THIS is one of the BEST hard rock performances I've ever seen! Enter Rick Derringer!

on the agenda tonight we're going back to 1973 we're going to be taking a look at rick derringer and he's going to be performing rock and roll huchiku hello phil here from wings of pegasus and welcome to another analysis video if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe so let's get the guys up on screen and we have edgar winter on stage as well whenever rick performed the winters weren't far behind but we'll have a listen to this whole performance because it's only three minutes and 35 seconds in length and then we'll get into the analysis afterwards but let's get into it [Music] good stop [Music] [Applause] news about this time of year [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh somebody [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hope you all know what i'm talking about really knocks me out all the time [Music] my let's go one more time oh [Music] like my few [Music] and there we have it this performance is right up my street as i'm sure you guys can understand if you've watched this channel for any length of time but this is on a totally different level the first thing to point out is the sound the overall sound being so clean it is such a dry signal we're getting across the board so it means there is nowhere to hide vocally with the lead guitar even with the rhythm guitar the backing vocals as well it sounds like we are di here into the mixer it means that what you're hearing is purely what's going into the microphone there's no reverb no delay on the vocals the backing vocals the lead guitar so the fact that it sounds this good is just insane because of the level of ability we've got on stage here rick with that lead vocal is such a strong lead vocal and these guys are just belting out some seriously impressive notes here in chest voice and i'm talking about the male 10 high c the c5 and when we're talking about the backing vocals exactly the same thing going on there we've got chuck ruff by the way on drums whenever it cuts to chuck he's just having the time of his life and that's also the vibe you get throughout the whole band they're enjoying it it's almost as if they're not really concentrating on what they're doing because it's so subconscious they can get into the performance and put all of that emphasis emotion expression into their playing because they are feeling it while they're playing they're not concentrating on technique and that's certainly something that you can appreciate with the overall groove that we've got going on here because it is so well expressed you can really dig into that groove we've also got dart hartman here on base and he is also applying a backing vocal so when we're talking about dan and edgar's backing vocals they're just way up there it sounds like they could be a lead vocal because it's so strong belting it out in chest but of course rick just takes on the mantle of that lead vocal and owns it and when you're hearing those backing vocals it just is such a luxury to have three guys in a band who can bail out high seas male 10 high seas because it's just crazy to have that kind of ability throughout a band we also have jerry weems here on rhythm guitar that second rhythm guitar we can't really hear it in the mix it's not particularly high so it means that all of the rhythm that we're hearing the predominant rhythm is coming from rick's guitar which again playing and singing at the same time doubling the difficulty but he never misses a beat or a note on that guitar so solid the whole way through the performance you'll notice as well that edgar winter's got his keytar on here or at least what it would be referred to in the future as because he was the first guy to do this to put a strap on his keyboard which meant that it freed him up to move around the stage like somebody who played the guitar he wouldn't have to be stuck behind that keyboard and put the keyboard on the stand so this is something that really did take off in the 80s where the keytars really had that design of more of a guitar type approach and being shorter maybe getting rid of a few octaves out of the keyboard so that it could be played in a more compact manner but that all started with edgar winter and this idea of having a more mobile keyboard but i really want to go through the guitar playing here because it's not just strumming out chords we've got a lot of riff work going on and a great lead solo by rick as well so we're gonna jump into it what i'll do is take the video all the way back to the beginning and we'll listen to it from there and just break a few things down okay so in the intro we've got this stretch from the f and we're really clean but we've got a bit of overdrive on there so it's clean in terms of not a great deal of reverb or delay it just sounds like that tone just instantly cuts out as soon as rick stops playing the rhythm so we've got this f a bit of a stretch here you're gonna use that little finger in order to get up to our fifth fret from the third which is where your third finger is slide up just two frets to the g and we go over to the a and we've got this little riff here and this sounds like might be a little pull-off there so we're placing on that little finger it might be the fact that rick when he plays this has a little jump up with his third finger and then goes back down again but you can play it however is most comfortable for you but when we go into the second time the first time we've got this jump from the air into our power chord c if you want to you can throw in that octave with a little finger on that g just to thicken it up a little bit more hopping over to the g5 again power chord over to the a and then we stop and just lighten up that left hand because we then go down to an e we get this [Music] little octave slide up oh little little pinch there on the g and then the octaves good okay so that was [Music] just one two three four that was five so sticking that together we've got this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and then into the octaves there i think we might also have a little bit of a shift up to the octave higher so now slipping up from 11 to 12 with that first finger and there's another line in there and it's going to be that second rhythm guitar that's playing like that so that's going to be your exactly the same thing there octaves we're just picking out a different note in order to harmonize with that first line but we'll let the video play on and jump into it again [Music] okay so this is where the groove really sits in there because of the upstrokes just to explain that upstroke that we have in there effectively our pattern on the right hand is going down down down up up down down up up down down down down up up down down up up down like that and if we're just taking one of those cycles down down down up up down down up up like that and then you start down down down just keep on repeating that but you want to be throwing in [Music] kind of like that so you can see how i was lightening up my cord to just get them to pop out when you want them let's jump back into it [Applause] and then we've got this same f g and a sounds like the same kind of riff that we had in the intro and then we had this [Music] [Applause] kind of like that and sounds like we've got a little bit of a pull-off from that little finger maybe or the third finger depending on how big your hands are but it's really subtle in terms of it's not allowed to ring out too much it's really controlled with a little bit of palm muting but also lightening up with that left hand and then we're just going back into what we had before with the intro and then the pinch down to the end into those octaves we are going to be jumping into the solo briefly to see what rick gets up to and i mean the thing about this performance you'll take it for granted that we've got guys here that can sing that have got just top level ability on their instruments as well the fact that rick has this voice and then can just jump into a league guitar solo that is so well executed technically and melodically and the fact that he's doing the jobs of two musicians in one here being able to just throw in a lead guitar solo and have a lead vocal but also throw in such great rhythm playing but let's have a listen to it so straight off the bat we've got this or it might be you might be placing in that third finger and it's that kind of thing kind of fast phrases but thrown together technically really cleanly [Music] and a hint of that a little bit of harmonic action going in well going on but maybe not as much as i just put in there with that and that kind of thing little runs by the way you want to be in your a minor pentatonic shape one here just a lot of technique here this is the point that this is top level playing from rick just holding down this solo and it's just great playing and i love these kind of lines and we've got this [Music] just exaggerating the melody which is great as well it's not all about playing a million notes a second it's about just dotting melody in there playing a little bit more slowly then throwing in a line or two that's a bit faster but then maybe just repeating melodies and that's exactly what we get here [Music] going from the call of just repeating a line to then the response of that repeated line okay so there we did actually get into uh [Music] which was a pull-off from five to three that's third finger first finger to that open g and i mean going to i mean it's one of those choices that throwing in a little bit of speed is great he's just mixed it up a little bit and we're not really worrying too much about the notes going on here this is really something that rick you can tell he's just into this solo and sometimes guitarists will just throw in something that they feel like throwing in there he then exits out of that into another line let's have a listen [Music] so he's actually sliding up again pentatonic shape one here but just sliding up and placing in that little finger and then coming back down again [Music] it might be a little bend there right down to the first finger [Music] i think that was the line just take it back yeah it's that [Music] and we get a little repeat of a phrase there so we get that we've also got the grouping of the notes in terms of the timing we're not going i'm just playing it straight we've got [Music] kind of like that really interesting phrasing yeah so it's just grouping up they're a little long like that i think and [Music] that same little phrase there you know you can even have a whole semitone run down back into your shape one i think that's where we're probably going here yeah it was exactly that it's a little slide back down into that shape okay [Music] okay now we've got this little jump again this is a little bit more progressive there's a little run up as well that happens when we go for this a down to the f sharp and uh just to let you know that the f sharp is the same as a g flat it just depends on the key of the song that you're talking about that determines whether you call it an f sharp or a g flat and because we're in a we're going to be calling an f sharp really if you're being technically correct but when we get this [Music] [Applause] this little run or slide that we have from rick as well before we then get back into that a minor pentatonic shape [Music] and then we're back into the rhythm i don't know what i'm talking about again great indication there of the level of ability we're talking about here we've gone straight from that lead guitar solo back down into that rhythm the really funky rhythm that we've got going on and that if we're playing it like rick and open a down there or [Music] going back up and really nice flip up there into his head voice really clean tone where the harmony vocals are coming in you can see you know right up here eighth fret by the way on your high e string if you want to find it if you've got your guitars out but we just flipped up into a really clean head voice sound there which was an ae4 so really impressive stuff there from rick just having that control in the voice also just to mention the fact that this is what i would class as more hard rock in nature because we've got these really strong vocals hitting notes here towards the top end of that male 10 range and belting that all in chest voice is very much a hard rock type approach but these guys were just really ahead of their time 1973 considering as well that you get bands like van halen who came to prominence in the late 70s and we're talking five six seven years earlier from rick and edgar and the other guys in the band here just being so tight it is so impressive and i love this kind of sound and especially the lead guitar playing being so clean there's a little bit of distortion on there like i said but it is super clean because there's nothing to hide the ability on show here and if there were any mistakes it would stick out like a sore thumb thank you guys so much for requesting this video for me to take a look at and keep the 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

Channel: Wings of Pegasus

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Length: 21min 45sec (1305 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 29 2021