Brad Paisley "I was 12 and finally it just clicked" // SiriusXM // The Highway

[@aludamin]

He could easily outplay some of the best rock/metal guitarists out there.

[@vincentreyes6154]

Why hasn't he been to G3 yet?! He'd kill on stage. 🎸💪🤠😎

[@easyenetwork2023]

Uh yes. Country technique is more clean than rock and roll.

[@tdalb8985]

I am not a country guy, but I really think this guy is terrific, and I've seen him play all kinds of styles really well.

[@patrickwatkins3837]

Im happy to see even a master like Brad Paisley makes the same noise all of us make when we screw up lol

[@CharlieRootsMusic]

Not all of us, lol, depends on if it's mixed company what I yell!

[@kennethmabus381]

His screw ups still sound better than mine!

[@dennisfeldhausen3258]

I'm more of heavy metal guy, but Brad knows how to make some strings buzz right. Respect!

[@coachraythepilot5759]

Every few years amazing humans come out and BP is defiintely one of those guys. Humble, talented, all around great human. Defnitely a master at his craft.

[@joehawkins9122]

He seems like a good dude. Undeniable player. I enjoyed this.

[@azcharlie2009]

Brad Paisley is the most underrated guitar player on the planet.

[@christopherhanna5754]

Hes right new country is missing this deep bedrock of guitar picking styles.. hes monster player true artist.

[@omfg51]

even though I really don't like country, he makes a super excellent point on the old country thing, old country has so much of that simultaneous bass/lead playing, if not for the sound, just for the technique, it's really impressive

[@trevormason9225]

I love this, I hope Brad somehow see's this comment, because Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins are two of my guitar heroes and who I aspire to play like!!! I also love Brad's playing, and Brent Mason is one of my all time favorites as well!

[@dejaliloquy]

BP is so underrated as a guitar player

[@matthewmartin7639]

I had a similar moment when I was about 14 with my music teacher. I had been trying for ages to figure out how to do thumbstyle stuff. He explained it the best he could but the only key is practice and eventually there is that lightbulb moment where it all just falls into place. My teacher to this day (although I don't lessons anymore from him) says he still can see my face when it clicked. Happiest guy in the world.

[@fredthejunkman]

I'm self-taught and I'm still waiting for whatever it is to click...I think there is some kind of disconnect between my brain and my fingers.

[@greyman334]

What a guitar player! Even the best of them make mistakes sometimes. Don't be hard on yourselves kids. Just keep moving forward.

[@symphonyfarm2009]

I wanna see Brad in a Bluegrass Quintet with Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, and Travis Tritt!!

[@Marcus_C51]

Okay--now THAT would beyond awesome!! Good Lawd!

[@aslanmonn86]

Whoo! That would be awesome to see! Let's get that God bless

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

Jake Workman better

[@easyenetwork2023]

He could outplay everyone of them but Vince maybe.

[@andresdiaz2737]

I just can´t stand this guy. He´s got great voice, great guitar chops, great looks, great sense of humor. Everything that is to have. So unfair.

[@trintygamesandrobloxandmor128]

Andres Diaz add great song writing to that as well. People know him as good or even great but he needs to go down as one of the best ever.

[@tdalb8985]

Yeah me too, but I'm a lot taller than he is, so there is that. :)

[@fredthejunkman]

I agree...listened to him most of the day while driving.....nobody should have that much talent.

[@homersimpson5964]

@@tdalb8985 He'd take your girl though without even trying.

[@Last_one_before_I_go]

Can't fault the guy for all those things. Andres, your day will come too. Just work on yourself and you'll get the benefits.

[@countvond233]

The triple threat. What a time to be alive. All the greats are mostly Country guys - Gill, Paisley, Urban, Emmanuel, etc.

[@pascalrouen]

Tommy Emmanuel, Vince Gill, and Brad Paisley are my three favorite guitarists, for sure. Maybe others are somewhat comparable skill-wise, but none others give me the same love for guitar that those three do.

[@solomonsgtjustinl9724]

That dude's amazing.

[@milesfromneworleans]

Wow, that Merle Travis and Chet Atkins style done with hybrid picking is incredible! I've never seen that before. Both Merle and Chet used their thumbs as B.P. says.

[@ulrikethalhammer4197]

Wow super cool Brad Paisley 👍👏🎵🎸🤠🎶

[@lisastutzman6112]

Nice to hear some background of Brad's guitar history.

[@unifrax5]

The greats keep coming and shining thru. Each Genre has their stars. They all respect (they should) the others that came before them and learned from them. If you want to master guitar, you have to learn all styles. The harder ones or ones that are different from your past, open your eyes to what's possible. They'll make you better for the effort. The fact that so many guitarist admire Brad, points to the level of his talent. Take note of that. I'm a fan.

[@mstrchief24]

I'm not a huge country fan but I do enjoy paisleys guitar playing

[@siriusxm]

Today's the last day you can hear the Brad Paisley Town Hall on The Highway on SiriusXM On Demand. Spoiler alert: He gave guitar lessons and took audience requests.

[@Robearwgl]

can't wait to see him live!! love him.

[@PostColorGear]

2:21.....I did the same thing haha it's reassuring to hear that Brad went through the same "trouble" with that.

[@phowlthaseltun4613]

I thank god... u gave us brad

[@goldenglovled]

i should just quit guitar lol. no way will i ever be that good. that's so impressive!

[@JoshuaJonah]

Travis picking is all about muscle memory, you could learn to do it in a couple months of metronome practice.

[@eDuB1980s]

watch Thom Bresh, Merle Travis' son. He takes the style to an even higher level than his father

[@rossreeder387]

Joshua Jonah Won't even take that long if you're dedicated

[@Bogeyman19DidNotScareMyAss]

Lauren thats the spirit

[@toniomiklo2406]

I'm not american, but I must say that country guitar players generally remain the most talented ones. It's much more difficult to play this style than Malmsteen's.

[@cameronwalshguitar]

+Andrew Phillips i bet u would want to watch

[@fernandomoreno7753]

eddieisfiction exactly. I grew up playing metal shred scales and sweeps and all that but when I tried to do hybrid picking it felt very strange haha

[@dadude7]

Tonio Miklo Yngwie is just different, but I know what you mean. This stuff makes you think you might never 'get' it...but Yngwie's stuff always leaves the door open, so to speak.

[@vincentreyes6154]

Yngwie is an amazing metal guitarist, but Brad was the one who got me interested into being a lead guitarist. And when he played Chet's "Freight Train" on this video, I tried to learn it and realized how hard it was. Hybrid picking was normal for me, as I learned that style pretty early. But how you mix harmony and melody or bass and treble together like that takes hybrid picking or finger picking to another level. Just like the SSPX and the FSSP preserve the Traditional Catholic Latin Tridentine Mass, Brad preserves the picking style of Chet. Not to the same level, but in a way that shows that he knows how to play and in a way that shows how far people can go on the guitar. That's why even though I like Yngwie and Slash and Petrucci and Eric Johnson and Friedman and Young and Hetfield (especially Hetfield), Brad is always going to be the one who makes me pick up the guitar. He was, and still is, my greatest influence for the guitar. 🤠🎸💪👌😎

[@richardshank7659]

Andrew Phillips Malmsteen is very limited don’t get me wrong he’s good but I’ve never cared much about the “watch me shred” guitar players that have an ego as high as the clouds. Like I said he’s good but not versatile and well how do I put this lightly he’s a freaking douchebag... lol

[@LoveMusic9973]

Well Special. I am glad it clicked. Are you as sweet as you pretend to be. I bet you are. Best guitar player ever ❤️🎵🤠🎸😘

[@josephwickham6607]

Still trying to break through that 12 year old Paisley level. From what people tell me is that it is an intuitive block that you eventually break through that allows you to not think about what the thumb is doing so much and finding that space during or between the notes to pick with your fingers. Hard to learn, but is like riding a bike, you never lose it once you have it. But I bet the reason Paisley messed up a little on Yankee Doodle Dixie is that he hasn't played it for years and years. He knew that he knew it but it had been a long time and the fingers needed a little bit of a refresher. Atkins was a legend, and a lot of kids nowadays have no idea who he was, or Merle Travis or Doc Watson. There are only a few left who still play that style. And great fingerpickers nowadays play very different styles of music. Andy Mckee for instance is a fabulous fingerpicker but is more known for his percussive guitar slapping that he does on a few songs.

[@PartScavenger]

Did you?

[@coryCuc]

Absolutely Love Brad Paisley....however, check out Billy Strings....glad to see Doc, Chet, Jerry, Glen making a comeback. He's amazing.

[@mjvicc1952]

Brad Paisley can outplay ‘em all in virtually any genre!

[@benmacquarrie7867]

One of the best country players of all time

[@2028end]

If you wanna play guitar, you have to be willing to practice, practice, practice.

[@ErikAndersonMusic]

I love how the interviewer referenced that Target commerical with Kermit the Frog and got nothing! hahaha that was the funniest part!! Kermit v. Paisley was legendary

[@vaiisgod8]

One of the best guitar players there is

[@sekoser]

He is a monster of a guitar player!

[@1lifeonearth]

this is so discouraging in my learning guitar journey

[@AlexSharesTheView]

This guy is so fucking legit

[@marc_leblanc]

I'm almost 47 and it still hasn't clicked!! 😂🤣

[@jerrykinnin7941]

His album PLAY. Awesome. Jerry Reed was a thumb/finger picker as well.

[@gtrjoe68]

Hell yeah!!!

[@DexterHaven]

Joe Walsh asks Brad how he does it, even.

[@vincentreyes6154]

There you go. One of the guitarists that Brad respects also recognizes the same talent. Big Eagles fan, and a big BP fan. 🎸

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Great vid! Storme Warren - Hope to cross paths with you @ KWSF next year!

[@rhettdale7027]

Everyone talking about Clapton and Campbell. What about Roy Clark? Brad used to play learning from a Roy Clark song book. Roy could play anything.

[@BradCross1982]

Roy Clark and Jerry Reed two underrated guitarists 🤘🏽

[@richardshank7659]

I’m glad to know as a guitar player myself that even brad paisley makes mistakes...

[@SteffsGarage]

I have been tryong to learn this style and cant find any good lessons on youtube

[@claytonmertes2824]

I wanna learn! Teach me brad!

[@queenjessiejmusic]

Please teach me !!! It’s my dream to be a singer and I feel the guitar would be perfect too.. a girl and her guitar..

[@IainFrame]

That guy is a wizard 😮🔥

[@mattbrigner4815]

He is so right.. music and playing live musical instruments on stage are starting to be extinct... Don't get me wrong there are still a lot of people that play on stage from small scale to large... But it still seems to be fading out... Music used to shape who we were back in the day and it doesn't seem to do that anymore...

[@teleuser]

He is a great player, much better on his Telecasters.

[@michaelchoki2133]

when i was 12 i was playing guitar hero and it sounds nothing like this

[@cornbeef2128]

Because guitar hero is rock not country

[@thomastheron4520]

What’s the name of Chet Atkins song he’s talking about at 1.53 ? Thks 🤘

[@rayb.2755]

Ask and you shall receive, I was looking for it too and I just found it. It’s a song called “Freight train”. Good luck learning it.

[@inlikeflnt]

Very excellent, really an amazing player, he figured shit out at 12 that I still fake!!!

[@thierryferrazzo3473]

hi, guitar is martin or santa cruz ? Thanks.

[@steezyjefe]

If Brad taught me I’d spread the knowledge and skill!

[@mvl902]

I wonder the string heigth on his guitars..

[@ricleonardis9314]

Brad is a Complete guitar player, Listen to Brad vs DJ Hot for Teacher

[@jenspyck]

What's the name of the Chet Atkins song at 1:52?

[@stumpyjoe]

"Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotten

[@jenspyck]

stumpyjoe Thank you so much! :)

[@trevormason3825]

It definitely hasn’t just clicked for me yet. Hoping that happens

[@richardkubicek3848]

in my humble opinion Brad Paisley is the worlds greatest guitarist, a thousand time better then Hendrix,better thanEddy,better than anyone.The kind of guy that wants you to play better or just quit.Dont quit, you only have to play half that good to be great

[@panchaluitG]

I second that

[@vincentreyes6154]

Saying Brad was greater than Jimi is heresy. No one could take guitar to the level that Jimi did. Or Chet with acoustic. But in terms of guitarists from the modern era (21st Century,) I agree with you 100%. He's not the best, that goes to either Satriani or Petrucci, but Brad's style and taste for music is so diverse and versatile that no other (mainstream) guitarist or musician has done. John 5 tried, and Wylde did too. But Brad, whew, watch out world. But he's by far the greatest country guitarist. 100/10 to my favorite country guitarist and musician. 🎸💪😎

[@cam_ferguson_official]

Well, if we're being real here, sure, Brad plays stuff that's way more technically demanding than Jimi. There's lots of guitarists that can claim that, including the metal heads that have been mentioned all over this comment board. When people say Jimi was the greatest of all time, they aren't talking about just his chops, but what he did as an innovator at the time he came along; playing rhythm and lead at the same time, his tone, his sound effects created with feedback and distortion, his approach to the using recording studio as an instrument, his untrackable spontenaity, and his SOUL. Not to mention he turned the guitar world in its head in the span of basically four years. That being said along with Jimi, I'd say Brad, Guthrie Govan, Van Halen and Jimmy Page (again not a shredder, but c'mon man, Zeppelin) are probably my favorites to listen to.

[@closecloseclose]

I am 63 and still waiting for the click.

[@PokeWub]

How have I never seen this, lol, this is insane.

[@nunozach]

There is a song that he starts to play at :55 and its stuck in my head now..But I can not figure out what it is..Its an instrumental piece..Can anyone help??

[@YankeeRedneck437]

nunozach cannonball rag

[@nunozach]

Before canonball rag..right at 55

[@Mwtorres89]

He's good

[@jeffrey.a.hanson]

“You can play fast notes…or maybe you can’t 😌”

[@ClaytonMoorhead]

What song is that towards the end? Did he say it was by Chet Atkins? Sounded really good

[@kingkhaosgaming3598]

Yankee Doodle Dixie

[@ClaytonMoorhead]

By Chet?

[@kingkhaosgaming3598]

+Clayton Moorhead yes. It's Yankee Doodle Dandee mixed with Dixie. Two different songs and Chet made it into one song called Yankee Doodle Dixie.

[@ClaytonMoorhead]

No the one at 1:52 when he talkin bout the CMT

[@kingkhaosgaming3598]

+Clayton Moorhead I'm not positive but I believe that's called Freight Train. Try it and let me know.

[@davidmyers1142]

nyAHT!”

[@cmcapps1963]

This will sound weird to non guitar players, but has anyone heard him talk about his right hand nails? Long or short, natural or artificial? As much hybrid picking as he does it would be interesting to get his take on it.

[@meleecritical]

aight. hes legit. Atkins run was nice

[@scottbaldwin5448]

Billy strings is a modern example.....

[@TheMrglockman]

What's the song at 2:12-2:19 ?

[@eDuB1980s]

Freight Train

[@monmixer]

ahh, he didn't see you have to practice that until he screwed up.lol GNah, great stuff. I watched roger hoard play that stuff all of the time. Brad actually was taken under rogers wing and they even drug him around with their band 1170 that was named after WWVA 1170 call letters. He took lessons from roger as well. If you don't know who roger hoard is just type his name into youtube. he has some stuff posted. He is one of the best players alive. He used to plat with Jim Stafford a long time ago. he isn't really into the touring musician life style. he makes plenty playing here at home and we are in the secondary market place for sure.Not a lot going on around here. Especially since the Wheeling Jamboree was dropped from the AM radio and FM radio platform decades ago. Traditional country has taken quite the beating in the last 25 years. It's really sad. That stuff most of you all listen to today is NOT even close to traditional country. As a matter of fact most of it simply is NOT country music. It's rock and pop mixed.

[@michelelaporte3431]

I love you babe

[@robertquinn9490]

Well...that was Jerry Reed.

[@whatmusiciwant]

No, that's Merle Travis.

[@coreygrubb9033]

The arrogance of this guy to say people aren’t learning Travis picking anymore… 🤦🏻‍♂️ TONS of new artists are Travis picking.

[@1lifeonearth]

but can he play smoke on the water?

[@at89able]

Just like George says, who’s gonna feel those shoes. They don’t get it these days.

[@Bluelightcheaphotel]

Freight Train Elizabeth Cotton

[@joycethomas8868]

It still has not clicked for me

[@jehovahuponyou]

CLICK ON, CLICK OFF. GOOD VIDEO.

[@eDuB1980s]

awesome that Brad Paisley knows Cannonball Rag

[@rossreeder387]

I'm sure at his level he had to play it once or twice to memorize it

[@nicholaswozniak8841]

he played it with Tommy Emmanuel at the Grand Ole Opry

[@Zuhlsmann1]

First 2 mistakes he's ever made!

[@brandonvandelden7972]

Wow "it is what it is". You can't get that kind of insight anywhere else. COMPLETELY WORTHLESS

[@what1864]

in the land of dixie ? that's racism , blah , blah , blah , blah .....