Stormy Monday (Allman Brothers Version) guitar lesson

[@edcrutchfield3447]

Thank you. So we’ll taught!🎸👍. Love to hear you play this from beginning to end .

[@LiveToPlayGuitar]

You make Skydog, Greg & All The Other Departed Members of The Band Proud...Thank You For The Great Break Down of This Classic Song!

[@davidf9278]

Bobby Bland released his version of 'Stormy Monday' which topped the charts in 1961, with this chord arrangement by his guitarist, Wayne Bennett. The Allmans borrowed this same arrangement and if one listens at the start of the 1971 recording, they acknowledge this. Which shows that even the greats borrow from each other.

[@pak47man]

And Wayne Bennett plays some of the nicest fills on top of the chords that I have ever heard. He makes it sound so effortless. Beautiful...

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Böbby Bland and his band were top notch

[@drewcooks42]

i agree that this is probably THE version of stormy monday recorded to date and you do a tremendous job detailing all of the comping that both dickey and duane achieved so fluidly. the blues is all about simplicity in my opinion and this version of stormy monday is the perfect example of that. both players just strolled around the changes so effortlessly that it seems their improvised licks were almost written along with the song! thank you for the great tutorial!

[@BluzGuitarGuyFishing]

I just came across this video. Certainly a classic ! It's done very well and the way most of us in Shreveport/Memphis & Jackson, MS learned it, many years ago. Kudos to you for teaching it correctly. I used to lay off the 6th string a bit, most of the time, since most good bass players usually cover that territory in this tune. Most ....but not all. It really depended upon whatever band I was playing with at the time. It does require a light touch....and a relaxed style to get it right. Almost like a Cropper/Stax/Malaco feel. Well DONE !

[@txpete1597]

I appreciate you taking the time to teach us a great blues classic. Thanks

[@Teddy-Cool]

Thank you for this lesson on an all time classic, which I heard for the first time way back when on the Collosseum Live! album (Clem Clemson on guitar). The joy of playing just sparks off the vinyl.

[@PsychologyWorksOfficial]

The chart and diagrams really are very helpful. Thanks.

[@tnvalleyyoga7122]

I've been working on this song for some time, but, this is the best lesson I've ever had. Thank you.

[@ysam1960]

It's Dickey Betts that plays all this while Duane Allman plays fils throughout. Great tutorial. And I've always said just like you did that "Stormy Monday" as performed by the Allman Brothers Band from the "At Fillmore East" album is hands down the best live blues song ever recorded

[@thomasguitarman9025]

I agree

[@gregorylumpkin2128]

Cool man! I just retired recently and trying to learn how to play again. This is one of my favourites and it looks like I have the basics figured out pretty well on my own. But you have showed me some things that I had forgotten about for parts of this song. Thanks so much.

[@bbbeno]

Awesome! Thanks a lot for sharing!!!!

[@normancohen3382]

Great lesson, tremendously helpful getting down the basic patterns with your insightful chord variations.. Now I can have more fun exploring these changes and incorporating into my repertoire. Thanks

[@magicdaveable]

The Allman's used the Bobby Blue Bland arrangement. T-bone Walker used 9th chords too. Greg & Duane only made minor changes to Bobby Bland's rendition which in fact is only slightly different than T-bone Walker's version.

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

When I learned the four note voicings it changed my whole approach to playing

[@gortagnan]

Just THANKS for reminding me of this fantastic version-long forgotten-and I thank you for the breakdown, which I soon will follow hopefully...

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Its hard to believe just how good Sky Dog was I think he was dead by 72 and only in his early 20's just a command of the instrument few achieve.RIP Duane.He has a record where he is standing on a bank fishing its amazing .as is his work on Loan me a Dime from a very gritty Boz Scaggs recording.

[@LA-zc9rg]

Very cool 😎 thx!

[@19tractor52]

EXCELLENT----THANK YOU!!

[@TheMightyGreenEagle]

When you talk about the Allman Brothers version of Stormy Monday, which I agree is one of the greatest single blues song recordings, I think that it is only fair to give some credit, as Greg does on the Fillmore East record, to Bobby Blue Bland, who as far as I have been able to tell, was the earliest person to record a version of Stormy Monday with essentially this chord progression. Give a listen: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5CllKGHaadjgqs

[@chrisb587]

Nice video Nick especially the G ninth position, don't see that documented very often if at all- not sure about that Cmin7 chord think Eflat 6 on the fourth fret sounds right...? Same notes as yours in theory but Eflat as bass and play strings 5 to 2 ..so no bflat note hit

[@chrisb587]

+SecretGuitarTeacher Thanks Nick - I'm not taking any credit for that suggestion another guitar tutor suggested that chord to me when analysing the progression over 25 years ago !

[@deivis1970]

Great Lesson!

[@manuelsosahenriquez]

Lovely!. Thank you!

[@alexrossi1094]

the only thing missing i't's you playing the whole part without interruption to get a better idea....

[@michaelthomas1014]

Check out Lee Michaels version . Worth a listen!

[@PieIX]

Do you offer a recording of yourself playing over the track.? Didn't see it here. Thanks for rhis vid by the way. Great stuff !!

[@blues62751]

Thanks for teaching me the intro. Nick !

[@MichaelCrutcher]

I feel as though you're missing an important part by leaving out discussion of the bass note over the Am7 chord, which shows up in place of the V chord, D7. The descent of Bm7-->Bbm7-->Am7 includes the Am7 with the bassist playing D(Am7/D), which might be analyzed as D11 or D9sus4. I'm not sure if they planned that, if the bass player realized what he was doing, or if he just played the V chord root where it belonged in the progression, but this causes a guitar player I know to thinking that it's a Dm9 chord, which it clearly(to my ear and sensability is not). I also wonder if either the Allman Bros. recording or the Bobby Bland recording mixes out what I consider to be a missed opportunity to include an F7(or F9) chord on beat 3 of the Cm7 measure. Seems like it would make more sense.

[@HotshotGTar]

Hey ! Whatever happened to Part II of the solo ? Part I was very good.

[@HotshotGTar]

Bummer! I mean that's too bad : I mean .... ok !

[@GuitarJoe316]

That Cm7 chord at the turnaround should be an Eb. You can clearly hear Berry playing an Eb every time. I don't know why most people insist on Cm7, when Eb is a tritone substitution for Am7. Great lesson otherwise.

[@antonilebowsky123]

Me encanta

[@kennykanowski]

Stop Talking !!!!!!!!!!

[@philfrank9226]

Oh, how I hate it, when a teacher speaks in 5th string of the 4th fret. It`s the c sharp on the A-string. Total unproffesional. Music is notes not frets.

[@geoffpatch8255]

Run along now.

[@curtpratt2203]

Niles Crane, is that you?