How To Play "I Walk The Line" The Right Way - Johnny Cash Lesson
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2018
- This is an excerpt from my new Udemy Course: The Sun Records Rockabilly Guitar Solos Part 1. You can get the whole course now for just 14,99 USD by following the link below:
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In this lesson I show you how to play I Walk The Line By Johnny Cash. You can skip to the:
Rhythm Guitar Part: 1:40
Lead Guitar Intro: 5:20
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This is an excerpt of an upcoming Udemy Course called "The Guitars Of Sun Records"
5:35. "Keep your eyes open for that one." I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
Dear Harpin, you're a legend.
good 1
As a professional guitarist 30 years playing in Pubs seven nights a week I love this German dude I immediately subscribed and gave him a thumbs up..........rock on my brother!!!!!
Class tutorial here...
This was terrific. Randy kinda' looks like a Tennessee rockabilly musician from those days himself.
Make that choo choo train sound! I'm still playing it at 60 years old! Cheers!
WoW.... simply fantastic.
Howdy 👋🤠 from Tom in
🇨🇱 Texas 🇨🇱
R. I. P.
JOHNNY CASH
Luther 🎸 Perkins
Marshall Grant
Before my time, but I love rockabilly guitar. Totally hooked. Learning all I can from people like you. Thank you.
What a great lesson and I love the background story on how he got that sound. Thanks again for yet another awesome video, Randy.
I worked at Folsom Prison for 25 years and often hummed
that song while I walked 'the line' though the buildings.
That’s awesome
Great lesson of this Cash legendary song. By closely following your detailed video, I’m playing this song the right way. In fact, I can’t stop playing it. So enjoyable. Many thanks!!
Wow I need to learn this and play it for my dad. He really liked Johnny Cash music
Did you play the music?
Finally a professional
This is the real deal, so smooth and effortless. Great lesson, thank you!
Very good lesson - thank you. I always wondered about that scratchy strum sound on the recording 😊
Thank you so much for this lesson. I grew up on Johnny Cash. This is the most precise lesson, I’ve come across. Thank you.
I wish I had youtube in the year 1982 or something. I would have been a king!
Awesome detailed lesson! Thanks
Nice video ! Looking forward to the entire course!!
Incredible
Great lesson! So many players sluff through this and other Johnny Cash songs as being SO easy. However, there are so many subtle techniques that are overlooked that are necessary to capture the authentic 'Luther Perkins' guitar.
Thank you very much for your comment. I really appreciate it!
@@ducktailcat how do you get that tone for I Walk The Line
gut gemacht, herr richter. i played hillbilly and rockabilly music in Germany when I was a soldier in the early 70's. i love what you do. i understand that the humming johnny did everytime he changed keys was to help him find the note. sam phillips was supposed to turn the volume down for the humming and turn it up when he sang.
Man,there ain't nothing better than good ole southern style nanner puddin!!!
Thank you. I really love all your lessons and can't wait to get started on your online course tomorrow when I get paid.
Sounds so awesome! Great work!
Excellent explanations for your lessons 👍
Luther's style sounds simple but it's not. He was a human metronome.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Man I really love your content man, Im gonna start playing guitar and you have just about everything I would like to learn on your channel.
Classic sound. Thanks!
Thank you sir. Blessings 🙏
This is a good lesson. Thank you.
Your a Legend, I'm a begginer and always loved this riff, and now I'm playing it. Your a Rockstar, thanks for helping make a part of my dreams come true. 🍻
Wow, that's so great to hear! thanks a lot for your feedback
Thanks this video has helped me a lot I just started playing guitar 4 weeks ago I couldn’t play a single thing now this is all I’m playing thanks for teaching us the right way to play the Classic Song 👍🏻👌🏻
Wow, that's so great to hear and definintely inspiring for me. Keep it up!
5.8 thousand likes and no dislikes says a lot. Thanks for the lesson.
It's all there....great presentation,tone and techniques with a little history.
One of the first songs I ever learned starting in about 1957
Excellent lesson
Thanks for mentioning Gladewater, Texas. I only have to travel there from Houston, but I truly enjoy your guitar mastery!
Sehr anschaulich gemacht. Sehr sympathisch!
Excellent!!
Awesome lesson!
Yeah, Johnny Cash is always appreciated! :)
Great lesson
Excellent!
What a great video!
such a catchy tune.
Love this video and it’s been very helpful to me. I’m brand new to playing guitar and started learning this song while in rehab. Im making learning guitar part of my recovery so I really appreciate your videos and this will be the first song I master. Already making a lot of progress thanks to you breaking it down like you have.
Thank you so much for your feedback! This is so great to hear and very inspiring. Keep picking!
Excellent explanation. Very much appreciated
love your attention for detail OF KEEPING ROCKABILLY ALIVE!!! Subscribed!!!
Thanks a lot! I will put out as many lessons as possible
@Ben Miller Wow! That's pretty amazing. I'd love to see those pictures
excellent !
Very cool 🎸😎
That secret sound ! Now we know. Rock on!.
thank you, i couldnt find a video showing for way to long
If you play the ‘64 version, the walk down from the D to A, instead of 4, 2, 0, you play 3, 2, 0.
cool , thanks for sharing
Thank you!
This is pretty much how we play it but we play in E and raise the tempo slightly and as for the acoustic guitar, I just capo the second fret, and play up the neck, but I don't put the paper in.
You ought to be a GUITAR LEGEND!!!!!!!!
Awesome
Who would've guessed the way that sound was obtained was with a dollar bill? Fascinating.
Johnny uses three sets of chords in his version. He does the first verse in E chord group (E-A-B)(or F the way you have your capo), then he will walk up into the A chord group (A-D-E) for the second verse, then he will walk up to the D chord group (D-G-A) and do the third verse, then he will walk back down to the A chord group to do the next verse, then will walk back down to the E (F) chord group to finish it. He changes the pitch (different key) on each verse. Thats why he does that little hum between the verses. He has used just a piece of notebook paper on his Acoustic to get the snare drum effect. If you'll get the Johnny Cash Live from Montreaux DVD, you'll see what I mean on the notebook paper. Hes got Bob Wooten with him in that concert. Hes super good but I learned Luther's style and kinda like it.
I heard he ran wax paper thru the strings and scratched the rythym.....but i love this ...long live sun records ....lightning in a bottle....great job
It really dont matter what paper he used its the same result after all
The right way is the Johnny Cash way
Thank you very mach from Italy!!!!!
You're very welcome!
Sehr gut!
brilliant
I live just north of Gladewater, TX. I didn't know about the museum. I will be visiting it now. I love the video. great job
I live in gladewater too
Great video! Very cool! Thank you!
You nailed that and I know exactly what you mean about Luther and subtlties ;)
I've seen Cash play with a playing card woven into the strings as well.
Fulsome prison blues is my request. I'd love to learn to play it perfectly
Hi Jeffrey, Folsom Prison Blues is part of my Johnny Cash Special: shop.randyrich.de/en/home/87-johnny-cash-special.html
@@ducktailcat thank you man I love your channel and your style of teaching!
Your a good teacher... stop talking and teach!!!
Have the video is you talking not teaching
According to Marty Stuart, Luther rolled back his tone knob also to take off some of the twang.
...laser- accurate......but the question is..."How did Luther conceive of that sequence......practice it....perfect it....and get up to speed not having any template to direct him"...???...The dude was just a car mechanic.............That could be the most recognized C/W riff in all the world....
I love your little country accent and the lesson was good too!🎸
Never heard a country accent from Germany.????
Yah?
Oh my goodness people I live in the U.S. we joke around alot. It was a joke. If you ever lived in Texas you'd have gotten it. Have a great day!
One thing i notice everyone gets wrong that was gotten wrong in this video is that when Luther runs down from D to A, instead of playing 4 then 2 on the A string, he plays 3 then 2. It makes a subtle difference and is evident on the original sun recording, the 1964 columbia recording, and all live version with Luther. No one ever catches that, not even Bob Wootton.
Hi John, I was just listening to it again after your comment. Which run do you mean? Is it in the verse?
Randy, could you add "Papa Gene's Blues" by The Monkees to your request list for me? It's got some fantastic lead guitar by James Burton on it. I think you'll really like that song if you've never heard it or haven't listened to it in a while. Mike Nesmith wrote and produced it. He also shouts, "Yee haw! Oh, pick it, Luther" during the solo as a nod to Luther Perkins. Super twangy fun song! Thanks, Randy!
His set at the Holiday Inn on Thursday's during happy hour is good if you take advantage of the half price shots...
Awesome lesson---btw, LOVE the Udemy Courses they are really fantastic!!
Thank you very much for your kind words
But this chord progression changes with every verse. Three times or four maybe?
Memphis!!!!!
Johnny Cash said himself that he used a playing card for the snare sound
A bunch of broken crayons in the soundhole works too. I've heard of fiddle players throwing rattlesnake Rattlers in their fiddles to get a sweeter tone.
@@bearthalamas9241 Bet you did
it just makes it like a washboard that's all
Another story was wax paper. Let's just go with some sort of paper.
@@bearthalamas9241 I have three sets of rattlers in my guitar.
Damn nice. Damn nice. Damn.
Excellent lesson! Great tip to strum the chords between the lead lines, it really fills out the sound that way, and sounds accurate to the recording. I read in a guitar magazine once (sorry, I don’t recall which one) that Johnny used aluminum foil to mute the strings, but the dollar bill method sounds every bit, if not more, plausible. When I first learned the leads to this song (I was about 15) I didn’t realize Luther used a capo, so I played it without. I could have saved myself a lot of trouble had I known better! I love this video lesson, not only for your style of teaching, but also the segment at the start. I look forward to more lessons by you!
Hi David, thank you very much for your kind words. I guess there are quite a few stories in circulation. He probably used whatever was available on the spot.
Johnny wrote in his autobiography that he used a dollar bill. I play like Luther too. I don’t use a capo, not sure if Luther used a cape or not, I’ll watch him again on uTube.
@@jaybarber68 Luther didn't use capos back then. I just did it here, so it's easier to follow for everybody
@@ducktailcat I looked at some old footage on uTube that proves you are correct! Maybe he was not a “guitar god”, but I couldn’t imagine why an electric guitar player would use a cape. By the way, did Luther start the Telecaster thing for country music? I don’t know of anyone else who used one in country back then.
@@jaybarber68 Johnny actually couldn't "sell" a song in the key of "E", so he had the band tune everything up to "F".
It just fit his voice better.
Yes, if you try and play along with the record, you’ll need a capo, tune down or play bar chords😀
Ain’t that what he’s doing? (Capo on the 1st fret)
Sure. I wrote it in case somebody missed it in the video. Can’t I?
@@jaybarber68 Sure thing!
@@Stargazer-px7fw Thanks, be safe Buddy!
@@jaybarber68 Thanks, you too! :)
"My tailor took in these pants of mine,
I keep them held up with a piece of twine,
Just say you're mine,
I'll cut the twine"
I like that. What other courses do you have on u demy?
He has mainly 50's rockabilly courses, I recommend them, he's a great teacher and teaches to play them just like in the 50's
Enjoying your lessons. Just watched Luther playing this and he doesn't do a "down and up" strum with his fingers----just an up-stroke.
Sorry-----I mean down stroke!
This is how it looks like if there was UA-cam in the 1950s
Disrespectfully Disagree
John could get by.
Don't downplay him.
@@TermiteUSA no intention whatsoever to degrade the content
Hey I live in gladewater
Hi, is the acoustic guitar you are using a Sigma or Martin. The headstock is defiantly one of these :) Cheers, Brent
It's a Recording King, I really love it
I have ms and blind in 1 eye and numb hands i know i sound like forest gump your healping an old fart like me learn top respect bro
The part i have trouble with is the d to g back to a riff tho
I would visit anyone for homemade banana bread pudding. Nice video keep up. Have you done solo for Don William's Amanda? I wish you could.
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I love Walk The Line tutorials. They give me an opportunity to watch and then scream manically into the screen....WHAT KEY ARE YOU IN ?, But the mystery remains and I swear to never watch another one but then I do and scream into the screen...WHAT KEY ARE YOU IN? BTW..What key are you in?
Thank you for the lesson. I have a quick question where did you buy that shirt
Honestly, I don't know. I have it for at least 20 years. I used to buy clothes from vintage dealers and stores when it was still pretty cheap.
Randy Richter ok thanks for letting me know
doesn't work unless you have the right hair, I know I've been trying and learning to play RB guitar only when I slicked it back did I manage it !
An Esquire in the mud position and flatwounds tuned to F. I'm thinking Luther may have been using a Silvertone amp on this recording.
He plays a jazzmaster in vids ive seen but they werent produced at the time this was recorded
and sun records musicians all seemed to use one particular amp that had that slapback repeat....scotty moore luther even ike turner when he recorded there
I think phillips owned the amp......wish i could remember when i saw that....it was on you tube somewhere lol
Ray Butts' echo-sonic amp
Silvertone 1300 and a very early Fender Esquire. There were no electronic tuners in 1956, so the band tuned up by ear. They always seemed to overshoot it and were tuned a step high. The Sun version of "Folsom Prison Blues" is tuned right between F and F#. It drove me nuts as I kind when my playing sounded out of tune to the record until I figured it out.
@@imannonymous7707 a few of the sun guys had Echo-Sonics, which were all hand built by one guy in Illinois. A local picker in Ray Butts' hometown had the first one, Chet Atkins had the 2nd and used it on Mr Sandman (a 1954 Grand Ole Opry TV performance is here on UA-cam). And Scotty Moore, had (I believe) the 3rd one and used it first on the last Elvis SUN session (Mystery Train, Tryin' To Get To You)... others like Luther Perkins and Roy Orbison had them too.
@@jonkern9503 Actually, Conn came out with the first version of the Strobo-o-tuner in 1936, so very accurate tuners were available.
I have a video where he put a piece of paper between the strings
When’s the Udemy course coming? Will it cover Amp settings to get the best twang?
The course will probably be out at the end of next week, still working on it.
Did you check out this video? ua-cam.com/video/D1hYbd3ebPQ/v-deo.html
For the best twang I recommend a solidbody guitar and picking the strings very close to the bridge. The amp settings are not so important, you just shouldn't turn down the treble too much.
Much appreciated Randy. I will buy your course when released. Looking forward to it. Great work and playing.