Jeff Beck's technique is.. imperfect

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[@pwoods100]

"His playing is imperfect which makes it perfect." And that sums up the genius of Jeff Beck.

[@dalewalker4666]

Even Jeff himself said that he sometimes didn't get it right and made the occassional mistake but that's what made playing enjoyable for him.

[@jeffbrassard1268]

He also said if he want breaking the rules 100 times per night he wasn’t doing his job. RIP Jeff Beck, the only guy who never sold out or comprised. He just stayed and played Jeff Beck.🙏

[@xcleb7221]

I had to share this cos it's the best singular guitar lesson/advice ever. A well presented and inspirational enlightenment for all Rock/Blues guitarists who playing at all levels. This is a mind-set that tares down barriers which is exactly what the legends have done for generations. As sighted 'Beck' has been an outstanding communicator of a 'language spoken with the use of a 'Stratocaster' instrument...!

[@brokl26]

Check out Rick Beato’s video on how Beck is impossible to copy. Beato highlights Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers from around 1975. It seems like Beck is heralded in the same light. Beck might be the greatest rock player.

[@johncunningham4820]

I remember , from LONG ago , hearing an interview with Jeff Beck . He basically started early and made it up as he went . If he played a Wrong Note , he would bend it in somehow . Finger or Whammy , didn't matter . Later on , even when he KNEW where the Notes actually were , he kept doing HIS thing . And the Rest is History , as they say.......

[@danielhornbeck6588]

Dude. I can relate 100% to this story.

[@mariodriessen9740]

Reminds me of a long time ago when I went to the conservatory of music in the Netherlands to study jazz. It was my first year. My strongest point as a guitar player was my feel for rhythm. When all the guitar students were asked to write down/notate a guitar solo (could be anything), I decided to write down a solo of BB King. I wanted to keep it simple. Man, was I wrong! It was undoable. I learned a wonderful lesson that day! By the way, Jeff Beck is one of my all time favorites. This man can make me cry with his playing style. ❤️

[@mightbeanerd]

My inner musician is great, comes up with great stuff, but it only comes out when I'm at work or something and I forget it by the time I get home

[@hoffy1003]

Imperfection is expression. Imperfection is perfect. brilliant, David.

[@rogergeoffrion3723]

Great stuff David! If those great players had stuck to the so called “rules” there would have been a lot of boring music. Blow by Blow and Wired is some of his best stuff. He has evolved so much since then. Truly a great! Edit: Also, my guitar teacher used to tell me there is no such thing as a wrong note, only tension build and tension release 😉

[@sholland42]

Blow by Blow is my favorite, guitar mastery.

[@harryballs7029]

@@sholland42 a masterpiece

[@neoaureus]

Absolute truth…. Music is a language …it’s about creating. I learnt guitar when I was 7 …now I’m 48. After decades of listening my mind started generating music like I’ve never heard before…all unique. Make music …it’s about feeling.

[@flo6309]

So intelligent and subtle. Thanks a lot!

[@russshaber8071]

Back around 70 I heard Leo Kotke talk about the music lesson he had just come from on his way to play a concert. That's when I realized you never know it all, you can always get better.

[@soundssimple1]

If everyone learned the Bert Weeden way, the world would be full of Bert Weedens and nothing else. Nothing wrong with Bert Weedens playing and technique, I started with his books and his playing, but as things go on you find different ways, YOUR way. That's where the Jeff Becks come from. Learn the basics, learn the framework and then find all the bits in between and outside. Its like learning the alphabet, once you know the letters and some basic words to communicate then, it's up to you how you wish to use them. Very worthwhile video David. Now Subscribed.

[@jackconnolly2665]

I'm here because of the Jeff Beck thumbnail :) In my teens, I decided I couldn't play guitar or keys because my fingers didn't work right :) My limbs worked so I played drums rather easily. I discovered Jeff Beck during high school in 1969. Everyone else was raving about Hendrix, Clapton and Page but my ear liked Beck. It was a LONG time before I realized why I liked him. It was his style of play. Normal guitarists would strum their power chords and then play there lead solos. Beck was different. I was lucky enough to see him in 1971 or 72. I had tickets to both shows that night. As far as writing music, today's technology has made it simple for us simple drummers to compose the music in our heads. We no longer have to beg guitarists to play something we can only hum to them :) We don't even need to play keys fully. We can put down tracks one measure at a time and tweak them into place. We can write just the root notes and add notes to make chords, major, minor etc. I start with the bass line because I'm a drummer and it's generally one note at a time, no chords. I can bang out a riff with two fingers and fix it digitally. Then layer whatever sounds good over the top. Are they good songs? Hell, I don't know, but they are songs :) It's more than I could do in the olden days.

[@calabub456]

Thanks David ,,, that is phenomenal!

[@theelderskatesman4417]

the king of perfectly imperfect, technically incompetent yet beautifully expressive lead guitar has to be Neil Young.

[@sholland42]

I particularly love his solo on Cinnamon Girl. One note, no more were necessary.

[@davefuzzforrow6627]

Some of Neil Young's guitar work would sound atrocious😲 if it was any other guitarist but somehow it is brilliant 🤷he just makes it his own and doesn't seem to worry what people think,a great attribute in a musician👍... honesty

[@shanemcconnell1736]

I wouldn’t let Neil Young play guitar in my band

[@garethde-witt6433]

😂😂😂😂😂😂Neil Young 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@marcsullivan7987]

@@shanemcconnell1736 he’s probably really broken up about it

[@hallvardjrgensen2452]

Great stuff.

[@donjoseph73]

Yep and the greatest thing is the language is universal!! 🙌

[@georgehoaau8652]

Word!! Thanks.

[@xtianplaza]

Great video 👍

[@brucehazen8982]

I'm hoping to be that imperfect someday

[@damiannagorski541]

beck, hendrix ect share 1 common bond. they made there own technique and theory!!!

[@mikestroud9969]

Bingo. Good video buddy. No one is perfect. We are only human. Take care 😎👍👌💯🎸🎸

[@mattsilk3405]

RIP Master Beck✌️❤️

[@homeworldmusic]

An excellent presentation, very broad-minded.

[@dancassidy7471]

I have taken the steps path it is such a revelation and hard to explain. For me it helped using a different instrument as in a baritone guitar that matched my deeper odd in comparison to others baritone voice

[@The_philosophical_musician72]

I have been playing for 30 years and I just had that epiphany 2 weeks ago music is a language. I have been writing songs to get the attention from other musicians and that never worked so what I did was wrote a short classical quartet on Bandlab and I supprised that I could write with out guitar in my hands. Merci thanks for what you do.

[@donjoseph73]

Ya I’m 50 and been playing since 14. I’m having problems with doing my own recording. How long did it take you to be able to use band lab?

[@The_philosophical_musician72]

@@donjoseph73 A while I don't have an interface so I have to use the tiny keyboard on my android phone. It's not a use program but it can be useful as a note pad or way to flesh out an idea. I really wish I has the money for an actual computer based DAW but alas I am broke most of the time. Going through a divorce so it's kinda rough. Check it out if you like try to use it, but there are better alternatives if you have the money.

[@The_philosophical_musician72]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaqmintvpa5lhrM that's an example of what I can do on the app but I have just scratched the surface.

[@Therealjosiah035]

I love this

[@Kipperbob]

Something I like about Jeff Beck, Tal Wilkenfeld is a seriously groovy Bass player! 👍

[@ruthyarrow]

Yes..good choice by Jeff .

[@omegalast800]

...just wish this video was more about the Imperfect Perfectionist. I loved that man... even named my dog that I found abandoned 15 months ago after him. He has his imperfections too,.. if you forget he steals my bananas off the kitchen worktop... he's perfect too. #thefinalpeace

[@the-np4mr]

When I started guitar I used to not use a pick and instead held my fingers like a pick, it sounded decent but my guitar teacher told me to not do that and use a pick. Fast forward a few years and I see that Andy guy doing pedal demos and he's doing basically what I was doing (with some fingerpicking thrown in (and obviously better lol))

[@JazzgutsVGvanKampen]

David, great you're listening to these older guys, they lived in a time that wasn't perfect. Later everything became pressed in a matrix of "so called perfection" and this certainly didn't do the music in general good. I think when Santana started playing, the only thing he had was some old blues, jazz and Cuban salsa records and his imagination. The less you have to your availability, the more you have to fill in yourself, being creative, greetings Vic

[@ESP77769]

Amen... More with less. I wish there was more imagination nowadays...

[@kenb6870]

I want to learn in this way

[@tommycato6368]

I use three different tunings to avoid too much muscle memory.

[@stratman9449]

ha...i missed all the 80s and 90s "heroes...and stuck with the guitaristsd of "my" time....the 60s and 70s....and i'm glad i did.....everything goes back to them now....or so it seems.....i can live with that.....cheers anyway....you got there in the "end"......😄

[@OlivvYeah]

I love how you are sure of the day one thing happened 😂

[@Wallimann]

Haha!

[@nuthinbutlove]

😆

[@hawg427]

I watched a Rolling Stones concert once and I don't even know how Ron Wood & Keith Richards play sometimes, they are usually stoned off their ass. Watch their fingers and they will hit wrong notes all the time but they are masters at covering their asses. I mean if you play a song 10,000 times no 2 are going to be the same ;-)

[@harryballs7029]

beck was part of the BIG 3 beck page n clapton ... he aged the best

[@TaxPayingContributor]

All born in Surrey England

[@harryballs7029]

@@TaxPayingContributor crazy isn't it... about 40 years ago i owned this vinyl : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Boogie_(album) ... unfortunately i lost it somewhere in the mist of the ensuing years.

[@Jjj53214]

Do you keep a journal with dates of your guitar revelations?

[@Wallimann]

Yep! I keep it all man..

[@martin_schwarz]

I've been playing guitar for 45 years now but I only listened to the typical guitar dominated music for maybe the first 10 years. You have to have a melody (or a counter melody to the tune yor're soloing to), a melody has a rhythmic structure, which means it cannot consist of 8 8ths per measure, not to talk of 16ths. I love to play what I call blues rock, but we never play "a blues in E", because each song, even in blues, has to be as singular as possible. I've always hated those sessions where you leave for the bathroom and when you come back you're not sure if's still the same song or the next one...

[@peterjonstefan2926]

Awesome dude taut what I wanted to hear we can really limit ourselves with all this perfection bulls**t ..this is what put you head and shoulders above so many teachers, you see through it all and teach creativity with your own form of perfection. That's what I love about yourteachng man, you are WAY outside of the BOX; and THAT's why I bought everything you own man .

[@circlemover]

Its like catching a bus. You get on and take a ride. When you reach your destination, get off. Dont fall asleep while riding or you will miss your stop. Bad news. You could end up at the end of the line with no way to get back. Ride the bus when you need to go somewhere new but always know when to get off...

[@23coburn]

Excellent observations Sir! Thanks for caring about "The Sound." Truly. And...Mr. "Gag." what's your penetrating observation? If you're going to pitch shit best be able to mount a cogent reply.

[@JDRichard]

I can't read a note and I've been playing for over 40 years. I play how I feel and I can usually play how someone else sounds. For example I can play lead breaks for songs like Stairway to Heaven and other very popular rock songs. I can also play some classical songs and songs like mood for a day by yes. All done by me listening to the notes. And when I play Blues I just play what I feel and sometimes it turns out really good and sometimes I don't know where the hell I am. My mother who is a great piano player could not Jam that she was stuck in the rules of music. My father who is a great Entertainer also plays guitar but is not stuck in the rules of music but knows over 400 songs to sing and with basic backing chords and some lead. So when I pick up a guitar to play, it just depends on how I feel and that relates to how I play and I listen to every note and the emotions come through with each note. Someday when I'm 900 years old I may learn how to read music but for now I'm just going to listen and play and listen and play.

[@r4microds]

1:37 Takanaka. 100%

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

6:15 I know people like that. They dislike jamming on stuff they think is basic and seem to only want to show off every lick they've learnt over all their years from guitar teaches in the one solo. And the solo sounds rushed and falls apart from too many ideas crammed together. The pressure to impress. It would be great if they pulled it off, but it rarely happens.

[@joseantoniogonzalezgarza7679]

Basically , your saying what I've been telling everybody I know. I don't want play like my old heroes. I want to play what sounds good at the moment I'm playing , and if it sounds good and feels good? Keep doing the damn thing. I've never ever played for money , and never pursued a musical career. But it sure feels good when I grab the old Strat , and make my very own noise. And as loud as I can. So... Crank it to 11...! Cheers.

[@paulbfields8284]

I get you for sure.. if you want to bd thoroughly further impressed check out Monty Montgomery … I saw him at NAMM 08 not knowing anything about him.. I never heard anyone make an acoustic guitar sound like that.. it’s mind numbing

[@ricosgruv4099]

Beginners will benefit from some simple exercises to learn how to pick strings, play chords, scales etc. with some technical ability, but this is means to an end, not an end in itself. Once someone develops some ability to find the notes they want to play, get their fingers where they need to play those notes, and then playing those notes with the intended sound they want to hear they should start exploring and finding their own music. Yes, if you want to play shreddy metal up and down the neck, you will need to do some more technical training, but that's not necessarily for everyone.

[@friedrich1957]

Everybodys technique is imperfect. Back to the woodshed.

[@chrisgmurray3622]

Yeah, but early on I learned by ear or magic or whatever it was, and because it took me far, I had the almost exact opposite way of learning, ie I ran screaming from anything to do woth theory/ harmony/ reproducing licks note for note etc. Believe it or not, I thought that learning someone else's lick was "copying" or "stealing", or incapable of being original. Eventually I realised that some understanding of chord construction and theory was a good thing to know, but struggled in the process of doing it- in fact for a year or two I totally lost all feel and amy inspiration. Since then I have struggled to maintain my innocence of approach and to truly improvise(sorry for the split infinitive) while balancing this with discipline and theory/ preparation. Obviously you started lesrning at a time when technical playing was in ascendency, and many forms of tablature and instruction was abailable, so it's hardly surprising that you took a while to "get it" about true musical expression versus boot-camp woodshedding, but for me it has been and still is a problem to be able to force myself to grow and expand by humbly standing on the shoulders of giants. I find it hard to learn a solo of someone else's, and even hard to learn something I've recorded of my own blind playing when I've hit on something worth repeating... so it's just as difficult to learn my own livks as anyone elses.I suppose we are all just trying to be balanced in order to grow our playing, but I still can't play the alternate speed-picking exercise give me by a teacher in 1990, although he had been playing guitar for only 5 years when he showed me the lick, and I had been slowly learning guitar since 1963. I discovered what I now know to be the pentatonic scale all across the neck, by stumbling on it in one afternoon ( I called it "boxes") but didn't learn major scales across the neck ' til the late 80's. By now I find it hard not to use only the three left-hand fingering of a blues grip, and even average speed alternate picking makes me so emotional I want to smash the guitar against a wall. I know it's not impossible for me to learn these skills but so far I haven't prgressed beyond what you were probably doing as a beginner in the 90's as far as " shreddy" playing goes, but things like expressive picking vibrato and fluid bending came easily to me almost immediately. So we all want what we can't easily do, and because it hurts to stop playing I'll continue to push the boundaries of what I can do, although three decades have made no difference so far!I applaud your mention of the more mystical/musical approach to guitar that the young athlete usually ignores!

[@stevec9972]

Yep. Start learning guitar, months become years then decades. The more I learn the more I realize how much I still don't know. Its a life long journey and pursuit

[@sergelaporte4295]

Once you learn the basics, then you refine your own voice and expression. and you trust yourself, you have to. Feeling and expression are the goals, not 300 mph scales, an approach proven by all of Jeff Beck's work :)

[@alexdelarge8772]

Agreed! That's it in a nutshell! Your own voice, not Eddie Van Halen's, or anybody you may admire. The point is to have influence from them, but have your own sound and expression.

[@alexdelarge8772]

Yeah, it's called expression! Like singing through your fingers on the guitar. Technique is helpful, but the expression is more important. Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, you can hear slop all over the place in certain tracks, but the expression of their playing is what makes them some of the greatest guitarists. Now, there are also guys like David Gilmour that have amazing technique AND expression. Bonus, but not necessarily mandatory. Jeff Beck developed his style over many years until it became his own and nobody else sounds like him. Nobody. Watch Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's here on YT, particularly "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers", which is a cover of a Stevie Wonder song. Amazing textures, dynamics, and while you at it check out Tal Wikenfeld on bass! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqibl3WIlL2chtU

[@spacerockwizard]

In a mid-seventies interview Jeff said, "I play the notes I think I want to hear. I don't practice a scale. Too boring. Too depressing. I play to relax." A different approach to John McLaughlin who around the same time said, "You must know all the chords, all the scales."

[@MrCherryJuice]

How ironic then that Jeff and John are such major fans of each other's playing. Jeff's guest spot on John's tune 'Django' reveals how contrasting their styles are. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJqnh4t-rq6VedE&ab_channel=PraxisScream

[@gooneybird808]

I learned guitar by watching the song remains the same dvd every night until I feel asleep. Jimmy was such a sloppy guitar player but he slayed

[@josephmarkey9096]

Check out Mike Oldfield. A proper composer who plays guitar.

[@tonyantares5196]

Great video thanks. My opinion is I appreciate how masterly Jeff was but I did not like his guitar sound because it just soundes too processed when compared to Frank Marino or Rory Gallagher or Clapton. I’m certain that’s because Jeff wanted to be original but the sound for me sounds like a keyboard being very original but too much. Jeff again imho would have been more enjoyable if he had a poweful blues sound that really moves in the way the aforementioned players can. I still acknowledge how great Jeff was but really wish the sound was different.

[@The_philosophical_musician72]

I think you have a spam bot in your feed, some one saying they are you want to have a conversation with me on telegram. Just thought you would like to know.

[@Wallimann]

Thank you man! Yeah they’ve been targeting a bunch of KZbin channels I’ve been trying to deal with them but they keep at it. Thanks for letting me know!

[@gerggbergr8976]

Does every sculptor hold the chisel the same way? Do they all start in the center? Does every Painter use the same brush strokes, or use a pencil to sketch out there work first? Do all poet's rhyme? There absolutely is not one way to play the guitar.

[@FrequencyAlchemy]

Does that mean that all of the videos I purchased from you are null and void!? Lol😅

[@Wallimann]

Hah! Not if you take all that stuff and make it your own! Thanks for your trust!

[@FrequencyAlchemy]

@@Wallimann Thanks man! I hope you know I was just messing with you.

[@Wallimann]

I do bro! :)

[@FrequencyAlchemy]

Is this legit? What did I win?

[@FrequencyAlchemy]

Dave, I just sent you an email to confirm. I’m very suspicious of the Telegram chat I just had.

[@alfredwilhelm1416]

Nobody knows you … but Jeff Beck … gives a lot of guitarplayers learn in school Guitar Jeff not but all Guitarstars have respect him … Jimmi Hendrix is not perfect … Eric Clapton is not perfect … Slash is not perfect … Carlos Santana is not perfect … only you 😁

[@williamsteinkamp3189]

Use your ears...

[@johncrace911]

Maybe Beck aged best of the big three, but was not nearly as successful as Page and Clapton. It's all about the musicality or the songs. I Luv Beck, but he never had the material.

[@WS-ij1fu]

gag

[@antonbessonov4119]

Cute cat detected :) Is it yours?

[@Wallimann]

Nah, just stock BRoll

[@Mike-hr6jz]

The most convoluted nonsense I have ever heard .so it’s not the absolute you learn before it’s the new ones you’re making up as you go .but they’re still are rules pitch ,has to be on certain levels like it or not to achieve certain notes, like it or not being free enough to go by what you hear has to start with learning the instrument well enough to utilize it just like singing .as a child you just learn to say the words then as you start learning to sing notes correctly, you were able to fluently go from note to note the same thing works whether it’s under your fingers or using the muscles in your larynx. but the idea that there are no set rules is making a set rule ,that there are no set rules .and it is not only illogical but it will lead you to eventually being insane .this is just a warning ,you need to be reluctant to throw logic out because it will push you beyond reason .and believe me life there is impossible.

[@Wallimann]

That was pretty much the point of the video man!

[@tonyred520]

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