Joey Landreth Interview and Lesson - Levi Clay Man Dates With Guitar Greats

[@Kpalmost]

OMG thank you so much Joey for this interview. It was amazing to see how you play chords!!

[@bulzah]

aT 16:00, he is refering to premier guitar video where someone said that he took open C from Blake Mills, which is nonsense. Great video Levi, Joey is amazing and he got me into slide playing. And those Carter Vintage videos are gold mine.

[@mattmikkelsen]

Fantastic interview Levi! Joey gives some great insights into his approach. I appreciate your thoughtful questions and I'm even more grateful that you didn't interrupt and gave Joey plenty of time to answer them. Great job! I've just posted a free transcription of the 1955 Stratocaster demo he did for Carter Vintage Guitars (full of great fretting behind the slide ideas)on my channel.

[@Kpalmost]

Big Thank you to Levi for these gems!

[@WillReynolds88]

Such a good video. Joey's little lesson about inversions and triads is gold.

[@LeviClay]

damn right! I've edited a cut of that to go up on its own it's so good!

[@dkdahwfkaesgjh775]

That's amazing! Thx a lot! I'm beginner in slide guitar, but this video gave me many answers.

[@erichufschmid5730]

Joey is freaking amazing! Great video!

[@pappawookee]

Awesome Interview!! It was exactly a year ago that he played in Glasgow...you couldn't make it unfortunately but was a fantastic gig.

[@LeviClay]

yeah, I'd just got back from holiday that day I believe... I was gutted when I found out!

[@johnwatson2820]

If you wanna try these palm benders (and don't want to buy a whole new guitar) the Duesenberg multibender is awesome. I've installed it on my tele. Works great.

[@DavidGarrettGuitar]

This is Awesome!

[@rottalmusik6563]

What a lovely Human being and Talentes musician😻😹👍

[@nigelvonshredman]

Pure gold!

[@NicholiHavibolan]

Thank you for this interview! Watched a bunch of times. What was that Bach piece that Joey played @9:15?

[@LeviClay]

It’s his prelude no 1 in C from the well tempered clavier :)

[@MartynDunnMusic]

Great video, Levi! I'm still quite new to the intervallic thinking about the guitar and I barely grasp the idea. However, at 27:40 Joey says he doesn't know every note on the fretboard and can still derive the note name through notes he does know and go from there - through intervals. Doesn't that mean he still thinks in patterns? How else can you go: "Well, my root note is here, and this unknown note is three strings below it on the same fret, so it has to be the minor third?" Is it because he knows how the individual strings relate to each other?

[@LeviClay]

Intervals are patterns, but it’s not the “pattern playing” I often talk about. By that I mean when you play you have these fixed patterns from which you play notes and can organise your picking. The geometry and technique comes first. This is the opposite. You can use what you know about the fretboard to locate any sound you hear on your head. You hear a 5th higher? Cool, I don’t need to think about where that is. Apply that to a whole line and you have a deep understanding of lines and how they sound.

[@MartynDunnMusic]

@@LeviClay So what I should develop is a good recognition of the intervals I hear in my head through ear training?

[@LeviClay]

Martijn D absolutely - and how to play them. It’s much more important that you can hear them and play them than name them. Obviously aim to name them, but in the long run you want to play, not talk!

[@MartynDunnMusic]

@@LeviClay Thank you very much, Levi! This helps a lot.

[@NicDerricott]

What killer video

[@andrewarcher2773]

Love joey

[@Pedroguitarbr]

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