How To Play The Most Difficult Stevie Ray Vaughan Chord
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2023
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This is the most difficult (for me) SRV Chord I've ever tried to learn. It's a simple, yet seemingly impossible chord that had me feeling like a beginner all over again. Here's how I retrained my hands to be able to play it.
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Great video! Thanks! Even without learning the whole lesson there are valuable little bits in the video - e.g., “just swap these fingers around”. 👍🏻
Anthony, perchance you remember when Mark and Mudgett had Alley Cat Music located in Calder Alley? All of us young aspiring jazz guitarists were studying with a guy named Dave Klein who would give guitar lessons once a week at the store. Dave was "very fond" of this particular chord voicing you are describing in your video. I also had a difficult time learning the grip at first when Dave first introduced it to me. As a music theory geek, I recognized it as a variation of a typical diminished 7th chord grip. I proceeded to practice going back and forth in between the familiar diminished 7th chord grip and the chord grip you are talking about in your video. Eventually, months later, I was able to gradually add this #9 chord variation to my Chord Melody repertoire.
I do remember those days, I was a college student in the late 90's and I used to go there all the time. I never met Dave Klein so I don't know if he was still around when I used to go there. Lots of good memories from that store.
Guess it's all familiarity. This is a very common shape in my playing but ive seen a ton of your videos that left me stumped.
I've experienced the same thing with some player who are really great at a certain style, yet can't play a convincing rhythm to Pride And Joy.
That makes me want to practice cowboy chords with just my middle, ring, and pinky fingers. it's a d chord shape and a bar. Should be the most simple thing in the world, and isn't because of the fingers used and not being used to it. That's wild.
Solid lesson, homie!
Back in the day, when I was teaching many, many in-person private guitar lessons, I would often play basic chords with "alternate fingerings" when accompanying beginner students to work on technique and challenge myself.
Another story from "back in the day". One day I was walking downtown and spotted a large poster of Stevie in the window of The Apple Tree on College Ave. I decided to create a contest for my students that whoever was the first to identify the chord grip that Stevie was fingering on the poster would receive a free guitar lesson. One of my guitar students at the time, named Julian, correctly identified the chord as an Am7 chord - voicing lowest to highest string - X A X G C E played with discrete fingering. It looks like Stevie loved to throw in some sophisticated jazz chords into his blues playing.
I have found that one thing that complicates figuring out his chords based on videos or pictures is that his hands were apparently gigantic and things that are a big stretch look easy for him. Same thing with Hendrix.
This is going to take me a long time to get right but it will be worth it. Thanks for your hard work on this one, Anthony.
Man... I was pretty discouraged when I started because my fingers haven't been this unresponsive in years. But doing it over and over and over was the answer, as it usually is.
Well, you did a great job!@@Texasbluesalley
After 30 years I finally decided to stop
Using my little finger for 90% of my playing. If you have short pinky it’s going hold you back a bit. I’ve improved my speed, accuracy immensely.
what kind of pickups are those sir?
The man could fret whatever he wanted when ever he wanted. And because he was SRV he had to add grace notes and some rhythm thing. Oh and sing on top of it all. Not to mention the behind the back thing, 'cause you know apparently it's not hard enough.
What are those SRV chords called?
Try playing the blues using The SRV chord [x,x,14,15,16,15] as your I chord. It corresponds to a B7.
Then use the other chord you said SRV used as your IV [x,x,15,14,16,15]. This corresponds to E7.
Finally use [x,x,15,16,18,15] as your V chord! This is an F#7 chord.
Isn't that literally what I was showing? (except for the V chord)
i'd be real tempted to just mute out the b string ... that'd be lazy though
I'd be lying if I said that never crossed my mind. 🤣