Richie Blackmore was the reason I started learning guitar. He's also the reason that my 1st 'real' guitar was a strat. Thanks for the lesson! More Blackmore would be great! 👍🏻
Great lesson ! Blackmore is still my favorite player since I discovered him in 1974 .. he still blows my mind, his compositions, his solos, his riffs .. his Rainbow years with a classical approach are awesome co-writing with Ronnie James Dio are FANTASTIC. Gates Of Babylon is a MASTERPIECE
Blackmore is a superb guitarist, probably my favourite Rock player. When I saw Rainbow in 1980 I was really surprised by the amount of slide he plays. He swaps between slide & fingers so smoothly.
In 1995 I was living in West L.A. and I happened to luck out and get a pass to Blackmore's new show at The Key Club in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. I had an extra ticket to the show. Turns out nobody wanted to go with so I went anyway, and had a great time.They were in top notch form. Ritchie's precision guitar playing was spot on.Definitely worth going ! 😃Good times.
Blackmore is cruelly underrated, he should be spoken of in the same breath as Page, Clapton, Beck, and Hendrix, IMO. He's actually my favorite of the old school rock guys who collectively more or less defined the genre of rock (as evolved from 40's - 50's Rock 'n' Roll).
What I always liked about Ritchi's playing style is that he dusted off classical music to reinterpret it and combine it with rock music in a unique way... simply fantastic ❤
What he did was he actually accommodated keyboard style playing to his guitar, courtesy of John Lord. Ritchie found it very challenging to play Lord's Hammond progressions and he always loved the challenge. Of course, his love for classical music resonates in some tracks but his unorthodox approach to playing was influenced great deal by Lord's playing. That's where DP never sounds like DP when Blackmore wasn't in it. It was just a different band with the same name.
Absolutely Some More Blackmore. 😉👍 @RobertBakerGuitar Love Your Style Of Teaching. I've Seen Most Of All Your Video's & All I Have To Say is Thank You! It's Quite A Pleasure To Watch & Listen To What You Put Foward.You Sir 🫵😉 Are a Inspiration! 🙏🤘❤️
Blackmore is no joke. I play in a Dio tribute band in San Diego. We have 2 guitar players to get the studio sound of the songs. We play Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio songs. The other guitar player in the band plays the solo career leads and I play the Sabbath and Rainbow leads. We are currently working on Kill The King to add to the setlist. This is one of the hardest songs I've ever worked out. If you get a chance, give it a listen. You'll see what I mean. Love your channel Robert.
Where in San Diego do you guys play? I'd love to see you. Deep Purple songs are not easy to play correctly at all. Heard many bands who covered some of DP songs and like you say, its not easy.
@@darandeyoe thank You. I'm currently in Europe until the end of October, if you have any dates in November, let me know. I'd really love to see you, guys, maybe even chat. (Big fan of classic Purple, John Lord was the only keyboard player I ever tried to emulate). Thank You for your reply.
Richie's solos are so freaking tasty! Not always the easiest to get down but not impossible either. It's impressive speed but not out of control. And soooo melodic too. Everything off "Burn", "Difficult To Cure", "Perfect Strangers" I could listen to over and over. Special nod to "Spanish Archer" as well for ripping melodic leads. The man can play!
The first Blackmore solo I learned (although never perfected) was Burn. The first thing that struck me was his timing. He maintains a very bluesy timing to his soloing and I had to learn to just feel it out as opposed to being overly analytical
Ritchie Blackmore is the main reason I kept playing the guitar. Thanks for posting that Robert! Fireball, Machine Head, Made in Japan, His solo on Highway Star. especially the live version, from Made in Japan. And the list goes on.....
Of that generation, I like Uli Jon Roth. For today's players, Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschlager, formerly of Obscura. He does Paul Gilbert stuff on an aluminum neck fretless guitar and sometimes even uses an E-Bow with the fretless for a more legato, reed flute-like sound (the Obscura song "Weltseele.")
Forgotten man….but brilliant all the same. Everyone these days is obsessed with thirty second note arpeggios and stunt guitar. Richie just has feel….memorable solos and riffs are what matter not note counts
Saw Deep Purple in Jacksonville Florida in the early 70's with Blackmore. He had a ground buzz in his Marshall stack that was pissing him off to no end. He went behind the stack and tried to push it over one time and the roadies were doing their best to hold them up. The last song of the night he hit this chord and sailed a beautiful white Fender Stratocaster about twenty feet in the air. It hit the stage and he was already gone, Hahaha!!! The man has a temper. Russell.
Blackmore said in an old Guitar Player magazine interview that the difference between him and other British players is that he learned to use his pinky. Essentially, this is correct. (Jeff Beck also did this). It enabled him to play 7 and 8 note scales, where others weren’t doing so much at the time.
More Blackmore? Hell yeah! A good excuse to get yourself a Blackmore Strat, the scalloping is subtly different from that on the Malmsteen and being MIM it's relatively affordable.
Yeah, highway star took me a good year to figure out and get it to sound like the original, without extra gain to hide my mistakes (I learned about those a little further into the process
Lol. This is hilarious. I don't even have to try at this as one of the things I was obsessed with after the movie came out was learning the guitar parts from Crossroads, and many of the patterns were almost exact;ly like this.
Being a fan since I first heard Space Trucking as a kid I did seen the Rainbow show in Birmingham in 2015 , he was a bit older but hearing him live finally was special another great song was the circle with his Blackmore Night gig that's a terrific song and solo, great lesson also for practising set the metronome 195 bpm yikes , lol
Robert, this is rad! You must be an inside-picker because A) you played it real well and B) this is going to be a real pain-in-the-you-know-what for like 90% of even great guitar players! I call it "tripping over your strings" -- you're going to hit two places on your way up where you are stuck inside the D and G strings and have to decide what to do. Pick slanting and/or some luck will be REQUIRED! :) If you want to try more of these, check out Testament/Alex Skolnick's stuff on "The New Order" (1988). Specifically, "Trial By Fire" in the intro, he plays this nearly exact lick with a little variation and about 50% faster. I've been working on it for about a month. It's hard.
Blackmore iz more. I enjoy so much playing his songs. Burn and Gates of Babylon are definitely on my top-5 songs to play list. Only John Sykes can challenge him. I haven’t played this song but I promise to learn it.
Page, Clapton etc brought blues electric guitar into "hard rock". Blackmore brought classical music via the electric guitar into Rock. He's the inspiration for guitarists such as Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen etc and the "power metal" guitarists.
Saw Deep Purple in the 60's as a teenager. Saw all the great bands but none played longer than Deep Purple. I believe it was 1 am when I left them to get the last bus home.
Hi Robert. Australia calling. Love that southern drawl y'all have!! You can give me Blackmore fovever as he's my favourite guitarist bar none. How about the "solos" on Highway Star and Burn?? BTW check out Bach's tocatta and fugue in D minor for the Death Alley Driver riff and Sky's version of Tocatta for Ritchie's inspiration.
Not a song normally talked about when it comes to Blackmore, but the whole song is great. A little influenced by Skys Toccata maybe? Though that in tun maybe rooted in elsewhere in classical music.
This reminds me of Toccata done by Sky. I'm not sure if it is done in the late 70's or early 80's. Very cool video clip with close ups of all the musicians. Lots of fingerpicking during the piece, (stuff I'm not good at). The drummer reminds me of Velma from the Scooby Doo cartoons too. I hope you check it out Rob & I'm a big fan or Ritchie & You. Cheers.
Here's the thing about what Ritchie choose to play. The Harmonic minor is probably the 2nd most used scale in jazz after the Major scale. And to be honest the jazz guys stole it from the classical composers and adapted it to suit the jazz sound. It takes a little getting used to, but it can be mastered. I bet Blackmore was improvising over a chord chart when he recorded it.
A request 🙏 Gates Of Babylon from the Long Live Rockn Roll by Rainbow .. perhaps one of Blackmore's best guitar solos. Keep on ! Subscribed myself to your great channel 💪😎🎸🌈🎸💜
Richie Blackmore was the reason I started learning guitar. He's also the reason that my 1st 'real' guitar was a strat. Thanks for the lesson! More Blackmore would be great! 👍🏻
Great lesson ! Blackmore is still my favorite player since I discovered him in 1974 .. he still blows my mind, his compositions, his solos, his riffs .. his Rainbow years with a classical approach are awesome co-writing with Ronnie James Dio are FANTASTIC.
Gates Of Babylon is a MASTERPIECE
Yes. More Blackmore.
I've been a fan since In Rock.
Blackmore is a superb guitarist, probably my favourite Rock player. When I saw Rainbow in 1980 I was really surprised by the amount of slide he plays. He swaps between slide & fingers so smoothly.
In 1995 I was living in West L.A. and I happened to luck out and get a pass to Blackmore's new show at The Key Club in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. I had an extra ticket to the show. Turns out nobody wanted to go with so I went anyway, and had a great time.They were in top notch form. Ritchie's precision guitar playing was spot on.Definitely worth going ! 😃Good times.
Blackmore is cruelly underrated, he should be spoken of in the same breath as Page, Clapton, Beck, and Hendrix, IMO.
He's actually my favorite of the old school rock guys who collectively more or less defined the genre of rock (as evolved from 40's - 50's Rock 'n' Roll).
Amongst guitar players he is not underrated
He frequently is rated as being. in the same league. What order you put them in is a matter of personal preference.
He is not underrated in any way
I never thought he is underrated but I heard he’s very difficult. So that’s maybe why.
both criminally underrated and some of his is overrated , for instance nobody knows “king of dreams” but many know “smoke on the water”
What I always liked about Ritchi's playing style is that he dusted off classical music to reinterpret it and combine it with rock music in a unique way... simply fantastic ❤
What he did was he actually accommodated keyboard style playing to his guitar, courtesy of John Lord. Ritchie found it very challenging to play Lord's Hammond progressions and he always loved the challenge.
Of course, his love for classical music resonates in some tracks but his unorthodox approach to playing was influenced great deal by Lord's playing. That's where DP never sounds like DP when Blackmore wasn't in it. It was just a different band with the same name.
sounds like Bach's Toccata. Blackmore is awesome, always loved his playing
Love Blackmore! Try tackling the solos for either Stargazer or Gates of Babylon! Also, a very underrated slide player.
In Rock has some slide solo gems, and Fireball too. Stormbringer's got a lovely slide solo.
@@johnskerlec9663I loved that his slide playing, like his regular playing, wasn’t just the typical blues thing.
Absolutely Some More Blackmore. 😉👍
@RobertBakerGuitar
Love Your Style Of Teaching.
I've Seen Most Of All Your Video's & All I Have To Say is Thank You! It's Quite A Pleasure To Watch & Listen To What You Put Foward.You Sir 🫵😉 Are a Inspiration! 🙏🤘❤️
Blackmore is a LEGEND!!! A LOT of great songs and awesome tasty solos!
Blackmore is no joke. I play in a Dio tribute band in San Diego. We have 2 guitar players to get the studio sound of the songs. We play Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio songs. The other guitar player in the band plays the solo career leads and I play the Sabbath and Rainbow leads. We are currently working on Kill The King to add to the setlist. This is one of the hardest songs I've ever worked out. If you get a chance, give it a listen. You'll see what I mean. Love your channel Robert.
Where in San Diego do you guys play? I'd love to see you.
Deep Purple songs are not easy to play correctly at all. Heard many bands who covered some of DP songs and like you say, its not easy.
@mitsanut5869 we are playing Friday the 11th at Full Circle Saloon in Santee with Up The Irons. UTI is opening.
@@darandeyoe thank You. I'm currently in Europe until the end of October, if you have any dates in November, let me know. I'd really love to see you, guys, maybe even chat. (Big fan of classic Purple, John Lord was the only keyboard player I ever tried to emulate).
Thank You for your reply.
Do you play it with a thumb grip or normal power chords?
@@rimmersbryggeri I play thumb over the top
I have used this exact solo for speed building and two hand synchronization practices🙂
Me too
Subscribed. More Blackmore solo lessons please.
The solo(s) in "Strange Kind of Woman" are the most underrated solos ever. I was obsessed with this song for years, it's deceptively difficult.
Ritchie’s note choices are a little off the wall……. That’s why they are so great. He thinks outside the box!!!!
That opening lick is an excerpt of Toccata in Fugue in D minor
Richie's solos are so freaking tasty! Not always the easiest to get down but not impossible either. It's impressive speed but not out of control. And soooo melodic too. Everything off "Burn", "Difficult To Cure", "Perfect Strangers" I could listen to over and over. Special nod to "Spanish Archer" as well for ripping melodic leads. The man can play!
The first Blackmore solo I learned (although never perfected) was Burn. The first thing that struck me was his timing. He maintains a very bluesy timing to his soloing and I had to learn to just feel it out as opposed to being overly analytical
Ritchie Blackmore is the main reason I kept playing the guitar. Thanks for posting that Robert! Fireball, Machine Head, Made in Japan, His solo on Highway Star. especially the live version, from Made in Japan. And the list goes on.....
Made in Japan - imo the greatest live Album ever recorded! 💪
Ritchie is the reason I started playing in '74. The solo in "A200" off the "Burn" album is Epic.
Check out the solo to Gypsie's Kiss on Perfect Strangers. I think you'll dig it.
I can play it, slowly 😂
@@ukguitarnoodle nice! Some of Blackmore's best work IMO. Great album too.
Yes make more Blackmore lick lessons harmonic minor and phrygian dominant licks
That opening bit sounds heavily borrowed from Bach Toccata - keen classical fan was Blackmore
Same as Matt Bellamy in Plug in Baby… obviously both are classical music geeks 😅
Was thinking it sounded very Bach.
Love Blackmore Thanks Robert!
Blackmore is a genius! From Deep Purple to Rainbow, his guitar playing is legendary.
Blackmore is a monster player , one of our idols in the 70s & early 80s !!!
Very cool lesson. Peak Blackmore, for me, is Dio-era Rainbow 🎸
Thank you for finally doing Blackmore!
I am 59 now, Blackmore was my nr. One from 1978, what a giant in guitarslinger land till now! 🪨
Richie is awesome!!! Great solo. But what a great exercise. You're the best Robert, keep up the great work 🤘
To me, this song has always been a masterpiece. Particularly, this Bach-like interlude is just awesome. Thank you for the walkthrough, Robert!
Blackmore was ahead of his time and massively under rated.
Yeah, we want to see more!
Thanks for the Ritchie Blackmore solo lesson!! Appreciated.
Woah Incomparable Blackmore! .............. Thank you so much for the lesson Robert, really appreciated 🤘🎸
Great lesson! Please do a deep dive in the style Blackmore lesson pack. I'll buy it!
He always had tasteful solos that served the song and melody. Highly underrated, even with his current recognition.
Straight Between The Eyes is really underrated, nice to see it getting some love. 👌
Great lesson Rob! Great way to get out of the rut!!
Great lesson today Rob. Some Knocking At Your Back Door from Deep Purple would be a cool one. Take care ✌️💛🙏
Thanks. That was very straightforward and informative and seems very logical. Easy? Maybe not, but easy to follow. More Blackmore for sure!!
Great lesson Robert, thanks.
Great lesson I've always loved the Blackmore stuff all they way back to the beginning. Kentucky Woman.
Yup Richie is amazing , saw him with each band.
More Blackmore for sure, please! The rest of that solo (the difficult bit!) would be a good start! 🤘
🎸Luv Blackmore ! Rainbow was awesome! And luv this lesson ! Just what I needed !🎸
Now you’ve acknowledged Blackmore is underrated, hopefully we’ll see a lot more Blackmore inspired lessons?
Awesome! Thanks!
Of that generation, I like Uli Jon Roth.
For today's players, Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschlager, formerly of Obscura. He does Paul Gilbert stuff on an aluminum neck fretless guitar and sometimes even uses an E-Bow with the fretless for a more legato, reed flute-like sound (the Obscura song "Weltseele.")
Forgotten man….but brilliant all the same. Everyone these days is obsessed with thirty second note arpeggios and stunt guitar. Richie just has feel….memorable solos and riffs are what matter not note counts
Thanx I like that Everytime I learn black more riff I get the excited feeling I got in sevent fiveish
Saw Deep Purple in Jacksonville Florida in the early 70's with Blackmore. He had a ground buzz in his Marshall stack that was pissing him off to no end. He went behind the stack and tried to push it over one time and the roadies were doing their best to hold them up. The last song of the night he hit this chord and sailed a beautiful white Fender Stratocaster about twenty feet in the air. It hit the stage and he was already gone, Hahaha!!! The man has a temper. Russell.
Blackmore said in an old Guitar Player magazine interview that the difference between him and other British players is that he learned to use his pinky. Essentially, this is correct. (Jeff Beck also did this). It enabled him to play 7 and 8 note scales, where others weren’t doing so much at the time.
His vibrato is incredible. Ever tried playing the keyboard guitar harmony from A Light In The Black? Impossible 😂
The original neoclassical shredder
Damn you, now you've pushed me to learn this entire solo come Hell or high water!
Death alley driver has always been one of my favorite solos! The solo from Stone Cold is pretty damn good as well. Thanks for this one.
Mahalo, Richie is such a bad ass!
Cool i did this tune live back in the 80s awesome but i did the solo starting at the 12th fret a string and worked down🙂
One of the finest guitarists to ever move our souls.
@RobertBaker Man On The Silver Mountain what an opening riff good one to explore!!!!!!
Ritchie Blackmore was my first guitar hero 💥❤️🔥🎸💯🤘🏼
6:37 That also sounds like the intro to the song “Soldier of Fortune”, which was played on acoustic guitar.
More Blackmore? Hell yeah!
A good excuse to get yourself a Blackmore Strat, the scalloping is subtly different from that on the Malmsteen and being MIM it's relatively affordable.
thanx man
Tried one those at guitar Center I was pulling everything sharp due to the scallops definitely would take getting used to 😎🙉
LOVE Blackmore...! would love some note for note solo lessons - especially anything off of "Machine Head"...! ;-)
Yes, more Blackmore, please!
Yeah, highway star took me a good year to figure out and get it to sound like the original, without extra gain to hide my mistakes (I learned about those a little further into the process
Lol. This is hilarious. I don't even have to try at this as one of the things I was obsessed with after the movie came out was learning the guitar parts from Crossroads, and many of the patterns were almost exact;ly like this.
Being a fan since I first heard Space Trucking as a kid I did seen the Rainbow show in Birmingham in 2015 , he was a bit older but hearing him live finally was special another great song was the circle with his Blackmore Night gig that's a terrific song and solo, great lesson also for practising set the metronome 195 bpm yikes , lol
Yes Robert, please teach us some more Blackmore.
Does that guitar really help with light touch thx
The trick here is to keep your hand relaxed. Blood brilliant lesson
Robert, this is rad! You must be an inside-picker because A) you played it real well and B) this is going to be a real pain-in-the-you-know-what for like 90% of even great guitar players! I call it "tripping over your strings" -- you're going to hit two places on your way up where you are stuck inside the D and G strings and have to decide what to do. Pick slanting and/or some luck will be REQUIRED! :)
If you want to try more of these, check out Testament/Alex Skolnick's stuff on "The New Order" (1988). Specifically, "Trial By Fire" in the intro, he plays this nearly exact lick with a little variation and about 50% faster. I've been working on it for about a month. It's hard.
Blackmore was the first to utilize Sweep Picking, yes?
This solo is basically a variation on Hall of the mountain king a song he later recorded with rainbow.
It was cool. Sure! More Blackwell..👍
Rock on dude
Blackmore iz more. I enjoy so much playing his songs. Burn and Gates of Babylon are definitely on my top-5 songs to play list. Only John Sykes can challenge him. I haven’t played this song but I promise to learn it.
I wish they would ban the term underrated! It's an insult to use in the same sentence as Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie is # 1 in my mind.
Page, Clapton etc brought blues electric guitar into "hard rock". Blackmore brought classical music via the electric guitar into Rock. He's the inspiration for guitarists such as Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen etc and the "power metal" guitarists.
More Blackmore please. Rainbow Rising, Long Live R&R, Down to Earth
Saw Deep Purple in the 60's as a teenager.
Saw all the great bands but none played longer than Deep Purple.
I believe it was 1 am when I left them to get the last bus home.
Hi Robert. Australia calling. Love that southern drawl y'all have!! You can give me Blackmore fovever as he's my favourite guitarist bar none. How about the "solos" on Highway Star and Burn?? BTW check out Bach's tocatta and fugue in D minor for the Death Alley Driver riff and Sky's version of Tocatta for Ritchie's inspiration.
Not a song normally talked about when it comes to Blackmore, but the whole song is great. A little influenced by Skys Toccata maybe? Though that in tun maybe rooted in elsewhere in classical music.
Hey Robert, you should make a Ritchie Blackmore course.
The man is a genius
This reminds me of Toccata done by Sky. I'm not sure if it is done in the late 70's or early 80's. Very cool video clip with close ups of all the musicians. Lots of fingerpicking during the piece, (stuff I'm not good at). The drummer reminds me of Velma from the Scooby Doo cartoons too. I hope you check it out Rob & I'm a big fan or Ritchie & You. Cheers.
Gates of Babylon is a great solo
Would you consider doing the rest of the Death Ally driver solo mate.
Here's the thing about what Ritchie choose to play. The Harmonic minor is probably the 2nd most used scale in jazz after the Major scale. And to be honest the jazz guys stole it from the classical composers and adapted it to suit the jazz sound. It takes a little getting used to, but it can be mastered. I bet Blackmore was improvising over a chord chart when he recorded it.
It's not,melodic minor is far more used in jazz particularly over dominant sevenths
The Man in Black! The original influencer!
Please do some Uli Roth era Scorpions next, he took this stull to yet another level, way before Yngwie. More Blackmore too!
Ah, Death Alley Driver is an awesome song!
More Blackmore
That’s cool.
Let Robert cook !
Hey Robert..Cool guitar..what year and model? Thanks
Yngwie Malmsteen signature Fender Stratocaster.
A request 🙏 Gates Of Babylon from the Long Live Rockn Roll by Rainbow .. perhaps one of Blackmore's best guitar solos. Keep on ! Subscribed myself to your great channel 💪😎🎸🌈🎸💜