I'm blown away. This has to be the most tasteful and classy playing in the UK (and many parts of the US!). The tone, notes, SPACE, are all beautiful. I'm going to devour all your other vids!
Exceptional tone, playing and knowledge. Wonderful warmth and generosity in your teaching style….really glad to have found you on here! Thank you for this Alex…big respect
honestly, all your videos are so useful and tasteful! thanks a lot for your passion, your lessons and especially your tone, it sounds amazing! thanks!!!
Strange. I found solo 1 to be the perfect intro before the singer arrives. Then solo 4 as the perfect outro mainly due to the end run down to the resolve. Just magic. Solos 2 and 3 are kinda constructed as a lead middle part of a song - to these ears - but perhaps might need to be a tad more assertive if you catch my drift. But it all hangs together perfectly well. As a resource priceless!
Alex, your theoretical vision, its application to your playing and your ability and willingness to teach it continue to amaze and inspire me. The hour or two a day that I eek out at 4:00 AM, and religiously devote to my development, are quickly consumed by all you offer. Your material and other guitar paths stop time. Then the cock reminds me to go to work.
Ah thank you buddy, that's very kind of you to say! So glad you enjoy the lessons and find them to be useful! Just gotta get as much time in as possible.. sometimes even just 20 minutes a day is enough to get something cooking! 🤪
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻 Ah yes, it takes a while to get confident/comfortable playing live. As with everything in life, the more prepared you are, the less nervous you’ll be so just keep repeating and practicing so that when you hit the stage, it requires no real conscious thought.. just muscle memory and reacting to the music 👌🏻
Thanks for sharing this distillation of tasty tone , theory and feel . Much gratitude for sharing years of hardwork in a relaxed relationship of Musical poetry.
Alex, your excellent deconstruction of a beautiful flowing melody with your added music theory vocabulary and knowledge on chord voicing and how to build triads while anticipating the next chords in the sequence and the subtleties. Very inspiring. Thank you so much.
finally nailed it ! 😊 I love this stuff. Playing this tasteful progression with a sense of direction and purpose is so satisfying. there's a lot of your technique that I'm starting to incorporate in my own playing. Also thanks to your chrystalclear explanation, I now know what I'm playing and why instead of just copying the licks so I can use them in other progressions when the right opportunity comes along, this combination of great tastful music pieces together with your to the point theory explanation and other sidestepping options in the progession are the perfect lessons. I sincerely hope you will make it in your own way in the musicworld ! now I'm going to focus on your next lessons 😁
Really great vid! Thank you! Just the inspiration and challenge i needed to dig into those triads. :) Also, love that tone, almost emulating the pedal steel with the bends. Thanks again for great content!
I really like these videos about how to approach chord changes , even if American is not what usually play, keep posting em ! You’ve got a new subscriber !
Many others have said but this one's really amazing. Very approachable and mind expanding. I guess it hits my sweet spot. I am curious about your rhythm part. Sounds like tremolo. Wondering if you can say more. Ty
@@AlexFarranGuitar off to a great start with solo #1, I love playing it (almost at tempo) can’t wait to get to the next ones. Would love to check out more lessons in this style for sure! Thank you!
Alex, after listening to this and people get ready, btw stunning arrangements, I had to join your Patreon page to support this high level content. Thank you.
Just recently discovered your channel. Tons of really good lessons! Starting to work my way though some of them. Fantastic playing and very well done! Thank you 👍Subscribed!
Another stunner! Its particularly refreshing to hear a complex melody over more than a three chord progression. And how you compose such a sweet melody while interlacing the chords is beyond me. At least until I learn this one! My fingers are booked out a few weeks on learning Motown and Jimmy's blues, but his is definately next in queue. Hopefully by then I can find the whammy bar to my strat...
I have to say that I have spent quite a bit of time trying to copy your trem work on the solos. I have a JM but hardly use the trem as I haven’t practiced it enough ❤
Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed it! Favourite year from that decade would have to be 2018 as that’s when I finished building my house and was ready to move in! 🙏🏻🧡
Great stuff again. I’m actually finding now (after some time), I’m starting to see things in triads and arpeggios rather than scale pattern shapes. Thanks v much ❤
@@adamcherry434 funnily enough, I do plan on making some new merch soon and there’ll definitely be a telecaster design. Currently I just have the one design with the es125 👍🏻
great lesson, Alex. Love some of the similarities between the Soul and Americana lessons. Had a question about sound. I've just recently purchased the UA Apollo twin and was wondering what plug ins you use for delay in your set up. thx
Thanks buddy! Glad you like the lessons 🙏🏻 I don’t use any delay plugins, but I use the UA 1176 as my main electric guitar compressor, the Neve 1073 and Pultec plugins for EQ, and the Capitol Chambers and Hitsville Rooms for reverb 👌🏻
I do play a lot of that kind of stuff too and plan to feature it on this channel very soon!.. hard to find space for all my musical interests! I’ve always been passionate about music and so many of its styles and pride myself on getting to the heart of what makes them tick. 🙏🏻
First of all thank you so much for these videos. I've been practising these for a good while now and making a lot of progress. I've been working on other lesson videos as well and as a noob dreaming of mediocrity, the playthrough of each section at the end of the breakdown is super helpful as I can go through each lick or passage and then get bite size chunks of the actual music and go back and forth between them. ANYWAY the question i most would like to ask is: Where I can i find music with great melodic solos like this one? Any recommendations are appreciated. Thanks!
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻 Just need a good clean tone and your fingers do the rest! The picking hand plays a huge part in it too of course. Dedicate a life to music and improving technique and you learn to get a beautiful tone out of any piece of gear. Just takes a lot of practice of course! 😂
Alex, I love you, man.
Your tips brought so much joy to my guitar playing.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Oh man, thank you for the beautiful comment! I’m so glad you find the lessons useful my friend 🙏🏻🧡
Love it. Great phrasing practice
8:16 1st solo
13:17 2nd solo
20:17 3rd solo
26:18 4th solo
Thanks buddy, really glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
I'm blown away. This has to be the most tasteful and classy playing in the UK (and many parts of the US!). The tone, notes, SPACE, are all beautiful. I'm going to devour all your other vids!
Thank you Dave, that’s very kind of you! So glad you enjoyed it buddy! Plenty more where it came from too! 🍻😎
Tasty and those steel bends are magic!
Thanks buddy, glad you like them!
Exceptional tone, playing and knowledge. Wonderful warmth and generosity in your teaching style….really glad to have found you on here! Thank you for this Alex…big respect
Thank you so much for the kind words! Really glad you enjoy the lessons buddy 🙏🏻
honestly, all your videos are so useful and tasteful! thanks a lot for your passion, your lessons and especially your tone, it sounds amazing! thanks!!!
Thank you for the kind words buddy, glad you enjoy the lessons! 🙏🏻
Strange. I found solo 1 to be the perfect intro before the singer arrives. Then solo 4 as the perfect outro mainly due to the end run down to the resolve. Just magic. Solos 2 and 3 are kinda constructed as a lead middle part of a song - to these ears - but perhaps might need to be a tad more assertive if you catch my drift. But it all hangs together perfectly well. As a resource priceless!
Ah thanks buddy, that’s interesting! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate the comment my friend🙏🏻
Alex, your theoretical vision, its application to your playing and your ability and willingness to teach it continue to amaze and inspire me. The hour or two a day that I eek out at 4:00 AM, and religiously devote to my development, are quickly consumed by all you offer. Your material and other guitar paths stop time. Then the cock reminds me to go to work.
Ah thank you buddy, that's very kind of you to say! So glad you enjoy the lessons and find them to be useful! Just gotta get as much time in as possible.. sometimes even just 20 minutes a day is enough to get something cooking! 🤪
The sound production is great !
Thank you, that means a lot! 🙏🏻
Well, this was simply wonderful!
Thanks mate, glad you liked it! 🙏🏻
Great lesson, beautiful tones and touch on that lovely Tele. Thanks!
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it buddy 🙏🏻
Amazing playing and sound! I’m getting there slowly but finding it hard to play relaxed during a gig!
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻 Ah yes, it takes a while to get confident/comfortable playing live. As with everything in life, the more prepared you are, the less nervous you’ll be so just keep repeating and practicing so that when you hit the stage, it requires no real conscious thought.. just muscle memory and reacting to the music 👌🏻
Thanks for sharing this distillation of tasty
tone , theory and feel .
Much gratitude for sharing years of hardwork in a relaxed relationship of Musical poetry.
My pleasure buddy, comments like yours make it all the more worthwhile 🙏🏻
This lesson is pure gold. Love the triad focus…it pulls it all together.😊
Thanks so much Ian!.. glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Extremely good taste in these licks and progressions! Great harmonies!
Thank you Jud, that’s very kind 🙏🏻
Alex, your excellent deconstruction of a beautiful flowing melody with your added music theory vocabulary and knowledge on chord voicing and how to build triads while anticipating the next chords in the sequence and the subtleties. Very inspiring. Thank you so much.
Thank you Robert, that really means a lot 🙏🏻 Very glad you find the lessons useful my friend. Thanks for commenting 🍻
Love that idea of adding the sus2 to the triad. So glad I stumbled across your lessons, they are always tasteful no matter what style you are playing.
You are more than welcome Peter, glad you find them to be useful! 🙏🏻
Lovely on every level. Thank you
Thank you for watching and for the kind words 🙏🏻
Wow amazing playing, so soulfull. Very inspiring, thank you for this lesson!
My pleasure buddy, thanks so much for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
Gorgeous!
Cheers Jerry! 🙏🏻
Beautiful playing!!! Its made me excited to work on my chops again!
Thanks mate, that’s very good to hear! Nice profile pic btw 👌🏻🍻
Love it!
Thanks Allen! 🙏🏻
Lots of gold to mine here, I'm excited to check out the lesson materials. Nice work Alex!
Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
Excellent lesson!!!!
Thanks buddy!
FUNdamental lesson here Alex, thank you. That 4 minor to 5 is Sleepwalk for me, came into my head as soon as I played it 😂
Ha thanks buddy, yes indeed.. very "Sleepwalk"-esque! Glad you enjoyed the lesson mate 🍻
Beyond words ❤❤❤💫💫💫
Ah thanks Sukie! Always so good to see you here! 🙏🏻
Wow. This popped up. Brilliant. Absolutely perfect. Sounding great and definitely some great ideas to incorporate in my own playing. Thanks!
Thanks David, glad you enjoyed it and found it to be useful! Please do consider clicking “subscribe” as I do a lot of these types of videos 🙏🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar Have done! Keep the videos coming! :-)
Always a pleasure to listen to your playing man, you got style
Thank you Bogdan!.. really great to see you here! 🙏🏻🧡🍻
amazing lesson - I really struggle to play over chord changes and there are some great ideas here
Really glad you found it useful 🙏🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar I just joined your patreon. Looking forward to picking your online brain - pun not intended
Great lesson, even better shirt!
Haha thanks buddy! 🙏🏻
I just stumbled across your channel and looking for a series of studies to get me out of a rut - thanks Alex !
My pleasure buddy, glad you stumbled across my channel! 🙏🏻
Love this stuff. Makes me want to play more than just rock/metal
Glad you enjoyed it Andrew!.. gotta be a man of many styles! 👌🏻😎
finally nailed it ! 😊 I love this stuff. Playing this tasteful progression with a sense of direction and purpose is so satisfying. there's a lot of your technique that I'm starting to incorporate in my own playing. Also thanks to your chrystalclear explanation, I now know what I'm playing and why instead of just copying the licks so I can use them in other progressions when the right opportunity comes along, this combination of great tastful music pieces together with your to the point theory explanation and other sidestepping options in the progession are the perfect lessons. I sincerely hope you will make it in your own way in the musicworld ! now I'm going to focus on your next lessons 😁
Thank you so much Katleen! I really appreciate that! Very pleased to hear that you get so much out of my lessons! 🙏🏻🧡
really great stuff Alex!
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it :)
Lovely tone!
Thanks a lot!
Really great vid! Thank you!
Just the inspiration and challenge i needed to dig into those triads. :)
Also, love that tone, almost emulating the pedal steel with the bends.
Thanks again for great content!
Thanks for the comment my friend, I'm so glad you enjoyed the lesson! Triads are so, so musical! 👌🏻
Great Channel
Thank you my friend!
I really like these videos about how to approach chord changes , even if American is not what usually play, keep posting em ! You’ve got a new subscriber !
Thanks mate, I appreciate that! I shall keep making these videos for sure, and will be covering many other styles too!
I like this a lot
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Many others have said but this one's really amazing. Very approachable and mind expanding. I guess it hits my sweet spot.
I am curious about your rhythm part. Sounds like tremolo. Wondering if you can say more. Ty
Thanks mate, I’m really glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻 Yes indeed, I have a light tremolo on for the full lesson as well as the reverb from the amp 👍🏻
Wow. I downloaded the lesson by the time I got to solo #3. This is fantastic, thank you so much!
Amazing! Thanks for your support buddy, I really appreciate it! Enjoy working on this and let me know how you get along! 🙏🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar off to a great start with solo #1, I love playing it (almost at tempo) can’t wait to get to the next ones. Would love to check out more lessons in this style for sure! Thank you!
Alex, after listening to this and people get ready, btw stunning arrangements, I had to join your Patreon page to support this high level content. Thank you.
Thank you so much John, I appreciate that greatly! Really glad you're enjoying the lessons my friend 🙏🏻
Awesome teaching! Just found this channel; subscribed! 👍
Thanks so much Thomas! Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
MR.FARRAN.....GOOD WORK GENEROUS THANKS FOR SHARING
My pleasure buddy, thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Thank you so much.
You’re so welcome! 🙏🏻
you pack so much into these lessons! I could spend weeks on these concepts. thanks Alex!
Thanks for the comment my friend, really glad you find the lessons useful! 🙏🏻
Your channel is golden, money is tight, but, hopefully can join your Patreon soon. 💪🎸
Thank you buddy, I appreciate that! 🙏🏻🧡
Grazie Alex
My pleasure buddy 🙏🏻
Nice lesson
Thanks
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Super good lesson. Really full of meat and clarity. Love your stuff.
Ah thanks mate, I appreciate that! Glad you enjoy the lessons 🙏🏻🍻
Nice guitar and playing! 🎸👍 Glad I stumbled along.. Keep up the good stuff!
Thanks buddy, much appreciated 🙏🏻
super tasteful stuff in here
Thanks mate 🙏🏻
Another great sounding lead study Alex!
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
One of the best triad lessons thx!
You’re so welcome buddy! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏻
Beautiful! Congratulations 🎼✌
Thank you very much!
I love the minor 4 to 5 turnaround ❤ Just adds a nice Motown taste 💯. I've never joined a patrion, but you're really pushing me😂.
A man of taste for sure! 👌🏻😉
If you have any Patreon questions, just let me know buddy 👍🏻
Always great stuff.
A request for Nardis.
Thanks buddy. Great request! Will certainly add it to the list of chord Melodies to do 👍🏻
Nice tips thank you good stuff
No problem 👍 Thanks for the comment :)
Love your tone and playing. Particularly that Jazzmaster. That's sweet.
Thanks so much! Sadly I sold that guitar, but will someday get a nice vintage Jaguar 😍👌🏻
@@AlexFarranGuitar so sorry to hear about the JM. Were you unhappy with it?
Just recently discovered your channel. Tons of really good lessons! Starting to work my way though some of them. Fantastic playing and very well done! Thank you 👍Subscribed!
Cheers buddy! Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻🍻
Americana indeed! Love the sound of the triads with the tremolo. Is that from your Deluxe Reverb?
Thanks buddy! Yes indeed, that’s just the old deluxe reverb with the reverb and trem engaged a bit 👌🏻 Hard to beat those classic tones 🤩
Love it.....
Thanks buddy!
Another stunner! Its particularly refreshing to hear a complex melody over more than a three chord progression. And how you compose such a sweet melody while interlacing the chords is beyond me. At least until I learn this one! My fingers are booked out a few weeks on learning Motown and Jimmy's blues, but his is definately next in queue. Hopefully by then I can find the whammy bar to my strat...
Thanks for the kind words buddy, really glad you’re enjoying working on the lessons! Man, Jimmie’s Blues is a fun one to play isn’t it!? 👌🏻
Great fun and a great mix of techniques - lovin' it!
I have to say that I have spent quite a bit of time trying to copy your trem work on the solos. I have a JM but hardly use the trem as I haven’t practiced it enough ❤
That’s a good thing to work on mate.. I love the Jazzmaster and Jaguar trems.. my favourite trem for sure 👌🏻
What a fantastic video Alex have a wonderful weekend also what is your favorite year from the 2010s ❤😊
Thank you my friend, glad you enjoyed it! Favourite year from that decade would have to be 2018 as that’s when I finished building my house and was ready to move in! 🙏🏻🧡
Wow, great lesson. You’ve got a new subscriber. Thanks 🙏
Thanks buddy, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏻
I now need to buy a Jazz Master with a 70's headstock
I do too!.. (sold this one sadly!) 🫣🤣
Cool!!!
Cheers mate! 🙏🏻
Excelent Thankyou ❤❤❤
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻🧡
It's a pity you can only hit the like button once.
🙏🏻 thank you Vince, I appreciate your enthusiasm!
Cool turn aroumd
Thanks buddy 🙏🏻
Great stuff again. I’m actually finding now (after some time), I’m starting to see things in triads and arpeggios rather than scale pattern shapes. Thanks v much ❤
That’s so good to hear! Thanks for commenting Adam.. really glad you’re finding the lessons useful 🙏🏻
I get weeks out of 1 vid. If you had a telecaster t shirt Id buy it
@@adamcherry434 funnily enough, I do plan on making some new merch soon and there’ll definitely be a telecaster design. Currently I just have the one design with the es125 👍🏻
great lesson, Alex. Love some of the similarities between the Soul and Americana lessons. Had a question about sound. I've just recently purchased the UA Apollo twin and was wondering what plug ins you use for delay in your set up. thx
Thanks buddy! Glad you like the lessons 🙏🏻 I don’t use any delay plugins, but I use the UA 1176 as my main electric guitar compressor, the Neve 1073 and Pultec plugins for EQ, and the Capitol Chambers and Hitsville Rooms for reverb 👌🏻
Magic! N. 1!!!
Thanks mate! :)
Do you play acoustic fingerstyle (Tommy Emmanuel) or classical guitar? You are very fluent in many styles, how did you learn all of them?
I do play a lot of that kind of stuff too and plan to feature it on this channel very soon!.. hard to find space for all my musical interests! I’ve always been passionate about music and so many of its styles and pride myself on getting to the heart of what makes them tick. 🙏🏻
First of all thank you so much for these videos. I've been practising these for a good while now and making a lot of progress.
I've been working on other lesson videos as well and as a noob dreaming of mediocrity, the playthrough of each section at the end of the breakdown is super helpful as I can go through each lick or passage and then get bite size chunks of the actual music and go back and forth between them.
ANYWAY the question i most would like to ask is: Where I can i find music with great melodic solos like this one? Any recommendations are appreciated. Thanks!
Your tone is amazing! What is the secret?
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻 Just need a good clean tone and your fingers do the rest! The picking hand plays a huge part in it too of course. Dedicate a life to music and improving technique and you learn to get a beautiful tone out of any piece of gear. Just takes a lot of practice of course! 😂
Noticing the Bigsby…
The jazz master trem is my absolute favourite, but a good bigsby comes a close second!
That was freakin awesomeness in a pure sense … tasty 👅
Ah thanks dude! 🙏🏻
Tasty 👍
Cheers buddy, glad you liked it :)
Very tasty!
Thank you 🙏🏻
10 Pounds of what? 🫤
I beg your pardon?