I taught myself to play this riff many years ago, while listening to the Hotel California album. So satisfying to see I got it completely correct, note for note. The slides and bends are crucial to Walsh´s phrasing.
This riff always seemed to be loaded with a difficulty level and mostly a touch that was just joe. Never even attempted it for those reasons. Then one day said what the hell, tried it,, first run through ,,, my jaw dropped. It sounded good! Turned out it was 90% technique and 10% touch, easier than it sounds, try it , you will surprise yourself. I remember the best advice I have ever heard so far in my entire guitar playing life was this,,," if it seems to difficult,, you're playing it wrong!! " that has proven to be right time after time for over 45 years now!!! that little nugget of wisdom came from an old friend and guitar and violin master Rick Sailon . An LA session player and guitarist for Laura Branigan. Back when he was starting his career in the Las Vegas rock scene , ah the eighties,, good times and good music,, if you scratched down the surface a little. Ha!,
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Been struggling with this riff since High school! You helped me more than Joe's own video! Thank you!! This is a most important technique to get down and is why Joe likes to play it as a warm up!
Great lesson bro! Almost had it, didn’t pick up on the slide down from the bay to the G on the E string... thanks for the help with that I will be able to play this riff🤜🏽👌☝️🤠
A great lesson, I've been fooling around with this song since I purchased Hotel California all those years ago, it's got to be one of those classic riffs that we all know and love. It will endure.
Yes, Glenn Frey busted into his dressing room and said.. what the hell is that???? Joe replied that's a warm-up lick... Glen said ,, no.... that's an eagles tune!!!! ... Honestly you got to love it!!
I'm only doing this just to see how my parents react to me playing the song They don't really hear or catch me play my guitar cause I'm always too shy. But I bet this would make them lose their heads if I played this on my electric guitar Wish me luck everyone I'm gonna need it 😅
Did you know that LITFL was originated from Joe Walsh's warm up riff? Glenn heard it and was blown away and told him that it was going to be an Eagles song. They developed it and added lyrics and that was it!
The Rolling of the finger to pick up the A note and rolling back to the E note is the tricky part I don't do that in my playing so that's what I have to work on
This is the first video that I've seen by you, and you did an excellent job. There's plenty of other great riffs in the song, have you done any other videos on those?
It was played on two stratocasters. It is truly a dual lead. Some people think it was done with a digital delay. No it's two guitars. Dual lead- that's what makes it cool. They're so close together it sounds fat
So far my experience with guitar amounts too: Music = speed, time, accuracy. Not so much what to play but more emphasis on what NOT to play. If you hit even one note that was NOT supposed to be played, then the whole thing sounds terrible. And if it sounds terrible it’s not music anymore it’s just noise.
@@TaylorSchlupp oh I’ll be looking forward to that great song and guitar 🎸....I’ll tell one eagles song you don’t see much of is get over it surprises me how many people don’t know that one now that’s a great guitar rift that I’d love to learn...keep up the great work great channel that I watch a lot 👍👍👍🎸🎸
Second position on the strat, bridge and middle pickup. In this video I was plugged straight into the Fender Supersonic I think. Lots of mids, a decent amount of highs, not much low end. Hope that helps 🎸🎸
What I want to know is why the songs I love I can't play I guess trying to hard. I have been trying to feel the lead in stairway to heaven for 49 years and I still don't have it right
I was wondering how you managed to get that tone like that? I have a 2017 HSS Strat and I'm having a hard time getting it exactly due to the HSS wiring in my Strat.
Second position on strat, volume on about 8 on my guitar (treble bleed in parallel mod on volume knob), tone knob at 8, straight into Fender Supersonic 22 on Burn channel. Highs on 7, Bass on 4, Mids on 2.5. Gain 1 on 7, Gain 2 on 2. Volume at 5.5. Those are my amp settings for everything. The amp goes in a cabinet simulator with a Greenback 212 cab mic'd with a 57 and 121. That's the whole rig. Hope that helps!
@@TaylorSchlupp Well I'll tell you that is really gonna help me. I run a similar setup on a Princeton 65 solid state. But with a HSS Strat. It's definitely not the exact tone but Close enough with fender bullet strings here's my rundown. I run my drive at 5, treble at 8 or 9 depending on what strings I'm running. Bass at 4 to 5. Mids are the same as yours 2.5 adding the fact that I'm running my Joe Walsh analog alien pedal. I rely more on the pedal for the authentic studio tone rather than the amp. Because what Walsh used for the 76 recording was a 1957 sunburst strat into either a fender tweed deluxe or tweed champ. Now I have read different articles, and asked different studio veterans who have met them, who have said Joe ran a fender tweed deluxe . But then I saw an interview with Don Felder on what I believe was with Sweetwater but I could be wrong. But what he mentioned was that he himself had owned at that current time was a fender tweed champ with an echoplex system. I would love to own all of that equipment to see first hand what was really used to record that song but unfortunately for my situation currently I do not have the funds to build the proper base setup for that equipment.
@@TaylorSchlupp For sure! I am actually going tomorrow to attempt to rent a Marshall DSL 40 amplifier from my local music store which is 2 hours away from my home so I had to book a hotel for the night.
I watched 2 of you guys play this and it did not sound right till i noticed you both down and up pick the strings. but neither of you mentioned it. i was focusing on the fingering. Not the picking. you should mention it.
Nice job, Thanks for posting! This white boy has no rhythm, It's not a difficult riff... There's just a bit of trickiness involved.. That I just can't seem to grasp
I couldn't piece it together originally reading it. Something just wasn't clicking. Then I watched about 5 seconds, picked up the guitar, and was like "WTF ITS PLAYING ITSELF! MY FINGERS ARE JUST MOVING!" Only thing I'm really trying to see is exactly what he does for the chk-chk-boom chk-chk-boom that they laid across the top after the 5-2-2-0h2
This guy plays it closer to the record than anyone else on UA-cam.
Whatever he is doing, he got the sound just right.
This is one of those riffs I've never even tried to learn cause it sounds so huge. Thanks for choosing it! Stay safe
Ya u ain't lying. I only recently realized I could probably learn it. Thankful I did too
I taught myself to play this riff many years ago, while listening to the Hotel California album. So satisfying to see I got it completely correct, note for note. The slides and bends are crucial to Walsh´s phrasing.
This riff always seemed to be loaded with a difficulty level and mostly a touch that was just joe. Never even attempted it for those reasons. Then one day said what the hell, tried it,, first run through ,,, my jaw dropped. It sounded good! Turned out it was 90% technique and 10% touch, easier than it sounds, try it , you will surprise yourself. I remember the best advice I have ever heard so far in my entire guitar playing life was this,,," if it seems to difficult,, you're playing it wrong!! " that has proven to be right time after time for over 45 years now!!! that little nugget of wisdom came from an old friend and guitar and violin master Rick Sailon . An LA session player and guitarist for Laura Branigan. Back when he was starting his career in the Las Vegas rock scene , ah the eighties,, good times and good music,, if you scratched down the surface a little. Ha!,
Many thanks. Just the way a tutorial should be . Don't change a thing . Pace is perfect.
And a helluva mean riff .
Thx Joe .
Jack from Wichita
🙏🏻
Taylor you are a great teacher my man.
Thank you!
I like how you slow things down just enough to allow people like me to stay with your instructions. excellent!
Thanks for posting this. I leaned alot before I went to bed and picked up this morning.
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Been struggling with this riff since High school! You helped me more than Joe's own video! Thank you!! This is a most important technique to get down and is why Joe likes to play it as a warm up!
He's right. The timing is everything.
Thank you, the first nineteen seconds are all I needed.
Great video. I appreciate that you play with "time". So many players hack through the notes with no feel.
Awesome sounds like the rubber bands love this song reminds me of my family my brothers Kent and Troy
Great lesson bro! Almost had it, didn’t pick up on the slide down from the bay to the G on the E string... thanks for the help with that I will be able to play this riff🤜🏽👌☝️🤠
Thanks for the intro lesson, I've got the note d down now the exact timing. Thanks again
Dude! That was so helpful for the proper finger position. I was struggling with that and in just your video I feel improvement. Thanks!
Great lesson Taylor!
A great lesson, I've been fooling around with this song since I purchased Hotel California all those years ago, it's got to be one of those classic riffs that we all know and love. It will endure.
Joe Walsh mentioned in an interview that this was a "warm up" he would do before playing. Unreal how good he is
Wow, I never knew that. That's awesome
Yes, Glenn Frey busted into his dressing room and said.. what the hell is that???? Joe replied that's a warm-up lick... Glen said ,, no.... that's an eagles tune!!!!
... Honestly you got to love it!!
Great job 👏. Thank you for this lesson brother
You are a great teacher. I haven’t seen anyone explain that lick that well. I am a new subsciber and fan.
Thanks so much!
Good job Taylor.
Excellent lesson thumbs up
Nice job Taylor
Brilliance thank you
Oh man loves it and I clicked it
I've meant to be working right now as a classroom assistant but here I am in the music room ignoring the kids
😆🤷🏻♂️🙌🏻
The best lesson of this song I have seen anywhere. Thanks for posting this! Subscribed!
Thanks so much!
Awesome! Awesome! Thank you!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I'm only doing this just to see how my parents react to me playing the song
They don't really hear or catch me play my guitar cause I'm always too shy. But I bet this would make them lose their heads if I played this on my electric guitar
Wish me luck everyone I'm gonna need it 😅
I had this shit all wrong. Thank You. Got it note for note. Just need to make tempo. Damn!!
Did you know that LITFL was originated from Joe Walsh's warm up riff? Glenn heard it and was blown
away and told him that it was going to be an Eagles song. They developed it and added lyrics and that was it!
Very cool!
There was a lot of cocaine involved too.
Ty...!
The Rolling of the finger to pick up the A note and rolling back to the E note is the tricky part I don't do that in my playing so that's what I have to work on
Thanks
Excellent lesson
Great Lesson! Thank you!!
excellent tutorial thanks for sharing.. cheers NZ
Thanks Dave, happy new year!
Fabulous sound Man.
Thanks!
Who in the HELL would thumbs down this????? Well done dude! I had a hard time with the timing of the stretch....this fixed it!
Thanks! Glad it helped 🎸🎸
Awesome! Love it!
Nice playing and tone!
Amazing! Suscribed!
Thank you!
Thanks for the vid, was hoping you showed us the middle part but beggers can’t be choosers
Good one, thanks.
Thanks i got it
Nice fret Buzz.
Thanks Larry.
thanks bröhansen!
Thank you :)
Thanks class of 82
Great job. How about Black Sabbath Paranoid ?
5 people are really sad because they can't get it done after some awesome instructions
This is the first video that I've seen by you, and you did an excellent job. There's plenty of other great riffs in the song, have you done any other videos on those?
Not yet!
It was played on two stratocasters.
It is truly a dual lead.
Some people think it was done with a digital delay. No it's two guitars.
Dual lead- that's what makes it cool.
They're so close together it sounds fat
Not crazy difficult like I was expecting... but so tasty....
The Genuis of Joe Walsh
He has some killer riffs!
Joe said that riff was a finger warm up he use to do all the time. So he put it into that song.
So far my experience with guitar amounts too:
Music = speed, time, accuracy.
Not so much what to play but more emphasis on what NOT to play.
If you hit even one note that was NOT supposed to be played, then the whole thing sounds terrible. And if it sounds terrible it’s not music anymore it’s just noise.
Could you perhaps do already gone
Sure thing!
@@TaylorSchlupp oh I’ll be looking forward to that great song and guitar 🎸....I’ll tell one eagles song you don’t see much of is get over it surprises me how many people don’t know that one now that’s a great guitar rift that I’d love to learn...keep up the great work great channel that I watch a lot 👍👍👍🎸🎸
Sounds like a bridge pickup on a strat or tele to me but with studio mixing it could have been a damn acoustic he used for the original recording
Joe smalls class8c funk riff king of riffs Walsh sounds likefunk49
hey thanks for the lesson but im just wondering how do you get that tone on your guitar?
Second position on the strat, bridge and middle pickup. In this video I was plugged straight into the Fender Supersonic I think. Lots of mids, a decent amount of highs, not much low end. Hope that helps 🎸🎸
How about the other guitar that is a few keys higher? How do you play that part?
What I want to know is why the songs I love I can't play I guess trying to hard. I have been trying to feel the lead in stairway to heaven for 49 years and I still don't have it right
Sometimes we build up the songs we love so much that when we play them we don't think they sound good enough. Don't overthink it 😉🎸🎸
Joes funk alive in the Eagles
Jesus died for for you so live for him
Joe warmup riffs funk 48
Dude you gotta Fender Machete. I hear ya!
I do! Never gets used anymore though Lol
I’ve been playin this “wrong” for almost 50 yrs! But I still think my way sounds better. Ha, self delusion. Its different by 2 notes……
What about the verse & course?
Is there an effects pedal you’re using to make that sound?
Straight into the amp
Man i wish you have tabs below
Are you SURE Walsh ain't using some open cross-string stuff?
Just playing it how he does live
@@TaylorSchlupp Well, as Don Henley says, "Joe Walsh is an interesting bunch of guys"
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Lol good point.
I was wondering how you managed to get that tone like that? I have a 2017 HSS Strat and I'm having a hard time getting it exactly due to the HSS wiring in my Strat.
Second position on strat, volume on about 8 on my guitar (treble bleed in parallel mod on volume knob), tone knob at 8, straight into Fender Supersonic 22 on Burn channel. Highs on 7, Bass on 4, Mids on 2.5. Gain 1 on 7, Gain 2 on 2. Volume at 5.5. Those are my amp settings for everything. The amp goes in a cabinet simulator with a Greenback 212 cab mic'd with a 57 and 121. That's the whole rig. Hope that helps!
@@TaylorSchlupp Well I'll tell you that is really gonna help me. I run a similar setup on a Princeton 65 solid state. But with a HSS Strat. It's definitely not the exact tone but Close enough with fender bullet strings here's my rundown. I run my drive at 5, treble at 8 or 9 depending on what strings I'm running. Bass at 4 to 5. Mids are the same as yours 2.5 adding the fact that I'm running my Joe Walsh analog alien pedal. I rely more on the pedal for the authentic studio tone rather than the amp. Because what Walsh used for the 76 recording was a 1957 sunburst strat into either a fender tweed deluxe or tweed champ. Now I have read different articles, and asked different studio veterans who have met them, who have said Joe ran a fender tweed deluxe . But then I saw an interview with Don Felder on what I believe was with Sweetwater but I could be wrong. But what he mentioned was that he himself had owned at that current time was a fender tweed champ with an echoplex system. I would love to own all of that equipment to see first hand what was really used to record that song but unfortunately for my situation currently I do not have the funds to build the proper base setup for that equipment.
No problem dude. Good setup. I think he used a Champ on Funk 49. Could be wrong. Good luck. Hope you can get that rig soon. That'd be awesome 😎
@@TaylorSchlupp For sure! I am actually going tomorrow to attempt to rent a Marshall DSL 40 amplifier from my local music store which is 2 hours away from my home so I had to book a hotel for the night.
I watched 2 of you guys play this and it did not sound right till i noticed you both down and up pick the strings. but neither of you mentioned it. i was focusing on the fingering. Not the picking. you should mention it.
@@philipyelito9873 alrighty
I use alternate D/U picking as a rule. Rare for me to make 2 D or 2 U in a row, although it does happen.
Nice job, Thanks for posting!
This white boy has no rhythm,
It's not a difficult riff...
There's just a bit of trickiness involved.. That I just can't seem to grasp
You'll get it! Try with a metronome?
It's not hard. Why on earth would anyone fear away from at least giving it a try?
Are your fans referred to as Schluppies? Sorry, couldn't resist! LOL
I couldn't piece it together originally reading it. Something just wasn't clicking. Then I watched about 5 seconds, picked up the guitar, and was like "WTF ITS PLAYING ITSELF! MY FINGERS ARE JUST MOVING!" Only thing I'm really trying to see is exactly what he does for the chk-chk-boom chk-chk-boom that they laid across the top after the 5-2-2-0h2