Mark Allen - Strat Chat

[@michaelbabich6726]

Love your videos…your philosophy of finding your “guitar voice” is spot on! So many of us try to play like someone we’re not, when the magic is within us. Keep teaching!!!

[@DavidKnox-tw9xr]

Hi Mark dai fantastic taffswell just seen you on tonight love to hear you talking about your tratacaster it's fantastic and the sounds you get is amazing grate video I listen every day to your videos I ment to mention I was ln tenby a few years ago with my family and and you played apache for me and my family filmd you playing it for me I look it up now and then but when I seen you on KZbin this year I had to follow your videos so thank you and heartthrob for your great guitar tunes all the way best 👌 18:42

[@crowhaven200]

Mark, thanks for doing this. Great advice man. I have been playing for 55 years, with no lessons, no tabs, just what I feel and hear. And no one else to jam with . I need to double down on my simple playing. It sounds beautiful when you do it.

[@HopeIanHope]

Can't wait for all to follow

[@Po1itica11yNcorrect]

This man's talent is literally right up there with some of the all-time greats.

[@theeardrafter]

Good luck in all you do Mark. You're a natural and sharing these things is generous

[@minstrelofMir]

dont stop your vids ;-) thank you very much

[@Baggers_Corner]

So looking forward to your channel Mark!!

[@mlew247]

I'm a huge fan of your street music and really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

[@robingreen9086]

Blimey, Brilliant sound. Wowww.

[@watchlatersweettater8971]

This guy is a gem! Thanks for posting! Rock on!

[@normcormier3121]

Humility and talent! What a great combination. Looking forward to a series of videos!

[@Alwayslovingtheblues]

Mark, thank you sooo much for sharing you love of the blues with us! Music transcends cultures, borders and continents. Here I am sitting in the bottom half of our planet in Namibia, yet I absolutely enjoy your emotion and passion for the blues. Thanks so much for that! It lifts my spirits!

[@patrickc.allenlive4373]

Wow! What a recovery. Fenders never die! Benders ride the sky. Gotta love them bends. That groovy does sends. Thanks! For the cool groove Bro.

[@markallen5483]

WOW 👀 Thank You Everyone for your comments. I guess I'll have to do part 2 now ! No idea or plan , just have to see what happens 😀🌍

[@garystubbington5656]

Good bit of info there thanks Mark

[@James79561]

LOVE YOU MARK ! I learned and sound like you and have been playing for as long as well . Forget the headaches and just jam ! ✌👍👊💯

[@markstant158]

Thanks Mark (and Artfrob for filming), very interesting to watch and hear the background to your playing. It certainly doesnt sound like your playing the wrong way and I would quite happily spend the rest of my life playing the wrong way as well if i could put half the feeling and expression into my playing in the same way you do. Looking forward to seeing part 2 and maybe some busking tales from the road?

[@amir.zolghadr]

Very good!!!

[@UNKUHNOODLES]

"GENUINE" is the word for this kinda fellow... An absolutely wonderful presence. 👉🤘👈

[@leeturner8023]

I remember first hearing Mark’s guitar cover of A Spaceman Came Travelling… just utterly amazing talent. He seems like a really great fellah too.

[@markhewitt6458]

Thank you Mark, love every second of it.

[@markallen5483]

Thanks , it's all down to Artfrob , I'd probably have deleted it if I'd done it myself. The comments have really helped me believe I should make more .

[@neilross1746]

So helpful, Mark! Cheers!

[@MartinaBrigitteZimmer-Heil]

Hi Mark😊Hi Rob😊 great ideas ! Thank you very much 🎶🎸😊👍🕊👏👏👏

[@colmwatulikededazio973]

Im so glad to hear you give a glory to thew late great Rory Gallagher ...the G man was a god on the strat and was the i my first major Artist that I ever went to see live at the Carlton,Dublin, back in 1974 Irish tour . Great playing Mark.

[@MartinaBrigitteZimmer-Heil]

Good start Mark 🎸🎶👏👏👏we want more🤗

[@markallen5483]

😀

[@icarus7073]

I heard you play wild horses, and your playing and tone hit my soul.. a gift that can't be taught

[@paulaxed]

Brilliant. I am so pleased you are doing this and look forward to seeing more. Thanks.

[@Tiborg69]

Subscribed! You are my teacher.

[@ECrapton]

Well done! Playing the notes is one thing, but absorbing your feel is another.

[@marioncurrie]

You’re got love inside, thank goodness we get to feel it ❤

[@amir.zolghadr]

Mark! That was a great video. Maybe you didn’t learn scales, but you got the feeling and the blues. Always great to hear you playing!!!

[@AnthonyClegg-d2v]

What a lovely Man and an excellent guitarist.❤🎸.

[@HopeIanHope]

You are a million time better than all these "technically expert music teachers"

[@RikHoward.]

Awesome keep these videos coming Mark.

[@theeardrafter]

I could Jam with you my friend and I havnt read a single note its greek to me.....What I love about your style is the the touch....You make it speak and sing...

[@theeardrafter]

Minor blues with a nice fat strat is all I need LOL

[@leeturner8023]

Nothing like the sound of a well played strat echoing across a sun kissed beach

[@ATandT2U]

Your channel showed up in my feed today and I'm enjoying your playing immensely! Your lesson in this video is very enlightening, and I subscribed to the channel earlier today!

[@digiwaves]

Thanks man! That’s about the same way I started learning 60+ years ago. Didn’t have a homemade plywood guitar.

[@HopeIanHope]

Natural talent, always the best.

[@MG-jw6uy]

Howdy Mark, you are a fantastic guitarist, i hope you start up some lessons.

[@PaulJonesy]

Lovely video - I remember when I discovered pinch harmonics or “Wolf tones” as a teenager - I could do them but I had no idea how!

[@theart8039]

You should do a similar Q&A with Bailey (if his folks allow it) considering Mark was almost the same age when he first started and they both have a lot of fans

[@maroll1564]

👍

[@joeschops4486]

Nice to See you again, Mark 😊

[@artfrob3754]

You too!

[@maxduetorri320]

Il tuo stile è bellissimo👍😉

[@joeschops4486]

One Day i come to Cardiff and maybe we can play together 😊

[@markallen5483]

😀

[@Vidar.m]

i like how worn the fretboard looks. love the blues myself, you make the strat sing

[@getexis8685]

Ah ... that Strat .... awsome!

[@leehughes188]

Absolutely superb as always

[@alunrees6403]

About time you had your own Channelllll.... Mark....Hope your well Mate .. Regards Al

[@markallen5483]

Hi and Thanks . Hoping this finds you well too .

[@FREEMAYKELOSORBO]

You play the guitar like you want to my favorite guitarist Jimi Hendrix didn’t read music or write it either memorize what you play we will love it because it is the naturally played your style thank you Mr Allen you sound very good to me over 60 . Keep on picking ! ✌️

[@RawSunday1]

good to see you legend

[@Tiborg69]

What kind of pickups are these? Killers!! This is The strat sound.

[@jilllantto5066]

I love your music!

[@jirkabenesh]

Thanks Mark, super!!!

[@DesmondEvans-e3q]

You teach good.simple way is the best.im off to try this on my guitar.your sold me my friend.

[@robertcrowther6134]

Hi Mark any chance you can do a video showing some of the patterns you use and how to play around them

[@Hunterke2812]

We want more....we want more...

[@rockun7579]

Fender traticaster top guitare 🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@getexis8685]

Bryan May, from Queen, went to see Rory Gallagher shows, wich I have a Rory's Gallagher studio vinil album ( which I have played so many times that, with the wear and tear, it is almost transparent and in such a way that when I play side A of the record I can also hear the track on side B in backwards), and was one of the main guitarists who influenced his way of playing the guitar. I think that you, Mark Allen ( whose name I find very artistic ), give me what I can't do, which is to keep calm while playing and tame that nameless horse that we have inside and wants to gallop through the vast plains of all the strings of the guitar and the scales but it have to be guided in some way by the best path and always calmly so that you don't get tired and try to play everything at the same time. This gift of being able to brake a horse and keep it walking peacefully most of the time so as not to burst its heart with excitement is what corresponds to the silence between notes and letting the notes sound for a few seconds so that one can enjoy their vibrations. For all this, this film, so well put together by artfrob, in which you show how you play, is as important as an old truth that we all know, but the way it is said rejuvenates our memory because it is a new way of saying it. A hug to you both Mark Allen and Roberto Fordham from someone who plays guitar but also never studied the guitar but loves how it sounds.

[@minstrelofMir]

When i started my first band age12 in 1976,(on bass)my hands didant open,to this day only my left hand opens (thanks to being mad on the beatles) i never had a lesson either,learnt by learning beatle songs (good thing about them is they have many styles and taught us we can write songs about anything) playing bass at least helped me learn the frets ;-) im poof anyone could play and well ,,4 generations of singer song writers alive in my family now,music teachers i got started and national champions too YNWA ..all my life i only had a shergold guitar (amazing thin necks) now i have fender strat and tele deluxe"s,,90"s gibson les pauls ect,, i must say i find fender strats not bassey enough,unless on the neck pic (no dout thats ok within music,so it stands out,,but its odd what we get used to one type like humbuckers)

[@ukoldgit]

Hi Mark, your description of re learning how to play an E to free up the pinky for barr chords is exactly how I made any progress with guitar, not only that but it teaches you to bridge the strings properly to play the open string chords anywhere up the neck. If you master that technique thumbover becomes so much easier. Bye the bye at 73 I am still able to give it some wellie, rock on mate.

[@jamescarver6412]

I love your guitar style. Keep on rockin in the free world brother. ROCK ON😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@jonathanjrich]

Love it, Mark! Really looking forward to the next videos in the series 🎸

[@artfrob3754]

Coming soon!

[@dukamrgud1934]

Please loern to play ,,ZAJDI ,ZAJDI,, VIZANTIJSKO PLAVO, JUZNI VOZ. SUMADIJSKI BLUZ. please ❤

[@PhantomAngels-h3y]

I love your explanation, it occurs to me Mark, that takes such passion! To learn tonplay yourself and mostly with 3 fingers, youve found your own way, around the correct technique, qualifications - are surely amazing but...... Look at you, the passion - you are unique, your sound is not easy to replicate! You turned the guitar into a markguitar! The reason i get so lost in your musical paradise is because ive found nobody like you, the passion you need to pursue this instrument, the way you have so , shows in your personal sound. You are better then every other guitarist, the way that you can play! Even the best guitarists out there couldn't replicate you! You make your sounds through passion and skill . What im trying to say is - you are a very very unique musician ❤️ and of you was more famous, i think many would try to replicate your style. Your passion ignites something within me! I aspire to be like you. Thanlyou for uploading videos because they are very dreamy , awesome, and full to the rim of soul 🥰

[@PhantomAngels-h3y]

Also, I prefer how this guitar sounds, it's a part of you .

[@avrilf4252]

agree totally, Mark is just amazing, awesome, fantastic, and unbelievably good. There really is no-one like him, even the most famous guitarists worldwide cant hold a candle to him. Lovely humble man.

[@geffers57]

Respect to you. ( Those Matt Allen T’s are popular) 👍🎸😄

[@Stuboy]

That was fantastic thankyou , love the strat sound , absolutely love Mark Knopfler Dire Straits which got me into playing guitar , and ive subscribed to your channel

[@artfrob3754]

Great to hear!

[@billbellart]

Just the job, lots to look & learn & listen to

[@brianbarham2277]

Really enjoyed your vid, love to listen to anything you play but my favorite is one of your older ones -Songbird, I know you don't do tabs but is there any chance of you doing a bit on it one day?

[@PaulBeney]

Superb

[@patthompson8591]

Many years ago, my husband, who was lead guitarist of their band, tried to teach me how to play the simplest notes, BUT i failed completely, and he gave up .

[@jilllantto5066]

I will certainly tune in

[@rolfduijkers9941]

This strat fits much better to you 😊

[@MrMalgul]

Jeez I hope you doing well now bud. So much feel in that left hand..

[@FATTWAT50]

I’m 65 and just decided to learn how to play and theirs hope for me yet how do you do pinch harmonics 😮🤔

[@David-y6o]

It is never too late.Keep with it, you can do it.

[@HopeIanHope]

Mark, did you use to live and play in Brighton Sussex

[@xlp3t3r]

As well as being a decent guitarist he’s also got a great guitar face.

[@zenermaniac2571]

As a beginner I very much am looking forward to your future videos. Quick question: are you using a pedal or effect to sustain notes or is it technique?

[@boyblunder8889]

More please Mark 👍 I don’t suppose you’d be able to get some of your tracks on Spotify?? Would be great , I know we have KZbin music but can’t afford all these subscriptions 😢

[@sergejserg8243]

Супер рівень! гітарне кунг-фу!)

[@dw654]

Brilliant! And brilliant news - I reckon you'll prove to be as good a teacher as performer - if you could just upload the first 24 vids before lunchtime... And maybe have your first 4 or 5 albums ready to sell - then have the afternoon to relax! Meantime I'm gonna practice my Bluesfaces to go with my MA rectangles...

[@petergeen2198]

Count me in as a subscriber, 🙏🙏

[@markallen5483]

😊

[@James-fu8fj]

Count me into OK see you later

[@markallen5483]

Thank you. I'll try my best to get some more done soon .

[@danielevans6779]

Is it a roadworn guitar

[@giacomoconserva6913]

Ciao Marck 🇮🇹🎸

[@djizzah]

let the old fart rock

[@markallen5483]

Who you calling Old ! Rock On ! 😊

[@MariaRosaCerioli]

😊hai un viso cosi pulito , ti dedico le parole di un valzer che ballavo da giovane.viso d' angelo , capelli d' oro , adorabile , dolce tesoro , sei l' immagine dell' amore , sei la piu' bella cosa x me , con quel tuo bel viso d' angelo .spero ti piaccia la mia canzone😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@anthonygallegos4342]

Leslie west played the same way.

[@ezzystarr]

Why are you not doing big gigs, your talent must be managed professional.

[@avalanche9026]

Dude you stuck on your teenage era ? Not realizing we’re old people now. Just crazy. I’m a player doing all that. But can’t see myself acting like that ?? I’m 63. Shit

[@dukamrgud1934]

Fender is the best 🎸 guitar not Les Paul , PRS some Ibanez are very good but not souy as Fender❤

[@HopeIanHope]

Tabs rubbish

[@HopeIanHope]

Natural talent, always the best.