Eddie Cochran guitar lesson 1955 Gretsch 6120 ROCKABILLY

[@28grey]

Great guitar playing, I applaude anyone who can play

[@SDADSDSFDSGDA]

That was nice man! It's good to see a guy out there taking such interest in Eddie's music!

[@mcquality55]

That's a holy grail guitar right there. Take good care of it!

[@gasmoney51]

@Bopalena Thanks very much. Eddies guitar is a 55' from the 2nd batch of 6120's ever made in early 55'. Mine is 6 numbers from his. There is great new book on 6120's out now. Its on amazon.

[@sethroyal1983]

InstaBlaster.

[@BushidoPhoto]

Great video Fred! Love watching them always and I miss playing with you in New Jersey.

[@gasmoney51]

Thanks Chris. I’d be up for another gretsch round up in NJ. Hope alls well.

[@chas60]

Great stuff. I wish I could play guitar like that. My fingers betray me. Maybe one day I too can be as good as you. You are awesome!

[@gasmoney51]

@Tylerwood234 It's the original western Strap.

[@gasmoney51]

@albertanglo I read he used banjo strings on the high e and b tas they were easier to play. Eddie did not add an extra pickup per se-he swapped out the front pickup for a gibson P90 pickup.

[@gasmoney51]

@Bopalena Eddie used a 4 x 10 fender tweed bassman for most of his career. I don't know if he used different amps in the studio though. Fred

[@gasmoney51]

@albertanglo Eddies guitar is indeed orange and not red. All of the 6120's from this batch share the same color which is orange. The photos from the 50's seem to vary a good bit in how his guitar looked. Some are oarnge and some as you say are more reddish. Duane Eddy's 6120 is RED but Eddies is orange. I have seen maybe 10 6120's from this batch and they all shared the same color and features. Hope this helps.

[@jfhudak]

Hey Man, it's Brickwall from the Gretsch Forum! Nice website, and nice guitars! Long live the 6120!

[@Wildstrat]

cool guitar , cool sound, cheers AL.

[@gasmoney51]

Thanks and glad you liked it Fred

[@MrDustyRoad]

Alright Fred excellent lessons...keep 'em comin'.

[@jason93446]

Great vid. Nice guitar.

[@6Heureka]

You are a great musician and you looks like a little bit like Eddie. Thanks for your lesson

[@6Heureka]

Great lesson and I think you look s like like Eddie. Thanks for posting it

[@gasmoney51]

Thanks for all of the great comments. Next video coming in a week or so. Sun Style with a Gibson and a Gretsch Fred

[@maximuswedgie5149]

Perfect tone. I try and set my amp to match. Pretty tough tho.

[@albertanglo]

I am a dedicated Eddie Cochran fan and have been since 1962, when I was 17. I first heard him on Radio Luxembourg when they released 'Weekend". I got this on 45 vinyl then and later found a big pile of very scratched ex-juke-box singles for sale in a market in London. As I scrabbled through them I found one called "C'mon Everybody" by the same guy who sang 'Weekend". I bought it for a few pennies, and when I put it on at home-all scuffed and crackly- I was astounded by the sounds I was hearing!

[@knutte19]

Thanks for the lesson. I don't mind if you would do more. Anyway, thanks again!

[@mgsb1156]

you look like eddie

[@albertanglo]

Hello Gasmoney. You have totally missed the point I was making, which was this:- Ok so Eddie's guitar was red/orange- whatever. However, in the video of his mother holding a guitar which she says was his, we can clearly see that she is holding a Gretsch that is a natural pine colour i.e. very pale. So did he have two?

[@gasmoney51]

@SorefingeredStan You're right there are many many mistakes here. I will go practice some more. Thank you so much for your honest input.

[@ejcheck]

to @albertanglo, in the 60's it was very common to use a Tenor A banjo string to replace the E.

[@johnnyweep59]

Hi Fred,"Jeannie" played by Eddie is in F not G .the Stray cats version is in G,just in case some people want to jam along with Eddie..Great lesson,and easy to nail once showed...keep em coming!

[@gasmoney51]

@TheNjmusicman I am pretty certain Eddies Cowboy case was burgundy. There are indeed a handful of mid 50's cases that have the emerald color. His I believe was not one of them. Fred

[@Tjorvz1]

@albertanglo Considering the guitar in that video is by that time several years old, we can assume that its colour has faded quite a bit.

[@almaink]

Great stuff Fred. When are we gonna see Gasmoney live again?

[@gasmoney51]

@beatlesforever123456 I think it may be F#. I am pretty sure he actually used a capo on that song. I learned a little more form Daryl Higham about Eddies version. My version in this video is a combination of Stray Cats and Eddies.

[@gasmoney51]

Darrel visited me at my house a few years back. I asked him about Eddies guitar when he visited Eddies mother. He told me the finish was less orange after years of being in a display case at Eddies mothers house. The guitar she is playing in the film clip you are referring to is Eddie's 6120. No ---there's only one Serial #16942. That's all....

[@bohrmaenneken]

I think gasmoney51 is right in writing that it was orange... There are some photos on which it looks reddish, but if you look at pictures that were taken outside, you can clearly see that it was orange... and as far as I´m concerned, the signature model is, too ;-)

[@ElComadreja777]

Read an interview with Duane Eddy in Guitar Player and he said his guitar was Orange but used to come out looking red in the pics.

[@Tjorvz1]

@albertanglo Because if you compare the colour of the guitar in the video to the colour of the guitar in the photos where he sits by a lake and another one where he lies in a hammock, the colour is very a-like. I don't think he owned two guitars.

[@dkfelix]

Great inspiration for my own playing. Is it the standard tuning on "Jeannie, Jeannie"?

[@albertanglo]

Well this is not a comment on THIS video, but the one of his mother talking about and holding what she states was Eddie's guitar. However, on all of the photos I have seen, wasn't Eddie's Gretsch firecrest RED in colour? The one she holds is not red at all. Any comments?

[@xEdddie]

I'm gonna Get a 1955 Gretsch 6120. They Look AWESOME, same thing with Buddy Holly's.

[@albertanglo]

Hi Tjorvz1. Your link to a video does not work. I am referring to the one which has his mother talking about Eddie's bedroom and how she moved hers into it after he died. At one point she has a Gretsch on her lap which she says is Eddie's, which is a light natural wood colour. This is not a choice between red and orange. The one she is holding and accidently bends the tremlo arm is a pale natural wood colour. It is certainly not red or orange.

[@Tjorvz1]

@gasmoney51 Thank you for clearing this up.

[@albertanglo]

OK, I stand corrected. I play a Gretsch copy- an Aria- but cannot play to your standard. Great stuff!

[@Caylus1578]

Probably partly caused by age and light bleaching out the color, and partly due to the film types used in the 50's that tended to saturate the colors.

[@jmb99000]

Outstanding lesson and informative material so hope there's more to come! I've subscribed so you need to work on more vids, (just joking but hoping) BJS

[@Bopalena]

Beautiful guitar and you sure know how to play it! Wasn't Eddie's Gretsch a '56 though?

[@Tjorvz1]

@albertanglo I'm sorry, but is this the video you're speaking of? - watch?v=3P6hAAC1oCI I have a theory! SOME of the pictures on E.C's guitar look Red-ish due to hue/saturation of the camera while in the video (and some other, more high-quality photos) the guitar looks to be in its original orange state, this due to the quality of the photo being higher. Could this possibly be something true ... ?

[@albertanglo]

Hi Gasmoney guy. I thought that Eddie added an extra pickup to his Gretsch and often played with a first E string as the second to allow for easier bending. Any opinions/info?

[@patmaloney7956]

awesome !! I like to have the tab or a slower up closer view.....thanks...

[@eddierios7046]

hey can you teach or know where to get a video or tabs to the solo in the song "one minute to one"

[@z1a2y3b4x5c6]

@The170460 ça j'avais compris MON GARS , mais il peut traduire s'il le veut, t'ai pas d'accord avec moi?

[@moravianmargrave6509]

Secret son of Eddie Cochran confirmed?

[@styles3732]

What good is he if he only knows the first few bars of the song?

[@albertanglo]

Hello sorefinger. Criticism re "Eddie Cochran's soloing style had much more attack/balls than you give it" is unfair. Eddie no doubt did several takes during a studio recording session. Our Gasmoney guy is just casually showing us the basics sitting in a creaky chair in his back room somewhere. Not the quite the same situation. Also, you say he gets the riffs wrong, but I would suggest that Eddie would play it a little differently each time anyway! Talk about splitting hairs!

[@albertanglo]

@Tjorvz1 That is just plain silly. The colour does of such high quality guitars does not "fade" as you put it. Why should it? The wood is dyed and varnished so that the color is permanent. No, there is something out of whack here. Either that is not Eddie's guitar she is holding or he had more than one.

[@jamoebaggins1992]

@Tylerwood234 guitar.

[@rockabillygone]

Very Cool! Checkout rockabillygone all one word

[@Bopalena]

What kind of amp did Eddie use?

[@dylanmadoux1615]

do you know what year the amp was?

[@tomthefunky]

How weird. You're an Eddie Cochran fan and you look exactly like him. *cue theme to Twilight Zone*

[@1959buddyh]

What kind of strings do you use?

[@gasmoney51]

+1959buddyh XL115 Daddrio

[@z1a2y3b4x5c6]

ton jeu est quelques peut approximatif, tu na pas compris le solo de skinny jim,sorry , il ne suffit pas d'éxécuté un solo d'eddie,il faut le comprendre et le travaillé,sa demande un doigté particulier, pareil pour tewenty fligt rock, mais te décourage pas sa viendra , tu a se qu'il faut dans les main.