Guitar Teacher REACTS: Got Your Back | Scary Pockets & David Ryan Harris ft. John Mayer | LIVE 4K

[@RVDL]

What I like about Michael's video's is that (as a non-guitar player) it just feels like I'm enjoying music with a friend, admiring the artist and his or her craft. That's what makes it so satisfying to watch Michael's video's to me.

[@ravenuma]

I totally agree with that! For someone like myself who never got to meet amazing musicians it means the world to me that I can listen and almost have a sort of conversation with him and both just appreciate music :)

[@moonchildspirit5581]

And the fact that he's in love with guitar also adds..you see him light up and genuinely admire the other artists craft. Love that. !!

[@favoriteblueshirt]

That John Mayer decides to sit in with the Scary Pockets says it all really. Warning to everyone, Scary Pockets can take up a lot of KZbin allowance kiddos. Thanks Mr.P.

[@HowIsThat69]

Guess John is only there due to his friendship with David Ryan Harris

[@josiahgust]

@@HowIsThat69 The bass player and 2 of the backup singers have been in John's touring band for many years as well.

[@Counterflak]

@@josiahgust Tiffany Palmer and Carlos Ricketts are the vocalists. Lenny Castro is also the percussionist here who just finished touring with John and Larry Goldings played on Sob Rock.

[@JohnLaco]

@@HowIsThat69 Really just a lot of overlapping groups going on. DRH plays with Scary Pockets, and Mayer. So does Sean Hurley on the bass. Scary Pockets are really becoming a sweet "house band" for a lot of artists, and always featuring sweet musicians in the band. Mayer loves that shit so it's no surprise he'd collab with them.

[@heypockyway6652]

Ryan Lerman 🙌 often understated but always on point. In service of the song!

[@quincytennyson6020]

Dude one of the most conservative, tasteful guitar players I have ever seen but when my man brings a lick out it is phenomenal. Scary Pockets - Arrow Through Me w/ Madison Cunnigham is a great example. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5XRlIWohdOVmKc

[@heypockyway6652]

@@quincytennyson6020 Ugh, Madison is another absolute master

[@heypockyway6652]

@@quincytennyson6020 I watch a lot of SP but that one passed me by. You're right Ryan's solo parts sound massive and break up parts well

[@svensvensson6705]

Yeah he is never in the way. That's what you want to strive. When you are able to that then you can add what you want

[@chrisbr1969]

David Ryan Harris is so underrated. A voice like butter. His solo stuff is so great.

[@jacobanteau6020]

That guitar player is Ryan Lerman and he’s a great tasteful player and also an underrated songwriter

[@bentucker2301]

The chorus reminds me of isnt she lovely somwhat

[@georgesutton2191]

That’s because it’s quite literally the same chord progression :)

[@markaseervatham5869]

This guy is the real funk soul brother. Love him. What a collaboration of genius with Mayer. Hello. Bring on more.

[@Texasbluesalley]

Love Scary Pockets. Once again I am amazed at how much you notice on a first listen that I just don't hear until you point it out.

[@Guitargate]

Me too! Thx man - with this band you can listen 50 times and hear new stuff each time

[@Trapper50cal]

Scary Pockets, Stories, DeadWax - Such great musical content.

[@dariusz_darson_8968]

And Michael Palmisano! 🙃

[@baimun]

Love it when my favorite KZbin channels “cross the streams” and appear in each other’s vids, or in this case, an analysis of my favourite Funk-ified cover band!!! ☮️❤️🎶

[@pigasus2794]

Never met John Mayer in person, but DRH is just one of the most beautiful human on Earth. Maybe that's why his voice is just soOo gorgeous.

[@ilichiregius2884]

Ryan Lerman and Jack Conte of Scary Pockets have their own YT channel called @DeadWax where they have featured musicians, back-up singers, producers, and such and they do deep analysis of different tunes.

[@RVDL]

Thanks man, I already discovered this video on it's own, but through your video's I've discovered so many artists that were previously unknown to me.

[@RemiCardona]

Saw Scary Pockets + Larry Goldings + John Schofield + MonoNeon live a few weeks ago (Jazz à la Villette, it's on youtube), what a **blast**! Thanks for breaking down that tune, Michael!

[@forthebirds4]

John Schofield smh

[@RemiCardona]

@@forthebirds4 whoops, fixed

[@MrTonicAmps]

Mayer just dives into SRV/Albert King mode!! Unreal vocals and tight band. Great stuff and thanks for the pick Michael!!

[@MorganBird]

Okay, commenting to explain something I just figured out bc I am a relative music theory baby: When he first explains the opening chord progression / bass line going F - Eb - Bb, he refers to Eb as "going down to your IV chord, if you will", implying that the key is Bb major. He later talks about the solos being in F minor blues though. If this is his first time listening through it'd be real easy to assume at this point it's just V - IV - I in Bb, and the chords in the chorus all work in both keys: iv-II-IV-I for F and iii-VI-I-V for Bb. This confused me for awhile because V-IV-I seemed like a straightforward progression and I recalled reading that vii isn't commonly used in chord progressions, but Eb is actually the bVII here which is plenty common in bluesy songs (in basic F major the vii would be Edim not Eb). In basic music theory stuff you might come across statements like "vii is uncommon in chord progressions" and this might be true (🤷‍♂) but bVII in blues/pop/rock is not the same thing. If you search for "bVII blues" you'll see different combinations of I-bVII-IV are super common. Anyway, by the chorus (~6:58) he's talking about Gmaj as the II and the song being in F but doesn't ever correct or explain the role of that Eb. I might've over-interpreted his earlier comment and this is probably old news for people who watch this channel regularly but if like me you found this video because you liked the song and were trying to figure it out maybe this'll be helpful.

[@tbravooo]

You’ve got to react to their live performance of Junkie w/ DRH, John Mayer, and Wendy Melvoin!! So unbelievably good

[@jaskocd]

If you dig DRH getting funky, check out his band from waaaay back. They were called Follow for Now and they made one, incredible self-titled album. They were amazing, but I believe they suffered the same fate as Living Colour and 24-7 Spyz. Record companies don’t have a clue how to market a black rock group.

[@bghall1643]

Loved FFN's song Holy Moses back in the day, not to mention they did a great cover of PE's Channel Zero

[@bruunm1975]

Yep Sean Hurley is a monster session bass player…

[@TabAtl]

Ryan Lurhman and Jack Conte. Dead Wax is fun.

[@anc1741]

I have absolutely no idea of what you were talking about, but I was glued to and loved every word of it. Awesome band, with of course, the simply superb John Mayer, but this video by you has to be one of my favourite of all time. I just smiled all the way through, even though you might as well have been talking Swahili to me. Just to clarify, I don’t speak a word of Swahili. Loved it, loved it, loved it.

[@kevinniehoffmusic]

Always enjoy your analysis, such a great performance

[@myskyhigh6003]

How did I miss this 6 months ago! So good

[@janmalec7349]

the line up is absolutely insane! DRH+Mayer combo is here for a long time, Sean Hurley on bass? Legend. Lenny Castro on percussion? Legend! Larry Goldings? Another legend... Ryan Lerman? he would not be John Legend's MD if he's not absolutely insane player!

[@johnhendricks8140]

Love seeing your process as your figuring out the songs.

[@brettsalas1330]

DRH and Scary Pockets cover of Watermelon Sugar is just * chefs kiss *

[@GrafStorm]

Well, thanks again for an enlightening and enthusiastic look at having fun with music.

[@oicsaywhat]

Those runs with the 9th reminds me a lot of SRV, great video as always 👍

[@DansDadDave]

Ah great, now I'm going to be up til 2am watching Scary Pockets on KZbin....

[@nathanmcgrady]

What a great song to work on feel and timing

[@Dave-gf3kd]

Michael, another excellent video! I find it interesting the tempo that David Ryan taps with his foot, versus Mayer. Trying to remember anything in GuitarGate courses that might talk about this or these videos. Curious as to what you would say about what the foot tapping tempo says about the different people’s “feeling” of the groove?

[@lolzlarkin3059]

Ryan Lerman is the scary p guitar dude.

[@dougjack7912]

check out the Scary pockets stuff with John Schofield too

[@ericralls7594]

Do you ever, just thank God for music? I should ,more often!

[@marcusflores2184]

Michael! Could you do the rest of the songs from this performance with Mayer?

[@YEM_]

16:00 waiting for you to say Dorian plus the blue note... Haha

[@eduardorios1145]

David Ryan Harris 🎙️👏👏👏👏

[@mabellynn4605]

That was awesome!! 😍

[@StringWh1z]

Hot. DAYUM! 🥵🥵🥵🔥🔥🔥 EVERY part of that was beYOND tight! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[@mikem668]

I think you've outdone yourself. Or maybe I'm just better able to follow you. The diminished move was cosmic enlightenment. Fantastic. Thanks.

[@benrhysf]

i would absolutely love to see you react to REN, he’s absolutely amazing and you’d love the way he plays the guitar, watch maybe Jenny’s tale or Screech’s Tale!

[@joshgilliam]

Mayer’s giant hands make that fretboard look tiny

[@odedraz1842]

Please react to The Aristocrats. Don't care the specific song, just pick one

[@rcnewman51.]

Your face says it all that first minute of listening!

[@Blitzgib]

Loved the video!

[@alexanderroy5713]

You gotta react to Alexander 23 and JM performing everybody wants to rule the world by Tears for Fears. Great content. Keep it up :)

[@josiahp77]

That was one heck of a performance.

[@mitchweiner]

I love that version of the song! Nice choice of recommendation!

[@moon_child_farm]

Tasty indeed!

[@RisingfromtheAshesPodcast]

Love you Michael! Taught me so much over the years. Also yall check out our podcast 😇😇😇😇

[@MrXNITROx]

Great vid as always Michael! Please check out Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under, strong springteen vibes!

[@alexsherwood6788]

Hey Micheal! You should check out Andy shauf or amen dunes. They are the kings of beauty in simplicity, would love to see your reaction!

[@mitchweiner]

I guarantee if you like DRH and Scary Pockets you would love Tower of Power!

[@architmahale]

hey michael...big fan here. you talk a lot about the Dead and Dead and Co... a lot of us deadheads want to see you tackle Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower. but Dead and Co is going on tour next summer 2023, would love to see you do a breakdown of 11/14/17's Slipknot. you've never heard anything like it, kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6bRmqCKr9hposU&. peace michael from northern california

[@ckjjclan]

Ok. Possibly a stupid question. If the 2 chord should be minor if in key, but they go hard 2…. Is there some rule that says “any” 2, 3, or 6 can be just changed to major and it’s all good? Or is it related to where that hard 2 chord is GOING… just when I’m like ok I got this, the rules change. Lol. Sounds great though. Thanks!

[@MorganBird]

Not stupid! Not an expert but nobody's answered yet: When I've looked this up the tl;dr is rules in music are basically never *rules*; you can do lots of things that create a particular effect or sound and the standard ones like minor ii are just the ones that sound best in most cases. Major II/III/VI I guess can be used to lead into other chords in certain ways. I'm working on playing and singing this so I've spent a little time figuring pieces out. This spot specifically I'm not sure about how G Major "works" in the chord progression but when DRH sings "Do what you doooooooo, I've got your back" and the note choices create tension-I guess; it sounds out as not a common progression to me-the note on DO is B natural, which isn't in the key but IS the third in a G major chord. Then he drops down from B to B flat as the chord changes to B flat. Kind of a shotgun non-answer but I hope this helped some :)

[@MorganBird]

(talking about the second "do what you do" in the first chorus, I should say)

[@SuperLocrian]

Scary Goldings FTW!

[@hunterstevens1970]

You’ve got to react to “A river dragon has come” by Nevermore. YOU HAVE TO!

[@ajgeorge8111]

Great video! Curious - what amp do you use for your videos?

[@moonchildspirit5581]

Man, I wish I had music appreciation with you, instead of Sr. Mary David..lol you make it fun. Only dude I liked back then was Rimsky Korsakov flight of the bumble bee...lol

[@markhopkinsmusic]

Been hashing this out since that video dropped too. Soooo stanky!

[@tommycall355]

the beginning sounds like On Broadway

[@shemleg4409]

I love that guitar strap. Where do I get one?

[@MrYatesj1]

Most undeniable quote EVER, “Funk is where it’s at”. Great video even though John is killing me by leaving Dead and Co.

[@paradise_valley]

He left dead and co.?

[@totoyoda45]

He is not leaving. It's just the end for dead and co

[@MrYatesj1]

@@paradise_valley My Take: John Insta’ed final tour, Bobby replied: “Well it looks like that’s it for this outfit,” he wrote, “but don’t worry we will all be out there in one form or another until we drop …” John is bowing out. Funny the initial announcement came from John not the organization or Bobby.

[@kevinborchers3522]

@@MrYatesj1 john just played with bob a few days ago. Its billy thats done

[@MrYatesj1]

@@kevinborchers3522 that has little to do with John posting the final tour not the organization, not Bobby nor Billy.

[@mmender2]

ILL WILL CREEK - COLE CHANEY HOLY SHIT ITS GOOD

[@Hellfytr77]

Weeeee want the funk, gotta have the funk!!!

[@stillupmusic]

Scary Pockets 4 President

[@rhllnm]

Could you do this just for us playing in open D? Just joking. Love the channel. Me and my 1994 Chinese Bullet Strat. Thanks again.

[@thousandbruhs]

Can you react to another Her’s song? Cool with you or Low Beam would be great, there’s many live performances to watch

[@oldad73]

I'd love to see you react to Leo Kottke

[@mitchweiner]

I love Leo!

[@jstratfan]

I really enjoyed your breakdown mainly because I didn't understand a single word you said.

[@MikeKingJSM]

Wow

[@simskj]

Suggestions for future reactions videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpKWonSmbZapj5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-VaoCwrNyWrqc

[@rexvisitor44]

Now react to Get You Back by Shawn Lane.

[@capicudeane]

Did I hear the riff in the intro?

[@mariogf1]

Hi! Can anyone comment something about the chord / harmony at 8:31?

[@MorganBird]

What about it? Chord progression is Dm - G - Bb - F, or iv-II-IV-I. He talks a little earlier about how the G major instead of minor is interesting.

[@stauffacher6638]

Looks like Sean Hurley on bass

[@stauffacher6638]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXLbimZrm9Vkl7c here a gift for you and the great work

[@JesseClaus]

Check out Scary Pockets for sure. Sean plays with them a few times, but they record 4 songs per session and release each week. With rotating rhythm players and singers, this band has a D.E.E.P. catalogue of funky tales on ties you already love:)

[@himxrco]

REACTS TO ''JUNKIE '' !!!

[@cliverkay]

Try Dm7 to G7 ......

[@trgmusic4967]

First comment 🙋🏻‍♂️