Sweet Home Alabama Guitar Lesson Pt.2 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - First Solo
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This is not gonna be your typical Sweet Home Alabama guitar lesson! In these video lessons I am gonna not only break every section of the song down note-for-note, but for any of you brave guitarists out there I am also gonna teach you how to play the piano solo on the guitar! :D
Needless to say, "Sweet Home Alabama" needs no introduction. It is probably one the of the top 5 most famous songs of all-time.
In the first video below I will demonstrate how to play all of the intro, chords and rhythm guitar parts that are so iconic for the entire song. There are some really cool guitar licks thrown within that chord work so that video alone might keep you busy for a while.
The second video begins the solo marathon. In it I while tackle the first short but sweet guitar solo. There are some tasty licks in this one so don't overlook it! In fact, learning this solo may serve as a nice warm-up for the following video lessons.
In the third lesson video I will tackle the main solo note-for-note. It actually isn't that difficult to understand how to play. Just simply piece it together phrase by phrase like I teach it in the video. I will also show you how I am picking select sections in order to help you be able to get it up to speed easier.
This would definitely be considered that main guitar solo in the song and it has just a little bit of everything in it including large bends, fast legato licks, rapid shifts, string crossing licks, slides and more.
In the final video we will finally come to what I feel is the ultimate climax to this lesson series, a full note-for-note transcription of the piano solo!
Most fast musical pieces that are transcribed from piano to guitar can be very difficult to play and this piano solo that ends "Sweet Home Alabama" is no different.
I perform it at the beginning of the video and you will see that it requires lots of quick hammer-ons, hybrid picking, extremely quick shifts and large stretches. It definitely isn't for the faint of heart but will make a great challenge for most advanced players.
The piano solo is very musical and easy to kind of hum so getting the sound of it in your ears shouldn't be very difficult. Once again, break this solo down phrase by phrase like I teach it in the lesson. There are many great technical exercises located within each phrase.
Hopefully you will be able to master those piano licks on the guitar and then thrown them into your own improvisations for some fresh sounding licks.
Ok I am gonna shut up and let your guys watch the videos. Hope you come out on the other side unscathed!! :)
Carl...
I have to say Carl, the accuracy of your lessons is excellent and the pace of the tutorial is perfectly weighted for my needs. I enjoy the lack of superfluous detail (no mention of amp, guitar, effects or what you had for lunch) and the utterly player focussed delivery. You make teaching look easy, thank you very much. Carry on!
The greatest rock guitar song of all time!! Thanks!
Thanks Carl, really appreciate your time and effort to put this together for us...
+ thank you Carl or teasing me so much I really appreciate it you are amazing
Dude you're a bloody hero, this is just what I need!
Holy crap Carl !! Thank you thank you thank you awesome lessons very much appreciated
if anyone is having difficulty here and there with the next part , try hooking up the actual song as a backing track and just go for it, and if you go stupid on it just, switch back to playing the rythm section and try try again, then go back to the video...thats what i had to do...the style of playing is a little not what I normally play, but you can do it...dont get boggged down on any one section take ten minutes and come back..it helps...its a long ass section man on that lead lmao. good luck roy btw Carl nice job on saturday I caught ya live..good work man..thanks
One thing people never get right is that first bend. Go back and listen to the recording or watch some of the live performances from 74'-75', because it's interesting what Ed King does there. He bends the first note up a full step, but on the release back to 15 he lets go and does a quick hammer-on from 14 to 15. It's super subtle, but it's there and no one ever gets this one right.
At the top of this video there is a link to all your Lynyrd Skynyrd videos. (All 2 of them) I am really praying that this is not intended for just this song. I hope you are planning more Skynyrd songs for the future. I am 52 and from the South (SE Virginia) So I am a big fan of Southern Rock with LS being my favorite band from this genre. They had such great and iconic songs in the 70's. Gimme' Three Steps, Workin' For MCA, Give Me Back My Bullets, Saturday Night Special (I wonder if the kids today knows what that really means) Simple Man, That Smell (One of my favorites) Tuesday's Gone, What's Your Name, and of course. The "Southern National Anthem" FREE BIRD! (holding up a lighter as I type) LOL The list could go on. So if you are planning on doing some more Lynyrd Skynyrd, GREAT!!! But if you're not then, PLEASE do! But for now THANK YOU for posting these videos and helping me finally PLAY IT RIGHT!!!
nursetom61 Yep there will be a lot more Skynrd on the way!!
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YIPPEE!!!!!!! DUDE YOU MADE MY day, my WEEK, my MONTH. HELL YOU MADE MY YEAR!!!!!! I can't wait to learn this whole song minus the piano part. It may be over my head. But I hope not! FREE BIRD!!!! HELL YES!!!!!!
What does Saturday Night Special really means?
+MrDoma87 Back in the 1970s when this song was written. There were a lot of very cheap poorly made guns on the street of America. These were nicknamed "Saturday Night Specials"
Its a 38 special, or a GUN
Thanks again, Carl, for another terrific lesson. I listened to the original recording on UA-cam played back at 50% speed. It sound to me like after the beginning high E full bend, the guitar player releases it while on the way down to fret 12, picks it again and then hammers on 15. It’s really fast at full speed but I think that’s what I hear at half speed. Any thoughts, my UA-cam guitar brethren?
Great Job keep up the fine work!
This is by far the easiest lesson on UA-cam to follow!
Very nice guitar instruction
This solo is great, but I can't figure out which scale he's using. The song is in G and it looks like he's mostly using a G major scale and G major pentatonic, but he throws in some chromatics and other notes that sound just as sweet that seem to be outside the scale. Is he using some D major pentatonic also or something else? I can never play lead using the full major scale over songs like these. It always sounds like I am playing scales instead of something melodic. I have to stick to the major pentatonic. I wish I understood the leads to this song better and why they work so incredibly well.
Natural talent. Not music theory.
It's D Mixolydian. The song is in the key of G with a tonal center of the five chord, D
i've been waiting for this for so long! thank you for uploading!
The dip on the wammy on the last note is a half step.
I broke my high E string playing this
Omg same! I literally re-string my guitar about 5 mins ago haha
I have a 13 gauge e string it can’t break try that
How the hell do you guys break your strings? I’m bending all the time and I’ve literally never broken any strings. Do you use floyd rose?
@@shahriarteymoorinia3663 If they get old they can break suddenly.
Me too!
Nice job! This is really helpful!
gidday carl. your cool dude
Can anyone tell me what key this solo is in ? Im thinking G major pentatonic ?
Good stuff..Thanks
just blew up my e sting, yay! this is the second time it happened. any tips on how to bend more gently ? lol
If you're breaking strings, then it's an issue with either your saddles or your nut. You should be able to bend the crap out of a good quality set of guitar strings and they should last you for months. Check your saddles and your nut to see if either is sharp or are binding the strings in any way 👍🏻
@@marinepilot5723 Second that. Your strings shouldn't break bending up even two full notes.
do you have tabs for the songs you teach ?
Could you do the solo from die for alabama by firekid
I like watching this guy. No earrings in his face or tattoos on his neck to distract me. Thumbs up
2:20 how do u kill a note on it???
its a tehnique called pinch harmonics or squealy :)
You kinda look like Rufus Wainwright. From certain angles anyway, like when looking down at the guitar.
Awesome job yet again Carl :)
Free Bird would be epic!
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2:58
I am a huge metallica fan can you please do ONE lead parts
SpiritEater99 I'm pretty sure I will be doing that one really soon. :)
GuitarLessons365Song Wait Carl, can you please do Sanitarium (Welcome Home) by Metallica? That would be amazing! There are 0 good tutorials on UA-cam, and your Videos are th best for ANY song! I hope you do this sooner or later, thanks!!!!
I need to send you a box of chocolates or something. I play in a cover band and 75 percent of my stuff I learned from you
Same lol
this seems simple but that’s mostly because I played raining blood before this
wheels on the bus
Great job teaching honestly, and it is very accurate, but you stop teaching the solo before the solo actually ends in the song, not by much it’s just the very end of it for another few seconds he’s still playing the solo and you don’t show how to do it
shakira
Terrible dude slow it the hell down. 15 g then B 12 then 14 15 12 11 then roll it to b then g then your done. Terrible