Classic Deep Purple Riffs Everyone Gets Wrong (Play like Ritchie Blackmore)

[@Vigilius60]

After all these years he still manages to amaze us... in Blackmore nothing is as it seems!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

He does everything differently to everyone else even himself :D

[@satchrules101]

@@DogwithtwoBonesI love content like this bro .. learning it the proper way sounds so much better .. and trains ur ears when writing my own music. Thanks 🙏

[@DogwithtwoBones]

@@satchrules101 that’s a very good point, you can transfer this nuances to your original songs.

[@CorvaxDK]

Wow you nailed those details! Great video

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Thanks a lot!

[@mgalbu]

Glad that I didn't play Rat Bat Blue the wrong way on my video lol. I just stole the time stamp idea from yours, great feature!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Yeah time stamps are great. I wonder what will be episode two and when will I recognize all the other things most of us get wrong :D

[@stratpack9591]

Great video - ive been playing that Eb and E in MIA Leo for years as well🥴 That extra A in Stormbringer always threw me, no idea it was an open string but it sounds right 👍

[@DogwithtwoBones]

That open A was hard for me to wrap my head around too, but fortunately someone convienced me in the comments and now I totally hear it :D

[@T0neXIII]

No wasted words. Well done!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

I try to stay on point but I usually fail :D

[@andreagalluccio314]

Killer sound! 🙂

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Thanks!

[@mdtaxbadger]

Actually Rat Rat Blue, to this day I thought there was a B like you said in the beginning. I never really closely listened to the recording. Very interesting.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Tricky song because a B really is obvious there.

[@batmaniac66]

THANKS!!!!

[@ravingiron9356]

Looking through your vids i was GOBSMACKED at no 'wasted sunsets' lesson/cover!!! C'mon now' pull yer finger out and get cracking!! 😉

[@DogwithtwoBones]

You know, no one has requested it before if I remember correctly. But i suppose it is one of the popular songs and there lot of people already done it. I might get in the mood to do it but what I always wanted to do rather was Spanish Archer.

[@therealjustincase]

Great man! Just one hint from an old fellow Blackmorelogist :) - Blackmore seems to (almost) never use the “classical” left hand position with the thumb at, and perpendicular to the back of the neck (in the rock songs anyways, Blackmore’s Night acoustic technique may differ) - it is pretty much always the “blues” position with the thumb over the top of, or at the back and parallel to the neck, even when playing with his pinky - then he doesn’t straighten the wrist perpendicular to the neck as a classic guitarist would, but he rotates it even further counterclockwise instead (form player’s POV) - and sticking to this technique really helps finding the (hopefully) most natural and (hopefully) correct positions and fingerings of any particular lick, riff or a phrase. Of course, the results may vary, we can only try and do our best - there are so many variables and peculiarities in Ritchie’s playing.. Keep up the good work!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

It is true, he might have bigger hands though. I always say position your hand so that it is the most comfortable and has the least amount of unwanted tension. So I move it around freely depending what feels natural.

[@space_kat1]

great video! also, thats funny, i never heard the B in the Rat Bat Blue riff, it was always just E and D for me lol i love that riff, sounds a lot to me like a sort of foreshadowing of the heavy metal that would come a few years later!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

They definitely foreshadowed heavy metal with Sabbath.

[@stratrat57]

A Light In The Black.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Yeah that might be one that people get wrong.

[@drzoranostojic5155]

Very clever man, thanks to that! 😊

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Thank you!

[@elenka.svaliva2]

You can't do it right from Stormbringer. Please make the review of this funky riff cause I can't find the right example of how to play it. Every youtube cover of this song is different. Thanks.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

I actually never learnt that song so I’ll have to check it out and see if I can figure it out properly.

[@elenka.svaliva2]

@DogwithtwoBones really? Such a cool riff and rhythm parts there. Check it out please 🙏

[@DogwithtwoBones]

@@elenka.svaliva2 i am not that into the stormbringer album execpt for the title track, lady double dealer and the gypsy. But I’ll check it out with the guitar in my hands.

[@elenka.svaliva2]

@DogwithtwoBones it is a great album. Every song there is great. Also, "you can't do it right" is an interesting guitar masterpiece of a funk phrase of Ritchie. That riff sounds original. And many people can't understand how did he play it.

[@andrejz8954]

Thank you for your insight!

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Thanks for watching!

[@satchrules101]

Subbed.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

@@satchrules101 thanks!

[@GBWagner1]

Very useful vid! And supersophisticated "blackmoreology". (Just for fun: after a while I began to check the subscriptions. And the Patkány-denevér kesergő (Komjáthy címadása), azaz a Rat, Bat Blue was written: red bed blue :)))) Azaz Vörös ágy bú :)))

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Vicces :D

[@2500BC]

On smoke, are the last two notes slurred? I thought they were picked.

[@Gk2003m]

7:58: you’re playing it wrong! He picks every note

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Az 7:58 my point was that he is not hammering on but bending up a little.

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

I’m only gonna say it once, ITS NOT 0-3-5, it’s 55 (AD)- 33 (DG)- 55 (DG). That is identical to Smoke on The Water’s main riff.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Exactly

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

@@DogwithtwoBonesyea, there are multiple ways to play it, for example how you did it was exactly how he played it live multiple times. As for the resting sound after the three notes played, I think he also sometimes did a string mute, especially when played with a pick.

[@mdtaxbadger]

Live Blackmore never played downbeats during 80/90ies in Highway Star, always alternate picking in that particular part. Maybe he did it in the studio, yeah, that could be true for a certain sound effect maybe. But Ritchie is not a guy to play downbeats usually. It’s not his style.

[@DogwithtwoBones]

I meant the original machine head studio track, live he alternate picks it for sure yes.

[@Booming-tc9ff]

Hi Adam, would like to clarify, In the main riff "Lady Double Dealer", Blackmore uses an open A or holds it down on the fifth fret? How do you think?

[@DogwithtwoBones]

Great question, I think he frets the 5th fret of the E string with his thumb rather than playing the open A. Gives a little more control.