HOW TO PLAY MYSTERY TRAIN ELVIS PRESLEY

[@GuitarPilgrim]

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[@PFB1994]

Great job on the guitar and the singing! I learned to play guitar in the 80s, Jimmy Page, Randy Rhoads, Blackmore, bits and pieces of lots of guitarists. Learned a later on in life how great the original Rock and Roll guitar players were. Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry - way underappreciated how truly great they were.

[@adambertilsson9994]

Everyone wanted to be Elvis, I wanted to be Scotty Keith Richards

[@Theslavedrivers]

Ambition achieved, I'd say.

[@perihelion7798]

I'm old [77], so I can remember the dawn and maturity of Rock and Roll. It was a glorious time.

[@wesleyc.4937]

And you could change the oil in your hair for 61¢ a quart!

[@perihelion7798]

@@wesleyc.4937 At one point I had duck tails, and used a wax-like substance to control them. Good times!

[@wesleyc.4937]

@@perihelion7798 Hot Rod Honey -- My father was a Dapper Dan man, that is, if the Model-A didn't drink up his 90-weight first!

[@perihelion7798]

@@wesleyc.4937 Joe Cirello, a barber from Philadelphia, said he had invented the duck's ass in 1940, and he called the swung hair sides and their termination 'The Swing', after the musical style of the day. He'd practiced on a lonely blind boy for about eighteen months.[3] The duck's tail became an emblematic coiffure of disaffected young males across the English-speaking world during the 1950s. In Britain, it formed part of the visual identity of teddy boys and rockers, along with the quiff and the elephant's trunk.

[@wesleyc.4937]

@@perihelion7798 Well that blows it, "there ain't nothing you can tell me I don't already know" is now moot. Thanks, I needed that like I need a hole in the head!

[@nevermindthees]

Fantastic! The analysis, synthesis, performance, the sound, the guitar, the singing, appeal. Great!

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

Well done!! Elvis usually gets all the credit, but Scotty, Bill and DJ were there too!👍👍

[@walterbriggs272]

Everyone claimed Elvis songs were too simple, but back then nobody could do it except Chet or Jerry

[@DavidStoops-ml8ib]

I've been trying to accomplish this type of playing for years. This is a brilliant video. Thanks

[@darrylday30]

What a great looking tele copy. I love the dark wood and brass(?) pick guard. Great singing and playing too!

[@paullavallee1631]

Love the Tele

[@Topi_S]

You lost one coach!

[@garypedigogaeu5787]

Good job. Someone finally got it right. I want to hear you sing the whole song. Man, neither Elvis or Scotty could do both at the same time. You would have been bigger than Elvis. Get a time machine quick.

[@davidmacleod9313]

2:37 Yes!!! I have always played like that..with your pointer finger tucked right up in between the other two! Thank you! Great song too, huh? 😊

[@Gto1927]

Mystery Train, the pinnacle of recorded music.

[@13thLegio]

I'm a guitarist, but wow, your voice is amazing!

[@davisworth5114]

Great vocals.

[@samstewart9249]

I played for years using a pick, then bought a pedal steel, learning the grips using thumb and finger picks. Sometimes in a hurry just my thumb and fingers. This transformed to my guitar playing as well, I rarely use a pick now, just for certain effects. How interesting to find that now Slash has adopted the pedal steel!

[@frankbarnwell____]

Been a few Sundays Pilgrim. Excellent topic. And the guitar is absolutely gorgeous.

[@user-conservative-wasp]

Gorgeous? The Telecaster has to be the ugliest guitar ever made. Nice sound though.

[@willwetherell7265]

​@@user-conservative-waspIn the words of Buggs Bunny, "What a Maroon!"

[@user-conservative-wasp]

@@willwetherell7265 Any idea how many times I've heard others say what I said? Many, 'cause it's ugly.

[@sapelesteve]

Fantastic tune and amazing playing as usual Thom! Hope that all is well with you and your family! 👍👍🎸🎸

[@berniekerns4281]

This is so awesome! Thank You!

[@davidwilliams4023]

Some badass singing too.

[@pfwinbar]

Sounds incredible. Great job

[@craniofacialsurgeon]

Thom, Today's another great day 🎉 Fabulous 3 minute piece of rock music history. Great voice too. Amazing how good your'Tele' Paoletti set up is (like James Burton). I think Scotty had a Gibson L5 - totally different. Just shows how great the 'Tele' - style guitars are. Thank you, Pilgrim

[@mat0920]

Awesome video and an absolutely beautiful guitar

[@Philo68]

Scotty Moore and James Burton - Elvis learned to suffer the best!

[@bammbamm12]

Nice -- also love Scotties work on Milkcow.

[@JHBG1971]

Awesome!

[@royphillips7435]

Greatest and ONLY Rock band they invented it ALL , game over ...guitar is ridiculously brilliant but imagine trying to sing and look and move like that very young man in front ! Nothing even comes close to it in 70 years of popular music ...phew !

[@michaelseay9783]

Great stuff! I never got into playing this style, but really enjoy listening to it.

[@drewster1967]

Scotty certainly was a fundamental part of the success of those early records and without him the songs would have been very different

[@rodrigobortoloti2830]

Show! Great Scotty Moore!!!!!!

[@thelastwildcolonialboy3667]

As a teen I started out thinking hendrix and metal guitarists were the greatest and now I'm over 40 I love Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup. 50s is seriously underrated

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Wonderful voice

[@jeffrowlette]

What an amazing musician!

[@mikaelhansson1677]

Beautiful tele and tone brotha!🤩🤙🔥

[@jensenbell]

The best period for musicians is SUN - it's my favorite. the early RCA is pretty great too "My Baby Left Me" ... but for music fans, maybe the "Little Sister" and "His Latest Flame" era. Scotty on rhythm and Hank Garland on lead... and lots of rock under-tones but pop recording clarity.

[@scallywag8788]

Great stuff. Always wanted to learn this. That's me busy for the coming months. Very nice guitar too.

[@oddshot60]

Can you play the James Burton lead electric guitar intro, solo and fills from the Judy Collins version of Someday Soon as found on the studio album Who Knows Where the Time Goes? NOT the Buddy Emmons Steel parts ... a LOT of vids out there on that ... but NOBODY on YT has ever done the James Burton stuff. That is a shame because this tune REALLY helped to get Country Rock rolling back in the day. I'll keep asking.

[@davidflanagan4977]

This is excellent, thank you!

[@napadave58]

Very well explained. And yes it is a tough song - it's a pretty tough style of playing for sure. I've been at it a while and I'm still far from good at it. Hey - another topic: What's with those credits at the end? It's almost a full minute of packed-in names that scroll by at a pretty good clip. How big is your production team? There are enough names there to fill credits for Titanic or Lord Of The Rings.

[@scottkline461]

Awesome job

[@corkleijn4493]

Awesome!

[@jorvand3190]

Gek op de ouderwetse gameconsoles en die beeldbuis tv. Dat begrijp ik dus helemaal! Mooi instrument trouwens ook en toegankelijke uitleg. Fijne dag!

[@felixdk8727]

I don't quite get the alterbative finger positions for the A chord? Anyone?

[@jaguarsunburst1570]

Really Great Job Man Thankyou ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jeffrowlette]

Interesting fingering on the A major chord!

[@jeffrowlette]

Best thing I've learned in a LONG time!!!!

[@clarencetrice4442]

thats also old school 😊😊 that was from the 1950s scotty and bill was in another band they had got tired 😴😮 of that and after that they met elvis and another band member was a part of the new band bill played the stand up bass also known as the up right bass also known as a up right bass electric bass guitars were just being made in the early 1950s scotty did use a thumb pick and finger picks U could play strings at the same time ⌚😊/ a steel pedal guitar 🎸 U play the same way w finger picks 😊😊 OMG 5 18 2O24

[@CrazyHenkie777]

Nice vintage consoles you got there! Groetjes uit Nederland!

[@DavidHBurkart]

Sun tunes, yeah baby!!

[@Shidoobee2807]

Horrible for me to play. But Fun! I am totally not used to do a bassline using my thumb. But I tried. Because this great lick pushed me. I was desperately laughing.

[@AdrianJayeOnline]

shit man love your singing, very Elvis like, love it, you sound Swedish ? dutch ? awesome bro

[@scogio465]

Was wondering if you know the name of this Rolling Stones song. It starts out with a wicked bass line then the drum comes in its kinda fast paced my brain always goes to Bitch but it isn't that one

[@johnk8174]

wow.

[@dwainthompson7777]

Danny Gatlin style ❤

[@2011littlejohn1]

The real I am stuff. And very important to know.

[@EdubertoPalitroke]

Miralo al sujeto con la Family...

[@Ears-m2r]

Magick

[@dekerivers5798]

The train was sixteen coaches long. Just saying.

[@pepmasters-999]

Everything was bigger in the 50s.

[@David-cm4ok]

One was taken out of service mate, it’s been 70 years!

[@stingaling]

How much for the axe?

[@buzzedalldrink9131]

good thing there’s only three chords for Elvis. I think that’s all he knew anyway.

[@brucecook5595]

That doesn't tear your nails up?

[@craigoog]

that's not the way Scotty plays it.

[@samstewart9249]

Surprised you didn't complain that Elvis didnt sing it exactly that way as as well. Geeze, there's always one!

[@user-conservative-wasp]

16 coaches long.

[@johnmac8084]

You can sing too 😅

[@TAkridge]

16 coaches long. Not fifteen. Lol. Love the video though.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Haha, you're right!

[@pepmasters-999]

This was the abridged version.

[@bobdillon1138]

Its hard because of the way you are fingering it watch some clips of Moore and others like Albert Lee etc and you will see you are making it much harder than it needs to be.