Fantastic look into the genius Pete Townsend has in composing songs that endure over time, never growing old or tiresome to hear. Pete has always been one of my all time favorite players! On a side note there's just something so majestic about the E chord in any song, it especially here in Pinball Wizard! Well done Frank Simes---thanks for sharing YOUR genius!!
Hi Frank, I want to thank you for taking the time to say hi to me after the gig outside of the Orpheum in LA on Rogers Use it or Lose it tour in 2009. Ive never forgotten, what a top night, you are a gentlemen.
Frank I met you after a Roger Daltrey show in Fort Myers, Florida and you signed my old hand built Fender Stratocaster. Thank you for doing that. I have played that guitar so much that the signature is gone. You did say keep on rocking and never give up, guess I took your advice. I'll probably end up warming up for some concert evening for you and the Who before I'm dead😂. I have been playing Pinball Wizard for 30 years and every video I watch I learn one more little detail to add or remove. I'm glad I found your channel. I also remember seeing you with Roger Daltrey again doing Tommy at Meadowbrook music hall in Rochester Hills, Michigan a few summers ago, great show. Thanks for the encouragement to keep at it and great new details of how Pete Townshend plays that song. Rock and Roll baby!!🎸
Wow, that was just an amazing video lesson. Probably the best I’ve ever seen! It really displays Pete Townsends beautiful guitar playing. Sounds just amazing! As a beginner guitar player, I really appreciate it!! Thank you verymuch!! Absolutely beautiful!!
Thank you Frank for sharing, breaking down and helping us obsessed Who fans attempt to mimic the master! First saw you join The Who on their Quadrophenia tour in Toronto/Hamilton and have become fan of yours ever since. Can''t believe I can now properly play Pinball Wizard. Todd
I've always tried to pick out and remember the notes of the outro, never thinking to hold down an A#7 chord and just move my pinkie around. It makes all the difference. Thank you!
Thank you! This is the way I eared it out many years ago. Then years later, I watched Pete play it on a live video of the Tommy tour like you just showed...but you are the first youtube video I've seen it taught correctly! Again thanks!
I saw The Who in a small venue in Sunderland - the Bay Hotel Whitburn but I was at the back and couldn't see what Townsend did so thanks for the demonstration - especially the strum pattern which I think is the hardest part. It was an amazing gig they were so tight and loud that in their famous split second pauses the silence hit your ears like a hammer.
Every once in a while we run across someone who just knows how to teach and I have to say Frank Simes is right up there with the best I have ever found. Thank you for making everything so clear and concise. I have clicked to subscribe.
or you have special hand - neck but hard to the mute the A string with the thumb and also in the same time, we must play the E string (B note) we must play the little B string too and with an open E string lol So, it's quite impossible or very difficult or only a few strings sound but not all they should be So, the easy method is a to play a bar chord for the B sus 4 and B chord etc.
Great, thanks! I'm actually working on learning it properly and have watched many videos on this song. Many are different. I'll definitely give yours several listens.
Sounds great! However- there are no tight shots of your left hand so would be hugely helpful to superimpose a tab in the bottom left. It's a little tough to figure out where your fingers are at any given time. Or ask one of your minions to do that...
It's 99% - there's an alternate double accent that he has missed for the msin strumming walk down....listen to the record. It's on a few other tutorials.
Fantastic look into the genius Pete Townsend has in composing songs that endure over time, never growing old or tiresome to hear. Pete has always been one of my all time favorite players! On a side note there's just something so majestic about the E chord in any song, it especially here in Pinball Wizard!
Well done Frank Simes---thanks for sharing YOUR genius!!
Hi Frank, I want to thank you for taking the time to say hi to me after the gig outside of the Orpheum in LA on Rogers Use it or Lose it tour in 2009. Ive never forgotten, what a top night, you are a gentlemen.
Frank I met you after a Roger Daltrey show in Fort Myers, Florida and you signed my old hand built Fender Stratocaster. Thank you for doing that. I have played that guitar so much that the signature is gone. You did say keep on rocking and never give up, guess I took your advice. I'll probably end up warming up for some concert evening for you and the Who before I'm dead😂. I have been playing Pinball Wizard for 30 years and every video I watch I learn one more little detail to add or remove. I'm glad I found your channel. I also remember seeing you with Roger Daltrey again doing Tommy at Meadowbrook music hall in Rochester Hills, Michigan a few summers ago, great show. Thanks for the encouragement to keep at it and great new details of how Pete Townshend plays that song. Rock and Roll baby!!🎸
reminded me of a interview with pete where he said early manager played him some classical composers that favored suspended chords
One of my favorite songs of all time. It was fun seeing the small nuances explained.
You are awesome Frank! Saw you play “Dirty Laundry” and “Hotel California” years ago and have been a fan ever since. Thanks for posting!
Wow, that was just an amazing video lesson. Probably the best I’ve ever seen! It really displays Pete Townsends beautiful guitar playing. Sounds just amazing! As a beginner guitar player, I really appreciate it!! Thank you verymuch!! Absolutely beautiful!!
My favorite r&r song of all time is Summertime Blues.
Oh wow. Absolutely amazing. Thanks for taking the time. My fingers hurt!
Thank you ! Thought I knew how to play this song, I was wrong!
That was awesome!
Thanks for reminding me how great Pete really is!
Fantastic playing btw.
Im a keyboard player who is a hack on guitar. You made one of my favorite intros of all time doable. Thanks bro!
Keith Moon’s wild drumming in this, really helped make the song.
Thank you Frank for sharing, breaking down and helping us obsessed Who fans attempt to mimic the master! First saw you join The Who on their Quadrophenia tour in Toronto/Hamilton and have become fan of yours ever since. Can''t believe I can now properly play Pinball Wizard. Todd
thanks Frank, i'm astonished this channel hasn't exploded ... yet
Fantastic to see the breakdown of this song thanx
I've always tried to pick out and remember the notes of the outro, never thinking to hold down an A#7 chord and just move my pinkie around. It makes all the difference. Thank you!
Thank you! This is the way I eared it out many years ago. Then years later, I watched Pete play it on a live video of the Tommy tour like you just showed...but you are the first youtube video I've seen it taught correctly! Again thanks!
What a freakin find this is!! Could not have been taught better by Pete himself!
I saw The Who in a small venue in Sunderland - the Bay Hotel Whitburn but I was at the back and couldn't see what Townsend did so thanks for the demonstration - especially the strum pattern which I think is the hardest part. It was an amazing gig they were so tight and loud that in their famous split second pauses the silence hit your ears like a hammer.
Every once in a while we run across someone who just knows how to teach and I have to say Frank Simes is right up there with the best I have ever found. Thank you for making everything so clear and concise. I have clicked to subscribe.
Brilliant pal, your strumming is beautiful
Wonderful ! what a difference!
You did that perfectly😊
Who could know better than The Who's musical director ???????????????
This is so badass.
LOVED this! Thank you! Next: the mysterious, indecipherable guitar (?) part in However Much I Booze!
Awesome player thank you I love the way you played that 👍
Thank you! I was close, but you learned from the master I'm sure. Now I have to work on it again....hehe
Fantastic vid . Thanks so much . Very cool stuff here ! Amazing !
What a pleasure it is to watch and listen to your guitar playing. Absolutely brilliant - I could only wish.
Absolutely wonderful to watch...thank you.
Very good. Thanks.
or you have special hand - neck but hard to the mute the A string with the thumb and also in the same time, we must play the E string (B note) we must play the little B string too and with an open E string lol
So, it's quite impossible or very difficult or only a few strings sound but not all they should be
So, the easy method is a to play a bar chord for the B sus 4 and B chord etc.
Brilliant tutorial Frank, great to see all the parts required to play this song in great detail, love all of it, superb.
Badass, Thanks for Lesson Brother
Make more videos - these are gold
Great job! I sas hoping you would have played the song through at the end. Maybe a more endepth chord chart 🤔 for us amateurs.
Worth watching - thanks
very good and amazing lesson
So good, thanks
Great, thanks! I'm actually working on learning it properly and have watched many videos on this song. Many are different. I'll definitely give yours several listens.
Brilliant!!!
Totally enjoyed this, thank you
Brilliant thank you
Aspiring guitarists: Note how LONG his fingers are. Overall hand length is very determinative of how
much mastery of the guitar you will have.
Frank you’re a badass….love it dude, ARIGATO - Fukanku.
Seems like Pete has a very unique strumming pattern- changes it up a bit on live performances- cause he can!
met you flying out of Dallas going to LA... Thank you for the guitar pick! not sure but i think you may have been toting a les paul in the cabin!
Amazing Lesson
Thank you. Incredible.
Superb!! I just subscribed, you have such a natural method of teaching and connecting. Brilliant 👏
Best of the Pin Ball Wiz tutorials!
Sounds great! However- there are no tight shots of your left hand so would be hugely helpful to superimpose a tab in the bottom left. It's a little tough to figure out where your fingers are at any given time. Or ask one of your minions to do that...
I always thought Pete Townsend was the Who's musical director
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Thank you. Please tab out the rhythm section pattern.
Thank you!
Wow. How has this video had so few views?!? If you could get interviewed by Rick Beato, those 411 Subs would turn into 411k in a heartbeat!
so cool that frank thanx
FUKIN BRILIANT thank you.
Good info
are you on the current tour with roger?
nice
What would it take to have you produce an album with me?
with the thumb for the chords is hard and it does not give the best sound
try with a full bar chord 709900 is a good option
Fantastic. How do I practice this on an electric?
the same way and it's easier (thin neck of a strat )
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one chord is hard 004220 but only with 3 fingers you move on the left
Post stuff by your band Whizz Kids
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Been Caught Shoplifting. 😛
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Johnny Depp's looking a bit rough these days...
Close but not 100% right on the strumming and accents on the intro. "PT" stands for "Pretty Tricky"...
the lesson is perfect
It's 99% - there's an alternate double accent that he has missed for the msin strumming walk down....listen to the record. It's on a few other tutorials.
Awesome Possum !!!
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Thanks for making this !!!
you ripped it 👍