Blake Mills: you're fantastic. Matt Sweeney: I really believe that being interviewed with you is the highest honour for a guitarist and musicians in general: you're very comforably and fresh. You're always genuinely interested in what others play. We need more people like you. Thank you for being so inspiring
Thanks D'Addario !! The dynamics between these guys is so totally awesome. The phrase, "Right on". comes to mind. The guy asks such perfect questions and BM gives the most "epic" answers. This is one of the best interviews I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you!! So fresh guitar playing, Blake:)
For the paper in the strings - check out Lionel Loueke, doing that with a classical guitar. for both of them, it sounds like a kalimba, or other African instruments.
Makes me want to just play guitar all day. Funny part though - the tender side of guitar on this (looks ominously into the camera) the savage side of life
I often tend to find Matt really unpleasantly disconnected and anxious in his interviews, but this video... he's transformed! I can see why people get him to interview people, because he has this in him. This chill guy who listens and takes time and digs deep.
Blake is so modest. I've seen his performance at the crossroads like 20 times before watching this interview. And I have to say that the first time I saw it, it really touched me deep man. And there are a few great guitar fills that he makes during the song that are amazing. Go and watch that performance that he makes with Derek Trucks, because it's beautiful.
Was he talking about Save the last dance?? That is really surprising, it is one of my favorite Blake Mills performances and his playing is really refreshing, as usual!
Another good episode Matt. Watched all of them so far. Looking frwd to all the future ones as well 8-) That tube amp head on Blake's rig looks pretty kewl as well as the broke-in cabinet
someone please show me any music exactly or similar to what he's playing at 6:52, I hear it's very cuban influenced but i need names people, that music is awesome.
Hi there, you mean Ry Cooder* and yes I know I'm a huge fan, obviously he did Buena Vista Social Club recorded in Cuba and a few other worldly albums but what Blake is playing is different.
not as much guitar playing as the vice video, but equally as good. get julian lage, guthrie govan, and bill frisell on here and you have my living guitarist mt rushmore (w tosin and blake)
Go find the video on Blake playing "save the last dance" with derek trucks. That's at crossroads.. in the beginning he says "please welcome Derek Trucks, to redeem me".. because right before is the song he speaks of here! The epic fail. Save the last dance definitely redeemed!
i have a feeling he just has a good feel for the fretboard when it comes to playing around with that kind of finger picking-bass thing. he plays something similar in another video and i dont think that one is a song either.
He did "Save The Last Dance For Me" by Ben E. King at Crossroads fest, and it's got a really similar vibe to that song structure. Can't quote me as gospel, but that sounds a lot like it to me.
If i remember correctly, his guitar is tuned to an open C# and the passing chord is just a barred 9th fret and a hammer on on the 10th or 11th fret on the 5th string.
The passing chord is a *Db(b6)* [x9x9,10,9] to *Db* [x9x999]. In this session, the guitar is in _open D_ tuning, with capo on the 2nd fret, which amounts to the key of _E major_ - the album version is in the key of _Db major_ instead. I have the entire song transcribed, available on my website, if you're interested :)
Shane Parish, who plays guitar under the band name Ahleuchatistas, is a pioneer in extended guitar technique and sounds by throwing stuff under your bridge. "Vanished" by this band involves a Balinese scale combined with a cut-up credit card that goes over-under the strings at the bridge of the instrument.
based, ahleuchatistas is peak discordant math rock but very much worth listening to for any musician looking to approach the instrument in an altered way
Has someone tried to figure out how he does that effect with his pinky and ring finger I think at 6:57? it sounds like a percussive thing with no notes (my best at trying to explain it) it's hard to get it right.. HEELP! :( :)
+Austin I think he's just fucking around... I'd like to know what chords or phrasing he's using since it sounds like Caribbean / Trinidad and Tobago style of music. It's fucking genius.
nah its a pickup from a old string through lap steel pickup like a old supro lap. Neck is a teisco gold foil. Google "coodercaster" its a popular setup people do for slide guitar that ry cooder came up with way back
What's the deal with that double-cutaway/strat-looking guitar? It looks like it's got a weird set-up, for instance what on earth is the huge box thing near the bridge? Interesting
it's a Ry Cooder inspired 'Coodercaster'. The "huge box thing" is a lollar housing, underneath he's using a pickup from an old supro/valco guitar. The pickup in neck position is a guyatone gold foil pickup. He uses both pickups out of phase with one another to get his unique sound. They are both very vintage, bluesy sounding pickups, fantastic for slide and an interesting combination.
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"if humiliation isn't something that absolutely destroys you - i think you've got a career being a guitar player"
Blake Mills: you're fantastic.
Matt Sweeney: I really believe that being interviewed with you is the highest honour for a guitarist and musicians in general: you're very comforably and fresh. You're always genuinely interested in what others play. We need more people like you. Thank you for being so inspiring
I love how he connects with all of the artist. Pretty awesome.
These just feel too short! I want them to go on for and hour. I love these so much. Thanks you guys, best one yet
Blake Mills is a beast. He is to be feared and respected. All you youngsters pay attention to this kid! Absolutely fantastic guitar player.
alright dad
Maybe, but he’s no Julian Lage
@@ampgent damn
² Maybe, but he's no Tosin Abasi
I could listen to Blake for hours on end. If I could only listen to one guitar player for the rest of my life it would probably be Blake Mills.
Right there wit cha
I could agree with that
Glad you're back Matt.....We've missed you since Guitar Moves...ROCK ON
That was a fun interview to watch. Thank you for putting it up.
Song at 11:00 goes on to be Good to My Girls by Superwolves nearly 7 years later.
Thanks D'Addario !! The dynamics between these guys is so totally awesome. The phrase, "Right on". comes to mind. The guy asks such perfect questions and BM gives the most "epic" answers. This is one of the best interviews I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Thank you!! So fresh guitar playing, Blake:)
For the paper in the strings - check out Lionel Loueke, doing that with a classical guitar. for both of them, it sounds like a kalimba, or other African instruments.
merci beaucoup!
I wanna binge watching all your interviews Matt ! Thank you 🙏
It's just a joy to watch this guy play.
Makes me want to just play guitar all day. Funny part though - the tender side of guitar on this (looks ominously into the camera) the savage side of life
I often tend to find Matt really unpleasantly disconnected and anxious in his interviews, but this video... he's transformed! I can see why people get him to interview people, because he has this in him. This chill guy who listens and takes time and digs deep.
this needs to go on for about 5 more minutes, this was sick
That last jam was cool! Playing a les paul like an acoustic almost!
This inspired me to pick up my guitar and play. Awesome interview. Thanks.
Y'know, I've watched this 4 or 5 times (just to learn bits of the song that starts at about 6:00) but I laugh at the opening every time.
That thing he plays with the mute in is so beautiful
Holy crap! This guy is marvelous.
Blake is so modest.
I've seen his performance at the crossroads like 20 times before watching this interview.
And I have to say that the first time I saw it, it really touched me deep man. And there are a few great guitar fills that he makes during the song that are amazing.
Go and watch that performance that he makes with Derek Trucks, because it's beautiful.
Was he talking about Save the last dance?? That is really surprising, it is one of my favorite Blake Mills performances and his playing is really refreshing, as usual!
I watch this at least once a year, so damn good
This is fantastic please do more video's like this.
6:29 he puts a piece of cardboard under his strings.. sounds fucking amazing
I will pay someone to please tab out his rendition of "Save the Last Dance for Me" that starts at 6:30
Is there more to this video? I remembering watching this several years ago and there is a part that is fantastic that’s not in this clip.
@3:42 eeeEEEeee love this interview thank you Matt and ofc Blake
i would love to have a beer with Matt Sweeney, he looks like the coolest dude !
Best episode. Reminds me the absolute power and amazing world of guitar
These videos are so awesome, even all the guests are really cool.
Blake is awesome.
Another good episode Matt. Watched all of them so far. Looking frwd to all the future ones as well 8-) That tube amp head on Blake's rig looks pretty kewl as well as the broke-in cabinet
Could watch this guy play all day, MOAR!
How does this man squeeze this much expression out of every note
someone please show me any music exactly or similar to what he's playing at 6:52, I hear it's very cuban influenced but i need names people, that music is awesome.
Hi there, you mean Ry Cooder* and yes I know I'm a huge fan, obviously he did Buena Vista Social Club recorded in Cuba and a few other worldly albums but what Blake is playing is different.
Absolutely love Blake! Can we get some M. Ward? That would be amazing.
I learned the paper in the strings trick from Johnny Cash.
Johnny did it for the percussive/snare drum feel
Am I high? Is this the same conversation from the Vice version of Matt's show?
That telecaster has a trace of every disease on it
Its called Pur-SA-nal-i-tEE
Good job d'addario.. Blake is so talented...now guitar is in safe hands..
Is there an actual name for the song at 6:50, or is that just Blake riffing around?
+DeepestSleep What i'm wondering is how the fuck he figured that out, haha
DeepestSleep That's plain riffing man! He is a genius!
kind of sound like the drifters' "save the last dance for me"
Riffing around being inspired by the time he spent in Cuba.
its the end of Layla by Clapton, except it's played on piano
i would love jamming with blake mills
+Bónne B or for that matter, matt sweeney
not as much guitar playing as the vice video, but equally as good. get julian lage, guthrie govan, and bill frisell on here and you have my living guitarist mt rushmore (w tosin and blake)
6:19-7:41 is so beautiful
Man, I need to practice!
Go find the video on Blake playing "save the last dance" with derek trucks. That's at crossroads.. in the beginning he says "please welcome Derek Trucks, to redeem me".. because right before is the song he speaks of here! The epic fail. Save the last dance definitely redeemed!
Just so awesome !
he kinda looks like nick reindhart's bluesy twin brother
Does anyone know what strap Matt is using? Looks really comfortable.
Looks like a DSL strap.
If you want comfort - check out Franklin straps....naughty pluggin' them on here....
Make more of these
What kind of pickups were on his strat?
I really like how worn his guitar is
Even better when he reaches for his other guitar it is even rattier!!!
Good guitarist though
Again wit da strat from guitar moves
He is probably the best guitarist of our generation
damn---Blake is just a revelation each time I hear him play...great stuff, inspiring to even an old fart like me./...
Lovely player
7:39 *T R U E* analog delay
Anyone know what amp head that is behind Blake? Is that a Bell and howell? Haven't seen one like that.
Does anyone know if what Blake plays at 6:50 is an actual song?
i have a feeling he just has a good feel for the fretboard when it comes to playing around with that kind of finger picking-bass thing. he plays something similar in another video and i dont think that one is a song either.
He did "Save The Last Dance For Me" by Ben E. King at Crossroads fest, and it's got a really similar vibe to that song structure. Can't quote me as gospel, but that sounds a lot like it to me.
this and the other song he does in "Guitar Moves" sound like transpositions of Cuban music to a single guitar
Nah, he is just fooling around in a Buena Vista Social Club mood :)
Where can we find the footage from crossroads where blake made a ton of mistakes?
I catch your drift, man :)
... what happened to Guitar Moves? like this is clearly the original video but they whited out the background? Someone explain?
does anyone know what scale he is playing on at the jam at 6.30 onwards? Thanks
John Frusciante Please.
Something tells me he wouldn't do that, but I would kill to see him on here
he's written some great riffs, but he's a pretty awful guitarist... watching him solo live is agony
mxsxkxcrc That's just like, your opinion, man.
what's the passing chord at 10:21? all those gropros, and the only shot of that chord has the Les Paul headstock blocking it
If i remember correctly, his guitar is tuned to an open C# and the passing chord is just a barred 9th fret and a hammer on on the 10th or 11th fret on the 5th string.
The passing chord is a *Db(b6)* [x9x9,10,9] to *Db* [x9x999].
In this session, the guitar is in _open D_ tuning, with capo on the 2nd fret, which amounts to the key of _E major_ - the album version is in the key of _Db major_ instead. I have the entire song transcribed, available on my website, if you're interested :)
what kind of pickups he uses in the strat body with the tele neck? mainly the bridge pickup.
11:23 Is a great example of Blake's brilliance-takes him two seconds of following Matt's lead to realize that the song has already been written lol
Would you, by any chance, know what song Matt was accidentally playing?
@@mohans.26 Sunshine of Your Love
What's the song they end with suggesting it's Clapton?
The way we make records today
What kind of pickups does Sweeny have? They look like mini-humbuckers but im not sure
what's that tube head on top of blake's amp?
That cardboard on the bridge is an old sessions musicians trick Carol Kaye did that in the sixties on her bass. That is nothing new.
When Blake is playing If I'm Unworthy, is he playing in open D?
Yup! On the record, the guitar is down in an _open Db_ tuning. I have the whole song transcribed on my website, if you're curious.
Was Matt Sweeney throw. Out of Guided by Voices?
What song did they play at the end ?
why did he change guitars around 5:00?
Shane Parish, who plays guitar under the band name Ahleuchatistas, is a pioneer in extended guitar technique and sounds by throwing stuff under your bridge.
"Vanished" by this band involves a Balinese scale combined with a cut-up credit card that goes over-under the strings at the bridge of the instrument.
based, ahleuchatistas is peak discordant math rock but very much worth listening to for any musician looking to approach the instrument in an altered way
Guys please someone explain to me how he does that thing at 0:54 ?
Has someone tried to figure out how he does that effect with his pinky and ring finger I think at 6:57? it sounds like a percussive thing with no notes (my best at trying to explain it) it's hard to get it right.. HEELP! :( :)
What song is he playing with the cardboard peice
+Austin I think he's just fucking around... I'd like to know what chords or phrasing he's using since it sounds like Caribbean / Trinidad and Tobago style of music. It's fucking genius.
Yeah, he almost makes that Tele sound like a steel pan or something. Calypso style.
He went to cuba for a few weeks, and it sounds like a caribbean standard to me so I'm assuming a standard he learned in Cuba.
Does anyone know what the Eric Clapton song they are talking about at the end is?
*****
thanks !!!
What's clipped on both of their headstocks between the nut and 6string peghead???
Planet Waves NS Micro Tuner...
Kenneth Kishandave nice thanks.
What pups is Mills using on his Strat?...
Wide range humbucker on the bridge, And a gold foil on the neck
nah its a pickup from a old string through lap steel pickup like a old supro lap. Neck is a teisco gold foil. Google "coodercaster" its a popular setup people do for slide guitar that ry cooder came up with way back
SWEENEY please tell me what amp Blake had in this if you can remember?
Thanks!
+Tyler Martin 1956 Fender Super with a custom-made standalone tube-driven reverb unit.
who is this cobayne man he talks about? is he in some sort of modern beat group??
beat COMBO, I think
1:13 Mmmmm
Lmao.. Matt Sweeney is the shit!
What is the song at 10.47?
If I'm unworthy
Least he’s human. How could he confuse “In Utero” with “Nevermind” licks?
Layla
otherwise known as the jeff buckley/lenny breau of guitar.
What's the deal with that double-cutaway/strat-looking guitar? It looks like it's got a weird set-up, for instance what on earth is the huge box thing near the bridge? Interesting
It looks like a Strat body, Tele neck, and I think those are Rickenbacker pickups? It's crazy.
Hazuinf h its a coodercaster, google it pretty cool
Eddie H he wanna be ry cooder
it's a Ry Cooder inspired 'Coodercaster'. The "huge box thing" is a lollar housing, underneath he's using a pickup from an old supro/valco guitar. The pickup in neck position is a guyatone gold foil pickup. He uses both pickups out of phase with one another to get his unique sound. They are both very vintage, bluesy sounding pickups, fantastic for slide and an interesting combination.
*an
sounds african w the cardboard. saw this in a guitar mag - an african piece, they said to do this. sounds wicked
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what is the relationship between vocal fry and musicality?
Man those GoPro's are stupid
MAKE GUITAR FRESH AGAIN
Go listen to Matt Sweeney.
He did sleepwalk and he did fine. Goes to show how its always worse in our own heads.