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  • Hi Kirk!! Smooth and soulful pal!! Some really cool parts!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"

  • kirk your sound is awesome ..

  • Really awesome, I greatly appreciate!!!!

  • Everybody's got some kind of course, lessons, or some kind of a system they wanna sell you to take your money. People that know how to play this or that usually don't wanna show you how to do it unless you pay them.

  • Bravo !

    "backing track of unknown origin"? ...wow, that is some backing track. where do you find this stuff?

  • hey I think this sounds great. The exact way I want to play, following the chord changes, which I find very hard to do. Do you still think a player should practice running scales, or should a player just focus more on learning the fretboard and knowing where the sweet notes of the chords are?

  • @Dashooter911 ...thanks, mate. There's an old saying: "Practice scales and you'll wind up playing scales". I wouldn't put my practice time into that, if I were you. I'd just concentrate on making melody, and, as my saying goes: "Melody loves chord tones".

  • @planetalk I'd like to ask you how you go about doing this, but I have a feeling your gonna say "buy my course" but Im guessing its something like "ok, here comes the 4 chord, gonna hit that 3rd, etc."

  • @Dashooter911 ... Right the first time: buy my course. ;-)

    The trick is to see the whole fretboard as 'the chord' and that's what my course teaches.

  • @Dashooter911 here comes the 4th chord, gonna hit that third. thats all you n eeed to know

  • @Dashooter911 is there any difference between them.if it is, i think to learn all the notes of the fretboard to do solos on it

  • Great jam, nice technique.

    *Check my red Strat post.

  • texas flood? what?

  • @planetalk

    Beautiful! But I have a question: since you don't think scales, how do you pick the non-chord tones in your lines?

  • @JordiiixD ... thanks, mate. Well, there's not much left over once you can see all the chord tones and you simply get to know what works and what doesn't over each chord. It all takes practice, of course, but once you can truly zero in the chord tones and use them as the outlines non chord tones are easy to slot in. It all comes down to numbers in the end. You can always test the waters by playing a chromatic run between chord tones, which always works so long as you get the timing right.

  • An absolute pleasure to hear and watch. This is someone that REALLY knows the scales, and how to apply them beautifully. I hope he puts more stuff up on any electric guitar. (I'm hanging onto this hyperlink. I want to disect and improvise further on what is going on while each chord is played.).

  • @yourtreat2 ... thanks, mate. The truth is that I stopped trying to figure out how to solo using scales in about 1975. I never could make sense of them all and the idea of sticking to 'the blues scale' always seemed pretty monotonous and boring to me. All my lines come from the chords, which I really do know well.

    Have fun dissecting!

  • @planetalk Just want you to know that I listen to this vid almost every night. I appreciate your having explained your approach to playing lead. It's not what people commonly hear, but there's quite a bit of value to be taken from your approach. --- I was particularly amused by one poster whom found your playing to be so "on target" that they asked what tuning you used. Certain juxtaposed 2 note non-combo notes that slowly climb a scale after returning to a lower note are unusally interesting.

  • @yourtreat2 ... I'm glad you like it! I never really wanted to sound like anyone else, so I never put time into those Pentatonics or Blues Scales. Why stick to 5 or 6 notes when there are 12 to play around with?

  • @planetalk thats what im talkin bout planetalk......areodynamics rules lol

  • im deffinatley violating the pause play button to take some riffs from this...

  • hell .why cant i do that.??????

  • Great job!

  • simply put, feckin awesome. and your slide guitar playin . just great . Wow.

  • awsome man...watch my guitar improvisation /watch?v=L0oX8EpmCSk

  • Does anybody know the name of this backing track or where I can get it?

  • How low is your action? Looken pretty sleak brother :)

  • sounds betters

  • Three letters......... O-M-G

  • That's what I call improv! Thank you! A few times, that plectrum would have helped, me thinks. You can only carry it so far....finger-picking is great but damn - sometimes you need to let it loose. Thanks for the post!

  • love the color of that guitar and most of all great playing!

  • hss or sss?

  • Kirk, CAPTAIN KIRK...I always, always find my way back to "Planetalk"...should be called "Guitartalks". You my friend should be at CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2011! Without a doubt! So, currently who are you working with these days? Am I correct that you were working with Ringo Starr and ex lead singer of a popular Ausralian pop band, his name escapes me right now......uh.....ratz....cant remember it. lol.

  • hey man can you please explain to me what you're doing to make that sound around 2:40... i hear it in so many blues tunes (a lot of slow srv tunes) and i can never figure it out. i've got an idea now from listening and now watching you do it, but what's your way of putting it?

  • very cleanly done! crisp and to the point!

  • HI! AMAZING! SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH, IM FROM ARGENTINA, YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT SCALES YOU USE IN A BLUES PROGRESION? ONLY MINOR PENTATONIC AND BLUES SCALE? WHAT SCALE USE IN A DIFFERENT CHORD? AND THE TEMPO? HAHA SORRY THIS ARE A LOTS OF QUESTIONS, AMAZING IMPROVISATION, GOOD LUCK

  • sounds a lot like it could be the opening credits of a film set in the south. Like My cousin vinny or something.

  • excuse me, as I can learn to improvise?

    sorry my english.

    5/5 nice improvisation

  • Nice feel.......I like the finger picking style you have going on, little bit blue, little bit country, little bit Red. It made me feel kind of good, nice playing does that for me, thanks for posting. Love those custom vintage color strats. I have a 57 reissue that looks surf green, I think it was actually sonic blue when I bought it back in 1989, but with the nitro yellowing a bit, it now looks more surf green, then the light blue color it used to be. What year is your guitar?

  • @1jimif ... thanks, mate. The guitar belongs to a friend of mine. I've got a couple of Strats, but this one is particularly nice to play. I wish it was mine!

  • can you give me the tabs of this song, please???

    it's amazing

  • @DeathMetalHeart85 Its improv? what tabs?

  • Damn your good

  • would it sound as good without the 'band'?

  • dammit dude, you play way to good

  • Damn it! That's the end of my playing for tonight. What's the point! Damn you!!!! :)

  • Awesome job Kirk! Smokin' playing!

  • What effects are you using i love your sound and your phrasing is smooth

  • @kj122 ... I'm going through a little RP 100 modeler for this, kj, but it's pretty much the same sound as I'd get through my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with a touch of overdrive and reverb. Thanks for the nice feedback.

  • Great stuff! Great phrasing......

  • AWESOME :D i wish i could play like you. i'm never gonna be able to play like that, and absolutely not without a pick!

  • @virra98 ... Never say never. I've been playing for 50 years now, so I ought to be pretty good at it! Keep twangin' away.

  • That was frigging awesome!

  • @jamesjohnson1979 ... Thanks, James.

  • Mate you are a legend! Fantastic warm tone you're getting from the EC strat!

    What scale modes are you using predominately??? Dorian? Anyone?

    Keep making vids!

  • @nswombo ... thanks, mate. As for scales ... I don't really know. All I do is follow the chord changes and build my lines around their tones. I guess a lot would be Myxolydian ... with a lot of passing tones thrown in. Melody is what I'm always striving for, and melody is easier found in the chords, not the scales ... from my experience, anyway. I was never good at juggling scales around. The trick is to see the whole fretboard as 'the chord'.

  • Wow... i wish i could play the blues... i have a guitar and amp... (both peavy) but, i just find myself in a rut...  like i am stuck... u konw... any tips?

  • @brucenunn37 rut is easy when it conmes to playin guitar...check out jamplay for some new insight

  • Like that you're playing with your hands. Full-contact kind of philosophy behind that... for me, anyway. =)

    Good on ya!

  • Eh, s'okay. Really "short" phrases. I assume that's because if you follow the chords, your phrases are limited by how long that chord lasts.

  • @irocktherooster ... not sure why you'd think that. Phrases can straddle two or more changes, as many do in this improv.

  • i think thats to much jumping around on the guitar with that sclale to much stops jus my opinion@!!!

  • @SuperChuchee ... which you are, of course, entitled to.

  • I might have said this before but we should start a campaign to get Eric Clapton to invite Kirk to the next years "Crossroads Guitar Festival!" Come on people..get behind me....what do you say to this idea???

  • Smokin !!

  • good job dude...you're great!

  • @TheMajiolnir ... thanks!

  • you use ernie ball? sorry my english

    Thanks

  • See, THIS is how blues music should make you feel. Full of emotionnnn. Blues is emotion personifieddddd, brothaaa.

  • @Veektoereeah ... Cheers, brotha, I appreciate the nice comment.

  • Orgasmic playing! What's the tuning?

  • @Django5198 ... Standard tuning.

  • I'm no were near as good as this guy but, can any of you guys check my blues improvisation out I really want some good advice and feedback, much appreciated.

  • I wish I was as good as you are

  • Great, 5*s! One question, what might you have used to record the audio with?

  • you have a real talent!!! i have been playing for a few years too but that is just impressive!!! i have the same guitar haha...

  • Do i see a Clapton signature strat?

    Great playing man!

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  • Wow, you're amazing! Alot of blues guys get stuck on pentatonic phrasing, and the fact that you don't is awesome. But I do have one question. You said on another comment that you follow the chord changes. Does that mean that you take an arpeggiated approach to your soloing? Because it's genius! It seems simpler to take that approach, because there isn't too much to worry about, and it seem easier to be melodic...I'm at a brick wall musically right now, what approach should I take to progress?

  • @hiphopsucks96 ... Thanks for the feedback. Yes, arpeggiated I guess is the way you'd have to describe it. But the trick is to see the whole fretboard as 'the chord of the moment' so that you don't get stuck in one position. That can get as boring as the Pentatonic. And you're right: once you get away form thinking scales and thinking chords, you can never really go wrong, no matter what changes there may be.

    How to progress? Buy my book/DVD and join us PlaneTalkers at the forum!

  • great stuff

  • Super super

  • How do you spell sweeeeeeeeet!? Easy...its L-o-r-a-n-g-e.

  • very nice! great playing for sure

  • This is how the blues should be played . . . lots of feeling, no smoke and mirrors, straight up, and from the heart . . . you rock, dude, very sweet.

  • @DogIslander ... Thanks!

  • you are good son, sure wish I could do that before they haul me away..

  • WOW man! thats beautiful!

  • you are playing what you're thinking? or it's all instictive?

  • @davidtheguitarman ...I'd love to say instinctive but no, I know exactly what I'm playing at any given moment.

  • @planetalk wow.. and how do you do that?

  • @davidtheguitarman Once you get comfortable enough with improvisation you will know what everything sounds like before you play it.

  • @davidtheguitarman At some point I think it becomes the same thing. With the right kind of practice. He seems to be doing both....really well!

  • Keeps Georgia On My Mind , Geogia , Georgia...

  • its like the guitars singing to u lol. thats great. technically what every lead should aim for their respective style but u nailed it.

  • from that mans voive in the intro, the backing is from rock school, its all grade stuff

  • you get the blues man!!!!!!!!

  • you make it look easy...fine instruction!!

  • very good , super blues, j'adore, thanks

  • basically he just reorients to every chord change, that's why it sounds the same the entire time lol..

    hurray for 1st position noodling.

  • Very tasty indeed.

  • can u upload a lesson?

  • Love it.......improvised?

  • he is using the mixolydian mode in e flat major...fender champ 15w amp with danelectro fish an chips pedal...easy..!

  • very nice, i loved it, and the thing about 'red strat blues', damn, it's perfect, like, two opposite collors, yeah, that's amazing

  • wat scale???

  • what modes scales is he using?

  • @Madoldmatt ... I don't think scales/modes, Madolmatt. I follow the chord changes. If you want to learn more about the mindset I use, click the link to the right ... I wrote a book about it all.

  • @planetalk I'm the exact same way, I cant read a lick of music nor do I understand or use modes/scales. Well I understand scales, but you get what I mean :)

  • wow...

  • I wonder how this guys is nailing that tone. That guitar sounds bloody fantastic

  • Looks very unique, very unusual picking style, but it works great!

  • where have all the finger vibratos gone? I like your playing

  • damn awesome!

  • it's a signature guitar & you play like Mark knopfer !!!

  • please give me a tip on how to use my right hand like you do..real awesome playing!!!!!!!

  • Interesting style!

  • I can't imagine why you don't have full 5 starts. Brilliant!

  • great playing

  • Beautiful song and interpretation!!!

    Good sound this Strat,is Mark Knopfler signature?

    Why don't upload WingLike video?

    5*

  • What a beast, you and the guitar!

  • This has got to be one of the most unique

    blues solos I've ever heard. You don't use the typical "safe" notes and that is very cool!! You are a master!

  • nice

  • so good

  • i got the same guitar and color and everything i just can`t play as good:)good job anyway!!!!

  • I just love your playing... Monster tone from that Strat too.

  • very nice!

  • Wow you are really great sir. I just put your songs on while im sitting here at work and listen like it's a radio. (but then i don't get any work done cuz i keep switching over to the video to watch you)

  • great vid man awesome playin x

  • what a nıce tone

  • some nice playin, good fingerpickin too, you self taught? self taught players usually bring a unique quality you can't get from formal training

  • @lordOFbrooklyn I attend a school where I'm learning how to play the guitar and I think it is not true...

    The teacher gives you the tips but the style you are going to develop as you are learning so that is simply not true

  • @StratEdition going to formal classes is great, but learning on your own is a harder-fought, more noble, and ultimately more rewarding experience...that's only my opinion though....i've been learning guitar from internet and books, and it's so much fun, feels so good when i succeed

  • @lordOFbrooklyn Yes self-taught requires a lot of effort but with lessons you also have to do an amazing effort for me the lessons are for evaluation:the teacher says what are you doing wrong and how to correct it, that's the bases of lessons.

  • Wicked guitar, SMOKIN !!!!!!

  • Thanks!

  • did you change scale keys when the chord in the backing track changed? and were you mostly in the minor pentatonic and blues scale?

  • I don't really think in scales at all, Charlie. I just see the whole fretboard as 'the chord' and use its tones to outline my melody lines. In the blues, there are always at least 4 chord tones plus the flat 3 plus any other extensions, like the 9. If you can see them all there, you can use them ... join the dots, so to speak ... and always be on the money, no matter what the progression is or if it modulates to temporary key changes. It's a whole other mindset from scales.

  • amazin, beautiful emotion

  • Fender Stratocaster

  • Great job - Very well played.

    About how long have you been playing, man?

  • Way too long ... since 1961.

  • so sick!!!!

  • Ohh...you knocked it out of the park Blues Man!

  • great!!! great blues! and impouu!!

  • owesome man

  • great job nice guitar = )

  • thank you very much!

    great video!!!

  • Wow!!... Thanks for sharing!.... That's hot, Smokin hot!...

  • DAMN NICE! Well played, my friend. Well played.

    X

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  • Is the theory behind planetalk playing the chord tones?

  • No, playing chord tones is nothing new; it's how to see them all at once that is one of the the subjects of PlaneTalk.

  • hi -thats nice -well play -greetings from germany -winfried

  • MAN!! INSANELY FLUID!! TOTAL FAVE :-)

  • AWESOME!!!,

    Great Job!

  • man it just amaziing!!!!there `s no words to say how good t see ur video!!! god bless u a lot!!!

  • Awesome!!!

    Grandma Mary

  • great improv dude! that's awesome!

  • Great playing, man.

  • Good job, man!!!! I have an 88 Eric Clapton strat (serial # 7) These are absolutely sweet geetars!!!!

  • great playing....very fluid with great touch...keep it up

  • nice strat! i saw a signature in the headstock which obviously makes it a signature strat. But what artist is it? awesome playing! thanks for posting

  • Thanks, Thomas ... that's an Eric Clapton signature.

  • Smokin' Hot Blues!!!!! Kirk, you impressed the hell outta me.

  • that is awesome blues paying

  • Awesome! and nice right hand working!

  • Tasty Treat! - Thanks!

  • yow yow hurts so good! tasty -- no show off, just the real deal! hats off to you!

  • Nice man. You have any idea kind of Strat that is? Thanks.

  • That's an Eric Clapton signature model, belongs to a friend. Gorgeous, huh?

  • That is one beautiful guitar!

  • Sure is. Ive got a American Standard Strat in candy cola red and its a beauty to play.

  • wonderful playing and wonderful guitar !

  • Realy Impressed by your video :) taking my first guitar lesson today! so exited.

    you realy inspired me to take my guitar playing to the next level!

  • Wooow5*****!!!!

  • Thats some pretty awesome right hand work!

  • great!

  • Amazing really... I really like how you move positions in the middle of a phrase and it blends perfect. WOW

  • and that solely with the nales ...