Steve Cropper Guitar Lesson
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
- Learn 10 songs by the undisputed king of R&B guitar, Steve Cropper (aka "The Colonel"!) In this lesson we're taking a deep dive through some of my all time favorite guitar riffs written by Steve. His no-nonsense, less is more approach to rhythm guitar playing literally laid the foundations for funk, and inspired generations of guitar players like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Peter Frampton and modern players like Tom Morello and Jack White, to name a few! During the 1960's he was a part of the house band at the legendary STAX Records in Memphis, Tennessee. He produced, engineered, wrote music for, and backed a never-ending list of Blues, Soul, and R&B artists like Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs, Eddie Floyd, Aretha Franklin, The Staples Singers, and Albert King. His career after STAX is incredible too, but for this lesson I wanted to focus on his early work. Maybe someday I will make a "Part 2" and look at some of his later stuff with The Blues Brothers and others. I hope learning these songs bring you as much joy as they have to me! Happy practicing everyone!
Download the FREE PDF file of this lesson at my website (includes standard notation and TABS). I painstakingly transcribed these myself so I hope they are helpful! Link here:
www.alexnaumanmusic.com/downloads
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Tune Timestamps:
"Time is Tight" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:01:18
"Boot-Leg" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:02:11
"Soul Limbo" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:02:41
"I Can Dig It" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:03:15
"Don't Mess With Cupid" (Otis Redding) 0:03:40
"Old Man Trouble" (Otis Redding) 0:03:55
"Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)" (Wilson Pickett) 0:04:28
"But It's Alright" (Eddie Floyd) 0:04:58
"Soul Man" (Sam & Dave) 0:05:21
"Born Under A Bad Sign" (Albert King) 0:05:50
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Never a note more than is needed, never less. Pure class. Thanks for sharing...
Excellent. Steve Cropper and Ry Cooder. Two under appreciated guitar slingers.
Steve Cropper is THE man.
GOAT status!!
now listening to a Steve Cropper playlist
This lesson is a gold mine! I am subscribing. So clearly presented.
Thanks for this GREAT lesson. This is indeed a gold mine!
Thanks for watching!! Happy jammin!
Thank you! can't wait to get home and try these sweet rhythmic licks
They're all so fun! Let me know how it goes!! Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Wow, great quality stuff. Thank you
Man, what a great video. Thank you for posting it!
Glad it was helpful! Cheers!
Amazing!!
very nice, all new riffs and licks for me, gonna have fun working on that. thank you!
Awesome! Happy Jammin'! Thanks for watching!!!
fantastic mate, thank you
You picked the best guitar to shine a light on!!!
Tele for life!!!
You are great ! Thank you 😎
AWESOME....
Great stuff my friend!
Thanks
Great stuff, a real tonic. Those riffs are dynomite!!
Thanks for watching! They are so fun to play! I hope they bring you some joy. Cheers!
I have a Squier Paranormal Offset Tele arriving today and this is exactly what I need to try it out. Thanks Alex.
Congrats on the new axe!! Happy jamming!
Soulful Steve! Great thanks
He's the BEST! Hope this was helpful. Cheers!
Great lesson, Alex. And these look to be playable by mere mortals!
Thanks! Tell Bill to get his Tele out!
Great video!
Great stuff, Alex ! Thanks a billion !!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for checking it out!!
Thanks ! This is awesome
Thank YOU for checking it out! Hope some of these are helpful! Cheers
Riff-meister...
Great!! 😍😍
Thank you! 😃
Great lesson!!!
Thank you for watching! Cheers! 🍻
time is tight love it. I wish I knew how to play guitar. First time hearing soul limbo, I can dig it, & 99 1/2 won't do 😃😃. I forgot soul man was his.
I can't play, but it seems to me he did not rely on blues standard riffs but designed his own style? Perhaps not the most complicated but so well put together?
Steve Cropper is a fantastic guitarist. Not a shredder or even a virtuoso, but you have to admit that he defined soul guitar and to a certain extent, funk guitar. You can hear his influence everywhere from The Meters' "Cissy Strut" to the recent Silk Sonic album.
He made Otis sound even greater.
@@lebe220 and Otis didn't need it. The greatest soul singer of all time in my mind. But, having the quintesential soul guitarist on those tracks just made it all better.
@@g.mantua1195 Yes, I still miss him. After all those years.
@@g.mantua1195 PS: I wish I could write some of the songs he would have written if he hadn´t died at such a young age (Dock of the Bay is a terrific song). But he might say bout my lyrics, like he did bout a Bob Dylan song: "Too wordy!"
I love it. Subscribed
Thanks for the support!
Great upload!
Thanks for watching!! Happy Jammin!
Awesome video, Alex! "Old Man Trouble" is such a killer guitar line--Yes!
Thanks for watching man!! appreciate it! Yeah, I was actually thinking about you the whole time I was charting that one out! haha. SO killer!!
Nice
I had NO IDEA that Steve Cropper played the riff in "Born Under a Bad Sign" - wow!
bangingggg
There’s a primordial Pixies sound
✌😎
I don’t think he ever recorded with Aretha before The Blues Brothers. Does anyone know?
Soul Limbo!
That tune grooves SO hard!!
Great video, thanks. But, how could you leave out Green Onions???
Thanks! I just figured most people probably knew it already haha! Cheers!
I have to say that this was excellent, but you played everything like you drank way too much coffee. It's soul music, baby. 😎
Just on thing: The Soul Man riffs and fills are played on the G and high E strings throughout the song, starting at the 5th fret. I've seen this in transcriptions, and I have confirmed this by watching videos, and having seen S.C. play it live. Hung out with him, Duck, and Booker T too.
Thank you just the same🙏🏻
So cool you got to hang with him!! Thanks for the feedback, just trying to help some people out! Thanks for watching and happy jamming!
@@AlexNaumanMusic 👍🏻
I'm a hardcore Steve Cropper fan. Here are ten of my favorite Booker T and the MG'S songs you should check out here on UA-cam to really get an idea of how great he is:
10) Cruisin'
9) Foxy Lady
8) Soul Man ( Booker T and the MG'S did an instrumental version of this after they recorded the original with Sam and Dave.
7) Can't Be Still
6) I Can't Stand The Rain
5) Mrs Robinson
4) Chicken Pox
3) Funky Broadway ( It's on Steve's first solo album from 1969 but the band is more or less Booker T and the MG'S)
2) Double Or Nothing
1) Scratch My Back
So much goodness! Thanks Tom!!! Cheers
Playin' my thang :D
@@baadtaste1337 Do you mean his solo album? I have it but I have to say I was very disappointed with it. Maybe I'll give it another listen.
I recommend the two albums he recorded with Felix Caveliere of the Rascals. Two excellent albums.
@@tomcarl8021 Was mostly thinking of the song, Playin' my thang - and ty for the video :D
The Original recording of "I Can't Stand The Rain" by Ann Peebles, was released and charted in 1973 by Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
It features their legendary house rhythm section of the Hodges Brothers, Teenie on guitar, Leroy on bass, and Charles on the Hammond B3. Steve Cropper was never a part of that session. If he ever played on a recording of I Can't Stand The Rain, it would have been a cover version by some other artist.
Anyone who has Steve Cropper lessons gets a subscribe in my book.
This comment made my day! Thanks so much for the support!! Happy jammin!
So odd that a white guy, Steve Cropper wrote the riff to Albert Kings signature song Born Under a Bad Sign and two more white guys wrote the song. Go figure.
Booker T. Jones and William Bell wrote 'Born Under a Bad Sign' both African American as was the immortal and sadly missed Al Jackson Jr who provided the impeccable drumming on it. The MG.'s own version of this song is pretty damn awesome too!
My apologies. Got the wrong info somewhere.
You will enjoy reading Peter Guralnick’s “ Sweet Soul Music” the definitive telling of the history of Southern Soul music.
For a surprisingly long time there was mutual respect and collaboration among black and white musicians in the Jim Crow South.
Great video!
Thanks! Hope it was helpful! Happy Jamming!