British guitarist attempts to play Glen Campbell's lead guitar lines! Ouch!

on the agenda tonight we're going back to 2002 we're going to be taking a look at glenn campbell and steve warrener and they're going to be performing galveston hello phil here from wings of pegasus and welcome to another analysis video if you enjoy this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe so we're going to be getting glenn and steve up on screen and there's going to be a link in the description below to this performance if you want to watch it the whole way through without me interrupting it because i am going to jump in about halfway because there is a lot to look out here rhythm wise on the guitar but also lead wise when glenn just let's rip on the fretboard but let's get glenn steve and the rest of the band up on screen and see how they get on [Music] [Music] and i still see her dark eyes glowing she was 21 when i left galveston galveston or galveston i still hear your sea waves crashing and while i watch the canon slicing i just clean my gun [Music] then dream of galveston i still see her standing by the water standing there looking out to sea and is she waiting there for me on the beach where we used to run [Music] galveston i am so afraid of dying before i try the tears she's crying before i watch [Music] is [Music] so [Music] i'm just going to jump in here before we get into glen solo which we will jump into at the end of the video but this just as a song it's a jimmy webb composition and this was a huge hit for glenn and just the way that he could sing he could play the guitar he could just do everything uh being a member of the wrecking crew as well and the wrecking crew actually being on this particular recording having such ability and seemingly we're about to get into the solo seemingly his ability at lead guitar was just a different level he made it look really easy and this is something that we're going to be looking at when we're looking at the techniques breaking them down when you start looking at the runs he's throwing together some of the alternate picking even doing some arpeggios sweet picking with the right hand it is really impressive stuff so look out for that at the end of the video but big shout out to steve for those backing vocals as well and just a quick word on this composition the fact that it's quite a somber song because when you look into the lyrical content it's got that edge to it and unless you're really listening out for that lyrical content because of the major chords it's sounding a little bit upbeat we do have that change to the a flat that key change that takes it to a totally different place before then getting back to the f but when we do have that key change we get into a few more minor chords so if you are going to watch this whole video and click on that link in the description below you'll see that keith urban does mention about the fact he used to listen to this song and didn't really know what it was about until he read along with that lyrical content which is something that i always suggest to do on this channel if you're listening to great composers and great singer songwriters just have a little look at the lyrical content while you are listening to the song to really dig deeper into the meaning of the song and that's certainly what you can find in this song and it's one of those that a lot of people might have thought it's an anti-war song and you could see it from that kind of angle but because the subject of the song and glenn taking on that personality in this song speaking from that first-person perspective he's wanting to leave the war because he's lost and he wants to go home and this is why he's singing about galveston so just getting into the guitar first of all from a rhythm perspective and just pointing out the amount of chords we've got going on here and how quickly we change from one chord to the next when we start out we've got the riff the which is you know really nice and straight we've got a little slide up as well but then we've got this little jump from our b flat to the c to the f and the important thing to note when you then go through the b flat c again we then change over to the f major 7th into an f seventh into the b flat and then we have this little b flat run down to the a minor to the g minor to the c to the f major seventh again over to the b flat again we have the same rundown a minor g minor c d minor b flat c f b flat c f and once we've done that we do the same thing jumping into the f major seventh into the next part of the verse so just demonstrating the amount of chords we've got going on here and the fact that we change chords so consistently so regularly considering that we only get a couple of beats on each chord very occasionally we will get four beats on a chord but there are such quick changes here that you really have to be on your game to keep up with all the chords but just from a compositional perspective it's not something you normally see there's a lot of songs that will stay on chords for at least a bar or a couple of bars but here we've just got a b and even when we're going down from that b flat the b flat a minor down to the g minor it's all one two three literally one beat to make those changes over to the c uh back to that f major seventh and then b flat a minor g minor again c to the d minor to the b flat to the c to the f so there are loads of chords in here and this is before we even get to the chord change that we have when we go into the b flat c [Music] we've then got this key change and i wouldn't say it's a key change because it's more like a separate section of the song almost drawing you into what you think might be a chorus but it is so difficult to label anything as a dead set verse or chorus here because that galveston the tag word of the song is used all the time so you don't necessarily just see that pop up in the chorus so i'm just going to play along with the performance playing the chords in the background and i'll keep it quiet but just keep an eye on my hand just seeing how much i move around in order to play all of these chords of course glenn's playing a bit of rhythm and singing at the same time but just to give you an appreciation of the amount of chords the changes that we've got in this composition and we're going to jump in from probably the c into the f the b flat f and into that jump that we have to the a flat [Music] is and then we're back into the verse and let me stop the video but you can see how much i'm jumping around just to get all of these chords in there but let's get back into the performance this is one of those that could go on all year because we haven't even got into the lead yet but there is so much involved with this song let's get back into it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] at galveston and there we have it try and pick the bones out of that solo there is so much technique glenn was just a top level player whichever way you cut it and it tends to be the case that the guys from the 60s the 70s especially in country music they just had all of their techniques down alternate picking it's because of the clean tones you can hear every single pick and if your technique isn't perfect it's going to stand out like a sore thumb this is why guys like lane campbell and roy clark another example of guys that were so good on the fretboard and in the right hand as well that's the thing that will fly under the radar is the amount of control so let's just jump into that playing again and appreciate it i'll try and point out a few things or at least i will try my best to let's have a listen [Music] so we start with this opening look actually we have this little line that glenn just introduces us into this lick that we have this and it's just a little repeat of a phrase pretty much like that of course really controlled super clean tone here of course and here we've got these little picks and we've got this [Music] there's a little bit of blue scale there right at the end so we have this that kind of thing let's have another little listing because there's a lot of notes going on there [Music] as that um i'm just gonna have another listen to this run okay right at the end there we've got this little phrase that he somehow works in there so we've got this [Music] kind of like that and the phrasing's not going to be exactly the same trying to get it anywhere close to what glenn's doing is going to be impossible but this is really top level technical playing that glenn's doing here so just trying to copy it is nion impossible uh let me just rewind it a little bit so we can hear this phrase getting into the next phrase okay so then we're going straight into some sweet picking on the right hand again really technical stuff and we're breaking out [Music] the notes from the chords so we're arpeggiating the chord here when glenn's playing through that and it's not like that [Music] it's more there's there's a little bit again it's the phrasing in there and he only does it a couple of times but then we get into the [Music] he kind of does a few slides up again just i think getting that is really difficult and then i think he's just started a run so i'm gonna just take it back a little bit let's have a look again the speed of that really really impressive [Music] okay so what was that we had it was something along those kind of [Music] lines yeah is this um well that's close that's it then he jumps over to the g [Music] and works his way back up again [Music] we've got a little run down there again really cool stuff here and that's the same little randy what was it that i just played can't remember [Music] and then he has a little run down the guitar i don't think we can actually hear what's going on yeah the guitar kind of cuts out at that point so we won't worry too much about it [Music] and here we're [Music] i just he's actually stretching over maybe with his second finger there i've got very small hands so i won't be able to stretch there but third finger's fine kind of like that and same run there we had this [Music] but then when he works his way back up we now get into a little chromatic run that goes up i've just queued back the video so you guys can see which part i'm referring to [Music] just that little run there so we've got that picked notes on that high e string and each of our fingers we're going to need for this and then they're pull offs like that shift up two frets and then one fret and you want to leave a tone gap between that first and second finger and i'm not sure whether those are gonna be put off as well okay so we're going [Music] so we get into a little run that happens after that so um don't worry about doing the pull-offs on that third part of the phrase [Music] and then we've just got really cool melodic stuff having this [Music] and when i'm playing through this it's not an instructional video so i haven't spent time getting down all of the notes we're not going to be approaching it like a lesson but i just want to show you guys the techniques and how difficult they are to master and a lot of players will never get to this level and if it's not something you just pick up a guitar and you can play like this it takes a hell of a lot of practice and glenn would have just sat there and practiced these techniques to the nth degree to make sure that he got them down we'd talk about hours and hours and hours and hours a day and when you consider how talented he was in other aspects of music with his voice as well it's just amazing that he managed to fit so much into a lifetime to get so good at so many different things when we're playing through this like i said we're not getting the notes in exactly the right order but if you want to have a guide then we're in f so it means that your [Music] your pentatonic shape one will be found on the 10th fret if you have your first finger there and if you're keeping your fingering very strict then your little finger will come in on the 13th fret [Music] like that and that's where you'll find your notes and you can see how i'm intentionally ending on that f because that's going to make it sound more in key rather than ending on your first finger which is not what you want to do because now it's going to make it sound like a totally different key and it's going to sound like it's in d minor whereas we don't want that we want to keep ending on the f to make it sound like it is an f because it is but let's just watch it until the end again really melodic stuff in there oh that kind of thing [Applause] and there it is just nailing the endnote vocally and when glenn performed he's just got such a likable persona on stage and the fact that he was just immensely talented but you got the impression watching him that he didn't know that he was so amazingly talented but this solo is just on a different level and i've mentioned this about glenn before on the channel we haven't looked at glenn in quite a long time so it's great to get him up on screen again especially now dissecting a little bit of his lead play because there is plenty more technique where this came from when you're talking about glenn campbell and there's a reason that eddie van halen wanted lessons from this guy but this is one of those videos that i did say could go on for years and it probably has but thank you guys for suggesting this video for me to take a look at and keep those suggestions coming in the comments below let me know what you guys think and if you did enjoy this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe and i'll see you guys at the next one rock

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Length: 22min 6sec (1326 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 27 2021