La Grange, Guitar Lesson! LIKE THE RECORD!! ZZ Top [First Guitar Solo!!]

[@TheSmellyTele]

Hi All! I've had to cut out part of the practice track at the end of the video to make sure this video passes KZbin's copyright checks. If you'd like the FULL guitar lesson, it is available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/smellytele. Rather than disputing the copyright claims and risk my channel being shut down, I decided it's more important to keep these videos available for YOU, even if it means lowering the quality on KZbin.

[@thomasanthony9636]

I've been trying to learn this for years. Great breakdown and explanation. Thanks .Subscribed

[@gg-dw1yq]

The best explanation of the riffs ever ! plain and clear with patience. Beats everyone else !!! Finally I can practice with the knowledge you show!

[@TheSmellyTele]

Thank you, my friend!

[@Rick1198s]

This is an excellent piece of instruction. Taking apart the solo, lick by lick, is so manageable and each time I complete a lick it gives me a great sense of achievement 😊 Thanks Smelly 🙏

[@TheSmellyTele]

Love this comment!

[@Rick1198s]

@@TheSmellyTele got me the TABs now, so time to ZZeeeeeeeee Top it out. Cheers.

[@TheSmellyTele]

​@@Rick1198s rumor spread round...in that Texas town...that Rick! Has! Got! the TABS!!

[@daveharper7184]

Great lesson! Terrific breakdown of the solo, best I have seen. 😊

[@TheSmellyTele]

Thank you for watching! Glad the video helped!!!

[@Royalsman]

You and your lessons are the best online. I can't thank you enough for all the work you put forth on these. Truly great instructor online. Keep this up and your channel will rise to the top with popularity!

[@TheSmellyTele]

Thank you!!

[@Royalsman]

@@TheSmellyTeleyou’ve been away for awhile. Are you continuing at another time? I looked on patreon and that had slowed also. I know life gets busy. Just loved your work.

[@TheSmellyTele]

@@Royalsman yeah, it got a lot tougher once we had to return to the office 🤣! Working on tabs for another CCR tune now, and hope to get it recorded in the next few weeks. Takes a little more time nowadays to crank out a lesson, but I'm still at it 😎

[@rolandrisson3341]

I'm a guitar geek. But there, I manage to play unthinkable things. Tremendous. Teach us some killer riffs.

[@kerryfromaj9032]

Hey I just joined your Patreon to say how much I appreciate your hard work. I am hoping to learn La Grange and Tennessee Whiskey for a band reunion in 6 weeks in Arizona 🌵

[@TheSmellyTele]

Heck yeah, man! Let me know how your gig goes!!

[@eddiebaby22]

Thanks very much for taking the time to do this, it's one of the best lessons I've seen on youtube the way its layed out. Wish more people would learn from this teaching method. It makes learning much better.

[@TheSmellyTele]

Thanks, Eddie!! Appreciate the kind words. More or lessons to come!

[@rolfhauf4266]

Perfect Lesson Guitar Man. Keep on teaching… thank YOU

[@TheSmellyTele]

You're welcome, @rolfhauf4266! More lessons to come!!

[@richardchambers3533]

Billy would approve. 👍

[@tjnugent62]

Thanks for slowing this down.. Nobody else does this.

[@johnnyrocco]

Your friend Johnny Rocco still watching and learning. Thanks for taking the time to do these lessons. They are a big help.

[@TheSmellyTele]

Good to hear from you Johnny Rocco! I still have You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ on "the list." I'm going to get a new one out from Midland...then it could be time to say hi to Eddy again

[@johnnyrocco]

@@TheSmellyTele That be great .

[@flouisbailey]

You keep the good stuff coming, thanks

[@TheSmellyTele]

You got it, man!

[@dougc2421]

Great lesson. Thanks!

[@stevebell204]

I think it's actually close enough, a couple of mistakes compared to the book I have...great job man.

[@user-kv9lo5ri7k]

Nobody plays a solo twice the same

[@jefferychaney3124]

Why are the tabs showing upside down.and don't match guitar strings.

[@donaldkershaw6371]

Thank you

[@royburns4905]

Thank you bro

[@ricardomendoza3105]

Very we’ll done

[@joseluisdavalosflores1865]

¡Gracias!

[@TheSmellyTele]

De nada!

[@carlosdelfa2572]

Gracias

[@juancorrea1656]

Excelente

[@cjrideson]

Good.

[@rogertaylor6]

listening carefully to that first bar, the 2nd F note you have (10th fr G string) is actually an Eb. I.e., he's outlining a C min arpeggio, G - Eb - C.

[@TheSmellyTele]

Yes, I believe this is correct 👍

[@sheepdog72]

Subbed. Well done.

[@TheSmellyTele]

Thank you!!

[@green323turbo]

your not playing the rhythm in C right . Its not sliding bar chords , your hand is fixed and there is a little riff there in the rhythm. . Also in the intro at 2:24, you need to bend the string up as you pull off

[@gergemall]

Thank you,, sounds great. S T

[@Oggi7777]

This has 665 likes, no way I’m hitting that button…

[@TheSmellyTele]

...and then you sold your soul to the devil? And the devil was smelly 🤣

[@tjnugent62]

There should be a channel dedicated to the guitar work of BFG.... I would wear it out. lol

[@TheSmellyTele]

That guy is amazing...I'll have to do another ZZ Top soon!

[@tjnugent62]

@@TheSmellyTele Do the entire album in order on the LP. Tres Hombre is one of the best albums of that decade. I even have a Suhr Amp called the Hombre because it is a duplicate of a Fender Brown Faced Deluxe, which is the amp BFG used on that album. Not sure if you knew he was using Fender back then. PA John Suhr made the Hombre has tribute to Gibbons and that album. Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqKlpZmkqsanp5Y

[@TheSmellyTele]

Dude...that is some serious tone! All of Tres Hombres is an ambitious project...in the middle of some Bob Seger at the moment, but I will put the whole Tres album on "The List" 😎

[@tjnugent62]

@@TheSmellyTele If you were in the Nashville area, I would let you use the Hombre to make the videos...

[@ozzyfarrow9872]

3.98 I found you on

[@tjnugent62]

What is the marshall looking thing on top of your deville?

[@TheSmellyTele]

Howdy TJ! That is a Line 6 Pod XT Pro 😁

[@danielgarcia1227]

Por qué no la tocas toda de una sola jeje

[@TheSmellyTele]

You mean why isn't the 2nd half of the solo in the video? Well, I don't think anyone's asked me to figure it out yet...so...

[@CristianMay]

"Like the record" but... what record? Because the main riff here is wrong.

[@curtisprice9806]

The tab is bad...compare to the recording first of all, and then to other tabs to find what parts sound best. A very hard solo... especially the second pinch harmonic solo. Every tab I have seen has it really wrong.. Wish I could find the isolated guitar track for this song, but no luck yet. I will just keep woodshedding this one, because it is a legendary song.