Green Onions by Booker T & the MG's | Guitar Lesson
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- 🎸In this lesson, we'll learn how to play the awesome Green Onions by Booker T and The MGs, including the guitar solo by the all-time legend Steve Cropper, one of the finest guitarists ever. 👉 Over 700 Song Guitar Lessons With Chords, Tabs, & Lyrics: www.justinguitar.com/songs #justinguitar #guitarforbeginners #bookert
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00:00 Demonstration
00:48 Introduction
01:31 Riff 1
03:55 Chips
05:28 Play Through
06:16 Guitar Solo
07:07 Solo Tips
09:40 Playing Tips
11:45 Conclusion
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bro in high school i watched all your videos and this was in 2009, i play in 3 bands now and have gone on tour many times. your videos helped me learn as a young guitar player, i thank you very much and i hope your doing well and still rocking.
Dunn and Cropper... some of the best string players to ever grace music. R.I.P. D.D.D. :(
Amen!
To quote Donald from 'The Blues Brothers': "We had a band powerful enough to turn goat p*ss into gasoline."
Gary Smith
Superb line.
Actually erikdravn, Duck Dunn isn't on the original Green Onions record. BT&MGs original bassist was Lewie Steinberg. Duck replaced him by their 2nd album, I think. (Duck certainly had no problem copping the part on later, live recordings and performances of it.)
Admiral Quality
Thanks for the info. I didn't mean to imply otherwise however. ;)
Sorry to assume. It's a common misconception.
Cheers!
justin that was a great lesson but I loved your comments at the end the most. it is what i respect the most about musicians is the practise practise practise it takes. i have been playing for 40 years and i am still disapointed in my ability on the guitar to get what I want out of it,never had a lesson until internet came along and people like you that can teach me stuff I am so grateful thanks
Thanks Justin. I saw Steve Cropper last year in London. He's still a great player and has some excellent stories as well. Highly recommended.
Love this tune
Played it as a backing track on the looper in F,G.A and B all at different BPM
Great tune to practice solos over
Brilliant lesson as always Justin
THATS WHAT I CALL SOUL - SAW THEM IN THE LATE 60S - THEIR FIRST TIME IN THE UK. GREAT TUTORIAL AGAIN.
Great feel, great tone, great lesson!
Great lesson and love your passion and enthsiasm for Steve Cropper. I feel exactly the same way. Less is more.
You Sir are a proper gentleman, I really appreciated your video. Made my day. thanks you young gent.
Oh nice! More old-time classic stuff like this, please!
One of my fav teachers. Watch him as much as you can. Watch his posts. He is the best.
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Just got your Intermediate Method book and was reading the section on chips today, so I looked up how to play this song. And there you were again! Great, easy to follow lesson. Thank you.
Loving the channel Justin, I've played for over 20 yrs but have picked up some lazy habits. Good to go back to basics plus you never stop learning with the guitar in my opinion so thanks man.
Thanks Justin! I've had this nailed on the organ part for quite a while now (it literally took me years, finally watching a video of Booker playing it fixed my last few problems) but am still working out the guitar leads. (I had the rhythm riff okay.) This should get me the rest of the way there!
been playing guitar a very long time i think you are one of the best on youtube your easy to understand you teach not like some who just play fast and show great video's Tom Sylow Guitarist
hey love this tune! brings back memories from many years playing this in the car as we were heading off going to iilegal drags just as in the movie "American Graffiti".
So many techniques explained so simply and quickly here. Thanks Justin!!
Your end explanation on the ‘human’ magic is spot on! Great video 😊👍
Thanks a million. I got an EHX C9 a few months ago, so now it's time to transcribe that organ part
Teaching this to one of my students who actually is interested in classic style r&b
and blues so this is a must. It's funny that most of us of "a certain age" learned this
in the key of E way back when because it was easier to play that way, or maybe you
heard it passed down from someone else. For sure, the lead lick of the song was most
likely played in E by the old timers that invented it on guitars (Hooker!) but Booker T
was a keyboardist and those cats liked playing in flat keys when playing the blues. The
reason? They could FEEL the black keys and where they were all the time and those
flat notes often are the more bluesy sounding notes. So ... this song was recorded
in F, certainly a stretch for a guitar player on those low notes that double the bass.
Justin has it right on the money. If it were in E, you wouldn't hear those half tones in
the solo when Cropper bent the notes just so. Makes a whole lot of sense when you see
someone play this correctly or, as we say, "just like the record." Justin has that '66
Tele sounding authentic, too. Cropper played one like it, maybe a bit older but maybe
not. He used the rosewood board Tele's, which have a bit darker sound than the maple
but still plenty of snap and twang. I think rosewood board Tele's get a short shrift.
Maple is the hip thing these days on Telecasters and it sounds fantastic, too. But
Mike Bloomfield had one and so did Jimmy Page. Plenty of twang but a touch more
tone, in my opinion. Bluesier, perhaps more rock or soul sounding.Those guys did just
fine with rosewood! Check out Bloomfield's sound on the first Butterfield Band album
or on Dylan's Highway 61 or Bringing It All Back Home. Especially Maggie's Farm,
Like A Rolling Stone or anything on first Butter album. It's cutting and powerful, not
just twangy. Robben Ford has been playing a '61 Tele like this and it's killer ... Another
great lesson, Justin!
wow very informative comment!
i play alot of Classic R&B, blues, folk, country, rockabilly, rock, and everything in between.
Tho, I'm all self taught.
+larry geetar Great comment! I'd like to get one of those old Teles with a rosewood neck. I also would like to know what amp Justin is using. Guess?
+Harry Dial A bit further down in comments he says it's a '66 Tele
through an 80's Super Champ (behind him) with some reverb. I have
a '68 rosewood board Tele I usually play through a '65 Re-issue Deluxe Reverb. Even though I'm really more of a Strat guy, the Tele has it's
own mission in life. Which it succeeds at.
+JJ Sanchez Me, too. But in over 50 years as a pro I learned a hell of a lot
from just playing music with other people. When I started to teach 13 years
ago I learned A LOT MORE. You can always learn even if you're the teacher.
Keep at it, my friend. It's journey, not the destination.
im actually playing a Chinese knockoff of a strat but it still gets the job done and i play anything from heart shaped box (nirvana) to eagles tequila sunrise and even some mark knopfler every now n again
greatest song ever
One of my all time favourites fro Way-Back when. Thanks so much for posting it. Haven't seen you do that many songs / tunes on the electric jobs.
Outstanding breakdown, Justin. Helped me tremendously!
Thanks for the lesson! I’ve been wanting to learn this! :D this will so help in my career as a guitarist 😁
Always great vidoes! Thanks Justin!
Perfect Tone like your demo is a big key to doing this tune also.. You nailed it!
Outstanding lesson. THANK YOU
You were right, Justin! Great choice!
I love bluesy songs!!
Just starting to work on this, so far lots of fun and challenge.
Thanks so much. Had to learn this for a gig. Saved me time!
You are a great teacher! This is one of the best i've seen.
great lesson Justin. keep it coming.
Bravo the tutorial and the advice! Cheers, mate!
Awesome video! Thank you very much1
Yeahhhh Justin! Thats the song we were waitin for! :)
That was great. Thank you Justin.
Thanks a lot mate!
Great lesson to many guitarists!
You are also a great teacher!
Just classic, huge thanks Justin!
by jove old boy , you done it once again ! absolutely top drawer old stick .
Thankyou Justin! bless you for that
I just got an EH B9 organ pedal, excellent for this number as T Booker and MGs did
I have loved this song since I was a little boy (I'm 52) Thanks SO MUCH for posting!!
+nursetom61 I have loved this song since I was a little boy too (I'm 25 ;)
i too have loved this song since i was a little boy, i am 29 now, and i think i speak for a lot of people when i say, we all remember this song as little boys, let it live on to the next generation, when you drive or out walking and you are listening to green onions, ...you are king :)
Great Lesson. Thank you.
Awesome. Steve Cropper would be proud. Thank you.
Cheers 😊
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Great lesson Justin, thanks!
Thank you Justin !!
Brilliant as usual Justin.
So THAT'S how you do it! Thanks!
Sounds great in the opening!
love your spirit!
Realy cool, thx bro!
excellent helpful video, thank you for sharing..
Thanks for this, couldn't quite work out the 'chip' chord!
Love it!
Thanks !
Brilliant video, thanks man
Great Lesson man Thanks!
Dude your an amazing teacher this is so easy to me now thanks a bunch 😎
Fantastic exercise buddy, thanks!
Just put this through the Ditto looper ... I sound amazing! :-) Cheers man.
Thank You
thanks a lot :)
I've just learned to play my all time favourite song and solo :D
I really enjoy your lessons, they are very easy to follow along to. Just subscribe, hope to see more great songs soon.
THANKS JUSTIN
Thanks brother
THX!🔥
Luv it
3rd - haha - great song to learn!
Thanks Justin 🎸
Great post Justin, love this song and love your tele. Wondered if you could put your talents to doing a lesson for Spirit's version of Like a Rolling Stone. Randy California was such an underrated guitarist and this version of Dylan's classic is so sublime and so different. Thanks for all the great lessons.
Great lesson! Thanks man!
good lesson 👍 🤙 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸
I'll enjoy breaking out the 72 custom for this, nice one
Awesome job, as usual Justin :) I always enjoy going back to your channel. Take care :)
Wow, it's great!
lovely lesson very cool song
all the way from malta thanks mr
Great vid, thanks!
you're awesome!!!!.
@ Justin: Hey, great Steve Cropper lesson! Steve is the man! One pointer, though: When you move into the second half of the solo, don't forget to kick in your reverb. That's what Cropper does on the recording, and it makes a nice tonal contrast to the first part of the break. You did a great job showing the subtlety and little touches in his guitar part. Cropper gets slagged sometimes by people who don't know any better as being "too simple" or the like, but if you dig into his playing, there is so much that makes it unique, tasty and memorable. The late great producer for Atlantic Records, Jerry Wexler, once paid Cropper the compliment of saying that of all of the players he'd work with as a producer, he could only name Steve Cropper and the great Cornell Dupree as the only guys able to hold down rhythm and lead guitar at the same time. For those who are fans of Booker T. and the MGs, be sure to check out their later work, too. Their sound as an instrumental group evolved as the 1960s went on, and all of them accumulated thousands of hours of session and live performing experience. Their later works were much more sophisticated, yet just as irrepressibly hip, funky and drenched in soul. Their last studio LP as a group, "Melting Pot," contains pure instrumental bliss for lovers of their style. There were a couple of tunes with vocalese on them that sound dated today, but the rest are gems. Cropper and the rest of the group were singular and amazing musicians, and their influence was vast. How vast? When the Beatles came to tour North America in 1964-1965 , guess what group from Memphis they couldn't wait to meet? Since Stax folding, Booker T. and the surviving original members -drummer Al Jackson, Jr. was killed in a home invasion in 1975 - have gone on to record with a virtual who's who of A-list groups and musicians, carving out a unique place in popular music history for themselves.
Fantastic comment, thank you. Steve Cropper was so well regarded. Cheers 😊
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Excellent "comment". Thank you for taking the time and effort to provide the education. I was 12 years old when this song came out and had just gotten my first guitar. I remember how hard it was to try to play the lead just like Cropper did. It was many years later that I got the hang of it but not with the same "rhythm & soul" that Copper had.
@@notbraindead7298 - Hey, don't feel bad! None of us can play the way Cropper did.... "Play it, Steve!" is what Sam and Dave exclaimed in "Soul Man," and they weren't kidding. Cropper is a legend many times over. I don't know what they put in the water down that way, but that area sure produced a lot of great musicians.
I got to see Steve, Booker and Duck along with their drummer whose name I regretfully can't recall, on their reunion tour twenty five or thirty years ago, and it was one of the highlights of my musical life.
the keyboard is fun to play when you convert it to guitar.
Keyboard is fun no matter what
Great Tone!
Fantastic
A classic
My father played this song by ear…and so plan on doing the same!
I like it green oion sound's great
good stuff
Great lesson...saw that blanket at Target!
great!
Love the tone - spot on! Do I see a couple of Justins' lesser seen electrics on the wall behind (SG/Gretsch)?
Great lesson, would it sound better with the trebles slighting boosted then?
Thanks as always! Could you help with "Thunderstruck" by ACDC? I'm having lots of trouble playing it at speed.
holy cow Justin! You look so much younger here. I guess we all looked a lot younger in 2014! :)
sympatoche !
great!
not so easy but fun. especialy the solo. I´ve been playin that to the original since one our now. My girlfriend is starting gettin bored. I stop for today. Thanks Justin :)
...so Cropperesque: thank you so much Justin.
Now I have a new tune for my jamman looper
Great job, Justin. I love your feel. You really helped me on the Whole Hearted by Extreme. You are great guitar player. Keep doing what you do... And if you can find that last Tasmanian Devil, never mind...
Thanks so much!
Cool
cheers!