Stevie Ray Vaughan's Gutsy Move When A String Breaks Live
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2024
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There’s this mind-blowing video one of my students sent me of Stevie Ray Vaughan breaking a string onstage.
It’s from his concert film Live in Austin. Which I would consider required viewing for every aspiring blues guitar player.
He’s in the middle of wailing a solo on the song “Look At Little Sister”. The band is digging in. Stevie’s at the helm playing breathtaking licks. He's commanding the stage with a thunderous presence.
But then suddenly... something happens…
SNAP
You see, a tiny flashing glare from a steel string going haywire in the air.
If you’ve ever broken a string…you know…it just SUCKS. There’s no other way to put it.
So what does Stevie do?
He switches to the other strings and keeps on shredding! Pushing and pulling on the notes to bend them and compensate for any tuning issues that often arise when you break a string.
Then his brilliant guitar tech, René Martinez, deserves a massive award for instantly picking up on what happened. Runs out onstage with a replacement guitar, and they are able to switch it out without missing a beat.
They go to a part in the song that has rhythm breaks, like so many blues guitar songs do. Stevie keeps singing. He straps in the backup guitar and then jumps right into the next section. If you weren’t looking at him, you wouldn’t even be able to tell this happened.
To be honest, it’s one of the most insane guitar moments I’ve ever seen. It really shows how much of a beast Stevie was.
If you would like to play like Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the things you have to do is learn the blues scale. I've put together a PDF guide that shows you the 5 easiest and fastest ways to play the blues scale anywhere on the neck.
If you want to get your hands on it. Go to:
www.jonmaclennan.com/bluesscales
👉Discover the 5 easiest and fastest ways to play the blues scale anywhere on the neck with this FREE PDF GUIDE→ www.jonmaclennan.com/bluesscales
Love your videos Jon. Your blues scales videos have helped me improve as a player. One question: Will we be seeing any Freddie king lessons in the foreseeable future?
I too have broken several strings in my time but I have to say I never handled it quite as well as Stevie!🎸
I’ve seen similar footage of Slash and BB King dealing with broken strings on stage. Neither of them had guitar techs waiting in the wings with spare guitars like SRV, but they too found ways to continue playing through the breakage. It’s definitely a useful skill if you’re playing before thousands of paying audience members who won’t want to wait in silence while you change the string and whine about the breakage.
Yadi yadi yada. Common issue with a Strat. Easy fix and SRV's guitars were later incorporated with the easy fix. Wire insulation, 6 short pieces one for each string installed to each prior to adding new strings. The strings break on the bridge plate.
It is indeed a common issue on Strats, especially if you have worn bridge saddles that can cut the string on bends, but that is NOT the point. The point here is: If you want to be a professional musician of SRV’s caliber, you need to learn how to deal gracefully with string breakages when they happen that way, because they DO occasionally happen, no matter what the guitar, and no matter how well setup and maintained the guitar may be! I’ve also seen similar footage of other guitar legends like Slash and BB King breaking strings on stage with GIBSON guitars, and they had to find ways to work around it, as SRV did here. The point is: Don’t be so dismissive, because when you’re on stage before thousands of PAYING viewers, they will NOT be forgiving if you simply blame it on your equipment, start whining about it, and make your audience wait while you change the string. For what they paid, those audiences have a RIGHT to expect that the guitarist will do whatever it takes to deliver, even if they have to work through a setback like that.
@@zuperdee SRV's strings were not breaking at the saddles.
You can use more Springs and tighten the tremolo up so that it's locked in the back position and you can only dive bomb but if you break a string it won't matter because it's not floating that may be the case here okay I had to come back I looked it up I'm right I want a cookie