How to Play "Dig A Pony" (The Beatles) Guitar Lesson
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2015
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I got a number of requests for this one. IMHO it doesn't get much better than this. A great band (the best!), a great riff, cool chords a super-melodic solo with a truly awesome note sitting in it. I go through all of it ... riffs, chords, fills and solo. So the words are nonsensical. I'll let them slide on that. I still dig a pony!!!
#beatles #getbackbeatles #getbackthebeatles
A very enjoyable tutorial.
Even throwaway tunes by the Beatles are well worth studying and rewarding to practise.
Indeed, they can even pick a discarded tune out of their wastepaper basket ("Now And Then") and turn it into an international smash hit fifty years later!
There are lots of gems in this one, not least George's superb solo and his delicious little fills throughout the track.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
0:32 Daan that is just sooo good!
Yeah, it's a sweet lick for sure!
What is really amazing is that they did all these fabulous songs before age 30 !
Before they hit thirty ... WOW ! Busy lads ...
Shows just how important Harrison was with those embellishments he played behind Lennon's basic chord structures.
No doubt. One of the best rock players ever. Doesn't get nearly enough credit. Super blues/jazz Robben Ford thinks so too!
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! 2 thumbs up and a Pick! Love it - Thank you!
Thanks Ken! Any suggestions for other songs you would like?
I just watched you played for the whole time honestly! So intriguing!
Thanks!!
Excellent breakdown!
Thank you!
amazing! thanks for that...really learned to play watching your video!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching and for the kind comment too!
Thanks a lot! You play well and explain things nicely.
Thanks!!
How Amazing what a creation.
Thanks ... great song with the multiple guitar parts.
So cool Mark, love that blue note he hits in the solo. I grew up listening to my older brother's Beatles records and I dig A Pygmy is one of my favorite songs.
+imunchienandalusia Yeah, me too. My cousin always told me it was a "filler" song, but I've always loved the feel. In one sense this is a totally ordinary rock song, but it's constructed in a unique way with multiple parts. And you're right, it's a very cool performance on that song too. Thanks for listening!!
Now, that's the way it's played!
+Don Tripp Thanks Don!
Well you sound great! You really caught a spirite of this
Thanks!!
Good job. And nice lesson. Thanks
Chris Miller Thanks Chris!
Great lesson. When you break it down this way, it really makes one appreciate the genius of the Beatles. And to think that they were playing on a cold rooftop, angry with each other, about to break up, and on a song that Lennon claimed was a piece of crap. It hurts to think all the great music they could have created if they had just hung on another couple of years.
Yes, couldn't agree more about The Beatles. There's a reason they were at the top for so long and their music still stands up. Even a "piece of crap" (as Lennon put it) was golden for nearly anyone else. Thanks for watching and commenting.
... or another couple of
DECADES !!!!!
Awesome
Thanks!
great lesson, thanks
Thanks for watching and commenting too!
Hi Mark, I absolutely love this arrangement you've done, can't wait to learn it, it sounds great, love the false start lol, many thanks for doing this lesson, really helps people like me, eager to learn the Beatles tunes with not enough musical knowledge to work out what they are doing lol. Cheers.
Darren McNally Ha! Thanks Darren. You're the only one I know who noticed the false start (complete with the 3 sniffs), so I definitely appreciate that.
Hey, what other Beatles tunes would you like to have broken down?
Lol, cheers Mark, yea was another reason why I loved your lesson, such attention to detail for a Beatle nut like me lol. Where to start, there are so many I'd love to be able to play, one I have been listening to lately and have always loved is 'some other guy' on the live at the BBC album that has the lead solo on it, think as it was the only one that they have footage of of the Beatles playing live at the Cavern where it all started before they went on to bring out all the other classic songs we know and love and it's a real rocker, it's always been one of my favorites, so I would love to be able to learn that if you had the time, many thanks for your kind offer and for replying to my comment.
All the best
Darren
Darren McNally All great suggestions! Thanks.
very nice!
Thanks Tom!
And i come to find out I've been playing it wrong all along... Great lesson man!
Thanks! (Sorry I missed your comment earlier ... glad you found the video helpful!)
Dig it!
Thanks Scot!
wow you cut your hair and look younger!! Just kidding I came over from the Get Back lesson. This album is one that I never really paid too much attention. But I am liking these songs more and more. This song along with I Me Mine is underrated in my opinion. Thanks for the lesson.
LOL! Good songs on Let It Be. Good guitar songs.
Great lesson! I squeezed acoustic and electric until I got it right following your video. Thanks from Paraguay. (must say I prefer G7 instead of G, though)
Thanks! Glad I could help. Yes, this is just a guide because of course there are multiple guitars on the song ... and it's really about finding your own way to do it the way that's right for you ... within reason!
Nice. I've always played the first G in the verse as a 7 and then resolve it to major the second time. Let me know what you think.
Yes, that should sound just fine. I like that!
I had a student with one of the original Melody Maker guitars. Really, really cool guitar. She could barely play, but I sure admired her guitar.
Ha! Hey, you're not saying I ... ?? :)
That was great, Mark. Don't know how I missed this one. How about doing George's guitar parts on the Rooftop version of 'One After 909'?
Okay!
Great. Thanks :)
I'm having a hard time bending strings without making noise on the ones above them. On the way up, they might spring over my nail, or on the way down, they will twang especially they string directly above the one I'm bending. Do you have any tips for this? Thank you for the video, it's awesome.
Thanks Michael. I appreciate the kind comment! I'm not 100% sure I'm understanding the issue you're having, so if I've misunderstood, please correct me! My understanding is that when, say, you're bending the 3rd string, your finger slides under the 4th, 5th and maybe 6th and when releasing the 4th might right out afterward.
I can't say I've had this problem - at least not for a while. First, make sure your guitar is set up properly. Take it to a pro if you haven't done this yourself before. If the action is very high it will be easier to slide your finger underneath. I play fairly lightly but bend quite a bit, so I set my action at a medium height and don't usually have the problem of sliding underneath the strings. Second, for the ringing out problem you can try muting the lower (4th, 5th, 6th strings in the case of bending the 3rd) strings. This is tricky though, because you don't want to mute the string you're bending! So maybe just mute as you release the bend, because that's the key moment you don't want to have the adjacent strings ring out.
yeah it's hard to explain. I guess I'm not sure which is proper bending technique. I'm guessing it's improper to slide my fingernail under the string I'm bending towards. So for example, if I'm bending the B string up at the 12th fret with my middle finger, if I angle my fingernail so that the tip is too shallow and it slides under the G string, that would be improper right? Or does it matter as long as it sounds good? It's usually not a problem going up but when going back down as the G string rolls off the edge of my middle finger's fingernail it can twang. So yeah, bad technique.
Other times when I don't choose to do it that way, and the angle of my fingernail is higher (in relation to the fretboard), while the angle of my knuckles is lower, the tip of the skin of my finger runs into the G string (since it's impossible to not touch the G string while bending the B towards it), I get some skin stuck in between the G and B strings but as the tension increases, the skin gets pushed out and the G string will twang.
That's ok if you can't understand my explanation, I should probably just show someone anyways.
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Thanks!
I struggle with that one particular verse fill. the second run with the sixths. over g and e. lol. ya know da one? anyway gonna go try ur way. Right now so thanks. watched some of ur stuff before. accurate and well taught thx
+Rick Hadden Thanks Rick. Yes, I find the specific way he does it somewhat non-intuitive. It took me a while to get it!
thanks for replying and YW its frustrating when i cant play on top of a rythym track but i see what you mean about the end of the lick landing on the downbeat of A ughh anyway thanks great song choices
How you doing Mark? My man of detail, love it and makes it sound perfect. The haircut makes you look alot younger..
LOL! Thanks, but it's the haircut and the 6 or 7 years turning back the clock. This video is from 2015. Ha! Thanks for watching brother!
@@MarkZabel oh you seen the movie coming huh.
@@douglaschristine8387 ha ha! No, I'm not a psychic. I just DIG A PONY! :)
your clean guitar tone is legit! you got like a clean drive on the that and what amp?
Thanks Brent! This was a long time ago, so I'm not 100% sure. Probably using a small solid state amp and running a modeler after it, like a Princeton Reverb. It's a small space, so the tube amps I had at that time couldn't be used (too loud!). I use a Blackstar HT5R now. Great clean sounds out of it. Thanks for watching!
@@MarkZabel yes! and thanks for breaking this song down. My first time to your channel. Stay Cool!
I Dig that Guitar, what is it please?
It's a 2008 Gibson Melody Maker. Very underrated in my opinion - and it's a bargain as far as Gibsons go. I've owned lots of guitars (too many!) and it's one of my top 3 or 4. Great neck on it. Great "growl" on the pickup. And I love the "minimalist" approach (one pickup, volume and tone ... that's it). You can't get every sound on it, but for Beatles, Stones, The Who or just that early 70's sound it's darn near perfect. And it's great for country too!
Thanks for the listen!
You've indicated at the 3 minute mark that you're hitting a couple of open strings and then refer to the 4th and 3rd strings as the open D and the open E; we all know the 3rd string is the G but I did find it confusing and wondering what kind of tuning you might have had on your guitar.
+Gerry MacLennan This is in standard tuning. Yes, open G, as you say. Sorry about that mix-up.
Is it possible that you write a tab sheet to follow like the one you did with Sun King? It'll be much appreciated.
Hi. Sorry I missed this earlier. I'll see if I can put up a tab sometime in the next few weeks.
now I can actually play the intro. the other way of playing where you slide your fingers I can't play that
Great! Glad you've got the opening down!
Once you get this intro down the slide version is easier to play. Part of the confusion with the rhythm is it's in 3/4 time so it's got more of a see-saw feeling.
best guitar sound of the many 'dig a pony' vids around here. But im an old man who likes guitars to sound like vibrating wires, magnets and speakr cones and not the emulsified output of varied tone-conditioners (you want to sound "professional" dont you?) ...oops-about to go into a rant there.
Wm Perry Thanks! And I agree with you on the sound. Somehow the richness of those recordings from that era is lost today. People play and listen to music, not robots. Did you like the false start? Hoped that would get a chuckle or two.
yeah, when i think "how should an electric guitar sound?" the fist thing comes to mind is Maxwell street in chicago on sundays=shit PA's made from cb radio rigs and amps made from car stereos played by actual blues guys- guys that were half drunk by 9am and had never PAID for a haircut in their life.
+ yeah that Al green pleading falsetto is too much fun. I'd forgotten how good the guitar isparticularily the solo parts you point out--they do so much mucical work-shoviing the chords and intervals into more unusual shapes (that prolly makes no sense, but it feels as if the lead notes are actually an alternate chord progression.
And though i didn't remember it i assumed the false start-sniff,sniff, was a quote from the original-it was right?
Yep, the sniffs too. You got it!
Show-off !! : )
:) Did you like the false start, like on the record?
Yes, wish i could play like that, u make it look so easy. I'll just practice the main riff. Thanks for the video.
Thanks. That first riff is super-cool though, so that's enough. Maybe you can tackle the rest of it later. Thanks for watching!
Melody Maker
Indeed.
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IS BUDDY KLONTZ YOUR DAD
LOL! Yeah, sure thing! :)
"Hammer-ons"???
(Music is like Chinese-algebra
for me ...)
LOL! If you're a guitar player, you need to know this right away. Here's a good video explaining what it is. ua-cam.com/video/v9xjT9zVVQU/v-deo.html
And as a mathematician, I can assure you math (and therefore algebra) works in China the same way it works in the USA or Germany! :)
Hello, cool lesson, your playing a little too fast.
Thanks John.
Mark Zabel