Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys | Guitar Moves Interview

[@BitterLad]

Man, this video takes me back. Can't believe it's been over 10 years. I appreciate you posting it, dude.

[@14AspenDrive]

10 YEARS!?

[@lucaspintooc]

i remember when i first started a band i watched this video, and were still playing

[@taylorterry6288]

The actual tunings are half a step down from what they show on screen. When it says "Open D" at 0:52 it's actually open C# (C#-G#-C#-F-G#-C#) and "Open G" at 9:03 really means open F# (C#-F#-C#-F#-A#-C#). And yes, I know the F in open C# is technically an E#, please don't send Adam Neely or Threatening Music Notation after me. So great to see this video back up!

[@GermanSharp1]

Bro was just figuring this out

[@michaelsteven1090]

So this an old video?

[@redherronrecords]

Nah F is on the money bro, only half a step between B and C and E and F. Open C# rules man, have fun with that shit!

[@DarkShines86]

Get Dan back for another round!

[@kevinaaronson]

What an iconic episode. It changed my life 10 years ago and made me fall in love with playing hill country blues. I had always loved listening to it since the first time I heard Chulahoma, but goddamn it's so cathartic to play. Open tune to G and crank up the reverb.

[@ko2815]

Crazy brother. This video changed my life as well. Made me pick up slide and really nail down my finger picking. Here we are a decade later and it's just part of my playing

[@kevinaaronson]

@@ko2815 crazy how time flies

[@KK-er7jx]

@@kevinaaronson -- same for me; opened my listening and playing to Hill Country and this style

[@LieLikesMusic]

YESSS. My favorite interview. The way Dan makes fun of the show name and Sweeny's insecurity with the slide... It makes me laugh every time. Good stuff guys. Love Black Keys as well.

[@spongedanny1534]

please make a video on them man! really missed your videos

[@LieLikesMusic]

@@spongedanny1534 Very kind of you. I'm on a longer hiatus for now. But i'd love to see that happen sometime.

[@christophershinn5786]

One of my favourite videos ever - thank you for uploading again!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

The first six minutes of this sounds like what my old lady is currently enduring every night. She’s a saint. 😂

[@clemenssh]

LOVE Dan & Black Keys GEEKED OUT ON EVERY PART of this interview. I have 99% of albums. So talented ❤ Love you Sweeny

[@pichulio]

Thanks man for reposting this is one of the videos that got me in to open tuning

[@The3leggedhusky]

Man I don’t know if y’all are still makin new ones but a Brent Hinds episode would really tickle my pickle

[@scottnito2640]

Bill is way better and doesn’t act like a faded tool 😂

[@The3leggedhusky]

@@scottnito2640 I like the way Brent plays. The hybrid picking goes hard. I really dig his psychedelic hillbilly surf rock stuff he does in his other projects.

[@Beenscheese]

I miss this series man it was so good

[@GermanSharp1]

Dan is such an inspiration ❤️

[@jamesenrees8856]

Old KZbin is returning. The world is healing.

[@JosephTaylorSitesbyjoe]

Loved this!

[@akustickesrdce4690]

great episode, thanks for posting👍

[@LizetteBetancourt333]

Loved this episode of GUITAR MOVES! Your awesome Matt, love that Dans pop called you out on this episode. Your so kewl & always great guitar moves from you Matt. Pace sempre, L

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

This Episode was the 1st one I watched and it was and it still my favorite Episode🙂

[@emgeesea3983]

Dan’s patience with this guy is commendable.

[@ego2go-pk]

cool dudes! fun to spend some time with you!!

[@Michael_talks_]

Sweeney got absolutely smoked in this video lol

[@ColinMasurik]

Michael_talks_a_lot_of_shit

[@DemonSlide]

Both.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Now he knows how all those poor joints feel. 😢

[@officersurplus]

Has he played for

[@jfastard]

Every time I watch him play, it looks like it’s his first time ever handling a guitar.

[@5150show]

Incredible

[@squinkque]

Sweeney, consider yourself officially SMOKED. 😎

[@MichaelOverson-xd2do]

Seeing him play has given me a new motivation to pick the slide back up 😂

[@phillipkuhnert1450]

Yes!! my favourite episode is back, thank you

[@Bhraonain]

Sitting with Dan, playing guitar, learning some moves and having a chat is my dream.

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

If/when there are new episodes of this, it would be amazing to see an episode with G E Smith!

[@Robotron6012]

2:15 is pure gold 😅

[@hijackjoe]

Dan is really great teacher!

[@ArticLight14]

Looks like some RL Burnside finger technique

[@RedLittleBee]

Delta Blues forever! 😈

[@andreq9327]

Whats the Fred McDowell song he starts playing around 6min? Sounds really familiar :)

[@claymckerlie296]

I'm playing along and these guys are tuned to open C#

[@Bewar3them00n]

Damn, so good. I think I need an acoustic now😂

[@billyshane3804]

No Johnny Winters here but great fun and good to see the guys having a go and a heap of fun.

[@williep1626]

These guys definitely share a distant cousin.

[@skantewarrior522]

hell yeah, ive never seen this one!!

[@markr.devereux3385]

I learned something I was shakey on. That's always a good thing❤

[@gourou514]

Great epp dudes 🤘

[@cyberprimate]

Auerbach was so thin I almost didn't recognize him.

[@rODIUMuk]

Same

[@ElectricJelly03]

Sweeny trying to play with the slide is how I sound trying to play anything 😅

[@TempleOfTheMartyrs]

MASSIVE INSPIRATION TO OUR BAND

[@tylorbrand7802]

Matt his so hilariously miserable here, but so good spirited all the same

[@bensolberg8358]

The best fucking line “Rl used g alot “ gahddamn right.

[@shepwatkins]

Guitar moves. Thank you

[@randwan]

Is the riff he plays from 0:54 from a song? Help!

[@calebtorres2491]

Freight train blues by Mississippi Fred McDowell

[@randwan]

@@calebtorres2491 amazing thanks

[@chrismitchellsbfinChrist]

@@calebtorres2491 stop doing wrong and read the bible and believe in Jesus Christ the Son of the living God, only He can forgive your sins and redeem your life and save you from hell!

[@MrFirefox]

Its been a while...

[@mowler8042]

Wow I'm pretty sure I've watched Guitar moves since it started and just watched him play in Chavez, very cool a much more confident player on stage than on this show.

[@Markwilkinson21]

9:01 Please can someone tell me the name of this song???

[@aidanrojas9650]

Pretty sure I got myself a brass slide right after watching this the first time

[@mattwilmshurst8456]

Still remember this one from when it was first released. Really sweet!!!

[@perryriches3439]

Peaches ….

[@HELPINGTHEBLINDSEE]

Great but we kinda need a new one.

[@14AspenDrive]

I'm sure it's coming after the original ones are re-uploaded

[@Teabonesteak]

Agreed. Do a Trey Spruance guitar moves.

[@sethtouchet511]

Guitar moves!

[@thomascox6211]

Good stuff! How is the guitars tuned from 6.00min?

[@ShinyRacer22]

Open D bud then it jumps to open G around 9:00

[@thomascox6211]

⁠@@ShinyRacer22Thanks😊 Tried with open D around the part from 6min, where he plays the beautiful chord. Can’t seem to get the right tune.

[@montecristo6613]

You gonna repost the Jake bugg episode? I’d appreciate it!

[@josephjanssens9978]

The bugg episode was gold, just watching that video taught me the basics of flamenco

[@01chickenpickin]

These are some Skip James and Fred McDowell licks

[@eclipsedzeppelin]

Oh Black Mattie, aint got change of clothes

[@Shaqsonville]

This one, for me, is up there with the Dean Ween episode. Top draw stuff

[@Joely_Bill]

🔥

[@iarlaroche7782]

What’s the first song they are playing?

[@scotchmist_]

RL Burnside - Peaches

[@jacksonvega7751]

Before I tried a slide I thought of like having two or three ‘polished slide thimbles’ on two or three of your fingers, then I started playing slide with a normal slide n realised that’d be almost impossible to play with three single finger slides…… maybe if they wer incredibly polished grooves in em in which the string could sit…… I dunno… just another idiot idea of mine, like fitting ebows across the bridge n then just play slide over the ever ebowing string maybe with a bit of good whammy bar action too?? I mean, who’s doin that

[@rossamundbrennan7248]

Duncan Price has been doing some fascinating exploring with polyphonic sustainers and fretless necks

[@TabethaAurochs]

I watched a Fat Possum doc about all these guys from the Delta who have wildly different styles and takes on playing Delta blues, most of them unknown or barely known (R. L. Burnside being the exception, Junior Kimbrough too since you're watching this). One man had lost fingers and was partially paralyzed from-nobody should have to go through those things. What he lost in dexterity and digits, he more than compensated for with creativity. He used butterknives and other assorted cutlery. He used whatever there was. He made his guitar sound unlike anything I've ever heard. He wasn't the only guy who was totally outside of the box, but if "Necessity is the mother of invention" was an old blues guitarist, it'd be him. I can't believe I don't remember his name. You'd dig it for sure. It should be easy to find on KZbin if you look through the videos from Fat Possum. Whoa... sorry for the rant! 💜

[@kevinborchers3522]

A beginner should start with the slide on their ring finger in my opinion. Pinky is harder to control at first

[@GhostWizard138]

So fuckin cool

[@hhnry7929]

RIP RL BURNSIDE

[@roba3438]

Sweeney needs a beer

[@smoothforreal4242]

This episode has a lot of TWANG in it lol

[@scaredypicker]

Fahey is one of my favourite acoustic players. Spent many years trying to learn his travis picking alternating bass style Dan is such a good player

[@jaydyer6682]

Shut the front door 😮

[@davemish4163]

Slide guitar looks easy. It is anything but easy.

[@matthewoberton1830]

I don't play slide. 😎

[@MATTE.U.K]

Matt im sorry but you look like Rami Malek playing Freddy Mercury

[@DK_9035SB]

why sweeny look like zombo

[@bloodshot9224]

This man is not in open d

[@SprekaKhan]

Everything is a half step down from what they say. Open C#

[@josephjanssens9978]

Dan’s kind of a dick, I felt like that seger reference would never end.

[@jasonsenator6144]

I'm not sure about the black keys

[@Shinola3]

Good to know

[@billjim334]

They’re generic

[@PoeticWeasel]

you probably havent listened to their 2002-2008 shit then

[@WhatchuNeed760]

I’m not sure about you, bud.

[@jamiehogg8989]

Practice

[@JoBru123]

Lost alot of respect for the black keys after how they spoke about John Fusciante on the JRE.

[@billjim334]

For what? Flea and john refused to shake their hands. Shouldn’t you have lost respect for frusciante?

[@PoeticWeasel]

they weren't even being disrespectful to him lmfao they were complimenting him

[@14AspenDrive]

This guy augments the seventh

[@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreid]

they were poking fun grow up lmao

[@Atisbodeley]

what did they said?

[@Noloveforspectre]

If you didn't realize dan is a better player and writer than Jack White you dont know music, and i used to be a huge JW fan

[@joshuadowling8778]

That guy makes it look easy.it ain't. I tried hard at Bron y raur Stomp. Open D.