Saturday Nights Allright for Fighting Lesson
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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Learn how to play Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting as performed by Elton John. The guitarist for his band for years is Davey Johnstone and he lays down a KILLER rock guitar performance on this. Just crank up the overdrive/distortion, grab a Les Paul or anything with a fat humbucker on the bridge and let it rip. The main riff sounds like it's open tuning, but everything is in standard tuning here.
This lesson covers the primary guitar that you are hearing on the record, there is a second guitar going on in addition that is a lot less gain, but is sort of buried in the mix and not that interesting to me anyway, but I'll walk you through all the main guitar parts that stand out on this great rock tune.
00:00 Introduction / What to expect
01:33 Getting your tone
02:16 Lesson - opening riff
04:32 Lesson - verse chords
05:59 Lesson - chorus parts
09:00 Lesson - refrain (Saturday...Saturday)
13:09 Final Thoughts
Gear used in this video (if you purchase via these links I will earn a small commission):
Gibson Captain Kirk Douglas signature SG (everything on 10 on bridge pickup)
Running through my GuitarRig 8 software - check it out here sweetwater.sjv.io/3erAQk
using Fire Seeker amp, treble booster, little bit of studio reverb
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Nice to see Davey Johnstone getting some love. This was such a ripping tune. As a kid in the '70's, I couldn't get enough of it!
My first concert was Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" tour. To this day, it stands as one of the top three shows I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of shows in my life. The band was on fire and they played every tune perfectly. They opened with "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding" and just took off from there. One hell of a show and band.
I watched Davey Johnstone play this song live in 1974 at Hoffienz Pavillon and he was playing a white Gibson 2 pickup Les Paul Custom through the entire show.
I saw Davey with Alice Cooper on the “Welcome to my Nightmare” tour. I was blown away. Phenomenal guitar player!
Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were on guitar on that tour, not Davey Johnstone. Hunter didn’t do some 1977 shows due to other commitments, he was replaced by Bob Kulick. Davey played the From The Inside and Flush The Fashion tours.
FINALLY some love and appreciation for Davey Johnstone! He is one of my 3 huge influences (Townshend & Martin Barre being the others).
Elton & Taupin are incredible songwriters but Johnstone is the secret sauce. His parts add soooo much to the music and are integral to the whole!
I went out of my way to see Meatloaf back in the 80s ONLY because Davey was touring with him. I was belly to the stage directly in front for the entire show in a rinky dink club on the Jersey shore. Even when tasked with taking a lead he was the consummate sideman - adding to the songs without taking away from his “boss”. Definitely a top 10 concert experience!
Would love more lessons: Captain Fantastic, Meal Ticket, Madman, and the ultimate melodic statement, Funeral/Love Lies Bleeding.
Thank you so much for this! I’m heading down to my basement (dungeon) now to grab my LP Custom and get this under my fingers.
Wow my admiration for Pete and Martin is endless
Insane guitarists 🌟🌟⚡
Edit:: Yes Les Paul Customs 🪄🪄🪄
Ahhh..the summer of '73! Saw Elton live 2 weeks after this song was released as a single in August. Maybe the best band I have ever seen live. Elton was cool back then. Thanks for posting!
I Remember dancing to and singing this one at the top of my lungs! What a great tune, and great breakdown. Thanks!!👍
Thank's once again, from Les Paul's hometown.
One of the best SNAFF lessons! Something I have been trying to perfect for 50 years? 😊
Love it! I’d really like to see a lesson on Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. That would be quite an undertaking and might take two videos. Love your channel.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is full of great guitar riffs. My favorite is All The Young Girls Love Alice.
great job as always dude...i envy you because you are doing exactly what i wish i could be doing; picking all these great songs apart and posting lesson videos on YT haha...blessings to you always brother 😎
Damn dude- your triple gold humbucking SG is glorious 🌟
Edit:: Davey Johnstone has been a badass since the '70s 💥
My favourite guitar channel!
Such good content on this channel. I learned something from every lesson you teach.
Great tune! Thanks!!
One of my favorites. That and Rebel, Rebel by Bowie. Love to see you do that one. Thanks
Thanks for another great lesson!!
You always hit the good ones!
Would love to see you break down The Bitch is back, another awesome Davey Johnstone guitar song.
Great guitar tone ... AND that SG! Chuck Berry stuff in the chorus, very nice. Good lesson, never thought of Elton John songs as guitar songs. 👍👍
Sooo much guitar all over EJ’s music! Even before Davey he had Caleb Quaye, another phenomenon musician.
One of the coolest riffs ever thanks!
Good one and nice to see some close up camera work. Thanks!
Awesome, what a fun song, thanks!
Thanks. Forgot about this one. One of the few EJ tunes that I would not change the radio dial back in the 70s. Will see if I can follow your lesson this week.
your guitar sounds amazing !!
Awesome lesson and always loved that guitar in there, powerful!!
Great teaching style and pace. Thanks
Great job on this lesson! really love the vertical tab graphic on the right hand side too!
Always loved it but haven't been in a band that wanted to tackle it, if they had even heard of it. A great rocker that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
Nice! One of my favorites from that era, along with “Stay With Me” by Faces.
A+ for making it so wasy. Eternal thank you! 😇🥰😍🥲😋💘💝💖💗💓💯👍
Really enjoy your instructional videos!
Nice lesson. For bands with 2 guitarists it would be fun to break down the overdubs, especially on the outtro.
My favorite channel too! Thanks!
Really great! I always loved that song and nobody ever gives it credit. Well done.
Nice job, you have a way of simplifying things making learning more difficult songs easier to learn.
Knocked it out of the park again! Thx!
KILLER!! Such emotion through essentially power chords. KILLER!!!
This was a long over do! I always liked the rhythm of this tune! I wasn't a big fan at the time of release but as I aged and heard it later was awstruck with playing along with this track! Thanks for sharing these classic gems!
Such a cool song
Hi Doug and thanks for this 👍
It's a kind of deja vu from my youth, so after watching and listening, I ran out to find the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album in my stored vinyl collection - simply had to listen to the original tune again.
Once more, Thanks for your splendid work and lessons, Doug. ☮️❤️🎸
Doug, you have great taste!!!!!!
fun to play. thanks 🤘
I keep telling people you've got the best ear on UA-cam. You never miss the subtlest nuance in any riff you're dissecting.
Thanks, and greetings from Downunder
Oh, and DJs work on Yellow brick road, particularly on "I've seen that movie too" was amazing
Thank you very much!
Awesome. Dave Johnstone plays lead on one of my favorite guitar oriented albums of all time, Alice Cooper’s Flush the Fashion. The guitar work on it is magical.
Couldn’t agree with you more on “gotta be in the top five of Seventies hard rock”….. obviously we exclude Stones/Who/Zep and look just below for this, but I’m with ya…. next-tier-down bands doing unbelievable things…
Saturday Night’s Alright
Can’t Get Enough or Good Lovin’ Gone Bad
Saturday Night Special
Stealin’
We’re An American Band
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
All slightly-trashy unbelievably-powerful genius
Depending on whether you put Bowie in that ineligible top tier (I don’t), we could include the masterful Ziggy- Suffragette combo. And a couple of top Aerosmith songs, you pick. I’d go Uncle Salty or Sick As a Dog, but I love the big early hits too.
I'm so rusty...thanks as I resurrect my git go. Haven't had guitar lessons since 1969
Nice lesson. I needed a refresher on this . I listed to ybr back in mid 70s , it is such a great album. This song is all about guitar . Davey’s exact tone is hard to dial in, I know he played a LP, and would be interested in the amps and effect used in studio.
Another get lesson, thank you
Excellent
Man, excellent job and perfect tone re-creation!! A Great Tutorial!! Davey Johnstone is almost strictly a Les Paul guy, but your SG humbucker catches his tone perfectly. I was actually at the Yellow Brick Road tour and half a dozen others subsequently. Loved his band with Dee Murray and Nigel Olsen. I'm a huge EJ fan going back to Tumbleweed Connection and Honky Chateau!! I think Yellow Brick Road was his peak, with all those great rock guitar classics. Every time I've seen Davey, he has always alternated between a Custom and Standard Les Paul. He always uses those two on his individual Facebook Channel, also. Hey, which amp and cab are you using?? Is it that Marshall head and 4x12 cabinet on the right of the screen?
I would like to request one other rocker off Yellow Brick Road: "All The Young Girls Love Alice"!! Would love to get your take on that one..."born to be a lady by the Golden rule, Alice was the pawn of a public school..." 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎸🎸😂
thanks! no for this one I'm using GuitarRig7 software running off my pc/DAW. The specific settings are down in the video description. But if I was doing live, yes I'd use my 50w Marshall into the 4x12.
hard hitting, the epitome of a rock song …
A couple of the sounds that I really like
Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike
I'm a juvenile product of the working class
Whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass, oh
Nice one
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Davy Johnston very underrated. Managed to rock in a soft pop piano band
His work in Funeral for a Friend is also extraordinary
Elton one the greatest rock piano players and melody writers of all time. Elton John liked to rock and his band did wanted he wanted. Make no mistake Elton John was a solo artist and his band played what he and Bernie Taupin wrote.
Yet another great analysis and lesson on a good song. And check out that sweet SG Custom. Have I just missed that sweet little axe in previous videos?
its actually not a SG custom, it's one of these SG signature series models reverb.com/p/gibson-kirk-douglas-signature-sg
Thanks!
Thank you!
The reason most people do not get the fat sound that Davey gets, is they do not have nine Fender Champs lined up . . . . . That is how Davey said he got that sound. Also, most people play with their guitar connected to just one amp . . . . . big mistake if you really want a professional studio sound, you always want to have at least two amps, as was explained to me a long time ago, use each amp with different settings, then carefully adjust your volumes so they are the same using your ear. EJ band also used a lot of microphones when recording in the studio. Davey did quite a few songs with alternate tunings, (not this one), Hercules was one of them.
Nice, I love that jam. Thanks. New to your channel and I think if you're doing this tune, I'm really gonna dig it.
Welcome!
If I’m not mistaken, Davey played that on an electric 12 string chain.
Doug, we miss you in Seattle!
Miss you too Joe!
How about life in London or makes no difference by Pat Travers?
Thanks
Thank you!
Great lesson! I've been waiting for someone to do this. Thanks Here's another I'm still waiting for a good lesson for if you'd like to give it a try. Zep's "The Rover" . I'll be watching for it. Thanks again.
Soon!
Fun Fact - Elton wanted the songs Your Sister Can't Twist and Saturday Night's Alright to be his version of Black Dog and Rock and Roll from LZ4.
Great Stuff 🎉 What about some Faces with Rod S. losing You or Maggie May ... just a suggestion
Thanks! Have fone Maggie may here, great song. ua-cam.com/video/Xg0Y0oElXS8/v-deo.html
I never noticed its basically the same riff as Nothing But a Good Time. The tone is just different
yeah you are right!
@@12footchain I like when I set out to learn a song and end up learning two or three more because the riffs are so similar.
Except Nothing But a Good Time is bouncing back and forth on the Am7 shape. This is different.
Always thought this was a very catchy and cool tune. One of those songs that is appealing to the ear.😎 Great breakdown🎸
Shut up and just play
Sounds better using the B & D strings, as opposed to you using the B & G strings. The classic old blues shape but because it's amped up it sounds more rocky of course.
I never noticed it sounds like a KISS guitar part.
Always thought this was in open g
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Davey did an instructional video many years ago for Star Licks where he shows you how to play some of the classic and deep cut Elton John songs (including Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting) that is a nice addendum to this video.
Guitar in this song Sounds like Pete Townsend, a la Pinball Wizard, not Stones.
Dave’s uses what has become associated with Keef, but apples and oranges; eh mate? Keef is a legend, but imho; isn’t Johnstone too a legend? Owing to the huge plates of meat. 12’ Chain knows what that’s about. How about the r3st of y’all?
Thanks!
thank you!