!!!Hyperventilating here first thing in the morning!!! One of my favorite artists too, and I never dreamed I'd wake to Sheela-Na-Gig. This lesson brought a big smile on many levels. Thank you! I hear calls for Dress which is good, maybe Victory is another great guitar-heavy choice.
great to see a Polly song, one of Englands great songwriters. she wrote and duet with john parish on a fantastic song called black hearted love. i urge everyone to listen to it
I absolutely adore your lessons! I've always struggled with online lessons but yours are so easy to understand. Thank you so much! I know this is over a year old but it's exactly what I've been looking for. I love PJ.
Adrian. There's one and only. The guitar channel than not only teaches how to play guitar. I have loved this tune since years and always wondered what on earth the title meant. Here we have it.
I saw her play for about £3 at a point in her career she had really taken off. She had to cancel her gig when her guitar was stolen and came back a month or two later but honoured the original advertised prices :) It was a great gig. The week before Glastonbury 1992. According to a fan wiki the setlist for a show later that week was Rid Of Me / O Stella / Dress / Highway 61 Revisited / Dry / Hair / Joe / Victory / Me-Jane / Sheela-Na-Gig / Man-size / Rub 'Til It Bleeds / Water. Takes me right back :)
One of my greatest regrets was when she played the Warfield in SF on her "To Bring You My Love" tour, I didn't get off my ass to travel 30 minutes to see her, and only later became a more fanatical fan. Next I lived in New Mexico, and scheduled a business trip back to San Fran for a week when I could see both PJ and Wire for the first time, but it fell through due to a malicious twit manager. Finally moved back to SF and saw her for the first time on the "Hope Six" tour (along with Wire several times). I wish I'd been there for the early days like you, but anyway her power still radiates.
And I agree not enough people talk about her fantastic guitar playing. This is actually one of her simpler songs to play-she gets way trickier. And that’s to say nothing of her time signatures-the majority of them are not in 4/4, at least in her rock era (91-04). No one ever mentions that, either, which is bizarre-it’s such a distinctive characteristic and really sets her music apart.
PJ Harvey is great as is Anna Calvi and Annie Clark, there is a pattern here; we have lots of new female talent that was not there before ,which is cool. (have a listen to Julia Holter "Have you in my wilderness as well).
Love your channel I’ve learned so much you play all music I mostly listen too. can I request more Pj Harvey man size and love and rockets(no new tale tell) cheers!!
I’ve done a play-along/“tutorial” for Man-Size on my channel. I don’t walk you through it from beginning to end, but I play it exactly like Polly does.
Can you please do "One Line" or "Oh My Lover"? Your videos are amazing. The only good in depth youtube guitar teacher who covers the music I like. If I have to watch another concept video where they cite fucking John Mayer as their inspiration, I will lose my mind. Thank you for the content, Adrian!
I have a bunch of PJ Harvey tutorials on my channel-I don’t walk you through every note like our wonderful host here, but I make it obvious what I’m playing and usually include a tab in the video descriptions. All of my videos are accurate to what Polly plays.
Please do a video on Buddy Holly's song Ting-A-Ling. :) There are sadly no tutorials on it and most people tend to play it exactly like That'll Be The Day.
Hi there! Thank you very much for the tutorial(s)! :) I discover your channel ! What kind of pedal do you use to get this sound ? ( I play on a Squier JazzMaster and a Blackstar tube) I like PJ Harvey sounds but I hesitate between Overdrive and Fuzz... Thanks again for all this!
Do you happen to have a video up that goes into more detail on the palm muting and strumming technique used in this song? I know it's fairly basic, but I'm finding that while I can play decent funk rhythm, when I'm palm muting the restriction to my wrist movement makes it super difficult.
What do you think makes it difficult for you? You’re just using the outside edge of your palm lightly resting on the strings in front of the bridge, right? The trick to the rhythm here, and with a lot of Polly Harvey’s songs that use that kind of super-tight, quick, palm-muted strumming, is to hold the pick as close to the strings as you can so that you don’t have to move your wrist/hand as much as you would if you were holding the pick, say, even as little as a half-inch farther away from the strings. That is, if I’m not misunderstanding the specific difficulty you’re describing.
Hey! I need a favor :) Please could you do a tutorial of 'perfect day elise' :) I know it seems very simple but i would like to see how you play it just right :p
Start with low gain on the amp or an Overdrive pedal (not so that it fuzzes out much at all), and have a distortion pedal hooked up too, but turned off - then hit the distortion pedal on the “put money in your idle hole” verse. Does that help?
I can hardly wait, for the next PJ Harvey lesson. It’s been so long
Big Exit!!!
So agree on the appreciation on PJH as a guitar player
Oh man! You are taking music teaching to the next level. You deserve your own show at the BBC! You can become the David Attenborough of Music! :P
Great to have a tutor with similar tastes in music, just pumps up the motivation. Polly songs, Man Size, Ecstasy ..
!!!Hyperventilating here first thing in the morning!!! One of my favorite artists too, and I never dreamed I'd wake to Sheela-Na-Gig. This lesson brought a big smile on many levels. Thank you! I hear calls for Dress which is good, maybe Victory is another great guitar-heavy choice.
Sick!!! Adrian, how about looking at some Birthday Party songs? so many great noisy punk/blues/rockabilly licks by RSH that no one looked at on YT!
Oh yeah! "Dry" is a glorious Guitar, Bass, Drums album. Now I'm inspired to listen to on the way to work. :)
PJ Harvey is one of my fave artists. I will definitely be trying to learn this! Great lesson Adrian, thank you!
great to see a Polly song, one of Englands great songwriters. she wrote and duet with john parish on a fantastic song called black hearted love. i urge everyone to listen to it
Excellent explanation - and the history lesson with book recommendation was top-notch!
I absolutely adore your lessons! I've always struggled with online lessons but yours are so easy to understand. Thank you so much! I know this is over a year old but it's exactly what I've been looking for. I love PJ.
Thanks for this. Not obscure at all for me, this was a mainstay of my Friday nights in the early 90’s. You exhibitionist....
Thank you for this. Another excellent lesson and it's great that you have featured a track from the wonderful PJ Harvey.
Wonderful! Extra marks for the theory. So many good songs by Polly. Black Hearted Love is probably the one I return to most often.
John Parrish wrote the music on that one (and on all their duet songs)
Brilliant!! My wife usually shrugs when I play guitar (Smiths, REM, Galaxie 500). She’s gonna love this though.
Do more PJ!!!!
Adrian. There's one and only. The guitar channel than not only teaches how to play guitar.
I have loved this tune since years and always wondered what on earth the title meant. Here we have it.
Nailed it. Such an inspirational record.
Omg PJ’s first album is her best….
What a great choice of song. Great track.
Just bang on every single time so appreciated Thanks
Superb as always. You nail these lessons and sounds every time. Best on the internet.
another great lesson. Thanks Adrian!
Killer intro this. Great lesson .. PJ Harvey can do no wrong. Nice insite too 😃 Cheers Adrian.
Thanks for putting this up! It's been really difficult to find PJ Harvey guitar lessons.
Kara S Hi! I have a whole series of PJ Harvey tutorials/play-alongs on my channel. All are accurate to how Polly plays them.
I saw her play for about £3 at a point in her career she had really taken off. She had to cancel her gig when her guitar was stolen and came back a month or two later but honoured the original advertised prices :)
It was a great gig. The week before Glastonbury 1992.
According to a fan wiki the setlist for a show later that week was Rid Of Me / O Stella / Dress / Highway 61 Revisited / Dry / Hair / Joe / Victory / Me-Jane / Sheela-Na-Gig / Man-size / Rub 'Til It Bleeds / Water.
Takes me right back :)
One of my greatest regrets was when she played the Warfield in SF on her "To Bring You My Love" tour, I didn't get off my ass to travel 30 minutes to see her, and only later became a more fanatical fan. Next I lived in New Mexico, and scheduled a business trip back to San Fran for a week when I could see both PJ and Wire for the first time, but it fell through due to a malicious twit manager. Finally moved back to SF and saw her for the first time on the "Hope Six" tour (along with Wire several times). I wish I'd been there for the early days like you, but anyway her power still radiates.
@@cskueny I think she was born a star so very few were there at the beginning :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
This video made me put new strings on the Ibanez...
The Ibanez says "Thank you Adrian".
Please add "Long Snake Moan" to the list of requests. That's full of great noise.
Thanks a lot , just loved it
You are the absolute best!
SWEET!!! Awesome music, lesson and.......history lesson...LOL
This was great--love your channel! Another good PJ Harvey guitar track (if you plan on doing another PJH session): Easy.
Nice teaching!
Very good - nailed it.
And I agree not enough people talk about her fantastic guitar playing. This is actually one of her simpler songs to play-she gets way trickier. And that’s to say nothing of her time signatures-the majority of them are not in 4/4, at least in her rock era (91-04). No one ever mentions that, either, which is bizarre-it’s such a distinctive characteristic and really sets her music apart.
PJ Harvey is great as is Anna Calvi and Annie Clark, there is a pattern here; we have lots of new female talent that was not there before ,which is cool. (have a listen to Julia Holter "Have you in my wilderness as well).
Love your channel I’ve learned so much you play all music I mostly listen too. can I request more Pj Harvey man size and love and rockets(no new tale tell) cheers!!
I’ve done a play-along/“tutorial” for Man-Size on my channel. I don’t walk you through it from beginning to end, but I play it exactly like Polly does.
no need to apologize, thanks
Hell yeah!
Very nic sir
You should consider posting a list of your favourite books, really curious what you’d recommend!
In the first ever video I saw of his he had 'Kiki de Montparnasse' on the music stand.
Can you please do "One Line" or "Oh My Lover"? Your videos are amazing. The only good in depth youtube guitar teacher who covers the music I like. If I have to watch another concept video where they cite fucking John Mayer as their inspiration, I will lose my mind. Thank you for the content, Adrian!
great choice. The riff for Joe would be another one?
Dude rips.
She's a big user of the power chord 😂❤
I have a bunch of PJ Harvey tutorials on my channel-I don’t walk you through every note like our wonderful host here, but I make it obvious what I’m playing and usually include a tab in the video descriptions. All of my videos are accurate to what Polly plays.
Fantastic - please do Dress next
Please do a video on Buddy Holly's song Ting-A-Ling. :) There are sadly no tutorials on it and most people tend to play it exactly like That'll Be The Day.
Hi there!
Thank you very much for the tutorial(s)! :)
I discover your channel !
What kind of pedal do you use to get this sound ?
( I play on a Squier JazzMaster and a Blackstar tube)
I like PJ Harvey sounds but I hesitate between Overdrive and Fuzz...
Thanks again for all this!
Do "Dress"
Do you happen to have a video up that goes into more detail on the palm muting and strumming technique used in this song?
I know it's fairly basic, but I'm finding that while I can play decent funk rhythm, when I'm palm muting the restriction to my wrist movement makes it super difficult.
What do you think makes it difficult for you? You’re just using the outside edge of your palm lightly resting on the strings in front of the bridge, right? The trick to the rhythm here, and with a lot of Polly Harvey’s songs that use that kind of super-tight, quick, palm-muted strumming, is to hold the pick as close to the strings as you can so that you don’t have to move your wrist/hand as much as you would if you were holding the pick, say, even as little as a half-inch farther away from the strings. That is, if I’m not misunderstanding the specific difficulty you’re describing.
Hey! I need a favor :) Please could you do a tutorial of 'perfect day elise' :) I know it seems very simple but i would like to see how you play it just right :p
Nice and slow :) More of pjh wouldn't hurt at all!
Not obscure for me. Friday nights in the "Brush".
do u take requests ? im tryin to learn cruel by st vincent !
You can play drums and piano as well?
Ah what happened to the fall
DO you think I could achieve this tone with my Fender Princeton 68 reissue and a telecaster or does it need a Vox and Jazzmaster?
Polly always used her Gretsch semihollowbody and a Marshall high gain tube amp
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please can you say exactly what you use for this sound, I am a terrible noobie
Start with low gain on the amp or an Overdrive pedal (not so that it fuzzes out much at all), and have a distortion pedal hooked up too, but turned off - then hit the distortion pedal on the “put money in your idle hole” verse. Does that help?
What's the name of the effect or how would you describe it?
Simple distortion. Polly always used a Boss BS-1.
BOSS DS-1, I think...
This song sounds like it could be a nirvana track.
Hmmmm. That gargoyle thing. I always thought E.T. was a boy, until now.
THANK U