You Can Achieve Cool Hendrix Licks With All Downstrokes
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The mission here was to demonstrate just how much you can do with all downstrokes. This is part of my crusade to get all guitar players to slow down, and play more soulfully.
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2018 MIM Classic 50s Lacquer Stratocaster
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Malekko Analog Delay malekkoheavyin...
Walrus Audio Tremolo sweetwater.sjv...
Fender Tonemaster Deluxe Reverb sweetwater.sjv...
Beyer M160 Mic sweetwater.sjv...
Cloudlifter sweetwater.sjv...
ART Tube Preamp sweetwater.sjv...
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Valhalla Vintage Verb valhalladsp.com/
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#hendrix #guitarlesson
A cool thing about Hendrix is the effect he had on the "hot shot" guitarists of his day. If you listen to Jeff Beck before Hendrix and after Hendrix you'll see how Jimi's influence turbocharged Beck's virtuosic vocabulary ascension. Not to take anything away from Beck, as he's one of the few "old gods" who has never rested on his laurels, but continued to chart new paths on the instument.
Luckily for us scrubs nowadays, we have awesome guitar nerds like Eric to hold us by the hand and spoon feed us these delicious morsels. THANKS dude.
Yeah! I always respected that about Jeff Beck - he continues to push himself and explore the possibilities!
It does sound farrkkking good!
You seem happier than normal :)
I like the simple a string rooted minor 7th chord towards the ending. Never even thought about it that way.
It's the power of the denim tuxedo giving me strength! hahaha
Your whole channel is amazing man. You might be the best playing and best sounding guitarist on here
Hey John, good to know you're back! Well, left in 1981 and came back 40yrs later... took the the time-machine ride?
I totally agree with you when it comes to Eric's abilities...
Awww shucks man thanks so much!
@@apriltoronto5254 😂😂U may jest but U will be pleasantly surprised to say the least...🍎🍏
Gr8 lesson Eric, love those
G🎪psyS🌄n&Rainb🌈ws licks!!
@@JJ-rn1uvujumpijump I'll definitely be suprised... love the Beatles very much...
So do I like Eric's channel
J. J., You're a guitar player too?
J. J., like in J. J. Cale?
I don't think any comments can do this video justice. Totally classic 'Eric' in every respect. Loved it.
Salty and Sweet :-)
Thanks for consistently making quality videos every week.
Thanks! You probably witnessed the creator burnout moment near the end hahahaha
That guitar tone is smokin!
It's all about the delivery and brother you got it, thanks for dumbing it down ... great feel.
Thanks Jeffrey!
I'm always trying to make things as simple as possible!
A minute before you started commenting about fixing the lighting, I was just thinking how great the saturated RiffKitchen looked. The Bluegene fade, wall art, blonde neck, green plants are really popping. If I were you I'd pull/analyze that color profile, and go for that setting during preproduction set up everytime : )
Naw, I don't like it when the whites get too blown out - makes things hard for a student to see. Especially with that bright white pickguard!
Playing slowly? Hooray! Something I can do.
Upstrokes? Hooray! Something I suck at.
Thank you, Eric.
Always leave the effects on. Always.
EMPOWERMENT ACHIEVED! YAY!
Great playing!
Side note: that’s a great looking kitchen!
Thanks Ismael!
You've heard of Soundgarden? Welcome to RIFFKITCHEN™ hahahaha
nice, sounds great. I saw some footage of Hendrix playing machine gun and for most of the song he was playing with no pick, just using his thumb to downstroke and it sounded awesome.
Oh yeah I believe that!
Eternally I am humbled by that Alien
You got that Robin Trower tone! Diggin your way, bro🤘 subbed
That main riff you're doing throughout this video reminds me of early 70's Traffic.
One of my favorite bands!
One of my fav teachers ... thnx
Yet another reason I support Eric on Patreon.
Oh lord thank you so much - you know I appreciate it!
Could listen to this all day. Please create more lessons with a similar hendrix-ish groove!
Thanks! I do a lot of "Hendrix-ish" vids :-)
ua-cam.com/video/oKmrlBMTNYk/v-deo.html this one's cool too, but much faster!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Nice! Any tips on the "Hey Dude"-Lick? I have a hard time getting the string under my finger by bending the B string, not sure whether I am applying too much pressure. Is it just your index finger that slips over to the next string? Thanks!
You so need to do a Hendrix book...
He just needs to do a book PERIOD. Eric is the rare guitar player who possesses soul, good taste, and chops.
Awwww thanks guys! I really need to do so many things - a course, book, merch, aaaaaaaaa I need a manager!
@@EricHaugenGuitar I agree.
Yep, a book duder... 👍🏻
i can hear some david gilmour as well sir! great organ in the backing track very rick wright chord changes. all your backing tracks are excellent always top quality all these years.
Thanks Rob!
I'm such a shitty keys player I have to do record each hand separately and edit the wrong notes with midi hahahaha!
@@EricHaugenGuitar practice, practice, practice. sounds good man.
Excellent!
Thank you Eric! This just became my Lesson Plan for the week, I wanted to work on fresh Blues Lick ideas.... Appreciate all your hard work my friend!
Yay! Slow burn licks ftw!
Yeah - you can see me have creator burnout in real time near the end hahahaha
This groove is super appreciated from Squamish, Canada. That's a great groove to teach, thnx!
Aaaaaaaa that's a beautiful place!
As you can tell by my vibe - the Pacific Northwest is one of my favorite places on Earth!
Someone wrote an article a while back about the "best" way to hold a plectrum. It was one of those quasi-scientific accounts that's interesting but doomed on the fact that we're all different shapes! Anyway, he concluded that in terms of stability in the fingers, energy transference etc that low-slung Hendrix thing was the "best". He also noted that George Benson does it, and I think sometimes Santana too. I can't!
Yeah me neither. It always slips around and sometimes falls out
Yeah - there's never a "one size fits all" technique. I'm constantly playing around with pick angles and finger combinations. It matters a lot!
Best guitar action around. Cheers!
Thanks brother!
SWEET riffs on this one Eric! Thanks for the awesome lesson. Any suggestions on settings for the Greer Lightspeed on how to get the right amount of drive with this tone? (I picked one up on your recommendation recently and love it!). Be well!
Thanks
Start with all the knobs straight up the middle, and then back the tone control until it smooths out. The Lightspeed is great, but it is BRIGHT!
Thank you very much Eric.
Thanks for posting this, such a great lesson, plus I love those MIM Classic 50s Strats!
Thanks Rich! Yeah - the classic/vintera series is good stuff!
You always have the nicest tones.
Thanks Mark!
Our number one job as electric guitar players, no matter what we play, is to have good tone! If that's taken care of, we can play 3 notes and it'll sound great!
Sounds great, per ushhhe. Loving the plants in ye olde background - digging the aesthetic!
Thanks man!
That the living room/kitchen of my apartment - I'm on the back of some laid back folk's land, above their art studio!
nice sound. which brantley pick ups are they?
I just emailed Tom - I *think* they're the 60s set.
@@EricHaugenGuitar Sounds niiiice. I may have to get a set!
Y'know who else got this vibe, as he was a big Hendrix fan, was David Gilmour, mostly pre-Dark Side on the long jams they did at the time.
I'm getting a real Robin Trower vibe from this playing.
@@carltaylor4942, yep, that too!
Yes! Gilmour is the king of the slow burn!
Absolutely 👍😎
Incorporating all techniques can only add to personal growth, soul and feel👍😎
Definitely with you on this one👍👍👍😎
Was just playing with pre-bends with Claptons "Wonderful Tonight ".
Makes a big difference 👍😎
Great video! Sounds so good👍😎
Love my TMDR
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Love brother
Thanks Richard!
Oh yeah - "Wonderful Tonight" is a great pre-bend work out!
nice vibe Mr H BLUER than expected :-)
Canadian Tuxedo POWERS engaged!
Great sound and playing!
Thanks brother!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Anytime, bro... This sounds great.
Downstrokes! Great tip echoed by my mentor Jorma when I took his electric guitar workshop back in 2015. By the way, I rewound and set playback speed to .25 to hear "Sooo nnneeeexxt youuuuu dooooo thiiiiissss". lol :-)
hahahahaha I just did it too!
Ugh, it is SO hard for me to play slow, but I do love hearing it done well! That guitar (and tone) is gorgeous, wow 😳
And thank you for playing so much Jimi stuff 🤘🏼 I cut my teeth on his style when I first started playing and only recently started getting back into his style.
Yeah! There's so much good stuff going on in there - useful for any genre!
Killer lesson and tone! Would love a 3 min video on effects, amp and setting to get this tone!
Noted!
I think I'm gonna do just that - talk about my process/setup. Rig Rundown!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Yes!!! I picked up a Tone Master Deluxe Reverb and am going to try and duplicate your tone with an HX Effects to see how close I can get it :)
Hey man, really appreciate the time and effort in every video Eric. Thanks for doin’ what you do!
Thanks Vernon!
hahahaha you saw the real-time creator burnout when the light when dark :-)
Sweet groove
Thanks Jacob!
I love the hey dude riff! I can’t play it but probably should try it for more than like 10 seconds 😬
Loved your Rat week cameo 🤘🏽
Ryan's a good guy! I often ask him for pedal recommendations - he's the guy that turned me on to Greer and Jampedals!
..and sometimes with NO strokes at all!!!!!!! Gotta love ya Jimi!!!!!
Ha! Totally - those epic legato passages!
Beautiful videos, thank you so much !
It is my pleasure Santiago!
well that's badass
Thanks Mike!
It's badassness that's approcable!
Mood on the effects
Very nice... thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
That was great
Thanks Terry!
Hi Eric! I truly love your videos... they're so very inspiring... Thank you very much...!
With your Hendrixy touch and feel, I wonder whether you might show us something on voice-leading, one day? Is 'Hey Joe' an apt example for this... Greetings from BigB... stay safe!
Oooh yeah I gotta talk about that!
For me, following exact chord tones/voice leading is not quite as important as laid-back fluidity of the 5 CAGED shapes. Hrmmmm I've gotta put something together about it.
You could do a kickass Robin Trower.
Oh yeah you can tell I like Trower too :-)
Damned fine lesson as always Mr Haugen! More Beefheart and Tom Waits if you get the time!!!
Thanks Mark!
Yeah - Weirdo/Waits/Beefheart concepts always float around my head.
Awesome licks, I wish I had your talent. Please share more like this that don’t require fasturacy!!🤣
Thanks man!
Yeah - I'm kind of a zealot about playing slow.
Here's the deal - there's always gonna be someone that can play faster than you. However, there's never gonna be anyone that can play with the FEELINGS that you have. Those are unique to each of us!
Hey Eric! Another great video. Do you still use the same pedalboard setup?
Yeah!
The only thing that sometimes changes is the phase 90 sometimes comes off in exchange for the jampedals retrovibe. But honestly, the harmonic trem of the walrus is so univibey that I haven't bothered lately :-)
3:58- At this point Eric sounds like he's from the state directly below his.
hahahahahaha
Is there a specific name to describe the Tom Brantley Strat pickups that you have? Like 60s, 70s, Hot 60s . . .?
Tom says they're the "EH" set. Basically a 50s set with some "special additions."
Amazing tone! Are you using the monument tremolo to get that univibe sound?
You bet he is! I often use a Harmonic Trem instead of Univibe.
Indeed! The Walrus monument is KILLER.
I have a univibe too, but lately I've been using the monument because it's a little more subtle, less full-on warbly.
Kinda Billy Gibbons I thought. Which is of course a high compliment. Guitar playing is good too!
I'll take it! Billy Gibbons' groove and flow is so SOLID!
Good
Thanks Johny!
"the perfect son", you fucking nailed it.
Thanks brother!
Killer Soundzzzzz
Once I discovered how nice the normal channel is for pedals it opened up doors!
@@EricHaugenGuitar yes !
I love how you lost it @ 18.07 over the light exposure :)
hahahaha witness creator burnout in real time!
@@EricHaugenGuitar It was fine go back to 400 !!!! ;)
What are the settings on the pedals? This tone kicks ass.
Thanks Cameron - The Deco tape saturation is set pretty high, about 3/4 up to get that overdrive.
@@EricHaugenGuitar thanks for the reply! What a pedal.
Wait...music school? You're officially not-Punk now.
Sorry dude. We still love you.
hahahahaha I was at Berklee the same time as John Mayer.
I honestly learned more about what NOT to play, than what to play while at music school.
It's an amazingly humbling experience to be the hot shot in your town, suddenly surrounded with the hot shots from the entire world! I very quickly realized I was never gonna out shred anyone, so I focused on the the weirdos and the fringes.
Very Ted Nugent at 0:29 could never figure out how he did that now I can try it! Thank you!
Yeah! It's one of those tricks you only hear every so often but it's so cool!
Wow
Thanks Ricardo!
@@EricHaugenGuitar did you use the deco chorus or no doubler mode at all? What a tone you have Eric!
It's funny, I LOVE the Deco tape saturation, but never use the other side - always sounds too computer-y for me
Have you changed the original speaker of Tone Master to the Weber?
Yeah! Don't know if it was necessary but I was curious!
In general, I love Weber stuff, so I figured I'd give it a try.
@@EricHaugenGuitar The regular Deluxe Reverb with the standard speaker takes OD pedals like Bogner Blue just lousy, it can't handle them at all - it just chokes. That's why many players have changed the speaker in Deluxe.
Also, I've noticed the "normal" channel is way fatter/smoother for pedals. There's a firmware update for the tonemaster that takes the virtual bright cap out of the vibrato channel, but I couldn't get it to open the .zip file. Fuggin' computers.
That MIM Classic 50s Lacquer Stratocaster sounds amazing. Would you recommend it? I've the chance to get one. Besides the pickups, any other mods? thanks!
Yes! Absolutely!
Honestly the stock pickups are fine too - you can hear them in some of my older vids: ua-cam.com/video/YxeKb9iNKTQ/v-deo.html
@@EricHaugenGuitar Thanks, man.
does anyoone know what effect pedals he was using in this video? He showed a pic at 1:33?
You can see all the stuff going on in the description box below the vid -
Deco, Malekko, Walrus Audio, Ribbon mic, etc :-)
If Hendrix was alive today, could he balance an I phone on his knee whilst pulling off these licks - it’s a sign of real class....
Hahahahaha the danger! The phone is playing the backing track to my in ear monitors - if it falls, the whole take is ruined!
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Eric: Another super cool lesson! Say, I've been dabbling with doing some home recording on my new 50's Fender Tele and original 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb. I've got a cool little setup using a Shure 57 mic tight to the grill cloth and centered on the speaker cone and going thru a focusrite 2i2 interface to my Mac. Anyway, looking for some recording tips...a) how far are you sitting in front of your mic'd amp...looks to be somewhere around 6-10'? b) I like my amp with some reverb (~2-3) but have heard its best to record dry. Any thoughts w/r/t reverb and other effect on the front end vice adding effects during the mix? Thanks!!!!
So many thoughts!
First - get a cheap ribbon mic and a cloudlifter. You will be AMAZED at how much more real it sounds than the icy crispness of the sm57.
Second - I almost never put my mics right on the grill. I'm about 2-3 inches away aimed just off center of the speaker cone. With digital recording, you don't need all that spiky high end.
Third - YES! Reverb in post. I use Valhalla Vintage Verb - it's a $50 plugin and you hear it in ALL my vids. It's a huge part of the Haugen™ sound!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Thanks so much Eric! Will definitely look to order a cheap ribbon mic and place slightly offset at 2-3" away from grill cloth/speaker cone center. The onboard reverb on my orig 65' Deluxe is soooo awesome but I hear ya...add reverb post. Will so check out the Valhalla Vintage Verb plugin! Can't wait to try!!! Thank you again Eric!!! Will keep ya posted!
I highly recommend the Se Electronics X1r - I've used it in alot of my older vids and it's killer!
@@EricHaugenGuitar Gotcha....will check it out. At the end of this I'll post a UA-cam link using your backing track to your Knopler/Chicken Picken lesson that I've been messing with the last few days. Okay, #1) I'm a hack...closet guitar player but just love to try to learn stuff. 2) Video quality is bad...already working on getting a better camera & lighting. 3) I recorded my guitar twice on two separate tracks and married together to try to sync up to extend possible #4) I had my amp reverb on about 2.5 upfront - will strip out reverb in front henceforth. Did pan each guitar track (L/R to 9 and 3 o'clock positions. 5) Did add some compression and I think some reverb post. All in all, I think its okay...but (to me) its probably way too over produced/mixed...I think that the right interpretation. I'm gonna strive for watching one of my little vid's and having it nicely complement the music as far as looking like it all looks and sounds natural - not how my current video looks which I think is "too digital", if that's the correct. I know your super busy so clearly no obligation to respond unless you like. I'm gonna try your reco's and try again and try to improve both in playing and recording. :)
ua-cam.com/video/ey30-sFDwqI/v-deo.html
Is that a new guitar? Great playing!! First comment, second like!!
Looks like a new house, too?! Hahaha
That's my trusty MIM strat I got last year some time. It's one of the hard to find nitro finish models - so vintage!
Yeah! I've moved TWICE since pandemic started! Now I live on the back of some nice folks' property in an apartment above their art studio - suits me just fine!
Could you do some Trower from mid 70's ? 🎸🇺🇸🇨🇦🌟🎖🏄🏽♀️🕎
Heck ya! Actually, I’m hearing a lot of Robin sounds on this vid. Well done Eric.
oooh yeah I love Trower - such an interesting version of the Hendrix thing. People who consider him an imitator aren't listening closely enough
Are you playing the backing track through your amp?
My process is quite involved! The guitar mic is going to a field recorder, and then I combine that with the garageband track I made and line it up with the video!
Fucking damn good. 😎👍
Tone for miles!
Thanks Matthew!
"My neeples explode in delight!"
I'm afraid this is outside my wheelhouse. I don't play with a pick, so my fingernails are mostly upstrokers and my thumb (flesh, not nail) is a downstroker. I sometimes do downstrokes with my index fingernail, but it gives a different tone, and I have to be careful because if any of my fingertip flesh catches on the way by, I get artificial harmonics.
Hrmmm I just tried it with all thumb - it works! Gives it a very old school bluesy feel
That's what I'm talking about.
The Denim Tuxedo Hebrew Slowburn™
James Hetfield enters the chat
bwhahahahahaha! Maybe my favorite comment on this vid!
@@EricHaugenGuitar What was the inside joke about Hetfield?
I’d watch you in the dark. Sorry if that sounds wrong. I like what I’m hearing.
hahahahaha "Haugen at Night"
That's a whole other youtube channel where I give dating advice lol I know nothing
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Sorry, but I cannot hear "Cluster" without mentally completing a phrase.
James Hetfield would be proud.
The LORD of classic thrash riffs. Old Metallica is just so fuggin legendary!
@@EricHaugenGuitar ... and the lord of downstrokes. Master, Master!
I'm definitely on team Lars btw - I know he's kinda the Ringo of thrash drummers :-)
I love his messed up beats though!
The question is "why the kitchen"?
hahaha here's why:
1) The light (when it cooperates) is best in there
2) Is actually my living room as well - this apartment has a giant living room/kitchen space. If the camera panned to the left you'd see my couch, chairs and coffee table