Rush have admitted that in the early 80's they were listening to The Police (and Talking Heads). You can really see how Andys work influenced Alex, and Stewarts rhythms influenced the whole band. Everyone is a winner in that marriage. Thanks for the lesson. Loving this series.
Yeah I remember reading that in an old magazine. Geddy fully admitted it- that their change was do the Police. Also Phill Collen was hugely influenced by the the Police, they were going for Police meets Ac/DC on Hysteria
Synchronicity is such an amazing and underrated song. It's so complex; yet it works so well you don't realize it until you really dissect the song. A lot of the Police's songs are like this.
Murder by Numbers was one of the greatest tunes from The Police that not many folks know about, thanks for posting this, Paul Gilbert does a good instrumental version of the song as well...
Found out watching a Hugh Padgham interview that Murder by Numbers as we know it from the album was not only first take.. it was the first time they’d even run through it after writing it earlier that evening. 😳
Really nice run through of some of Summer's stuff. My older brother turned me on to the music of The Police in the Fall of 1979 with Regatta De Blanc. I've been enamored with them and every single one of the 5 albums they made ever since. So uniquely talented, all three of 'em.
Thank you for this! Always loved Andy’s playing. Awesome to see the shapes of those “Murder By Numbers” chords. I had no idea what he used to get those sounds.
Synchronicity came out just about the time I turned 16. Massive beyond words. 1983 was a busy music year. Thriller, 1999, Pyromania, Eliminator, Synchronicity, and my favorite of that year, War. And all of that when MTV was taking off at full throttle.
Fascinating stuff. I never understood musical theory, but always loved the textures and sounds of Andy’s playing, just like I love Pat’s playing. For me it’s just about the feeling.
Great job! I strugled with these with my guitar and casette player 40 years ago. I listened and played only punk music 1978, before I heard Message in a bottle. It changed everything. It was like magic. I understood later those same inclusions. A big part of that magic were andys ability use "jazz chords". After power chords they were like the other world.
Thanks for the comment and watching (BIG time), and I completely feel the same way and experienced a similar event when I was younger. It wasn't until I heard groups like The Police (along with Yes, Rush, and others) that I started to notice things that weren't power chords being played in rock music. I knew regular major/minor bar chords, but I kept hearing these different flavors and sounds and didn't really understand what was going on behind the scenes. It was confusing to me until I realized that you can basically play anything that you want in music, but having it flow and make sense musically is another story (and the bigger challenge). Anyone can select a chord, but having that selected chord work within a progression or during the course of a song is another thing altogether. The pieces are important, but so is how it's all assembled together that really matters. In a lot of ways, hearing these songs and attempting to learn them back then really helped open my eyes/ears to new sounds and flavors used in music. The Police really were my stepping stone to help me understand some of what was happening jazz music. Once again, great comment and thanks for watching! Take care! : )
Yes, I´m a bit tired to hear about Stings ego and character. How selfish and arrogant he is and...you know. He is still a man who has composed most Polices hits (and many more) and his unique singing voice was big part of that magic sound also. After all there were three very talented musicians right time in the right place and rest is history. Stewart´s drumming style was just like Stings voice. I can recognise it so fast when I hear it. And maybe many of their songs wouldn´t never born, without all those tensions in the band. It has been so great to hear so many very talented musicians to tell , how big influence Polices music has been to they carrieers. Many of them experienced that band just like I did. Well, atleast almost;) Yep. Yes, Rush, Genesis, Triumph, Journey...I hear you:) Thank you and keep up with the great work! I will follow what you´re going to do in future;)@@LateNightLessons
Cool video! Andy's one of my heroes :-) I have a 3/4-size Strat that I had originally bought for my Sons; Those 'stretchy' chords are really easy to play on that one, LOL! ;-)) By the way, cool also the 'Fair Warning' cover in the background :-) Thank you, and all the best from Wellington, NZ :-)
Thanks so much for giving us the Correct phrasing and proper fingerings. There's tons of guys to show well this is how i play it. Not interested. I'd like to learn it exactly how it's played. Thank you for your tireless work in getting everything right and sharing with us. New subscriber from Canada
Guess I'm one who has played murder wrong for a lot of years. Thanks for clearing that up. I'd love to see how to play the chords in round midnight that Andy does with sting. Such great sounds! I was about 13 when I started trying to figure out message in a bottle and bring on the night with nothing but my ear. I'm kind of glad it was like that though. I think the struggle brought me closer to the music and taught me more than I would have learned having this type of video available. However, I sure do love having these types of videos available now. Thanks for taking the time to put it out for us.
On closer inspection, I am comforted by the fact that my first chord, an inside diminished up the neck at E is all the same notes as his real first chord. The second I just moved down to D and kept the inside diminished. This turns out to be a little different, but not too different that I couldn't get away with it. I had the third chord right, but failed to move the bass note down. All and all, I like the right way better... Of course.
One thing about Andy Summers in the studio with The Police are a lot of the studio recording guitar tracks are single recordings and no overdubs. Murder by Numbers was definitely a single recording track for the entire song. I think the guitar on Every Breath You Take is a single recording too.
I was thinking the same thing. I listen to Dominic's albums/music regularly. There's a reason Sting gravitated to both Andy Summers and Dominic Miller.
Great breakdown of Andy's work. I like the reference to the Evidence you mention at around 10.57 for Murder By Numbers. You should have been a detective lol. As you mentioned, you can hear how not only Andy, but how The Police influenced music/bands. Great video, cheers.
Excellent breakdown. Andy is a Huge influence on me as I play in a trio and have to fill some space with no time for wank wank solos. I love your explanation of the 9th chord stretch with 11ths, sus2 sus4...they take away from the 1-4-5 power chord boredom and 100% agree works the arm/wrist. Good position control and strength is a must (with Andy or classical) to play it clean like you do. I got the trick when I saw Sting plays the ninth chords on "Message in a Bottle" Secret Policemans Balls. Then I learned "Roxanne" as a young buckaroo banzai and suddenly a whole bunch of "Reggae" and "Funk" chords fell into my vocabulary that I still write with today. Now I'm going to listen to I Advanced masked and Bewitched (with Fripp). "Your music is a mfer"- Branford Marsalis complementing a misunderstanding Sting. Bring on the Night movie.
I'm two years behind on this great post. Damn Dave....'Message In a Bottle' is so hard to play, and you make it look so easy!?!? Well done sir! As a mediocre guitar player [at best] myself, when 'MIAB' comes on the radio...my fretting hand starts to hurt!!! My brain starts to hurt!!!
Thanks. Really cool! In live versions of "message in a bottle", (1) Summers does really interesting things when Sting is singing "message in a bottle" and (2) there's a second guitar playing a great harmony during the main db-a-b-f# progression. Would love to see your take on those.
Awesome! Murder by Numbers was always my favorite Police song and one of my favorite chord progressions ever. I have a good ear and figure'd it out correctly, but I'm no Guthrie Govan and was playing the first chords in the wrong position. I remember Guthrie from Guitar Techniques too (that's the best guitar magazine I ever got by far), but must have missed that issue.
Dig this one! Murder by Numbers might be the raison d’etre for the ChordPlay series. Always thought those chords were nuts!...and now I’m all over it. Thanks for the leg up! You could def do a few more on Andy! Great stuff David! Your Strat tone is really nice too. Wish you had it close mic’d too but I’m getting used to the room sound. Just added Synchronicity to my vinyl pickup list. Saw a nice copy a coupla months back. Shoulda grabbed it then.
Well spotted on the muting. Summers has the best right hand muting in the business. Congrats on getting the sus2 in message correct nearly everyone on you tube plays the riff incorrectly with open strings. Every breath only hurts when you stop the riff and go to the F 😁😄. I can recommend Summers “HotLicks” DVD it’s rare now . I originally got it on VHS around 85 ish. But it’s really worth seeking out on DVD. It’s definitive.
I'm still learing guitar (as you can see above), but I discovered the SuS2 interval trying out some warm up stretches, and since then I've noticed several bands from the late 80's use a variation of it. I'm working "Gods of War" by Def Leppard, and the verse is all versions of that riff idea.
The chords of andy summers, aka how to blow a tendon in your fret hand lol I always dreaded when message in a bottle was coming up in my cover bands set lol
If you watch the video of Every Breath you Take you can observe how Andy Summers plays it without the sustained stretching. He said he got that fingering idea from classical guitar studies.
The Matthew Good Band would be amazing to do. The songs Giant and Born to kill in particular have really cool intros that sound so different and have always stumped me.
I call the Message In A Bottle sus2 chords "astral chords" because of their cosmic quality. I can detect them anytime a guitarist stumbles upon them. Nowadays I've heard a heavy usage of them in djent music.
Excellent. I base my clean sound on Andy Summers tone. Stereo Chorus for DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘Dude what are the chords for OmegaMan off of Ghost In The Machine? That would be a great lesson. Hint hint😜
Doesn't Andy Summers move his index finger from the root string to the fourth string on Every Breath You Take? So, on the initial A chord, he moves in index finger from E5 to G6 when he hits the C# in that chord?
Yes he does, watch the official music video for the song on here and you will see it, he stopped doing that along with playing that note altogether later in their more recent concerts, I imagine because he is getting older and probably can't hit it as well as he used to, I know when I learned that song (the hard way, the way he plays it originally), my fret hand wrist hurt for like 4 days after making it all the way through the song just once at speed.
@@nkogliaz with my stubby fat Irish hands, I could never play it. The shape is simply too far to stretch for my hands. I can see Andy stretching to the limits of his fingers to cover those shapes in the video and some live clips from 83/84. And i can imagine the wrist pain for 4 days afterward!!!
Good call! I learned this recently and missed the E moving to F# on the D string in the second and third chords in that sequence as he does also in this video. So the third chord ends up being F#m6 with the m3 (A) in the bass.
Nice video. However, I found it ironic, that the official UA-cam channel of Andy Summers' videos itself only got very small views, even if it has been started since many years ago and he constantly uploads videos there, including videos which show his guitar playing, technique etc. I wonder what's wrong about it
Walking on the Moon is just a G7 sus chord... (G with 7 and 4th instead of 3rd.) without the G. Synchronicity ll the chromatic part it's an A, then it's a D with bass in A. the C# goes to D and the E goes to F#, then the D goes to D# and the rest of the notes stay where they are... the E of A major. doesn't stay there, it moves to F# the next 3 chords and only get back when it's A Maj again. message in a bottle are 9ths. 5 fifth together. there're no 2nds chords... they all are made by 3rds so it's tonic, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th,15th etc it's a 9th chord without the 3rd and the 7th...
Is not that Andy just wants to show off by playing wierd chords. His thing is to find the rigth chord to give your ears somethig interesting to hear. In The Police, plays jazzy chords and keeps rockimg at the same time and that is as cool as it can be.
wait a minute! look your time date oh my goodness!!!!! mar 29 2019 to day is march 18th 2019 wow a time traveler. cool!!! oh well hope do some videos from lost musicians like danny gatton,django reinhardt,michael hedges.n keep up you great work.!!!!!!!!!!
Rush have admitted that in the early 80's they were listening to The Police (and Talking Heads). You can really see how Andys work influenced Alex, and Stewarts rhythms influenced the whole band. Everyone is a winner in that marriage. Thanks for the lesson. Loving this series.
Agreed Mr. Greer! Well said!
RUSH were the Canadian Police.
Yeah I remember reading that in an old magazine. Geddy fully admitted it- that their change was do the Police. Also Phill Collen was hugely influenced by the the Police, they were going for Police meets Ac/DC on Hysteria
I love that when they jammed in the style of the Police and bands influenced by The Police they called themselves The Fabulous Men.
Andy Summers is unquestionably,thinks on the fret board......excellent musician.....
Synchronicity is such an amazing and underrated song. It's so complex; yet it works so well you don't realize it until you really dissect the song.
A lot of the Police's songs are like this.
I think this is the most accurate version of Murder By Numbers that I have found. Thank you!
Andy Summers just shared this on his Facebook
Thank you for the heads up!
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Andy Summers,The Edge, Jamie West Oram, Johnny Marr, and Robert Smith. Where big influence on me!
he always played what the song needed not just all flash
Murder by Numbers was one of the greatest tunes from The Police that not many folks know about, thanks for posting this, Paul Gilbert does a good instrumental version of the song as well...
Found out watching a Hugh Padgham interview that Murder by Numbers as we know it from the album was not only first take.. it was the first time they’d even run through it after writing it earlier that evening.
😳
Thanks for this. Summers is a genius on guitar.
Really nice run through of some of Summer's stuff. My older brother turned me on to the music of The Police in the Fall of 1979 with Regatta De Blanc. I've been enamored with them and every single one of the 5 albums they made ever since. So uniquely talented, all three of 'em.
Andy Summers is a brilliant guitar player. Huge influence on me. I actually played-in a Police cover band. Great information. Enjoyed this.
That was AWESOME!!! Really fantastic lesson, thanks, Andy Summers is such an interesting player and very very underrated.
Thank you for this! Always loved Andy’s playing. Awesome to see the shapes of those “Murder By Numbers” chords. I had no idea what he used to get those sounds.
You're welcome and I totally love that song.
Add a bouncy slight chorusing effect and you're there!
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Thanks again!
Yes, great choice! Andy was way ahead of the game with his chords, guitar synth, delays and effects, etc.
REALLY well done - VERY IMPRESSIVE. I'm a LONG time police fan (over 35 years). Great break down.
Wow, thank you so much!
Really, that makes me feel good hearing that coming from a true fan - thanks Rick!
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good band choice man!
Another fan since the age of 12 in 1978. 😉👍
Synchronicity came out just about the time I turned 16. Massive beyond words. 1983 was a busy music year. Thriller, 1999, Pyromania, Eliminator, Synchronicity, and my favorite of that year, War. And all of that when MTV was taking off at full throttle.
1983 was indeed a magical year. Don't forget the 1999 album by Prince
great breakdown of Andy's complex colors.
Great breakdown of Andy's style....
Wonderful chords!
Great lesson!
What a wonderful analysis of one of the most inventive players of all time. Thanks so much
Great Lesson here! I can see a Part 2 in the future.....
Fascinating stuff. I never understood musical theory, but always loved the textures and sounds of Andy’s playing, just like I love Pat’s playing. For me it’s just about the feeling.
Great job! I strugled with these with my guitar and casette player 40 years ago. I listened and played only punk music 1978, before I heard Message in a bottle. It changed everything. It was like magic. I understood later those same inclusions. A big part of that magic were andys ability use "jazz chords". After power chords they were like the other world.
Thanks for the comment and watching (BIG time), and I completely feel the same way and experienced a similar event when I was younger.
It wasn't until I heard groups like The Police (along with Yes, Rush, and others) that I started to notice things that weren't power chords being played in rock music.
I knew regular major/minor bar chords, but I kept hearing these different flavors and sounds and didn't really understand what was going on behind the scenes.
It was confusing to me until I realized that you can basically play anything that you want in music, but having it flow and make sense musically is another story (and the bigger challenge). Anyone can select a chord, but having that selected chord work within a progression or during the course of a song is another thing altogether.
The pieces are important, but so is how it's all assembled together that really matters.
In a lot of ways, hearing these songs and attempting to learn them back then really helped open my eyes/ears to new sounds and flavors used in music. The Police really were my stepping stone to help me understand some of what was happening jazz music.
Once again, great comment and thanks for watching! Take care!
: )
Yes, I´m a bit tired to hear about Stings ego and character. How selfish and arrogant he is and...you know. He is still a man who has composed most Polices hits (and many more) and his unique singing voice was big part of that magic sound also. After all there were three very talented musicians right time in the right place and rest is history. Stewart´s drumming style was just like Stings voice. I can recognise it so fast when I hear it. And maybe many of their songs wouldn´t never born, without all those tensions in the band.
It has been so great to hear so many very talented musicians to tell , how big influence Polices music has been to they carrieers. Many of them experienced that band just like I did. Well, atleast almost;)
Yep. Yes, Rush, Genesis, Triumph, Journey...I hear you:)
Thank you and keep up with the great work! I will follow what you´re going to do in future;)@@LateNightLessons
Thank you so much and stay tuned...more things like this are on the way!
: )
Great analysis. AS has a great understanding of melody, harmony and how to turn an ok song into something really exceptional. Thanks!
Thank you so much. I really love all those police songs you chose. Very tasteful. I can’t wait to try these chords out! :)
I saw Andy play the Dm11 on Walking on the Moon with the F on the B string, sixth fret. nice little touch.
really helpful connection between the power chord and the sus
Cool video! Andy's one of my heroes :-) I have a 3/4-size Strat that I had originally bought for my Sons; Those 'stretchy' chords are really easy to play on that one, LOL! ;-)) By the way, cool also the 'Fair Warning' cover in the background :-) Thank you, and all the best from Wellington, NZ :-)
How did I miss this lesson, David?!!! Excellent and THANKS!!!!
Thanks so much for giving us the Correct phrasing and proper fingerings. There's tons of guys to show well this is how i play it. Not interested. I'd like to learn it exactly how it's played. Thank you for your tireless work in getting everything right and sharing with us. New subscriber from Canada
Excellent.
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you!
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yes, totally agree.
An interesting session - Thanks
Thanks a lot for this video!
There's playing guitar and there's knowing the guitar.
Class guitarist. Class lesson.
Very useful and informative. This guy is the king of mellow.
From the first time l heard 'Message in a Bottle' it was obvious Andy Summers was a guitarist of distinction, so is this guy.
Excellent comme d'habitude !
Merci beaucoup
Guess I'm one who has played murder wrong for a lot of years. Thanks for clearing that up. I'd love to see how to play the chords in round midnight that Andy does with sting. Such great sounds! I was about 13 when I started trying to figure out message in a bottle and bring on the night with nothing but my ear. I'm kind of glad it was like that though. I think the struggle brought me closer to the music and taught me more than I would have learned having this type of video available. However, I sure do love having these types of videos available now. Thanks for taking the time to put it out for us.
On closer inspection, I am comforted by the fact that my first chord, an inside diminished up the neck at E is all the same notes as his real first chord. The second I just moved down to D and kept the inside diminished. This turns out to be a little different, but not too different that I couldn't get away with it. I had the third chord right, but failed to move the bass note down. All and all, I like the right way better... Of course.
One thing about Andy Summers in the studio with The Police are a lot of the studio recording guitar tracks are single recordings and no overdubs. Murder by Numbers was definitely a single recording track for the entire song. I think the guitar on Every Breath You Take is a single recording too.
...well presented ...great player ...thanks
Great lesson man! Thanks! Murder by numbers i've never realize that!
2:02 Its been a hard days night if you went walking on the moon.. Sounds similar on my little speaker to hard days night
I keep checking in for a Chords of Dominic Miller episode. Excellent work here and in your channel.
I was thinking the same thing. I listen to Dominic's albums/music regularly. There's a reason Sting gravitated to both Andy Summers and Dominic Miller.
Andy Summers is on the cover of new Guitar Player magazine! Great interview!
This is awesome stuff!!!
Hands down best instructor on UA-cam. And I follow some great instructions by certain individuals. You see things same way as me. We would click bro.
Hi,
Andy was a very intelligent guitarist, lots of great stuff. Those arrangements are cool.
Thanks for share 😉👍
Great breakdown of Andy's work. I like the reference to the Evidence you mention at around 10.57 for Murder By Numbers. You should have been a detective lol.
As you mentioned, you can hear how not only Andy, but how The Police influenced music/bands.
Great video, cheers.
I love Andy’s aminor 9th stretch in spirits also-
Too.
Excellent breakdown. Andy is a Huge influence on me as I play in a trio and have to fill some space with no time for wank wank solos. I love your explanation of the 9th chord stretch with 11ths, sus2 sus4...they take away from the 1-4-5 power chord boredom and 100% agree works the arm/wrist. Good position control and strength is a must (with Andy or classical) to play it clean like you do.
I got the trick when I saw Sting plays the ninth chords on "Message in a Bottle" Secret Policemans Balls. Then I learned "Roxanne" as a young buckaroo banzai and suddenly a whole bunch of "Reggae" and "Funk" chords fell into my vocabulary that I still write with today.
Now I'm going to listen to I Advanced masked and Bewitched (with Fripp).
"Your music is a mfer"- Branford Marsalis complementing a misunderstanding Sting. Bring on the Night movie.
I'm two years behind on this great post. Damn Dave....'Message In a Bottle' is so hard to play, and you make it look so easy!?!? Well done sir! As a mediocre guitar player [at best] myself, when 'MIAB' comes on the radio...my fretting hand starts to hurt!!! My brain starts to hurt!!!
Great Lesson!!!
Thanks. Really cool! In live versions of "message in a bottle", (1) Summers does really interesting things when Sting is singing "message in a bottle" and (2) there's a second guitar playing a great harmony during the main db-a-b-f# progression. Would love to see your take on those.
Great! Andy demystified, awesome dude!
Awesome! Murder by Numbers was always my favorite Police song and one of my favorite chord progressions ever. I have a good ear and figure'd it out correctly, but I'm no Guthrie Govan and was playing the first chords in the wrong position. I remember Guthrie from Guitar Techniques too (that's the best guitar magazine I ever got by far), but must have missed that issue.
Dig this one! Murder by Numbers might be the raison d’etre for the ChordPlay series. Always thought those chords were nuts!...and now I’m all over it. Thanks for the leg up! You could def do a few more on Andy!
Great stuff David! Your Strat tone is really nice too. Wish you had it close mic’d too but I’m getting used to the room sound.
Just added Synchronicity to my vinyl pickup list. Saw a nice copy a coupla months back. Shoulda grabbed it then.
Well spotted on the muting. Summers has the best right hand muting in the business. Congrats on getting the sus2 in message correct nearly everyone on you tube plays the riff incorrectly with open strings. Every breath only hurts when you stop the riff and go to the F 😁😄. I can recommend Summers “HotLicks” DVD it’s rare now . I originally got it on VHS around 85 ish. But it’s really worth seeking out on DVD. It’s definitive.
I just subbed to you my man! thanks! sounds great. good for you! peace man.
Frank Zappa does a great version of Murder by Numbers on his album Broadway the Hard Way. And Sting guests on vocals. Awesome stuff.
I'm still learing guitar (as you can see above), but I discovered the SuS2 interval trying out some warm up stretches, and since then I've noticed several bands from the late 80's use a variation of it. I'm working "Gods of War" by Def Leppard, and the verse is all versions of that riff idea.
The chords of andy summers, aka how to blow a tendon in your fret hand lol I always dreaded when message in a bottle was coming up in my cover bands set lol
If you watch the video of Every Breath you Take you can observe how Andy Summers plays it without the sustained stretching. He said he got that fingering idea from classical guitar studies.
Good stuff.
Andy’s playing is always very interesting and not expected.
Cool video.👍🎸🥃
Thanks for this. I have a new respect for Andy. His approach always seemed so minimal and percussive to me.
The Matthew Good Band would be amazing to do. The songs Giant and Born to kill in particular have really cool intros that sound so different and have always stumped me.
Thanks for this request! I'm honestly not very familiar with that group, so I'll check them out and see what I can do!
Thanks for watching!
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@@LateNightLessons exceptional band thank you for the continual great content
They had kind of a reggae sound. One of my favorite bands. The Cars had a great guitarist also.
Too.
@kiereluurs1243 this isn't English class stop correcting people
Brilliant lesson.. thanks. sub for sure
That’s the exact version that Andy showed on his hot licks video course-
Awsome cover as ever. Could you please cover his chords on the 2010 OST?
Little known fact:
The riff from the song ' *Message in a bottle* ' was 'borrowed' by Def Leppard for the outro for their song ' *Gods of war* '
I call the Message In A Bottle sus2 chords "astral chords" because of their cosmic quality. I can detect them anytime a guitarist stumbles upon them. Nowadays I've heard a heavy usage of them in djent music.
Murder by numbers is such a sick tune
Excellent. I base my clean sound on Andy Summers tone. Stereo Chorus for DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘Dude what are the chords for OmegaMan off of Ghost In The Machine? That would be a great lesson. Hint hint😜
Great alt artist.
Have you heard of Steve Lynch of Autograph,his tapping and ideas are different?
Yep, Steve Lynch is amazing and we're Facebook friends - he's a cool guy to boot!
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@@LateNightLessons tHANKS FOR LETTING me know Dave,I have a REH video of him re:tapping ,other techniques.
Been trying to find a Tab book of Andy Summers chords (and Lifeson's 80's period). Can't seem to find one.
Much appreciated video
Love the Scrantonicity Reference! Lol 😂
I watched an interview on Andy Summers and he said his phrasing is based on timing
You Tube should enable option on this channel that you can like videos every time you rewatch them ;)
Queensryche had tons of influence from Andy.
Sweet
why do you play a before c in walking on the moon?
Doesn't Andy Summers move his index finger from the root string to the fourth string on Every Breath You Take? So, on the initial A chord, he moves in index finger from E5 to G6 when he hits the C# in that chord?
Yes he does, watch the official music video for the song on here and you will see it, he stopped doing that along with playing that note altogether later in their more recent concerts, I imagine because he is getting older and probably can't hit it as well as he used to, I know when I learned that song (the hard way, the way he plays it originally), my fret hand wrist hurt for like 4 days after making it all the way through the song just once at speed.
@@nkogliaz with my stubby fat Irish hands, I could never play it. The shape is simply too far to stretch for my hands. I can see Andy stretching to the limits of his fingers to cover those shapes in the video and some live clips from 83/84. And i can imagine the wrist pain for 4 days afterward!!!
He was a genius
Star Wars, The Police... You and I would get along very well.
thank you mudder1310 be safe there.
I thought that bit in synchronicity was an a to d the d chord being the same shape as I've got a feeling by the Beatles?
Good call! I learned this recently and missed the E moving to F# on the D string in the second and third chords in that sequence as he does also in this video. So the third chord ends up being F#m6 with the m3 (A) in the bass.
Where can I find the chord shapes for murder by numbers?
Nice video. However, I found it ironic, that the official UA-cam channel of Andy Summers' videos itself only got very small views, even if it has been started since many years ago and he constantly uploads videos there, including videos which show his guitar playing, technique etc. I wonder what's wrong about it
Hi, please could You indicate clarly thé chord progression You play in tour vidéo thanks
English please.
IS this information modify yournown guitare playing ans tout style?
English please.
not being a pain but you have the walking on the moon chord wrong as you can see on his interview with Rick Beato
Walking on the Moon is just a G7 sus chord... (G with 7 and 4th instead of 3rd.)
without the G.
Synchronicity ll the chromatic part it's an A, then it's a D with bass in A.
the C# goes to D and the E goes to F#,
then the D goes to D# and the rest of the notes stay where they are...
the E of A major. doesn't stay there, it moves to F# the next 3 chords and only get back when it's A Maj again.
message in a bottle are 9ths.
5 fifth together.
there're no 2nds chords...
they all are made by 3rds
so it's tonic, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th,15th etc
it's a 9th chord without the 3rd and the 7th...
And After this guitare harmony lessin, what do you Di with this information?
English please.
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Is not that Andy just wants to show off by playing wierd chords. His thing is to find the rigth chord to give your ears somethig interesting to hear. In The Police, plays jazzy chords and keeps rockimg at the same time and that is as cool as it can be.
Wierd is weird.
wait a minute! look your time date oh my goodness!!!!! mar 29 2019 to day is march 18th 2019 wow a time traveler. cool!!! oh well hope do some videos from lost musicians like danny gatton,django reinhardt,michael hedges.n keep up you great work.!!!!!!!!!!
Every Breath You Take = Every Wrist You Break :D