Did The HENDRIX Style Start With Steve Cropper?

[@robertzimmerman2513]

Thank you for doing this one. Steve cropper is one of the most influential guitar players ever. He’s the king of R&B guitar.

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

He sure is! :)

[@ironman-vx1qs]

Thank you for explaining the 6th harmonies that way.

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Glad to be able to help!

[@Michaelcollins24]

I went to a gig at the shepherds bush empire in 1997 with some of the guys who played on a film called the commitments and Steve cropper was playing with them along with another guy from the 60s Sam Moore and it was great to see him play.

[@officialWWM]

Love that Strat with the mint green scratch plate.

[@siepip]

Clarence Nelson ---- Bobby Womack-- were playing that guitar style of playing before Steve Crooper. Session guitarist Reggie Young said they were told to copy that style from Clarence and he copied Bobby

[@Paulrothe70]

Booker T and the MGs were essentially the Stax house band. They were also most of the band in The Blues Brothers , Donald Duck Dunn etc (if yiu want to see how to play a bass, Duck Dunn is your man). A lot of that old era had Cropper as a writer, actually the whole band wrote lots of their own parts too. I learnt to ay Cropper songs for our band and it completely taught me a different way to play guitar, it's amazing what you can do with a D shape in different positions (Soul Man)

[@Matt-1d]

YES! I know exactly the Prince performance of Cream you're talking about, and I was fortunate enough to see him play that live in concert. I've wanted to learn how to play that way for years. Gotta get me a good guitar teacher...😜

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Haha.. I can recommend a couple of people! 😜 Yeah it’s such a great performance from him and just shows how great of a player he was!

[@Matt-1d]

@@MikeBradleyofficial working on this already. Not sounding too shabby so far.

[@steveo44]

Great point cropper did do some of the hendrix stuff before hendrix. Love those old soul records. Curtis Mayfield also played hendrix style. I read somewhere that hendrix wanted to do an Album with Mayfield. That would have been a good one!

[@CarlHackman]

Exactly where I want to get to, Mike. Great video :)

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Thanks Carl, we will get you there!

[@lordofthemound3890]

All those guys, and Cropper, were all floating around at the same time.

[@davisworth5114]

Jimi had a traumatic childhood and after he got his discharge from the Army at Fort Campbell, KY, he didn't return home to Seattle. Jimi and his Army buddy and bass player Billy Cox went to Nashville, formed a band and gigged around Nashville for a year. Jimi has been quoted as saying he learned more guitar in Nashville than anyplace else. That is quite understandable because this style of rhythm playing is nothing more or less than playing basic country/bluegrass licks, which are normally played out of first position, up on the neck as double stops. Steve Cropper has said that he learned a lot from R&B guitarist Lowman Pauling, but Pauling didn't play Croppers' rhythm style. Nashville session man Chips Moman played this style as did Muscle Shoals "Swamper" Jimmy Johnson, so it appears that this style had been around in a previous era and my guess is that it was developed as a hybrid that came out of both black and white churches. But it all grew out of country/bluegrass style guitar. Great lesson, by the way, this is such a beautiful style and every move I learn opens up more ways to play. I grew up in Seattle, my former keyboard player grew up with Jimi and I've known Jimis' brother Leon for forty years. RIP Jimi Hendrix.

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Cool info Davis, thanks for sharing!

[@tomcarl8021]

Chips Moman wasn't from Nashville. He was based in Memphis.

[@davisworth5114]

@@tomcarl8021 There's one in every crowd. I didn't say he was from Nashville, I said he did sessions in Nashville, as well as Muscle Shoals, OK Chief?

[@tomcarl8021]

@@davisworth5114 Hey, dummy. You wrote "Nashville session man" . He wasn't. He was a Nashville PRODUCER, starting in the seventies. Nobody calls Phil Spector a Los Angeles session man. Nobody calls George Martin a London session man. Want to be Mr Music Historian? Then get your fu*cking facts straight. Ok, Chief?

[@tomcarl8021]

@@davisworth5114 He was a Nashville PRODUCER, not a session man. Was Phil Spector a "session man" in LA? Was George Martin a "session man" in London? Ok, Chief?

[@PhilipReevesMusic]

In the early 1960's Jimi Hendrix was a sideman playing with Little Richard, Isley Brothers, King Curtis ... R&B/soul styles. Steve Cropper would have been one influence but there were others developing that guitar style also. Hendrix integrated that with rock, blues, and beyond!

[@DannyMck]

Love it, cheers lads

[@nicolasmaurin182]

Love it . Thanks

[@tomheineman4369]

Thank you spinal tap. Hendrix stuff is always useful.

[@mikefloyd3152]

Steve cropper didn't invent RnB hybrid lead/rythym playing though.

[@colinm3869]

Not wanting to be belittle Andy too much. But i find it astonishing the subscriber gulf between you 2 considering that you’re a much better player and a better talker aswell.

[@minisurfbanana]

I dont understand Mike still taking forever to get 100k subs!!! It is what is i guess! Keep grinding Mike!!!

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Thank you guys! Andy is great and delivers amazing lessons. As Mini says, it is what it is. I try not to look at the numbers tbh.

[@rodney19821982]

Those are also the chords for....It feels like rain.

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

This is a funny coincidence. I was driving down the road yesterday thinking about what KZbinr would be perfect to explore Jimi Hendrix's guitar style influence. Excellent video!

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

Glad I can deliver! 😊

[@PLEVI]

I loved Prince so much, I stalked him like a boss for the entire 21 nights in London, Got to meet him kinda, I guess I met him, I also stole his guitar plectrum he was using, Miss that little guy , First electric guitar I saw was sign o the times movie

[@fannyingabout]

Not only jealous of the playing but of the hair. As a slap head myself I generally don't like people with hair. Lol😂

[@MikeBradleyofficial]

@@fannyingabout hahaha.. glad we have passed the test! 😊

[@aaronbrown0417]

No.... it started with Curtis Mayfield Cornell dupree and Bobby womack