and kind man. It was Chet that gave Charlie Pride his first big break. Chet did not care abut such nonsense things as race and color . All he cared about was your talent . His close friends were Charlie Pride and Mark Knopfler . A black guy and a Jewish guy. Chet Atkins was a REAL man and decent human being. .
How times have changed. Chet is one of the most influential guitarists of all time but he'd be hard pressed to get a gig on these political and lefty modern late night shows.
yeah all those political and lefty late night shows,not like the apolitical Johnny Cash show what with it's strong conservative guests like Bob Dylan,Neil Young,Joni Mitchell,Arlo Guthrie and Pete fucking Seeger. Not to mention that Chet was on Conan's show a few times in the 90's you fucking egg. Read before you start talking out your ass and you might accidentally learn something.
He used his thumb? Dang, I wonder what would've come of him and Jimi Hendrix, if they collaborated for a jazz blues thing. I mean some of you might not get it, but using your thumb to hold (fret) the strings was a very uncommon thing, especially for jazz players, before Hendrix. *T H E M O R E Y O U K N O W*
Was used virtually by every guitarist who didn't have a classical training and wasn't playing let's say rhythm guitar in big swing bands, where you didn't need big chords for comping. Themoreyoudon'tknow
Finger picking is the way you play the banjo so around long before jimi but I'm love jimi. When it comes to guitarists doing it's credit to merle Travis and is called Travis picking and then chet tells the story about it but he added all fingers which merle didn't do. Also to the more you know guy hardly anyone played this way because everyone was classical trained and this was definitely not classical trained and mark knopfler was probably the first rock guitarist to play this way.
Hey, who is playing the bass notes? Is this like the clown car, where clowns come from nowhere. Listen and look and you will hear bass notes, lots of them when he is NOT playing any bass note strings. This must be a 'magic show', where we hear stuff that we THINK we see. So deceitful. Actually, Paul Yandell is playing the bass notes behind the curtain, but they didn't want you to know that, just wanted you to frustrate yourself in trying to duplicate something that was not 'duplicatable'. Sorry, Mr. Guitar.
Good God. Debbie Downer. There's one in every crowd. Yes, we all know about Paul. I don't hear any extra notes here that don't match Chester's fingers, but my eyes are probably better than yours. So's my pickin'.
"Sandman, bring me some sand" 😂
That's how Chet sang it on his recordings.
It feels nice seeing him talk lol
🤣
That was a message for his roadie to bring him some sand for after the set
maybe its his childhood song 🤣
Oh my gosh,I worked in a gretsch guitar factory, and Mr Atkins had several guitars he endorsed,he played for us, while visiting. The coolest ever!! Made it look effortless!!
How cool would that be!!! I own a replica of the "62" Gretsch. How I would have loved to have him play mine!
I literally laugh out loud when he said "bring me some sand"
He just made it look SO easy, like as if the rest of us could do it with almost no effort. But that’s one sign of a truly great player. And you can see how much he loved playing.
It *was* easy for him; he had practiced enough, and he knew his way around the fret-board well. But it's also the first few months that are the hardest for any new player, especially with regards to fretting hand posture.
We all know Chet is amazing, but I think the most impressive thing is that there's an entire orchestra that we don't even see that are keeping up with all of the transitions.
The Bill Walker Orchestra that provided the back-up music on this iconic series. They're heard on Johnny Cash's recording of "Sunday Morning Coming Down".
I love the sound of a Gretsch especially played by a master.
2:33 man, what a chord progression!
Indeed man!
The laugh Johnny Cash immediately gives after Chet plays only a few notes of Walk the Line... priceless!
DrVanNostrand Two fine gentlemen.
Yr welcome yyhc hj
Oh, I see you're a cultural gun slinging sinner aswell.
No offensive pun intended...
few things are as beautiful in this world.
When did he do that? I guess I missed it
Chet makes it look effortless. Jerry Reed and Roy Clark, great pickers both, always looked like they were working their butt off but Chet looks like he’s just walking home from church.
Because they did not have Paul Yandell accompanying them behind the curtain like CBA did. He fooled us all, including me and you.
@@Billnn54 what?? Tell me more about it
@@Billnn54 not at the start he didnt ! He was way ahead
Guess that's why they called him Mr, Guitar. Roy Clark made e everything he did look hard (except sing balads). It was part of his schtick. Jerry's songs DID require alot of work because they were so complicated and difficult to play....for everyone except Chet that is.
@@lulimas Ignore this guy. I don't know what his problem is. He's just replying to these comments trying to bring Chet down. This was either in 1969 or 1970. Paul started working with Chet in 1975... I don't know why but he seems to think that Chet didn't actually play boom chick style guitar? Chet played the bass line with his thumb and the melody with his fingers. Tommy Emmanuel does it, Merle Travis did it and a lot more great players do it as well. Never have I heard anyone say what this guy is saying, he's just mad for no apparent reason.
Little bit of freight train thrown in there. What a master he was.
That was nice of Chet to honour Johnny with "I Walk The Line" at the end.
Chet was a fabulous guitarist
RIP MR CHET ATKINS👍🏾
He would be a “gentleman“ in any occasion and in any area of the world.
have never seen anything more iconic
Finally. I founded some more Mr. Sandman play by the Chet Atkins!!
Now go find The Entertainer
@@nobrainsnoheadache2434 No need. 'Cause I find them all the time. Just like all the rest of his songs like Wildwood Flower
I’ve been playing freight train forever but now I’m gonna steal the train whistle that Chet does here @3:30 Love it.
yes, me too man .. that's a first one :)
Wonderful reminder of his greatness, and that's one of his best neckties ever
Just Awesome Chet Is So Dedicated Lived n Breathed it Absolute Credit to Mr Guitar Love him
Such perfection is probably the best there will ever be. Nice to see a quick shot of Johnny Cash...Jack Baker NYC/NJ
How he gets the sound of a drum kit & a tuba out of that guitar astounds me!
Blown away in 2024..then see Johnny cash...now searching for this whole video...
This guy's the Chet!!!!
if you were wondering why he has a mic pointed at his electric guitar, he has another acoustic guitar
Chet the man
Guitar genius
Genius and a lovely bloke!
Fantastic❤
The man was pretty damn handy with a guitar in his hands.
The Best
God, please create another Chet Atkins! So far we have only one. karl
Brilliant!!
he's so damn proud of himself at 1:22 , look at him cheesin'
What a great channel! Thanks so much.
Le mouvement de l'onglet Impressionnant BRAVOS chet atking regretté de tous
Legend!
Grande Maestro
That was so damn cool, he played walk the line at the end. I wonder if that was spontaneous or scripted.
Top class chet one and only original picker for me and some producer god bless what a legend and the big j cash 🙏👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👏👏👏👏👏👍🥃🏴
Grande guitarrista, show de música, lembra o guitarrista Betinho do Brasil!!!
No wonder he is the hero of Clapton, Knopfler etc etc
QUE EN PAZ DESCANSES, QUE GENIO DE GENIOS CHESTER QUERIDO
Unbelievable!
Only in my dreams 💗
Nice 👍
Chet had a great voice too!
By whose standards?
More like took a Chet in his Cheerios
Don't know about that bud.. But his singing in "I Still can't say goodbye" is very moving.
I love that Gretsch!
Me too
@@nicholasdecarli1889 And me!
Genius
music to my ears, freight train nearly undid me, run so fast
Mt bom Aplausos
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Wow! Karl
The country gentleman guitar hero
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰oh m heart!!!
In the mansions bright and blessed Grandpa
Playing one of Chets songs. Do they have
Electric guitars in heaven.
雄大で美しい物語の様だ😢
The hand of God
The frets on that guitar are enormous!😮
you should see Chet play a fret-less guitar on "Summertime'. He is great.
yep
witness the RIDICULOUS PULLOFFS AT THE END OF SANDMAN...I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO GET IT....YOUR LAST NAME CANNOT BE EMANUEL ...GOOD LUCK
1:32? It's legato and honestly looks far more intimidating than it really is.
Piece of piss
I'd say that he (puts on sunglasses) didn't pull that off entirely.
YYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Hahaha!!!!!
if you go practice you too might be able to, instead of standing in some king of teenage awe over some normal (if not basic) guitar skills. (im not saying chet isnt one great guitarists, it's that particular part is far from being hard)
2:59
1:33
hje always had that look to the audience.... like... check this out lol... the one man guitar man
Uh, well, maybe a two man guitar man - Chet and the one who is adding his bass notes and runs.
I see publication is 2019. Anyone know when this was made? He looks young and hes been gone for years
The Johnny Cash Show ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 so it had to be within that time frame!
how u learned that pickin
1:16
Isn’t Mr. Sandman Jason’s theme song ? Lol this is great
Michael Myers! The Halloween movies!
On the material point of view don’t understand the point of having an unplugged SM57 in front with no xlr cables into it.
The player : chapeau bas ! A great great gentleman
If you like this please watch Yngwie Malmsteen
George Harrison sold a lot of guitars for ol Chet
sand man bring me some sand
George Harrison had that guitar during The Beatles early days
Does anyone know what instrument is played that makes the “whaoo” sound at 1:00
I could be wrong but I think that’s a harmonica
It's a trombone with a mute at the end. Makes a wah wah
Its a muted trumpet
It's a section of muted trombones
What kind of amps did Chet use? Anyone know?
1:34 CAN SOMEONE SHOW ME HOW TO DO THAT OR WHAT IS ITT
It should be required of all young guitarist that they MUST watch any thing Chet Atkins did. Far too many are in it for the flash, believing that a song is 3 chords waiting for a shedding solo. THIS is how you play the guitar. Very few, and I mean VERY few, belong in his league. NO ONE is above it. He did more chord changes than anyone this side of Jimmy Page, in ONE song. Ridiculous!
What year did Chet play this pls?
1970
What a great , talented , generous and kind man. It was Chet that gave Charlie Pride his first big break. Chet did not care abut such nonsense things as race and color . All he cared about was your talent . His close friends were Charlie Pride and Mark Knopfler . A black guy and a Jewish guy. Chet Atkins was a REAL man and decent human being. .
How does he do it?
What year was this? An empty description looks like something AI posted instead of a human.
1970
Song name on 1:37, please?
that one's Wildwood Flower - th-cam.com/video/ukoul4-bEAA/w-d-xo.html
Beatles by
How times have changed.
Chet is one of the most influential guitarists of all time but he'd be hard pressed to get a gig on these political and lefty modern late night shows.
yeah all those political and lefty late night shows,not like the apolitical Johnny Cash show what with it's strong conservative guests like Bob Dylan,Neil Young,Joni Mitchell,Arlo Guthrie and Pete fucking Seeger.
Not to mention that Chet was on Conan's show a few times in the 90's you fucking egg. Read before you start talking out your ass and you might accidentally learn something.
@@thepuppethead1188 bro chill out. please.
@@landonspain193 it's been 7 months and I'm still STEAMING MAD
@@thepuppethead1188 but like, was that necessary?
@@landonspain193 no,but what TH-cam comment is?
He used his thumb?
Dang, I wonder what would've come of him and Jimi Hendrix, if they collaborated for a jazz blues thing.
I mean some of you might not get it, but using your thumb to hold (fret) the strings was a very uncommon thing, especially for jazz players, before Hendrix.
*T H E M O R E Y O U K N O W*
Was used virtually by every guitarist who didn't have a classical training and wasn't playing let's say rhythm guitar in big swing bands, where you didn't need big chords for comping.
Themoreyoudon'tknow
Finger picking is the way you play the banjo so around long before jimi but I'm love jimi. When it comes to guitarists doing it's credit to merle Travis and is called Travis picking and then chet tells the story about it but he added all fingers which merle didn't do. Also to the more you know guy hardly anyone played this way because everyone was classical trained and this was definitely not classical trained and mark knopfler was probably the first rock guitarist to play this way.
Hey, who is playing the bass notes? Is this like the clown car, where clowns come from nowhere. Listen and look and you will hear bass notes, lots of them when he is NOT playing any bass note strings. This must be a 'magic show', where we hear stuff that we THINK we see. So deceitful. Actually, Paul Yandell is playing the bass notes behind the curtain, but they didn't want you to know that, just wanted you to frustrate yourself in trying to duplicate something that was not 'duplicatable'. Sorry, Mr. Guitar.
Good God. Debbie Downer. There's one in every crowd. Yes, we all know about Paul. I don't hear any extra notes here that don't match Chester's fingers, but my eyes are probably better than yours. So's my pickin'.
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オーケストラ邪魔
Nah I think les Paul would still beat him you all listen to les Paul - lover
RIP MR CHET ATKINS👍🏾