I think the thing about Dave's lessons are is that he seems to have the best technique and crispness of his attack with the fingered individual notes and riffing as well as the crispness and syncopation needed on the strumming hand to make both work well and sound the closest to Nile Rodgers and the recording. You look around on YT, and everyone can do it, but they don't sound like the original recording. Mr. Price definitely understands that technique has much to do with replicating a guitar part/tone as the basic mechanics or notes/chords to play. He is great.
If you lived in my estate, we would be jamming all evening. Ive got keyboards, guitar, drums cant play any to a high standard but Im sure we could knock out a few Nile Rodgers tracks!! Excellent tutorial
dave, I have been waiting to see if you was going to do a tutorial on this song. Al green song is 90% complete. Thanks, and thanks again. keep it coming.
Thanks Dave. I requested this one from you and have just spent the last couple of hours having a go at it. I've got the gist of it but it will take a little practice to get it perfect. I always wondered if it was played on a loop in the record but not so sure now. Thanks again for another great lesson!
You're welcome. To be honest, most of the time was taken recreating the backing track and working out the other parts. I checked out some of Nile's live performances on You Tube and I am pretty sure I've got it just how he played it. Have fun with the tune!
Thanks. Can I ask you how you link your video footage to the sound. I am trying to get into this myself and it is all a bit of a learning curve at the moment. Thanks
I think it depends on what software you are using. I use Imovie so I drag the audio file into the video window and then I line it up until the audio looks in synch with the video. For the lesson portion I just used the original audio from the video recording.
I like Joe Satriani and Jimmy Page as much as the next guy, but I have to admit that I also have a real soft spot for this kind of infectious dance groove. In short, I luv' it! Thanks a lot Dave.
Thanks! I'm pretty much the same, listened to a lot of rock players in the '80s but also loved the classic grooves provided by the funk/disco players. Glad you liked the lesson.
You really have a great great rhythm, its is just so in the middle, not ahead, not behind, and its so rare to be so good rhythmic today because of the lack of practice. The dynamic ....work on it. but i huess is becaude of the tutorial. cheers.
Great tutorial thanks! Does anyone have an idea how Niles tone was achieved on the original recording. I'm guessing some compression, nice clean amp and maybe a little chorus and slapback delay?
I think it’s all about the right hand technique. You could emulate a sort of delay with some practice on your picking hand and a bit of palm mute, no pedals involved. That worked for me.
Nice tutorial on this song. This video really helped to understand what is going on in this song. But i have one question. What are you constantly looking at during the entire video?
Thanks Robert. I did put down the bass on this track. I might leave the tutorial to the dedicated bass tutors out there. I am sure that every Bernard Edwards bass line has been covered somewhere on UA-cam by better bass players than me :)
Hi Dave, I'm sorry I might have missed some tips due to my bad understanding of English language, I don't get quite the same sound while playing the chords... Is there a special tuning or something to do to get that funky sound ?
Hi Frih. No special tuning, just a clean guitar sound with the guitar on the neck pickup. Pick quite hard on the single note line to get a snappy sound. Thanks
Any chance to post up those embellished chords you do on the outro? Are they just alternative fingerings of the Gm7 chord on the high strings? I want to expand my chord knowledge and create different voicings is there a good way to go about this. Cheers
They are mainly variations on the minor 7 chord such as m9 and m11 shapes. There are also some triad shapes built on 4ths. I will probably do a lesson on them in the future. Cheers
First of all, thank you very much for the good lesson. I am having so much trouble with the timing of the second and third part of the riff.. This is so frustrating. Clearly the most difficult part of the song - at least for me, and I wish you focused more on it. You only demonstrate it either in full speed, or in very slow and out of sync way, which makes the timings extremely hard to nail for me.. I have no idea how I am going to learn this part. The rest was no problem.
Just saw your lesson on Le Freak, much better with the slow timing. In here it just seems so random with the speeds and how to string the parts together. I'm really sorry for my frustration, but I really want to learn this and for the last couple of hours, I haven't gone anywhere with that f***ing riff. Plus I'm slowly but surely going from loving the song to hating it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. And for future lessons, please play it slowed down with the metronome as in Le Freak.. Would help BIG time!
seananiosoki Thanks for the input Sean. At the time I felt I had done a thorough explanation and demonstation of the riff. I'm not sure what you mean about playing out of sync. Although I demonstrate without a click, I am playing in time when I play through slowly at 3:50. I will make playing slowly to a click something I do in future. One last thing, if you find yourself getting frustrated with a song then take a break and come back to it later. Often you find you make better progress that way. Cheers
Dave Price I finally got it locked down. Feel so relieved now.. It really helped sleeping on it and having another go at it the following day. At the beginning, for me, it seemed that you shifted the tempo slightly up and down between the parts when you played it slow. Especially the break at 3:57 threw me completely off. I do see now that it was just my mind unnecessarily complicating stuff further (brain fart). Thanks for the lesson!
seananiosoki Maybe it was because you played it too slow, making it tougher for my mind to relate to the actual tempo off that riff, again, this is probably just my mental idiosyncrasies. Now I'm just truly perplexed on this, sitting back thinking how this ever got me so baffled and demoralised. But again, sorry for my frustration and, thanks for your time and this lesson, truly appreciated.
I'm not a guitarist, but I watched this video to see how the part fits into the song and to better understand the chord structure of it all. I think you are rather off on the verse, specifically towards the end of the second bar before it comes back around again. I think if you listen carefully I think you'll see what I mean... Great vid, tho.
+Dave Price It's tricky to describe. If you like I could work it out and upload a short clip comparing what I think you're doing compared to whats on the original (on bass of course so it will probably be an octave lower). Will be a good exercise for my ear anyway.
Fuck tabs. Use your ears and if you can't then go take some aural lessons. That's how I learned and it's invaluable. The best way to learn any kind of music is by learning from the person who originally put it out there. In this case Nile Rodgers should be your teacher simply by listening to Chic or Sledge tracks etc. If you can't work it out by ear then you best go learn how to do that. How do you think he learned? Charlie Christian was one of the the first electric guitar players but worked out what to do by listening to horn players on the radio. That guy was a genius. Ears like an elephant (African that is).
Allen Albright Seriously dude you must be a lot younger than me. When I was a teenager at school doing music aural abilities were a must and I am truly grateful for that. I live and grew up in the UK. I currently teach kids who went to the same school as I did yet they are not getting those skills that I was taught. Not only that but I was getting guitar lessons at the very same school from a visiting teacher who was fucking brilliant. They don't have that arrangement now due to cuts. Sad as fuck. Anyway I won't be posting any videos on youtube. I never have and never will. Therefore in your eyes I'm a liar or I'm not. However Nile Rodgers learned to play guitar the same way I did. Using his ears.
RIP Dave, greatest lessons on YT of Chic/Neil Rodgers/...
This guitar riff blew me away as a youngster
It really is funky as hell isn't it.
Still mind-blowing.
I can't get enough of listening to this song
I think the thing about Dave's lessons are is that he seems to have the best technique and crispness of his attack with the fingered individual notes and riffing as well as the crispness and syncopation needed on the strumming hand to make both work well and sound the closest to Nile Rodgers and the recording. You look around on YT, and everyone can do it, but they don't sound like the original recording. Mr. Price definitely understands that technique has much to do with replicating a guitar part/tone as the basic mechanics or notes/chords to play. He is great.
Fuck yeah, dave price you bloody legend!
Very good class my friend Dave .
Support Dave on Patreon if you're not already, you won't find better funk guitar tutorials anywhere else. He's the top teacher!
Should I spend time learning somebody else's thing or create my own thing if I can ?????
@@asiba2 learning never stops so it's totally up to you
@@asiba2 Its generally easier to create your own thing if you have a good sense of what came before.
AWESOME Instructional Video! THANK YOU, Dave Price!
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL ....DAVE...
Thanks so much. Your playing is spot on as well as your teaching.
Fantastic tutorials Dave - really simple to follow.
Cheers Gary!
Another great tutorial Dave! Keep up the good work here....learning so much from this.
Thank you for such a great lesson! Awesome playing!
Brooklyn was the place to be fun fun times
If you lived in my estate, we would be jamming all evening. Ive got keyboards, guitar, drums cant play any to a high standard but Im sure we could knock out a few Nile Rodgers tracks!! Excellent tutorial
Cheers! Glad you liked it.
All I've got is an old Ovation acoustic but this song is dang fun to play on it! Great lesson mate.
Great video with a great tune. Thanks for taking the time to show us
You are welcome.
A GREAT TUTORIAL DAVE (and a great song). MANY THANKS.
Great lesson. Thank you.
You’re welcome. Glad you liked it
Love this song nice job dude
Close enough for me, mate! Many thanks.
Great lesson as always
On your mark ready set let's go
Dance floor pro I know you know
I go psycho when my new joint hit
Just can't sit
Got to get jiggy wit it
awesome dave !
Nice chops Dave.....I was playing rhythm while you were doing the melody........felt good.
mhbass Cheers!
Bravo! Best tutorial on UA-cam. Could you post the link to backing track?
Nice groove and very well explained. congrats!
dave, I have been waiting to see if you was going to do a tutorial on this song. Al green song is 90% complete. Thanks, and thanks again. keep it coming.
You are welcome Roy. Glad to hear you are cracking on with the Al Green song.
Best dance track Ever!
Thanks Dave. I requested this one from you and have just spent the last couple of hours having a go at it. I've got the gist of it but it will take a little practice to get it perfect. I always wondered if it was played on a loop in the record but not so sure now. Thanks again for another great lesson!
You're welcome. To be honest, most of the time was taken recreating the backing track and working out the other parts. I checked out some of Nile's live performances on You Tube and I am pretty sure I've got it just how he played it. Have fun with the tune!
Thanks. Can I ask you how you link your video footage to the sound. I am trying to get into this myself and it is all a bit of a learning curve at the moment. Thanks
I think it depends on what software you are using. I use Imovie so I drag the audio file into the video window and then I line it up until the audio looks in synch with the video. For the lesson portion I just used the original audio from the video recording.
Thanks Dave! That answers my question pretty much.
I like Joe Satriani and Jimmy Page as much as the next guy, but I have to admit that I also have a real soft spot for this kind of infectious dance groove. In short, I luv' it! Thanks a lot Dave.
Thanks! I'm pretty much the same, listened to a lot of rock players in the '80s but also loved the classic grooves provided by the funk/disco players. Glad you liked the lesson.
Thanks Dave!
Awesome, thank you man!!!!
You are welcome.
Nailed it!
The funk master.
Love it.Well done!!
love it you got the funk
Well done.
Thanks.
Funky disco riff. Some great stuff also in the play out 10:10 at the end. Is that a 16th note triplet thrown in just before the fade out?
Yep.
Nice!!!! 🕺🏿🕺🏿🕺🏿
You really have a great great rhythm, its is just so in the middle, not ahead, not behind, and its so rare to be so good rhythmic today because of the lack of practice. The dynamic ....work on it. but i huess is becaude of the tutorial. cheers.
Awesome!
Great tutorial thanks! Does anyone have an idea how Niles tone was achieved on the original recording. I'm guessing some compression, nice clean amp and maybe a little chorus and slapback delay?
He might have DI'd through some outboard compressors
Gettin' jiggy wit' it!
3:50 full first part of the riff in slow motion
Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!! You legend!!!
where do you get theses backing tracks? Great tutorials BTW
Cheers! I made it by finding a free MIDI file on the Internet and then importing it into logic. From there I could fine tune the sounds and mix it.
Really nice. Just wondering if Nile uses some Delay on the recording, I've experimented with some slapback style delay but can't quite crack it.
I think it’s all about the right hand technique. You could emulate a sort of delay with some practice on your picking hand and a bit of palm mute, no pedals involved. That worked for me.
Brilliant
MartiW Cheers!
Nice tutorial on this song. This video really helped to understand what is going on in this song. But i have one question. What are you constantly looking at during the entire video?
+Charlie Spataro I have the music/tab on the computer moniter.
If you played the bass to make the backing track you really ought to do a lesson for that too. You've got the tone pretty good too. Good job
Thanks Robert. I did put down the bass on this track. I might leave the tutorial to the dedicated bass tutors out there. I am sure that every Bernard Edwards bass line has been covered somewhere on UA-cam by better bass players than me :)
Hi Dave, I'm sorry I might have missed some tips due to my bad understanding of English language, I don't get quite the same sound while playing the chords... Is there a special tuning or something to do to get that funky sound ?
Hi Frih. No special tuning, just a clean guitar sound with the guitar on the neck pickup. Pick quite hard on the single note line to get a snappy sound. Thanks
Dave Price Okay, thanks Dave ! I'll keep give it a try until it's perfectly clean. Thanks again for the great job by the way ;)
love it nice.
Hi Dave! What is the chord shape you are holding briefly at 10.25 - 10.26. Is it some other version of Gm7?
nicedog1 Gm11. Frets 6 6 5 from strings 1 - 3.
Got it! Thanks mate.
Any chance to post up those embellished chords you do on the outro? Are they just alternative fingerings of the Gm7 chord on the high strings? I want to expand my chord knowledge and create different voicings is there a good way to go about this. Cheers
They are mainly variations on the minor 7 chord such as m9 and m11 shapes. There are also some triad shapes built on 4ths. I will probably do a lesson on them in the future. Cheers
Great video. To the point but not too quick!
Thanks for watching!
Cool
Tasty. Such a fun song, I've done a bass cover of it on my channel.
Cool playing tab would be cool
ua-cam.com/video/qGjZuh0zv08/v-deo.html Do you know what he changes in the sister sledge riff in this video track starts at around 5:25
on the riff instead of doing open on G i use 5 on D
Wat a funk👍
First of all, thank you very much for the good lesson. I am having so much trouble with the timing of the second and third part of the riff.. This is so frustrating. Clearly the most difficult part of the song - at least for me, and I wish you focused more on it. You only demonstrate it either in full speed, or in very slow and out of sync way, which makes the timings extremely hard to nail for me.. I have no idea how I am going to learn this part. The rest was no problem.
Just saw your lesson on Le Freak, much better with the slow timing. In here it just seems so random with the speeds and how to string the parts together. I'm really sorry for my frustration, but I really want to learn this and for the last couple of hours, I haven't gone anywhere with that f***ing riff. Plus I'm slowly but surely going from loving the song to hating it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. And for future lessons, please play it slowed down with the metronome as in Le Freak.. Would help BIG time!
seananiosoki Thanks for the input Sean. At the time I felt I had done a thorough explanation and demonstation of the riff. I'm not sure what you mean about playing out of sync. Although I demonstrate without a click, I am playing in time when I play through slowly at 3:50. I will make playing slowly to a click something I do in future. One last thing, if you find yourself getting frustrated with a song then take a break and come back to it later. Often you find you make better progress that way. Cheers
Dave Price I finally got it locked down. Feel so relieved now.. It really helped sleeping on it and having another go at it the following day.
At the beginning, for me, it seemed that you shifted the tempo slightly up and down between the parts when you played it slow. Especially the break at 3:57 threw me completely off. I do see now that it was just my mind unnecessarily complicating stuff further (brain fart). Thanks for the lesson!
seananiosoki Maybe it was because you played it too slow, making it tougher for my mind to relate to the actual tempo off that riff, again, this is probably just my mental idiosyncrasies. Now I'm just truly perplexed on this, sitting back thinking how this ever got me so baffled and demoralised. But again, sorry for my frustration and, thanks for your time and this lesson, truly appreciated.
I'm not a guitarist, but I watched this video to see how the part fits into the song and to better understand the chord structure of it all. I think you are rather off on the verse, specifically towards the end of the second bar before it comes back around again. I think if you listen carefully I think you'll see what I mean... Great vid, tho.
+Michael Fearnley What do you think it is?
+Dave Price It's tricky to describe. If you like I could work it out and upload a short clip comparing what I think you're doing compared to whats on the original (on bass of course so it will probably be an octave lower). Will be a good exercise for my ear anyway.
+Michael Fearnley Go for it
kevin costner
Cheers! I will take that :)
5*****
sounds like the tempo is too slow
Fuck tabs. Use your ears and if you can't then go take some aural lessons. That's how I learned and it's invaluable. The best way to learn any kind of music is by learning from the person who originally put it out there. In this case Nile Rodgers should be your teacher simply by listening to Chic or Sledge tracks etc. If you can't work it out by ear then you best go learn how to do that. How do you think he learned? Charlie Christian was one of the the first electric guitar players but worked out what to do by listening to horn players on the radio. That guy was a genius. Ears like an elephant (African that is).
Allen Albright I did figure it out by ear, many years ago along with the majority of Chic and Sister Sledge guitar parts and long before the internet.
Allen Albright Seriously dude you must be a lot younger than me. When I was a teenager at school doing music aural abilities were a must and I am truly grateful for that. I live and grew up in the UK. I currently teach kids who went to the same school as I did yet they are not getting those skills that I was taught. Not only that but I was getting guitar lessons at the very same school from a visiting teacher who was fucking brilliant. They don't have that arrangement now due to cuts. Sad as fuck. Anyway I won't be posting any videos on youtube. I never have and never will. Therefore in your eyes I'm a liar or I'm not. However Nile Rodgers learned to play guitar the same way I did. Using his ears.
that is weak compared to the real
Nope