How I Finally Learnt THAT Cliffs of Dover Intro

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@step-by-step-guitar 9 ай бұрын

I hope it's helpful! It was a very fun piece to learn. I coloured my hair for a project, I think its a temporary thing! I'm hoping to make many more videos this year.

@CharlieKnolesPlus 5 ай бұрын

It's a good look. Thanks for the dope video too!

@thesilvertranscriber6247 Ай бұрын

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKeVgoKGe9V7rKM🙂 probably wat you need 🙂

@ognam1 2 ай бұрын

love to see other mr. tabs enjoyers

@calebsj 2 ай бұрын

I've been working on refining my cliffs of Dover intro for a while and I'm probably about where you are with it but let's be perfectly honest there are some great versions of this on KZbin that are for all intensive purposes flawless don't give up!

@nicemutant Ай бұрын

All intents and purposes... 🙂👍

@mark-granger 2 күн бұрын

@@nicemutant To be fair, to play this song you need 'intensive' practice and it gives you 'purpose' vis à vis improving your playing. So calebsj is technically correct in that phrasing.

@nicemutant 2 күн бұрын

@@mark-granger lol it was meant with guiding kindness... 😀👍

@fivealive250 9 ай бұрын

thats awesome the end product was worth the time spent practicing

@step-by-step-guitar 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, I really appreciate that

@richardl8241 Ай бұрын

Its interesting to me that the parts he points out as hard are much easier for me than other parts.

@Craig52-zq1bt Ай бұрын

I am 73. Arthritis just cancelled my finishing this song. The first joint on middle finger, as I was wailing, suddenly, hurt. I looked at it and the first joint, the finger tip, was at a 45 degree angle. Well, 60 years of playing just came to an abrupt end. I used to play stuff that would grab people. I could make them cry or be overwhelmed with joy. My guitar was therapy. Step off stage and there are folks waiting to shake your hand, tell you how I had them totally engrossed in my playing. Well....not any more. Osteo Arthritis sucks. Now, I spend that playing time, working on amps. From the lead frontman guitar player, to amp tech.

@step-by-step-guitar 27 күн бұрын

Really sorry to hear about your arthritis Craig. But you certainly seem to have a good attitude, I would definitely struggle with that. I hope the amp tech work continues to be a decent substitute.

@ignaciod06 18 күн бұрын

don't be discouraged man, you can still make music

@vocalinkproduction 7 ай бұрын

Respect for showing you can still achieve tis without some sort of custom shop Strat.

@step-by-step-guitar 7 ай бұрын

Thanks. I have a US Strat, and I was originally going to do it on that, but because I had spent so long practicing it on the Squier (because that's the guitar I have laying around the most), I felt most comfortable playing it on that. Also to be honest the sound quality between both guitars wasn't at all significant.

@HoosierDaddy145 5 ай бұрын

I play this song a lot, I still haven’t mastered it. I only play acoustic guitars these days, I’ve been practicing this song for 5 years. If I can get the intro and outro solo down, and clean up a couple little parts that I usually slip a little bit, I will consider it a true life accomplishment. It is my favorite song to play for people though, it always brings a great mood and people are amazed because nothing else sounds quite like it.

@mark-granger 2 күн бұрын

Seeing videos like this makes me feel better about still not perfecting this song after nearly thirty years.

@MikayalsMusic 2 ай бұрын

There's some great players out there who can play this but we need to remember the true genius is Eric Johnson as he SOMEHOW wrote this. Just wow amazing.

@step-by-step-guitar 2 ай бұрын

Totally agree

@raedonkoyanagi9037 4 ай бұрын

Amazing video. Very useful. Edited great 👍 appreciate it

@step-by-step-guitar 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@denizjemaly9745 2 ай бұрын

Great Vid. Really well put together. 👍👍

@step-by-step-guitar 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@andrewjeff 22 күн бұрын

Thank you Matthew Modine🎉

@spctr3041 9 ай бұрын

Really inspiring !! Thanks for sharing this

@step-by-step-guitar 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@burnnouts 8 ай бұрын

4:24 that tongue LMAO

@step-by-step-guitar 8 ай бұрын

😂 that's my concentration face, I can't help it!

@kojam1 5 ай бұрын

Netscape?! Bro, you just blew my mind!!!

@bob5951 3 ай бұрын

That's pretty much how I learn any song - I break it down to a few bars at a time ... then as I watch TV - I play each section until I remember it ... sometimes hundreds of times.

@JP-qg7bu 4 ай бұрын

Nice vid. Im working on this song right now and it's going to be my biggest challenge to date.

@step-by-step-guitar 4 ай бұрын

Good luck! As I am sure you will find out, it'll take you longer than you think :-)

@vladx3539 4 ай бұрын

Well done sir!

@step-by-step-guitar 4 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

@melonhusk-kt5ys 3 ай бұрын

yeap i've had a few songs on the back burner for a few years the #1 song is cliffs of dover the one i'm currently working on is the paradise city outro solo my idea is if i can get enough time in practicing building up the hands*both hands are important**** on paradise city i'll start work on the dreaded cliffs of dover if you're just starting out reading this PLZ!!! use all four fingers on your fretting hand now so you will not have to learn that later on another tip is use a thick pick yeah i'm taking a week of chilling out and resting the hands that's another tip by the way by chilling out i mean i'm learning scales that's another tip by the way the diminished half whole scale and the diminished whole half scale love the vid i subbed

@emmanuelmaterne5021 5 ай бұрын

I hear you on the finger rest time. Nice video. I try to pick most of the notes, as in the original studio album, but some of those string jumping alternate picking lines are tough. I do think that to get that awesome rolling cascade of notes you kinda have to sometimes. It is fun also trying to incorporate lines from the diverse ways he's played the song live over the years. Have you ckecked the miniseries he posted on Facebook during the pandemic? He talks a lot about the way he approches things.

@step-by-step-guitar 5 ай бұрын

Hey Emmanuel, thanks for posting. I didn't know about the miniseries, but I will check it out!

@nomnom... 5 ай бұрын

Hey! Nice work! One thing that makes this song difficult is that EJ is extensively using very specific string switching techniques, for which his licks are specifically designed to work well with. I think you showed a Troy Grady video thumbnail in reference to the ending part descending 5s, so maybe you already are well aware of what is going on, but if you haven't yet, I would really recommend checking out Troy Grady's channel for more in depth analysis on picking technique than ANY other person. In terms of picking technique, string changes are uniquely difficult in that just simply practicing more will not lead to improvement. As shown in a lot of the interviews on Troy's Channel, very few of the best technical players fully understand their own string switching mechanics, just that they stumbled across something that works. If you practice without understanding the underlying mechanics you may get lucky and find something that works, but the chances are not in your favor. Eric Johnson's primary technique is the combination of "downward pickslanting (DWPS)", more recently renamed "upstroke escape motion (USX)", along with sweeping in the downward direction only. I highly highly recommend checking out Troy's channel as he does a great job explaining these topics. As a side note, I personally saw no improvement on my picking speed and accuracy over a roughly two-year period because I was (unknowingly) trying to play runs that were mismatched with my picking technique. Now that I understand the mechanics, I can play the same run smooth and fast in two different ways, by either intentionally altering the left hand fingerings to work properly with my original picking technique (downward pickslanting), or I can keep the original left hand fingerings and use a different picking technique (two way pickslanting). For the Cliffs of Dover intro, I initally tried to rework the fingerings to work with pure alternate picking, but there just isn't a good solution, and so I gave in and finally decided to learn downward sweeps. Now, with techniques that are correctly matched to EJ's licks, I can play the Cliffs of Dover intro with surprising smoothness.

@step-by-step-guitar 5 ай бұрын

Troy Grady is amazing! How he has decoded speed picking is mastery. Great to hear about your journey, and really pleased to hear that you can play the intro so smoothly now.

@tofubro8571 2 ай бұрын

What guitar stand holder thing is that? I’ve been looking for it and couldn’t find it

@diaperamess Ай бұрын

is mr tabs cliffs tab actually the most accurate? it seems to me like theres too many pull offs. I thought cliffs intro was way more picked notes with very few pullies or hammies. edit: lol just got to 3 mins where u covered this

@TheJackFlash 5 ай бұрын

lmao SO TRUE at 5:13!

@Roscoe1279 7 ай бұрын

Good. I'm learning it, too. Don't agree with your descending run in 5, 3 and 2 frets on Intro. Anyway, good job. I've given myself 9 months, and 1 month has passed. Playing for 50 years. 👍

@step-by-step-guitar 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Good luck learning it. Its still my favourite thing to play on guitar even a couple of months after making the video. I feel it will take me another year to perfect it.

@victorwong9622 6 ай бұрын

YOU need a new hobby???! Legendary!! Thanks for the inspiring (and highly entertaining) post! And I’m sure it’ll take the rest of us much longer than seven months…

@step-by-step-guitar 6 ай бұрын

thanks Victor, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it

@64bits. 8 ай бұрын

perdi casi 7 minutos de mi vida para saber que al final no lograste tocar igual a la version de Austin, TX 1988, pense que serias el primero en igualar pero nadie lo lograra ni el mismiso Erick Johnson creo que pueda volver a interpretarla igual como ese dia

@zibifavaro 7 ай бұрын

Veja a versão da Chelsia Constable

@jimmyjennings4089 4 ай бұрын

What I've come to realize when your learning someone else's style of playing learning all their synchronicities and habits which once you have developed your own style others have the same problems with your's and even Eric Johnson would have to learn your's and probably would take nearly as long because it's just completely alien to him unless of course your style is extremely close to his then your just a clone of his style, similarly the way Vitto bratta was to Eddie Van Halen.