Blackberry Smoke - Waiting For The Thunder - Guitar Lesson - Rhythm and Solo

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[@robertworsham8645]

Best Band on the Planet now.! Thank You.

[@BrettPapa]

Great band and super cool guys as well!

[@randyreynolds9790]

Just heard this song for the first time yesterday, and had to learn it. Thank you Papa, for explaining the song break down well, not too slow like this is the first time I picked up an axe. Your personality, as well as your ability to teach using it, make for an easier, more quality song lesson. Thank you again. Great song.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for checking it out! Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

[@ericbeard7264]

Love this band, they just kick ass. Thanks so much for the lesson 🙏🤘🤘

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing! I'll be doing more from them soon!

[@rickeverman8427]

Blackberry Smoke and Whiskey Meyers are my 2 favorite bands. Old time southern rock fan - Saw skynyrd with Ronnie 3 weeks before the plane crash! Yeah I'm old but would love to see some whiskey Meyers...Strange Dreams! Got my wha pedal ready!

[@BrettPapa]

Yeah my buddy was showing me some of that stuff. It's great! I'll have to check it out some more.

[@kutsbothways]

Just saw them again in the Ryman, love these guys. BBS is proof that Rock and Roll is still about the screaming' guitars.

[@iconicguitars]

Well done sir. Well done.

[@BrettPapa]

Thank ya! Feel the same way about your guitars haha!

[@riveralph3687]

Yeah! Love BBS. Great lesson. Will be seeing them this week at the shed in Maryville, TN.

[@BrettPapa]

Me too! Thanks for watching!

[@walterjr.steinert6054]

Ha! I’ve been waiting for some Smoke lesson! Great job! Seem them 5 or 6 times they are awesome.

[@BrettPapa]

100 agreed! Great dudes as well!

[@sylvainblaney9379]

Awesome lesson 👍

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@almostgone33]

O M G. thank you, thank you, thank you brett....awesome song....awesome lesson as always. keep rockin

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing! Thanks for checking it out!

[@robmcclelland2930]

Oh and what a great tone you have on this lesson!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@pedraw]

Saw Blackberry Smoke last November in Tallahassee FL with Band of Heathens. They both killed it.

[@BrettPapa]

Sounds like a good one!

[@bhr3]

Blackberry Smoke is killer. Would love to see a lesson on the song Wish In One Hand Thanks Brett!!

[@BrettPapa]

+Trey Robbins They sure are! I'll see what I can do. I keep telling them they need to let me film them teaching the tunes! I'll break them down one day haha!

[@totoyoda45]

Trey Robbins i learn i wish in one hand from this video charlie is in open g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX_NoJmYeayDj5Y

[@guitarslayerjl7844]

Yes! I have been waiting for you to do some Smoke. Charlie is the man. Thank you. Killer tone as usual.

[@BrettPapa]

He sure is! Thanks for checking it out!

[@GhostWalker-tl5sy]

I just saw them live in Nashville last night, it was incredible, they put on a excellent show, one of the best concerts I've ever been to, however my only complaint was that they weren't loud enough, however their sound was perfect, I was front row and the vocals was crystal clear, great show, definitely will be seeing them again

[@BrettPapa]

Awesome! I hear you on the volume thing but maybe that's why I can still hear haha! They are awesome! Thanks for watching the vid!

[@maconmemories3085]

Yup, I love this band!

[@BrettPapa]

Me too!

[@belo1971]

Regards from France...Love it !!! Thanks a lot Brett

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@GuitarDudeXXX]

Figured this one a coupla months ago but your vid cleared up a few notes on the solo. Thanks 'Stache!

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@chrisblum6271]

thank you brett always very cool. greatings from swisserland

[@BrettPapa]

You are welcome Chris! Thanks for checking it out!

[@jeffreyjones3228]

Awesome !

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks Jeffery!

[@chriszinn7143]

Bad ass blackberry smoke my second fav band lol but my first is the Cadillac there not much lead guitar but song Writing and guitar riffs in the southern country genre is my fav

[@oldbullet0140]

Klasse sehr gut zum nach spielen danke.

[@mrtaylor10101]

Great lesson. Thank you. Very happy to learn some BBS.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@stevenellis8365]

Thanks Brett! Fun lesson.

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@thebruckners]

BBS are amazing. Thanks for the tutorial and hope you will make more videos featuring them.

[@BrettPapa]

Coming soon!

[@robmcclelland2930]

Gotta love the Smoke!!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Yep! So good!

[@stuartpotterton6701]

Great lesson .

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@SounderAU]

Love a bit of Blackberry Smoke!! I'm hanging out for their Aussie pub tour. :)

[@BrettPapa]

Sweet!

[@joeyride58]

More Smoke Papa !!!

[@BrettPapa]

Was just thinking that myself this morning! I'll work some up.

[@danmuller7075]

How about Six Ways to Sunday. Would love to learn it.

[@BrettPapa]

I'll check it out. Love me some Smoke!!

[@danielhartman5086]

Your awesome to Brett Papa Thank you.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! You are welcome!

[@sixsentsoldiers]

Love that pause in the verse. Old trick but still gets me. Powerful. That Lick if in the main riff sounds very Hair Of The Dog.

[@BrettPapa]

It's a great tune. Such a good band and they are awesome live!!

[@handofgiants5400]

YES! YES! YES! great choice brother. That LP and Friedman is a work if art although I will easily say you make them all sound like "I need one..." ☛🎯☚ Take care man. Talk soon.

[@BrettPapa]

You do need them all! Thanks for checking it out!

[@themopardad]

I’m saddened that the stash got shaved off but happy that you got a freidman amp. I’m very emotionally torn 😢

[@BrettPapa]

Haha! Well its a beard now and a different Friedman!

[@kingofpopp.s2182]

😍👌 thank you dear friend ⚘👑

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@MichaelFrancisguitar]

Thanks

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@P-S-Kustoms]

Great job thank you make it easy for me to learn a day before rehearsal ..ha ha

[@BrettPapa]

Sweet! Glad I could help you out!

[@EastBayBlue]

Charlie is a great song writer.

[@BrettPapa]

For sure! Great dude as well!

[@Da_Muzzanator]

please more Blackberry smoke Brett! they have 2 more albums of cool songs since this one!

[@BrettPapa]

I know!! I need to do some more soon! Suggestions?

[@Da_Muzzanator]

@@BrettPapa Hey Brett, Just seen them live in Glasgow last Saturday! Best band ever! "I'll Keep Ramblin'" is my fave from the new album but "Run Away From it All" and "Lord Strikes me Dead" are close behind! from their older albums "Workin' for a Workin' Man" "Sunrise in Texas" "Like an Arrow" "Everybody Knows She's Mine" "Up the Road" "Let Me Help You (Find the Door)" "Payback's a Bitch" they are all on my want to learn list! but they are all good! Don't forget the solo's please as this is what made this lesson here the best one for me!

[@perception4725]

Sweeeeeeeet southern rock my man. You should do some Zeppelin

[@BrettPapa]

On the way soon! Thanks for watching!

[@courtmarr5714]

Awesome. I can't find any good tutorials for their songs, other than what you've covered. I'm hoping to get one for one horse town *goes over to song request*

[@BrettPapa]

I'm planning on doing a bunch more! Love that band!

[@steveallen1149]

First time finding you. For moderate guitarists, your style kicks it out! You get on with showing how songs are meant to be played, no fooling around to show how in depth you are musically trained. Keep up the good work. By the way, what area of the country are you in?

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! I'm in Cali. Thanks for watching!

[@eduardoluisferreira1905]

Hey Papa. Please. Post guitar lesson "Shakin hands with the holy ghost"

[@PastaPatate]

Nice foliage!

[@BrettPapa]

Haha!

[@markbeard2850]

Please do another blackberry smoke please

[@BrettPapa]

Will do!

[@helethead]

Seeing them next month! They are coming behind the Zion Curtain. haha

[@BrettPapa]

Sweet!

[@helethead]

It was killer! My favorite band.!

[@robmcclelland2930]

Hey Brett! Any chance you can do a lesson on Whippoorwill from the Smoke mate?

[@BrettPapa]

Possibly so! I love me some Smoke!

[@shable1436]

charlie star told me he liked it!!

[@BrettPapa]

Sweet! He left me a message too! Such a great dude!

[@srnad88]

Talk about under rated straight ahead Marshall/Les Paul rock and roll--how about picking any song of the live set list of "The Darkness". The brothers do a great job of switching off, but lots of great stand alone guitar riffs.

[@BrettPapa]

For sure!!!

[@klaus00763]

Excellent....-:))

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@DearArianaMusic]

Dude what pickups are in that LP? They sound unbelievable.

[@BrettPapa]

Not sure, whatever comes in a R9.

[@chriszinn7143]

Does it work if it's the same person telling u the Cadillac three over again is a band u need to listen to

[@BrettPapa]

Checked them out last night. Great tunes! I'll see what I can do.

[@geemac7267]

Song requests? Keep the Smoke rollin' man!

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@boogie89man]

Thanks a lot.....AC/DC

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing!

[@mileswoodbine5065]

Thanks papastache, can we have more blackberry smoke

[@BrettPapa]

Sure thing! Like what?

[@mileswoodbine5065]

papastache102 good one comin on would be nice, I can't find a video on it with a good teacher like you

[@thecoastizclear]

Scare the devil

[@mileswoodbine5065]

thecoastizclear hell yeah

[@MarkSD]

Dig, nice Ax.

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks! Wish it was mine haha!

[@eMIuaN98]

Supeeeeeerrrr!

[@miken.5537]

Could you PLLLEEEAAAASEEEEE do "Good One Comin' On"!!!

[@BrettPapa]

Great tune! I'll do it soon.

[@garyeggleton1142]

I been waitin for someone to help me figure out the little riff on the 4th time,lol.....sounds tricky on recording

[@BrettPapa]

Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!

[@MommiesMilkers47]

the solo sounds like a different song but I can't pick it out

[@DavidRFIT]

Please do a PROPER lesson for The Rover by Led Zeppelin. MAJESTIC song.

[@kennethday9747]

Shaken hands with the holy ghost. Sounds like Telecaster tuned open G into cranked tweed bassman. Tasty licks

[@BrettPapa]

Thanks!

[@jameslowe6499]

Beautiful les Paul.. is it an R9?

[@BrettPapa]

Not sure, it's a friends. It was really high on the store wall, so I'm sure its a good one haha!

[@chriszinn7143]

Nothing better than southern rock lol coming from a Canadian but blackberry smoke fuckin bad ass and please do the Cadillac three my fav band

[@BrettPapa]

They are awesome no matter what country you are from! Thanks for watching! I'll see what I can do!

[@auggierobledo941]

speaking of southern rock...know any Molly Hatchet??

[@BrettPapa]

Yeah been meaning to work up Flirting With Disaster for a long time. Any other suggestions from them?

[@thecoastizclear]

whisky man or Bounty hunter

[@auggierobledo941]

Fall of the Peacemaker..... thanks.

[@sixsentsoldiers]

Does this song not have that 70's Zeppelin kinda vibe?

[@Welcome_To_Life]

Stunning Les Paul! What model is it?

[@BrettPapa]

Not sure its my friends

[@chaisehombre7723]

It's Marty's. Isn't it?

[@srnad88]

hahaha too real! Nice. Not a '59??????????? then it aint shit.

[@tshouse2782]

where's our Turn to Stone by Walsh?

[@BrettPapa]

Coming soon!

[@seanstratmoen2060]

Thanks so much for this - it really helped get this down quickly and it's such a fun song to play. Doubt you'll see this but thought you'd like to know that during the solo toward the end where you are doing a vibrato on the 10th fret on the B string to end the second to last phrase from the solo, he actually bends the 11th on the G 1 and 1/2 steps to reach that same note and it sounds as awesome as you'd think when done right. You can see Charlie do it in this clip at about 2:55 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpfNl6GkasaBoZKcttps://kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXqsnJepd9Cjoa8

[@BrettPapa]

Oh okay. I'll check that out. Tried to get him to teach it haha! I'll break him down soon haha!

[@iambetterthanu330]

Copperhead road

[@BrettPapa]

I'll check it out.

[@dropkicker101]

papa nostache lol

[@BrettPapa]

Haha!

[@GabrielFranciscoss]

set speed to 0.75x and see Brett really drunk

[@BrettPapa]

Haha! Sounds about right!

[@jerrymorganjr]

I just came for the badass Les Paul.

[@damon2a102]

Check out the video of the POS you scammed me with Jerry Morgan. Where's my money Jerry ??

[@keithdozier9342]

10s? I play 11s 😂

[@BrettPapa]

Nah, why fight it. I heard the bigger strings more tone argument a lot but in my experience being around players with massive tone that has not been the case in my opinion.

[@keithdozier9342]

papastache102 I use them because I usually play in the drop C range and you typically don’t get the looseness from the heavier strings. I have a PRS baritone that has 13s lol