Where to Start With Music Theory, Episode 6: Waltzes, R&B Slow Jams, & Uncommon Time Signatures

[@ijwhite]

Anyone else get stoked when you get a notification for a new Theory episode?

[@josephbrotherton7578]

Hope Eric keeps doing these

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Ivan! It's funny - for some folks these vids are too "boring" or "easy." But this stuff is so important!

[@LSDis4me]

Eric teaching about the sound of music, time signatures, rhythm, etc. These are a few of my favorite things.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Next up - straight 8ths vs swing 8ths! Basically, it means every groove I've discussed so far can be two completely different feels - the plot thickens!

[@stephens5807]

The description of the accents in 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8 was the key takeaway for me. So useful for my understanding of music ‘noticing’

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! More groove options to play around with!

[@Bad.At.Guitar]

Happy Easter! Did a plucked 6/8 [I IV V] [iii ii I] for HW. Onto the swing swing swing lesson

[@renokid64]

You are the most interesting and entertaining guitar teacher on the interwebs 😄 Awesomeness!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks so much Chris!

[@margouyalex]

So great series of lessons, atemporel, you can see it manytimes month after month for ancrage and understanding, just rectifying at 9:52, I bVII bVI V are Am G F E. Thanks for your great job Eric and great lessons on Truefire too.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

ARGHHHHH TYPO!!!! That's the worst - there's no fixing it once the video is published!

[@frauddetector6129]

So glad this guy came up as a suggestion. Just what I needed for inspiration.

[@alphanumeric1529]

Was working with this drum break (don't think it actually was a break, but just a bar of the drum groove) that was weird. It took me a minute, but I figured out eventually that it was in 5/4... initially assumed it was in 4/4 as is everything and I thought I was messing up syncing the tempo... I was intrigued, so I tracked it down, and it was from some Bowie song. I cut the break up, and had it in 6/8 slash 4/4 - different instruments in the mix, in G harmonic minor, were playing 4/4, others 6/8, from a drum break that was originally played in 5/4! I was using a couple chopped flute samples from the same source, but I really wanted this specific flute phrase that I could not achieve through chopping and pitching, not the right feel, melotron didn't do it, so had a friend over who is a pro flutist, and she nailed, in one take, exactly what I was looking for... so nice working with professionals... I think I could write, record produce, and finish sons if I had a team of professional musicians... anyway, day dream over, but, after she nailed it, I was talking about this being in 6/8 AND 4/4, and accents cycling through the larger phrases, drifting then converging into sync. She didn't know what I was talking about, so I played the mix, clapped the 4/4 out, she was like yeah, I get it, and then I clapped the 6/8 out over the song, and I could see she got it also... then she got how the guitar was in 4/4, this darbuka rhythm in 6/8 supporting this, what, rock break that was 5/4 chopped into 6/8... she just barely got how the opposing and converging accents worked together over larger phrases. She was classically trained, but it is like I spoke to her in an off world language, and she was like wtf, but then was so surprised that she understood what I said. She thought I was doing some kinda magic. I'm sure she will remain in her well fortified classical fortress, for false religious reasons, but she saw a distant, exotic land out some tall tower's parapet, briefly, and she loved the view. I was able to finally understand all of that, and why everything worked the way it did because of YOU! Tip of my salt encrusted hat to you.

[@Jacobcfuller]

The solo in Born on the Bayou is awesome too. Fuzzy tremolo goodness

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah that one too!

[@oshdad6]

Thanks for making my day

[@scottklandl488]

I spent 3-6 months back a while ago in my search to understand theory. In the end I gave up on teachers who failed to teach or failed to understand and made up my own answer. “This is relative to that” Two years later, here you are. I don’t know why, I liked episode 5 better, maybe it’s the signatures that better speak to me, or how you presented the same song in each motif which is a HUGELY GOOD way to begin to understand time. Either way I walked outta 5 reaching for my guitar,

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

You can't hit a home run every time you're up at bat :-)

[@Ekelemen2]

Oops! @9:49 when you put the Andalusian Cadence up for the second time (not the first) you switch the order of the G and F! Great lesson!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

DAMMIT! oh well can't fix it now "Pobody's Nerfect"

[@jacktrent5648]

This is video is coming at the perfect time for me! The video you did a while back on Lou Reed's Perfect Day got me started a while back with actually learning pieces of music and now I'm getting into theory.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! It's super-fun and rewarding to learn tabs, but the real permanent growth occurs when we learn a little more about how music works!

[@pastorphilthorsen4906]

Appreciated the review of where the accents are as well as the song examples.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Phil - I'm happy to help!

[@alphanumeric1529]

Haugen, really appreciate the channel, all this info for newbs is like manna in the freaking desert. Back in my band days, my homie was the music nerd in the band, so all problems solved, I'd receive inspiration, he'd figure out how to make it work musically. He left to get several masters and phd's. Fncker. I've been wandering in the desert alone for 20+ years receiving musical inspiration, and never able to figure out how to construct a full song because all the blocks never fit together. This simple teaching on time signature really helps. It's a big part of the mystery (of the structure of music) for me. I think I get downloaded phrases that are in odd time signatures, I don't know why. But it is so hard to take that to the DAW, and try to reconcile drums against those oddly timed or metered phrases, especially when the daw is so heavily 4/4. I swear, I never get anything in 4/4. The last 12 years has been trying to hammer these beautiful phrases I receive into 4/4 and straight hammering the beauty out of them to the point that I don't care anymore. Story time: A year or two ago, I had a phrase that I was really fond of, I committed to it, like I'm going to take this all the way into a song. It wouldn't work with anything, nothing lined up. So I went the distance, which is obvious and simple for music theory edumacted individuals, which I'm obviously not, but I counted out the time, and honestly the phrase was 19/4. I think. I was ecstatic that there actually was a discoverable structure there, and not just some obtuse thing that would never fit. I never did get it into a song structure though. Now, if I had a music nerd on tap, and in much more clear retrospect on my part, I'm sure there is a more rational way to break 19/4 into smaller 4/4 chunks with what, a 3/4 measure tacked on the end? Still would have been thwarted by the daw, and 4/4 primacy in the end (in fact, I was). An aside: I hated music theory nerds, they were so dry, didn't like anything they wrote, everything was mechanical and lifeless, soulless. So I associated that with music theory. The equation: Music Theory = Musical Soul Death. But, as I've come to learn music theory, I've come to understand more and more the musical phrases that I get. Before I started to actually learn music theory, I was always puzzled, stumped in regards to the structure of the phrases I received, so I never could build them into anything. But as I've begun learning theory, I'm starting to understand what makes the phrase work, where the groove is, how to write drums into the odd times and grooves. Music theory is helping me understand my musical inspiration, which is painfully not in 4/4, with simple chordal relationships... It is the opposite of what I saw back in the day, the music theory nerds would do stuff, complex odd stuff sort of as an intellectual jerk off, and it sounded like it, it sounded abysmal. But music theory has another side, for those with inspiration, it helps explain why something sounds good, and helps to realize the larger idea. End Aside. But today, I'm getting in the Daw (learning a new daw after 20+ years working in another, which is like flipping your guitar over and playing left handed... awkward) and I'm tackling either 3/4 or 6/8 or 12/8, I don't really know what it is, even after your explanation. This group of phrases I've received, that I've committed to, they''re in A major, and the smallest time division kernel is 3, or counts of 3's, but not really in waltz time accent. More like 3/4, accented on the 1, but there is another accent or swung accent that revolves through the series of 3's, so that I'm actually thinking, after watching this vid, that the cycle may resolve by the 12'th pulse, and then restart on the 1, so maybe 12/8 is it? Some of the phrases sort of half time as well, like you mentioned in this vid, going from 6/8 to 3/4, can sort of be seen/counted as going into half time. But thanks to your teaching, I'm more equipped to tackle this odd challenge. And, just one more quicky, I'm dying, but even faster, I'm disintegrating, nerves are coming unwound. It is like jumping off the Golden Gate, you don't fall at an even rate, you accelerate through your fall, so you go fastest right before you hit the cement waves. I'm going fast now. Time is very limited, increasingly precious, but I'm increasingly unable to do what I want to do before I leave, because my body, but increasingly my brain is increasingly incapable. In the past, when I received inspiration, I could drill the phrases into my memory through repetition, so that if I came back to them the next day, they'd still largely be there, and I could pick the phrases up, and drill them harder into my brain/memory, to further solidify them so that they're available for constructing into a song. But through all of your teachings, I've been binging your vids during my growing horizontal time, some things have started to make more sense. I've been "studying" the aspects of music theory you're touching on for several years now, theory for newbs, but, it's starting to make more sense, coming into greater focus, so into greater utility. For me, I think that is partly because I've been playing guitar fairly regularly, and so focusing all the swirling, ephemeral music theory through a singular instrument, and it is becoming more real. Like, I'm seeing the major scale for the backbone it reallly is, and more so because I'm on guitar, so the 6th rib, or degree, is the index finger on the third or fourth string. Like, the 6th is concrete, it's not just a sound, interval or an idea, it is concrete, it is my tingling numb index finger tip, string pressed into a groove in my callous, it is the pain of the position, the pressure. It is very real. I wasted 20 years by refusing to learn music theory. I was in a band signed to Interscope in the mid 90's, back when anyone in LA who could play and was pretty enough got a deal after Cobain's death, but at that time I didn't know a thing about music theory. I knew some note names on the low end of the bass, just enough so I could tell the music theory nerd what note I was playing, or they could tell me to play a certain note. But after that, I left guitar based music and got into recording, and soon later, electronic music production, which has preoccupied me for 25 years. But it took me over 15 years just to learn the notes on the keyboard!! I'm so fncking stupid, it infuriates me now. It was so easy to learn, I should have just done it, bit the bullet way back when, spent the time and energy not writing/recording/producing music, but actually learning the fundamentals... my life may have been very different, more rewarding, I could be slipping away without this burden on my spirit, this preoccupation to write and record some songs, I could have done what I wanted to do, musically, already. But there was no internet back then, so it was like going back to college and getting another degree was my only option... which seemed insurmountable, just impossible back then. But I've written all this to say thank you for what you do, for hanging in there against the algo, I know it is a biche. But if you truly want to freely give the fundamentals of music theory to those who don't have them, but desperately crave them, well, your mission is being fulfilled in me. I very much appreciate what you are doing, you may help me do something I've been desperately trying but failing to do most of my life. Deep appreciation. Please carry on.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Dude! I'm so sorry you're on your way outta this plane onto the next one! It makes me so happy to know that these vids I shoot in my place bring some enlightenment/entertainment to you! I've had folks comment that they're watching from a hospital bed before, but usually recovering from surgery. Sending vibes, my brother.

[@garrypitcairn]

Talking about drinking songs and waltz, totally recommend you Matt Elliott’s albums (if you don’t know him yet). That’s the kind of stuff you may love.

[@stephenbrumlow931]

Love the theory work on time signatures here. Often an overlooked area for guitarists. What....we’re supposed to be able to keep time?! Who knew!! Lol A Fogerty lesson would be great too.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Guitarists are often criminally negligent of rhythmic cognition - so focused on the wheedly bits we forget the importance of the pocket!

[@mikericciuti5996]

oh nice! number 6--keep it going Eric. these episodes are awesome. thanks again

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Mike! These get less engagement and more know-it-all comments than others so it's an exercise in tenacity to keep going. Luckily, I'm a stubborn little shit who really thinks this stuff is important!

[@jotruck8581]

Thank you. I love your content. You're a joy to watch. I appreciate your explanations and your humor.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@bojangles6444]

My favorite things is also a jazz standard- famously played by John Coltrane. 6/8 is like 2/4 with 3 8th notes per beat instead of 2. That’s how most drummers think of it. Or just think of it 2/4 with a triplet pattern, that’s easiest. Just subdivide all of the patterns by the beats per measure- what the drummer plays on the hi hat.

[@SpookieVonDookie]

Great way to spend a Friday afternoon! Great lesson as always, teach!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Cheers brother!

[@gab_ale]

Nice lesson. I had forgotten how to understand those time signatures. Also, nice drop tuning sound.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks ol buddy! The Vox top boost channel with what's essentially a precursor to the Celestion Blue - I love that Weber Silver Bell!

[@questocd174]

I am going to learn 15 steps tonight, that's for sure.

[@PhoShzel75]

Another great theory lesson with real world application. Thanks Eric!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks David! Next up swing time vs straight time - a simple concept that has huuuuuuuge repercussions!

[@nealward8683]

“Favorite Things” had a cool Nick Cave thing going when you started it. I would love to hear Nick Cave sing those lyrics.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ooooh that would be cool!

[@VictoriaFeige]

Another fab lesson - thanks Eric!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Think of all the songs you can write! Have an old progression that's just "meh"? Switch up the feel and see what happens!

[@jamesthrills]

When I think 3/4--and when I wrote my first 3/4 song (without thinking about it)--I think eerie first, like "Man in the Long Black Coat," by Bob Dylan on my favorite Dylan album Oh Mercy. The concept of a waltz came later. Good lesson, Eric. Love the Vox. I'm a sucker for El84s.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

You know it's funny that's a record I skipped over assuming it's one of his 80s messes. Looking at wiki now I'm very much intrigued - gonna add it to my playlist!

[@Whitewallsessions]

Nice man! Love odd time signature stuff. Really tweaks the ear. Cass McCombs is great at sneaking odd time sigs into his stuff. “The burning of the temple, 2012” comes to mind, and there are a few others too from his recent releases.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

That's crazy you mention him! I literally was just listening to "Rancid Girl" - love that track!

[@Whitewallsessions]

@@EricHaugenGuitar haha, no way?! Seems we have very similar tastes in music. Check out the outro of “Rounder” from his latest album. Very cool Doors esque jam! Cheers!

[@davidhollander829]

Love the little detour through Radiohead. "Jonny Greenwood man... you can't touch those guys." Word. Would love to hear you do something on his playing! (With all that spare time you have.)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING HOW MANY HOURS OF MY LIFE I POUR INTO THIS!

[@davidhollander829]

@@EricHaugenGuitar My God, yes. I have no idea how you do it. But I certainly benefit from your commitment! (I've got a lesson scheduled with you in August, which I'm fired up about.)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

At my numbers, people assume I'm rich from YT (I make no money) and the comments are getting slightly meaner/more entitled.

[@davidhollander829]

​@@EricHaugenGuitar Man, that totally sucks. Anyone who's tried to make a living as a musician knows that NO ONE is making any money. And you are pouring your heart into this. There are always a few assholes, but most of us out here have crazy respect, bordering on awe, for what you're doing. Peace.

[@pbomike]

Someone got a trim. Lookin' good, brother. Enjoying the theory made simple(r) series!

[@Whitewallsessions]

Ears lowered

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I miss my long messy hair already - luckily it still grows back fingers crossed.

[@chrispotts4830]

This man only knows perfect tone!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ribbon mic + Reverb = Eric! That's all there is to it!

[@studmuffin1212]

If you're a fan of Ribot, Marc has a book (not a TAB book, an actual book. With words and everything) titled "Unstrung: Rants of a Noise Guitarist" or something like that, due out this summer. August, I think. You should check it out.

[@marcodalessio80]

😱 thanks for the heads up!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah I'm on his mailing list and pre ordered immediately when I got the email notification!

[@wilkstheguitarman3103]

Beautiful guitar and great video

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@JasonClute]

This helped me understand a couple things that was just not sinking in! Thx man! I made up this weird rock riff thing (played with lots of fuzz and short tape delay) but the timing is so messed up. A couple drummer friends of mine tried to make sense of it but got frustrated. So I adapted it to 4/4. But that hole in my soul will never be filled because we could figure it out 😥

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I know that feeling! Sometimes we have these magically weird little riffs that just don't add up - but if we change them to make more "sense" they lose the edge!

[@briandoherty3364]

Another gorgeous video. I'll take friendly issue with you about Paul in The Beatles- I really think Paul was the 'weird' Beatle if we have to nominate one. But each one of them played their part, no question, and John definitely did his bit at times. Anyway- thanks for this on time signatures, a subject which genuinely confuses me: this is close to being a breakthrough for me, hopefully. A great watch, and that stuff on Radiohead really makes me want to hear more. Thanks again.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

What I also should've acknowledged about Paul's genius is his work ethic! He was the dude who would stay late at the studio, doing all the extra overdubs and bits. So many parts that we think are George and Ringo are actually Paul - there would definitely be no Beatles without him!

[@coastercook]

Put a spell on you is a Screaming Jay Hawkins song. Fohgerty definitely put his spin on it, but he was following what Hawkins wrote. Thanks for the lesson.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah man there'd be no Tom Waits without Screamin Jay - I just referenced CCR because that's the version most folks would be familiar with!

[@efrainmaldonado68]

Is the only teacher that I can see the complete videos

[@tmaestro]

“Take a tuning break, I’m allowed. Have a coffee, or a beer.” Heck yeah Eric. Give me more AiC and SG because I’m a 90’s kid too. Love you, ninja!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Todd! Yeah - a dual p90 SG eternally lives on my list of "next guitars." Gibson makes a gorgeous custom shop version but it's like $3000 and that's just too much!

[@questocd174]

I appreciate the video.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@alexandrebier4581]

Preach!!! @19:14

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I should've acknowledged about Paul's genius is his work ethic! He was the dude who would stay late at the studio, doing all the extra overdubs and bits. So many parts that we think are George and Ringo are actually Paul - there would definitely be no Beatles without him! But yeah he's so damn happy.

[@Ekelemen2]

Don't forget the Mission Impossible theme for 5/4, and The Cars did a song where the bass and drums are in 5/4 and everyone else is in 4/4.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! The Beatles do the 3/4 - 4/4 overlap in "Happiness is a Warm Gun" too. Very jarring effect!

[@trioguitar]

Nice vid. Led Zep fans may have thought of The Ocean for 7/8 time (although it alternates 4/4 with 7/8), and for 5/4, there's Four Sticks (also seen it written as 5/8, which raises an interesting question in its own right). Speaking of the Beatles, Don't Let Me Down has a bar of 5/4 introducing each verse. One final curiosity, I noticed that you were actually counting to 12 for 12/8 time, I've always viewed 12/8 time as merely being four sets of triplets, so that you can almost treat it as 4/4 time, because invariably, it's a series of unbroken triplets. I've always wondered whether that was technically incorrect, so perhaps you've answered that for me. Cheers.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah I usually count 12/8 as 123456 123456, but to make it clearer for the viewers I went up to 12 - your way works too!

[@Weshopwizard]

5/4 rock songs. Mother by Pink Floyd Do what you like by Blind Faith.

[@Metody89]

Great lesson as always! Can you do chapters in your videos? I often come back to practise with it and always struggle to find right bits

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Good point! I've gotta double-check how to do that should be simple enough :-)

[@station2station544]

1:08 LOL Eric cracks me up.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hahaha the loud "NO" is something I picked up from my older brother. You want a laugh check out his pinterest: gr.pinterest.com/DBH2018/attitude/

[@tim.casey.11]

Haha, I lost my shit at your McCartney imitation.. really great lesson, Eric. Thanks again! ✌🏼

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

hehehehe I do love Paul, but he's just so damn happy sometimes I find it cloying.

[@jameshoy380]

I like that you had to give yourself permission to play in Drop D. You’re allowed.

[@tomscotland]

19:10 - I’m crying. 😂

[@blues61]

Nice lesson, man but this Deadhead ain't giving you a pass. Estimated Prophet - 7/8, Playing in the Band - 10/4, The Eleven - 11/4. :-)

[@meadish]

Eric: 'Have a sip of your water, coffee, beer...' Me: Looks around desk, sees Carnauba Cleaner Wax bottle.

[@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286]

What do you think defines Marc Ribot's sound? Is it a certain interval that he uses? If so which interval is it?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

There's too much! He loves odd leaps and flatted 5ths, but he's also super-good at playing to changes and minor keys. It's kinda a swirl of all that!

[@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Thanks. I was hoping there was an easy answer. I guess I just have to listen closely and put in the work.

[@Nimlothful]

Heu eric! how would you explain the difference between a quarter noter and an 8th note? I can't really grasp it..

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Think of it this way: When you tap your foot, the quarter notes are what happens when you actually hit the ground. You get eighth notes if you can't not only the hitting of the ground, but also the "up."

[@Nimlothful]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Ok i'll try that on some songs! Thanks for taking the time to answer!! You're amazing!

[@muskymike1885]

Question- so what time signature is Blind Faith's "Do What you Like" ?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

aha! another groovy 5/4 jam!

[@mantashaft]

I have more than two Achilles’ heels, and time signatures are one of them.

[@juansastre1729]

Is the shuffle in 12/8? I use this time signature to tab my fingerpicking blues arrangements and it seems to work just fine

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! 12/8 totally leads to the shuffle - I'm actually gonna talk more about swing 8ths notes in the next vid - such an important groove concept!

[@juansastre1729]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Thank you! I want to be more aware if I´m playing straight, shuffle or swing

[@davidallman653]

Anyone catch which chord Eric was playing off for the Marc Ribot phrase?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hrmmmm some kind of E "area"

[@davidallman653]

@@EricHaugenGuitar cute - ok, i'll use the slow-mo'. I need to figure that out and how to apply it elsewhere.

[@senoralecthompson]

Today’s episode was brought to you by the number sev.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

ha! totally.

[@MaBaKar]

Hi Eric, little typo in the title, a pesky missing Z I think. I’m a fan of waltzes, not sure why.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

AAAAAAA Thanks for the heads up fixed it!

[@edricnibbelin6601]

Another great lesson! Since you mentioned Radiohead would you happen to know the time signature to Pyramid Song? It's always baffled me and I've never been able to figure it out.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

hrmmmm according to this it's 4/4: sites.google.com/site/thepopdescriptivist/home/radiohead-pyramid-song

[@mantashaft]

You My favorite things like I imagine The Who would have in ‘66

[@markwelsh9068]

Couldn't agree more about McCartney. His Wings stuff was much better than his Beatles stuff. Although to say he was always 'so bright', you'd have to think of dreary stuff like Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude and Yesterday to realise that's not strictly true. Still think he tells little fibs here and there about his songwriting in the Beatles, for example: "I dreamt "Yesterday"". Really Paul? Somehow that just doesn't ring true to me.

[@darthstrings1]

what was the tune at the end of the video? Seemed familiar...

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's actually the end jam from Fake Swedish's 2015 Ep (one of my projects)": open.spotify.com/track/0ZwTtTqxwHgYhkIOp19uSq?si=05d1643a28a44ed9

[@darthstrings1]

@@EricHaugenGuitar aw cool - I'll check it out. It's got a Dark Side of the moon vibe that I dig.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

oh yeah 100% Pink Floyd rip-off section!

[@darthstrings1]

@@EricHaugenGuitar lol it's great! I'm think I'm hearing a D(#11), but my ear is pretty bad.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Correct! D to Db5! Very floyd-ian

[@mantashaft]

Is this the gigging amp?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

The Hiwatt T20/10 is the most convenient!

[@ditchgator1]

👍😎❤🖖 Love brother

[@fraserriglin8394]

Haha "few of my favorite things" sounds an awful lot like a Spoon song the second you switch to the neck pickup

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

As you can imagine, I LOVE Spoon. Really great combination of brilliant writing with counterintuitive arrangements.

[@meadish]

Every offset aficionado watches Puisheen now. :D

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

He's such a knowledgeable guy!

[@kendrix76]

👍

[@DelbertFeild-qw4ii]

Another 5/4 pop song is Living in the Past by Jethro Tull…

[@ThibaultKV]

Good one. Two things : - Pay some respect to Eleanor Rigby, man. I'll leave it once, not twice. 😈 - I just been working on chaabi rhythm, so great for strumming. 12/8, you mute all the time, regular up and down, except you accent 3 and 5 then 2 and 5. Some kind of arabic Diddley vibe.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

What I also should've acknowledged about Paul's genius is his work ethic! He was the dude who would stay late at the studio, doing all the extra overdubs and bits. So many parts that we think are George and Ringo are actually Paul - there would definitely be no Beatles without him!

[@ThibaultKV]

@@EricHaugenGuitar indeed, most of the orchestral arrangements was Paul, and some stuff was pretty weird, all the crazy layouts on A Day in a Life come from him!

[@alphanumeric1529]

Drink of Orange Fanta. There, I said it.

[@padovann]

“A fancy cool boy word” 🤓🤣

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I loathe elitism of any kind. ugh! We're all just ants on a rock floating in space - people need to take it down a notch!

[@padovann]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Agreed! Hit my funny bone hard with that one 😁 This series is kicking ass by the way. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them! Happy trails

[@gaulpict]

Perfect Paul face haha - 'nice cuppa tea, dooooooooo' (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ7XaoGth5ehoNU). Consistantly good stuff Eric, I hope you are enjoying making them too. Feel like we're all on the same page here digging your vids

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

"dooooooooooooo: hahahaha I'm gonna be singing that all day :-)

[@TommyRedmond]

everyone here is just more than contented to be living and dying in three quarter time

[@scottford6955]

Eric, speaking the filthy Fogerty, this one too... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYWTc52onMScpLc&ab_channel=WestLAGuy Also...5/8 - Four Sticks by Led Zeppelin, and The Ocean by Led Zeppelin main riff has a bar of 7/8

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah I've watched that concert on YT many times! Friggin love Cosmo Clifford's pocket - one of the most underrated drummers ever!

[@R_Euphrates]

"brain throws up"

[@robsthedon]

😂

[@maybe8205]

I love your lessons so much. I learned such a lot when it comes to technique and sound and tasteful playing of course. When it comes to this you are the very best. But when it comes to theory I feel a little bit bored watching your lessons. Take Beato for example. There is a whole lot what really pisses me off about his lessons and his boomer attitude but when he is shooting this tons of stone cold theory at me. I feel not only really stupid. The gap of knowledge pushes me to study concepts do my ear training and do my scales. This one in fact to nothing - feel like a child watching it. Sorry for the comment. Looking forward for your record.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Welp, you can't hit a home run for everyone everyday! Sound like this stuff is too easy for you, cool!