How to Do Chicken Pickin' & Fingerstyle Leads Like Mark Knopfler

[@brucejackson1329]

When you said “there is weeks work” on one lick, that was really helpful. Sometimes having a reasonable time frame for a reference really is nice so if something does take me a week or a month, I know it’s “ok”. Thanks much.

[@Saladzingers]

Finally who understands that Knopfler is country player at heart! He may have earned his chops with R&B and developed it for an 80s audience but you see other channels try and emulate his licks from a classic rock angle and it just sounds wrong.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I love the Knopfler & Chet Atkins record!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

@@EricHaugenGuitar It's a shame that Mark wasn't awarded a Certificate. Chet played with people who had chops.

[@jamesball5743]

Mark is a folkie, not country

[@stephenbrumlow931]

One thing I love about Knopfler’s style is his melodic lead style. I wish I could play off of the chords like he does. But I can’t always wrap my head around the chord progression enough to do that.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! He's a master of playing to changes! Start with barre chords and pentatonics, and then add the weirder other CAGED shapes. It's definitely a "lifetime to master" sorta thing, but you'd be surprised how quickly the pieces start to fit together.

[@michaelhary7750]

One of the best videos I've seen of someone emulating Knopfler's style. Very helpful tips I'll keep in mind. Thanks for sharing

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Michael! I try!

[@marciocintra2988]

You made a wonderful job! You nailed mark's melodic style and his chicken picking stuff. The pickup positions 3 and 4 and lower value tone knobs can offer some awesome mark knopfler tones too.

[@FoardenotFord]

Knopfler is my all time favorite guitarist - it is immediately apparent at the beginning of this video that you nailed his sound and technique. Thank you for sharing these insights - now, off to practice!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Chip! I too, love the guitar "gentlemen" - heroes who aren't about aggression and flash, much more about pretty notes and soul!

[@robmiller1130]

This is solid instruction man. Making sure you showed and explained what your pads,nails and fingers were doing was huge.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Rob! That nails to pads to nails to thumb riff is tricky! I knew I had to really take care to get the maneuver across!

[@hilaryburrows9487]

I love this. Richard Thomson uses all his fingers because first and foremost he was a finger style acoustic player. Me too, though not in that league at all, I'm really taking to this, I have a strat and have trained myself to play pick fingers, but this style liberates me from the pick and the old skills return! I love what you do with these lessons.

[@floriantinschert5542]

Best Knopfler tutorial I've found so far, including paid stuff. Gonna be checking out all your other tutorials! Great stuff!!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Thanks Florian!

[@Ekelemen2]

Eric, your lessons are always brilliant, but this one is beyond brilliant. Nailed the style better than any lesson I've seen anywhere--but more, you nailed the principles underneath in such a clear way. I'll be coming back to this one over and over.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Erick! I've seen plenty of people on YT that are really good at the Knopfler thing, but usually they're just doing covers - I wanted to get in there and open doors, really show people how to take those funky quacks and apply them to their own jams!

[@tg6373]

"repurposed" Love it! -- Great tutorial, Eric. Thank you! l

[@digitalchris6681]

Thanks so much for this - I've always wanted to be able to sound Knopfler-ish, and now I understand a few of the mechanics i'm definitely nearer. You're a natural teacher.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

My pleasure Chris!

[@fotoajojo]

Came back to this for the nail/pad on the D. Put on a Bossa Nova beat on Drumbeats+ which really helped lock it in. Thanks again brutha! Great lesson.

[@Lola_Santoro]

You definitely got the sound down. I'm sitting back with my eyes closed while this is playing, and the feeling I remember from hearing this on the radio as a kid came over me.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks! He's got such a laid-back approach - everything is exactly where he wants it to be. Such a gentleman!

[@Jason.Brayshaw]

Yep, that's definitely Knopfler's technique. Great lesson, Eric. Oh, and thanks for mentioning Richard Thompson too. RT's right-hand technique is amazing. Both fantastic Strat players.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! I love the electric hybrid picking/fingerpicking heroes - RT, Lindsey Buckingham, Ry Cooder, Chet Atkins, James Burton, Knopfler - I'm sure I'm forgetting some :-)

[@wimvandijk6275]

@@EricHaugenGuitar yep, the list goes on: Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Brent Mason, Tommy Emmanuel, Danny Gaston, Red Volkaert, Johnny Hiland, Albert Lee… Still Mark is my all time hero who got me to play the guitar.

[@coastercook]

So many little bits to work on in this week's video. Thanks Eric.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's my pleasure, my buddy!

[@sterlingtysseland1145]

hey, thanks tons for nudging us with some good moves and techniques. Much appreciated !!

[@gentx2160]

Nice. I guessed and claimed as a teenager mark kind of snap his fingers. Ppl said o was wrong. 20 years later picked up the guitar again. And find i was right.bof course mark got tons of was to play. Which he mix. Really unique guitar style. Thank you

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah no one plays like Mark - he really has his own combination of styles!

[@waxhead63]

Cudos from down under in Astraya Eric .... great articulation you have in explaining technique and break down of movement across the fret board .. love the fact that you adapt your favourite passages to incorporate in your own style without trying to be a copy cat of any particular player .. keep up the great work 🙏

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks mate! You get me! It’s not about mimicking our heroes exactly - it’s about taking the interesting shiny bits that we like so much and putting them in our own context - so rewarding!

[@waxhead63]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Exactly Eric ... I have played for many years but not focused entirely as a playing professional such as yourself but I am finding your demonstrations super helpful for clarity in many things I have known but not quite understood... thanks again 🙏 it is finally starting to fall into place thanks to you and others like you ... cudos

[@hrmerr]

Excellent video lesson, as usual Eric! Knopfler has such a distinctive sound. Plucking and picking, I've adapted to this kind of playing a bit because I'm a lefty playing right-handed.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oooh cool! I know that there are quite a few great guitar players who are lefty but play righty - Marc Ribot, my personal jazz-skronk lord being one of them :-)

[@hrmerr]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Good to know. Doyle Bramhall II and Albert King both just flip the guitar over and play upside down.

[@trlucas66]

"If you don't have a Stratocaster - go buy one!" is reason enough to hit the Like button. Great vid and lesson.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! I'm a horrible gear-purchase enabler! But seriously, nothing can do the early Knopfler sound better than a strat - so fun!

[@rebeldetail6134]

Man ur good I use a les Paul ive been finger picking for 2 years im a 80s guitarist i wanted to learn a new style i love it too

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Knopfler’s laid back style is always so cool to work one when we don’t feel like being aggressive! He’s so chiiiiil

[@ianngalbraith]

I really love these plectrum-less vids. Knopfler is in that rare air of guys who are immediately identifiable. You did a great job of encapsulating some of the markers that separate him from his contemporaries. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! That tone, with those funky dead strings - but with a laid-back approach - that's the stuff right there man!

[@davidewing55]

Great lesson. I've been meaning to add chicken picking to my limited skill set for quiite a while. And speaking of Mark Knopfler and Richard Thompson, I've always thought of MK as being heavily influenced by RT, but taking it to a "sweeter" place. RT's electric playing always maintains a darker edge, if that makes sense.

[@erikmattson1321]

Both of them are two of my favorites as well

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I 1000% agree with that assessment! RT is darker and wilder, whereas MK is gentlemanly and smooth.

[@jeanallard7764]

So beyond my abilities but one can always try, thanks for another great tutorial , keep the Knopfler coming please.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I'd recommend starting with the "sultans" lick - just the little end shooby-dooby-do part. That's a nice little motif to grab :-)

[@jeanallard7764]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Thank you.

[@Kashed]

Excellent as always Eric! 👍🏻 Loving that strat! - Kurt

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Kurt! Yeah - I absolutely love using this strat for Knopfler stuff- the MIM stock pickups are surprisingly glassy and present!

[@martynsparkes7118]

You are really talented..and a very good teacher..rare combination!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks so much Martyn! I'm so much more interested in being an effective teacher than being the world's most badass guitar player :-)

[@salvationstudios-homeofthe5334]

Very good and enjoyable lesson Eric - thank you for doing these!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's my pleasure, man! Viva le Quack!

[@jagercaster]

Great lesson and teaching technique!! Greetings from Spain and new suscriber ;-)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Bienvenido mi amigo!

[@zarathustraousia4251]

Thanks so much, I’ve been confused by the mute notes in the 3rd solo of “telegraph road” for a looooong time :(, and what’s worse, I even didn’t know how to describe this kind of technique, until I came across your video and then everything puzzled me is clear! Your final summary is lucid and interesting. Love it:)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

That's an epic solo! I don't usually like long improvs, but when Knopfler does it I do!

[@bwustinbweem]

you are very talented and your tone is amazing.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Dude thanks so much man! I really appreciate it!

[@catsven1973]

The coolest virtuouso after Knopfler !! Thanks Eric

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Awww shucks thanks! I'm by no means a virtuoso! I'm just a medium smart dude who can see connections :-)

[@soundetc]

Hey Eric, thanks so much for this; although probably quite late landing here on this lesson, this is superb!

[@JohanWave]

Just bought a strat - now I'm learning this! Fantastic lesson!

[@bradgoose]

Video added to "Golden Nugget Knopfler Tutorials Playlist" Thank you very much for your efforts - what a quality insight and tutorial. I'm already looking forward to making my fingers bleed!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Brad! Sounds like a fun playlist!

[@electron7373]

Great chops! Great tone!

[@stephenbrumlow931]

Fantastic stuff Eric!! I also hear a few little hints of Ry Cooder here.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Totally! There's definitely some overlap in those two guys' right hand technique!

[@cloudboy7750]

I am literally agonizing over whether or not to save for a strat, and Eric just comes out and tells me to do it!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

ha! I'm a horrible gear-purchase enabler! For doing Knopfler or Hendrix, there's nothing better than a start! Do it!

[@crazymonk8]

I love that you broke this technique down so well! I’ve been able to approximate parts of it before, but this will help to solidify the techniques for this style of playing. I don’t know if this is the proper spot to add this to the conversation, but recently I’ve been trying to learn the Hozier song, Jackie and Wilson. I found out he uses a baritone Gretsch electric to play it, and I was hoping to figure out an acoustic version on a standard guitar potentially. Is this even practically possible in the sense that it would sound right without the lowness of a baritone? I read somewhere that he originally wrote the song in the key of E, and it was too high for his voice, so he dropped the key down after which I thought well maybe I could sing it in E, but I would rather keep it most like his version. I’m sure you have a ton of stuff on your plate, but I thought I’d throw that out there. I’ll keep watching and liking whether you feel like messing with it or not! Cheers!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hozier's stuff is great! And yeah, he's always messing around with crazy tunings. You might be able to get away with playing the song by tuning one step down to DGCFAD tuning - side bonus would be good for Elliott Smith too! Have you seen this tutorial on Jackie and Wilson? kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHOalYKIhdCjhJI

[@crazymonk8]

Eric Haugen thanks for the link and the reply! I would have thanked you sooner, but have been a tad under the weather. I found some other examples but didn’t run across any as good as the one you provided. Thanks a bunch!

[@carloscarlito73]

Nice one Mr. Haugen! Again, excellent right hand technique one! Struggling with it ;)

[@erikmattson1321]

Awesome stuff Eric as always

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Now we can all Knopfler-ize our playing just a little bit. You'd be amazed at how much that pickup position, and that one lick will make your friends think "Knopfler!"

[@runesvendsen2270]

This is Nice Eric ! Your good man !

[@scottmartin5492]

A Richard Thompson lesson would be 😍🔥

[@thebenderbunker]

Great job with this lesson! Very nice tone....through a digital modeling amp no less! Enjoyed it - thank you.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks! So far, I'm really impressed with the Tone Master, it's definitely not a tube amp, but it's got it's own thing going on.

[@LuckyDejardin]

Very great tone in those fingers of yours. Love this one again!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Luc! I can't believe how perfectly voiced these stock pickups are on this MIM strat!

[@LuckyDejardin]

I'm in love with my MIM Strat. Perfect tool with perfect tone.

[@stevenelson6895]

Amazing x 10 I wish I had nails... MK is my most favourite player of all time and you nailed it bro 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@michaeljking]

Mark Knopfler plays with the flesh of his fingers not his nails! ;-)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I can already imagine how these licks will sound on that strat of yours!

[@stevenelson6895]

Eric Haugen I’ll come for a lesson and bring it with me 😉😉

[@vanshankguitars]

I suppose a Strat is next on my build list. I still have a Yamaha with HSS pickups that I got as a gift for my son. He hasn't picked it up yet. I can use it and practice this lesson with it in the meantime.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ooooh make it burgundy mist! I'm obsessed with that color.

[@vanshankguitars]

I was planning on a natural walnut oil finish to enhance the grain, but I will take custom orders LOL

[@LateNightBeatsOfficial]

Awesome breakdown! That “sultans” lick sounds to me like it’s more a “down to the waterline” lick 👽👽👽

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah it's all over that one too!

[@SevanStick]

Knopfler made a career out of that lick

[@CGDGCD]

3:30 - I can relate and appreciate your honesty about the week's worth of work. Ain't that the truth!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! I say things like that to remind folks that they should really take their time with things - give them space to really get rooted before they move on to the next thing.

[@victorwong9622]

"Nobody.... Then the thumb gets behind it." THAT's 'splainin' it!!!

[@double_jump_]

Thanks for the awesome video. This really sounds like it belongs on their first album.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks! I love that first record - and yeah, totally took little pieces from it and recycled them together for this.

[@gab_ale]

That's definitely one technique my brain doesn't quite want to figure out. Mark is a genius at that.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! I'd say I only understand 30% of what Knopfler's right hand is doing - it's totally his own thing!

[@CC-qb9sm]

Very nice! Thanks for posting this.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's my pleasure, CC!

[@darrenbosch901]

Hey Eric. You're da boss! Thanks for the great help with the Guitar God Knopfler. Incredible. Two questions: 1. Where do I find backing tracks along the style of the one on this track? 2. Do you have any more videos for using the "right hand rockabilly ala Mark Knopfler" on your channel? This is incredible

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Darren! All my backing tracks are up for free on my website if you go to the listing of the video lesson :-) Here's another good right hand thing, not exactly Knopfler, but similar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYHcdmttfsh6nJY

[@stephencullen441]

You are a true talent!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks so much Stephen!

[@swamification]

I don’t have time to watch this video but I thumbs it up anyways because I know it will be great as always because it’s you doing Knopfler! 👍👍👍

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@SevanStick]

I think this teacher I likaaaa! Subscribed.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Welcome my friend!

[@FSUTSG10]

Thank you for a great lesson!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

My pleasure Timothy!

[@kentbeery4697]

Beautiful Tone as Always

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Kent! I swear, those MIM stock pickups are surprisingly classy and present on that strat! So angelic!

[@maitrelegrand3531]

Hi Eric, hi guys. At 1:24 i don't understand how you get this dead note. Do you mute the string with your left finger or is it something you do with your right hand ?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

You've basically got it! The muting is done with the fret hand finger - it's sitting on the string just enough to deaden it as the other hand plucks it :-)

[@integralherbalism3093]

Thanks, very helpful. I think you stole my flannel shirt though!

[@StealthParrot]

Finger lickin good stuff Eric, thanks for these very cool techniques.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! It's so fun to see how much we can sneak the Knopfler "quacks" into our own playing!

[@BlackMath69]

more Knopfler insights please!.... plays well into War on Drugs style .. thanks for all the great content

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah there's definitely some overlap there! Something about the laid-back feel of WOD/Knopfler

[@miller323334]

“Look at that little shredding I just did, lol anyway”

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! Sometimes I surprise myself when I play something fast - I'm usually quite slow, so when fast notes come out I'm like: " WHERE DID THAT COME FROM???"

[@tlister67]

How much work is it to adapt to the right hand technique? I hybrid pick (regular pick and use middle ring). If I had one guitarist to sound like it would be Mark, even though I don’t really want to sound just like anyone. I guess I am assessing if I should drop the pick.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hrmmm...I just tried and a lot of the mutes transfer over to hybrid picking (which is totally a cool technique and you should be proud of yourself for being able to do it). The only thing that doesn't transfer as well is the downstroke muting of two strings at a time. With a pick, you have to pass a little further through the strings, which slightly throws off the finger snap that comes behind it.

[@artisanmetalcraft]

Very nice. Is the firmware on your tonemaster the original un updated bright cap version?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Still original - I tried and failed to successfully download the firmware

[@emmanuelbouche721]

Is there any specific height I should set my pickups for that sound?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

LOW! I like to use low output pickups and set they low - you get less output but glassier tone

[@annie4971]

Very cool Eric thank you 💃🎶💃🎶

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's my pleasure Anne!

[@BrittFasce]

Top notch class, thank you🤘

[@BrittFasce]

Do you teach how to read music notations?

[@jukejointjack]

Love that Strat

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! Those MIM Lacquer finish Fenders are gorgeous! Lightweight too!

[@sagig72]

Good lesson Eric. Sometimes a bit difficult to see your right hand. When you tilted the guitar to show the right hand, it was better.

[@gertlarsson9285]

Very good instruction video 👍

[@chrisg5271]

What I love about Eric’s ethos of teaching and guitar is that step back and enjoy and always shows what’s cool without going too far so we can follow ! Amazing and so cool Edit; clearly Eric could play the A!s off things but respects teaching us learners

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Chris! btw - I can't play much better than what you see me do on YT! I'm definitely not holding back some secret stash of jaw-dropping licks :-)

[@billgross176]

I always do my chicken pick dub notes with my thumb on the low note then pluck a high note. Interesting that you dub the high note. gotta try that.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah my buddy Scott does them that way and he's killer at the chicken pickin' stuff - I think either way works fine! For whatever reason, it makes more sense to me to put the dead note on the same string as the melody note :-)

[@samueldrake6138]

Hey Eric and fellow Haugenites: I’ve got a great love for fingerstyle electric guitar, but I’m also a pretty horrible nail-biter. My father was a nail-biter and his father before him. There a way to get that seemingly nail-dependent attack with my stubs?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I *think* you'll be able to get 90% there without the nail attack. He uses the pads a lot - the only time the nails come into play are on that mutey down swing, which might sound fine without the crispness of nails.

[@Gjuby]

Hi it's a nice video and playing, but being a hardcore MK fan I beg to differ on one point - Mark would go for position nr 2, that is bridge+middle pickup

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Noted! I'll defer to you - that position does indeed sound "Quakier."

[@simdoyle]

Brain falls out of side of head. Thanks for sharing Eric.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! The same thing happened to me when I figured this stuff out! It's so cool to be able to sneak in little Knopfler motifs here and there!

[@DrTWG]

I'm self taught and just never bothered with a pick albeit I can emulate a pick with my index fingernail supported by my thumb . None of this hybrid-picking for me . Great lesson - I've always had this nagging doubt - that I should be using a pick . No more.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! If it's good enough for Knopfler it's good enough for us!

[@DrTWG]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Damn right man . Picks are out . I live in Whitley Bay anyway so I should play Knopfler style . The Spanish City fair has gone now but I still have fond memories.

[@jeremywhisenhunt9118]

Thank you Eric!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

But of course! Have fun with the quacks!

[@nick2844]

Awesome playing man! One thing, are you sure Knopfler starts the ghost note with his index and then thumb and not the other way around? Either way obviously this works great for you and man wish I could play like you! Cheers man!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I dunno! Makes more sense to me to have the thumb be the more dominant note, just in terms of body motion :-)

[@nick2844]

@@EricHaugenGuitar thanks for the reply!

[@Saladzingers]

Keep coming back to this video, such a great sound. But on absorbing a second time round I’ve realised I can’t tell how you’re muting the string for the percussive part of each chicken pick? Is it deadened at left hand? Other videos I’ve seen have people muting with thumb or index, whichever they’re going to follow up with. (Also interested to see you play muted with finger followed by note with thumb - opposite to many!)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's 100% fretting hand muting!

[@Saladzingers]

@@EricHaugenGuitar You are a crazy cat 🤪

[@fotoajojo]

Dude. As always a great lesson. But this one is where you really could use a second camera angle, ala Texas Blues Alley, really hard to see what yer up to with the right hand. One up near the headstock aimed back at your picking hand. Hell, break open the piggy bank and add a third camera with the above the neck view of the fretting hand. Oh, and I need another Strat, could you buy me one of those? ;-)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! Everyone needs a strat! Good idea about the extra cameras - now if I could only get an intern to handle all the extra setup :-)

[@fotoajojo]

Hey. I’m yer guy. Photojournalist by trade. I’ll set your cameras and lights, sync your sound. Hell I’ll even pump that puppy out in Premier for ya. It will just cost you a place to sleep, some Pop-Tarts thrice daily (Brown Sugar Cinnamon only - as if there were any other kind) and a daily lesson. Oh and a Strat. Already have a red one, so Hendrix white will do nicely.

[@brucemartindale973]

Just wow! Thanks

[@pishbot]

stunning strat

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks - I love it! it's one of the MIM Classic 50s Lacquer Finish Models from 2018 - so pretty!

[@fotoajojo]

Is it illegal to do a Reverse Knopfler on the Chikin' Pick? Thumb down first for the ghost note, then pick up for the note. I know the dynamics will be different as the note may pop more, but my brain just wants to go that direction. Or should I retrain my noggin to go first finger ghost then thumb the note?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Naw man that works too! I just tried it and it doesn't feel that weird!

[@Spaceybog]

Eric, I'd love to know more about your experience at Berklee, how you feel about more formal music education, etc. I have played guitar for around 8 years (since around 12 or 13) and am considering pursuing music as a career or at least a glorified hobby. As a young person, people often try to dissuade me from this - citing concerns about the music industry and about competition and that sort of thing. It'd be great to hear from someone who has taken the path and done well. At any rate, I appreciate these videos and everything you do here! Thanks.

[@RobertSlover]

if its a true burning passion it requires no permission or advice there is no other path or option worth taking. it requires courage and sacrifice with the knowledge it may never "work out" and with no content on your account not a good start eh?

[@billnorswether3720]

@Alex Wiser Do a youtube search for “ David Cola Berkelee”. Hope this helps.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

oooh I have so many thoughts! PROS of a Music Degree: Berklee is great, it's intimidating as hell, but you'll immediately know where you stack up against all the other hot shots from around the world. It's the only music school where you can study non-jazz and classical. I literally had a class on John Lennon. Friggin' John Mayer sat behind me. I love music, I truly don't know what else I'd be good enough at to even try and make a career out of - maybe therapist, but i'm terrible at writing papers. CONS: Yes, it's very hard to "make-it" in the traditional sense. There's a lot of luck, strategy, perseverance, and honestly ruthlessness necessary to be big time. There's 2 paths: Do something that you like OK, makes responsible money, and do music on the side. Or go all in, risk not ever being rich, have to be very careful with the money you do make, but be doing the thing you know you LOVE. Both are good choices really. You can be happy either way!

[@TomYankou]

@@EricHaugenGuitar You're more like a guitar therapist than a normal teacher IMO.

[@leifkeane]

Nice to hear a story or two...

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah, I've got a few.......One of my favorites was opening for Satanicide in NY, while their "road crew" heckled us the whole time. Called us "Brady Bunch Motherf*@kers" - and then, turns out the road crew was just the band in disguise - coveralls and baseball caps. hahahaha brilliant

[@iwerning]

Can you describe the amp/pedal setup?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hi Ivan! I set my amp volume quite low - at living room levels (to save my ears). I have the Greer Lightspeed setup with just the slightest bit of drive - about 1 o'clock. The reverb I add in post with plugins - I have more control over it that way :-)

[@iwerning]

Eric Haugen masterful, yet so simple!

[@tuxjunkie]

I need some imodium cause you're giving me GAS. Great demo!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

hahahaha (do it do it do it buy a strat)

[@tuxjunkie]

@@EricHaugenGuitar - I'm a Tele guy, but I think it's time. Cheers!

[@Ironworthstriking]

@@tuxjunkie Did you ever get a Strat? I was a Tele guy too and then fell in love with my Stratocaster and play them about equally.

[@MattHerrettMusic]

Brilliant lesson, Eric. Now I have Strat GAS!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I'm the worst! It is true though - only a strat can do that glassy, quacky thing!

[@persistence_of_vision]

You know, Wes Montgomery played with his thumb. Lines, chords, everything. Just the thumb. I understand he was pretty good.

[@eizobrot]

Love it!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@pavelprchal8625]

Subscribed.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Welcome to my chill and informative guitar hang zone 🍻

[@nathanglass512]

i want a strat but im afraid country bands will be too snobby to reject me if i dont have a Tele instead. Cant afford both.

[@DemosInTheDark]

gosh darn buttery

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

"I Can't Believe it's Not Knopfler"

[@The-best-of-football-live]

All about the Arpeggios

[@vltjd]

We need more Haugenisms.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! Thanks man!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

i'm going to Haugenize my techniques. What would John Thomas have said to Wes Montgomery?

[@jesseallen8641]

What are the instructions for the second one it's to fast for me

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

aha! I recommend using the slow-down functions in KZbin - there's that little gear icon. 3/4 speed is really useful! Space bar pauses, and your arrow keys for forward and back :-)

[@arunseetharam8978]

😂Unbelievable!!😂