Guitar intro solo lesson Sweet Jane. Steve Hunter/Dick Wagner from Lou Reed's Rock & Roll Animal
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2019
- My performance video of this solo • SWEET JANE Solo Cover ...
My first lesson for the absolutely amazing intro solo to Sweet Jane live from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal album from 1973, by the dual guitar team of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. A lot of requests for this one, so I thought that it would be the first. That and the fact that there appear to be no other tutorials for this solo on UA-cam, so I might have the first for this one.
There are flaws in this tutorial as it's my first video lesson, but I'll get better at this I'm sure. It's a long one and a lot to digest. It was also a lot to get straight in my head, so I apologize if It gets a bit muddled at times.That said, I hope it helps you guys and gals out who wish to learn this brilliant and classic solo.
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Good luck!
Cheers, Kelly
One of the greatest solos of all time. I was blown away when I first heard it and it never stopped amazing me!
Nice ..... I was backstage the night this album was recorded.....a friend of mine did set changes at the Academy of Music in NYC and did the letters on the marquee and got me in.....at one point Lou Reed came up to him and said he wanted the title of the album put on the marquee which was Rock and Roll Animal.....so we went and grabbed the letters and proceeded to put them up on the marquee...... I was holding the ladder ...... I remember the show was so loud backstage I thought I'd go deaf.....great show.....great album.... Lou was truly an original.....as was his Music
The first time I heard this (intro) version of sweet jane was in 1975. It is just as amazing today as it was back then. I gave up looking for a video lesson years ago and today I decided to look for it again. Thank you KDAG and thank you Mr. Hunter & Mr. Wagner!
One of the greatest intros ever. No wonder Lou fired them, they stole the show, Lol. Great Job on the breakdown. Thanks!
Ero poco più di un bambino quando ascoltavo "Rock N Roll Animal" e sognavo di suonare l'assolo intro di sweet jane, tu lo hai reso possibile!
Grazie
I was little more than a child when I listened to "Rock N Roll Animal" and dreamed of playing sweet jane's intro solo, you made it possible!
Thank you
This is GREAT! I've been a Lou fan for many years, even got to shake his hand and while I play tons of his songs (they're mostly 3 chord ditties), this was always the holy grail. I've tried to tackle it a few times, to no avail. My ears aren't great and sussing out one guitar from the other was also daunting. You've done a great job to make it workable for one guitar and I can't thank you enough!!
The guitars are hard panned on the record. So you can easily study the left channel for Wagner, and the right channel for Hunter.
Just fantastic Kelly, but I really don’t understand how anyone can give this immense time and effort performance a thumbs down!!.... you go Kelly I tip my hat to you Sir 👍👍👍
Man, I bought Lou Reed live when I was 15 and I thought the guitar intro to Sweet Jane was one of the best I'd ever heard. And the just yesterday I saw a clip of this concert and I was blown away!
FANTASTIC, Kelly!! I wish I'd found you sooner, and I agree, one of the finest song openings ever! Thanks for taking us through this, you are gifted and I will be on the lookout for many more from you!!
Many thanks for the breakdown and fantastic lesson. This intro has always been the gold standard.
I just watched an interview with Steve Hunter. He used an SG through an old tweed twin. He said the whole band was in the room, he couldn't hear the vocals in his cans on the first run through, they fixed the issue and he ran through it a second time just trying parts out. The producer told him that was a take and he left. He said the band seemed tired and he heard a rumor the record company was putting pressure on them and they were supposed to mix the album the next day.
Thanks, I have loved this solo for many years and now it is within reach. With appreciation, Dan
My pleasure Dan. Anything I can do to bring this great solo to more ears, the better. Enjoy learning it.
THANK YOU! I have been looking for this lesson for years!!
...best live album ever! Rock n' Roll!!!
I just stumbled on to this lesson while listening to Sweet Jane. What a great job, very detailed and easy to follow. Thank you very much!!!
Your a great teacher. I hope my neighbors like this cause their gonna hear it for the next 20 years! Thanks to you Steve and Dick!
Great job have loved this since I first heard in the 70’s
Much appreciated Kelly. You did such a good job. That takes persistence and patience to work that out. One of my favourite solos too.
I love this jam. I often start it over once the song kicks in.
That's one of my very favorite solo's of all time
Thanks Kelly. I have loved this version of Sweet Jane for years. I'm trying to encourage my daughter to both start playing guitar and to love Lou Reed. As a start I've shown her how to play the chords for Sweet Jane on the ukulele.. Gotta start somewhere. Brilliant lesson and thanks for sharing.
I’ve been wanting to learn this solo for a long time. You’re the first person to make that a reality for me and many others. Thank you!!
My pleasure Joe!
Doo... very cool , I 100% agree it’s one of the great rock and roll intros
/and solos of all time . I’ve always wanted to play it .. and you’ve made it easy , thanks Doo.
Thanks dude, the intro came to mind after forgetting about it for a bunch of years, and I remembered that intro was damn good. I was surprised you knew how to play it, and explain it so well. Thanks again, you sir, rock!
Fantastic lesson! Thank you.
11:47 can make me feel like crying
-it just hits me... so much cutting in & out of my head. It's that damn good
That's probably my favorite intro.thanks so much
Oh man, I've been trying to play this for years! Probably because I've not been doing my home work and just tried to play the hard way! I agree, it is, one of the most underated solo's and one of the best rock solo's of all time!
Anyway, I've been on the right track as it goes, but some of the points where I keep getting stuck, I've managed to iron out as I've been watching your lesson, so its been a great help. Great lesson, so thank's for that! Can't understand why others havn't tried to do this vid too??
oh Kelly, you're such a Canadian, starting off with a minute of apology :)
Haha, true I suppose.
Poms[English] also apologize a hell of a lot, they can't stop!
@@KellyDeanAllenGuitar i want you to know some people appreciate that !! :D have a nice day
I love Canadians. Nicest people in the world!
This is awesome! Thank you for doing this.
Brilliant glad I discovered your videos have always loved this solo taken me back to my youth. Many thanks Des
You did an excellent job with this.... I've been wanting to figure this out for years...thank you
Thank you so much! that's one of my favorite albums your video help so much!
This is absolutely in the top 10 of opening solos, if not the very top. Can't believe this came out in 1974. It seems like yesterday we'd be knocking back beers after work listening to the LP. Great job on the solo cover, that's so cool that Steve himself gave a like. Very well-deserved! Regarding advising beginners, Dave Alvin once said that a guitarist told him to learn a hard song he liked. So he did, and it was simpler for him after that. I'm learning a different song with 2 solos than run about 3 minutes total but instead of feeling daunted I'm finding it makes me focus, makes me listen that much more, as well as practice more. Tabs help immensely, but anyone can just slow down the video playback speed on YT and tab it out if so desired. Great job!
Great lesson... Those guys were phenomenal.
Love this song..
Thanks for taking the time to do this, thumbs up.
No problem man. Good luck with it!
Excellent.. Thank you!
I’m only 15 minutes in and I say: awesome!! I’ve covered this intro and belabored the licks but this spells them out better than I ever could! You have quite an ear,sir!
This is a great lesson! Thanx a million...!!!
Pleasure is mine.
How have I never seen this channel??? Let’s goooo I’ve been looking for this song too
If Steve says it’s good, that’s good enough for me.
Awesome job, thanks!
I get goosebumps everytime I hear it...
Thanks for this Kelly, I have wanted to learn this for forever, one of my favorites, made me make a guitar face even before I could play guitar, this lesson is a gem, breaking it into sections to put together like when I learned "The Rain Song", that was easier than this one although the A Aeolian scale I have known forever so that makes me see the road map here, again thanks!!!
My pleasure Jim!
Thank you , really appreciate it !
Nice job!. One thing though - this was played on Les Paul TV Special ( no neck pickup installed according to Steve). Only 22 frets so those 23rd and 24th fret notes must be bends from the 20th,21st or22nd fret. He used an MXR phaser for that sound. I've read 2 interviews. In one he says he used an MXR Phase 90 and a Hiwatt 100watt and in the other interview he says a Phase 90 and an old Marshall head with a single quad. We'll never hear this level of artistry again.
Very nice job Kelly, highly appreciated many thanks from the Netherlands
Love this,your playing is top draw.nobody doing this better than you.your the man.!!
Nice work! Thanks.
Very well done! Thanks fo the tuition.
Thanks so much for that great lesson !
My pleasure mate!
Superb. Thank you so much for your extraordinary work , clearly devoting much time and effort into expertly breaking down what is surely one of the greatest rock guitar solos of all time. Also loved your performance in the accompanying TR link. Three cheers and more - you've done something truly worthwhile.
Thanks Scot! This needed a tutorial as there weren't any available. One of the great classic intro solos of all time.
Kelly, I love u man. And we only met 10 min ago ;-) Always really loved this intro. Saw them as a young kid in Amsterdam on this tour, still got the bootleg album of it I bought in the Haarlemmer street very shortly after the concert. I am so grateful u came up with this. And ur first lesson as well; amazing. I am gonna get some new strings 2morrow and give it a go.
Great job!!
An amazing solo and album, was blown away when I discoveredthese tracks about 10 years ago, became required listening and have been toying with these solos forever. Similar to the solo to Rock and Roll, I always felt they (Hunter and Wagner) switched between straight diatonic playing over one chord, then played mixolydian/blues style over the next chord, hitting all the notes, not just the ones in key. I mention this because, I do not hear the A-minor scale over the Bb, I hear G-minor. Am I the only one?
Not just pentatonic playing, not just one scale, not just one key, is what I hear.
Your playing is excellent.
You ARE right THERE IS more to the ear than this man ezplains BUT the harmonys are splendidly done so is his way of teaching STRAIGHT forward and understandable BUT YEAH I also hear g minor and A b flat and I HAVE heard A dorian too
You killed it. Thank you. Sweet Jane Intro and EC was here Further on up the road are on my Deathbed List
hello, greetings and thanks from Italy !!!
I knew I was going to enjoy this when you spoke about how underrated this solo is...or how little attention it gets. This is my all time favorite rock band live guitar solos. Thank you!
I don't know guitar, and I can't play guitar, but that was the MOST fun I've had watching a tutorial👏👏👏. I love that guitar intro on Sweet Jane, and it was fantastic to watch and listen to you run through it. Well Done👍🤗!!!
Thanks man! Haha. Glad you liked it even though you may not have understood it.
Fantastic job! Would that all video lessons were as clear and helpful!
A natural minor scale .....Thanks for the tip and demo .... You have just opened a whole new path I had forgotten about ....Cheers Kelly I love your video ;-)
Here's my attempt ua-cam.com/video/0PdjNPnaVbY/v-deo.html a few years back.
You are the man.
WOW, THANK YOU.
Cool fantastic thank you
Such a good solo so fun to play
just wanted to thank you so much for paying this forward....love this old time music from the '70s... great choice on a first lesson...i've been up half the night trying to learn it.... congratulations on steve hunter giving you a thumbs up! CHEERS
My pleasure! A fantastic solo. Have fun with it. Hope my tutorial is fairly clear. It's my first. I'm sure I'll get better as I go along.
Excelente video 🏅gracias por la explicación 👍
Took on a monster for your first lesson. Great job and thanks!
That I did! A bit nuts really, haha.
thanks man great lesson!...
Thanks man! It was my first. Hope it helped. I don't do a whole lot of tutorials but I'm getting better at it.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING JOB ON THIS EPIC SOLO !! Your patience and willingness to share your knowledge with the rest of us is GREATLY APPRECIATED !! YOUR a GREAT Guitar player and Teacher !! made my Year by Teaching this !! can't thank you enough !! This solo is in my top 10 And what 9 Douche Bags could actually give this a thumbs down !! ROCK ON !!
Great job🥂✨, that must’ve taken hours to figure out. You make a very good teacher and you have a great tone👌🎯
Thanks Kelly, I really like the Sweet Jane intro solo on the live Lou Reed Album, Was something very impressive. Kudos to you for the lesson, Will try and take some of it on board, and maybe get to sound a little like the original. Cheers
Thanks!
I agree, the greatest guitar intro piece of all time
wow Kelly.. youre amazing and you were the first to teach this solo in the right way and sound....please a tutorial about your setting for this one....Thanks
Amazing lesson Kelly !!!! And your solo performance is outstanding !!!!! Can you do the Rock n Roll intro also ?
Kelly, Thanks so much for posting this. This is my all time favorite guitar intro and I agree it should be ranked in the top 10 .I watched your previous post of this intro about 100 times working to nail it. I was a lead singer in a successful regional band and we opened with Sweet Jane . Waiting back stage I had to listen to every note by he and enter the stage on the first chord. Later I picked up the guitar and this lead has remained with me as the greatest ever.During this coronavirus I will be making this my daily new learning bite lesson to perfect it. Thanks again.
Once upon a time Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter, Pentti Glan, Prakash John and with Davey Johnstone borrowed from Elton John hit the road. In the top ten near the top of all the bands was Alice Cooper. Dick Wagner was on 12 albums by Alice. Dick became ill. He had NPH "Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus" in which a buildup of spinal fluid puts pressure on the nerves that control the legs, bladder and cognitive function, causing symptoms that mimic Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. After five years Alice was waiting and away they went.
"Rock 'n' Roll Animal" in 1974 and "Live: Take No Prisoners" in 1978 were both above and beyond. The first one was a tight jam. The second was anything but with Lou in a talkative mood and filter less.
Been working on this piece for awhile now. Always loved it. Thanks for presenting this, too fucking cool!
thanks for the awesome lesson. I started a couple of days ago. I am taking it in little chunks. It is a little hard to follow at times because it is so long. But it is big fun. I will finish it up today or tomorrow. I am playing it on an acoustic which makes it a little more challenging I guess. I am playing an octive down in some spots but it works. I will move to my 57 les Paul and new Strat to see how it sounds on those once I get this down. Thanks again. Well done!
I play drums, not guitar.... but I loved this lesson because I also love that solo... I'll watch this lesson again just for fun....
Thanks for this
Pleasure mate.
Nice.
Thank You!
My pleasure man.
Excellent lesson ! I mean it , and thank you for remembering mister HUNTER AND WAGNER ,or make them discovered by youngsters .excuse my english , i'm french and since i was 14 that's my favorit piece of music ever with sweat jane folllowing....
and rock and rolll and the double solo on oh jim ...
super smiley !! : )
i play guitar since and i'm 14 and i' have 49 years old now .your playing is perfect , i say !
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
Great video lesson, What are you using for sound peadls?
Times work! Fore you man
One of my all time favorites! You play it slightly different as I use double stops for that duo lead sound in the beginning but your rendition is excellent. Thanks. P.S.: Tabs would be a help for many players as well as there's a lot of lead work here.
Found tabs on tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/lou-reed/sweet-jane-guitar-pro-736679; and use it with Guitar Pro.
How could anyone give this a thumbs down????
I gave you a like for the sheer brain power behind almost an hour of reciting fret numbers and strings! I’ve always wondered about those notes above the 22nd fret, even forced myself to believe he may have slipped a slide on or used a flat ring. Nothing like going large on your first lesson! One suggestion, break it up into multiple parts, play the part you’re going to teach with a rhythm backup so we remember the section and the key change, and keep on producing. You have a lot to teach!
Yeah, was my first tutorial. Went big on it without really knowing what I was doing. I should have broken it up, you're right. I never knew a fret number in my life before doing this. Certainly not how I play, by fret number. Had to learn them all. Was tough.
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How you set up : bass middle and trebale , for this song? Thanks!
Kelly Dean, would you consider a detailed tutorial of Young Man's Blues cover by The Who Live at Leeds? One of the greatest live rock tunes and no one has done a thorough tutorial.
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Yep long intro stuff of legends.
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All right! Would it be too much to ask if you could show us the solo on Sad Song from Berlin album? Thanks Fabrice from France
Thanks master....Now I can learn lick by lick this amazing solo....but can you share your setting...because your Jackson sounds like a Les Paul that we heard on the recordiig... Regar
Afternoon Kelly, just wondering if you could fill be in on the chords that you play at the end of the solo, when the song begins. Having trouble finding them online anywhere. Thanks!
Just power chords. A to D to G. Then G to C to F#. Then F# to B.
Then the main riff of Sweet Jane. E to B to A to C# to B.
How 'bout lady day or how do you think it feels. So many favorites to choose from. All pretty cool ...lou reed rocks and always has a killer band.