I Thought I Could Never Learn This Riff
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode I try to figure an impossible guitar solo! This was a fun video to make!!
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The musicianship in the 70’s was off the charts smokin. Even a basic pop song was layered with incredible playing.
Yep, it was a great time to be a kid with an AM radio, record player, and lots of free time.
You can thank drugs additionally!
@@renaissanceman3 Highly unlikely in Carlos case.
can't forget Shaun Lane. started in the 70s with Black Oak Arkansas
Yeah even top40 music was great back then!
Now that's the Rick Beato content I really dig! This is what, more than anything else, makes this channel great.
Totally agree. 👍👍
@@andregarceau5567 agree, and i'm not even a musician.
Yes more of these song break downs please. I enjoy it so much
an interview with carlos rios would be even better.
The knowledge and music sense Rick has is incredible. He deserves all the notoriety that comes with it.
I’ll never understand how Gino Vanelli wasn’t a world wide success. Real class. Brother to Brother is the only album I have that defies categorisation, in the way that Boz Skaggs’ Silk Degrees did for me years before. Oh and Rick, you break my heart with your playing and knowledge. Over here we have a brilliant music savant called Howard Goodall who has opened my ears and eyes many a time, but he’s not an axe-man!
Regarding Gino Vanelli's career, he got into a feud with Clive Davis who blackballed him, for whatever reason, killing his US recording career. Sad story.
@@jaylozier4083 Clive Davis. Oof.
Brother To Brother was the only record to combine rock, funk, soul, jazz, r&b and prog.
@@jaylozier4083Maybe he should have stayed with A&M? Gino always said good things about Herb Alpert.
I agree with you about B2B...killer disc! Funny you should mention Vanelli and Scaggs as both created songs with similar R&B and jazz influenced structures and chord progressions. Very cool stuff.
Love Carlos Rios. His playing with Kazu Matsui on The Direction-West and also Chick Corea on the first Elektric Band album in 86 is absolutely brilliant
Right. I believe Scott Henderson played guitar on the Elektric Band tour, for that album. Carlos is one of those guitar players, like Alan Murphy and Jimi Tunnell, who weren't "household names" but insanely good :-)
@@bourgeoisbrats They're both on it, playing both lead and rhythm. Depending on the song
Cool Wiesel Boogie is a great tune
Scott played on two tunes. King Cockroach, and Silver Temple. The rest is Carlos. But after that first album I started listening to Tribal Tech. I didn't like the subsequent Elektric Band albums.
@@reidwhitton6248 i have some of those solo's transcribed if anyone is interested....Cheers
Watching you understand the harmony before even learning the run is such an important lesson in itself
Gino's whole band was just crazy talented. Mark Craney's drum work on the Brother To Brother album is sublime...
He also had Graham Lear and Enzo Todesco on the other occasion.
I was very fortunate to have attended Jethro Tull's 'A' tour as a teenager when they hit SoCal in 1980. Mark Craney was phenomenal, as was "special guest" Eddie Jobson. WOW what a show that was.
@@Tangento - I saw Craney with Gino at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle, PA back in the late '70s. A very intimate setting and they were incredible!
One of the greatest albums!
I'm about the same age as Rick. My friends at that time half-understood why I loved Steely Dan, but they actively made fun of me for liking Gino Vanelli. Bastards. 😆
Such an absolute joy to watch you go through this process in the moment. What a time to be alive.
Carlos Rios is so amazing! So much energy !
Rios' playing on that record was almost unprecedented in rock. Surgically clean, lyrical, virtuosic, and mixing up fusion and bebop.
Fantastic pick, Rick. I've long wondered why Rios isn't a household name in the pantheon of guitar gods.
Beautiful comment.. I often ask myself the same thing. Rios was a serious virtuoso with a distinct feel..
I think this is my favorite video of yours so far and I've been watching you for years, Rick. I love that you've shared this with us! It's a snapshot of the journey that every guitarist goes on and illustrates the struggles we all encounter when transcribing and trying to learn difficult material. This is so human of you, Rick! Thank you.
Like myself, Carlos is left-handed. It changes ones playing of the instrument. Not as much as in the case of how I play piano. But it makes a difference. And I agree with you. Carlos Rios is a tragically underrated guitarist. Simply brilliant!
Yep, left handed here too. I can’t pick to save my life, but my legato is strong. 😅
My problem as a lefty (still, after 50 years of playing) is I can't watch a lefty and figure out the fret work. Not a problem at all when watching a right handed player.
I might be inebriated (it's one of those days), but I can't believe how mind boggling this video is for analysis, exposition, and sheer presence it is. Gee... THANK YOU, Mr Beato. 🙇♂️ *Respect*
I love me some Gino Vannelli. His and his band's musicianship was always at a ridiculously advanced level. One of the best bands you will ever see live, to this day.
I have to agree. saw Gino back in the 70's. besides the percussion, everything was played on keyboards. Amazing
Even more than the breakdown of the guitar (which is insane!) ...
I loved Rick's demo of Gino's piano chords, simply beautiful progressions!
Gino Vannelli, as successful as he was, is still vastly underappreciated.
Bless you Rick, for the Gino love )) You truly understand greatness
Love how you broke it down. That lick is super insane! 😂🥂
Being able to slow music down without changing the pitch is _so_ helpful for trying to hear what's going on. I've been learning bass for a few months and one of the things I've been working on is transcribing bass lines I like to sheet music w/ tab. Mostly I just use TH-cam or VLC to play the song. Being able to shift to 50% or 75% speed is so helpful. Sometimes things just go buy too fast for me to retain it and sing it back. But when I slow it down suddenly I can hear the individual notes so much more clearly and retain the line! It's still slow going, but I've done 1 song so far and I'm mostly done with another. It's quite satisfying when it's done.
It’s only taken us another 45 years to have technology equal to slow down Carlos Rios’ solo.
Brother to Brother is more evidence of what a great year 1978 was for music. So much awesome on that album.
Gino Vannelli is so seriously underrated. All of his stuff is great but his 70s recordings are mind blowing. I was at a Snarky Puppy show last night (monsters) and there were so many points in the show where you absolutely knew most of the players on stage were massive Gino fans… incredible show btw!
Underrated even in Canada...
Snarky Puppy... Where you at the Mtl Jazz Fest? Snarky like you said are absolute Monsters, In fact they are almost inhuman... Ironically Gino is from Mtl and I always play the first song from Gino's Live in Mtl: Brother to Brother.
Rick…I just love your combination of genius ear mixed with being so human when you’re trying to work out tricky solo parts.
What a gem that lick.
The way I'd practice is, normal +15 BpM and THEN perform it at normal tempo, really takes away the performance anxiety
this is the way, also accounts for that small chance that you end up playing it a bit faster live lol
I love your channel. Great job! Keep in mind that Carlos just came up with this off the top of his head which makes it even more astounding.The fact that you figured it out even with the help of a slow downer is amazing.
Oh boy, Brother to Brother was one of my most-played albums at the time! I couldn't believe the musicianship I was hearing back then. It was like another level above anything else I had heard. So fascinating to hear you break down this solo and backing chords. So many great tracks on this album - the title track itself, Brother to Brother, is so good - even as a guitarist I was in awe at the drumming, and I loved the instrumental break in the middle! Apaloosa - another fantastic track! What great taste you have Rick 👍
Carlos Rios- one of my all-time favorites! Top session player, and an amazing live player. Saw him in the late 70s with the Marc-Almond Band (somehow they were opening for Judas Priest). My friends were all guitar aficionados who were blown away with his technique and musicality. Thanks for featuring his work on Brother to Brother a couple of times in your videos.
Awesome to hear Gino's music on your channel! Brother to Brother is such a perfect album, such a shame its so tragically underrated.
Rick! Always an amazing teacher - I don't normally comment but this video struck me. I learn everything the same way you did in this video, when i can. obviously, turning to tabs / notation when i have to. Was super cool to see that someone of your skill and knowledge doing those same frustrating "ahh!" when you mess up when attempting that full speed run after learning the actual notes lol! Reminder that we all go through those moments and pushing past them is what makes the difference between a good and a great player, just nice to see that instead of perfection on the youtube scene
It's so refreshing seeing Rick struggling to play something, considering how insanely good he is, both at identifying what is being played, and then playing it back. This lick would be a vulnerability for anyone, but it's nice to see Rick putting it out there, warts and all - then demonstrate the benefit of properly practicing when he posts the lick video later (and likely nails it)
Legend.
That was a great dissection Rick! Keep up your fantastic work and sharing👍
Brothers to Brothers. Gino Vanelli.
Excellent album, singer, and guitarist
Night Ranger- “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”… The hardest solos I’ve learned. The alternate picking part on the second solo is still SO FRIGGIN HARD. It’s such a great combo of pull offs, alternate picking, and just sheer shredding with some neat whammy tricks thrown in there. Both Brad Gillis & Jeff Watson were such incredible players.
I’d love to see you play it, Rick!!
Gino Vanelli's Brother to brother album was my introduction to Vanelli's music, I think I still have it on vinyl. It's every bit as relevant & exiting today. All the musicians on this record are brilliant.
That Evil Eye was an absolute show stopper along with the rest of that album. All of those solos are still floating in my brain (not in my fingers) since it was launched in '78. I was 20 then and takes me right back there to that time. Rick, your prowess and understanding/teaching of theory has been so helpful to me even as I'm slowing down but still trying to learn this material still...also, I've been using Anytune for a few years now and use both "slow down" and pitch correction for songs like The Cars "Best Friends Girl" which was sped up in the studio for a few reasons. Great stuff!
This was really insightful seeing you work this lick out. I often get in my own head too much about how I learn through constant repetition, but I understand that it is a universal issue sometimes when it's not a natural way to play your instrument. Cheers as always, Rick 🤘
Best ear training course commercial ever. You're a genius, Rick.
The solo in the title track 'Brother to Brother' is just as insanely good. I just started listening to JV again after not since the 80's-90's. His live vocals and bands are also top notch.
This was great Rick. As an experiment, it would be so cool to give this same puzzle to Phil X to watch his thought process as he tries to figure it out. He's amazing and you guys are a lot of fun to watch together. Just a suggestion 😉
That would be interesting because Phil X seems to know how to play every song ever recorded!
Gino is one of my all time favorites
Carlos' work with Gino is outstanding and of the highest order he smokes it
That lick is wickedly evil!
Right ! This solo is so crazy, I have also this fabulous album; love also the "Brother to brother" solo, Carlos Rios is a real huge player, he is lefty, I saw him live once in France with Dave Weckl and John Patitucci in the 90's !
Gino Vanelli... Start with his album Nightwalker if you don't know him, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, amazing songs!!
The entire "Brother to Brother" record is insane! In fact I'm going to listen to it again now on my iPod. I'm so glad you gave some recognition to Gino Vannelli because both he and his band were top musical talents.
How I long for the days when bands actually cared to make memorable solos.
Credit for Gino who wrote and arranged all of it, and likely showed all the musicians the basic parts. Many don't know he is one of very few who can play every basic rock band instrument well. Classically trained on piano, played drums in early bands, does songs live with just acoustic guitar, and occasionally played bass on some recordings. Few others had that (Dan Hartman, Todd Rundrgen, Prince, Kevin Gilbert, Steve Windwood, Paul McCartney). He scored for orchestra (half of the album he did before this is a purely classical suite). Know for his voice or ballads, he's a musician who can dish out the Jazz and Funk. Consider reaching out to him to talk not just about his songs and singing but also about what he rarely ever gets to talk about, his musician side.
I wonder if it was Rick growing up in Rochester, but he really knows and loves Canadian artists and music to a level that exceeds Canadians themselves.
Rick, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Anything by Gino is appreciated. Please try and get an interview with the maestro.
You just wrinkled my brain. I’m familiar with that tune and you breaking that down and playing that scorching lead. Something I’ll never be able to play. You never cease to amaze me man. Props to you!
Kids today will never know how it feels to wear out a cassette through endless rewinds and playbacks just to learn a lick.
That beautiful strap!!! Especially in combination with the guitars' color is just plain magic!!
So good Master Rick! This is a good day in school today! Thank you for doing this Carlos Rios solo. He does this sort of lick in Cool Weasel Boogie with Electric Band! Trademark of his. Love it man!!!🤘🎶🎸
That's the modern version of taking it from 45 to 33 and keeping on lifting the arm 😄
Be careful the pennies don't fall off!
😉
Isn't that a lick rather than a riff? A riff to me is something that gets repeated like Led Zep's Black Dog. Amazing work for you to work it out and can't wait to hear you play it all up to tempo. What a great solo
That is such a crazy progression, but Carlos Rios, wow!! I will be looking for that short, Rick
Man, the content you post every time is so useful and interesting! Excellent solo by the way, I never heard it before!
Greetings from Spain! 🤟🏻🤟🏻
great comment ☝️ aloha from Australia 🚬🐨
just subscribed to your channel on the basis of that comment alone 👍🏻
Rick's breakdown of the song is more impressive than the song itself!
Back when you and I were 16, the "Slow Down" app was setting your turntable to play at 16.5 instead of 33.33 RPMs. Helped me figure out a bunch of solos, even though I played them an octave low.
Awesome. Speed aside is what you're highlighting is that lead means nothing without interesting chord progressions. Sure you could play it all over a pedal like you do (and it sounds gorgeous!).. but there be no drama..
I love this kind of videos, when you show us the beauty of the "tension chords" joined to a majestic guitar solo, and teaching all that to everybody. To me, they're hidden gems to discover.
LOVE the brother to brother album!
It's his best by far - and that's saying a lot (the others are great albums in their own right).
I don't even like listening to this style of jazz. I mean, it's colorful and kinetic, but to me it has no depth. Yet I thoroughly enjoy nodding along as Rick talks about the chord extensions and relationships. Still watching!
Been following Gino’s trajectory pretty since the start-Crazy Life Powerful People, Pauper in Paradise, Gist of the Gemini, B2B, Nightwalker, Black Cars-all great albums with superb musicianship. Fascinating and very talented artist who isn’t afraid to take chances and try new things. Even a more interesting person, too!
The chord progression for this solo is so majestic and whimsical... i love those types of chord progressions so is there a formula to something majestic
Brother To Brother is one of my desert island discs. Thank you for so much love for this record.
Rick its amazing to see your face strugling to learn something new in guitar, this is inspiring
Rock Beato, you Rick! Most listeners appreciate that in realtime without understanding what just happened.
This Album is such an underrated masterpiece
Carlos is just amazing.
I use Anytune on my Mac on a daily basis learning songs for my cover band gigs. Time saver and good ear trainer.
Holy crap. What a solo....technology today to help figure out what these guys did is amazing.
Mahalo for showing us the process of discovery!
Great album!!!! Jazz/Rock with vocals!!!
Can't wait to hear your progress.
Rick, you never cease to blow my mind. I love your approach to teaching us and your attitude is infectious. THANK YOU!!!
@Rick Your interviews are really something to be treasured, and I hope you continue to have insightful conversations with such talented musicians, and that over time you find a way to archive these off youtube (because who knows what will happen with youtube in the future).. It's kind of crazy to see so many influential musicians passing-away. One artist I hope you get to, if he's at all interested, is Donald Fagen. He seems to have done interviews before, but with you as the interviewer, I bet he'd appreciate your musical literacy . I have no idea where he stands on interviews now, but it'd be super fascinating to hear more from him. It's heartbreaking that Walter passed away already. I only got to see them live as Steely Dan once.
OMG! Thank you for this one! Such an
underrated player on an underrated album!!
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thats a clinic in itself how you picked everything out and really great guitar playing i dont think you need to practice well done
My family had a music centre with a turntable with settings for 78, 45, 33 and 16 RPM when I started playing. I used to use the 16 RPM setting to work out stuff from vinyl albums. It was in tune, though obviously in a lower register.
After figuring out that Sergio Mendes song (Never Gonna Let You Go) which got one of my favorite chords proggression, now you come up with this monster song and solos from one of my biggest favorite musician/singer. You're awesome.
Brother to Brother is a great album with an amazing line up of musicians including Jimmy Haslip on Bass.
I absolutely love this album, and you introduced it to me when you introduced the title track "brother to brother"
Love your content Rick. Thank you for always doing what you do.
That gibson SG is so beautiful I choked up. Wow.
That album by Gino Vanelli is absolutely brilliant. I am surprised you haven't done any reviews on it yet because to me it is an absolute classic.
Awesome Rick! Well done. Can’t wait to hear this in another week…after you spent time in the ‘woodshed’. Your channel ROCKS!!! Cheers!
Slowing down function on TH-cam is one of the greatest invention since the fridgerator😊
It helped me a lot to learn Chick Corea's Spain theme
Wow Rick, I love it. I saw Gino Vannelli in the 90's and he had a sax player instead of a guitarist doing all the guitar solos, I missed the guitar at first but after a while it was amazing . Thank you for your great body of work.
Rick, slow and steady wins the race. On parts like this I use an app called Audiopo that slows down the difficult sections.... when I get the section down at the slow speed, I then use the app to repeat the section over and over, increasing the BPM automatically by one each time it repeats. You'd be amazed how fast and how accurate you can get doing that. But the most important part is getting it right slowly. Speed means nothing if it's not right.
Love what you give us and LUV that SG!!! Oh my... wear my Beato T - shirt proudly. Carry on.
5:51 Me trying to shred the minor pentatonic as a teenager 😂
Oh man, that album is one of the greatest of all time. And Mark Craney's drumming is otherwordly!
Good points, Rick. Each chord structure has a pretty distinct sound, though voicings can produce some variety. This sort of exercise is great work for anyone's ears and musical brain.
As for practicing slow--this is a time-honored thing in the classical world. Even super technicians like Rachmaninoff would play a piece at (as I put it) about 2 miles per hour as they got it into their fingers.
Rick, I am so grateful that you talked about this cult album BROTHER TO BROTHER (1978) I wish you would analyze the hole album one day!
5:56 that is actually me at aged 10 trynna play the F bar chord on a cheap secondhand guitar with high action and a grimy fingerboard!😂
Brother to Brother solo was my fave!
Reinhardt Meltz is now his drummer, here in Portland, Oregon.
I sought out my hero Graham Lear here after replacing him and Michael Shrieve as drummer for Brothers of the Baladi.
Gino's most recent band is as great as ever!
and again I watch it with passion !....thanks to your passion Rick 😍
I was smiling all the way through this video.. Totally captivating to watch. Having watched hours and hours of your videos this one is up there with the very best of them.
Those note-choices the composer used... OMG, my ears are so delighted! :D And to be honest, while it's AMAZING that the guitar player could play that fast, it takes a bit of "slowing it down" for that fast section to fully reveal those delicious tones to my non-musician ears! :D But even at that smokin' fast pace, that section is SO BEAUTIFUL!
Rick you out did, with this one, loved it.
The best short guitar solo ever! Carlos´time is incredible.
I’d never heard of the artist, album or song before. This solo absolutely RIPS, and it’s been in my head ever since I first watched this video a couple weeks ago. Thank you for the analysis, and thank you for turning me on to something new and very cool.