in the seventies I heard a band cover this tune...an outside venue... they we're real freaks and they did an immaculate version of this... loved it ever since... They did southern man too.. they were named Beaver Creek... Funny the things you remember ey??? thanks for the show!
Another great job, Mark! I like to play the opening riff by coming out of the D5 shape and then into fretting a F major 7 chord and then a C chord to get those notes. I haven't listened to the song for a while but it seems to me that on the second run-through of the riff he ends by playing the A, D, and G strings of a C voicing--not sure, though!
Thanks! To me it sounds like open voicings, but you should always play it how *you* like it. Here's Neil playing at Farm Aid. He plays it open-voiced here, which suggests he might have done so originally too ... for what it's worth. (Get it? 😀) ua-cam.com/video/o106BuPR4B8/v-deo.html
Live Stream tomorrow (Sunday Dec 15 at 12:00 noon Eastern US). I'm doing Q & A and a little Sunday Improv. Good times! ua-cam.com/video/ZbquKjugkWA/v-deo.html
Hey Mark! Tin soldiers, and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own.. Good jam to loop, and play along... Thanks so much.. Have a very Merry Christmas...
Good lesson. You mention he plays a couple extra notes here and there, accidentally most likely. At the time, I dont think Neil was concerned about making it perfect as he was wanting to get his message out against the Kent State events. He wanted the message out fast, the song was written and recorded and was played across the radio all with 10 days
Good morning Mark and all! Mark, I never get tired of listening to your vibrato. I find myself always waiting for it. I've been curious. What of the new job and are you playing shows again? Love you man, have a lovely Saturday😁😁😁
My 2 cents: maybe add the word lesson or guitar lesson somewhere into the thumbnail as I scrolled past this video many times without realizing it was a lesson. Many people are like me and put much more focus on the thumbnail than the title of the video. Good lesson though!
Great question! Not sure. Probably wasn't. I'd guess this was an improvised take. Stills was/is an intuitive player. Honestly, I enjoy this more than the "perfect" but sterile stuff that's the standard of today. Plenty of good music today, but that's one thing I miss - the freshness of The Band or The Stones or CSNY or so many of them.
Neil young was not grunge at all. Not even close. He was more folk rock. Grunge is an evolution from the old punk and metal styles from seattle. Its so different from grunge its not even close as far as guitar theory is concerned....
Neil's career has been all over the place actually. True, his first hits in the 60s were marrying folk and rock. But his 1979 work (E.g., Rust Never Sleeps, side 1) were certainly what we'd call grunge today, and the lyrics were often punk-like (E.g, "Welfare Mothers"). And obviously "Rockin' In A Free World" helped kick off grunge and earned him the "Godfather of Grunge" moniker ... I know Cobain also gets this moniker. Guitar theory/sound? Just check out side 1 of Rust Never Sleeps (1979) and Tagged Glory (1990) and to see whether think it sounds grunge like. If you really want to see where Neil went in his career, check out Trans and Everybody's Rockin'. But they're not grunge - or folk rock.
I hate what nirvana and pearljam did to grunge.... Grunge was never meant to go mainstream. All the bands looked down upon mainstreaming grunge. And thats because grunge is an offshoot of punkrock and was against the establishment. Because of nirvana and pearljam. Noone knows the true history of grunge unless u were there. Yes neil young was an influence on PJ and Cobain and he even has the unearned title of godfather of grunge. But thats an impossibility because grunge could only be created in seattle. Fact if you had a grunge band not from seattle and u played a show there stating u were grunge and not just punk or rock. Bands used to fuck you up over it. It was a crazy drug fueled no give a shits time.... younge was just an influence on some of these artists thats all. He was not grunge.
I must've blotted that out of my memory, because I have no recollection of it. Do you remember his reasoning? I'm sure there was something behind it, because it seems odd.
@@MarkZabel Yes, he said something like "I like some of his policies, and I think he is a good man". I actually stopped listening to Neil for about 20 years after that, I was so shocked. I remember that it was the front page story of either the 'Melody Maker' or 'NME' the last year or so that I lived in the U.K.. Neil also said in that article that the person who gave him the hardest time about that was his then wife, Peggi. If you do a search using the key words "neil young ronald reagan", you can read all about it.
@@drutgat2 Wow. That's shocking. I'll read a bit when I have a chance. I've always liked Neil Young and his music. I liked how he stood up to David Geffen, liked how he changed his musical skin so often, love the simplicity of his songs and the earthiness of his laconic and often poetic lyrics. But this is disappointing certainly. All I can think is that none of us are truly integral in our lives and that this is an incongruity. I'll give it some thought and read a bit.
Hi John. It was only CSN at Woodstock, and this is Neil's song, so I'm sure that's why they didn't do it ... although they played Sea of Madness, which is Neil's tune. Also, they played Find The Cost Of Freedom, which is the flip side of this.
@@kitano0 Thanks for the information! So that's right on the timeline ... they must've written Find The Cost of Freedom earlier. I had no idea about Neil's refusal to be filmed, but it's totally in character for him! Here's a little footage of him playing with Stills on Mr Soul. Supposedly this is Woodstock footage. Cool either way. ua-cam.com/video/SNEQMj7H834/v-deo.html
Good morning Mark and all! Mark, I never get tired of listening to your vibrato. I find myself always waiting for it. I've been curious. What of the new job and are you playing shows again? Love you man, have a lovely Saturday😁😁😁
Good morning David! Always great to hear from you and hope life is treating you and your family well. Thanks so much for the kind comments. The new job is going pretty well and I'm getting a better work/life balance than before. Right now I'm just trying to get to know some of the musicians in my area. Hopefully I'll ease into playing next year. Folk and roots rock are big around my neck of the woods, so if all goes well you'll see more acoustic next year on the channel. Thanks for the love! Right back at you! 😀
bien todo . interpretas bien pero , necesito la partitura si puedes por favor publicala junto con tus lecciones gracias.
Had to learn this on this tragic anniversary. Top notch once again, Mark, thanks!
Thanks Martin! And thanks for reminding me of the date - 51 years ago - May 4 1970. Seems so long ago.
in the seventies I heard a band cover this tune...an outside venue... they we're real freaks and they did an immaculate version of this... loved it ever since... They did southern man too.. they were named Beaver Creek... Funny the things you remember ey???
thanks for the show!
Yeah, funny things. But I'd remember that too. Sounds like a good time!
@@MarkZabel oh it was... you know it waz!!! lol
Hi Mark. I have wanted to learn this riff for many years. You have made my weekend Love the gold top and the beard! Cheers mate!
Thanks brother! Glad I could help!!
Solid lesson..I like your delivery and tempo, too...I'm gonna comb through your whole channel now!:)
Thanks! Take your time and enjoy!
Another great job, Mark! I like to play the opening riff by coming out of the D5 shape and then into fretting a F major 7 chord and then a C chord to get those notes. I haven't listened to the song for a while but it seems to me that on the second run-through of the riff he ends by playing the A, D, and G strings of a C voicing--not sure, though!
Thanks! To me it sounds like open voicings, but you should always play it how *you* like it. Here's Neil playing at Farm Aid. He plays it open-voiced here, which suggests he might have done so originally too ... for what it's worth. (Get it? 😀) ua-cam.com/video/o106BuPR4B8/v-deo.html
@@MarkZabel Cool! You should do the complete solo, too!
Sounds good!
Live Stream tomorrow (Sunday Dec 15 at 12:00 noon Eastern US). I'm doing Q & A and a little Sunday Improv. Good times! ua-cam.com/video/ZbquKjugkWA/v-deo.html
A timely number.
Thanks!
Hey Mark! Tin soldiers, and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own.. Good jam to loop, and play along... Thanks so much.. Have a very Merry Christmas...
Thanks Bruce! Merry Christmas to you too!
Good lesson. You mention he plays a couple extra notes here and there, accidentally most likely. At the time, I dont think Neil was concerned about making it perfect as he was wanting to get his message out against the Kent State events. He wanted the message out fast, the song was written and recorded and was played across the radio all with 10 days
Cool, thanks!
Thank you for the great lesson!
My pleasure!
Good morning Mark and all! Mark, I never get tired of listening to your vibrato. I find myself always waiting for it. I've been curious. What of the new job and are you playing shows again? Love you man, have a lovely Saturday😁😁😁
I think this was an accidental double, but I'm gonna give it some love anyway, 'cause it deserves double! 😀
Nice and slow…..PERFECT
Thanks Michael!
great style 🎸🤘👍🎼
cheerss
😀🎼🎵 Thanks!
@@MarkZabel you welcome 🤘🎸👍🎼
This was great, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tone on this one Mark!
Thanks Mark!
My 2 cents: maybe add the word lesson or guitar lesson somewhere into the thumbnail as I scrolled past this video many times without realizing it was a lesson. Many people are like me and put much more focus on the thumbnail than the title of the video. Good lesson though!
Thanks.
I wonder was the D# intentional on the record?
Great question! Not sure. Probably wasn't. I'd guess this was an improvised take. Stills was/is an intuitive player. Honestly, I enjoy this more than the "perfect" but sterile stuff that's the standard of today. Plenty of good music today, but that's one thing I miss - the freshness of The Band or The Stones or CSNY or so many of them.
@@MarkZabel I laugh at myself for slavishly reproducing it, but if it was a mistake, you could say it has become an iconic one by this point!
Neil is the king of grunge before there was grunge.
You got that right!
Neil young was not grunge at all. Not even close. He was more folk rock. Grunge is an evolution from the old punk and metal styles from seattle. Its so different from grunge its not even close as far as guitar theory is concerned....
xDVSx xONEx Guitar theory? Are you joking? You seem to forget Neil plays electric guitar. Pearl Jam has even played with him.
Neil's career has been all over the place actually. True, his first hits in the 60s were marrying folk and rock. But his 1979 work (E.g., Rust Never Sleeps, side 1) were certainly what we'd call grunge today, and the lyrics were often punk-like (E.g, "Welfare Mothers"). And obviously "Rockin' In A Free World" helped kick off grunge and earned him the "Godfather of Grunge" moniker ... I know Cobain also gets this moniker.
Guitar theory/sound? Just check out side 1 of Rust Never Sleeps (1979) and Tagged Glory (1990) and to see whether think it sounds grunge like.
If you really want to see where Neil went in his career, check out Trans and Everybody's Rockin'. But they're not grunge - or folk rock.
I hate what nirvana and pearljam did to grunge.... Grunge was never meant to go mainstream. All the bands looked down upon mainstreaming grunge. And thats because grunge is an offshoot of punkrock and was against the establishment. Because of nirvana and pearljam. Noone knows the true history of grunge unless u were there. Yes neil young was an influence on PJ and Cobain and he even has the unearned title of godfather of grunge. But thats an impossibility because grunge could only be created in seattle. Fact if you had a grunge band not from seattle and u played a show there stating u were grunge and not just punk or rock. Bands used to fuck you up over it. It was a crazy drug fueled no give a shits time.... younge was just an influence on some of these artists thats all. He was not grunge.
Love this song, Mark. I could never get over that the man who wrote this song (Neil Young) subsequently became a Ronald Reagan supporter.
I must've blotted that out of my memory, because I have no recollection of it. Do you remember his reasoning? I'm sure there was something behind it, because it seems odd.
@@MarkZabel Yes, he said something like "I like some of his policies, and I think he is a good man". I actually stopped listening to Neil for about 20 years after that, I was so shocked. I remember that it was the front page story of either the 'Melody Maker' or 'NME' the last year or so that I lived in the U.K..
Neil also said in that article that the person who gave him the hardest time about that was his then wife, Peggi.
If you do a search using the key words "neil young ronald reagan", you can read all about it.
@@drutgat2 Wow. That's shocking. I'll read a bit when I have a chance. I've always liked Neil Young and his music. I liked how he stood up to David Geffen, liked how he changed his musical skin so often, love the simplicity of his songs and the earthiness of his laconic and often poetic lyrics. But this is disappointing certainly. All I can think is that none of us are truly integral in our lives and that this is an incongruity. I'll give it some thought and read a bit.
Did they play that at Woodstock? Interesting song from the past.
Hi John. It was only CSN at Woodstock, and this is Neil's song, so I'm sure that's why they didn't do it ... although they played Sea of Madness, which is Neil's tune. Also, they played Find The Cost Of Freedom, which is the flip side of this.
@@MarkZabel Mark, Neil did play at Woodstock, he just wasn't in the movie. Also the Kent State Massacre was in 1970.
Love the channel !
@@kitano0 Thanks for the information! So that's right on the timeline ... they must've written Find The Cost of Freedom earlier. I had no idea about Neil's refusal to be filmed, but it's totally in character for him! Here's a little footage of him playing with Stills on Mr Soul. Supposedly this is Woodstock footage. Cool either way. ua-cam.com/video/SNEQMj7H834/v-deo.html
Cool guitar.
The junior.
What? You don't like the LP?? 😀
Please do a guitar lesson for maybe and kozmic blues by janis joplin pleeeeeeeease man please please please pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaase
Sure, I'll do one of those. I like those blues with a slightly more nuanced harmony.
I'd love to learn the rest of it
I'll probably do the rest at some point.
Do it by ear, he basically showed you all the notes used for all the lead guitar throughout the song
Im learning this in honor of Neil Young telling Spotify to f@#k off.
He still has it! (Joni too!)
Nice Mark !!
Thanks!!
How can you run, when you know?
Mark, you need more guitars.
Love it! "Mark, you need more guitars." I'm saving this comment for evidence! 😀
Good morning Mark and all! Mark, I never get tired of listening to your vibrato. I find myself always waiting for it. I've been curious. What of the new job and are you playing shows again? Love you man, have a lovely Saturday😁😁😁
Good morning David! Always great to hear from you and hope life is treating you and your family well. Thanks so much for the kind comments. The new job is going pretty well and I'm getting a better work/life balance than before. Right now I'm just trying to get to know some of the musicians in my area. Hopefully I'll ease into playing next year. Folk and roots rock are big around my neck of the woods, so if all goes well you'll see more acoustic next year on the channel. Thanks for the love! Right back at you! 😀