@@shaanchaudhry5719 . . Ha ha! Plenty of real mediocre guitarists, and even some who could be classed as non-guitarists, have made top 50 and top 100 guitar player lists.Yeah, I'm talking about Joan Jett and her ilk. Those lists are a pathetic joke that no one but actual guitarists can appreciate, but we're none of us laughing!
As time goes on Joe gets more and more of the recognition he deserves. And the crazy thing is. Excuse the pun. Is a lot of his best work came in the late 80s and 90s. Pump and get a grip Joe has tremendous solos.
Yeah, and every year talented struggling musicians are pushed 32 places down the recognition ladder by the top 8 finalists in The Voice, America's Got Talent, American Idol, and X-Factor. Feel free to insert the name of your country in there, because it's the same all over the world. Those 32 people are handed careers that nobody can achieve on their own, no matter how talented they may be. Entire radio station networks have been set up which play ONLY the music from those TV shows! The machine just won't let 'em fail of fall. Guy Sebastian, the first Australian Idol winner from way back in 2004, has his new albums advertised on television!! What other artist could afford to have that level of money to spend on advertising? The biggest joke is how they've inked him up heavily with tattoos to make him appeal to the harder core viewers who might otherwise write him off for being such a metrosexual guy in the first place. So, for the past 20 years we've had 32 finalists from each year being loaded from the top of the ladder, rather than allowing the truly talented, but maybe not so good looking, acts climb the ladder from the bottom. Doing the maths will show that someone like me,. for example, has actually slipped 420 places down the ladder in Australia alone, and had any chance at all of getting somewhere reduced to nothing. I dunno about America, but here in Australia the chance of even making it into the faceless backing bands of these completely manufactured stars is all but zero because the same select few musicians work for all the acts Just like in Nashville. I know all this because a good friend of mine actually got the call to play in the backing band of one of the X-Factor acts, but they sacked him because he wanted to improvise too much to suit the guys running the tour. Everything's gotta be exactly by the numbers, otherwise they cut you loose.
Joe Perry has such a unique rhythm and style it’s very hard, if not impossible, to emulate. I loved your work with Slash stuff, glad to see you tackling Joe Perry. 🎸🎸
Thank you! Well from reading Slash's book I found out what a huge Perry fan he is and how stoked he was when they first toured with them. I'd be happy to make a few more videos like this if people find them useful. I get on well with anything in this style.
In Joe Perry's book, he talks about how he is actually left handed but when he got his first guitar, it came with instructions on how to play it so he held the guitar as indicated even though it was for people who are right handed. He didn't know any better. I think that's part of the secret recipe behind Joe's playing, his lead parts always had a bit of a shuffle or boogie that was really hard (for me, at least) to figure out. In the solo for 'Dude Looks Like a Lady', this is really on display. His frethand has almost a rhythmic shuffle to it as he's playing lead. Hard to explain, but I think a big part of it is that his natural strumming hand is fretting -- and vice versa.
That’s really interesting and actually quite rare; Gab is left handed and plays right too. Just makes sense that she doesn’t have to buy everything again. Her grip is really strong and she doesn’t struggle with chord shapes as much as I did. I’ll keep an eye on her; Joe Perry licks could be flying out of the lounge any day now. 😂😂😂
Interesting, I'm a lefty who plays right handed. I think you're right about the L-R hand action on the guitar. Gripping the fretboard , vibrato and bending notes came easy. It took some time for my right hand to catch up with strumming and picking.
Joe is soo good he often can’t even play his loose and unique solos himself. It’s too raw and spontaneously natural. He has the most mojo of all the 70s rockers
@@davemenard5089 . . Joe is a real fumble-fingers of a guitarist. The other guitarist in the band, Brad, is a much more concise consistent player. Maybe because he didn't do the same amount of substance abuse as the Toxic Twins used to do.
Nice work! Perry is deceptively difficult. From tricky curly-ques to his timing; and it's all natural for him, that's why it swings so well. He's not trying to do something hard, he's letting his flow take over. This is the first video of yours I've seen. I'm going to subscribe as I see some interesting others in the sidebar. Again, nice work!
natural playing style for him is the key, I call it controlled sloppiness with swing and almost impossible to copy it. Not knocking him at all either. He is one of my all time favorite players.
Thank you for bringing some love for this absolutely awesome musician, songwriter, rock guitar player. He's one of the best, but few people seem to think or talk of him anymore.
BRILLIANT tutorial as always Sped . And anything you say is tricky is going to be extremely tricky for me💯 Challenging me and definitely encouraging me to get better on 🎸 Love learning from you and your help on your Patreon is absolutely invaluable Great community over there 💯👌👌👌👍 Have a great weekend mate 😁😎
Would love to see you tackle some of Joe Perry’s work from the early 1990’s, particularly the Get a Grip album. I think that’s where Joe Perry was at his peak especially with his soloing. His work on the song “Crazy” is so good. That 1950’s bluesy vibe and that spotlight solo. Would make for a badass video.
Another quality video my friend . Thanks for sharing Sped sounds exactly like Perry the pull off king. Your tone is always incredible with whatever song you’re playing and teaching.
Good stuff my good man. I will be tackling this classic. Aerosmith was actually the first rock show I ever experienced, way back in 1976. I was 13. I had just started playing guitar and I worked my way down close to the stage. I couldn’t hear for a week!!🙉
Man, this brings me back. Like you said there's a ton of tabs and now videos which all do this wrong. I had a guitar teacher a million years ago who listened to this riff and then showed it to me exactly how you're playing it. Nice to see someone else actually playing it right!👍
As a fellow guitar teacher here in Sheffield, 1. Fine choice of player and solo and 2. Very nicely done! Good on you. 🙂🙂 (I had the same issue with attempting to find good-quality transcriptions of Schenker solos back in the day. Most were proper dodgy!)
even though i've never been that into their music, I have always recognized the Joe is one hell of a player. this one has an almost old school new orleans jazz clarinet vibe to it for me.
At around 7:38 when you talk about picking (up or down and when to use) is extremely helpful. I'm not a 'natural player' in terms of lead/solo work, but your little aside on this issue, and for this song, was very helpful. You touch on the up or down stroke many times over the course of your videos, but this one struck me as a bit of "a-ha!"- hammer-ons and pull-offs are basically equal in importance to up-or down-stroke. Thanks Sped, for helping this hack on his journey.
I'm pleased you found that useful! In my videos, I aim to address potential areas where viewers might struggle. Unlike in one-to-one lessons where there's direct conversation, I have to anticipate what different people might be wondering. While it's not always necessary to pick riffs in a specific way, often, passing the picking hand over, particularly during hammer-ons or pull-offs, can help maintain a smooth rhythm, which I've previously referred to as "the DNA helix of rhythm". I hope this explanation helps clarify things for you!
If you're you're a Joe Perry fan you know but just in case you don't go find his rig set up for the Las Vegas residency. He was late in his 60s and the tech said he had like 8 or 9 amps on stage, mic'd, that ran to the back where he had this drawer of pedals, completely different than the tour before because i saw that set up, and then had a controller out front in two places (where he'd normally play and for the part of the set where he joins Steven closer to the audience) and of course all that got run to the house. Point is i have ALWAYS watched Joe Perry staring at that fretboard digging for notes, for sounds, and playing countless guitars. Fascinates me all these other professionals have their signature series and always sound the same but Joe has been digging since 1970 to always find something new and enjoy that journey and beat the monotony of touring that long literally showing us it doesnt have to just be a job. The fun never ends. Just keep playing. And all the while looking like such a badass. Long live Aerosmith man. Damn. What a freaking career. Love those guys.
You’ve nailed the articulation and that nasal tone is spot on! Great stuff Sped, please do a series on Joe Perry (so underrated) like you’ve done for Jimmy and I’ll make you brews for a year 🙏
Can just imagine you now popping your head in at the end of each video in your best British: "Another hot one sir." You'd have to call me sir btw, hope that's ok?
Hi😊! The solos in The Other Side and My Girl changed my life has a guitar player. The way he made it are just so melodic, cool, with full of swag in it, the tone, it sound like rockabilly perfectly. Love Joe Perry.
That’s amazing! No pun intended.😂 I’m not overly familiar with the solos although I do know the songs. Maybe I’ll check them out and make some content about them? Thanks for the comment.
There are numerous ways to approach it. Based on my observation of both live performances and covers by others, they often opt for the classic blues shuffle with an extensive stretch. However, as demonstrated in this video, I prefer playing it over three strings. Not only does it sound closer to the track, but it also requires less stretching.
Another exceptional lesson Sir! You pulled me away from trying to master the lead parts in Aerosmith's version of Train Kept a Roll 'in. The more Joe Perry I play the more I notice the swing feeling in his blues playing. It was interesting to find out JP was having an artistic block and a session musician stepped in to fill the void on the album version of Train Kept a Roll 'in. Please finish the solo lesson on Walk This Way. Hell I'd like to get your entire breakdown on how you play the song.
Some of the Riffs and walks He does is the Greatest. I Love his style on the Guitar. He Always Plays with Feelings, and so many say he play too loose Like Jimi Hendrix. Jimi was pretty Damm Good too.
Saw JP a few years ago at the 101 club in London, stood no more the 3 feet from him all night, he really is a unique and wonderful musician- and sooo cool! Brilliant lesson Spedlington, been trying to master that solo, and sweet emotion for years! (And failing miserably)!🤘🎸❤
3 feet! Couldn’t swing a cat between you and Perry, I love it! Hope it was loud and dangerous. Let me know how you get on with this lesson; especially as you’ve been trying it for years. I always like to hear of success stories with troubling solos or riffs.
@@SpedSpeddinggetting there I think, may have to rip my knees outa ma jeans and develop a Mancunian accent to perfect it😁 thanks again Spedman, you’re a fooking genius!❤❤
How weird that this came up in my feed. I was thinking over the weekend that when I listen to JP… it never sounds like (forgive me) standard blues or pentatonic licks. Such unusual phrasing and note choices. Thank you for this.
So glad you enjoyed the video and my JP impressions. All of them... 😂 I will work on the rest of the song. You saw me play the first solo at the start, I think that's spot on. I'll have a go at the outro soon.
Nice Guitar work! I've worked out The solo to 'Adams apple'' To as close as I can get it, A track separator like Moieses really helps.. The entire Band was way ahead of their time, In particular I believe their first album to be an incredible often overlooked album in my opinion. As you stated Very unique guitar playing and approach from both Joe and Brad!
Perry is unique even among the rockers from the 1970s. Many players from the 80’s glam era were influenced at least in part by Joe. He’s got that swing and feel. Rocks was a great album and so many Aerosmith fans will say it’s the best. But stylistically it came together for Joe in the previous album, Toys. Joe is a huge part of what makes Aerosmith great to me. You don’t often hear it from U.S. players because they are trained more like Brad, who’s from the Berklee school. They think Joe gets too much praise and don’t understand what he’s doing. He’s unique. Joe isn’t arrogant in the things he says and always gives credit to other players. But there is nobody like Joe either. Good job!
Perry is a riff machine for sure! I have seen other "teachers" play this but they are not even close to your take Sped. You sound almost like Perry himself and rock it. Actually spooky cuz you are spot on and stuck in!
@@SpedSpedding Hey man! It is Greg from N.Y. haw ya been?And Gab o course. Yeah I learned the first solo back in the forotton yrs. of mania about 1989, but the 2nd solo made me wanna pull my hair out!!! I got it down now thanks to you Sped. Those slurry notes on the low frets are very Pagey like!!! Hey, just got my dream Les Paul man!! In my lap now. Cheers . Hey I bought it from Jordan Peterson!
Joe is one of the greatest. The Toys album has more than the usual amount of studio work - Joe’s ending solo on Sweet Emotion might be difficult to play as a cover - Jack Douglass tells how most of it was created by splicing together many two-second tape bits of Joe messing around on the guitar. Some of the other solos might be difficult to play for similar reasons.
He Definitely became my favourite player over the last few years, such a underrated unique style. So many shit hot licks, some of my favourites are the outro solo in no more no more and combination off of possibly the greatest hard rock album of all time rocks.
This was the first song I ever learned to play lol 😂 great video, reminded me of learning this! I play the second part higher up though, can’t tell the difference 😮❤🎉
Finally someone showing Joe some love. I’ve been saying for years Joe Perry is amazing! Why is no one talking about him. Same with Rich Robinson of the Black crows. These guys are amazing and they get no praise 🤷🏼♂️
There’s a very good Brad Whitford interview on another TH-cam channel that popped up for me after I watched your JP lesson. Shred with Shifty. Last child lesson… Brad Whitford … great stuff about the band from the inside! Brad Whitford great down to earth guy!
Couldn't be more wrong. Joe plays every Joe solo on Toys. Toys solo, Uncle Salty, Big ten inch, WTW, Adams Apple, sweet emotion to name a few. 100% ALL Joe.
Every time I pick up my les paul one of the first things I play through are the main riffs in 'last child' And I always aporeciate how clever a player Joe perry is
Can't believe you referenced Jordan Peterson in a Joe Perry tutorial . . AND - you appreciate my number 2 of all time, the Yank JP. Please keep being Sped. You have a new Patron member 🤘
I love Aerosmith and the 70s stuff big time, but I was extremely disappointed that 2 different guitarists did Train Kept a Rollin on Get Your Wings. It was my favorite Aerosmith solo of all time and didn’t find out it wasn’t Perry until years later (didn’t read the credits I guess).
Nobody can reproduce that "rubber band" sound from the original recording (opening riff)... Does anybody know how that was done? I've seen them a few times live and they can't even do it. Great job, Sped! You came the closest to that original sound...dang
Dick Wagner played that on the original album, and in fact for Aerosmith's first four albums at the insistence of the record company/ Poor old (young) Joe had to learn them so the band could reproduce the albums' songs live.
Couldn't be more wrong. Joe plays every Joe solo on Toys. Toys solo, Uncle Salty, Big ten inch, WTW, Adams Apple, sweet emotion to name a few. 100% ALL Joe. Those two cooper guys play on a few songs on GYW ONLY. Listen to that tour, Joe smoked!
@@strattt10 . . There is plenty of "proof" that I'm right, fella. The guitar magazines all support what I wrote, and Steven Tyler himself, at some music industry function introduced the people he was with to Dick Wagner, who was quite accidentally walking past Steven, as the guitarist who made him (Steven) sound good on Aerosmith's early albums. That kinda thing happened all the time back in those days. Rather than take a risk on an unknown guitarist from a fresh new band, the record execs had a policy of using studio pros for a guaranteed top shelf product. It was then up to the often hapless guitarists in those new bands to learn to play a reasonable facsimile of what was on the record. I've had first hand experience of that myself. I joined a high profile local band who'd just finished recording their first album. I wondered why they were learning their own songs from the album's cassette. Their keyboard player, who'd joined the week before I did, but had done some stage production for them for ages and knew their dirty secrets, told me that all the band did on the recordings was sing! Nick Cotzea was the producer, and Phil Yates was the studio's guitarist. Happily, Phil and I became friends in the years that followed.
@@arthurblackhistoric The only album Wagner and Hunter played on was get your wings. You can see and read interviews of Joe talking about playing and recording these solos on Walk this way and what he used in the Studio. The only album they played on was Get your wings. You can also read interviews with Hunter and Wagner and they list the songs they did solos on. All of them on Get your wings, no others. The only album other guitarists were used on were get your wings and that's because after the first album the record company wanted to drop them and they needed a hit. Jack Douglas has stated that Joe and Brad wanted to do these Beck type solos on Train but they didn't have the chops yet, so they used them on Train, Same old Song and a parts of others. Jack said after Joe and Brad worked with them and went out on tour, they came back amazing players. I personally think they always were. One way street was incredible and I love the leads on it. Check out this article where Brad talks about the Ghost Guitarists. www.guitarworld.com/news/aerosmith-brad-whitford-steve-hunter-dick-wagner-get-your-wings
When that happens to me, I hunt for video of them playing it, and it helps me find what I'm doing wrong. Sometimes. It sucks when my ears seem to fail me.
Love Aerosmith lessons Sped! The Rocks album has a song Back in the Saddle, 6 string bass guitar! Absolutely great played real loud, kinda like us old guys used to crank music all the time!!!
After it was revealed that Joe Perry did not play the solo on Train Kept a Rollin’ I’ve started to wonder how much Joe Perry actually played on those 70s Aerosmith albums. I loved those albums so much as a kid and thought Perry was so cool. Now I wonder if “Joe Perry” was in part a collective of studio players.
The person who commented next to you said a very similar thing so excuse the half copy and paste, just because I summed it up well already: "There's some interesting chatter in the comments below, which I've been responding to. I've delved into the songwriter credits on Wiki and noticed that Joe plays that solo live, with a very similar style even when improvising. Apart from that, I haven't done any further detective work. Nevertheless, it's a magnificent solo from which we can glean valuable lessons."
I have it on good authority (70's crew member) that Steve Hunter on the Get Your Wings sessions was the only time Joe used a DH, actually Jack Douglas used him.The other fun fact was about the crowd noise between Train and Seasons Of Wither is actually a recording of the crowd at The Concert For Bangladesh, but who knows.
I hate to admit that Ive slept on ya a bit. My bad. HOWEVER, this is the kick in the ass Ive needed. I killer look into brilliance. I am grateful and a JP as well! Cheers
I was always fascinated with that snappy tone on the A note right after the chromatic run, but even moreso, the rythm guitar on the verses. Btw, do you do a breakdown of the solo on "Adam's Apple?" One of Joe's best, imo. Cheers
His style is so unconventional and with this video you've nailed that. No one plays like he does.
It’s refreshing to see this, so many people think JP is a slouch and coasts behind vocals with easy chords. Thank you for giving this man some credit!
Slouch? He’s written some very memorable and iconic riffs and is on multiple top 50 or top 100 all time lists, hardly a slouch.
@@shaanchaudhry5719 . . Ha ha! Plenty of real mediocre guitarists, and even some who could be classed as non-guitarists, have made top 50 and top 100 guitar player lists.Yeah, I'm talking about Joan Jett and her ilk. Those lists are a pathetic joke that no one but actual guitarists can appreciate, but we're none of us laughing!
As time goes on Joe gets more and more of the recognition he deserves. And the crazy thing is. Excuse the pun. Is a lot of his best work came in the late 80s and 90s. Pump and get a grip Joe has tremendous solos.
Yeah, and every year talented struggling musicians are pushed 32 places down the recognition ladder by the top 8 finalists in The Voice, America's Got Talent, American Idol, and X-Factor. Feel free to insert the name of your country in there, because it's the same all over the world.
Those 32 people are handed careers that nobody can achieve on their own, no matter how talented they may be. Entire radio station networks have been set up which play ONLY the music from those TV shows! The machine just won't let 'em fail of fall. Guy Sebastian, the first Australian Idol winner from way back in 2004, has his new albums advertised on television!! What other artist could afford to have that level of money to spend on advertising? The biggest joke is how they've inked him up heavily with tattoos to make him appeal to the harder core viewers who might otherwise write him off for being such a metrosexual guy in the first place. So, for the past 20 years we've had 32 finalists from each year being loaded from the top of the ladder, rather than allowing the truly talented, but maybe not so good looking, acts climb the ladder from the bottom. Doing the maths will show that someone like me,. for example, has actually slipped 420 places down the ladder in Australia alone, and had any chance at all of getting somewhere reduced to nothing. I dunno about America, but here in Australia the chance of even making it into the faceless backing bands of these completely manufactured stars is all but zero because the same select few musicians work for all the acts Just like in Nashville. I know all this because a good friend of mine actually got the call to play in the backing band of one of the X-Factor acts, but they sacked him because he wanted to improvise too much to suit the guys running the tour. Everything's gotta be exactly by the numbers, otherwise they cut you loose.
Aerosmith was blessed with two guitar gods.
Hardly. They’re both good players and Joe is great at unique sounds. They’re also sloppy and didn’t even write or record solos on some of their songs.
@@DMDvideo10two songs from the second album are the only ones not played by Joe or Brad
@DMDvideo10 really? Who recorded the solos? This is news to me. Also, sloppy isn't really a compelling criticism for me. They're not a jazz band.
@@titussardonicus338Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter played on Same Old Song and Dance and Train from Get Your Wings
@@robpaxson4455 I'll be damned. Thanks. I didn't know any of that.
Joe Perry has such a unique rhythm and style it’s very hard, if not impossible, to emulate. I loved your work with Slash stuff, glad to see you tackling Joe Perry. 🎸🎸
Thank you! Well from reading Slash's book I found out what a huge Perry fan he is and how stoked he was when they first toured with them. I'd be happy to make a few more videos like this if people find them useful. I get on well with anything in this style.
@@SpedSpedding yes please!
@@SpedSpedding A humble request… the Sweet Emotion outro solo! So many different styles in one solo…
There wouldn’t be a slash without Joe.
That was a wicked breakdown of a pretty tricky solo, awesome job man!
Glad you liked it!!
In Joe Perry's book, he talks about how he is actually left handed but when he got his first guitar, it came with instructions on how to play it so he held the guitar as indicated even though it was for people who are right handed. He didn't know any better. I think that's part of the secret recipe behind Joe's playing, his lead parts always had a bit of a shuffle or boogie that was really hard (for me, at least) to figure out. In the solo for 'Dude Looks Like a Lady', this is really on display. His frethand has almost a rhythmic shuffle to it as he's playing lead. Hard to explain, but I think a big part of it is that his natural strumming hand is fretting -- and vice versa.
That’s really interesting and actually quite rare; Gab is left handed and plays right too. Just makes sense that she doesn’t have to buy everything again. Her grip is really strong and she doesn’t struggle with chord shapes as much as I did. I’ll keep an eye on her; Joe Perry licks could be flying out of the lounge any day now. 😂😂😂
That's like Ringo on his drums.
Interesting, I'm a lefty who plays right handed. I think you're right about the L-R hand action on the guitar. Gripping the fretboard , vibrato and bending notes came easy. It took some time for my right hand to catch up with strumming and picking.
Joe is soo good he often can’t even play his loose and unique solos himself. It’s too raw and spontaneously natural. He has the most mojo of all the 70s rockers
Maybe because he didn’t write or record some of them?
@@DMDvideo10 even the ones that he recorded, Joe wings it a lot
@@DMDvideo10 . . Exactly my point in my reply to the rude guy above.
@@davemenard5089 . . Joe is a real fumble-fingers of a guitarist. The other guitarist in the band, Brad, is a much more concise consistent player. Maybe because he didn't do the same amount of substance abuse as the Toxic Twins used to do.
Technically Brad Whitford and Joe Perry are better than Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of the Stones
My hometown boy, Joe Perry. I'll always be grateful for his contributions to rock n roll.
Rightly so. And of course a big hello all the way to Lawrence, Massachusetts. 😏
There's rad song about Joe's contribution, called owed to Joe by bulletboys
Thanks for the work you put into this. Excellent instruction and your personality shines through the humor. One of my favorite YT'rs.
Wow, thank you! Happy to help and as you can see from the thumbnail, I'm a big fan of my own jokes too. 😂
By far my favorite tuber too 🤙
Speds patrion channel is also an excellent source as well for a bit more too.
Nice work! Perry is deceptively difficult. From tricky curly-ques to his timing; and it's all natural for him, that's why it swings so well. He's not trying to do something hard, he's letting his flow take over. This is the first video of yours I've seen. I'm going to subscribe as I see some interesting others in the sidebar. Again, nice work!
natural playing style for him is the key, I call it controlled sloppiness with swing and almost impossible to copy it. Not knocking him at all either. He is one of my all time favorite players.
Thank you for bringing some love for this absolutely awesome musician, songwriter, rock guitar player. He's one of the best, but few people seem to think or talk of him anymore.
It's my absolute pleasure. He's one of the very best. I'll do my best to make his work more of a regular occurrence!
Epic🥃
I honestly feel like as time goes on he gets more and more of the respect he deserves.
Joe Perry is one of my top five guitar heroes! I saw Aerosmith live here in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Such an unbelievable experience
I never managed to see them! Absolutely gutted. Who are your other 4?
@@SpedSpedding I’m sorry Sped I’m not sure I understand the question🤔 What is other 4??
And the second half on guitar….Brad Whitford is amazing as well. That leaves the other three. Haha!
@@MrBarnardoo98 No worries. I meant who are your other 4 favourite guitarists. You said he was 1 of 5.
@@MrBarnardoo98 I Believe thats because you said Joe is one of your top 5 guitar hero. So, who are the other 4?
BRILLIANT tutorial as always Sped . And anything you say is tricky is going to be extremely tricky for me💯
Challenging me and definitely encouraging me to get better on 🎸
Love learning from you and your help on your Patreon is absolutely invaluable
Great community over there 💯👌👌👌👍
Have a great weekend mate 😁😎
JP, a bad man...one of my first influences and favorite players, great video! ..."learned" these back in the day
Joe is a truly great guitar player. He has a real ear for tone and note choices.
Would love to see you tackle some of Joe Perry’s work from the early 1990’s, particularly the Get a Grip album. I think that’s where Joe Perry was at his peak especially with his soloing. His work on the song “Crazy” is so good. That 1950’s bluesy vibe and that spotlight solo. Would make for a badass video.
Agree
By far my fav song and solo lessons on the TH-cam. Old school cool my friend. Makes one forget the dumpster fire of the last few years.
Super stoked to be putting out that fire for you! Thanks for watching.
"last few years" = the last 44 years.
@@johndeaux3703 Since '45 in all honesty.
@@johndeaux3703 at least half of that, yeah, maybe all 44 years!
Another quality video my friend . Thanks for sharing Sped sounds exactly like Perry the pull off king. Your tone is always incredible with whatever song you’re playing and teaching.
Thank you kindly Mike! Perry the Pull-off King! Haha love that. Glad I pulled off this video for you too. 👑
Good stuff my good man. I will be tackling this classic. Aerosmith was actually the first rock show I ever experienced, way back in 1976. I was 13. I had just started playing guitar and I worked my way down close to the stage. I couldn’t hear for a week!!🙉
Your Awesome Sped - your attention to detail is unmatched
Thanks so much, appreciate you!
Thank you Buddy ♥
Even learning some of the solo is gold ! Thanks my friend 👍
You’re super welcome!
A tutorial on this song couldn't be better than this. Excellent job! 🔝
Wow, thanks! So glad you enjoyed it.
Very good Sped....Thank u...One of my all-time favorite solo's...
Another great breakdown Sped. Such a pleasure to watch.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Agree..pure genious...unpredictable and classy
Nice way to sum him up agree.
I heard that Joe was left handed . I believe thats why he is so uncopyable . The movements are not the typical phrases .
Brilliant! Cheers mate
So cool thanks Sped
You're a genius for doing this Vid, amazing playing
Thank you mate, hope you're good! Perry's playing always gives me the sweats. 😂
Man, this brings me back. Like you said there's a ton of tabs and now videos which all do this wrong. I had a guitar teacher a million years ago who listened to this riff and then showed it to me exactly how you're playing it. Nice to see someone else actually playing it right!👍
As a fellow guitar teacher here in Sheffield, 1. Fine choice of player and solo and 2. Very nicely done! Good on you. 🙂🙂
(I had the same issue with attempting to find good-quality transcriptions of Schenker solos back in the day. Most were proper dodgy!)
I’m stealing these licks for sure!! Awesome video as always sir!
Great video! Joe has got the best guitar tones I´ve ever heard. The most versatile and exotic
even though i've never been that into their music, I have always recognized the Joe is one hell of a player. this one has an almost old school new orleans jazz clarinet vibe to it for me.
sounds like it's pretty damn spot on.. as they say "close enough for rock n' roll".. thanks Sped!
Nailed it! Amazing work
My fav ever! Top lesson man ...
Awesome, thank you!
Yes!!! Absolutely please teach the first solo!! I love this channel! Who else is JP? LOL!!! Also love when you break out the Zep book!
Only fair that Jordan Peterson gets a mention in an Aerosmith guitar lesson! 😂😂😂
At around 7:38 when you talk about picking (up or down and when to use) is extremely helpful. I'm not a 'natural player' in terms of lead/solo work, but your little aside on this issue, and for this song, was very helpful. You touch on the up or down stroke many times over the course of your videos, but this one struck me as a bit of "a-ha!"- hammer-ons and pull-offs are basically equal in importance to up-or down-stroke. Thanks Sped, for helping this hack on his journey.
I'm pleased you found that useful! In my videos, I aim to address potential areas where viewers might struggle. Unlike in one-to-one lessons where there's direct conversation, I have to anticipate what different people might be wondering. While it's not always necessary to pick riffs in a specific way, often, passing the picking hand over, particularly during hammer-ons or pull-offs, can help maintain a smooth rhythm, which I've previously referred to as "the DNA helix of rhythm". I hope this explanation helps clarify things for you!
You are my teacher,,thank you,,you always light our way ...Thank you!!!
You are so welcome! 💡
If you're you're a Joe Perry fan you know but just in case you don't go find his rig set up for the Las Vegas residency. He was late in his 60s and the tech said he had like 8 or 9 amps on stage, mic'd, that ran to the back where he had this drawer of pedals, completely different than the tour before because i saw that set up, and then had a controller out front in two places (where he'd normally play and for the part of the set where he joins Steven closer to the audience) and of course all that got run to the house. Point is i have ALWAYS watched Joe Perry staring at that fretboard digging for notes, for sounds, and playing countless guitars. Fascinates me all these other professionals have their signature series and always sound the same but Joe has been digging since 1970 to always find something new and enjoy that journey and beat the monotony of touring that long literally showing us it doesnt have to just be a job. The fun never ends. Just keep playing. And all the while looking like such a badass. Long live Aerosmith man. Damn. What a freaking career. Love those guys.
My dear sir your assessment of Joe is spot on ( Of course ) and you are still my favorite You Tube Guitar persona!!
That's so cool Anthony! Thank you.
My favorite player. Seen him twice in the front row at The House Of Blues Boston with The Joe Perry Project and twice more with Hollywood Vampires.
I am ashamed to say I have no Perry stamp in my book of rock. Hope I did him justice for you in this vid!
You definitely did. I love me a good Joe Perry instructional video.
You made a guitar face at the beginning! NICE!
Never really thought about how clever that solo was until you pointed it out. Appreciate it.
Same
Love this, you’re welcome. I did my best to break it down. The fast little run centred around the double stop is a beast.
I haven't seen too many players teaching Joe, I knew I would be crossing this bridge eventually.
Sped, really great stuff! Liked you riff on JP…I chuckled with you🎸
Joe is the Man...first time heard him on Sweet Emotion on a TV show early in the 70's...thanks Sped for sharing...😌🙏💜
Thanks for listening and it’s my pleasure!
Joe Perry is so underrated. Probably because he's not 5 years older and British. Glad you appreciate him. 👍🏻
You’ve nailed the articulation and that nasal tone is spot on!
Great stuff Sped, please do a series on Joe Perry (so underrated) like you’ve done for Jimmy and I’ll make you brews for a year 🙏
Can just imagine you now popping your head in at the end of each video in your best British: "Another hot one sir." You'd have to call me sir btw, hope that's ok?
@@SpedSpedding Sir, I’d wear a Tutu if counted
… this is heading dangerously OnlyFans now 🙈
Thanks a lot! I always struggled to play that amazing solo.
Glad I could help!
Hi😊! The solos in The Other Side and My Girl changed my life has a guitar player. The way he made it are just so melodic, cool, with full of swag in it, the tone, it sound like rockabilly perfectly. Love Joe Perry.
That’s amazing! No pun intended.😂 I’m not overly familiar with the solos although I do know the songs. Maybe I’ll check them out and make some content about them? Thanks for the comment.
@@SpedSpedding could be very nice for The Other Side 😊.
A lot of his style comes from the fact he is naturally left handed and isn't limited by the same things we "righties" are
Wow, thanks for that. I know the first solo, but never got this one properly. Time to go for it again.
Have fun! 💪🏻
Answer: because he created so many iconic, swagger, memorable riffs of all time
Sped, thank you for this. You nailed it again! I’d love to see a lesson on the verse riff. Fingering is quite tricky.
There are numerous ways to approach it. Based on my observation of both live performances and covers by others, they often opt for the classic blues shuffle with an extensive stretch. However, as demonstrated in this video, I prefer playing it over three strings. Not only does it sound closer to the track, but it also requires less stretching.
Nice work! Very, very close if not spot on…
Classic solo🤙🏽
The "Amazing" guitar solo is another good example of his particular style.
Another exceptional lesson Sir! You pulled me away from trying to master the lead parts in Aerosmith's version of Train Kept a Roll 'in. The more Joe Perry I play the more I notice the swing feeling in his blues playing. It was interesting to find out JP was having an artistic block and a session musician stepped in to fill the void on the album version of Train Kept a Roll 'in. Please finish the solo lesson on Walk This Way. Hell I'd like to get your entire breakdown on how you play the song.
Some of the Riffs and walks He does is the Greatest. I Love his style on the Guitar. He Always Plays with Feelings, and so many say he play too loose Like Jimi Hendrix. Jimi was pretty Damm Good too.
Really great video...don't ever stop..❣️🎸
More to come!
Saw JP a few years ago at the 101 club in London, stood no more the 3 feet from him all night, he really is a unique and wonderful musician- and sooo cool! Brilliant lesson Spedlington, been trying to master that solo, and sweet emotion for years! (And failing miserably)!🤘🎸❤
3 feet! Couldn’t swing a cat between you and Perry, I love it! Hope it was loud and dangerous.
Let me know how you get on with this lesson; especially as you’ve been trying it for years. I always like to hear of success stories with troubling solos or riffs.
@@SpedSpeddinggetting there I think, may have to rip my knees outa ma jeans and develop a Mancunian accent to perfect it😁 thanks again Spedman, you’re a fooking genius!❤❤
How weird that this came up in my feed. I was thinking over the weekend that when I listen to JP… it never sounds like (forgive me) standard blues or pentatonic licks. Such unusual phrasing and note choices. Thank you for this.
please do the entire solo, very nice lesson, the subtle and few comedy bits are also enjoyable, well done sir
So glad you enjoyed the video and my JP impressions. All of them... 😂 I will work on the rest of the song. You saw me play the first solo at the start, I think that's spot on. I'll have a go at the outro soon.
Nice Guitar work! I've worked out The solo to 'Adams apple'' To as close as I can get it, A track separator like Moieses really helps.. The entire Band was way ahead of their time, In particular I believe their first album to be an incredible often overlooked album in my opinion. As you stated Very unique guitar playing and approach from both Joe and Brad!
Just like the Parsons project lesson. Your channel reeks with class dude. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Oh I loved that lesson video and thank you for reminding me! I want to bring back more of the storytelling vlogging element at the start. 👏🏻
Some cool interesting licks here. Thanks for yet another very watchable vid and the tasty tidbits therein 😊
My pleasure! Glad you found some golden tidbits in there.
Yay Sped! Money brother as usual. Still working out the Paranoid solo daily..getting there..
Hey man! Glad you enjoyed my spin on this and that you're still rocking that iconic solo. 🔥
I really love his lead playing on "Train kept a rolling" & "Same ol song & dance"
You meant the live versions of these songs?
Perry is unique even among the rockers from the 1970s. Many players from the 80’s glam era were influenced at least in part by Joe. He’s got that swing and feel. Rocks was a great album and so many Aerosmith fans will say it’s the best. But stylistically it came together for Joe in the previous album, Toys. Joe is a huge part of what makes Aerosmith great to me. You don’t often hear it from U.S. players because they are trained more like Brad, who’s from the Berklee school. They think Joe gets too much praise and don’t understand what he’s doing. He’s unique. Joe isn’t arrogant in the things he says and always gives credit to other players. But there is nobody like Joe either. Good job!
Perry is a riff machine for sure! I have seen other "teachers" play this but they are not even close to your take Sped. You sound almost like Perry himself and rock it. Actually spooky cuz you are spot on and stuck in!
How cool is that, the ultimate compliment! I’m glad you like my take on this badass solo. Enjoy ripping it yourself. 🔥
@@SpedSpedding Hey man! It is Greg from N.Y. haw ya been?And Gab o course. Yeah I learned the first solo back in the forotton yrs. of mania about 1989, but the 2nd solo made me wanna pull my hair out!!! I got it down now thanks to you Sped. Those slurry notes on the low frets are very Pagey like!!! Hey, just got my dream Les Paul man!! In my lap now. Cheers . Hey I bought it from Jordan Peterson!
Walk This Way has the coolest riffs ever!
Joe is one of the greatest. The Toys album has more than the usual amount of studio work - Joe’s ending solo on Sweet Emotion might be difficult to play as a cover - Jack Douglass tells how most of it was created by splicing together many two-second tape bits of Joe messing around on the guitar. Some of the other solos might be difficult to play for similar reasons.
He Definitely became my favourite player over the last few years, such a underrated unique style. So many shit hot licks, some of my favourites are the outro solo in no more no more and combination off of possibly the greatest hard rock album of all time rocks.
I was listening to Rocks replying to comments last night. I might do some more lessons like this from it.
Great video!
Can I ask you which year is your Les Paul and if it’s a 50’s or 60’s?
Thanks
Thank you! I actually have a cool video all about my Les Paul and it's specs.. It's a good watch.
This was the first song I ever learned to play lol 😂 great video, reminded me of learning this! I play the second part higher up though, can’t tell the difference 😮❤🎉
That's cool, the second part of the solo or a different part?
Fantastic my friend!
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice lesson! I've been playing Same old Song and Dance lately. Such a fun (and easy) riff. Hope all is well!
Thanks Mike! Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Loads of cool licks packed in a short space. All good over here, same to you.
Finally someone showing Joe some love. I’ve been saying for years Joe Perry is amazing! Why is no one talking about him.
Same with Rich Robinson of the Black crows. These guys are amazing and they get no praise 🤷🏼♂️
There’s a very good Brad Whitford interview on another TH-cam channel that popped up for me after I watched your JP lesson. Shred with Shifty. Last child lesson… Brad Whitford … great stuff about the band from the inside! Brad Whitford great down to earth guy!
Newsflash:it has been revealed that it was a session musician.
Couldn't be more wrong. Joe plays every Joe solo on Toys. Toys solo, Uncle Salty, Big ten inch, WTW, Adams Apple, sweet emotion to name a few. 100% ALL Joe.
I thought the Hunter/Wagner combo was involved. They were the go to guitar players then. Certainly for Bob Ezrin
Sped you made that look so smooth and easy. They don't call him Joe Jalapeno Perry for nothin'. Nobody calls him that, I just made it up.
He's a hot n' saucy bugger isn't he. I've got the licks down, now I just need to work on the fashion.
Big Ten Inch...Boogie Blues lead..would love to see your take on it bro
Thanks for the suggestion!
Every time I pick up my les paul one of the first things I play through are the main riffs in 'last child'
And I always aporeciate how clever a player Joe perry is
His style is utterly unique, marked by clever solos, tasteful phrasing, and intriguing note choices throughout.
Can't believe you referenced Jordan Peterson in a Joe Perry tutorial . . AND - you appreciate my number 2 of all time, the Yank JP. Please keep being Sped. You have a new Patron member 🤘
Hahahaha this comment made me laugh out loud! Hope it cracked you up. And thanks for the support, welcome aboard Bob.
Covering Joe!..The guy is one of a kind, really.
Isn't he just!
You the man sped👍
Thank you!
I love Aerosmith and the 70s stuff big time, but I was extremely disappointed that 2 different guitarists did Train Kept a Rollin on Get Your Wings. It was my favorite Aerosmith solo of all time and didn’t find out it wasn’t Perry until years later (didn’t read the credits I guess).
Great job, Sped! Love your translation.
Any chance of making a video of the outtro solo in "Walk?"
Great, yes please teach the whole song 👍
I'm gonna finish transcribing the outro and then live with it a little more. Might do a "Sped's Short Version" and another lesson!
Good one today. Brought me out of my pentatonic autopilot.
Yeah this will get the hand cramps firing for sure! Have fun.
Hitted Like just from reading the title.
Nobody can reproduce that "rubber band" sound from the original recording (opening riff)... Does anybody know how that was done? I've seen them a few times live and they can't even do it.
Great job, Sped! You came the closest to that original sound...dang
Dick Wagner played that on the original album, and in fact for Aerosmith's first four albums at the insistence of the record company/ Poor old (young) Joe had to learn them so the band could reproduce the albums' songs live.
Couldn't be more wrong. Joe plays every Joe solo on Toys. Toys solo, Uncle Salty, Big ten inch, WTW, Adams Apple, sweet emotion to name a few. 100% ALL Joe. Those two cooper guys play on a few songs on GYW ONLY. Listen to that tour, Joe smoked!
@@strattt10 . . There is plenty of "proof" that I'm right, fella. The guitar magazines all support what I wrote, and Steven Tyler himself, at some music industry function introduced the people he was with to Dick Wagner, who was quite accidentally walking past Steven, as the guitarist who made him (Steven) sound good on Aerosmith's early albums. That kinda thing happened all the time back in those days. Rather than take a risk on an unknown guitarist from a fresh new band, the record execs had a policy of using studio pros for a guaranteed top shelf product. It was then up to the often hapless guitarists in those new bands to learn to play a reasonable facsimile of what was on the record. I've had first hand experience of that myself. I joined a high profile local band who'd just finished recording their first album. I wondered why they were learning their own songs from the album's cassette. Their keyboard player, who'd joined the week before I did, but had done some stage production for them for ages and knew their dirty secrets, told me that all the band did on the recordings was sing! Nick Cotzea was the producer, and Phil Yates was the studio's guitarist. Happily, Phil and I became friends in the years that followed.
@@arthurblackhistoric The only album Wagner and Hunter played on was get your wings. You can see and read interviews of Joe talking about playing and recording these solos on Walk this way and what he used in the Studio. The only album they played on was Get your wings. You can also read interviews with Hunter and Wagner and they list the songs they did solos on. All of them on Get your wings, no others. The only album other guitarists were used on were get your wings and that's because after the first album the record company wanted to drop them and they needed a hit. Jack Douglas has stated that Joe and Brad wanted to do these Beck type solos on Train but they didn't have the chops yet, so they used them on Train, Same old Song and a parts of others. Jack said after Joe and Brad worked with them and went out on tour, they came back amazing players. I personally think they always were. One way street was incredible and I love the leads on it. Check out this article where Brad talks about the Ghost Guitarists. www.guitarworld.com/news/aerosmith-brad-whitford-steve-hunter-dick-wagner-get-your-wings
When that happens to me, I hunt for video of them playing it, and it helps me find what I'm doing wrong. Sometimes. It sucks when my ears seem to fail me.
looks like - and when i say looks like, i mean sounds to me like - you got it sussed.
His solos remind me of some of the steely Dan stuff. Really different and way cool
Love Aerosmith lessons Sped! The Rocks album has a song Back in the Saddle, 6 string bass guitar! Absolutely great played real loud, kinda like us old guys used to crank music all the time!!!
Was it really a 6 string bass? Haha no way didn't know that. I Imagine the string tension on that is similar to the Golden Gate Bridge...
@@SpedSpedding I think it says in the album credits . I remember that because it sounds like full chords too, different…
After it was revealed that Joe Perry did not play the solo on Train Kept a Rollin’ I’ve started to wonder how much Joe Perry actually played on those 70s Aerosmith albums. I loved those albums so much as a kid and thought Perry was so cool. Now I wonder if “Joe Perry” was in part a collective of studio players.
The person who commented next to you said a very similar thing so excuse the half copy and paste, just because I summed it up well already: "There's some interesting chatter in the comments below, which I've been responding to. I've delved into the songwriter credits on Wiki and noticed that Joe plays that solo live, with a very similar style even when improvising. Apart from that, I haven't done any further detective work. Nevertheless, it's a magnificent solo from which we can glean valuable lessons."
I have it on good authority (70's crew member) that Steve Hunter on the Get Your Wings sessions was the only time Joe used a DH, actually Jack Douglas used him.The other fun fact was about the crowd noise between Train and Seasons Of Wither is actually a recording of the crowd at The Concert For Bangladesh, but who knows.
I hate to admit that Ive slept on ya a bit. My bad. HOWEVER, this is the kick in the ass Ive needed. I killer look into brilliance. I am grateful and a JP as well!
Cheers
I was always fascinated with that snappy tone on the A note right after the chromatic run, but even moreso, the rythm guitar on the verses.
Btw, do you do a breakdown of the solo on "Adam's Apple?" One of Joe's best, imo. Cheers