Im grateful my guitar teacher made me learn this song properly when I was just a beginner. It was so different from the solos i wanted to learn but made me a better player in the long run.
I don’t play guitar. As a rock fan the solos get all the attention. But the more videos I’ve watched it seems like the difficult riffs are often much harder to learn to play properly. I definitely have a greater appreciation for them.
@@texasflood3165 If you miss Stevie you should probably check out a guy named Tommy Katona from Texas and his band Texas Flood. He looks like and he plays like SRV. Greatest impersonator, and tribute to SRV ever. That guy is a genius. He is actually from Hungary. ua-cam.com/video/QR7Df8pQip4/v-deo.html
@@The_UA-cam_Critic Play something like nothing by Townes van Zandt, you wont get the same tone the same feeling not all music has to be complicated to be difficult to play
@@lurk7967 Well that's the thing. Some people are better at getting the tone and feeling, other people are better at playing technically. He was so far off with his original playing because he is a technical player, not a feel player.
I was living in San Antonio the day that we lost Stevie - I became infatuated with the blues because of him. He played with both a power and subtlety that leaves you in awe - I have played Pride and Joy at gigs, but never could get those semi muted stabs. AND keep the shuffle. Stevie played tuned down a half step most of the time, but that does not make it any easier. Now Stevie rides with me on my left shoulder with my tat - he was my boy friend even though we never met - and he was my guitar instructor, though he never gave me a lesson. - Stevie had that sweet goofy grin - he was very special, and he and Tommy both got clean and sober.... Now he lives in heaven's Riviera Paradise God Bless ~Soul to Soul 🙏 ~Cindy (BLUWMN)
Now try singing it at the same time!.......and he made it look so easy breasy, like a walk in the park, just another day in the life! He was and still is my favorite. Rave On, Ray Vaughn!
I really think that the G# is a hammer on without being picked. Playing it as a hammer on while doing an upstroke on the B and e strings feels more natural and to me it sounds more like the record. I guess we will never know though 😄
@@HigherPlanes man alot of people don't take that into account🤣. Some of his speedy licks came from that powder. I think about this a lot. Since youtube i have watched so many live videos of him and ya, he looks tweaked. Nose all kinds of red in the early days. I Dont take anything away from his talent. Him and Jimi are my favorites and Jimi had a huge acid assist as well. It's not something you can deny
@@craenor i don't know about that bro. You ever heard the bootlegs from the bar years? Insane player when he was raw. SRV was never not good but the early stuff is like 👀
The stabs have always been the whole essence of the riff - many others have previously advocated this - my first recollection was Keith Wyatt showing this in one of his old videos
I’m glad to see that even an expert player like Paul struggle to nail it down , the shuffle riff is just amazing , sound easy to play but when you actually try strumming the guitar , there you realise the abyss between you and Steve Ray Vaughan playing …. Great content as usual !
I have been an SRV fanatic since I saw Live at the El Mocambo in 1983 when it came out on MTV. I was a 13 year old, leaning chicken Pickin' country up until that, then I completely changed my path in life! One thing you must remember, is Stevie had massively strong hands. I have semi strong hands, and if I play this song with my guitar unplugged, you can hear a thud on the neck as I hammer on that G# sharp. Stevie didn't just hammer on, he sledge hammered on.... I'm sure if you could listen to him play that track, without it being plugged in, you would have definitely heard his fingers thudding on the fret board. People can play the notes, and get it close, but there was a certain level of intensity and force in his playing that is very hard to duplicate. He was using a hammer on, watch the El Mocambo video, you can clearly see what he's doing, and that was right after the release of the album. One of the best live performances of his ever! Great video Paul. Keep Stevie alive!!!
Every time i hear Stevie or someone playing his songs I just feel so inspired. This was really helpful especailly to someone like me who's still trying to nail this song, keep up the good work!
Great to see such an incredibly detailed analysis of a seemingly "simple" 12-bar blues shuffle. SRV was defnitely a one-off! Hats off to you, Mr. Davids! Keep 'em coming!
I love your attention to detail - this is what separates intermediate players from advanced players. It doesn't matter if you can't play this very fast, the important thing is you're playing it correctly! Then speed comes easily when you practice slowly and correctly and slowly increase speed over time.
You are such a great teacher David. Thank you. I also think part of how SRV gets some of his unique riffs accomplished is his big hands. You can really appreciate that watching his unplugged performance on that Jumbo Guild 12 string. Great stuff David!
SRV's whole style revolves around strumming all 6 strings and muting whatever he didn't want with his left hand. This is a completely different style that most of us are used to, and why I'll never sound like him.
@@ibarskiy yes, Tin Pan Alley, Lenny and others have a different vibe, but his upbeat songs generally all have this "every string" technique that gives them that full, "SRV" sound. It doesn't "prove me wrong", that's still his style, but it doesn't mean he was a 1 trick pony.
None of us will.LOL Last two notes at the end of this song is a perfect example of what you are saying ua-cam.com/video/t54xyIcgbks/v-deo.html&ab_channel=stevierayvaughnVEVO
It's really not that hard to learn to play like that, where you play all 6 strings every time but mute 5 of them. I learned it over a decade ago when I was a teen, and I'm a really shit guitar player, so if I can manage to do it, then so can you. It's not difficult.
Love SRV! The weird thing is that we are as enamored with his music today as Stevie was with Hendrix when he was alive. They are both legends that pushed guitar playing to the next level!
This is getting really nit-picky, but for the last E chord, Stevie didn't play the bass E, often didn't even hit the 5th string (the B), and he stops the shuffle briefly. If you watch his picking hand, he picks the D Major 7 and the E with a slightly different rhythm. It may not seem important, but it makes a huge difference.
I asked my guitar instructor once who he thought was the greatest guitar player in the world. He didn't like the question, talked about so many being amazing at certain aspects of guitar playing, you couldn't really tell which one is the best. But then he added: "If there was one who had it all, it was Stevie Vaughan"
But I mean, I’m the grand scheme of things it’s kind of a flawed question. Who’s the greatest painter? Who’s the greatest boxer? At some point, you reach a level of excellence, but once you get up there you see there’s diversity in that excellence. Scofield is a different kind of “best” than SRV; Pat Martino, Jim Hall, Eddie Van Halen, are all the best, too. You can certainly say who you like more (subjective), but it’s impossible-pointless, really-to try to label a single player as the greatest (objectively). Technique, melodic sense, harmonic sense, versatility, innovativeness, output, impact…even trying to quantify an artist by traits is dubious. There is no “greatest”. And I think that’s a good thing!
@@johnfrenette That's essentially the essence of what my guitar instructor said. He didn't really 'pick' SRV after I pestered him about it, but his explanation stuck with me. Also, this was at least 10 years ago. I now believe any talk of 'greatest' doesn't lie with technical ability. It's a mesure of influence, raw feel for the instrument, and most importantly in my mind, songwriting ability. There are thousands of insanely talented guitarists, but a lot fewer who can inspire through their compositions. Then of course, it becomes entirely subject to one's taste in music. Like most I have a few favorites I consider to be one of the greatest, but I wouldn't argue for any one of them to be 'the' greatest.
Asked you Guitar Instruction to listen to Machine Gun Live at the Filmore 69/70 Jimi and the band of Gypsys ................rhen came back here a comment .........Enough Said
I can feel your great love for SRV and it brought me to tears of joy. Thank you. Every time I hear any of his songs, I feel like I've lost him all over again.
Thank you for this Paul, every time we (guitarists) approach something this subtle it takes patience, time, effort, and above all perseverance. I tell my students all the time that you'll evolve along with the effort as your capability and knowledge grow. So what sounded great 4 years ago is now eclipsed and hence improved with those new skills. GREAT video!
What a beautiful breakdown of what is "SRV." The genius is so subtle. You did an amazing job of highlighting the finer points of this riff. Only modern technology makes this level of breakdown possible. Thank you for sharing this!
The editing and the attention to detail is amazing, as usual! Great video, and probably this is _the_ best video on the topic of Pride and Joy! Thanks Paul!
@@kade1348 exactly!!! I dont know chords or scales like that. But i do know a master of his craft when i see one!!! And SRV was just that!!! Still highly regarded! 🙏🙏👍✌
@@RumpelStiltskindarkone omg!!!! One wouldnt understand unless they witnessed it for themselves👍. I love music as well and nothings comes close.! SRV could sing really well, but when he just played it was a work of art.
@@RumpelStiltskindarkone And to think what you're hearing on the album was partially a throw away take, as Chris "Whipper" Layton was tuning his drums during the recording. And that they got the whole song on tape too. The last bit of tape rolled through the machine when they stopped playing! 00
I went to learn this song about three weeks ago. And I must have listened to this riff and practiced it for 4 hours straight. Everything from the strumming, the rhythm, to the timing of the notes being muted. It’s amazing the nuance of every note of these amazing guitarists
Excellent video. Can I also suggest that the 'stabs' are actually exceptionally fast upwards raked arpeggios rather than trying to harshly stab all two or three high strings at the same time. It's a very subtle difference, but each string on the stab gets its own little microsecond to shine, if that makes sense, and I think this also gives the shuffle that much more groove.
It's kind of like his playing on Little Wing. Sure you can sound decent hitting both strings and then doing the hammer on, but Stevie hits the first note and the second note is synchronized with the hammer on.
It’s refreshing to see someone want to play/cover his songs EXACTLY the way he did. I feel people get the sense ok now I can technically play it so that good enough. Rather than wanting to add the little nuances. Thank you man.
Stevie doesn’t play the same notes or chords every time he performs on stage, every show is different, therefore there is no right or wrong when he plays Pride and Joy. He’s a phenomenal guitar player.
It’s night and day. It was whatever but now it’s literally riff heaven. Mad respect to that guy and to you for working out what makes that riff so great.
Love how Paul always try to improve the little details rather than just settling on what he knows, and knew. Also my 2 cent on the SRV pride and joy is you don't concentrate on the left hand and just let the right hand do all the job and the left hand to follow through. Don't be overly concerned about playing every note, and string but let it play with the beat and muting it inbetween as you feel. At least that's how I've been interpretting it for a while.
It just takes time and practice. I had to play the CDs over and over stopping it once in a while and replaying to learn songs. This wasn't one of them but it's not so easy to play if you don't hear all the notes when listening to it. Breaking it down like you did was not an option. Just playing over and over doesn't get it either - just listening and playing along does. So good job figuring out this riff and thank you for sharing this with us. I've been playing for over thirty years but it doesn't make me an expert but it does help me to understand music and how it's made.
Great Paul! This riff is full of secrets that emerge listen after listen, a masterpiece. Another thing I noticed, the third slide at the beginning of the turnaround is different from the first two: the first two start from A, the third instead from A#. At least, that's how I feel :)
I’ve noticed he changed things within songs and from performance to performance a lot. I think he just liked creating and never wanted to play rote. Always with emotion. He was beyond the music. Wish I could have seen him play.
After all, you were as close as one can hope to get to that authentic riff sound. I feel the difference left in sound is in the equipment. Number One was truly special and magical. All of Stevie's Guitars were magical.
I was amazed to learn that most of the time Stevie's guitars were strung with heavy gauge strings - the high e string being a 13. I have mainly used 9 and sometimes 10 for the high e on my electric, so it's hard to imagine with dealing with the gauge strings Stevie used, especially since I bend and vibrato a lot.
I had my foot tapping through the 8:37 example and continued playing in my head, tapping while you stopped playing and by 9:07 while you were playing the next example you had not missed a beat, at least that's how it went down for me. It seemed like you just did it naturally. Super impressed me.
This was the first SRV song I learned. Years later after watching UA-cam tutorials, I discovered apparently I was playing it wrong. Plot twist, I was playing it the way SRV played it all along. The guys on UA-cam, and most tab, actually have it wrong. Use your ears people. And trust them
I love how you ended - there's so much to learn about Stevie's guitar playing - it's bizarre. Absolutely. He had a feel that's so difficult to truly reproduce
Way to break it down. I love your process. The drums are almost always played wrong by cover bands, BTW. Chris Layton's Texas shuffle is so clean and left-hand dominated most drummers can't pull it off
Great video. Justin Guitar is one of the few who has been playing this right for many years. Check out his video of it with the circular strum and groove.
Awesome sir ,my younger just passed and this is the style of guitar he did, just like the vidro pride and joy, i play guitar as well and in fact I did some rythum with him when he played...his name was craig hodges....stevie ray vaughan was his music idol...
i love the way you approach this stuff. so much guitar nowadays is missing these kind of touches, and part of the reason is they never took the time to notice them in the music they are emulating.
I can honestly, genuinely say, I have always had this exactly right. I learned by watching SRV, not by any others teaching it. You can pick up on nuances when you watch 100s of videos 100s of times lol.
Same here. I must say, I don't get the perception that this song is "played wrong" so often. Accurate tabs for this tune have been floating around for at least 15 years, probably more.
@@RoyalBlue43 If anything, people could watch his Austin City Limits or his Unplugged performances to pick up on this. It's the only way I've ever played it. It honestly feels weird to play it how Paul did in this video.
The first time a video of paul that I already knew what was going to happen I learned to play Pride and Joy by watching Stevie a lot of times and by watching him move his hand!
Great video, Paul. I could never play this correctly. I’ll try it like this! I can’t fathom how Stevie could play like this and sing at the same time. Btw, I love your strat. Custom shop?
@@patrickkellyguitar8300 You bet. I bought mine in the early 1980s for $1,750, which was what they were going for then. Paul's guitar could also be an early '62, by the way. He's been playing a lot of vintage stuff lately, including a wonderful herringbone.
@@patrickkellyguitar8300 Two-tone sunburst. It was originally three-tone, but faded to two-tone. Super, super clean & all original. Looks very similar to a '50s maple board Strat.
Great clinical breakdown for something SRV just did and didn’t even think it through. It just flowed out of him. That is the way. Like drummers ghost notes
You have almost broken down and nailed how ray vaughan played this song - i, like you always seemed to be on a mission to nail this song, i always heard people play it and it never sounded whole, always rock guitarists or 'pub bands' (function party bands if you like...) playing it and blagging the easiest version they could - i got out of rock music into playing a lot of funk and blues and when i discovered srv i had the advantage of being a decent rhythm player and what you described in the song for me, is the foundation of stevie's shuffle rhythm - its the same technique in songs like cold shot if you play that properly! i haven't played properly in over 10 years but its nice finding this video and knowing that guitar players are still trying to break down and play ray vaughans music as it should be! take care!
SRV plays every string on the guitar to sound percussive. Even that one note to play he add all 5 strings(muted)to sound thick and grande. It's a very hard technique to learn. He's one of a kind and one of the best player.
listening to music for decades im 53 now i have come to the conclusion that srv played with the most intensity, ferocity and feeling more than any other guitar player in history
Great Video! Question on the software: Did you extract or isolate the guitar track somehow? If so, which software package does this? I’ve seen a number of “Isolated Track” videos and always wondered how they did this function. I investigated the software packages you listed, but it wasn’t clear that this functionality was part of their software. Hoping you can clarify or point me in the right direction. Thank you!! Mike J.
Best thing about this video and other SRV videos you do, is how amazing Stevie was, we have to use computers to analyze and practice over and over what he just did.
That SRV shuffle riff has been driving me crazy for decades. You can just tell his technique is the result of pretty much never putting the guitar down.. even when going to sleep.
The rhythm of these iconic artists is what makes them iconic.. some knew or know about the technicalities of how to play blues like this and that, but many or most of them just got obsessed with the instrument and developed a skill based on letting go with the flow. It's fascinating ! I get the nostalgia thing now, because musicians from these days are technitians and there's the lack of flow and that's why I tend to forget or ignore a lot of new artists.
first starting out on guitar listening to Stevie, i noticed how his right hand would hit all the strings and he would have a muted up stroke think in his shuffles. it took me a while to learn how to do it, but it's really fun once you get used to it.
Gotta love your scientific approach. And the beauty of it is that Stevie wouldn't have known any of this because it was just the way he naturally played.
Not to mention that you speak and communicate in English better than most English and Americans. I know this is not unusual in the Netherlands but I’m always impressed.
I was SCREAMING at my screen "play in a circle and do a heavy hammer on from 3rd to 4th fret and don't worry about the pick hitting it, just stay in the circle!!!".... but you figured out both of those things on your own before the video was over. Great job!
You unlocked part of it with the circular movement. The hammer on is also important. Another thing that opened it up for me, was using the back of my thumb knuckle on the up swing of the circle to "pick" the bass notes. Sounds like a weird idea, but try it. Once you work it into the walk of that shuffle, it'll make sense.
I love the way you break this down Paul. Really good stuff. SRV was full of subtlety that most players don’t catch - including me. There are so many transition notes that are super easy to throw away - but they give the song more soul and in this case the ‘bounce’ that a great blues shuffle provides. This song is such a great example of that - it’s not even on the ‘and’ - it’s on the ‘and & 1/2’ - and it is so cool.
I love this song…and if you listen it and see stevie hundreds of times becomes quite clear the circular motion of his right hand. And this riff is so difficult that even SRV, playing it during some lives, accelerated the beat so going significantly ahead of time
I think u r on the right track ! But I think it’s Stevie’s strumming hand that gives those little nuances that we all can’t quite get like him ! He plays hard !
The strum upsteoke on 'la' count on triplet wich is going g# comes first but its part of middle ist like a half of the note in bitween, using half open before change chord
You are an amazing player and teacher. That’s why I subscribe. What Stevie played was in his heart and soul. It’s what he grew up listening to and emulated his hero’s. It’s one of those things that if you weren’t born to it and around it everyday as apart of your culture, learning it can be extremely tough if not impossible to nail it down. I would probably have a hard time getting Scandinavian rhythms or Middle Eastern rhythms down perfectly. Or never. Just getting them close enough but never able to perfectly replicate it naturally. Just some thoughts on it. Also, Stevie had an incredibly powerful right hand that he used to drive his rhythms and those thick strings.
I’ve always pulled down on that G on the 6th string bending it into the G#. Same thing with the C to C# on the A chord. Has a little more grease that way.
“Excellence is in the details.” So true. Great video, I enjoyed it very much. Like many cover band guitarists, I tended to learn a lot of cover tunes to a point that was “close enough”, which is perhaps necessary if you’re trying to build a good-sized catalog. But that isn’t good enough, really. I wish I’d learned many of these riffs the right way to start with, now, and since I’m not under time pressure like I was in those hectic days, I can afford the time to learn them the right way and actually improve my playing. Now it’s just a matter of sitting down and doing it!
Couple of things: [1] great job this is a fricken tough riff [2] most of the stabs also have the G in them (yes even the stab over the G# bass) [3] the stab immediately preceding the A chord is A C# E [4] the A chord is actually an A6 chord on most passes.
I remember for like 6 months all I could think about was how awesome that shuffle sounds; it’s like a triplet strum, stab, mute, repeat thing going on. It’s not that hard too to play, it’s like a scrape through all the strings every up stroke
Stevie’s rhythm playing isn’t talked about nearly enough. He was unbelievable.
If you think this is difficult you should try working out some Wilko Johnson.
You’re talking to the wrong people. My gf had it playing when I was at her apt for the first time, it was then I knew she’s the bomb
Her dad is also the bass player for Joe Beard 😎
Same thing with Hendrix. Hmmmmmmm...............Part of why they're on a different level.
SRV was blues genius RIP
Im grateful my guitar teacher made me learn this song properly when I was just a beginner. It was so different from the solos i wanted to learn but made me a better player in the long run.
Alternate title of this video was: the one riff I advised all my students to learn 😎
Same.
I don’t play guitar. As a rock fan the solos get all the attention. But the more videos I’ve watched it seems like the difficult riffs are often much harder to learn to play properly. I definitely have a greater appreciation for them.
..had the pleasure to see SRV..4 times..your playing is spot on..sure do miss those days..keep up the good work..
@@texasflood3165 If you miss Stevie you should probably check out a guy named Tommy Katona from Texas and his band Texas Flood. He looks like and he plays like SRV. Greatest impersonator, and tribute to SRV ever. That guy is a genius. He is actually from Hungary. ua-cam.com/video/QR7Df8pQip4/v-deo.html
This is a extremely difficult song play if you want to nail the SRV shuffle, he was just a phenomenal guitar player.
No it isn't
@@The_UA-cam_Critic you’re so cool
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@@The_UA-cam_Critic Play something like nothing by Townes van Zandt, you wont get the same tone the same feeling not all music has to be complicated to be difficult to play
@@lurk7967 Well that's the thing. Some people are better at getting the tone and feeling, other people are better at playing technically. He was so far off with his original playing because he is a technical player, not a feel player.
I was living in San Antonio the day that we lost Stevie - I became infatuated with the blues because of him. He played with both a power and subtlety that leaves you in awe - I have played Pride and Joy at gigs, but never could get those semi muted stabs. AND keep the shuffle. Stevie played tuned down a half step most of the time, but that does not make it any easier. Now Stevie rides with me on my left shoulder with my tat - he was my boy friend even though we never met - and he was my guitar instructor, though he never gave me a lesson. - Stevie had that sweet goofy grin - he was very special, and he and Tommy both got clean and sober.... Now he lives in heaven's Riviera Paradise God Bless ~Soul to Soul 🙏 ~Cindy (BLUWMN)
Now try singing it at the same time!.......and he made it look so easy breasy, like a walk in the park, just another day in the life! He was and still is my favorite.
Rave On, Ray Vaughn!
Just fyi SRV doesn’t sing and play this riff at the same time. He switches to a simpler version of the shuffle without the bass notes when singing.
SRV was the master of the shuffle 😄✌🏻
Rhythm in general. It's really hard to find a man that has better rhythm sensibilities than SRV.
@matthewscott would love to see you take on this song on your channel. You've got some of the best SRV chops out there!
look up denny freeman
Wilko Johnson!
So cool to see a seasoned player like you struggle and still discovering some stuff. Amazing!
I really think that the G# is a hammer on without being picked. Playing it as a hammer on while doing an upstroke on the B and e strings feels more natural and to me it sounds more like the record.
I guess we will never know though 😄
Bingo!
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what's going on
YEP. The Hammer-on
I find it impossible to do without a hammer on.
I play it by sliding from the 3rd to the 4th fret instead of a hammer on, works well for me, another way of doing it
The intangibles in SRV's playing are what makes him so great. You can get it "right" and still not get it like Stevie. One of a kind musician.
His secret was to sprinkle a lil bit cocaine on his fretboard for lubrication.
@@HigherPlanes man alot of people don't take that into account🤣. Some of his speedy licks came from that powder. I think about this a lot. Since youtube i have watched so many live videos of him and ya, he looks tweaked. Nose all kinds of red in the early days. I Dont take anything away from his talent. Him and Jimi are my favorites and Jimi had a huge acid assist as well. It's not something you can deny
@@bryana297 That's why I like to point it out, my dude. Keeping it real.
SRV's best guitar playing came in his last year when he was cold sober.
@@craenor i don't know about that bro. You ever heard the bootlegs from the bar years? Insane player when he was raw. SRV was never not good but the early stuff is like 👀
The stabs have always been the whole essence of the riff - many others have previously advocated this - my first recollection was Keith Wyatt showing this in one of his old videos
I’m glad to see that even an expert player like Paul struggle to nail it down , the shuffle riff is just amazing , sound easy to play but when you actually try strumming the guitar , there you realise the abyss between you and Steve Ray Vaughan playing …. Great content as usual !
I have been an SRV fanatic since I saw Live at the El Mocambo in 1983 when it came out on MTV. I was a 13 year old, leaning chicken Pickin' country up until that, then I completely changed my path in life! One thing you must remember, is Stevie had massively strong hands. I have semi strong hands, and if I play this song with my guitar unplugged, you can hear a thud on the neck as I hammer on that G# sharp. Stevie didn't just hammer on, he sledge hammered on.... I'm sure if you could listen to him play that track, without it being plugged in, you would have definitely heard his fingers thudding on the fret board. People can play the notes, and get it close, but there was a certain level of intensity and force in his playing that is very hard to duplicate. He was using a hammer on, watch the El Mocambo video, you can clearly see what he's doing, and that was right after the release of the album. One of the best live performances of his ever! Great video Paul. Keep Stevie alive!!!
There's a video of Stevie playing Pride and Joy, rude mood unplugged on a Guild 12 string watching Stevie play unplugged reveals how talented he was.
@@earlsmith8867 yes, it was on MTV. Riki Rachtman introduced him
A story I heard years ago was that he once cracked a neck playing his 13s.
Maybe a flaw in wood.
Maybe neck said this mofo killing me and gave it up.
Love this breakdown. I don’t think anyone is ever done learning this song…. Stevie was truly one with the song and instrument
Every time i hear Stevie or someone playing his songs I just feel so inspired. This was really helpful especailly to someone like me who's still trying to nail this song, keep up the good work!
Great to see such an incredibly detailed analysis of a seemingly "simple" 12-bar blues shuffle. SRV was defnitely a one-off! Hats off to you, Mr. Davids! Keep 'em coming!
I love your attention to detail - this is what separates intermediate players from advanced players. It doesn't matter if you can't play this very fast, the important thing is you're playing it correctly! Then speed comes easily when you practice slowly and correctly and slowly increase speed over time.
Congratulations on this brilliant SRV breakdown, Stevie was an incredible musician and you done him proud.
When I see Paul do an SRV video I drop what I'm doing to watch and save it. My favorite guitarist taught by my favorite teacher is always a win.
You are such a great teacher David. Thank you. I also think part of how SRV gets some of his unique riffs accomplished is his big hands. You can really appreciate that watching his unplugged performance on that Jumbo Guild 12 string. Great stuff David!
SRV's whole style revolves around strumming all 6 strings and muting whatever he didn't want with his left hand. This is a completely different style that most of us are used to, and why I'll never sound like him.
Tin Pan Alley live for instance would prove you wrong. He could play basically anything. But had his standbys like all of us
@@ibarskiy yes, Tin Pan Alley, Lenny and others have a different vibe, but his upbeat songs generally all have this "every string" technique that gives them that full, "SRV" sound. It doesn't "prove me wrong", that's still his style, but it doesn't mean he was a 1 trick pony.
None of us will.LOL Last two notes at the end of this song is a perfect example of what you are saying ua-cam.com/video/t54xyIcgbks/v-deo.html&ab_channel=stevierayvaughnVEVO
It's really not that hard to learn to play like that, where you play all 6 strings every time but mute 5 of them. I learned it over a decade ago when I was a teen, and I'm a really shit guitar player, so if I can manage to do it, then so can you. It's not difficult.
That and he was a master of hammer ons.
Love SRV! The weird thing is that we are as enamored with his music today as Stevie was with Hendrix when he was alive. They are both legends that pushed guitar playing to the next level!
This is getting really nit-picky, but for the last E chord, Stevie didn't play the bass E, often didn't even hit the 5th string (the B), and he stops the shuffle briefly. If you watch his picking hand, he picks the D Major 7 and the E with a slightly different rhythm. It may not seem important, but it makes a huge difference.
I asked my guitar instructor once who he thought was the greatest guitar player in the world. He didn't like the question, talked about so many being amazing at certain aspects of guitar playing, you couldn't really tell which one is the best. But then he added: "If there was one who had it all, it was Stevie Vaughan"
I love it. "There's really no one who's the best, except SRV." 😁
But I mean, I’m the grand scheme of things it’s kind of a flawed question. Who’s the greatest painter? Who’s the greatest boxer? At some point, you reach a level of excellence, but once you get up there you see there’s diversity in that excellence. Scofield is a different kind of “best” than SRV; Pat Martino, Jim Hall, Eddie Van Halen, are all the best, too. You can certainly say who you like more (subjective), but it’s impossible-pointless, really-to try to label a single player as the greatest (objectively). Technique, melodic sense, harmonic sense, versatility, innovativeness, output, impact…even trying to quantify an artist by traits is dubious. There is no “greatest”. And I think that’s a good thing!
@@johnfrenette That's essentially the essence of what my guitar instructor said. He didn't really 'pick' SRV after I pestered him about it, but his explanation stuck with me.
Also, this was at least 10 years ago. I now believe any talk of 'greatest' doesn't lie with technical ability. It's a mesure of influence, raw feel for the instrument, and most importantly in my mind, songwriting ability. There are thousands of insanely talented guitarists, but a lot fewer who can inspire through their compositions.
Then of course, it becomes entirely subject to one's taste in music. Like most I have a few favorites I consider to be one of the greatest, but I wouldn't argue for any one of them to be 'the' greatest.
Asked you Guitar Instruction to listen to Machine Gun Live at the Filmore 69/70 Jimi and the band of Gypsys ................rhen came back here a comment .........Enough Said
@@johnfrenette Really well said my man.
I can feel your great love for SRV and it brought me to tears of joy. Thank you. Every time I hear any of his songs, I feel like I've lost him all over again.
Thank you for this Paul, every time we (guitarists) approach something this subtle it takes patience, time, effort, and above all perseverance. I tell my students all the time that you'll evolve along with the effort as your capability and knowledge grow. So what sounded great 4 years ago is now eclipsed and hence improved with those new skills.
GREAT video!
What a beautiful breakdown of what is "SRV." The genius is so subtle. You did an amazing job of highlighting the finer points of this riff. Only modern technology makes this level of breakdown possible. Thank you for sharing this!
The editing and the attention to detail is amazing, as usual! Great video, and probably this is _the_ best video on the topic of Pride and Joy! Thanks Paul!
SRV is still missed till this day!!! Such a talent gone way too soon. One of my favorite SRV songs is lenny. No words. Just beauty
that song is beautiful. especially when he starts just throwing out minor pentatonic licks
@@kade1348 exactly!!! I dont know chords or scales like that. But i do know a master of his craft when i see one!!! And SRV was just that!!! Still highly regarded! 🙏🙏👍✌
as a music lover AND and audiophile, Riviera Paradise is bliss to my ears.
@@RumpelStiltskindarkone omg!!!! One wouldnt understand unless they witnessed it for themselves👍. I love music as well and nothings comes close.! SRV could sing really well, but when he just played it was a work of art.
@@RumpelStiltskindarkone And to think what you're hearing on the album was partially a throw away take, as Chris "Whipper" Layton was tuning his drums during the recording. And that they got the whole song on tape too. The last bit of tape rolled through the machine when they stopped playing! 00
What a great technical breakdown! Love this type of analysis even if I will never take the time it requires to learn how to play this well!🙃
LMAO the reply above me....
On a different note, however, I too am in the same boat, sort of 😂
I went to learn this song about three weeks ago. And I must have listened to this riff and practiced it for 4 hours straight. Everything from the strumming, the rhythm, to the timing of the notes being muted.
It’s amazing the nuance of every note of these amazing guitarists
Funny thing is Stevie probably didn't even think about it, just played it 😂😂
Guarantee that, probably played it different every time too
It just flowed out of him like a river of music.
Yeah, and he played it different from time to time and didn't give a shit.
Seen Stevie play this 30 feet away, live and was blown away...R.I.P. SRV...always missed.
Excellent video. Can I also suggest that the 'stabs' are actually exceptionally fast upwards raked arpeggios rather than trying to harshly stab all two or three high strings at the same time. It's a very subtle difference, but each string on the stab gets its own little microsecond to shine, if that makes sense, and I think this also gives the shuffle that much more groove.
Bingo.
It's kind of like his playing on Little Wing. Sure you can sound decent hitting both strings and then doing the hammer on, but Stevie hits the first note and the second note is synchronized with the hammer on.
@@ClayHales Absolutely, he just had a sensational feel, in a way that great funk players like Niles Rodgers have.
Your attention to detail is admirable. I doubt Stevie ever thought about it that much though - right? He was just freakin blessed.
It’s refreshing to see someone want to play/cover his songs EXACTLY the way he did. I feel people get the sense ok now I can technically play it so that good enough. Rather than wanting to add the little nuances. Thank you man.
This just makes you appreciate how good Stevie was, especially keeping up that high intensity
Stevie doesn’t play the same notes or chords every time he performs on stage, every show is different, therefore there is no right or wrong when he plays Pride and Joy. He’s a phenomenal guitar player.
for these riffs...the same.....don't get sucked into the "it's different all the time stuff"...it's the same....(we aint solos here)
The notes change but the same techniques are used across all of his live performances
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It’s night and day. It was whatever but now it’s literally riff heaven. Mad respect to that guy and to you for working out what makes that riff so great.
Love how Paul always try to improve the little details rather than just settling on what he knows, and knew. Also my 2 cent on the SRV pride and joy is you don't concentrate on the left hand and just let the right hand do all the job and the left hand to follow through. Don't be overly concerned about playing every note, and string but let it play with the beat and muting it inbetween as you feel. At least that's how I've been interpretting it for a while.
and play very loud, and learn to make guitar faces.
It just takes time and practice. I had to play the CDs over and over stopping it once in a while and replaying to learn songs. This wasn't one of them but it's not so easy to play if you don't hear all the notes when listening to it. Breaking it down like you did was not an option. Just playing over and over doesn't get it either - just listening and playing along does. So good job figuring out this riff and thank you for sharing this with us. I've been playing for over thirty years but it doesn't make me an expert but it does help me to understand music and how it's made.
Great Paul! This riff is full of secrets that emerge listen after listen, a masterpiece. Another thing I noticed, the third slide at the beginning of the turnaround is different from the first two: the first two start from A, the third instead from A#. At least, that's how I feel :)
I’ve noticed he changed things within songs and from performance to performance a lot. I think he just liked creating and never wanted to play rote. Always with emotion. He was beyond the music. Wish I could have seen him play.
After all, you were as close as one can hope to get to that authentic riff sound. I feel the difference left in sound is in the equipment. Number One was truly special and magical. All of Stevie's Guitars were magical.
I was amazed to learn that most of the time Stevie's guitars were strung with heavy gauge strings - the high e string being a 13. I have mainly used 9 and sometimes 10 for the high e on my electric, so it's hard to imagine with dealing with the gauge strings Stevie used, especially since I bend and vibrato a lot.
A Paul David video on Stevie Ray Vaughan? Made my week
I had my foot tapping through the 8:37 example and continued playing in my head, tapping while you stopped playing and by 9:07 while you were playing the next example you had not missed a beat, at least that's how it went down for me. It seemed like you just did it naturally. Super impressed me.
This was the first SRV song I learned. Years later after watching UA-cam tutorials, I discovered apparently I was playing it wrong. Plot twist, I was playing it the way SRV played it all along. The guys on UA-cam, and most tab, actually have it wrong. Use your ears people. And trust them
I love how you ended - there's so much to learn about Stevie's guitar playing - it's bizarre. Absolutely. He had a feel that's so difficult to truly reproduce
Way to break it down. I love your process. The drums are almost always played wrong by cover bands, BTW. Chris Layton's Texas shuffle is so clean and left-hand dominated most drummers can't pull it off
The rest of the band got lost in Stevie's shadow, but they were outstanding in their own right
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They had to be.
It's a shame they're so frequently overlooked.
I've always played it using a hammer on for G# & C# in order to get the stabs to ring out. And you're so right about that circular motion. Cheers! 00
Great video. Justin Guitar is one of the few who has been playing this right for many years. Check out his video of it with the circular strum and groove.
Paul is on of the most interesting guitar players on UA-cam, really making you want to grab the instrument. Thanks man
To say that he was good or even great is an understatement. SRV is still teaching us, make years later. He's the GOAT.
Love this breakdown. Sounds like he hammers the G# on the upstroke and his massive hands just inadvertently mute the middle strings
I am saving up for your course Paul. Love all you do. Thank you for doing the guitar courses! Excited to be a student of yours!
@がぢｓマンジャ bro what the fuck 😭
Stevie Ray is such a King.
SRV is the GOAT 🎸
2:57 just me or does it seem simple... hammer on... on the "and" and strum up on the "and"
It's crazy, isn't it. We attempt to learn the essence of a person. To him, this was just a natural affect. The beauty of individualism.
Stevie was the only guitarist that ever made me want to learn to play. I was shattered when he died, but his music will go on.
I almost wonder how Stevie was able to play this song without having seen this analysis! ;-) He was really great!
Awesome sir ,my younger just passed and this is the style of guitar he did, just like the vidro pride and joy, i play guitar as well and in fact I did some rythum with him when he played...his name was craig hodges....stevie ray vaughan was his music idol...
Apart from the music, I'm also admiring the hair.
It truly is a blessing.
Thanks for the heads up, what I
was missing was the open 1'st and
2nd string strike that follows the more
obvious quick A to open G strike.
Paul, you just have to hammer-on fast after hitting G bass note. Thats the way he plays I think
I have always played into the G# with a hammer-on… and probably an 8th too quick.
This straightens that out. Thanks, Paul.
Not really related but check out this transcription of Paul Davids "best solo" from his last video :
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i love the way you approach this stuff. so much guitar nowadays is missing these kind of touches, and part of the reason is they never took the time to notice them in the music they are emulating.
I can honestly, genuinely say, I have always had this exactly right. I learned by watching SRV, not by any others teaching it. You can pick up on nuances when you watch 100s of videos 100s of times lol.
Same here. I must say, I don't get the perception that this song is "played wrong" so often. Accurate tabs for this tune have been floating around for at least 15 years, probably more.
@@RoyalBlue43 If anything, people could watch his Austin City Limits or his Unplugged performances to pick up on this. It's the only way I've ever played it. It honestly feels weird to play it how Paul did in this video.
The first time a video of paul that I already knew what was going to happen
I learned to play Pride and Joy by watching Stevie a lot of times and by watching him move his hand!
Great video, Paul. I could never play this correctly. I’ll try it like this! I can’t fathom how Stevie could play like this and sing at the same time.
Btw, I love your strat. Custom shop?
No, that's a vintage slab board Strat, '59, '60 or '61.
@@Nordic_Sky thanks for the info, Kris!
@@patrickkellyguitar8300 You bet. I bought mine in the early 1980s for $1,750, which was what they were going for then. Paul's guitar could also be an early '62, by the way. He's been playing a lot of vintage stuff lately, including a wonderful herringbone.
@@Nordic_Sky nice! What colour is yours? I have a 61 p bass and I’d love to add a 61 strat to the collection at some stage!
@@patrickkellyguitar8300 Two-tone sunburst. It was originally three-tone, but faded to two-tone. Super, super clean & all original. Looks very similar to a '50s maple board Strat.
Great clinical breakdown for something SRV just did and didn’t even think it through. It just flowed out of him. That is the way. Like drummers ghost notes
Hi Paul what software do you use for making the tab?
I think guitar pro tabs.
You have almost broken down and nailed how ray vaughan played this song - i, like you always seemed to be on a mission to nail this song, i always heard people play it and it never sounded whole, always rock guitarists or 'pub bands' (function party bands if you like...) playing it and blagging the easiest version they could - i got out of rock music into playing a lot of funk and blues and when i discovered srv i had the advantage of being a decent rhythm player and what you described in the song for me, is the foundation of stevie's shuffle rhythm - its the same technique in songs like cold shot if you play that properly! i haven't played properly in over 10 years but its nice finding this video and knowing that guitar players are still trying to break down and play ray vaughans music as it should be! take care!
I see Stevie, I press play. Simple as that. 🤷♂️
Couldn't agree more
SRV plays every string on the guitar to sound percussive. Even that one note to play he add all 5 strings(muted)to sound thick and grande. It's a very hard technique to learn. He's one of a kind and one of the best player.
" Stevie Ray Vaughan is Dead and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter" Denis Leary..No Cure For Cancer.
listening to music for decades im 53 now i have come to the conclusion that srv played with the most intensity, ferocity and feeling more than any other guitar player in history
Great Video! Question on the software: Did you extract or isolate the guitar track somehow? If so, which software package does this? I’ve seen a number of “Isolated Track” videos and always wondered how they did this function. I investigated the software packages you listed, but it wasn’t clear that this functionality was part of their software. Hoping you can clarify or point me in the right direction. Thank you!! Mike J.
Pretty sure he's using software called Transcribe! in the video.
Best thing about this video and other SRV videos you do, is how amazing Stevie was, we have to use computers to analyze and practice over and over what he just did.
That SRV shuffle riff has been driving me crazy for decades. You can just tell his technique is the result of pretty much never putting the guitar down.. even when going to sleep.
Lenny, his wife, said he played in his sleep from what I have read. So yes, you are correct.
I did not think I would watch this whole video but watching him problem solve was oddly mesmerising.
The rhythm of these iconic artists is what makes them iconic.. some knew or know about the technicalities of how to play blues like this and that, but many or most of them just got obsessed with the instrument and developed a skill based on letting go with the flow. It's fascinating ! I get the nostalgia thing now, because musicians from these days are technitians and there's the lack of flow and that's why I tend to forget or ignore a lot of new artists.
Paul, you're an amazing guitar teacher, and, when I watch your lessons I just want to thank you a million times.
Thank you again!!!!
first starting out on guitar listening to Stevie, i noticed how his right hand would hit all the strings and he would have a muted up stroke think in his shuffles. it took me a while to learn how to do it, but it's really fun once you get used to it.
I’m no way near an advanced guitar player but been able to play this song the right way and seen Paul struggle with it boosts my confidence lol
Gotta love your scientific approach. And the beauty of it is that Stevie wouldn't have known any of this because it was just the way he naturally played.
Not to mention that you speak and communicate in English better than most English and Americans. I know this is not unusual in the Netherlands but I’m always impressed.
I was SCREAMING at my screen "play in a circle and do a heavy hammer on from 3rd to 4th fret and don't worry about the pick hitting it, just stay in the circle!!!".... but you figured out both of those things on your own before the video was over. Great job!
You unlocked part of it with the circular movement. The hammer on is also important. Another thing that opened it up for me, was using the back of my thumb knuckle on the up swing of the circle to "pick" the bass notes. Sounds like a weird idea, but try it. Once you work it into the walk of that shuffle, it'll make sense.
SRV was amazing, so relaxed while playing the most complex techniques.
I love the way you break this down Paul. Really good stuff. SRV was full of subtlety that most players don’t catch - including me. There are so many transition notes that are super easy to throw away - but they give the song more soul and in this case the ‘bounce’ that a great blues shuffle provides. This song is such a great example of that - it’s not even on the ‘and’ - it’s on the ‘and & 1/2’ - and it is so cool.
Love Struck Baby has a similar thing where he's playing bass notes under the solo changes-he truly was a master of making one guitar sound like two.
I love this song…and if you listen it and see stevie hundreds of times becomes quite clear the circular motion of his right hand. And this riff is so difficult that even SRV, playing it during some lives, accelerated the beat so going significantly ahead of time
I think u r on the right track ! But I think it’s Stevie’s strumming hand that gives those little nuances that we all can’t quite get like him ! He plays hard !
The strum upsteoke on 'la' count on triplet wich is going g# comes first but its part of middle ist like a half of the note in bitween, using half open before change chord
You are an amazing player and teacher. That’s why I subscribe. What Stevie played was in his heart and soul. It’s what he grew up listening to and emulated his hero’s. It’s one of those things that if you weren’t born to it and around it everyday as apart of your culture, learning it can be extremely tough if not impossible to nail it down. I would probably have a hard time getting Scandinavian rhythms or Middle Eastern rhythms down perfectly. Or never. Just getting them close enough but never able to perfectly replicate it naturally. Just some thoughts on it. Also, Stevie had an incredibly powerful right hand that he used to drive his rhythms and those thick strings.
I’ve always pulled down on that G on the 6th string bending it into the G#. Same thing with the C to C# on the A chord. Has a little more grease that way.
“Excellence is in the details.” So true. Great video, I enjoyed it very much. Like many cover band guitarists, I tended to learn a lot of cover tunes to a point that was “close enough”, which is perhaps necessary if you’re trying to build a good-sized catalog. But that isn’t good enough, really. I wish I’d learned many of these riffs the right way to start with, now, and since I’m not under time pressure like I was in those hectic days, I can afford the time to learn them the right way and actually improve my playing. Now it’s just a matter of sitting down and doing it!
Couple of things: [1] great job this is a fricken tough riff [2] most of the stabs also have the G in them (yes even the stab over the G# bass) [3] the stab immediately preceding the A chord is A C# E [4] the A chord is actually an A6 chord on most passes.
I remember for like 6 months all I could think about was how awesome that shuffle sounds; it’s like a triplet strum, stab, mute, repeat thing going on. It’s not that hard too to play, it’s like a scrape through all the strings every up stroke