I’m 51 and been playing since the ‘80s and thought I knew most of my favourite songs but since the internet I have gone back and realized there is much more to these “simple” songs. We used to use a record player and had to tune to the recording by ear. We didn’t even have electronic tuners. However I am glad I learned these skills but it limited what we could learn for sure.
Same here, 51 and learned from records. Started in '82 and after about 4 years I bought the Sound Connection books/cassette lessons. Still have em, but this YT stuff really makes learning so much easier. If only we'd had this when we were starting to out! I remember wondering how they did all the overdubbed parts and thinking "Wow, you've gotta be fantastic to play all this stuff at once" lol.
Heard that! I'm 56. I've spent countless hours just trying to figure out The Rain Song from sheet music before realizing that Jimmy is in altered tuning. Good practice though!
@@lukeb0030 In those days people had their own internet at home. On paper. Magazines like that you don't throw away that easy (wives do). And in a few years it will have disappeared from the internet too, so it's better to keep them for a while.
As a non-fan of Heart (I think they're great, I just never explored them) who knows at least a few non-radio songs (Love Alive, Dreamboat Annie), can you recommend a few specific songs/sections that highlight his creative power? I now realize that he reminds me a teensy bit of Terry Kath.
@@johngrunwell6101 I know you posted this 10 months ago, but in case you haven't checked any of his great work, just search any Heart between 1976 and 1979. Although much of the song writing credits go to Ann and Nancy, Roger (Howard Leese and the others to an extent as well) had a major influence on the musical part writing. After 1980 you will hear a clear difference in their music after he left the band.
One of my favorite songs I am a drummer and have always loved that song. I played with a lead player who used to work on that song for hours and hours and came close but never exactly. Now I know why. Thanks for the info !!
for months I've been awkwardly twisting my fingertips around on my fretboard trying to do some of these exact parts by watching '70s Heart live videos, and the whole time I didn't even know Roger was using his very own tuning! What a revelation, thank you for this break down :)
I watched Fisher's interview AFTER I had watched yours. The logic you use/share is so much more informational. I wouldn't have ever known about the special tuning of this one of my top 10 favorite rock songs if you hadn't shared this. Thanks very much!
Great vid Bro !! You explained and showed the differences perfectly and made this a very educational several minutes of guitar technique...thanks my friend !!
Hey Mike, great work on getting the Roger Fisher tone out of your Les Paul. Clear back in the early ‘80s, I tried and tried to figure out how to get Roger’s tone out of my guitars. I tuned up 1.5 steps on the upper ‘E’ (to ‘G’) and ‘B’ (to ‘D’) to get Roger’s sound out of my guitar on ‘Magic Man’. Now everything sounds right! Thanks again for this excellent tip. - E
This is awesome! One thing I’d like to add; on the lead played at 4:27, the second time Roger plays it, he plays the open 1st and 2nd strings at the end of the phrase (he plays the open 3rd and 4th, as you did, the first time around). Great video! Thanks for breaking this down!
We are picking this song up and this really helped. I struggled with the same tuning issues. You almost have to go standard tuning and work around it. Your F chord with the pinky G really helped me. Thanks. I super related to your reasoning and explanation.
Fisher tuning wins out without question. It's best to trust the instincts of the guys who wrote the songs. Obviously the way he did it was right for the occasion.
Learned a lot from this and from watching his interview. I have found the voicing for the F chord in standard tuning that works well and sounds good is play the root with your 1st finger and use your second on C (which also mutes the D) and play the G open, 3rd finger on D of the B string, and 4th finger on G on the high E string. Essentially it is like a C9 shape with your index finger on the F, this has allowed me to let the upper strings sting ring while chugging with the bass in a full band setting while slightly palm muting the lowest two strings. Hope that helps, love the lessons!
The song makes much more sense now man, thank you! I guess There are critics everywhere and if have to be one of them, he is bending those notes. Add tbat on top of what you got and it's a 100% cover imo, but I may be wrong! Keep up the work friend! Great content!
I was playing this song shortly after it came out (probably before your parents were born), and I always played it in standard tuning. My cousin (my drummer at the time) and I had the blind luck of meeting a fantastic female singer at the time, and we were thrilled to have a whole new style of music to play. Back in those days funky tunings weren't as common as they are now. Guitarists just had to be quick and know their way well around the fretboard I guess. Between not thinking of alternate tunings, and not having the luxury of being fiscally advantaged enough back then to have a lot of guitars, you did the best you could with what you had, even if you had to work a little harder. Not too many people thought of what you are doing now, back then. Good job!
They played it all last summer on the Love Alive tour. Sometimes over the years Ann has said she gets bored with it and it's off the set list, but then by the next tour she adds it back in.
Well... I BELIEVE that song was about Mike Fisher (Roger's brother) who she was in a relationship with... while Nancy and Roger had a relationship. If I remember correctly, there was some infidelity and a break up and.... they may have not played that song because... ya know... feelings.
On the VG-99 with the gk2 Roland pickup installed on my guitar I can get both tunings with the foot switch and still be in standard tune making it easy to bend the 1st & 2nd strings.
Great stuff! I don't remember how accurate it was but the December 1979 Guitar Player Magazine, had an article on Nancy Wilson and Roger Fisher that talked about that solo and even had some tablature for it - a few years before the rise of magazine guitar tabs...
It may have already been mentioned here, but the intro riff was recorded backwards by Howard Leese giving it that really cool feel and sound. I have heard Roger talk about and explain his tuning, but haven't had the nerve to try it yet lol! Thanks for this video!
Thank you so much for putting both tunings side by side . I only have one ele , and to tune it so radically for one song is a lot , the standard tuning is more work but this way you can whip out the solo wherever you are instead of having to tune
Well, it looks like your going to have to get a double neck guitar. Hmm...but maybe an eight string could work, have two pairs of 1st and 2nd strings g d e b. Man a guy could make some killer lead riffs with that. Probably start a whole new Metal genre. This was a neat video and I'm intrigued by the idea. I sort of like alt tunings and technique and maybe in the future I'll experiment with this some...or a lot. I always appreciate when a player really digs deep trying to sort things out by ear like you did. It always makes he experience richer. Beside that you can usually tell when a tab doesn't quite jive and you have to dig a little. That little 'waterfall' fill that Blackmore puts in at the beginning of Woman from Tokyo I think is a series of percussion slurs near the twelfth fret instead of the pull offs in the lower frets as the tabs indicate. We learn a lot digging for stuff like that, that's cool.
Wow, thanks for the insight! I have been playing that song with my band for 10 years and I knew some of the parts weren't quite right but I couldn't figure out why! That chord in the verse always perplexed me because it sounded like there were some open strings but I could never get it right! Thanks
I admit that I've never paid much attention to that song, even though it was a radio staple at one time. (I won't date myself). There is a lot more going on there than I expected. It's impressive guitar playing. Thanks!
Hey mike I just learned that you’re based in the twin cities area when I saw you on A440s video from your heart tribute band. If you’re ever in the St. Cloud area, the folks around here would dig you guys. Rock on fellow Minnesota musician!
Dean DeLeo had a 6/6 double neck Strat with Army of Anyone because in the studio, the riffs were written in weird alternate tunings, but his solos were in standard. I wonder if Heart were playing several different tunings on Magic Man in the studio, and then had to rearrange/fudge the song live.
You absolutely nailed it!😄. Next, please do the 2nd most hardest guitar lick to do: the intro/first 6 seconds or so of "Rock & Roll Fantasy" by Bad Company. Getting that phased/spacey sound is something I have never heard a cover band (or even Bad Company) able to replicate EXACTLY live like you did with the Roger Fisher tuning. I've always said that somebody would get rich if they were to manufacture a pedal with that "spacey" sound effect😊.
@@philcollinshill2951 Not sure I turned off Heart years ago. I couldn't take either sisters pretentiousness or pomposity in interviews. You sing and play. You aren't curing cancer, running into a burning building, long hauling goods across the country etc. Yet to listen to them (and to be fair quite a few others) You'd thing they were dispensing sage advice. Funny considering they basically executed a hostile take over of a band they weren't part of in the beginning and ousted its core of excellent musicians. Maybe they couldn'y handle it when sleeping with The Fisher brothers went south so their answer was to can EVERYONE. They just dont strike me as particularly decent people, the two of them. That being said I have ONE story that is second hand so take it for what its worth. In the late 80's a guy was outside a trailer where Nancy and Leese were apparently trying to figure out the intro to Sweet Child O mine. The guy said it sounded like the 1st day of guitar lessons.
Roger Fisher certainly has a lot more respect for Nancy (including naming her as an inspiration alongside Page, Beck, Knopfler and others on the back of his instrumental 1989 album) than his online fanboys do as of late.
Would you mind doing a full tutorial? I’ve been trying to learn this for ages and I can’t find any good tutorials and you seem like you could explain it thoroughly.
The Wilson sisters lived a few houses down on lake Washington in Belleview when I was in high school. One night (parents were in Europe) we had a keg party that my band played at. The cops came and shut it down. So the next morning all the gear was still set up on the lawn, and I was just starting to move it when 2 dudes came walking up from the lake path. It was Roger Fisher and his new bass player (he had recently been booted from Heart.) They were visiting Ann and Nancy and had heard my band night before. Long story short, I ended up jamming with them for a grip. Until Fisher turned my Marshall all the way up and was going for feedback. And I'm 16, and having to tell a rock star that the cops had busted our party, arrested people... and maybe he should turn it down! Doh! But, as Roger was playing my axe, my only option was the drums. Fisher asked me what to play, and I said "mistral wind?"... So I played drums as best as I could. Too bad I was a suck ass drummer at the time! Anyway, a great memory. I made him autograph my Dog and Butterfly album before they bailed. I was 16 years old, summer of 1979.
Pretty good, thanks for the tuning insight... I've just kinda flogged my way thru in standard. Its real burner when you nail it. Hendrix woulda loved this guy 😃
Seems like that cool F6/9 chord could have been done by tuning the low E string up a half step to F instead and then fingering 033033. Great job on this video. I love to see your accuracy and attention to detail.
if you're careful you won't break a string but a lot of times you will there's a great video of Roger he did a series about a year-and-a-half ago interviews and plager he did a series about a year-and-a-half ago interviews and playing. any shows how to play this and during the tuning he does bust a string right at the beginning of the video
Heartless is the band, they play in the Minneapolis area and they are FANTASTIC!! The vocals and musicianship are super tight. I immediately realized the guitar player had real talent.
Very cool song - wow a lot is happening in a little hit off the radio - had no idea. .You are very perceptive and appreciate you sharing. Do you teach around NYC?.
Great job man! A drummer with the idea that ‘I SHOULD have at least given guitar playing a TRY’ ha ha ha. I can REALLY appreciate the ART and talent...great vid and GREAT song
great stuff. I'd read there was an alternate tuning but this is the first I'm seeing. I play it standard and the only crusher for me is the part you called the 'johnny b goode' part. Still can't move that fast. Will try this way - thanks!
Excellent explanation of the tuning and analysis of playing the song with the way he tuned his guitar vs. standard tuning. Great job playing all the parts! This is not an easy song to play, for sure.
Rodger's F6 chord seems perfectly apt for Magic Man, as in the title and the lyric lye's a numinous quality, which the F6 chord compliments. This song bit me the first time I heard it (Anne's voice), and that chord has haunted me since. Cool, vid.
Great insight while looking at both tunings. I'd think that he'd play in standard because they're basically fills and responses. But to be able to anticipate the ease of the unusual tuning(at best) is remarkable on your part. You are analysis-minded. I always thought this guitar part was extraordinary. He probably keeps standard tuning.Too much "technosis" (new word) to keep the feel.Studio fatigue. Great video, thanks.
I appreciate you showing the parts broke down. You're obviously a great guitarist. You aren't the only one that does this but my peeve is a wish you had one segment where you played the meat of it all through. Or have you done so already?
Roger Fisher is an animal. You have to learn his riffs but also his "tricks". Well worth the effort.
He is a magic man
I’m 51 and been playing since the ‘80s and thought I knew most of my favourite songs but since the internet I have gone back and realized there is much more to these “simple” songs. We used to use a record player and had to tune to the recording by ear. We didn’t even have electronic tuners. However I am glad I learned these skills but it limited what we could learn for sure.
Same here, 51 and learned from records. Started in '82 and after about 4 years I bought the Sound Connection books/cassette lessons. Still have em, but this YT stuff really makes learning so much easier. If only we'd had this when we were starting to out! I remember wondering how they did all the overdubbed parts and thinking "Wow, you've gotta be fantastic to play all this stuff at once" lol.
Heard that! I'm 56. I've spent countless hours just trying to figure out The Rain Song from sheet music before realizing that Jimmy is in altered tuning. Good practice though!
Sorry we are out of 1st strings
In a Guitar Player issue from 1977 Roger explained his Magic Man tuning E A D G D G.
you have a great memory
@@lukeb0030 In those days people had their own internet at home. On paper. Magazines like that you don't throw away that easy (wives do). And in a few years it will have disappeared from the internet too, so it's better to keep them for a while.
@@fritsvanzanten3573 wives? bruh.
@@fritsvanzanten3573 it was the mid 70s not the 50s
@@xsitied2708 I thought he meant cause his wife threw those magazines
Thanks for mentioning (even in passing) Howard Leese, who almost always gets overlooked as a crucial part of the classic Heart sound.
Nice job. In my option Roger Fisher is one of the most creative guitarist ever to play rock music.
As a non-fan of Heart (I think they're great, I just never explored them) who knows at least a few non-radio songs (Love Alive, Dreamboat Annie), can you recommend a few specific songs/sections that highlight his creative power? I now realize that he reminds me a teensy bit of Terry Kath.
@@johngrunwell6101 I know you posted this 10 months ago, but in case you haven't checked any of his great work, just search any Heart between 1976 and 1979. Although much of the song writing credits go to Ann and Nancy, Roger (Howard Leese and the others to an extent as well) had a major influence on the musical part writing. After 1980 you will hear a clear difference in their music after he left the band.
Anyone else thought this was going to be Treeman’s song from the Angriest Guitar Player?
I thought I was the only One
Movie Dude ME
Movie Dude Me
Movie Dude hahahahh I did
You are not alone, boys!
Magic Man and Barracuda are two of the best rock songs ever recorded!!!
No, they're not. Lol
@@chipgaasche4933 Opinions.
Not only two of the best songs but the production is so organic.
@@chipgaasche4933 average prog enjoyer
The lead licks in this song are wicked. So creative and amazing. Always captivated me
One of my favorite songs
I am a drummer and have always loved that song. I played with a lead player who used to work on that song for hours and hours and came close but never exactly. Now I know why.
Thanks for the info !!
One of my favorite Heart tunes. Always loved the guitars on it. Your explanation was great. Awesome sound. Great playing.
for months I've been awkwardly twisting my fingertips around on my fretboard trying to do some of these exact parts by watching '70s Heart live videos, and the whole time I didn't even know Roger was using his very own tuning! What a revelation, thank you for this break down :)
I think this is an Ernie Ball ploy for us to buy numerous extra Hi E and B strings 😂🎸🤘
haha use 0.08s
Wow. Excellent video my man. Sounds exactly like his riffs! 🤘🏻
I watched Fisher's interview AFTER I had watched yours. The logic you use/share is so much more informational. I wouldn't have ever known about the special tuning of this one of my top 10 favorite rock songs if you hadn't shared this. Thanks very much!
Great vid Bro !! You explained and showed the differences perfectly and made this a very educational several minutes of guitar technique...thanks my friend !!
VERY cool walk through, bro- love seeing how those geniuses work out the parts......friggin fascinating 👍🏿
I don’t even know how to play but I still enjoyed it. Big Heart fan since the mid 70s
Clearly you need a double-necked guitar so that you can switch tunings mid riff.
🤣
The only thing is, a double-neck usually means one neck with 6 strings and the other neck with 12 strings.
@@DrakeSteve You could just not put all 12 strings on the 12 string neck.
Naw, just get the five neck guitar from Rick Nielsen! Have room for concert tuning (down 1/2 step) and Drop D.
Sounds like a custom double neck with two six stings is in order.
The simple solution is to ditch it and play barracuda
Agreed. Barracuda rules. Magic Man is heart's worst song by far. Incredibly boring, repetitive, grating melody
Damon Wille. Worst song? Are you crazy?
false, magic man is better
@@vladg5216 some really have dumb fucking opinions lmao. Magic Man is a masterpiece.
😂
Fisher tuning sounds more like the original. Guess you need a second guitarist for this song. ;-)
you are my favorite teacher young man!i wish i lived near you so i could take 1 on 1 lessons!
Awesome video- and great playing. Love Heart, and Roger’s playing, in particular.
Hey Mike, great work on getting the Roger Fisher tone out of your Les Paul. Clear back in the early ‘80s, I tried and tried to figure out how to get Roger’s tone out of my guitars. I tuned up 1.5 steps on the upper ‘E’ (to ‘G’) and ‘B’ (to ‘D’) to get Roger’s sound out of my guitar on ‘Magic Man’. Now everything sounds right! Thanks again for this excellent tip. - E
Heart is one of the best rock bands of all time.I grew up hearing Heart from my parents jamming out on them all the time.
That Les Paul Custom is absolutely gorgeous.
Always been a fan of two-piece stoptail bridges myself.
Love this song. I'm a drummer but really enjoyed this
This is awesome! One thing I’d like to add; on the lead played at 4:27, the second time Roger plays it, he plays the open 1st and 2nd strings at the end of the phrase (he plays the open 3rd and 4th, as you did, the first time around). Great video! Thanks for breaking this down!
Great vid, thanks! For the line you cover at 7:20, I like this way: B:13 - G:15-14 - D:15 - A: 12-13-14-15
G - D - G? Great work. I love songs with different tunings. Good idea to have different guitars kept in tunings needed. Great video - Thanks.
That opening solo was played by Howard Leese, and it was recorded backwards. (Creating the "swelling" effect.)
True. I wonder why Roger always played that intro live. I can’t find one video where Leese plays it.
Fantastic breakdown 🔥 excellent guitar work
We are picking this song up and this really helped. I struggled with the same tuning issues. You almost have to go standard tuning and work around it. Your F chord with the pinky G really helped me. Thanks. I super related to your reasoning and explanation.
6 9 chord? Yes, very nice
F 69 c;;;
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69 LMAO JOKE
You did Howard’s guitar lick at the end and I couldn’t help myself, I had to act out the following keyboard part lmao
Jarrette Manuel yesssss
Right!! 🤣 Woo woo woooo woo woo woo woo woo woo woooo woo woo woooooooo!!!
Thanks for breaking down this well. Loved listening to this in 1976!
You should do techniques of Alex lifeson. Awesome video by the way.
Oh yes please.
spacejamgoliath right
Fisher tuning wins out without question. It's best to trust the instincts of the guys who wrote the songs. Obviously the way he did it was right for the occasion.
Learned a lot from this and from watching his interview. I have found the voicing for the F chord in standard tuning that works well and sounds good is play the root with your 1st finger and use your second on C (which also mutes the D) and play the G open, 3rd finger on D of the B string, and 4th finger on G on the high E string. Essentially it is like a C9 shape with your index finger on the F, this has allowed me to let the upper strings sting ring while chugging with the bass in a full band setting while slightly palm muting the lowest two strings. Hope that helps, love the lessons!
Good stuff. That early heart music had alot going on behind behind her amazing voice.
Excellent...Thanks for the great information and lesson... Cheers Bob
The song makes much more sense now man, thank you! I guess There are critics everywhere and if have to be one of them, he is bending those notes. Add tbat on top of what you got and it's a 100% cover imo, but I may be wrong! Keep up the work friend! Great content!
Really useful analysis of this gem of a classic-thx
I was playing this song shortly after it came out (probably before your parents were born), and I always played it in standard tuning. My cousin (my drummer at the time) and I had the blind luck of meeting a fantastic female singer at the time, and we were thrilled to have a whole new style of music to play. Back in those days funky tunings weren't as common as they are now. Guitarists just had to be quick and know their way well around the fretboard I guess. Between not thinking of alternate tunings, and not having the luxury of being fiscally advantaged enough back then to have a lot of guitars, you did the best you could with what you had, even if you had to work a little harder. Not too many people thought of what you are doing now, back then. Good job!
Sadly, Ann Wilson refuses to perform this classic now. She is still amazing!! This song is in my top 5 greatest rock songs list.
chris clermont Has she ever said why?
They played it all last summer on the Love Alive tour. Sometimes over the years Ann has said she gets bored with it and it's off the set list, but then by the next tour she adds it back in.
I don't think the poor thing can sing it anymore her vocals you know she's really worked him out through her lifetime but we still love her
Well... I BELIEVE that song was about Mike Fisher (Roger's brother) who she was in a relationship with... while Nancy and Roger had a relationship. If I remember correctly, there was some infidelity and a break up and.... they may have not played that song because... ya know... feelings.
Really impressed with your professional attitude
On the VG-99 with the gk2 Roland pickup installed on my guitar I can get both tunings with the foot switch and still be in standard tune making it easy to bend the 1st & 2nd strings.
Wow! That makes total sense now! Thanks for the tricks to this song!
Great stuff! I don't remember how accurate it was but the December 1979 Guitar Player Magazine, had an article on Nancy Wilson and Roger Fisher that talked about that solo and even had some tablature for it - a few years before the rise of magazine guitar tabs...
I love Rogers tone on this song. I’ve never heard another guitar like it.
Indeed, Magic Man is a lexicon song because of Roger Fisher's excellence. Fine job. Thank you.
It may have already been mentioned here, but the intro riff was recorded backwards by Howard Leese giving it that really cool feel and sound. I have heard Roger talk about and explain his tuning, but haven't had the nerve to try it yet lol! Thanks for this video!
You’re an amazing player, bro. And i really love your guitars!
Thank you so much for putting both tunings side by side . I only have one ele , and to tune it so radically for one song is a lot , the standard tuning is more work but this way you can whip out the solo wherever you are instead of having to tune
Incredible clear and on point. Really helpful.
Best video ever!! Great explanation and playing.
Thank you
Well, it looks like your going to have to get a double neck guitar. Hmm...but maybe an eight string could work, have two pairs of 1st and 2nd strings g d e b. Man a guy could make some killer lead riffs with that. Probably start a whole new Metal genre.
This was a neat video and I'm intrigued by the idea. I sort of like alt tunings and technique and maybe in the future I'll experiment with this some...or a lot. I always appreciate when a player really digs deep trying to sort things out by ear like you did. It always makes he experience richer. Beside that you can usually tell when a tab doesn't quite jive and you have to dig a little. That little 'waterfall' fill that Blackmore puts in at the beginning of Woman from Tokyo I think is a series of percussion slurs near the twelfth fret instead of the pull offs in the lower frets as the tabs indicate. We learn a lot digging for stuff like that, that's cool.
Great vid. Love the hard work you put in!
Wow, thanks for the insight! I have been playing that song with my band for 10 years and I knew some of the parts weren't quite right but I couldn't figure out why! That chord in the verse always perplexed me because it sounded like there were some open strings but I could never get it right! Thanks
I admit that I've never paid much attention to that song, even though it was a radio staple at one time. (I won't date myself). There is a lot more going on there than I expected. It's impressive guitar playing. Thanks!
Great Video smart and sharp. Heart...ohmygawd back in the 70's when this came out it was the bomb! Johnne in Seattle
Great insight. I love Heart. Your singer must be awesome.
Hey mike I just learned that you’re based in the twin cities area when I saw you on A440s video from your heart tribute band. If you’re ever in the St. Cloud area, the folks around here would dig you guys. Rock on fellow Minnesota musician!
Dean DeLeo had a 6/6 double neck Strat with Army of Anyone because in the studio, the riffs were written in weird alternate tunings, but his solos were in standard. I wonder if Heart were playing several different tunings on Magic Man in the studio, and then had to rearrange/fudge the song live.
I seem to recall an interview with him long ago where he talked about using really thin strings, as well.
You absolutely nailed it!😄. Next, please do the 2nd most hardest guitar lick to do: the intro/first 6 seconds or so of "Rock & Roll Fantasy" by Bad Company. Getting that phased/spacey sound is something I have never heard a cover band (or even Bad Company) able to replicate EXACTLY live like you did with the Roger Fisher tuning. I've always said that somebody would get rich if they were to manufacture a pedal with that "spacey" sound effect😊.
How about tuning down, and adding a capo at the third fret?
Oh man I was doing an Fmajdouble9#Baug7th chord there.
Great vid for a criminally underrated player. Heart lost ALOT when they ousted him
He's extremely underrated and Nancy is extremely overrated.
Does she even play leads?
@@philcollinshill2951 Not sure I turned off Heart years ago. I couldn't take either sisters pretentiousness or pomposity in interviews. You sing and play. You aren't curing cancer, running into a burning building, long hauling goods across the country etc. Yet to listen to them (and to be fair quite a few others) You'd thing they were dispensing sage advice. Funny considering they basically executed a hostile take over of a band they weren't part of in the beginning and ousted its core of excellent musicians. Maybe they couldn'y handle it when sleeping with The Fisher brothers went south so their answer was to can EVERYONE. They just dont strike me as particularly decent people, the two of them. That being said I have ONE story that is second hand so take it for what its worth. In the late 80's a guy was outside a trailer where Nancy and Leese were apparently trying to figure out the intro to Sweet Child O mine. The guy said it sounded like the 1st day of guitar lessons.
Roger Fisher certainly has a lot more respect for Nancy (including naming her as an inspiration alongside Page, Beck, Knopfler and others on the back of his instrumental 1989 album) than his online fanboys do as of late.
This is a brilliant post Sir, most guitarist have no clue how to play Magic Man correctly!
Would you mind doing a full tutorial? I’ve been trying to learn this for ages and I can’t find any good tutorials and you seem like you could explain it thoroughly.
Kudos man. Great job!
F69 chord is killer
Never really thought about this. Very fascinating
Great vid man, can't thank you enough! I would have wasted a lot of time on this epic track. Btw you sound sooo good. Freakin nailed it.
Great workarounds! Great playing!
The Wilson sisters lived a few houses down on lake Washington in Belleview when I was in high school. One night (parents were in Europe) we had a keg party that my band played at. The cops came and shut it down. So the next morning all the gear was still set up on the lawn, and I was just starting to move it when 2 dudes came walking up from the lake path. It was Roger Fisher and his new bass player (he had recently been booted from Heart.) They were visiting Ann and Nancy and had heard my band night before. Long story short, I ended up jamming with them for a grip. Until Fisher turned my Marshall all the way up and was going for feedback. And I'm 16, and having to tell a rock star that the cops had busted our party, arrested people... and maybe he should turn it down! Doh! But, as Roger was playing my axe, my only option was the drums. Fisher asked me what to play, and I said "mistral wind?"... So I played drums as best as I could. Too bad I was a suck ass drummer at the time! Anyway, a great memory. I made him autograph my Dog and Butterfly album before they bailed. I was 16 years old, summer of 1979.
Dude holy s*^t!!!!
Interesting video. HEART had some great rock riffs back in the day. Saw them in 1980. Gonna try that tuning...afraid id break that E string!!??
Excellent. Wow that is Amazing. Thank You So Much for that Lesson 😇
Pretty good, thanks for the tuning insight... I've just kinda flogged my way thru in standard. Its real burner when you nail it. Hendrix woulda loved this guy 😃
Seems like that cool F6/9 chord could have been done by tuning the low E string up a half step to F instead and then fingering 033033. Great job on this video. I love to see your accuracy and attention to detail.
Will this not end up breaking the strings?
I still hate tuning to e! Crazy
if you're careful you won't break a string but a lot of times you will there's a great video of Roger he did a series about a year-and-a-half ago interviews and plager he did a series about a year-and-a-half ago interviews and playing.
any shows how to play this and during the tuning he does bust a string right at the beginning of the video
You've obviously done a ton of work to master the sound of Heart. I enjoyed this video & would love to hear your band play.
Heartless is the band, they play in the Minneapolis area and they are FANTASTIC!! The vocals and musicianship are super tight. I immediately realized the guitar player had real talent.
Sadly I'm no longer in the band but they're still worth checking out. Thanks for the kind words Thorfinsky. :)
Very cool song - wow a lot is happening in a little hit off the radio - had no idea. .You are very perceptive and appreciate you sharing. Do you teach around NYC?.
Great job man! A drummer with the idea that ‘I SHOULD have at least given guitar playing a TRY’ ha ha ha. I can REALLY appreciate the ART and talent...great vid and GREAT song
Hahaha YEAH! Oh wait, nobody gives a shit..
This is such a cool video for such niche technique
Great job with this video. Outstanding
damn that is a great looking SG
great stuff. I'd read there was an alternate tuning but this is the first I'm seeing. I play it standard and the only crusher for me is the part you called the 'johnny b goode' part. Still can't move that fast. Will try this way - thanks!
Awesome vid thanks for making this video.
Excellent explanation of the tuning and analysis of playing the song with the way he tuned his guitar vs. standard tuning. Great job playing all the parts! This is not an easy song to play, for sure.
Rodger's F6 chord seems perfectly apt for Magic Man, as in the title and the lyric lye's a numinous quality, which the F6 chord compliments. This song bit me the first time I heard it (Anne's voice), and that chord has haunted me since. Cool, vid.
Awesome lesson! I never tried to learn any of that, but it always sounded so bizarre to me. Explained! Great job!
Great insight while looking at both tunings. I'd think that he'd play in standard because they're basically fills and responses. But to be able to anticipate the ease of the unusual tuning(at best) is remarkable on your part. You are analysis-minded. I always thought this guitar part was extraordinary. He probably keeps standard tuning.Too much "technosis" (new word) to keep the feel.Studio fatigue. Great video, thanks.
THIS WRIST IS DOIN' ME PISSIN' 'EAD IN!
I had no idea. Super cool man. Does your band have any vids of you all playing this song? I’d love to listen to it
Now teach us how to sing like Ann Wilson with a standard voicebox.
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Impossible. Ann Wilson isn't one in a million, she's one in all of humanity.
Beutiful breakdown of this awesome song and i love that les paul.
I appreciate you showing the parts broke down. You're obviously a great guitarist. You aren't the only one that does this but my peeve is a wish you had one segment where you played the meat of it all through. Or have you done so already?