Free's "All Right Now" guitar solo lesson with Ainsley Stones

[theonlyschmidty]

Spot on mate. You've great patience, technique, accuracy & a love for teaching that comes thru. Thanks a lot. And you're right about the music of the 60's & 70's. Players like Alvin Lee, Blackmore, Rory Gallagher, Gilmour, Steve Marriot, & many others are often overlooked for their simplistic approach. They had an appreciation of melody, tone, & would often emphasize on one note in a perfect place, over guys nowadays that choose rapid successions of triplets just for the sake of speed.

[55ou812]

That was a great lesson young man. Your vibrato was very very good, and the tone was spot on. Keep up with the fantastic music. This era had so many great and gifted musicians, particularly from Great Britain.

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@55ou812 Thanks very much. :) I'm a huge fan of guitarists like Koss, Brian May and Dave Gilmour, to name but a few. It was an era of great tone, feel and experimentation too...before players became too obsessed with playing very, very fast.

[elrond1963]

Thank you for sharing. It is great! It does hurt my fingers...

[GuitarSpecialist]

Great Video, Lesson, and explanation... Thank you... Great tone, by the way!

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@GuitarSpecialist Thanks very much indeed. :)



[0xlAFSftwlx0]

i'm really having a lot of trouble with the vibrato, especially on the bending :l

[megarory123]

Thanks this Is ace

[12988Jake]

Brilliant lesson

[lamp1776]

Thanks. This was very useful.

[oteycolony]

thanx, your way of teaching is very helpful to me and I'm sure other would agree...Keep it up..

[oteycolony]

Do you have any other sites?

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@oteycolony ...well, I do now have an IPad app available from I-Tunes, under the name Bitesize guitar getting started. I will hopefully have an intermediate-level app out very soon. :)

[Lespaul13100]

Ainsley, very nice rendition, nice vibrato! Cheers!

[glynb2009]

Great lesson-Can t beat some good old brit blues rock -loved it.

[glynb2009]

Great lesson-Can t beat some good old brit blues rock -loved it

[ridonkeykongulous]

More show, less tell... i like it :) thanks for postin'

[sharksandwichreview]

very simple and sounds good. I do recall that one and it's easy to follow.Thanks!

[cacornett58]

Yep I'm sure he was numbed up in some kind of way. Note....Beginning guitarist, need to practice bending strings, this is your lesson. You'll love it or hate it.

[freddykrugar10]

if anyone else dislikes this video i will hunt you down

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@freddykrugar10 LOL! Me too! :)

[BiteSizeGuitar]

Glad you like it guys!:)



[guitarnharp]

@BiteSizeGuitar thanks so much for such a clear helpful lesson

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@guitarnharp no problem. :)

[LosLurvos]

1.Plaing solo for 3 days

2.Fingers hurt like hell

3.Remeding hands for 3 days

4 - 6 repeated

7 - 9 repeated

10 playing solo without problem!

AWSOME

[Guitarman1146]

I've seen tons of WRONG ways to play this song & yours is the only one that's absolutely right!!!! Why do people who haven't learned to play it right, think they can teach others how to play it wrong? (Arrogant amateurs make me sick!) This tune is probably THE most butchered song by amateurs on YouTube; At least you posted it 100% correct. Now if only the rest could be deleted, eh? That is except yours the originals of FREE or Schone & Shennan w/ Paul Rogers. BTW: where is the studio lead intro?

[alanfree3]

Great! Thank you for an excellent lesson on playing this solo. I'm going to start working on it today!

[2009korte]

fuck this is tasty, cool playing , brill sound, beautiful guitar, may i ask what are ur pickup replacements? thanks

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@2009korte sure...the guitar was sold to me with those pickups, which were EMGs. To be honest, I didn't think they suited the guitar, so have replaced them with Seymour Duncan '59s, which give a great tone, much more like you'd expect from a really good Les Paul! Much of the sound quality is courtesy of my ampilifier, a Cornford MK50, which is a piece of hand-wired, beautifully designed brilliance. :)

[oteycolony]

@BiteSizeGuitar I have been trying to get this lead right for a long time..thanx for making if for an old fart like me ( I'm 57 ) to get it right, clear and simple. I dont gig anymore, my son and I and some friends play at the house some but this really got me back into the playing mood. I suffered from depression for a long time after my brother in law died who has been playing guitar with me for over 35 years, and you have given me the spark I needed. Burningfire

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@oteycolony my absolute pleasure ol' chap!

[cacornett58]

Dude, "I got blistas on me fingas"! This is not a hard solo musically, but damn is it rough on the tips, I think my callous are falling off. I would not want to do this lesson. Anyway thank you for sacrificing your left hand. Well appreciated. I'm putting you in for the Commendation Medal.

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@cacornett58 LOL!!! Thank you very much! My left-hand finger ends are now in several pieces and have been left to medical science for testing. Any awards to them are, in effect, posthumous. :)

[ultrakool]

@cacornett58 no wonder koss was a junkie, he had to use it as an anesthetic

[rikinoki]

ooh yeah my finger tips are hurting , excellent tutorial

[rossman265]

very good lesson,would you have tabs available or suggest the site to get

them?

[rossman265]

very good lesson,would you have tabs available or suggest the site to get them?

[disabledmind]

what strings did you use? 0.08, 0.09 maybe?

[hooseyadaddy]

That much talent at 16?! Beiber's got nothing on the actual talented musicians like the bands of the60s 70s and 80s

[11spike7]

Thanks ! One of the coolest solos ever.  R.I.P. Paul....your music lives on.

[weibernipple]

Great lessons! Very easy to follow, even for a beginner. Thank you.

[croat2006]

aaarghh I can't feel my fingers 'cause of vibratoes :DD... but thank you very much, very useful

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@croat2006 LOL! That's entirely normal!

[videomaxic]

Great!!!!!!!!1

[FuzzyMcButterWink]

Nice Job on the Vibrato! Well Done my friend!

[Mesaman44]

Well Done,,Paul would be Proud.

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@Mesaman44 Thanks matey, that's really appreciated!

[000Angus000]

@BiteSizeGuitar

Well played, sir. I would love some instruction on how you pull off that vibrato, its just where I want mine to be. I've been working on mine for years and its improved a bit recently, but its not right.

[mariosapm]

what's the thingy on your headstock?

[toneman622]

@mariosapm  its a tuner

[MrUprising2010]

great lesson congrats :D

[scottishmountaineer]

Excellent instructional video! And what a great tone as well. Thanks for posting this Ainsley - I learned a lot by going over this. The late great Koss would have been 60 in a few weeks time - And 40 years ago, Free took the IoW Festival by storm. This type of music is emotion packed classy and classic blues rock from a fantastic era. Many thanks for bringing the detail to the web generation!

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@scottishmountaineer My absolute pleasure. I'm pleased it's been helpful to you. Actually, my Dad was at the IoW festival in 1970, and enjoyed Free immensely! I think the 60s and 70s gave the world the vast majority of its great guitar music. It's such a shame that passion, talent and skill account for so little in the music industry these days.

[scottishmountaineer]

@BiteSizeGuitar Ainsley - that's my favourite music era - late 60s / early 70s. There was a massive explosion of talent and creativity then. Lots of British act, of whom Free were one of the best. Speaking of which, my favourite Free song is probably "Fire and Water" - have you got that one for us? I have come across tabs for it in various places, but I'd like to get an experts opinion! There is an incredible version of F&W n YouTube at watch?v=NH5wbYP5xkQ Koss's tone is sublime! Cheers

[jmsbk12345]

@BiteSizeGuitar Did your Dad also catch Jimi Hendrix's set? That really would be something!

[ImmortalTraditions1]

@BiteSizeGuitar

ITS ABOUT TIME WE BRING ROCK BACK TO THE WORLD! WE MAKE THE CHANGE MY BROTHER... Thanks for teaching me the song and the solo .. very happy to be rocking the stage soon to FREE's IT'S ALLRIGHT NOW!

[trottet]

i always get nervous bending more than a half step on the g string on my lp. it goes out of tune sooo easily.

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@trottet hi! Have you tried using the dust from a sharpened pencil end pressed into the G string nut slot? It's graphite, and will help the string pass through the slot more easily. Also, stretch your stings in for a few seconds before you play. Tune up as normal and then grab each string in turn around the 12th fret and give it a bit of a pull. Then tune back up. These things do help. Good luck.

[tatethompson1234]

@trottet Just put a new set of Grovers on.

[xTheGuiTarPLaYeRx]

all wight now by fwee, gweat solo, gweat vibwato lol, jk great lesson

[topbooker]

cool as fuck well done

[pedalmeister]

Wow...that was good. I really enjoyed the lesson. Thank you. Hope to see more like it.

[wunnamurra]

"work that string like mad" lol good one A.

[BiteSizeGuitar]

Thanks Vic, I try my best!

[Jazzguts]

Thanks for the friend invitation,you're a fine player and doing a great (passionate) job explaining these fantastic "Classic Rock" leads and tunes. Players should know their Classics and you're lending a great helping hand, greetings Vic.

[mraliend2ify]

very very good...