Duane Allman - Stormy Monday Lesson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ย. 2019
- 1:16 - Chord charts
2:30 - Intro explained
4:03 - Dominant chord double stops
6:07 - Double stop hybrid picking
6:40 - Bar 4 to 5 transition
8:30 - Descending minor 7th chords (Dickey Betts)
9:49 - Major 6th voicing (Dickey Betts)
11:22 - Trills vs. hybrid picking
13:28 - Double stop bend
14:48 - Double stop bend variation
16:30 - Double stop walk down
18:13 - Duane's famous pentatonic fill
If you’ve ever wondered about the correct way to play the Allman Brothers’ legendary arrangement of the blues classic “Stormy Monday”, look no further. All the chords, rhythmic devices and fills are broken down and explained clearly here for the first time on TH-cam. These chords have confounded numerous guitarists for decades and it’s all too common to hear the song played incorrectly. Now you can learn it properly!
It’s no secret that the Allmans’ arrangement of this tune was heavily influenced by Bobby “Blue” Bland’s version, with Duane Allman quoting guitarist Wayne Bennett almost note for note in places. But it wasn’t just the lead work that captivated the Brothers. A careful listen to the Fillmore East version reveals that the Florida boys had studied all the rhythmic work of Bobby Bland’s blueprint. And the subtleties were not lost on Dickey and Duane. Listen closely as they mimic Wayne Bennett’s chord voicings, picking patterns and trills. It’s this attention to detail that truly elevated the Brothers above their many peers. Defying all logic, they somehow achieved a level of maturity in their early 20s that most players won’t reach in a lifetime of practice and study. Just listen to Duane’s restraint as he nearly whispers the chords under his brother’s soulful crooning. And check out how Dickey and Duane never step on each other’s toes. On the contrary, their playing is always complimentary and self effacing: always playing to serve the song, as opposed to an inflated ego. It represents maturity that is nothing less than astonishing.
Duane Allman and Dickey Betts get loads of well deserved credit for they incendiary lead playing, but far too often their remarkable rhythm work is overshadowed and not discussed. It’s the aim of this lesson to shine a spotlight on this shamefully overlooked aspect of the Brothers’ playing. Eat a peach folks!
PS - a sincere thank you to subscriber Michael Cornelius for planting the seed for this video! Also, an enormous thank you to my good friend Eric Heiberg who created the drum backing track for this lesson. And lastly, in case anyone is wondering, I’m wearing an Elephant Ear Studios T-shirt. If you’re looking for an outstanding recording facility with full overnight accommodations in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, please give them a call! www.elephantearstudios.com
*NOTE - I play in an Allman Brothers tribute band called Skydog. If you like my playing, you’d probably like our band. Please check us out at www.skydogtribute.com and like us on Facebook at / skydogtribute . You can also find me on facebook here: / brianwilliewilliams - เพลง
Great. Some detail I’ve been missing for about……50 odd years! Thanks.
Happy to help! 🍑
Best Stormy Monday lesson yet.
Great video. Wish I had it 20 years ago.
I've been playing guitar forever but recently retired from dentistry to improve...I was in the audience at RFK stadium in the 70's for the post Duane Eat a Peach tour...heard the same song...without the master..
I was at the same concert at RFK. I walked out of the stadium way after midnight to find my friends while they were still playing Whipping Post. Leon Russel warmed up. I think. Good old days. When I walked out of the stadium to guys were sitting on the curb with a bottle of whiskey, asked me if I wanted a drink just as two DC police officers pulled up and made us get in the car. Drove us around the stadium parking lot one time and dropped us off on the other side of the stadium. Did not find my truck and friends for two hours, the good old days ha! Great show
Fastest 21 minutes of my life, yet so informative.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've been looking for exactly this for years!
Glad you found it!
Hey. As you know. Been following you forever. This is your best video yet. There is so much stuff on You Tube for beginners. But not a lot of lessons for intermediate and advanced players. I love how you interject theory. So important, regardless as to whether Dickey or Duane knew the theory they were playing. But it helps those of us, who are trying to learn theory as well, to make sense of the notes. This is a pure harmonic analysis of this song. I've played it a million times and it sounds great. But the subtle licks you present here are amazing and to be honest, I missed over 80% of them when I played it. I don't think they are in the ABB Bible (3 volume set) . Great job. Your teaching style is so good. When we are long gone, this video will be here to guide future guitarists. Thank you.
I am so amazed that you nail every lick that Duane played. Outstanding.,
He's got a video up of all of Duane's principal licks and it really opens the door. Check it out.
The real beauty here is that you not only see the riffs played, but how they work against the chords and Berry's lines...Win/win, otra vez!
I love the video. I already knew how to play the basic song, but; I got some new great licks to incorporate that will add to what I've already got down. Thanks alot!!!1
Thanks! That last lick is a keeper.
This is really first rate stuff, man. You’re a surgeon of these tunes. 🤘 Skydog is lucky to have you.
Fantastic, very useful. There are other lessons about this but yours is the most interesting, no doubt.
The other dudes on TH-cam should watch this. Spot on. This proves duanes genius.
Bro this is an excellent breakdown from my all time favorite album. You knocked it out the park. Thanks!
Glen Manning thanks Glen!
All I can say is keep em coming!...Your love for this music comes through in these lessons and we love it too!
Calling out the key notes in all the bits is huge here. So very nicely done, brilliant lesson loaded with music theory! Cheers 🥂
agreed. I hate when advanced teachers teach like you just picked up a guitar. notes are critical to understanding what you are playing and this guy clearly gets that.
I revisit this one and the top Duane licks monthly and get something new each time. Thanks
that guitar is beautiful
@1:40, ah the old Ebmaj6 vs Cmin7. I have always played Cmin7, but I can hear the Ebmaj6... it's where the bass goes. Great video!! Thanks.
In my teens I saw a band of white boys play in a black club. And they blew the freak8ng crowds mind. This has been my most iconic blues song. That was 1969. And then to hear the Allman Bros Play it. Drank a lot of wine to this song. Greg sang he shit out of it.
Wow man, nice timing on this lesson. I had TH-cam playing music for a couple hours today while I was working and whatever playlist I triggered had this track twice and then I repeated it. Such a smooth blues and this is a great lesson for it. Thanks.
This is truly outstanding.
This is tremendously helpful! Thanks for taking the time to properly analyze this classic tune!
Thanks for taking the time to comment! I appreciate it.
Thanks for the breakdown. Very challenging song to play like the ABs.
Love this explanation
Excellent work dude. Thank you.
Fantastic lesson! Cream did an amazing version of Stormy Monday during their reunion shows in 2005. In my opinion some of Clapton’s greatest playing ever.
I subscribed to all. Incredible job. My respect.
Great lesson. Can you do another one breaking down the major/minor pentatonic soloing strategy found in the song? For example: "He's playing major pentatonic over the IV chord, then switching to minor on the V chord" type of analysis.
Ned's Black Hawk Blues yeah, we can probably do something like that. Thanks for the comment and stay tuned. 🎶
Great job......again
excellent lesson, thank you very much. saved and subscribed.
I just discovered Grant Green 2 months ago. I'll have to check that album out behind you. REALLY... REALLY GREAT lessons! Appreciate your hard work.
Cody Harris man you are in for a treat. Get ready to go down the rabbit hole! My all-time favorite is a now out of print album called “live at the lighthouse“ which has some of the most mind blowing guitar work you’ll ever hear. Hope you can find a copy.
Thanks for the recommendation! I found it on Spotify... putting it on right now.
Nice tone......what amp are you using..... I have that same photo of the boys as my screen saver.......great minds think alike......lol
I'm the guy who saw Duane play......first with Delaney and Bonnie and then with the Bros...... I learned every lick off the Fillmore album back in 1971...... I use that record to still practice to today...... I figure if you can play with Duane and Dickey you can play with anybody........ I'm 68 years young......your doing a great job keeping their legacy alive..... thanks much
thanks for the kind words. Not using an amp here. Using Garageband amp models. Cheers, ~WW
Great job. Thankyou
Great breakdown! Thanks
You bet. 🍑 ✌️
Outstanding video!!
The chords at the 9th and 10th measures has always been subject of discussion between me and other blues musicians. Since i often listen to music through little speakers (computer or cell phone) i can't really hear what the bass is playing, so i've always thought that they were playing more like a Am7 / AbMaj7 sequence ( IIm7 / IIbMaj7) which is used from time to time to clear the progression (Ray Charles's Hey Now comes to my mind). In particular mode to my ear the hammond is playing this pattern. I like to think that each of them were given freedom to interpret the progressoin as they wanted.
BTW Great lesson !!
Great video. Thanks soooo much!!!!
Thank you for the effort that went into making this video. Also, love that Grant Green LP on the side.
YossieT Thanks and good eye. I am a HUGE Grant Green fan. 🎶
VirtualWoodshed Great vid. Looking forward to checking you guys out once all this CV stuff is behind us. Scott Sharrard usually does a few shows a year in NY celebrating Grants work. Lots of vids out there - here’s a cool one. th-cam.com/video/ERsDFQm-AsU/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Nice guitar man!
Just found this channel! (was searching for "Do it Again" lessons). You need to come back and make more intermediate/advanced vids!!!
Sub'd and still missed this. Wonderful little details man. I hope y'all are keeping safe and getting by ok.
Great lesson!! Thanks so much! 😁👍🏽
gwohi glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment.
Nicely done.
Awesome video thank you!
Nice shirt!! Love me some RVA
Excellent.
I've been playing this song with my bro for 46 years and we still haven't got half the stuff you've put in -- brilliant lesson
"That's where the blues live". Life lesson, ya'llz.
That's some pretty good pickin'!
Duane.. love em..miss em .. see you in the resurrection.
Thank you very much for this great breakdown of what the Brothers were playing on this classic. Would love for you to make a similar lesson & breakdown of the ABB's song Need Your Love So Bad found on Enlightened Rogues. Dickey & Dangerous Dan Toler on a great slow blues - there is some similar sliding 6th & 9th chord rhythm work that I've not been able to figure out. Not Duane but it's still some great blues from the Brothers on one of their best albums before they broke up over the legal issues.
Great lesson Willie ! Would you please an in depth one of Don't Want You No More (My favorite ABB song) ? Thanks
James Wingard thanks. i’ve added it to the list.
Wonderful lesson bro you caught all the subtleties bravo for years Ive played this a bit differently , trying by myself to do what they were both doing hahahah but I think this even better
Yes that is my favorite lick as well the way he does this is something special maybe the timing of it
One bad ass guitar 🎸
Well done. Please consider "Whipping Post".
It’s on the list thx.
I should know better than to question this, but at 11:54 in your video, I always played a B flat 7 there, rather than a B flat minor 7. Have I been playing it wrong for 47 years ? As always, superb insight into the finest of the finest music ever recorded. Thanks !
definitely a Bbm7 chord there. Don't feel bad man, I played some of these chords wrong for years too. I only recently figured out the correct voicing for that Ebmaj6 chord in bar 10 for example. We're all just students here, and please know that *any* sincere questions are always welcome on my channel! Thanks for the nice comments too. Stuff like that keeps me going.
@@VirtualWoodshed Just a quick aside that might interest you. I'm English but have been an Allmans fan since I first heard Layla when it came out, luckily I got Live at the Fillmore early on in life and have just about every recording of it known to man - from worn out vinyl to the 5.1 surround sound recordings. Anyway, I have been fortunate enough to get across to the US many times to see the ABB at the Beacon and in Atlanta (and whenever they came to Europe). On one occasion in NYC I was meeting some friends in a restaurant before a Beacon gig and recognised a face waiting in the foyer - it was Butch Trucks. I plucked up the courage to say hi (ignoring all warnings never to meet your heroes) and thanked him for a lifetime of music, in particular the Fillmore East recordings. He was a pleasure to speak with and was equally as convinced as I was that Live at the Fillmore East was the finest piece of music ever recorded. Thought you might like to know that he too still appreciated what they had achieved.
Brian Gadie that’s great! Very glad you got to see them here in the US. I was fortunate enough to meet the original four guys before a show in ‘98. Didn’t have the exact experience as you though, because there was an awful lot of drama and discontent going on in the band at that time. But I got to shake their hands and express my gratitude, which meant a lot. Jaimoe was very gracious, and a lot of fun to talk to. And Joe Dan Petty managed to get my copy of AFE signed by everyone except Butch. JDP was a real prince of a guy. Cheers!
Skydog reincarnated 🤘🏽🤘🏽would love to see you break down some of “Pegasus”
Snickers482 that’s interesting. Lots going on in that one. I’ll add it to the list. Thanks 🍑
@@VirtualWoodshed I support very strongly this request, Pegasus is a difficult piece and IMO one of the most fantastic DB compositions, and certainly very overlooked. It's worth breaking down it. Please oh please !
Great session. Can anyone tell me what the logic of the Emaj6 of the 10th bar is? It works but I can't conceptualise it into my repertoire of blues theoretic options. Eb is a flattened VI which does not seem to belong in an ionian or myxolydian mode.
Nice and well explained ... thanks. BTW whats behind the nut on your LP and does it have a purpose ?
thank you! That is a hand woven bracelet made by my 12 year old daughter and it has the most important purpose of all. It reminds me of how much she loves me when I look down and see it!
Awe that's real sweet man. My daughter has always been our family gift maker too. Things like that never get old do they ... just like the Allman's music.
@@VirtualWoodshed How wonderful bro thats the kind of heart it takes to play this music like they did.
Algo love and OCD
Will you do the solo?
Pete stern th-cam.com/video/yr2M4bzs_74/w-d-xo.html Already done. Use the “playback speed” feature to slow this down and see what’s going on. 🤘
Since you are talking about this song. in this song in the 8:25 mark off the Fillmore Concerts album they change rhythm when Thom Doucette starts to play harmonica, would you explain this section please?
Tom Oliver yeah, sorry. I was going to get into that, but the video was getting long enough as it was. It’s basically just a simple double time feel. I’ll try to cover more on that soon. Thanks for the comment.
@@VirtualWoodshed Thanks for the reply and thanks for letting us know how to slow down the video. Us old guys have the attention span of a nat. Great work by the way!
@@VirtualWoodshed Please do , that uptempo rhythm section just blows my mind so cool a break for the organ solo its almost impossible to duplicate the feel of this .
ok,cool,not sure felt iy diff\\
hey Willie, Todd from KY here, How did Duane know all this technical stuff so young? He didn't have time to go to school for it. Was he just BORN with this knowledge? Of course I'm kidding but I am curious how he learned all this stuff by his twenties?????
He was sent here......to school us
todd hess i’m not sure how much “technical stuff“ he really knew. Lee Roy Parnell told me that Duane picked up quite a bit of stuff from the session cats in muscle Shoals. He heard that from Barry Beckett who had worked with Duane on some of those records. I’m sure DA learned a lot from those guys, but as far as chord voicings, my guess is he just figured out by ear what guys like Wayne Bennett were doing and just ran with it. Of course I don’t know that for sure. Just speculating. $.02
@@VirtualWoodshed THANKS WILLIE
@@johnpandolfino8663 Obviously J.P. and he still is!
By seriously listening to everything he liked and figuring how how to do it his way , playing 300 plus gigs in one year BEFORE Fillmore didnt hurt Im sure , the rest was just his soul talkin.
17:47
Ok I'm gonna give it a shot see how close I get!
Hey .......can you do a tutorial on Dimple's
that's a great tune! I've been thinking of doing a video on it myself...
John Pandolfino the solo?
Beauty Les Paul
rhythm chords wrong .. relative minior chords played throughout
The boys had tons of soul for a couple of white boys......
You are making 9ths wrong.
Whats this wrong stuff , sounds great to me , yes its somewhat simplified , that keeps it cleaner when you have 2 guitars , a bass and a Hammond voicing together
Könnte man den Müll auch in 2 Minuten abhandeln? Sicher.