Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys | Guitar Moves Interview

In the fourth episode of Guitar Moves Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys shows Sweedawg some moves on slide guitar, something Sweeney doesn’t usually fuck with. He also smoked Sweeney out beforehand. Got him trashished. Dan’s Dad Chuck later contacted Sweeney and said “Man, Dan really beat you hard at that guitar contest.” Sweeney just laughed.
Original air date: June 5, 2013
Matt Sweeney, host of Guitar Moves, is an NYC based producer (Joanna Sternberg “I’ve Got Me”) and composer (Superwolves, Chavez, Red Dead Redemption 2). His guitar playing can be heard on records by Adele, Johnny Cash, Endless Boogie, Neil Diamond, Cat Stevens, The Desert Sessions, Iggy Pop, Tinariwen.
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[@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

[@DarkShines86]

Get Dan back for another round!

[@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!

[@Matija-ml4zq]

Yeah it's amazing! I studied this video so much back in 2014/15 and I only realised with this reupload how much of an influence it holds on me :) Actually came back to find what the actual tuning was as I remember way back someone had said the tuning was different :D

[@GermanSharp1]

Bro was just figuring this out

[@emgeesea3983]

Dan’s patience with this guy is commendable.

[@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

[@The3leggedhusky]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@pichulio]

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

[@billyshane3804]

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

[@christophershinn5786]

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

[@Bhraonain]

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

[@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.

[@akustickesrdce4690]

great episode, thanks for posting👍

[@akastonefaceddog]

2:15 is pure gold 😅

[@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

[@jamesenrees8856]

Old KZbin is returning. The world is healing.

[@phillipkuhnert1450]

Yes!! my favourite episode is back, thank you

[@GermanSharp1]

Dan is such an inspiration ❤️

[@Beenscheese]

I miss this series man it was so good

[@MichaelOverson-xd2do]

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

[@JosephTaylorSitesbyjoe]

Loved this!

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

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

[@squinkque]

Sweeney, consider yourself officially SMOKED. 😎

[@hijackjoe]

Dan is really great teacher!

[@Patrick-fm5dk]

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

[@markr.devereux3385]

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

[@RedLittleBee]

Delta Blues forever! 😈

[@cyberprimate]

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

[@rODIUMuk]

Same

[@skantewarrior522]

hell yeah, ive never seen this one!!

[@james-gang]

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

[@ArticLight14]

Looks like some RL Burnside finger technique

[@claymckerlie296]

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

[@mattwilmshurst8456]

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

[@Shaqsonville]

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

[@gourou514]

Great epp dudes 🤘

[@TempleOfTheMartyrs]

MASSIVE INSPIRATION TO OUR BAND

[@shepwatkins]

Guitar moves. Thank you

[@perryriches3439]

Peaches ….

[@01chickenpickin]

These are some Skip James and Fred McDowell licks

[@ElectricJelly03]

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

[@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.

[@bensolberg8358]

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

[@5150show]

Incredible

[@williep1626]

These guys definitely share a distant cousin.

[@Bewar3them00n]

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

[@hhnry7929]

RIP RL BURNSIDE

[@kevinborchers3522]

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

[@andreq9327]

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

[@eclipsedzeppelin]

Oh Black Mattie, aint got change of clothes

[@aidanrojas9650]

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

[@Marf_Man]

🔥

[@sethtouchet511]

Guitar moves!

[@tylorbrand7802]

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

[@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! 💜

[@davemish4163]

Slide guitar looks easy. It is anything but easy.

[@GhostWizard138]

So fuckin cool

[@smoothforreal4242]

This episode has a lot of TWANG in it lol

[@roba3438]

Sweeney needs a beer

[@jaydyer6682]

Shut the front door 😮

[@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

[@Markwilkinson21]

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

[@MATTE.U.K]

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

[@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

[@MrFirefox]

Its been a while...

[@jamiehogg8989]

Practice

[@DK_9035SB]

why sweeny look like zombo

[@iarlaroche7782]

What’s the first song they are playing?

[@scotchmist_]

RL Burnside - Peaches

[@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

[@bloodshot9224]

This man is not in open d

[@SprekaKhan]

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

[@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?

[@joshuadowling8778]

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

[@urbutt388]

so coooooool