Danny is the consummate teacher. "Go slow", "don't be discouraged" encouraging stuff you want your teachers to say. I envy the students who got to sit down with the man, his guitar knowledge was unsurpassed.
Ive heard a few other great people in their respective fields express this, and I think theyre earnest. They obsess over a sort of efficiency of technique bc of some self-perceived laziness but their obsession causes them to work incredibly hard in a different way.
@@vincentl.9469 True, but have you seen the live videos from 1984? He was playing the most amazing stuff on old doo wop and rockabilly classics, etc. Danny and the fat boys with Dave Elliott and Billy Hancock. That's when i realized that Danny really is the king of the guitar.
Danny Gatton---man, that cat had an almost mystical connection with a telecaster. A true inspiration. Whatever he was wrestling with personally must have been truly difficult. I wish he had worked it out and was still with us today.
There are too many to have a one “best”. Alan Holdsworth, for just one other example, and there are too many to even attempt a list. Danny Gatton is definitely one of the best.
I’m a blues player. Louisiana bred. My practice?’ Danny Gatton & Stevie Ray Vaughn Not my style AT ALL... Practice HARDER than you “play”💡 I’ll take down ANYONE!
unless you're a bad guitarist, keep your gear and keep playing. Also, Danny Gatton died about 20 years ago. RIP. So, it's not as if he's going to show up at your gig and want to sit in.
RIP Danny. A better reason to check your friends are 'really' ok I could not think of. Take care everybody, and mostly, treat yourself kindly and be humble, the rest will follow. Sydney, Oz.
How shame is that no one really give Danny the credits he deserves when he was alive. I think that's what humans truly are. We only appreciate thing when we lost it.
Once read an article that Danny was at a guitar workshop and showing some good guitarists some of his trademark licks and riffs. And he couldn,t understand how none of them could grasp or follow what he was doing. He didn,t realise what was easy for Danny was impossible for normal guitarists
I had the pleasure of watching Danny perform, and met him backstage after the show. Forever an inspiration and a beautiful human being. See you on the other side.❤
When you watch Danny Gatton today, you can still marvel at his command and technique. Excepted for Josh Smith, I don't know anybody that can even approach the way he did it. Such a loss to not have him around. Not necessarily for his incredible playing, but just him, as a human being. He was very humble and accessible. Depression is a terrible predicament. I want him back. Now!
Josh smith is a fantastic modern player and he gives me hope but i dont know if hes quite at this level yet, theres just something about the old guys that no new young guy has. I also love kirk fletchers playing, having said that they all beat the shit out of me on guitar so there ya go
I bought a blonde telecaster when l was 17. I’ve played it all my life and l’m 72 with that same guitar at my bedside as l type after finding this clip. I’d seen short clips of him before but watching this l finally understand that lve just witnessed the absolute master of the telecaster. Such a nice, modest and self deprecating man who was born to play it. True genius and the best tele player that ever lived. I’d sell my soul to be able to play half as well as he does here. Leaving in the minor blips just makes me like him even more. Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive and l sense a parallel soul. Thanks for posting this, l play with out a pic but now lm going going to try my hardest to emulate Danny’s left hand. It’s either that or give up!
There's a UA-cam video that's very easy to find where Danny had a 12 y/o (or maybe 13 y/o) Joe Bonamassa jam with him onstage at one of Danny's live shows, and it's one of my all-time favorites. In one of them, an interviewer asked what he thought of Joe B's playing, and he replied with something along the lines of "I thought for a while that they were gonna hire him and replace me!" Man, what a *great* compliment from a really nice guitar legend! And yes, Gatton was old enough at the time to where other guitar players were calling him a "legend."
He plays with the bottle of beer and gets beer on the neck and so he grabs a towel and drys off the neck over the frets all the while playing thru the towel like its not there......incredible...............
His quiet manner is so soothing and in such contrast to his savage chops. He talks like the lab coat guys in the 8mm science movies we used to watch in school. I don't even particularly like Americana-style music, but I can listen to Danny all day long. If only he'd have been happier and stayed with us...
Oh yeah thankyou Tony F .😎for pinning this !!! Only heardy my dad play a few times but he must have taught Dan because they played alike 😮 they both are with Bill Haley now I suppose🎸✝️🎸☮️🎸♾️🎸💥🎸💥🎸⚡🎸🔥🙄😳🙏👍✌️😎
The only thing missing from this instructional video is STAR-WIPE. We need more Star-Wipe!!!! Danny was an absolute freak, I'm so glad he took the time to show us how to do it wrong as well as right.
In 1991, at the age of 19, I was temporarily living in Dahlgren, Virginia for about 5 months and decided to pick up a guitar. I played that thing for hours a day every day (I had a lot of free time on my hands). Years later I heard about Danny Gatton and read his story and was shocked to hear of his suicide. Recently I started reading a bit about him and learned where his farm was - it was less than a 15 minute drive away from where I was. I would have loved to have met him.
@@pabloperez4063 ...Of all the most ridiculous misapprehensions of reality that I have ever heard of, that is one of the worst. Danny Gatton thinking he isn't good enough?! It'd be funny if it wasn't so damn tragic.
As soon as he mentioned smoking in nightclubs, I immediately became jealous of the time period he lived in. Imagine having the freedom to smoke indoors again. On another note, what an absolute shredder of a guitarist he was. My mind is blown every time I hear a Gatton solo.
Man even as a smoker I would never want to have indoor smoking bans lifted. We were all mad at first but that's because we didn't realize how ridiculous it was having 50 cigs constantly burning. Only downside is that once the smoke cleared I realized how ugly my friends had gotten.
This video has so much fucking gold for someone trying to grasp hybrid picking like myself. You could watch, dissect, and imitate the examples here for years.
You should have given it to me, bro. I'd have happily traded for a large amount of firewood. I've been wanting a Telecaster for a few years now. Just got my Strat...
Got to hear him yrs ago.. club was so full.. stood in parkin lot all doors were open.. didn’t appreciate it till later..he was a jokester..i do remember..amazing talent..RIP
dont care what anyone says - dannys my favourite and the greatest coolest best sounding guitar player ever to lay fingers and hands on a piece of wood shaped as a guitar . RIP. Danny you are so great and entertaining and inspiring
What does anyone say? Seems like the comments are very positive and I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about Gatton or his playing. Also why would anyone care enough that hes your favorite to actually say something about it? I smell pandering
thanks for posting this (I bought this very tape (autographed by DG) as VHS back in 87 (as well as his "unfinished business" album..) I still use the heavy teardrop jazz picks !.. " it was in tune when I bought it" ! (top shelf gold) All the Arlen Roth Hotlicks videos are excellent as well (in fact Arlen Roth (in my opinion.. is an unreal crazy good tele player) VHS tapes now all obsoleted by technology (so this is good to see on here (I'd love to find the Emily Remler one I used to own) Danny made the Hotlicks one some years after this one.. so for "any" guitarist.. check out Arlens resources..(maybe they are all re-formatted and available .. ?) but yeah .. he made many many Telecaster Videos.. and all great .. and I credit him(AR).. for his contribution to guitar culture.. again.. thanks for posting..
Thanks so much for this. I’m at a place where I need to do different things. This is perfect. I play my drums also. Sometimes I wish I was only interested in one instrument. But love is hard. Started as a drummer as long as I can remember so. Again thank you and God bless
Este tutorial de D.Gatton es oro puro. Fue capaz de transmitir su tecnica y sabiduria para que lo viera el mundo sin restricciones. Semejante talento no tiene parangon. QEPD Danny.
5:52 - Banjo Rolls
7:50 - Danny Gatton's Special Picking Technique
11:08 - Merle Travis Style Picking
18:58 - Banjo Licks For The Guitar
23:55 - Freestyle Country Funk And Blues Licks
32:05 - Piano & Boogie-Woogie Style Picking
38:10 - Single Note Runs
47:40 - Volume and Tone Control Tips
51:20 - String Bending
54:12 - Bottle Trick Slide Guitar Effects
A tragedy in three parts:
@37:36 Watch it in the booth, boys - this is gonna be loud.
@37:57 OH, NO!
@38:06 Aww, wish it hadn't've done that...
@@theystoleitfromus I've been laughing out loud at this part since 1992! :)
The truly great ones put on a clinic every time they pick up the instrument. Danny was one of them
"It was in tune when I bought it".
A classic line that many others have lifted.
There is pretty much a lifetime of learning in this hour's video
Danny is the consummate teacher. "Go slow", "don't be discouraged" encouraging stuff you want your teachers to say. I envy the students who got to sit down with the man, his guitar knowledge was unsurpassed.
One of the things that makes his video lessons worth watching is that he actually did teach a bunch in real life and could explain things well.
Proof that it’s positively true that you can miss somebody that you never knew….
I've got the original VHS of this. Feels like I have a bar of gold in the cupboard
I always want to learn this video...but I just can't...too difficult and I have no patience.. LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TonyFuentesTV probably the 10,000 th person to say that
"Alright kid, y'got that?" Legend!!!
"Nobody is lazier than me", said by the absolute master wizard. Danny was the greatest man.
Ive heard a few other great people in their respective fields express this, and I think theyre earnest. They obsess over a sort of efficiency of technique bc of some self-perceived laziness but their obsession causes them to work incredibly hard in a different way.
The greatest single lesson ever recorded!
Absolutely No Doubt
A rock guitarist my whole life, I can still appreciate genius playing in Gatton (R.I.P.)
Thank you for your comments 👍🙏
Danny was one of the greatest players to ever pick up the instrument.... period....we all sure miss your genius Danny....🎸🎸🎸
just in a category by himself. couldn't say anyone shredded like he did
@@brickchains1 his music didn't sell well .they could not categorise him. He would have made a great sideman to Elvis!
He was the architect of this whole school of telecaster technique. An amazing contribution and lasting influence.
anyone know Joe Bonamassa? He took lessons from Danny Gatton his mentor ...Mic drop
@@vincentl.9469 True, but have you seen the live videos from 1984? He was playing the most amazing stuff on old doo wop and rockabilly classics, etc. Danny and the fat boys with Dave Elliott and Billy Hancock. That's when i realized that Danny really is the king of the guitar.
It can't be overstated how much it means to the world that he made a video like this. Spreading the wisdom!
Danny Gatton---man, that cat had an almost mystical connection with a telecaster. A true inspiration. Whatever he was wrestling with personally must have been truly difficult. I wish he had worked it out and was still with us today.
I was always curious what was troubling him.
Think couple of mini strokes began to impair his playing...maybe he felt it was all over..!!...Great Loss..!!
37:55 LOL that's funny..Danny has a great sense of humor.
The best instructional guitar video ever
Thank you for your comments!
What sucks is that I'm watching this at work and feel inspired to immediately pick up my guitar and practice these exercises
You’re fired
I like how he says “It sounds harder than it really is”
He’s Danny fucking Gatton.
Everything sounded harder that it was, to him...
The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be...
The Master showing SOME of his stuff...he aint showing everything...thanks for the music brutha...
Any time! 😎👍
I saw this guy back in the 70s in a little bar in Richmond VA. I knew then I was seeing one of the greats.
“It was in Tune when i bought it” Ive used that line many times!!! the rest of this lesson makes me question my existence 😀
This is pure gold.
Heard his name from Bukovac comments....I've died and gone to heaven.....
Thank you for your comments 👍🙏
87 I was born and I think this instructional video is a life time gift from this legend.. Thank you..
Legendary! GOAT!
Thank you for your comments 👍🙏
A true unsung maestro! He is the best player I have ever heard play a guitar period!!!!
There are too many to have a one “best”.
Alan Holdsworth, for just one other example, and there are too many to even attempt a list.
Danny Gatton is definitely one of the best.
I don't know about "unsung". Well known guitarists name guitar pieces after him.
Danny was a genius! He had so many savant-like skills and qualities. The world is missing you Danny!
Possibly the best rockabilly and tele video ever....its like finding a Robert Johnson video on playing the blues.
He’s the reason I bought a guitar and started playing and still today I’ve never stopped playing r.i.p Danny
I’m a blues player.
Louisiana bred.
My practice?’
Danny Gatton & Stevie Ray Vaughn
Not my style AT ALL...
Practice HARDER than you “play”💡
I’ll take down ANYONE!
@@og-greenmachine8623 then I eanna learn some stuff from you
@@cjohnson5927
I could teach to suck real good!😃
🤣🤣🤣
@@og-greenmachine8623 Shut up 🙄
After watching him, I just need tips on how to sell my gear!
unless you're a bad guitarist, keep your gear and keep playing. Also, Danny Gatton died about 20 years ago. RIP. So, it's not as if he's going to show up at your gig and want to sit in.
...hell, my guitars heated the house for three nights!
LOL!!!!!!!!!
LOL
hahaha
One of the greatest of all time. Period.
You are too kind! thank you so much!
RIP Danny. A better reason to check your friends are 'really' ok I could not think of. Take care everybody, and mostly, treat yourself kindly and be humble, the rest will follow. Sydney, Oz.
How shame is that no one really give Danny the credits he deserves when he was alive. I think that's what humans truly are. We only appreciate thing when we lost it.
You dont know what youve gone til its gone
Once read an article that Danny was at a guitar workshop and showing some good guitarists some of his trademark licks and riffs. And he couldn,t understand how none of them could grasp or follow what he was doing. He didn,t realise what was easy for Danny was impossible for normal guitarists
Thank you!!
The unknown greatest guitar player that never got the recognition he deserved. Rest In Peace, Danny.
Wow. I didn't get past the first minute and a half. Danny is a special player.
Finally, a truly value-added, no nonsense finger picking lesson. Thank you for posting this. It is golden 🪙 🎸 👍
Glad you liked it!
Only way to that American sound.🇺🇸
I had the pleasure of watching Danny perform, and met him backstage after the show. Forever an inspiration and a beautiful human being. See you on the other side.❤
This is pure magic...love his pickin' and grinning with the jokes-"it was in tune when I bought it"---love that one!
The Humbler
An immense guitar player...all you see here is real, so sad he left us so soon
Yeah my buddy Jim Call's guys like that 'the pure coin'.
When you watch Danny Gatton today, you can still marvel at his command and technique. Excepted for Josh Smith, I don't know anybody that can even approach the way he did it. Such a loss to not have him around. Not necessarily for his incredible playing, but just him, as a human being. He was very humble and accessible. Depression is a terrible predicament. I want him back. Now!
Greg Koch is a “Gattonite”.
I met him .He was a Great Guy and His playing was so extraordinary it looked impossible.
Josh smith is a fantastic modern player and he gives me hope but i dont know if hes quite at this level yet, theres just something about the old guys that no new young guy has. I also love kirk fletchers playing, having said that they all beat the shit out of me on guitar so there ya go
Scotty Anderson
Daniel Donato
St. Danny of DC, you are dearly missed here on Earth.
16:21 "alright, kid, you got that?" and then he smiles. maybe one day, Mr. Gatton, sir...
Simply one of the best and the saddest thing is many guitar players are unaware of him. Fortunately we have a glimpse after he is gone.
I bought a blonde telecaster when l was 17. I’ve played it all my life and l’m 72 with that same guitar at my bedside as l type after finding this clip. I’d seen short clips of him before but watching this l finally understand that lve just witnessed the absolute master of the telecaster. Such a nice, modest and self deprecating man who was born to play it. True genius and the best tele player that ever lived. I’d sell my soul to be able to play half as well as he does here. Leaving in the minor blips just makes me like him even more. Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive and l sense a parallel soul. Thanks for posting this, l play with out a pic but now lm going going to try my hardest to emulate Danny’s left hand. It’s either that or give up!
Master craftsman sharing years of dues for free
"It was out of tune when I bought it!' Don't you just love him?
Very well said!
Great comment about you and your Tele.
Duke Levine
There's a UA-cam video that's very easy to find where Danny had a 12 y/o (or maybe 13 y/o) Joe Bonamassa jam with him onstage at one of Danny's live shows, and it's one of my all-time favorites. In one of them, an interviewer asked what he thought of Joe B's playing, and he replied with something along the lines of "I thought for a while that they were gonna hire him and replace me!" Man, what a *great* compliment from a really nice guitar legend! And yes, Gatton was old enough at the time to where other guitar players were calling him a "legend."
He plays with the bottle of beer and gets beer on the neck and so he grabs a towel and drys off the neck over the frets all the while playing thru the towel like its not there......incredible...............
The best guitar player ever!
His quiet manner is so soothing and in such contrast to his savage chops. He talks like the lab coat guys in the 8mm science movies we used to watch in school. I don't even particularly like Americana-style music, but I can listen to Danny all day long. If only he'd have been happier and stayed with us...
Best right hand in the biz!
Thank you for your comments!
Oh yeah thankyou Tony F .😎for pinning this !!! Only heardy my dad play a few times but he must have taught Dan because they played alike 😮 they both are with Bill Haley now I suppose🎸✝️🎸☮️🎸♾️🎸💥🎸💥🎸⚡🎸🔥🙄😳🙏👍✌️😎
The telecaster KING!!!
16m in and I'm ready to rewind. Been playing guitar for a couple decades now, rarely come across one like this. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks so much! your feedback and support are greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Danny Gatton was sick. Just insanely good.
No one better.
Thank you very much for sharing. God bless and protect you.
Thank you too
The only thing missing from this instructional video is STAR-WIPE. We need more Star-Wipe!!!!
Danny was an absolute freak, I'm so glad he took the time to show us how to do it wrong as well as right.
“It was in tune when I bought it” Ha! I’m gonna use that
In 1991, at the age of 19, I was temporarily living in Dahlgren, Virginia for about 5 months and decided to pick up a guitar. I played that thing for hours a day every day (I had a lot of free time on my hands). Years later I heard about Danny Gatton and read his story and was shocked to hear of his suicide. Recently I started reading a bit about him and learned where his farm was - it was less than a 15 minute drive away from where I was. I would have loved to have met him.
Yo... I didn't know he killed himself.
@@GPaulTheThrashKing because he thought he was not good enough!
@@pabloperez4063 ...Of all the most ridiculous misapprehensions of reality that I have ever heard of, that is one of the worst. Danny Gatton thinking he isn't good enough?! It'd be funny if it wasn't so damn tragic.
@@pabloperez4063 , how do you know that?
Mini strokes had begun to impair his guitar playing apparently...!!
As soon as he mentioned smoking in nightclubs, I immediately became jealous of the time period he lived in. Imagine having the freedom to smoke indoors again. On another note, what an absolute shredder of a guitarist he was. My mind is blown every time I hear a Gatton solo.
Man even as a smoker I would never want to have indoor smoking bans lifted. We were all mad at first but that's because we didn't realize how ridiculous it was having 50 cigs constantly burning. Only downside is that once the smoke cleared I realized how ugly my friends had gotten.
Smoking is the dumbest way to commit suicide.
I have this in VHS from that time.
I bought this VHS tape back when I was mostly a beginner but sort of becoming an intermediate. And this entire video was just way over my head
My heart just breaks when I think about and hear Danny’s playing.
Jesus Mary and Joseph
Hard to be impressed nowadays
But this guy was the real deal
Incredible tone
My tele has gone back in the case
I have never heard of Danny Gatton before this video. Thank you for sharing this!
My pleasure!
simply amazing. the grand master. A true genius. Maybe the greatest ever.
Thanks for uploading this
No problem
This is the most developed hybrid picking I've ever seen.
Rest in Peace Mr. Gatton! You were the best!!!
This video has so much fucking gold for someone trying to grasp hybrid picking like myself. You could watch, dissect, and imitate the examples here for years.
Thanks Sean! 😎👍 Much appreciated!
We all stand on the shoulders of giants
Isaak Newton
Wow his tuning tips are top notch!
He was the absolute best, RiP!
"You better come prepared. He'll eat your lunch." ~ Les Paul on Danny Gatton
Kieth Richards.
NOW THIS DUDE...
Make me LOVE my Telecaster even MORE❤️
One of the best players ever to grace this earth. He is amazing. Great guy..
I learned so much from this when I watched it back in 1992, really cool to see it again! Have to admit, my favorite part is 37:58!
6:48 "it was in tune when I bought it"
classic!
What a treasure! We love and miss you, Danny.
A true Tele Master. Just might be the best lesson on hybrid picking I've ever seen.
6:48 - it was in tune when I bought it!!!
I can listen to this style all day long. Thank you LA Meth W
The GOAT. ‘Nuff said.
It's cold in Britain at the moment so I ve just turned my telecaster into kindling after watching Danny.😊
You should have given it to me, bro. I'd have happily traded for a large amount of firewood. I've been wanting a Telecaster for a few years now. Just got my Strat...
Got to hear him yrs ago.. club was so full.. stood in parkin lot all doors were open.. didn’t appreciate it till later..he was a jokester..i do remember..amazing talent..RIP
Amazing stuff more than a lifetime of lessons!
GOAT
Thank you Tony Fuentes for Danny Gatton ❤ 14:01 😅instructional video. Thank you God for Tony And Danny
You are terribly kind! I had to stop learning this lesson 🤣 I’d have to break down my entire playing and start over… he’s too good! 👍🤣🤣
priceless. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Back for more... it's scary how much information is in this video. You can practice this for years! Gatton was incredible!
An undiscovered GENIUS!!🎸🎸🎸
Absolute Genius. Never heard of this guy . A real eye opener
look for the video of Danny playing slide with a full beer bottle. literally unbelievable!
Never heard of Danny Gatton?!?
Most famous unknown guitarist for sure.
He’s the king of the telecaster🇺🇸
An INNOVATOR💡
Taught the world how to play the telecaster❤️
No one better.
dont care what anyone says - dannys my favourite and the greatest coolest best sounding guitar player ever to lay fingers and hands on a piece of wood shaped as a guitar . RIP. Danny you are so great and entertaining and inspiring
What does anyone say? Seems like the comments are very positive and I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about Gatton or his playing. Also why would anyone care enough that hes your favorite to actually say something about it? I smell pandering
Go
thanks for posting this (I bought this very tape (autographed by DG) as VHS back in 87 (as well as his "unfinished business" album..) I still use the heavy teardrop jazz picks !.. " it was in tune when I bought it" ! (top shelf gold) All the Arlen Roth Hotlicks videos are excellent as well (in fact Arlen Roth (in my opinion.. is an unreal crazy good tele player) VHS tapes now all obsoleted by technology (so this is good to see on here (I'd love to find the Emily Remler one I used to own) Danny made the Hotlicks one some years after this one.. so for "any" guitarist.. check out Arlens resources..(maybe they are all re-formatted and available .. ?) but yeah .. he made many many Telecaster Videos.. and all great .. and I credit him(AR).. for his contribution to guitar culture.. again.. thanks for posting..
Thanks so much for this. I’m at a place where I need to do different things. This is perfect. I play my drums also. Sometimes I wish I was only interested in one instrument. But love is hard. Started as a drummer as long as I can remember so. Again thank you and God bless
The best guitarist I ever saw live for music and entertainment.
Yes Max! He was incredible and awesome!
Just the ending was a pure masterpiece.
I understood, and have mastered, everything he said or showed before he said, "OK, let's get started."
Thank you for your comments 👍🙏
@@TonyFuentesTV Thank you for posting. The Humbler lives on!
Este tutorial de D.Gatton es oro puro. Fue capaz de transmitir su tecnica y sabiduria para que lo viera el mundo sin restricciones. Semejante talento no tiene parangon. QEPD Danny.
I can stay watching their magic hands eternally... Danny, if you listen me, send me a little bit of inspiration from the far beyond...