Half step rubs - Notes weird & wonderful
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Equipment used today:
Gibson Les Paul ‘59 reissue
Oswald Jazzmaster
Gretsch 6120 Keith Scott signature
Cornell Romany 12
Strymon Flint Reverb
JHS Emperor (pitch shifting vibrato)
Digitech Freq-out for moment of feedback
NUX JTC Drum & Looper
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No computers, no audio interfaces, no special mics or cameras. Just my iphone, then uploaded to iMovie then to UA-cam
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If you have a query, or if you simply wish to buy me a coffee via PayPal, then my PayPal address and email are one and the same:
paul_ursusarctos@hotmail.co.uk (or 078900 67773)
Thanks folks 😊
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nice plunkin' laddie
A visit from Uncle Larry himself! Well that makes my day Tom. Really appreciate you stopping by my wee guitar show. 🍻
He's after some lessons and tips Paul, charge him £500
@@teddyboy9116 I thought you were still on parole Teddy?
@501chorusecho yeh thats right.....
Thanks yet again Paul. Nice pieces to listen to and attempt, but your advice to Dan was gentle, inciteful and above all useful. If only all guitar players were as free with kindly meant advice. Keep it up buddy, this approach is what keeps your channel as one of my favourites. Cheers :)
Thank you burtnekkid, I appreciate that. 🍻
You are a fantastic guitarist, I wholeheartedly recommend that you listen to SMAK Group and Vlatko Stefanovski from the band Leb i Sol
Very nice opening❤ Very fresh. To my ear, you are channeling a touch of Rory in there.
Well thank you William, Rory is always close to my heart.
Another❤ vote for Rory!👍and of course you as well Paul!❤👍
Man, the wear on that rosewood looks so great!! Great playing as always man. You inspire me to practice more for sure!!
Well thanks man, glad you liked my playing. 🍻
THAT INTRO JAM WAS SO KILLER
Thank you Howzernn 👍
Great stuff Paul!
Thanks this was very good
Cheers Dave 👍
Such a great lesson. That vamp just makes the difference. Playing half-step whole-step over it sounds great and gets it into that thick space between my ears! Thanks Paul
Cheers Ian, glad you liked it. 🍻
You have def got out of the rut you were in months ago… I remember suggesting some atonal or even mathematical scales to break out of the musical darkness. This sounded great : interesting , musical , quirky and surprising. I saw an interview with Sting and he loves adding a surprise chord or melody within his work and suggests it’s a key fundamental in audience enjoyment .
PSC...I'm semi-cerebral but feel the infinite, at times, when you play. This is one of those times. You are admired, emulated and loved. Best from WI - USA...keep on keeping on - NRG
Thanks Neil, I appreciate those words 👍
I'm having so much fun playing with different sound flavours over a same BT, just like you did at the beginning of the video. Throw some phryigian, then goes to dorian, suddenly an altered scale appears and come back with chromatic to pentatonic. Stellar playing as always!!
Thank you Pedro, I’m glad you liked the vid. Happy noodling 🎸👍
Thank you Paul, brilliant as always, best wishes and good health to you and your family from Glasgow
Classy and tasteful
Thank you Matthias 🍻
Very nice touch. It seems so bloody easy when you play it, dude!
Thanks so much jutukka 👍
Paul, it is such a treat when you drop a new video. I really enjoy your playing and your breakdowns, keep it up!
Thank you Bazilbrushrocks, your words have made me smile. Cheers
Hi Paul, I love this. The bit on your Jazzmaster was pure heaven. Wonderful tones. I will watch your breakdown and see if I can get my hands around it. Thank you for sharing this 😊
Thank you Thor! Might be interesting to hear how it sounds on the Yamaha guitalele 😊
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Ha ha, that would be totally amazing. Listen, I have one more week of vacation, so why don't I bring it to Scotland and we could do a duet? Maybe busking in Princes Street?
@@GUITARSGIZMOS I can see the headlines - Paul and Thor rock Princes Street 🤘
I love weird notes so rock n roll
You are so unique and I love it !
Well thank you Graham, I’m smiling after reading your comment. 🍻
Loved the guitar variety Paul. 😊
Thanks Donal, cheers
Your 'tip of the day' is an absolute gem mate. So important and so often overlooked. Great video - thank you !
Cheers, delighted you liked it. 🍻
what a great jam! subbed
Thank you satchrules, delighted you liked it 🍻
Love from berlin
Thank you, and greetings to you from Edinburgh 👋
You've amassed a large theory vocabulary for someone that doesn't find it important in focus. Not a criticism. I come to the instrument from the other side. I'm a maths head. Eventually i have to understand the theory of what I'm doing so my head can rest. Your point is the most important part though. Your ear knows what it likes. Don't accept dictation from other sources. I love the values of letting your ear experience and dictate. Your ear is the ultimate teacher and critic. Thanks for the continued posts as I so greatly enjoy them. Cheers!
Thank you Kevin. And yes, you must forgive my ranting about Theory - I have accumulated various chips on my shoulder over the years 🤣
You know my feelings on that Arabian stuff 😅but love the Casper stuff it all blends together beautifully. That email could have been written by myself. Loved the “don’t go looking it’ll find you” what a haiku moment 🥰 enjoyed that one mate 💙 keep ‘em coming 👍😃
Cheers Charlie. And don’t worry, that Arabian stuff will find you 😉
you can't say "arabian" anymore....paul, who is this guy?
@@501chorusecho 😂
Uncle Paulie ✌🏻🎶🎶
I love this kinda stuff, been looking at outside and "exotic" approaches since I started out. I also like a dash of microtonal stuff like Turkish music, ala Özgür Baba and the like (check him out doing Dertl Dolap it's quite moving imo).
I'm really glad I subscribed to this channel, some really great content and clearly a talented player. I wouldn't completely agree about the point on theory though. For me it's not so much don't chase after theory, but more chase the right reason to want to chase theory. Take lead guitar...
The most beneficial thing in the guitarist world I've found is learning a favourite solo of a favourite guitarist, but then chasing after the DNA of that solo - chord progression / scales / positioning / timing / finding out why it sounds the way it does. The ability to do this allows a musician to learn the solo, but learn to play a solo of their own using this knowledge. Learn five completely different solos alone, they'll play five different solos. But purposefully chase the theory behind each one, they've wholesomely developed as a musician, but IMO this would require not waiting for the theory to find them.
Thanks Peter, I’m delighted you’re enjoying my wee videos. You make a great case for theory. In fact, when I say things like “I don’t do theory”, I should probably be more specific in that I don’t take interest in things like modes (Lydian etc.). I wholeheartedly agree with you that, when you learn your favourite solo, you should understand the chords going on behind it, and try to understand whether the solo is simply playing from scales or is it referencing the chord changes etc. Cheers for watching 👍
I always recommend learning Peter Frampton's solo in Natural Born Woman/Boogie. There's a lot of techniques in it, in a short space of time. It has big span too! That's what you remember.
The 'Arabian' sound is in the harmonic minor scale, in the H,W+H,H section, but you can stack those sequences vs playing the entire harmonic minor scale. A lot or eastern scales are in 2 parts, an upper and lower part. The diatonic modes are the technically the same, in that you can split and rejoin the upper and lower halves, on the fly to change a mode mid way. Unless you play the 6 notes, upper and lower notes of the octave and the 4 notes of the HWH sequence, the mode hasn't been defined. If the mode has a halftone start or end it's just 5 notes.
paul i’m sure you’ve been asked this countless times and it’s probably doing your head in at this stage but i have to ask myself.
how on gods green earth have you gotten that good at guitar, like seriously; i truly would kill to play like you and i was hoping you could give me some insight on what practice looked like for a younger paul to get to where you are now
What a lovely comment! Thanks man. The best way to answer this is probably to refer you to a wee video I did a while back, callled “my life story so far” ua-cam.com/video/iTBzaeqLbi0/v-deo.htmlsi=X-nesrPFkNhDqqyO. Hope this helps 😊
Nice mash-up intro Paul.👌
For someone who doesn't have a lot of use for music theory, you sure use it a lot!😂
Couldn't help myself.🤪😂🤣
I agree, for Dan or anyone developing their basic skills of clean, clear, and smooth playing, theory is quite irrelevant.
The most important things to know in the beginning and intermediate learning stages of guitar or any musical development are the basic understandings of how the music moves and exactly how does the musician develop methods and means of making that happen.
The obvious basics are learning the notes and chords along the entire fretboard on the guitar. This in itself tends to overwhelm many players because if you just look up the chords in a book, they only list the primary position.
I suggest that people start by learning all of the notes on the low E string starting at the nut because you learn several key bits of information right away.
#1 The open note is the low E note, #2 The very first fret is the F note, also a key to the note and chord flow of order such as fret, fret, skip a fret, also one of the reasons the fret markers are on frets 3, 5, 7, 9, 12. #3 Is F# and the recognition of the half step or semi tone, as well as Major and minor. #5 Is G and the whole step or full tone, skip a fret, and the basic structure of how the fret board works with notes and chords.
Of course there is so much more to it all, but learning to identify some of these fundamental keys will actually begin to help open up so many more avenues and possibilities for making music.🍻🤙
What's the name of your UA-cam channel so we can just go there for guitar lessons?
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Interestingly enough Mike, I deliberately did not post any videos here on UA-cam after the Alphabet Company, more famously known as Google shut down the Google Plus platform. At the time my channel had 1.67 million followers and they just shut it all down. I have had no intention of ever producing any other content for this company and yet you have just literally caused me to reconsider.
This is still my original channel name minus the random numbers which Google arbitrarily assigned me. I am actually the original gwbuilder from the beginning of Google.
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Mike, what level of guitar player do you consider yourself to be?
@@gwbuilder5779 Never good enough
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The reason I ask is, once you reach the place where you can make music, the journey is discovering your own techniques, sounds, rhythms, and styles.
The journey is life long and full of ruts, bad habits, and pit falls, but that's where we learn to steal the ideas of others like Paul, Tom Bukovac. Robin Ford, Billy Gibbons, Johnny Cash, Slash, Eric Clapton, or whoever your favorite players are and add their tools to your skills and abilities.
I am considering the types of things mentioned by Paul and the fundamentals that provide a solid foundation for anyone to be confident enough to use their skills to begin to copy and lick out the licks and tricks of others.
There are a million channels out there that tell you how to play like so and so or such and such. In fact many of the star players actually teach you how they play.
If I were to post content, it would literally start from the beginning and show all of the things I've discussed here and expand a step at a time. I definitely wouldn't teach how to play certain things, but rather how to be a musician and find your own way.
Great playing and sweet tone. What amp and pedals are you using? Thanks
Thanks 👍. This was my Cornell Romany 12, which is my favourite amp. Reverb was courtesy of Strymon Flint. On the jazzmaster clip I added a JHS Emperor (pitch shifting vibrato). And for a very occasional bit of feedback I stood on the
Digitech Freq-out. The looper was my
NUX JTC Drum & Looper 👍
Yeah, TOUCH
My finger accidentally clicked on this video while holding the phone without due care and attention. What a happy accident!
Well I’m glad you kept watching. Cheers 🍻
Check out interval runs up and down a single string. Vary the spacings and note the different feel of each combination.
Good tip Paul 👍
Sounds so cool...
Why, I'll wager you could coax a snake out of a basket (!)
Thank you Jonny, I should give that a try 🤣
does the romany sound good at low volume like 75db? is the power scaling good?
Hi John. I’d go one better than that, and say that its ability to sound good at low volume (and the power scaling) is the absolute highlight of this amp. I’m always at bedroom volume and it’s just the warmest, woody-est tone. I just love this amp.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 thank you! i think it will be my next amp
Exotic scales the way to go 🤘
I think you have a point with music notation. It's supposed to tell you what someone was doing when they played a peice of music, but not to tell you how to play the music - that should always be down to the musician who is playing it. Obviously that could be a bit different if it's an orchestra and they're actually supposed to be playing exactly the same thing but it's not something solo guitar players need to worry about 🙂
Sir, feels good seeing you after a long time 😊 what band did you play?
Thanks Jim. Our band was called Rooster and we played in the central belt of Scotland between ‘91 and ‘06. Fantastic memories and I learned so much.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 thank you 🙏
Ye stopped at the 2min mark just as you're getting into the juice. Aaargh.
Thanks rewtaah, I should continue working on that.
Cool man.cool music.goblygoop.