His Simple but Powerful Licks Changed Everything (Learn in 5 minutes)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2023
- FREE Triad Map here: tinyurl.com/3sxx8ea4
Become a Mark Z Member!
Rockstar Membership: tinyurl.com/bdcv4kp9
#guitarlesson #triads #doublestops #rnbguitar #soulguitar #staxrecords #stevecropper #soulman #dockofthebay - บันเทิง
I remember Steve Cropper from "The Blues Brothers" movie from 1980. Great musician. Heck, all those musicians were great! And who can forget "Murph and The Magic Tones"? !
“We need your horn, man. We’re on a mission from God”
Something I think it's critical for young players to learn: everyone should take turns at the "front" in songs. Don't try to play the whole song yourself. Listen to the Lemon Song. They each take turns at the "front". So, no hot riffs while the singer is singing. No fancy drum fills when the bass has the front. Everyone plays rhythm and everyone is a soloist by turns, and you'll do fine.
Taking turns with the solos. It worked for Molly Hatchet 👍. And April Wine.
you gotta love Steve Cropper.
Soul Man and Clean Up Woman use the same chords but in different order. These triads can also be used for the classic Stax horn lines in Tramp and I Can't Cut You Loose.
Born Under a Bad Sign is in C#. Cropper came up with that key because it open up the core riff, allowing you to use an open E.
Yep, C# as played here!
Thanks for recognizing Steve's simple, effective style and your instructive explanation. He's one of my heroes.
Thanks!
3:44 another money shot... these stick in my head nicely.
Glad they help.
Five minutes in and I’m doing a great job of fumble bumbling my “60’s legendary - Play It Steve!!!” Steve Soundz! Thank you my friend!
You're welcome. Have fun!!
I’m not sure if it was Charlie Christian, Kenny Burrell, or another early Jazz guitar star - they said “If you play all 6 strings, the band stops”
Interesting and insightful.
Steve Cropper is quality.
Keith Richards calls it “pieces of chords.”He and Brian Jones got it. When I started playing (prehistoric days), rhythm guitar was first. It was your internship. The lead guitar player was sometimes a bit older, and most definitely better, than you. That’s how we learned to play with other people; what rhythm is; and how rhythm and chords go together. If you were good enough, you “graduated” to lead guitar at some point. Some guitar players never want to play lead, but most aspire to that lofty peak. Steve Cropper, Curtis Mayfield, and the Motown guitar players set a pretty high bar. I learned so much from Steve Cropper, as did most of “a certain generation” of guitar players. Great vid; what you say is absolutely true!
Thanks Larry!
Somewhere along the line I learned to incorporate the techniques in this video into my guitar playing, but I couldn’t have explained the why to someone else. You are a rare teacher/explainer.
Thank you so much!
I wish the you, the internet, and TH-cam were around back when I was 20; but still grateful today that all of you great teachers are so willing to help us mere mortals become demi-gods at home!
Glad to help!
Cropper was so innovative with those simple moves. Thx
My pleasure. He certainly was.
Excellent tutorial. Clearly fitting the guitar in with the rest of the performers is an art that people like Steve Cropper mastered
Thanks! He sure knows how to weave guitar into a song!
Great delivery. Space on a busy stage is so important. I went to university for music after 25 years of bar gigs. Man..,,guide tones and such, make the whole band sound layered and makes the texture of the music more open. Great lesson!
Thanks!
Good stuff. Good advice. Good song.
great and simple R&B Thanks...
Thanks!
This is real cool Mark! Thank you for posting this. Very enlightening!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great lesson
Glad you enjoyed it
So simple yet so effective. Less is definitely more. Thank you Mark.
You bet!
Thank you.
Awesome lesson Mark!! Love partials n triads. Leaves alot of space and sound great. Keep up the great work 🎸👍
Thanks so much Paul!
My favorite. One of the greatest ever in blurring the line between rhythm and lead. Always tasteful. He always let the singer shine, taking care to “fill the holes” as he stated it. Above all, his aim in playing was to always serve the song.
Serve the song. The mantra of those early sidemen.
Excellent, well played, exactly, a pattern starts to emerge ,that's where it's at
Nice high quality video. Thank You. Memorable.
Thank you!
We had a saying Keep It Simple Silly. This certainly applies to this lesson. Great riff!
Yes! Thank you!
Just what I needed. Thank you
Great. Glad to help!
I love his solo on Ten Years Gone. Beautiful phrasing and tone, melodic, emotional and subtle. Love it
Well done!
Thanks!
So, I find this great lesson while looking up a song to play in my choir. 'Soul man' while practicing in Church! How perfect is that!😉🙏 Thank you for the best lessons around! You rock Good Sir!👍🎸
Thanks so much!
Good one Mark..! Triads and dyads are elegant.. and cool..👍🏼❤️
Absolutely. Thanks Joe! Great seeing you on the livestream the other day.
What everyone missed is the influence of Lowman Pauling on Cropper's playing.
I need to learn this stuff and understand which ones they are it’ll help my playing guitar so much
Such a good teacher , thanks again
Thank you!
Great video
Excellent lesson Mark, a lot of music, a little history. Well done…
Glad you enjoyed it
Very effective and useful 🎸lesson! Loved the RnB triad examples! Please more of it👍🎸🙏😊
Thank you! Will do!
That’s awesome!!
Thanks!
I can't thank you enough; this is great stuff!
Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!
Great Lesson!!!
Thanks!
Thank you for these lessons Mark you have re-introduced the guitar back to me and I'm loving it.
Thanks Tony. You totally made my day!
Great lesson, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Mark Brilliant & beautifully illustrated 👋🖤🦋🖤✨️
Glad you enjoyed it Kris!
I’ve noticed in trying to improve my home recording of original music that in listening to professional music from a recording aspect, how many instruments never step on others with fills and leads.
Good thing to notice!
As usual you make it look so easy! I wish I’d had you as a guitar tutor back in the day. Always a pleasure watching your lessons
Thanks a lot!
AWESOME....
Thanks!
Nice breakdown!
Glad you liked it!
Great one as usual, Mark!
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic lesson!
Glad you liked it!
Someone named “OfficialMarkZabel8” is using your platform to try and scam.
In the 60s Steve was the only guitar player that could get a standing ovation with just 1 note because he knew exactly what note when it should be done and not over do it
Very interesting. Nice schematics. Very good job 🎉thanks
Glad you liked it!
Cropper showed us how cool 6th chords are!
About a decade back, I saw Booker T and the MGs at a festival. Every time Steve would step up to take a solo, or do a fill, I'd think "That's *exactly* what I would play right there". Made me realize that, no matter how much I idolized many other players I had grown up with, what I really wanted to be was Steve Cropper.
Great story!
Thanks for that story, made me smile and think of Keith Richards who once said "Everybody wanted to be like Elvis. I wanted to be like Scotty Moore." 🙂And yes: Steve Cropper is one of the top 10.
@@MarkZabel And 100% true. I *thought* I wanted to be Jimmy Nolan (James Brown's long-time guitar player), but I really wanted to be Steve Cropper. I was raised on Beatles, but a LOT of Stax/Volt as well. What I learned from Steve was how to identify the little things that make a song feel "complete". His playing always had the feel of a producer.
Thank you for more Gold Mark! Always appreciated !
Awesome, I've been trying to incorporate things like this in my music but mostly shell chords from Jazz.
Shell chords are good too.
Before my time but I can now totally relate to his playing. Really simple stuff actually.
Good stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is an incredibly good and important lesson. Thanks for some great examples of the Less Is More approach to playing. It's not about minimalism so much as it's about economy of means and playing with clarity. I love it!!!
Thanks so much!
Less is more? That is impossible.
th-cam.com/video/QHZ48AE3TOI/w-d-xo.html
These vids really helped me break out of a decades long rut.. it amazing how many little chords you can make from the big bar chords.. I was thinking you might play Duane Eddy, another simple guitarist
Awesome! And great suggestion too!
I've noticed times in songs when I was being lazy just playing a standard open chord. Eventually, I got tired of that because I knew it didn't sound quite right and a full chord at the wrong time can really just muddy things up pretty bad. What I learned from this lesson is there is something to be said for studying the particular reasons a player is employing a specific technique. It sheds light on why you are playing it this way instead of that way. You truly do have it broken down in such a way that a player can get a lot from these 5 minutes.
Thanks!
Thanks
You're welcome.
Quality and practical lessons in under 10 minutes. Love it.
Great to hear!
How all youtube lessons should be. Spot on Mark.
Nice! Thanks!
You bet!
@@OfficialMarkZabel8 really?
@@MarkZabel really? I won what!?
@@johngraymusic John. Look closely. It's not me. I hate these guys who do this pretending and giving "prizes" or whatever. Like flies. Just ignore. I report them to TH-cam but they keep coming back.
@@MarkZabel thanks for responding, I honestly didn't think it was you, I'll report them as well!
Any time I list my favorite guitarists, I always start with my trifecta of Steve - Steve Cropper, Steve Lukather and Steve Howe (no particular order). Cropper has always been one of my favorites for sure.
Ooooh, trifecta for sure!
Heck yeah !
Yeah!
Hi Mark, read the word "simple" and I clicked.
As you develop (or age) one finds satisfaction in the subtle things.
Having a synthesizer (Moog Korg Roland) background yet owning a guitar (Gretsch g5421 & Marshall Origin amp). I 100% agree.
Thanks!
Great lesson! I think Steve had some influence on Roy Buchanan too. One of Roy's albums has the two of them playing Green Onions together. A real kick in the slats.
Thanks!
Good one, thanks. I love Cropper's playing but have never studied him, you opened a door for me here. Good example of a call and response between guitar and vocals it seems. Playing low G ukulele for 6 months helped me really get away from 'big chords' on guitar. Really made me think about how to utilize just those 4 strings closest to the floor.
Cool, thanks!
The same concept for the busy part of a song is in Changüi as well. The Tres plays a 6th or 3rd harmony to the singers, and then when there is no singing, it does a very short repeated ostinato
Wow, so interesting. I've got some listening to do. Thanks for letting me know!
Well not much to say except .. Yup ! ..
Nah..
That deserves a He!! yes!!
Thanks Mark Z Mark.
Thanks brother!
I once heard Steve Cropper on NPR. He said that he enjoyed a good solo and fills, but what impressed him most was a fine rhythm guitarist who could drive the melody of a song with chords.
Thanks for your comment. He was certainly that! But generally, as you know, guys like Cropper (also a great writer and producer), Cornell Dupree, Robert White, Joe Messina, Reggie Young, Curtis Mayfield, etc. don't get the spotlight. They "just" make the songs better. Can you imagine "Drift Away" or "Alison" without the little guitar fills?
@@MarkZabel No, I could not. In that regard, Steve was underappreciated. But driving down a mountain one day, I was a little surprised to hear Steve's praise of Don Everly. There's a reason why John Belushi said, "Play it Steve."
Very interesting 🎸🎵🎵🎵
Thanks for listening
I have an album maybe 1966 "Bill Black's Combo Plays Chuck Berry". Obviously Steve Cropper doing all of the leads on a very trebly Telecaster. Worth a listen and can be found here on TH-cam.
I'm pretty sure that was Reggie Young.
It's very possible that he is. I can definitely say that his playing has been an influence on me, especially in my early years of learning the instrument. I am still using things that I copied from him in my playing today.
@@OfficialMarkZabel8 what did I win???
A tremendous influence!
I learned a similar lesson playing in an R&B band.*
Pete Townsend says he learned aggressive guitar from Cropper and Link Wray
That’s Smart 👍🏼👍🏼
Glad you liked it!
When I finally discovered the triad trick....ZOOM..
Old saying..Keep it simple..stupid. How very true.
Ever since I always look for the simpler way.
Well said!
Good one Mark , nicely explained .If you don't already know about Steve Cropper younger guys his work is on Stax records in the band Booker T and the MGs . Also in the Blues Brothers movie . Great player and band .
Thanks!
Near the end of American Graffiti with the sun coming up & the hot rods coming for the showdown, nothing could’ve sounded more badass than hearing “Green Onions” cranking up!! Mercy!!!
I need to work on this theory
Cropper is incredible... Bruce Conte is amazing from Tower of Power
Steve “The Colonel” Cropper. I’ve never tried his fried chicken but his guitar playing always satisfies!
To get a little more in depth how about “Clean Up Woman”! 3 separate parts all triad / single note parts.
Yes, Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman" is a good example of 3 parts.
@@MarkZabel BTW I had the same experience learning to use triads and double stops although for me I was 50 before I got into that kind of a band. And I did clash with the singer in the beginning.
Tasty lesson. Often, less is more!!
Thank you! And I agree. As an addendum, Cropper's advice for tone is to throw away your pedals!
Weird... I had dusted off "The Blues Brothers" and was about to watch it tonight... and THIS pops up in my feed..... Cropper has a substantial part in it....
I became aware of Steve Cropper way back when Brit guitarists in the bands I liked all began to name drop him in the late 60s . Who ? He played on what ? Like Carol Kaye and Hal Blaine , James Jameson and Bernard Purdie , like the Muscle Shoals Swampers ... once you knew who these people were you suddenly noticed them everywhere .
Same for me Brother...
cool!
@@OfficialMarkZabel8 Did I win a '57 Fender Harvard? Wow!!! Have a great day, Mark. Smiles...
Don Felder was fantastic at making the guitar part of the whole song. New Kid in Town and Already Gone just 2 of many examples
Totally agree.
Ninety-nine and a half never did for Cropper. All-time great.
You mentioned Curtis Mayfield. He had some interesting guitar licks etc. Didn't he play in an open tuning?
Enjoyed the Steve Cropper lesson. He's one of the best.
Thanks! I think Curtis played in a very strange open tuning. F#-A#-C#-F#-A#-F#
@@MarkZabel I remember reading an article about him a long time ago, and they had the tuning listed in it, and I believe that was it.
Thanks.
You really covered some cool stuff here. You mentioned, playing without stepping on the other musician's parts. That was what it was really about. It's so wrecking crewish. It's that studio sensibility that lacks in today's non professionally produced music the way it used to be. Great insight.
Thanks!
Wonderful video, but how come your PDF only discusses triads for the B,G and D strings, and not the E and A?
Thanks. The PDF wasn't created for that video alone. It's limited so people don't get overwhelmed immediately.
Looking forward to a lesson someday describing all your suggested triad fingerings across the fretboard. Thanks for your reply.
Re those 3 Soul Man chords try a different second chord. It's the Am with the pinky on the B. On the 3rd chord, you just take your pinky off.
I downloaded your triad pdf.
I have a question
Do you mute the E string when playing triads on the B G D strings?
Good question. Yes.
That's some great tones you're getting. What are you playing through ?
Thanks. I'm using a Blackstar HT-5R miked with a Sennheiser 609.
Steve Cropper has a few TH-cam interviews. Not only humble, but he is really funny!😅
Class act for sure.
You got to remember that it was Tommy Tedesco playing on many of those records from the past, and the guitar players of those bands had to learn how to play it like Tony.
Great Guitar tone...I assume you are going into a great tube amp...????
Thanks! I'm using a Blackstar HT-5R.
I notice your neck pick up has “pole piece holes” in it - do you notice any “chime improvement” in your sound ?
I don't know ... maybe. It came stock, and I like the sound. The company (MUSI) didn't give the specs on the pickups.
I’ve got to get more deeply into triads.
Worth getting into - definitely.
MARK, When removing the Root Note from the triads and only playing the 3rd and 5th as a Dyad, you're playing minor 3rd intervals/dyads?
It's always ambiguous when you play only an interval. Example: G triad on G7,B8,E7 ... if you drop the root on B8 it's an ambiguous chord. It could just as easily be a Bm triad. If you look at it that way, it's an inverted 3rd (or 6th) interval.
@@MarkZabel geez inverted stuff etc... theory if not explained from start to finish in a practical way, is sooo hard to grasp. even when well explained it gets complicated. very easy to just quit trying to get it, in my opinion.
@@MarkZabel Soul Man is using Dyads for the chords F, G, Bb, C, D but you remove the tonic root note so you're only playing the 3rd and 5th chord tones of those triads. Steve Cropper removes the tonic root note for each triad shape and only plays the 3rd and 5th. When only playing the 3rd and 5th that is a minor3 interval/Dyad/doublestops. When other Motown guitarist play M6 double stops they mostly use the Tonic root note to m3 or M6, they don't remove the root note tonic note is what I'm saying. It would be nice if you made a video lesson comparing how Motown guitarist play M6 doublestops compared to how Steve Cropper removes the tonic note approach. Duane Allman used a telecaster before the allman brothers on the allman joys and hourglass band which he used these Steve Cropper double stops approach and Motown doublestop approach. They are two different camps of double stops.
The most influential guitar player was Nokie Edward's of the ventures.
That's subject for debate.