Guitar Lesson: Pearl Jam - Low Light... We've Cracked The Code!

[@craigm8860]

I picked back up the guitar during Covid and tried reliving my college days....would NEVER have been able to do it without these videos. The clear expertise coupled with the LOL type fun has got me playing Foo, Coldplay, PJ (of course) and some others. Just wanted to say thank you Ryan Lendt!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks for hanging out Craig!

[@BooyaKitten]

This definitely sounds like the recording. Always played it in normal tuning but now that I see it and went back to listen, you can clearly hear the openness of the chords. I think you got it right.

[@RyanLendt]

Jeff Ament is a beast! Thanks friend :)

[@martinsteiger5039]

Thanks Ryan. I appreciate that you go back and up update lessons as needed.

[@RyanLendt]

for it is our noble quest, to dissect every pearl jam song as accurately as possible... even if it takes a few tries :)

[@anasalco1392]

That's why I love YIELD!! Beautiful songs

[@RyanLendt]

I love Yield too :)

[@joetotten9402]

Thanks!

[@RyanLendt]

why thank you Joe!

[@alexguimaraes6970]

Best Guitar Lesson! Thanks Ryan

[@RyanLendt]

My pleasure!

[@kurthodge12]

The evolution of greatness, good job good job.

[@RyanLendt]

thank you Kurt :)

[@merrinharvey2356]

I played it exactly the same but without tuning down the bottom 2 strings. Holy that is a game changer I'm going play it like this forever now. It never sounded right but now it will omg thank you very much. Happy days😁

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@sebastianpazr4451]

You deserve more views bro, great videos, keep it up!

[@RyanLendt]

I appreciate that sentiment very much Seb thank you :)

[@joseeriveraa]

Man this is amazing seems “simple” and yet so fun thank you

[@RyanLendt]

I'm really glad you enjoyed that Pepe :)

[@coolio500098]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS

[@RyanLendt]

YOU ARE INTENSELY WELCOME

[@pedrosantoro1912]

Fantastic, thank you Ryan.

[@RyanLendt]

thanks Pedro!

[@ndgani]

I love your videos. Great music choice, good balance between music theory and let’s play and you serve it in a very entertaining way. 🤟 Thank you and please continue.

[@RyanLendt]

thank you so much Noam :) I think i will!

[@nzmorcr]

Ryan - You nailed it man! This is one of my top 5 PJ songs, and I’ve been trying for years to crack this one. I love using Low Light to warm up. Plenty of vids out there, but those players are in standard tuning and not changing time signature (no different from how I played it). But their versions never sounded “right”, and the song seems deceitfully simple. Lol! Since Stone and Mike started experimenting more with non-standard tuning as early as the Yield album (look up how people play Given to Fly, it’s a cringe hearing it in standard E tuning), I suspected DADGAD or something similar might be what was missing . I’ve watched in person and DVDs (they don’t play this one often), and Stone had his back to us most of the time, or there wasn’t a solid shot of his left hand. Thanks man for putting in the time, effort and patience to capture the “how” of this great song. You earned a subscriber and I’m going to enjoy playing it even more!

[@RyanLendt]

I'm glad you're glad! I believe this is a Jeff creation - as is nothingman - Jeff does amazing things with strange tunings too :)

[@randidil1981]

Love this Ryan - I always knew the old way was never quite right... makes this song a whole lot more appealing to play! Thanks! 👍

[@RyanLendt]

I'm glad you're glad Jon :)

[@ChrisS-nj3ye]

Great stuff Ryan I've think you've nailed it!

[@RyanLendt]

why thank you Chris :)

[@binface9]

Thanks for reminding me of the tuning. I used to play it all the time but all of the online tabs are in standard

[@kvstrickland]

Very frigging cool

[@RyanLendt]

hip hip!

[@archerkane7193]

Thank you for the lesson Ryan!! Was having a pretty bad day, and this really helped!!

[@RyanLendt]

happy to have had a hand in turning it around Archer :)

[@daltnabl3697]

Good Lesson

[@RyanLendt]

Thanks DT :)

[@klohr26]

Great job that sounds spot on to my ears. However your original “campfire version” will always have a special place. It’s probably the 1st PJ song I learned front to back and it typically is part of my warm up. In fact Niki seems to get a little cranky if she doesn’t play Low Light v1 on a regular basis. I’ll be adding this one to the fun tuning list, probably for transitioning in or out of Nothing as it Seems and Given to Fly.

[@RyanLendt]

that would be a good flow tuning wise! Low light - GTF - Nothing As it seems, you'll put yourself progressively into open D!

[@FeelItRising]

Damn you Jeff Ament!

[@RyanLendt]

hehehehehe. Does he even have one song in standard tuning?

[@Anonymous-ey8rj]

Nice job Ryan! Could you please do black Saturday by soundgarden! Thanks

[@RyanLendt]

definitely eventually - thank you Anon!

[@mollymaggieandmemollymaggi5189]

8/27/19. Tuning for this song: E A D G A(down 2 notes) D(down 2 notes)....At 10:10 you say tuning is DADGAD without the low D, so this tuning is EADGAD.... Take Care, Ryan.

[@RyanLendt]

that's exactly right MM

[@blejavac]

We've cracked the code! There's No Code!

[@RyanLendt]

budum!

[@nickayres5780]

Hey Ryan request for soup by blind melon when u can, the acoustics have always had a magical sound to Me

[@RyanLendt]

More than a few requests for Soup - thanks for the vote Nick

[@Slogmann]

I would never have guessed this in a million years, well done! :) Possibly in a million plus one years, but who knows.. I love Low Light. Makes me wish my yoinky and zing fingers worked. I don't mean to rush you or anything, you should always do whatever song you feel like doing on whatever day. But did you get a chance to look at that Head Down tab I sent you? It's one of the few songs I've taught myself (almost) completely by ear, so I'm just curious if you had any feedback :)

[@RyanLendt]

No I have not... I have dutifully left it unread as a reindeer to do head down the very next time it seems prudent! Don't worry, it will seem prudent soon :)

[@Slogmann]

There is no worry, and no rush, at all :)

[@bennymcgehee3305]

Can you break down You Cant Drive Me Away by STP

[@RyanLendt]

on the list for ya Benny!

[@JimmayTheHuman]

noice more PJ

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@jasoncourtney]

You found your way from what’s wrong to what’s real

[@RyanLendt]

that took me an embarrassingly long time to clue into... :P

[@jasoncourtney]

Been sitting on that one since we started this thing 😂 This was fun. Thanks again, Ryan!

[@sammckelvey]

Nice work mate. Looks like my uncooperative pinky finger isn’t gunna like me for a while tho 🤙

[@RyanLendt]

it'll get there Sam! just keep demanding things of it!

[@williamfischer7918]

I feel like this isn’t right Ryan .. I’ve always played it as a G shape , and just moved around my root... for the chorus playing D, Em, C then G .. no funky tubings . Maybe I’m wrong but it sounds more correct than this .

[@RyanLendt]

I put out a video to that exact effect wayyyy back in the early days, because I thought so too. :) (that video is still up) Ignore mike's guitar in the yield recording (he's in standard tuning and plays a regular G), and focus on the left guitar, the acoustic guitar, and you will hear the open (now) A and D strings

[@blackholesun1498]

Do getaway car audioslave

[@RyanLendt]

definitely need to

[@rockindrop]

This video gives a great angle of Stone: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGrHeK2Mg7uXrdU Looks like almost everything is correct. He does seem to be playing the 2nd "C" chord as you demonstrated (Eopen, A3, D2, Gopen, A(B)open, B(E)open) during "wind rolls by"

[@RyanLendt]

thanks for checking my work RD

[@patprime7320]

How very odd that a Jeff song uses a strange tuning and simple shapes. Totally unlike him (I love when he writes on a guitar)

[@RyanLendt]

i know, totally out of character!