I'm 64 and have listened to bands all over the world and Chris is in the top 5 I've heard. Maby the best definitely plays with the most feeling. Some would say that he is soul moving.
Never thought I’d hear Chris talk about Buckethead. What a crossover. Buckethead is an absolute monster. Easily one of the greatest to ever walk the Earth.
”-Told about when I was younger” Dude like an infant? You are still so young but play like a exceptional guitar guy in his late 40s thats been playing since their teens. Intonation, feel, musicality and personality. You got it man.
I've noticed a smoothness and vocal quality in my playing since I started doing this--and I started after hearing /watching you play some time ago. If ones playing is an evolution, I just started to walk on land and I see you running and even flying. Your playing is magical. Stay Well Groovy One.
The thing I most appreciate, apart of course from how you make the guitar sing, is how you explain what you do. It really gets me thinking about my own playing and how I can improve.
Your videos are incredible - your playing, knowledge, guidance and willingness to pass on your skills to fellow guitarists. All presented with humility and passion for the craft. Thank you Chris!
There's one thing Chris doesn't dwell on, he shows it at 7:50; dynamics (meaning loud and soft) and feeling. It's actually something that's precious and very rare. Due to the 80's inspired speed-freaks, who seem to have identified the ingredient they could never learn, and compensated for this with notes-per-second. If there's one lesson that I pray young folks get from Chris's videos, and genuinely beautiful playing, it's this.
Totally agree with you. 👍 I wanted my solo playing to sound more like a singer. One day, it dawned on me that playing on just one or two strings is very close to how singing actually works. It makes using various legato techniques, like slides, bends, changing notes on one "breath," etc. all come naturally. Another thing I do is to try and limit my fretting hand to use only one of two fingers - I prefer index and middle. It's weird, but by doing that, I feel like I "hear" better. Thanks for sharing your insights and talent. 😎
When I first started playing guitar, I did a lot of playing on one string up and down the guitar, and after I started formalizing my learning, I quickly discarded that, as I (foolishly) believed it was amateurish to not play box scales "like the pros". I wish I'd had a voice of reason like you around to encourage me. Thanks for all of your informational content. This has quickly become my favorite youtube channel.
Chineese Democracy is a totally underappriciated album. The solos are out of this world. Those guys know their s… The solo in This I Love is another Buckethead feat of genious
Nice to see you reference Derek Trucks playing Midnight in Haarlem. Such an awesome and emotional solo that builds beautifully. It's right up there with the best of all time IMHO.
I started doing a lot of sliding between notes as I was learning to play some lead and really liked the mix of playing in both axis. Initially because I didn't know scale tonal intervals very well and I could slide onto the target note (still not expert/instant) and when mixed with a bit of bends or trem., slides with single note runs really opens up the sound and makes things more fluid sounding. This works in tandem with your video on call/response playing very well. I learned a lot from both. The one note slide bits make the sound more 'vocal' in flavor. Always enjoy Friday Fretworks.
Love your playing! Amazing tone! Great video! Segovia was a believer in playing on one string for as long as possible to maintain tone and let each string speak for itself. You should check out his old scale forms. When I was learning classical as a kid I always ran from that concept and preferred the easy across the neck forms. Now I gravitate the other way and even more so since getting into your playing. Guess the old master knew what he was talking about, and the new master of the electric definitely does.
It is interesting listening to your dynamics when playing like this. That vocal quality definitely comes through with use of the slide, but also in how you often allow the notes to natural ring out (decrease in volume) and when you pluck the string again to focus on matching the dynamic of the previous note. This also shows in how you use hybrid picking to control the tone of the plucked noted. The dynamic matches a vocalist who would be at the end of breath when singing longer lines, who would use chest or falsetto voice and how a vocalist would project their voice and even break up/ distort the voice giving that more aggressive tone. These are some of the reasons i've been so attracted to your style of playing, as its something i've always worked on but never mastered.
My mind is completely blown. My playing will be changed forever. Thank you for this beautiful information. I love the way you attack the strings. Cheers
You’ve rocketed into a ridiculously mature musician. Your use of space, timing and phrasing is unbelievable. Prob the most inspiring guitar player out there right now.
That is such a great sound. It’s powerful and direct... I love those semitone bends that are repeated a fret apart, up and down, to give a howling voice to the run. Superb!
For anyone who is super serious about guitar, There's a book by Mick Goodrick called The Advancing Guitarist. One of the first chapters is called "The Unitar" in other words, learning to apply musical and theoretical ideas on a single string. This is a really useful skill for a number of reasons. It helped me to see intervals, scales, and melodies more clearly, and it also helped me learn to glide up and down the neck without planting my left hand too firmly in any one position. It's also a great way to see the overlapping patterns in a particular key from string to string. You can see where one idea can continue up or down a single string or when it overlaps with the neighbouring strings. This has helped me become familiar with the fret board in a big way. Still learning from that book. Highly recommend you check it out if you haven't already.
Cheers Chris, it's a really refreshing way to look at guitar playing. Sometimes there is so much pressure for guitar players to sweep up and down scale shapes. But using one string and sliding is a great unique sound and something I am going to try
Your horizontal approach lends itself to all kinds of great legato which really stands out in your playing, man. Adds all kinds of touch, feel, and all of the other buzz words we love to throw out there.
I can't believe I've only been watching you on the Facebooks! I didn't realize there was so much more to your videos! Gonna have to spend some time here now! My wife, kids and school can wait...
I think the ear/brain expect smaller intervals rather than big jumps between notes. The interval relationship is the flavour but the general context of the interval is all about the note you last played or the note you are playing next. I find that it takes more discipline to play in a box and not end up playing a load of notes that no one needs to hear. This is a brilliant video. Real penny drop moment for me.
Ok, just not fair. MAGIC !!! Love your chops. Very tasteful. You leave me shaking my head but that's just because I'm jealous. Keep up the great videos
I was always slightly embarrassed playing this way as I always kind of felt it people would think it was incorrect (of course it isn't, its music nothing is really incorrect) but it felt right and to me it sounds better/more natural. What you said about a vocalist makes a whole lot of sense. Thanks for sharing. Now a sub. \m/ :-D
FYI - when I was watching the clip of your solo with Cardinal Black, I noticed a section that was very much like something I'd hear in a Derek Trucks solo. In fact, I actually stated as much out loud to nobody in particular, as I was alone (unless Marley counts - but he's a cat). And I agree 1000% with your comment on the Midnight in Harlem video - it's one of the most beautiful and moving solos I've ever heard
I’ve loved this solo for years and to hear someone else say it’s one of the best of all time (or at least got some of the best licks in it) is so sick to hear, always felt I was alone in loving this song and this album. Chinese Democracy isn’t a GnR record, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an incredible one. The emotion on some of those tracks is unreal! Thanks for this Chris. Stellar as always lad
Dude I love your work, huge fan so thank you! It’s amazing I’m 45 , playing my whole life, pretty average but I definitely thought of solos in terms of scales, this concept you introduced is really a game changer, thanks again. Keep going man every Friday I get to escape the problems of everyday life And enjoy a Friday fretworks
The way I see it, the ability to play melodic phrases as part of a scale working in the same position OR by working your way up or down the neck is good because each technique offers different advantages and disadvantages. If you want to have a wider vocabulary as a guitarist, you should learn and practice both techniques, as well as many others. Scale / box based playing puts all the notes of a given octave literally at your fingertips. This enables techniques like bending and vibrato and double or triple stops and muting and harmonics and all sorts of other sonic textures to be created and switched between cleanly and quickly. It allows ultra fast execution of legato techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs. But it makes access to entire lower or higher octaves difficult to achieve fluidly or progressively. Sometimes I like to slowly and methodically build or ease my way into or out of a solo by climbing or descending along a single string as a way say, to end a solo that's peaked 3 or even 4 full octaves + (as on my 2018 24 fret SG standard) above the first position open chords that ground most songs. Starting or finishing a solo by switching smoothly between open chords and melodic phrases is a fundamental skill that many otherwise good guitarists lack, probably because it's difficult to master both rhythm playing and lead / melodic playing, so most guitarists, even professionals, tend to focus on one or the other. In my experience, chords and rhythm playing are more difficult than lead playing. They don't garner the attention that soloing does, even though they are MORE important from a sonic perspective than soloing. They make solos listenable, by providing a solid groove. The more toxic the guitarist's ego, the less attention they pay to their rhythm playing, and bands often delegate it to the weakest guitarist (just like they do bass guitar) which is a HUGE mistake. This leads to uh, lead guitarists focusing exclusively on soloing from a traditional box based framework. This in turn limits them, and their solos become cliché, derivative, unoriginal, repetitive and grating. This doesn't matter if all you are interested in is showing off for the girls. It matters greatly if you play guitar because you love the instrument and music itself. PASSION is what makes a truly great guitarist, or any musician. All great musicians and artists of all sorts are fundamentally grounded in love for their art and an all consuming need to express their emotions through it. Those gifted with a combination of talent, curiosity, luck, ambition and tenacity become famous because people connect with this passion. Passion expressed through art transforms people who it connects with. Mastering some difficult technique so you can show-off for chicks or humiliate other musicians only makes you famous if you are lucky. And good looking usually. It never makes great art.
Couldn't agree more with the one string run thing, Chris. Been doing it for years, and love the results... but I didn't start because I was conscious of the breathy, vocal quality it imparted. As a kid whose left hand technique was more vice grip than finesse, I used to break a LOT of high E strings but didn't want to screw up the flow of a jam by stopping to restring. So, during the heat of battle as it were, I'd just fish around on the B string up and down the neck to do what I thought sounded okay...after a while, this became an instinctual part of my approach toward crafting lead runs, even with all the strings in place!
Wow. Every time I think you can't top yourself, you do just that. Both solos were great, but that last one was just brilliant. So loaded with emotion. That's what it's all about! Thanks Chris!
It just came to me, you should do an album with Tom Bukovac, that would be the ultimate. Two of the most incredible guitar players off today in a collaboration.
I suggested a long youtube jam session with Chris and Lari Basilio for roughly the same reason. It would be fantastic to see the creative process in action. It would also be interesting to hear the thoughts about the playing from both guitarists separately. I hope she has a good time recording her album right now. ...my dream might happen after that. I can wait. :)
Love this. When I was about 13 myself and a few of my friends were all learning guitar and I developed a 'bad habbit' of just doing solos of one string. I always saw it as something I shouldn't do, now having learned more across the fretboard and seeing this it's nice to know how useful of a tool it turned out to be!
I was recently watching and listening to solos I played in my late teens and early 20s in the 70s and 80s. I was going up and down the strings WAY more than I was going across them back then! I found I really loved the freedom and fluidity (and even recklessness) I was reveling in, in those solos, and the lack of the scale-box, the longitudinal excursions in its stead, played into that prominently. They were more fluid, more free, and, yes, more vocal. Somehow, yes, over the years, I got stuck 'in the box' of going across, rather than along, the fingerboard. Time to reinvent! Thanks for another great video.
Beginner just picked up the guitar during quarantine last year. I've been doing this 1-2 string playing because I was just used to thinking notes in length due to the keyboards/piano being my first instrument. I see a row of piano keys when I look at a single string. That said I really need to practice using all the strings because I will never progress.
This has actually been validation for me. I always found it more natural to find my way around one string than fumbling through patterns (Not that I haven't eventually leaned them too.) But since I've been watching you, I noticed that you spend a lot of time on one string, and that you like to really focus on emphasizing specific notes in your solos during the building phase. Great video, thanks for the insight
This is exactly why I say its much easier with a keyboard as your first instrument. Being brief on comments tonight, it's late ... Chris Buck, you ARE the Rock-God of the 21st Century. You have got to get into a better band man. Something like radiohead/with roots, inserting your guitar singing nectar into our world. Your intro solo in this vid just wails. Wish you knew me ... ;-)
Said it before and will say it again I love all your content but this is your best material. Honestly I think you may make the best guitar material on UA-cam. In my opinion. Even my non guitarist friends know I watch Friday fretwork, Thank you for such awesome content.
I started soling on one string (kinda) when I began ear training to songs that didn’t have guitar solos and filling in certain parts with lead guitar. I found it’s the easiest way to memorize a key and once I know the scale on one string, obviously it’s easy to figure out what boxes to use on higher strings. Sounds more vocal-like if you use one string.
Absolutely wonderful. Such a simple, yet very effective concept. Thank you for sharing this Chris, I will be diving into this fully. Have an awesome day. 🙏
Your solo reminded me of Derek Trucks sound/playing, and as soon as you mentioned him, right after playing his clip, I had to stop to type this - had I not known it was you playing, I might have thought it was him. Your playing, sir, is Brilliant!
I try to do both vertical and horizontal when I am working out a piece, because of the tonal options different positioning offers. Options are always welcome. Playing on one string adds the flavor and the texture. Great video, as always.
Very interesting and enjoyable. Even though I don't play the instrument, learning more about it is tremendously satisfying and adds to the experience of listening to the music.
Really emotional stuff Chris. Your technique is amazing of course, but it's what you summon from within you that comes across and connects with the listener. In many ways, just like Derek, and there's no higher compliment I can give you than that.
Playing solos on just one string is something I’ve always done. Mainly because honestly it took me ages to learn the fretboard but even now I still do it. I’ve never found myself “in a box” 👍
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i am convinced that you are the guitar god of the 21st century.
have you heard tim henson?
@@TheLovewhite good ol Timi Hendrix
@@TheLovewhite Tim Henson plays amazingly well, but Chris Bucks playing hits you right in the feels, it's like a soul singer but on guitar.
have you heard of Julian Lage?
@@evanwilliams8908 imo for blues style Josh Smith is still better than Chris
I'm 64 and have listened to bands all over the world and Chris is in the top 5 I've heard. Maby the best definitely plays with the most feeling. Some would say that he is soul moving.
Never thought I’d hear Chris talk about Buckethead. What a crossover. Buckethead is an absolute monster. Easily one of the greatest to ever walk the Earth.
And then Chris played his solo, but better.
But yea, absolute legend.
Chris BUCK... BUCKethead... coincidence?
Along with another GNR alumni, Bumblefoot.
@@simonriley7750 ohh so thats why he had a bucket in his head all the time, so that we didn't know its Chris!
”-Told about when I was younger” Dude like an infant? You are still so young but play like a exceptional guitar guy in his late 40s thats been playing since their teens. Intonation, feel, musicality and personality. You got it man.
I've noticed a smoothness and vocal quality in my playing since I started doing this--and I started after hearing /watching you play some time ago. If ones playing is an evolution, I just started to walk on land and I see you running and even flying. Your playing is magical. Stay Well Groovy One.
Opening was absolutely heaven!!!
This guy unlocked in me a deeper new connection with rock blues that I could never imagine.
That was the most musical way I ever heard anybody play the C major scale.
Sounds like the guitar is signing joyfully to itself... incredible
Bloody good guitar there matey. Keep it up.
I saw Santana in concert back in 1973 and he did a lot of soloing on one string.
The thing I most appreciate, apart of course from how you make the guitar sing, is how you explain what you do. It really gets me thinking about my own playing and how I can improve.
Your videos are incredible - your playing, knowledge, guidance and willingness to pass on your skills to fellow guitarists. All presented with humility and passion for the craft. Thank you Chris!
The way you play the solo at the beginning is just perfect. goosebumps!!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
One of the best examples of this I can think of is Jimi Hendrix’s solo on May this be Love. All the b string. Quite excellent.
There's one thing Chris doesn't dwell on, he shows it at 7:50; dynamics (meaning loud and soft) and feeling. It's actually something that's precious and very rare. Due to the 80's inspired speed-freaks, who seem to have identified the ingredient they could never learn, and compensated for this with notes-per-second. If there's one lesson that I pray young folks get from Chris's videos, and genuinely beautiful playing, it's this.
Totally agree with you. 👍 I wanted my solo playing to sound more like a singer. One day, it dawned on me that playing on just one or two strings is very close to how singing actually works. It makes using various legato techniques, like slides, bends, changing notes on one "breath," etc. all come naturally. Another thing I do is to try and limit my fretting hand to use only one of two fingers - I prefer index and middle. It's weird, but by doing that, I feel like I "hear" better. Thanks for sharing your insights and talent. 😎
When I first started playing guitar, I did a lot of playing on one string up and down the guitar, and after I started formalizing my learning, I quickly discarded that, as I (foolishly) believed it was amateurish to not play box scales "like the pros". I wish I'd had a voice of reason like you around to encourage me. Thanks for all of your informational content. This has quickly become my favorite youtube channel.
Every solo you play is so emotive!! You are an incredible player and your musicality is crazy good. Thanks for sharing with us, Chris!!
The opening solo was sick - just amazing!!!!
Chineese Democracy is a totally underappriciated album. The solos are out of this world. Those guys know their s… The solo in This I Love is another Buckethead feat of genious
This i love solo was writted by robin finck!
Nice to see you reference Derek Trucks playing Midnight in Haarlem. Such an awesome and emotional solo that builds beautifully. It's right up there with the best of all time IMHO.
Jesus ........ who the hell IS this kid? He's a pretty remarkable player.
The beauty of learning things by ear is that sometimes you have happy accidents!!!
More and more.... i find elements of your playing so unique and powerful, what a beautiful solo,
Wonderful playing as always!!
Derek Trucks also does a ton of single string runs at times and it has a great feel.
That intro is one of the best solos I heard. Literally.
I started doing a lot of sliding between notes as I was learning to play some lead and really liked the mix of playing in both axis. Initially because I didn't know scale tonal intervals very well and I could slide onto the target note (still not expert/instant) and when mixed with a bit of bends or trem., slides with single note runs really opens up the sound and makes things more fluid sounding.
This works in tandem with your video on call/response playing very well. I learned a lot from both. The one note slide bits make the sound more 'vocal' in flavor.
Always enjoy Friday Fretworks.
That trem bar really does save the day when we screw up as well!
Good tip. It’s actually the same technique I used on my submission for the “Tell Me
How It Feels” solo competition.
Love your playing! Amazing tone! Great video! Segovia was a believer in playing on one string for as long as possible to maintain tone and let each string speak for itself. You should check out his old scale forms. When I was learning classical as a kid I always ran from that concept and preferred the easy across the neck forms. Now I gravitate the other way and even more so since getting into your playing. Guess the old master knew what he was talking about, and the new master of the electric definitely does.
Combined with your immaculate bending technique and it’s a match made in heaven mate.
It is interesting listening to your dynamics when playing like this. That vocal quality definitely comes through with use of the slide, but also in how you often allow the notes to natural ring out (decrease in volume) and when you pluck the string again to focus on matching the dynamic of the previous note. This also shows in how you use hybrid picking to control the tone of the plucked noted. The dynamic matches a vocalist who would be at the end of breath when singing longer lines, who would use chest or falsetto voice and how a vocalist would project their voice and even break up/ distort the voice giving that more aggressive tone. These are some of the reasons i've been so attracted to your style of playing, as its something i've always worked on but never mastered.
I probably understand about 9 of these words, but I appreciate every single one.
My mind is completely blown. My playing will be changed forever. Thank you for this beautiful information. I love the way you attack the strings. Cheers
Chris I absolutely need an album from you. Your intros and jams are stunning
You’ve rocketed into a ridiculously mature musician. Your use of space, timing and phrasing is unbelievable. Prob the most inspiring guitar player out there right now.
This is Gold
That is such a great sound. It’s powerful and direct... I love those semitone bends that are repeated a fret apart, up and down, to give a howling voice to the run. Superb!
Chris, your talent is just unmatched 🤯
For anyone who is super serious about guitar, There's a book by Mick Goodrick called The Advancing Guitarist. One of the first chapters is called "The Unitar" in other words, learning to apply musical and theoretical ideas on a single string. This is a really useful skill for a number of reasons. It helped me to see intervals, scales, and melodies more clearly, and it also helped me learn to glide up and down the neck without planting my left hand too firmly in any one position. It's also a great way to see the overlapping patterns in a particular key from string to string. You can see where one idea can continue up or down a single string or when it overlaps with the neighbouring strings. This has helped me become familiar with the fret board in a big way. Still learning from that book. Highly recommend you check it out if you haven't already.
Opening new paths of expression with the instrument. Glorious sounds!
That clip of you playing at the Castle is just 🤘🏼
Friday fret works: the one video I look forward to all week long
Cheers Chris, it's a really refreshing way to look at guitar playing. Sometimes there is so much pressure for guitar players to sweep up and down scale shapes. But using one string and sliding is a great unique sound and something I am going to try
It’s the bits in between the notes that makes the music sound real ;) It’s particularly refreshing to hear it in this digital age of music making
the video I was waiting for.. I was admire this style of yours! thanks for reminder us to exercise this!
Defo hearing Derek Trucks in your playing. Which is a good thing!
Your horizontal approach lends itself to all kinds of great legato which really stands out in your playing, man. Adds all kinds of touch, feel, and all of the other buzz words we love to throw out there.
I can't believe I've only been watching you on the Facebooks! I didn't realize there was so much more to your videos! Gonna have to spend some time here now! My wife, kids and school can wait...
Your soloing just sounds AMAZING Chris
I could listen to that intro jam ALL DAMN DAY! so good
I think the ear/brain expect smaller intervals rather than big jumps between notes. The interval relationship is the flavour but the general context of the interval is all about the note you last played or the note you are playing next. I find that it takes more discipline to play in a box and not end up playing a load of notes that no one needs to hear. This is a brilliant video. Real penny drop moment for me.
Ok, just not fair. MAGIC !!! Love your chops. Very tasteful. You leave me shaking my head but that's just because I'm jealous. Keep up the great videos
I was always slightly embarrassed playing this way as I always kind of felt it people would think it was incorrect (of course it isn't, its music nothing is really incorrect) but it felt right and to me it sounds better/more natural.
What you said about a vocalist makes a whole lot of sense.
Thanks for sharing. Now a sub. \m/ :-D
FYI - when I was watching the clip of your solo with Cardinal Black, I noticed a section that was very much like something I'd hear in a Derek Trucks solo. In fact, I actually stated as much out loud to nobody in particular, as I was alone (unless Marley counts - but he's a cat).
And I agree 1000% with your comment on the Midnight in Harlem video - it's one of the most beautiful and moving solos I've ever heard
This is the best take-away from trying to play slide for years. Slide is still so hard but my soloing generally has improved.
You sir, are positively merciless with your guitars! I think it's bloody fantastic! Thanks mucker.
Remarkable similarity to Derek Trucks. Phrasing, tone, emotion - great stuff.
Chris Buck, such an insightful vid, thank you kindly for it
I’ve loved this solo for years and to hear someone else say it’s one of the best of all time (or at least got some of the best licks in it) is so sick to hear, always felt I was alone in loving this song and this album. Chinese Democracy isn’t a GnR record, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an incredible one. The emotion on some of those tracks is unreal! Thanks for this Chris. Stellar as always lad
Dude I love your work, huge fan so thank you! It’s amazing I’m 45 , playing my whole life, pretty average but I definitely thought of solos in terms of scales, this concept you introduced is really a game changer, thanks again. Keep going man every Friday I get to escape the problems of everyday life And enjoy a Friday fretworks
The way I see it, the ability to play melodic phrases as part of a scale working in the same position OR by working your way up or down the neck is good because each technique offers different advantages and disadvantages. If you want to have a wider vocabulary as a guitarist, you should learn and practice both techniques, as well as many others. Scale / box based playing puts all the notes of a given octave literally at your fingertips. This enables techniques like bending and vibrato and double or triple stops and muting and harmonics and all sorts of other sonic textures to be created and switched between cleanly and quickly. It allows ultra fast execution of legato techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs.
But it makes access to entire lower or higher octaves difficult to achieve fluidly or progressively. Sometimes I like to slowly and methodically build or ease my way into or out of a solo by climbing or descending along a single string as a way say, to end a solo that's peaked 3 or even 4 full octaves + (as on my 2018 24 fret SG standard) above the first position open chords that ground most songs. Starting or finishing a solo by switching smoothly between open chords and melodic phrases is a fundamental skill that many otherwise good guitarists lack, probably because it's difficult to master both rhythm playing and lead / melodic playing, so most guitarists, even professionals, tend to focus on one or the other. In my experience, chords and rhythm playing are more difficult than lead playing. They don't garner the attention that soloing does, even though they are MORE important from a sonic perspective than soloing. They make solos listenable, by providing a solid groove. The more toxic the guitarist's ego, the less attention they pay to their rhythm playing, and bands often delegate it to the weakest guitarist (just like they do bass guitar) which is a HUGE mistake.
This leads to uh, lead guitarists focusing exclusively on soloing from a traditional box based framework. This in turn limits them, and their solos become cliché, derivative, unoriginal, repetitive and grating. This doesn't matter if all you are interested in is showing off for the girls. It matters greatly if you play guitar because you love the instrument and music itself. PASSION is what makes a truly great guitarist, or any musician. All great musicians and artists of all sorts are fundamentally grounded in love for their art and an all consuming need to express their emotions through it. Those gifted with a combination of talent, curiosity, luck, ambition and tenacity become famous because people connect with this passion. Passion expressed through art transforms people who it connects with. Mastering some difficult technique so you can show-off for chicks or humiliate other musicians only makes you famous if you are lucky. And good looking usually.
It never makes great art.
Couldn't agree more with the one string run thing, Chris. Been doing it for years, and love the results... but I didn't start because I was conscious of the breathy, vocal quality it imparted. As a kid whose left hand technique was more vice grip than finesse, I used to break a LOT of high E strings but didn't want to screw up the flow of a jam by stopping to restring. So, during the heat of battle as it were, I'd just fish around on the B string up and down the neck to do what I thought sounded okay...after a while, this became an instinctual part of my approach toward crafting lead runs, even with all the strings in place!
Wow. Every time I think you can't top yourself, you do just that. Both solos were great, but that last one was just brilliant. So loaded with emotion. That's what it's all about! Thanks Chris!
It just came to me, you should do an album with Tom Bukovac, that would be the ultimate. Two of the most incredible guitar players off today in a collaboration.
I suggested a long youtube jam session with Chris and Lari Basilio for roughly the same reason. It would be fantastic to see the creative process in action. It would also be interesting to hear the thoughts about the playing from both guitarists separately. I hope she has a good time recording her album right now. ...my dream might happen after that. I can wait. :)
Am no convinced a thing with uncle Larry is a way to go. But what do I know 😳. Respect and stay healthy all.
Yes!!! Great to hear there was a time, I’ve always loved that solo🤘🏻
Love this. When I was about 13 myself and a few of my friends were all learning guitar and I developed a 'bad habbit' of just doing solos of one string. I always saw it as something I shouldn't do, now having learned more across the fretboard and seeing this it's nice to know how useful of a tool it turned out to be!
Always amazingly tasteful.
Just insanely emotional and guttural, so damn amazing Chris!
I was recently watching and listening to solos I played in my late teens and early 20s in the 70s and 80s. I was going up and down the strings WAY more than I was going across them back then! I found I really loved the freedom and fluidity (and even recklessness) I was reveling in, in those solos, and the lack of the scale-box, the longitudinal excursions in its stead, played into that prominently. They were more fluid, more free, and, yes, more vocal. Somehow, yes, over the years, I got stuck 'in the box' of going across, rather than along, the fingerboard. Time to reinvent! Thanks for another great video.
There was a bit of Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love in that jam in the C-major excercise section.
One of my fav guitar player, Mr. Andy Timmons, also a master at this style of playing... Thank you for your version of it
Beginner just picked up the guitar during quarantine last year. I've been doing this 1-2 string playing because I was just used to thinking notes in length due to the keyboards/piano being my first instrument. I see a row of piano keys when I look at a single string. That said I really need to practice using all the strings because I will never progress.
Thanks Chris, you're one of the more informative inspiring greats on the web.
This has actually been validation for me. I always found it more natural to find my way around one string than fumbling through patterns (Not that I haven't eventually leaned them too.) But since I've been watching you, I noticed that you spend a lot of time on one string, and that you like to really focus on emphasizing specific notes in your solos during the building phase. Great video, thanks for the insight
Hahaha watched this and picked up my guitar and instantly noticed the difference! Thanks Chris!!!!
This is exactly why I say its much easier with a keyboard as your first instrument. Being brief on comments tonight, it's late ... Chris Buck, you ARE the Rock-God of the 21st Century.
You have got to get into a better band man. Something like radiohead/with roots, inserting your guitar singing nectar into our world. Your intro solo in this vid just wails. Wish you knew me ... ;-)
I’m blown away -that’s some really nice playing mate. Thanks.
Brilliant as always!!!
⚓️ Thanks Chris 😎
Sounding great Christopher 🎸👌
I've watched this 25 times. Great tone on the gnr track. Great vid. Cheers man
Lovely closing solo✌
I looked up the definition of “tone” in the dictionary, and it just had a picture of Chris Buck next to the word.
I love that album . . . . and your playing btw .
Said it before and will say it again I love all your content but this is your best material.
Honestly I think you may make the best guitar material on UA-cam. In my opinion. Even my non guitarist friends know I watch Friday fretwork, Thank you for such awesome content.
thanks for the pointer ! it works !
I loved the journey you took me on in the first solo
Thanks for the great ideas here! I’m going to try this single string soloing.
Richard Fortus is all class. Thanks for this incredible video Chris.
I started soling on one string (kinda) when I began ear training to songs that didn’t have guitar solos and filling in certain parts with lead guitar. I found it’s the easiest way to memorize a key and once I know the scale on one string, obviously it’s easy to figure out what boxes to use on higher strings. Sounds more vocal-like if you use one string.
Absolutely wonderful. Such a simple, yet very effective concept. Thank you for sharing this Chris, I will be diving into this fully. Have an awesome day. 🙏
Your solo reminded me of Derek Trucks sound/playing, and as soon as you mentioned him, right after playing his clip, I had to stop to type this - had I not known it was you playing, I might have thought it was him. Your playing, sir, is Brilliant!
Even the one string "exercise" sounds like an anthem. holy shit.
I try to do both vertical and horizontal when I am working out a piece, because of the tonal options different positioning offers. Options are always welcome. Playing on one string adds the flavor and the texture.
Great video, as always.
Very interesting and enjoyable. Even though I don't play the instrument, learning more about it is tremendously satisfying and adds to the experience of listening to the music.
You should try playing! It's freedom, man!🤘🎸🤘
@@gearViewmirror I'm kinda getting up there but you never know!
Really emotional stuff Chris. Your technique is amazing of course, but it's what you summon from within you that comes across and connects with the listener. In many ways, just like Derek, and there's no higher compliment I can give you than that.
Dude, you’re a BEAST… thanks for sharing your knowledge and playing!
Playing solos on just one string is something I’ve always done.
Mainly because honestly it took me ages to learn the fretboard but even now I still do it.
I’ve never found myself “in a box” 👍
That gave me chills.
You're amazing. Will definitely keep that in mind
Chris, your intro soloing in every single one of these videos is breathaking, so much for a fellow guitar player to learn from.