Isn’t it amazing that after 30 years, we are still chasing that SRV magic? I’m 72, and still am enjoying the way Stevie used his skills, soul and talent to produce the music I still love.
32 yrs old and I'm getting inspiration and influence from SRV every single day. I wish so badly I could have seen him play. I was born only 3 months after he passed 😔
Watched a doco on Stevie long after his death and didn't realise how long of an apprenticeship he went through playing gigs 2nd or third string for years in low level type clubs from when he was very young. The dude really did pay his dues in sweat and hours of dedication to become as great as he was, and as this compilation of his tricks and styles shows how much he studied and indeed admired those who came before him.
This literally might be the best video I've ever watched concerning the classic SRV techniques. You demonstrated enough to encourage practice and then play ourselves to make it 'our own' some day. Much better than simply copying a solo. Thank you very much. Superb!
Back in the day, I was taking a short cut through a parking lot and i looked down and there was a lonely cassette laying on the tarmac that said "SRV". I was like "WTF" is this? I picked up the cassette took it home and played and blew my mind. It was the 80's and i was new wave kind of guy but this guy blew my mind. I became an instant Stevie Ray Vaughn fan.
I rented a CD from the library called Stevie Ray Vaughan live at Austin city limits. OMG, I have never seen anyone play so fast in my life. It was hard to believe his fingers could move so fast and his other hand was doing something completely different. I recommend that for anyone looking for a new appreciation for what Stevie was all about and singing at the same time. Plus writing his own music. He must've played guitar in his sleep. I was so crushed when I heard about his senseless, tragic death especially after finally getting clean from his life long drug and alcohol habit. He even said that his problems with booze and drugs held him back from getting gigs that would have lifted him to stardom. He was the total package , his clothes, mannerisms, guitar maestro, singer. Really someone unique and special. RIPSRV.
I have no clue how it works but I’ll go a month or two without listening to a random SRV album or a random Hendrix album and it’s as if I had never heard those songs before. Like I know the songs and have loved the songs since I was a young kid but the music is always captivating. The true GOATs
The first time I learnt about the double string vibrato/bending was at the end of the Back in Black solo. Never realized so much of ACDC came from the blues.
About that washing machine (#7) -- you get a more trebly tone picking nearer the bridge, and a bassier tone picking over the neck. This is also a trick that classical guitarists use -- it's a pretty important aspect of classical guitar performance. So when Stevie played that way, he was alternating quickly between bass and treble tones in the shuffle. The downstrokes and upstrokes should sound very different.
I love all the little slides. I would have added just one more. SRV changed pick up a 1000 times during each song. I picked up on it years ago and do with with all my guitars. It breaks up the tone. Really is the bomb!
Wherever or whoever these licks come from, your personality and heart captures the essence of the feeling of the momentum of their execution. That said, your love and humour makes for the best show and tell of music a teacher has to give. Thanks so much for bearing the torch.
I am also 72, still a rocknroll singer/ guitarist. I dug yer SRV styles. I jus wanna mention that noone has ever sounded like his voice. He was a great singer! Out of your styles I dug the most the circular strum what you called the washboard strum ala Pride n Joy.
JIMI.. got me into the blues.. the first time I heard 'Red House'.. I was blown away.. then a short jump to SRV... once I played 'Live at the El Macombo' on VHS (yeah, I'm that old)... his version of 'Texas Flood' from that set.. IMO, is THE best live version ever recorded. to this day.. Jimi/Stevie... back and forth as to which one is my favorite. Great video as always dude!
@@Mitch1977 I couldn't agree more, Mitch, and have been saying the same for well over 30 years now. As far as what gets me going, it's simply the best guitar playing demonstration i've ever witnessed.
I challenge people all the time to find two videos of Stevie Ray Vaughan playing the same song live the same way. I've yet to find an example of it. I think that's an aspect of Stevie's virtuosity that goes underappreciated by many. The structure of the song was mostly the same. The riffs and licks are there. But the performances are still fundamentally different because of his improvisations. Of course, Double Trouble (including Reece) are legendary for being able to follow and keep up with the changes flawlessly.
@@Mitch1977 A good friend of mine in HS, who was also a huge SRV fan, had the VHS tape. We watched it so many times we basically wore it out. lol. What was funny is that I was into heavy metal, rock, etc... Once I heard the blues.. REALLY listened.. I never looked back. I focused my entire musical life on the blues. Even now, I have other musical tastes.. but it always comes back to the blues. always.
Hendrix inspired me to play guitar but, Stevie Ray is my favorite. This is the best video I’ve saw on his style. Absolutely awesome & your playing is amazing as well.
A match made in heaven...SRV and Guitar Pilgrim. I believe another influence for Stevie was Lonnie Mack. I remember that Stevie did a concert and jammed with him. You could feel the respect and the jam was epic. He'd be a great one to do a lesson on. Really an unsung guitar hero, who guitarists know but not too many in the public.
I swapped licks with Stevie on the beach in Fla. At the time, he named Wham as a foremost influence. I had only heard it on a crystal radio as a kid. No joke. I caught Lonnie at Bearsville (NY) not long before he passed. He was an absolute killer. Sustained energy personified. Chris
@@christophergallagher531 I always laughed and said I was born with two left ears when it comes to music. But 6 months ago I bought a piano after my retirement and love it. Much respect.
You forgot to mention the pickup selector switch trick: start the phrase (better a fast one) on lower notes and strings and on neck pickup, then when you're on the upper frets and strings, bend a high note and switch to the bridge pickup almost simultaneously, in order to create a honky sound on the high-mids, kinda like a wah effect. Stevie does it ALL the time. Yngwie does it too.
Thanks for the lesson man loved it, there are so many guy's on the tube teaching srv but are lacking the one key element, and that is, they can't actually play, but you tick all the boxes , you sound just like me, if I was a thousand times better than what I am right now, thanks.
There are no guitar "tricks" practice is the only way and then each player has a PERSONALITY, that comes out in the individual style each player has. I had a time when I was writing my own songs and a guy in the band would show me a new blues riff or a little chord sequence knowing that I would write a song around it. When he left me on my own I would play around with what this guy showed me. I had another guy who was our "musical director" who would decide what we were going to play and I would go and show him what I had and we would do the final edit and get it worked up with the rest of the band. I learned an enormous amount this way. From playing with a tune and some lyrics on my own to watching the band create the finished song, amazing to see magic happen.
SRV is a great story teller using as background his own musical world. He brings in tension and relief using unforgettable musical passages, intros and solos. I find trick #3 very distinctive for his signature sound.
Great playing and some solid tips. The slides made me smile, such a simple trick and it sounds so good if you master it. He also liked his hammer ons, but you showed some great examples and influences. Thanks.
As usual, fantastic video Thom! SRV was and always will be the real deal Blues player! Hope that you and your family are doing well and enjoying your new surroundings! 👍👍👏👏
Looks like I’m about a year late to the party, but I’m SO glad I dropped by! These demonstrations are very informative and useful. Thank you so much for posting this! (P.S.- You’re obviously a monster on that guitar, bro. Awesome skills & technique!)
This was great! SRV is why I started playing. Can you please make this a series? Maybe BB King, Clapton, Gary Moore… and even some newer guys like Eric Gales and Gary Clark Jr. anyway, thank you for putting this together
Just stumbled on this channel. Great video: to the point, no fluff, I like it. I already knew what number 1 would be. I already stole that trick from Stevie years ago and still love to use it :D
SRV was a stud. EVH and SRV are co-number guitarists of all time. Purist musicians just can not admit it. I love Jimi and Eric and everyone else but SRV/EVH is just not in the same league. Great video!
This is good. I am glad to see not everyone is trying to teach this SRV solo or that SRV solo because Stevie himself never played the same thing once let alone twice; I have 16 different recordings of SRV playing Texas Flood and all are different solos. Your teaching here however, incorporates many of his techniques that can be added to anyones repertoire and this is the way to teach SRV in my humble opinion. I started trying to lift his style since I first heard him in 1983 and all of these are part my natural style now... except number 5. For the life of me, I cannot recall SRV going from a pentatonic solo and then jumping into octaves. The exception being the Kenny Burrell song, Chitlins Con Carne. If anyone can post a link to him doing this I would appreciate it.
I have to say this chap is the most exciting and informative guitar chap on youtube. You could spend a month just working through this one vid and coming out a superior player. Who else has this guys passion? Thanks, pilgrim. Any chance of some original blues playing?.....
One more trick is worth mentioning, you've played it in the intro. He often liked to add a half step note in his blues phrasing on a lower e string. I think that's his signature trick and it colours his solos very nicely and breaks it out of the blues box just for a fraction of a second.
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Let me know which trick was most interesting and useful! I personally love all 10 of em!
Been doing number 7 all these times, the most amazing was number 1. That was SUPERB !!
all 10.. thank you!
All of them !
And your unique way to see those Guitar shades in various players, led you to a series 😂
We want 10 trick of other artist 😁👍
How exactly are you getting that righteous tone on your Strat?
I liked #9____😎✌
Isn’t it amazing that after 30 years, we are still chasing that SRV magic? I’m 72, and still am enjoying the way Stevie used his skills, soul and talent to produce the music I still love.
73 and I totally agree. Keeping light burning baby!
32 yrs old and I'm getting inspiration and influence from SRV every single day. I wish so badly I could have seen him play. I was born only 3 months after he passed 😔
23 yrs and rocking with Stevie!!!!
54 and can't get enough of SRV!
Wow, 72 more by brother !
So no one's gonna talk about how impressive pilgrim himself is? Dude's slaying it 💯
He's entirely awesome.
For sure. One amazing player
Pilgrim is an amazing player! He plays everybody and everything with equal proficiency. Amazing! Love all his videos.
SRV had a bluesman soul, geniuos mind and a devil's hands!!! The best, ever!!!
You've got the blues running through your veins my friend
Stevie Ray Vaughan always had such an immense tone. He was a monster player.
And all at mega volume, very little room for error at that volume and you hardly ever hear him mess up on live vids
@@nowthen873 I saw him at the Horden Pavilion in Sydney Australia. My ears are still ringing 30+ years later
Jesus, what have I just watched? Looks like I have just found THE video to watch every single time before practicing! Thank you so much for this, man!
Watched a doco on Stevie long after his death and didn't realise how long of an apprenticeship he went through playing gigs 2nd or third string for years in low level type clubs from when he was very young. The dude really did pay his dues in sweat and hours of dedication to become as great as he was, and as this compilation of his tricks and styles shows how much he studied and indeed admired those who came before him.
This literally might be the best video I've ever watched concerning the classic SRV techniques. You demonstrated enough to encourage practice and then play ourselves to make it 'our own' some day. Much better than simply copying a solo. Thank you very much. Superb!
My son was born four years after SRV died. We struggled to give him a proper name. So I convinced my wife we should name him after Stevie.
I love this dutch dude's enthusiasm. very animated and non-boring
Back in the day, I was taking a short cut through a parking lot and i looked down and there was a lonely cassette laying on the tarmac that said "SRV". I was like "WTF" is this? I picked up the cassette took it home and played and blew my mind. It was the 80's and i was new wave kind of guy but this guy blew my mind. I became an instant Stevie Ray Vaughn fan.
Great video(s) - shout out to Freddie King. He seems to be overlooked and was possibly one of SRV's greatest influences.
Never heard of SRV until in 1992 a friend lent me his 'Live at the El Mocambo' video tape....he never got it back...and I became a BluesPlayer..😎
I rented a CD from the library called Stevie Ray Vaughan live at Austin city limits. OMG, I have never seen anyone play so fast in my life. It was hard to believe his fingers could move so fast and his other hand was doing something completely different. I recommend that for anyone looking for a new appreciation for what Stevie was all about and singing at the same time. Plus writing his own music. He must've played guitar in his sleep. I was so crushed when I heard about his senseless, tragic death especially after finally getting clean from his life long drug and alcohol habit. He even said that his problems with booze and drugs held him back from getting gigs that would have lifted him to stardom. He was the total package , his clothes, mannerisms, guitar maestro, singer. Really someone unique and special. RIPSRV.
I’ve been listening to Stevie and Jimi my entire life and I still hear things they played that blow me away.
5:25
I have no clue how it works but I’ll go a month or two without listening to a random SRV album or a random Hendrix album and it’s as if I had never heard those songs before. Like I know the songs and have loved the songs since I was a young kid but the music is always captivating. The true GOATs
I like watching pros show things like this helps me see where I picked up stuff. Capton is another who will vibro multiple strings
Circular picking! So, that's how SRV did that super cool thang!
The first time I learnt about the double string vibrato/bending was at the end of the Back in Black solo. Never realized so much of ACDC came from the blues.
Stevie was the real deal.I don't care for an imitation !
Love SRV music & really enjoy seeing you show us how....will be watching your videos...68 but still love to learn music.
About that washing machine (#7) -- you get a more trebly tone picking nearer the bridge, and a bassier tone picking over the neck. This is also a trick that classical guitarists use -- it's a pretty important aspect of classical guitar performance. So when Stevie played that way, he was alternating quickly between bass and treble tones in the shuffle. The downstrokes and upstrokes should sound very different.
I love all the little slides. I would have added just one more. SRV changed pick up a 1000 times during each song. I picked up on it years ago and do with with all my guitars. It breaks up the tone. Really is the bomb!
So much from a 12min video! Took me years to understand some of those techniques! Thanks a lot!
Quite enjoyable... specifically the origin of who Stevie would pull a stylistic influence from and what he did to make it his own.
Wherever or whoever these licks come from, your personality and heart captures the essence of the feeling of the momentum of their execution. That said, your love and humour makes for the best show and tell of music a teacher has to give. Thanks so much for bearing the torch.
Stevie had one of the strongest left hands in the business
I am also 72, still a rocknroll singer/ guitarist.
I dug yer SRV styles. I jus wanna mention that noone has ever sounded like his voice. He was a great singer!
Out of your styles I dug the most the circular strum what you called the washboard strum ala Pride n Joy.
JIMI.. got me into the blues.. the first time I heard 'Red House'.. I was blown away.. then a short jump to SRV... once I played 'Live at the El Macombo' on VHS (yeah, I'm that old)... his version of 'Texas Flood' from that set.. IMO, is THE best live version ever recorded. to this day.. Jimi/Stevie... back and forth as to which one is my favorite. Great video as always dude!
The El Mocambo show was probably the greatest guitar exhibition evening ever played..at least I think so!
Same here
@@Mitch1977 I couldn't agree more, Mitch, and have been saying the same for well over 30 years now. As far as what gets me going, it's simply the best guitar playing demonstration i've ever witnessed.
I challenge people all the time to find two videos of Stevie Ray Vaughan playing the same song live the same way. I've yet to find an example of it. I think that's an aspect of Stevie's virtuosity that goes underappreciated by many. The structure of the song was mostly the same. The riffs and licks are there. But the performances are still fundamentally different because of his improvisations.
Of course, Double Trouble (including Reece) are legendary for being able to follow and keep up with the changes flawlessly.
@@Mitch1977 A good friend of mine in HS, who was also a huge SRV fan, had the VHS tape. We watched it so many times we basically wore it out. lol. What was funny is that I was into heavy metal, rock, etc... Once I heard the blues.. REALLY listened.. I never looked back. I focused my entire musical life on the blues. Even now, I have other musical tastes.. but it always comes back to the blues. always.
Great job showing us some of Stevie’s tricks.
Tip 4, that bending of 2 Strings simoltaniously is also something John Mayer does sooo often live. Never knew that this wasnt his idea :D
Stevie didn't play guitar. He plugged his soul into an amp and shared it with us. The guitar was just his tool to do it.
I'd just like to remind everyone that SRV mastered all of his amazing licks without the internet
True!! But he did have Doyle and Jimmie busting his b@lls 24/7😂
excellent pédagogue ... avec le sourire Merci !
fantastic imitation of stevie ,,liking your channel for a long time now,,,your enthusiasm is catchy...cheers from australia
I think that’s one of the best SRV sounds and show of style & techniques I’ve seen in a long while….🫥
Awesome! Thanks. Stevie was one of the best
Hendrix inspired me to play guitar but, Stevie Ray is my favorite. This is the best video I’ve saw on his style. Absolutely awesome & your playing is amazing as well.
A match made in heaven...SRV and Guitar Pilgrim. I believe another influence for Stevie was Lonnie Mack. I remember that Stevie did a concert and jammed with him. You could feel the respect and the jam was epic. He'd be a great one to do a lesson on. Really an unsung guitar hero, who guitarists know but not too many in the public.
I swapped licks with Stevie on the beach in Fla.
At the time, he named Wham as a foremost influence. I had only heard it on a crystal radio as a kid. No joke.
I caught Lonnie at Bearsville (NY) not long before he passed. He was an absolute killer. Sustained energy personified. Chris
Lonnie Macks Strike like Lightning is an incredible album! Oreo Cookie blues is a crowd favorite!
@@ppvk2610 Merci beaucoup.
@@christophergallagher531 I always laughed and said I was born with two left ears when it comes to music. But 6 months ago I bought a piano after my retirement and love it.
Much respect.
@@TheBamaKid1962 Merci.
Good to see you back home Pilgrim.
The shuffle helped me develop my technique. Thank you SRV!
He was using strings that you can tow a car with them 🤣🤣🤣
Hello from Turkey
Great video
I love SRV
You forgot to mention the pickup selector switch trick: start the phrase (better a fast one) on lower notes and strings and on neck pickup, then when you're on the upper frets and strings, bend a high note and switch to the bridge pickup almost simultaneously, in order to create a honky sound on the high-mids, kinda like a wah effect. Stevie does it ALL the time.
Yngwie does it too.
Great video GP!! Many thanks. Great to see how Stevie took so many influences from those before him and created his own style.
The only man with a soul patch I would be able to trust.
This was really well done. All licks interesting and explained clearly. Thanks
Thanks for the lesson man loved it, there are so many guy's on the tube teaching srv but are lacking the one key element, and that is, they can't actually play, but you tick all the boxes , you sound just like me, if I was a thousand times better than what I am right now, thanks.
There are no guitar "tricks" practice is the only way and then each player has a PERSONALITY, that comes out in the individual style each player has. I had a time when I was writing my own songs and a guy in the band would show me a new blues riff or a little chord sequence knowing that I would write a song around it. When he left me on my own I would play around with what this guy showed me. I had another guy who was our "musical director" who would decide what we were going to play and I would go and show him what I had and we would do the final edit and get it worked up with the rest of the band. I learned an enormous amount this way. From playing with a tune and some lyrics on my own to watching the band create the finished song, amazing to see magic happen.
SRV is a great story teller using as background his own musical world.
He brings in tension and relief using unforgettable musical passages, intros and solos.
I find trick #3 very distinctive for his signature sound.
Great playing and some solid tips.
The slides made me smile, such a simple trick and it sounds so good if you master it.
He also liked his hammer ons, but you showed some great examples and influences.
Thanks.
I know these little subtle jems but I watched, and its always interesting to see other guitarists do things like that great man did them.
Bravo zio , e sempre il n1 SRV🎸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
they need a love button for your channel!
thanks man, my dentures blew out on that double string vibrato!
Loving the content, as ever Pilgrim. You do justice to every style you play. Top work man.
I want 11s and the tech says since I'm a female I need 9s. My hands are strong with plenty of callouses and many years of work. Geeeeez......
As usual, fantastic video Thom! SRV was and always will be the real deal Blues player! Hope that you and your family are doing well and enjoying your new surroundings! 👍👍👏👏
Looks like I’m about a year late to the party, but I’m SO glad I dropped by! These demonstrations are very informative and useful. Thank you so much for posting this! (P.S.- You’re obviously a monster on that guitar, bro. Awesome skills & technique!)
Great tone here. I'm impressed by this video, and that's somewhat rare given the sheer volume of srv clones around.
Great job
Each trick was better than the last. Perfect lesson.
Great vid! Glad Albert King was recognized.
Thanks - huge SRV fan. Always fun to hear how his work is interpreted.
This was great! SRV is why I started playing. Can you please make this a series? Maybe BB King, Clapton, Gary Moore… and even some newer guys like Eric Gales and Gary Clark Jr. anyway, thank you for putting this together
I like the number 4 trick which I use and does indeed give a very rough and dissonant emotional feeling.
Greate analysis. Nr one is also my favourite. Thanks for sharing.
Just stumbled on this channel. Great video: to the point, no fluff, I like it.
I already knew what number 1 would be. I already stole that trick from Stevie years ago and still love to use it :D
Great title for a Blues song at 4:24, "It's gonna hurt"
This was great! It just shows how little subtleties in the way you play can make such a huge difference in the sound!
SRV was a stud. EVH and SRV are co-number guitarists of all time. Purist musicians just can not admit it. I love Jimi and Eric and everyone else but SRV/EVH is just not in the same league. Great video!
Nice SRV solo improvisation at the end. Really recognisable and tightly played. Your technique is superb.
This is good. I am glad to see not everyone is trying to teach this SRV solo or that SRV solo because Stevie himself never played the same thing once let alone twice; I have 16 different recordings of SRV playing Texas Flood and all are different solos. Your teaching here however, incorporates many of his techniques that can be added to anyones repertoire and this is the way to teach SRV in my humble opinion. I started trying to lift his style since I first heard him in 1983 and all of these are part my natural style now... except number 5. For the life of me, I cannot recall SRV going from a pentatonic solo and then jumping into octaves. The exception being the Kenny Burrell song, Chitlins Con Carne. If anyone can post a link to him doing this I would appreciate it.
Excellent overview and very practical and useful - thanks
spot on as always
Bro. This video is magic.
Stevie was one of the top players in history. An innovator of guitar play. We all are better players because of him.
Never gets old
This was fun and entertaining! They broke the mold. Good player here, thanks!
I absolutely adore your enthusiasm and admire your music and guitar knowledge.
Props!
You made these licks easy to learn, you have him nailed, thanx!
Srv is the reason I started playing, i was 11 and heard cold shot for the first time.
Very informative. That is for taking the time.
Excellent video my friend thank you very much
Damn, this video is pure gold
Love your stuff! Keep the SRV coming!
I love every number.
Thank you for your share.
Amazing video, tricks are on point, very entertaining and the end solo is tight
Srv is one of the best player in the world!
I'm learning Testify, the acoustic version, and these tips are definitely eye-opening!
I have to say this chap is the most exciting and informative guitar chap on youtube. You could spend a month just working through this one vid and coming out a superior player. Who else has this guys passion? Thanks, pilgrim. Any chance of some original blues playing?.....
Lol, you had me with the faces there
SRV is one of a few guitarists who could do hendrix justice when he played his music
I love that he didn't try to copy Hendrix. He made the songs his own in subtle, respectful ways very much in line with the Blues tradition.
Howdie pilgrim. I don’t know why you don’t have a million subscribers yet. Your awesome. Love your channel.
#3 and #1 - are new lines to my poetry. Thank You!
SRV is the real Legend.. and now you explain it very well his lick.. thanks alot man.. i love the way you break down it 🤟
One more trick is worth mentioning, you've played it in the intro. He often liked to add a half step note in his blues phrasing on a lower e string. I think that's his signature trick and it colours his solos very nicely and breaks it out of the blues box just for a fraction of a second.
Guitar pilgrim I have to say , your playing is just amazing you rock that guitar like all the others my friend, love all your videos . 👍👍🤘
Great lesson! Also, nice improvised solo showing these tips!
Je speelt zelf fantastisch! Mooie video, dank je wel... Ik geniet van SRV al sinds begin 80er jaren en hij zal altijd een deel van me blijven!
Dude, killer playing.
Great playing and great tricks & licks
Kudos to a job very well done 👍
One of the best videos on your channel. Congratulations from Brazil 😎