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- What makes a great guitar?
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Ok, that opening solo section is among the best playing I've ever heard. Something possesses you around 45 seconds in and then a few beats later you're reconjuring the the "She's So Heavy" sections of the Beatle's "I Want You"
it was the bassline you heard.
That is a great chord progression for sure. Chris uses variations of these on several of his videos. Often they are barely recognizable as he has so much color to lay on top. He did "Desperado" in one video. It put the Eagles version to shame.
That Les Paul is Boss
Beautiful
I’m dreaming of a Chris Buck video with his beautiful playing on all those beautiful guitars one after another, all of his intro mid and outro clips edited together. Chris you’re touching deep into the soul of humanness somehow. Thank You 👍🏻
Oh, you goin' full greedy, eh..?!
😅. 😊. 😉
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Thank goodness someone else was thinking the same thing... enjoy. I've watched it probably 10 times.
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I love the melody and passion in your guitar playing. That's what I look and listen for in your videos. You're not just shredding - you're playing a love song, singing through your fingers.
35 or more years ago this guy would have been a guitar god. A household name, at least among musicians. He would have been either in a huge band selling out arenas or in LA playing on dozens and dozens of platinum records. Maybe both. Unique, but not weird. Deep but digestible. Always sounds great.
@@saddestchord7622 OMG. Ha, I was just thinking the same EXACT thing. If he'd been playing back in, say, '67, he'd be being mentioned for decades later, along with the pantheon of the 'usual suspect' greats (we all know the names).
We had a singer who used to do that. He was very shy.
@@saddestchord7622 35 years ago, he wouldn't have had 35 years worth of guitar players and development of the instrument from which he could benefit. This seems like a silly and meaningless hypothetical to me.
@@xdoctorblindx Guitar-based music with solos isn't as popular as it used to be. If it were, this guy would be huge. That's all I'm saying.
Have a great night!
That intro is and will always be EPIC!
I’m sorry dude, but you blow the doors off of Slash. You are a once in a generation guitarist.
Agree!...i'd say he should be playing with Roger Waters, imagine comfortable numb by chris....unreal! 👏🏻🌟🎸😎
@@mkilner yea that would be insane
You’re damn right he is!!!lol I think we are watching him before he get huge, like if John Mayer, or even slash had a social media presence before they got famous!!
Yep.... every episode I am inspired and ready to set fire to my guitars in equal measure......
I mean…… slash doesn’t really have doors…..
But yes, I strongly agree!!!!
😦 That opening jam! Chris: put all your jams on Spotify PLEASE! We need your instrumentals.
i second that!!!
please lord please do this
Glad you mentioned resonance. It's the number one thing I look for in an electric guitar. If it isn't resonant, move on, there's usually nothing you can do to fix it. Lovely playing by the way
I thought I was weird for paying attention to resonance first. I won't even plug in a guitar at a shop if it doesn't vibrate with a strummed chord.
What makes the guitar great, is the player. Simple as that. I think you can make a 80's Hondo guitar sound great. Have a nice weekend y'all.
Did you even watch the video? Cos you've totally missed the point.
I’m not knowledgeable enough about the guitar to definitively say Chris Buck is the best guitar player I’ve seen. I am however perfectly comfortable stating Chris Buck consistently produces the most musically pleasing sounds to my ear
Wow! playing section at 5:00. WOW!
Chris plays the guitar like it is a part of him. Dedication patience practice and passion.
Yo min where you bin? Good to see you again
That is the most impressive intro playing I’ve ever seen for so many reasons. Wow!
There needs to be an instrumental album.
Good lord, that harmonic he hits in the opening of the PRS jam is honey in my ears!
That was one killer intro...my jaw dropped...
The number of incredible solos you've played on your channel is mind blowing!
The opening on the Gold Les Paul is just an "the World is burning" beautiful solo as the band plays as the Titanic went down....that is all meant as a positive .... beautiful , soulful solo with a somber emotion...well to me anyway
One of the best guitar UA-cam channel around this shit... 🏴☠️🤟💀👍🏴☠️
Shout out to the hollowbody II. I have the same one!
Nice Chris, you do Wales proud.
Interestingly, at 64 years old and having played for 56 of those years and having owned many (many guitars) my main squeeze for the past 8 years has been a old 80's Yamaha SE150 solid body electric with one humbucker and one volume control. This was a budget priced shredder offered back in the day. I paid $75 dollars at a local shop for mine. So far I can't find anything to match it for playing ease and tone. I bought another just like it off E Bay hoping it would be just as good. it's still actually a great guitar but nothing like the first one. Sometimes you get lucky.
I fell in love with a First Act - single cut, single pickup guitar a few years ago. It felt perfect in my hands and people would laugh at it, as I own many expensive guitars. Unfortunately the frets wore out in less than a year. It broke my heart. One day I will get around to refreting it.
At 63 years old, I feel you. I go back and forth between my 1972 Gibson SG *bought new) and lately my MIM Strat. Both of which I carefully setup. I have played other similar models but these just work and sound right. Many guitars here too. I just wish I could make one of them sound like Chris!
@@jimmccanna l too have a 72 SG which I've owned all that time. Mine has the Bigsby palm pedals on the b and g strings, which is a whole conversation all by itself;
@@tonya5809 Same here. I removed the handles long ago. Love that guitar though. I have many others but there is something special about it for sure.
@@jimmccanna Over the years I've taken them off and then put them on. In the end l shortened them so they didn't get in the way of the bridge and that solved the problem. Great guitar for sure.
What an immense solo!
What makes a great guitar? Hand it to Chris Buck. The Strat playing is sublime.
That strat Jam was unreal. Thanks for the great stuff, Chris!
He's on fire!
Love these pieces. Great contribution Chris
Damnit how come every little solo you do on your videos sounds like the best solo I've ever heard...
Just a stunning guitarist …
Hey Chris I know you put in alot of work in terms of research and all that. But some of us just came here to hear you play mehn....🔥🔥
Great video as always.
9:00 yeah - gypsy Jazz finger style on a Les Paul. Well done! I absolutely love that piece.
Thank you Chris, beautiful video as always. Your playing is inspiring.
Excellent episode! Thank you 😊
That was wonderful thanks Chris 👍
Don't know what you were playing at the beginning of the video, but I could listen to it all day long. Simply fabulous.
Chris, you never cease to amaze. Thanks.
Good to have you back. These intros are the guitar highlight of my week.
Great to see and hear Friday Fretworks back after far too long a break. Keep up the good work...ya great big show aff!!!
Sick skills as always.
Popped in for the instrumentals and it was enjoyable as always! Love it Chris
Buck is back!!!!
I've missed you dude. Friday Fretworks for the win.
Hands down one of the best solos , you need to do a video teaching us how to play it , sanks
Beautiful explanation by Paul on resonance.
Nice run, that first one. Real nice.
Sounds fantastic.
Superbly worthwhile video Chris.
Thanks bonny lad
Love your vids, Chris. I always learn some history or enjoy your insights or both. The playing is supernatural. It takes me to a place that is in a realm of its own. I hope you do many more.
Dude you play well on anything but every time you pull out that highway 1 I love the way it makes you play it absolutely screams with joy that it’s master has come to spend some time with it.
I’m new to your channel by the way but I can’t stop watching all your old vids you are a truly brilliant player and I don’t say that lightly.
Every track was phenomenal and that ending track was so David Gilmour esque. Simply beautiful.
That closing piece is awesome 🤩
And that strat just siiiiiings 🎙
Hello from Brasil 😁
Glad you are back!
Another beautiful intro! There are few ones I am coming back to, time after time.
Amazing!!! Hello from Greece..
Good stuff. That Strat outro is awesome.
i love your playing style
Chris I love your musical style. That PRS has an incredible sound. Thanks for the video.
Nice to see your PRS making an appearance buddy. Sounds so good👌
Incredibly tasteful playing. Mindblowing!
Your knowledge and words are as articulate as your playing. Fantastic
video as always
Always informative, Bucky boy.
Damn son! You went done gimme an Eargasm! 🥴🤙
I'd love a collect of your best jams. The first one on this episode is definitely one of them.
I strongly suspect that a cigar box guitar would sound just as good in your hands. You should get one of those kits and try it!
Totally Agree👍
THANK you for not another PRS ad. Got a bit sick of the long list of obvious sponsored content...
Floored by Chris's playing yet again!
Merci for these videos.
There is one more, mysterious but very real factor in what makes a guitar right for us. There must be a special connection that is a sort of symbiosis, a kind of telepathy that we feel instantly and every time we play it. We play better on a guitar with this factor than on any other. I don't know any better way to explain it, but I've come across a few like this and those are the keepers. The others, I've sold.
I know what you mean, I have a specific guitar in my collection that all my friends HATE, they say it feels stiff and unresponsive, but it just fits me in another level and I am able to wrangle a lot of nice tones out of it. It's a forever guitar for me.
I have a cheapo strat copy with Chinese p90s that just keeps me reaching for it. I bought it as a mod platform, but the dang guitar is so good after a setup and shielding the cavities (and pots and re-wired/soldered), now I just don't have the heart to change it. There's just some grit and growl and some lovely jangly chimey-ness.
@@stevescuba1978 You're not the only one with a guitar like that. Danny Kalb (The Blues Project) played a Greco Goldtop "Les Paul" most of the time in that band. He probably still plays it. He could have easily had a real '50s Gibson LP (they were dirt cheap in the late '60s), but he played that damn' Greco. It was the guitar for him.
@@Glicksman1 like I said, I intended to steal the neck, maybe the bridge, and build a custom body with new electronics.
Now, I'm wondering why I never liked my little (el cheapo) Epiphone Valve Jr amp before. Now I know that the 8" speaker and 5 tube watts wanted a crappy single coil to make sweet love with.
I will probably change the pickup guard, and depending on color, might change the covers on the pickups, but otherwise, this guitar stays as-is.
@@stevescuba1978 Good choice.
You sir are a PLAYAH! Loooove your intro jams, so beautiful.
High-octane AND beautiful leads, as always! Agree with your 3 attributes to look for. I personally like bigger, stainless steel frets on a flatter fingerboard with action just high enough that you can bend the string a whole step and then pick it forcefully without fretting out. Would like to comment that nut width is an important but often overlooked spec. 1 and 11/16ths works for me but I'm dabbling with 1 and 3/4 nut widths on 2 guitars and liking the cleaner chords I can get. I was surprised what a difference 1/16" makes; takes a little getting used to!
What an opening solo…! Love it… 👍
Great Paul Reed Smith rap. And a big thank you for taking time out to make a video for us.
Loved the "Bistro Fada" number.
Unexpected gift on your channel.
Thankyou.
Best friday fretworks solo yet in my opinion kept getting better, killed using the chord progression and all the pickups! So Good
Yet another amazing opening jam
The legend with another banger
Chris Buck - you are a true treasure of mankind !!! If there is a Nobel Price for Guitarplayers it owes to you.
Wow amazing 😵💫👍
CHRIS!!!! You, by far, are the most soulful and melodically creative and interesting player on the planet! there is no contest.
It's ok Jon, Everyone is crushing on Chris.
I have to say Derek trucks gives a similar feeling of soul like Chris… but for sure Chris is awesome I tell everybody about him…
There was a great Jimi Hendrix tribute tour before Covid, I saw the lineup that included Kenny Wayne Chesney , Eric Johnson, Keb Mo, Johnny Lang… Man I would love to see Chris playing with cats like that, I think the synergy would be amazing
Another stunning intro Chris. 👍❤️
Great insight about what makes the perfect guitar. Amazing playing as always, but i liked so much those melodic lines. Thanks Chris.
Chris, this was another one of your incredibly interesting, profound and stimulating videos punctuated with gorgeous guitar playing - thank you so much for taking the trouble to create such excellent material which must take considerable thought and time on your part. It deserves some serious thought...
(BTW UA-cam isn't great at providing interactive comment(s) - no tagging, no images, no video and basic text captions - I'm at a loss to understand why a new provider hasn't entered this field. But here is my contribution to your video - I too took some time to think about this.)
I appreciated your comments about how you started and the fact you were still there because of the playability of your first guitar. I had the opposite experience and I didn't understand why I wasn't enjoying myself. Probably this is the single most important factor and I have no idea whether this features in instructional material today and although I grew up in a musical household nobody ever spoke about intonation, action, tone etc Frankly, my first guitar was 'unplayable' and yet I didn't know it. What a difference this would have made to me....
Anyway, I took 5 guitars I own and I ranked them all by considering simply 'which are my 'favourites' '. The ones I pick up the most and so forth. I then rated these guitars by giving them values out of 10 for 'Playability', 'Electrics' and 'Resonance'. I would say all the guitars I keep are already fulfilling these criteria fairly well. So, most resonate well at least on a scale of 7-10/10 influenced by the model - semi-hollow vs solid body etc. Electrics are a function of age/style/model but again scored 8-10/10 and playability were all excellent. My favourites were generally correlated to their objective qualities as you outlined but the outstanding guitars for me were not an objective assessment but also influenced by more emotional characteristics such as the way they look, their build quality and the sound I expected them to make. So, my newest guitar, which perhaps explains why I play it the least, ranked 4th of my favourite guitars but ranked 1st by objective criteria (I am moving up in the world!). My favourite guitar I ranked 3rd by objective rules but it is the build quality (aesthetics, weight (it is light), acoustic sound) and above all playability which makes it my favourite; and the others generally conformed to their rankings. This was a really interesting exercise for me - so thank you again. I am going to review it in 6 months time.
You are such an amazing artistic player. Just the right amount of ingredients to reach beyond the standard chords and riffs.
That Strat simply howls with your touch. Damn.
Super tasty playing!
woah, that intro solo was absolutely magic. So intense and so on the point. It kept propelling higher and higher. And every time you think there can't be any more it kept giving more. Just masterful! .... no gear matters if you play like that :-)
Chris has more creativity in a one minute solo than I have shown in 30 years of playing guitar…damn!
As for perfect guitars- so many variables - for me neck shape is first, then acoustic response.
Very informative as usual thank you Chris. Your playing is so inspirational that although I'm no longer married I will be getting a wedding band back on my left hand as well as a wrist watch on the off chance it may get a little closer to your sound. Superb!
Great video, interestingly the guitar I play most is a tele with the worst playability of all the guitars I own, but for some reason it’s the one I always pick up!!
This into solo felt really special Chris
Wait a minute...that was the most beautiful e look electric lead guiar solo I've ever heard.
Hurrah, Friday Fretworks is back 😀 I have PRS SE Hollowbody, and it's the most comfortable guitar to play for me.
I own a PRS Hollowbody II, it’s the most versatile guitar I own (although my es 335 seems to do it all too). I can use the PRS for jazz, blues, rock and even metal.
I love my PRS HBii too and think its 'more' versatile than a 335 in general as you also have the excellent LR Baggs Piezo that can add some beautiful shimmer/sparkle. My PRS 594 HB also has excellent Split Coil tones adding a few more tonal options.
@@BAMozzy69 I agree that the PRS Hollowbody II is more versatile then the 335 and the coil split definitely adds more too that. I unfortunately do not have the piezo, wish I had.
Yah, I got the SE HBII/piezo when I first saw it advertised and reviewed - top notch guitar, "peacock blue" flamed top and back, abalone birds - drop-dead gorgeous! Spine-tingling sound! It's sitting right next to me for easy access!
@@fredstevens799 I hear they've done an excellent job with SE version and perhaps would of been tempted myself had I not bought my Core HBii. I might pick one up anyway... LOL
I have been wanting to pull the trigger on a HBII Piezo for soooo long, to basically get rid of my 335 clone.
Damn dude that first was a great solo on the gold top!!!!! the pulling down on the D string is awesome!
Watching you play reminds me of Brian May, Eric Clapton and Eric Johnson. In the sense of when you play it looks effortless. It feels like a privilege to watch a master at work.
I've been enthralled in your content the last 18 months and not shared how greatful I am. So thank you! Thank you for sharing such great playing, passion and well thought out, researched and articulated content. This intro solo was killer (again) but I must say your intro solo on your "Reverb on everything" video is your best. Must have watched that more than 300 times and has finally motivated me to not be lazy and try to transcribe something. I've heard it's a key activity to further develop skills so it wil be interesting how it goes. 🤘
Absolutely delicious playing! Also confirmed my personal preference for P90 tone, again. I really appreciated Paul Reed Smith's overview on resonance though, which resonates well with my own view on making guitars sound better. It's not too different from the discussion about what makes a turntable sound great--the ideal reproduction of sound by a stylus is achieved by a completely fixed cartridge and platter, ideally operating in a theoretical vacuum where sound cannot feed back onto that vibrational translation. Every single additional vibration will feed back through the record itself (belt, motor, platform noise) or the cartridge (jointed tonearms, pivot points, etc.) and distort the vibrations at the stylus on the record. Thus the fancy isolation feet, platters, single piece tonearms, absortive platters. Guitars are not that different. Imperfect neck joints, loose saddles, wobbly bridges and posts, loose tuners, all rob energy from a vibrating string, or add unwanted resonances. Conversely, on both acoustic and electric guitars (more on acoustic and semi-hollow guitars) well chosen tonewoods (and bridge materials) provide harmonic resonances that enhance vibration. Anyone who tells you that all you hear are the pickups is not listening very carefully. That long ring of a well isolated string happens as he notes, when you stop everything else from subtracting from the vibrating string. You can even improve guitar tone by putting better springs in the pickup cavity to stop them from moving as well. I've never heard it put that way before (subtraction from tone) so that was incredibly enlightening!
You’re right Chris; a decent guitar, with good pickups, good set up and a bone nut does it for me! I prefer higher off the Fretboard action
I was all worked up to jump on this until you actually did the Resonance section
It's very difficult to understand until you have two guitars that look the same, but one just rings, and the other is a bit dull.
And you may not even realise that the dull guitar is dull, until you find one that rings
I have a couple of Squier Strats. One is an Affinity, that has cheap and nasty hardware, cheap pickups, a difficult action. but it absolutely breathes and lives
The other is a much nicer guitar (physically) to play, stays in tune better, has a better neck.
But hold them up between thumb and finger at the nut, and knock them?
One goes thud
The other makes a musical sound
and, Chris. I know you've played one of the legendary '59 Bursts ie Bernie Marsden's "The Beast"
I bet that guitar absolutely rings acoustically, if you hold it up just finger and thumb at the nut
And you probably have the chance to test that?
yes, the pickups and so on on that guitar are also a bit special, but I bet it's also just a little bit special in the way it resonates.
Go on, ask Bernie to let you test the resonance.
Yep, that is exactly the way to figure out which guitar is going to give you pleasure vs wich one is dull. It’s as easy as that.
I completely forgot why I was watching the video when you started to play man xD you are a GREAT guitarist !!!