This is a 20th century composition by american composer aaron copland. Keith Emerson made it his own, and Paul Gilbert has the guts to try it. And he did it well! Great guitar! Great performance!
Just to set the record straight, Hoedown is Aaron Copeland...you may know this already, just want to clarify for anyone else...just to give credit where credit is due, y'know. In all fairness, this was definitely taken from ELPs version, though.
Did you play the guitar? It's incredibly easy to play fast on piano, practice for two years and you can play kick ass solos.
When on guitar it takes a lot of practice and even then it's not always perfect because EVERYTHING affects your playing - the way you hold the pick, string action, pickups, style of playing (wrist/arm/fingers), and when you play on one string you have to mute 5 other strings. It's incredibly HARD to play fast and CLEAN. When on piano it's always clean. I tried both.
keyboard has white and black notes. guitar just has frets. guitar has the same pattern and you don't have to think "ok white or black." but the main reason guitar is easier than keyboards (and i've been playing both for over 5 years) is that the keyboardist is expected to have melodies, counter-melodies and harmonies and and the same time create a background setting or theme. and you have to create your own sounds and know theory out your ass. i love both but there's a clear winner in diffuculty
do you play both instruments? i'm sorry but it really just doesn't work like that. where do you get off saying they just "repeat all the way up the keyboard'? when you play on a guitar you can transpose a few steps into any key easily because you can just play a few frets up or down. on the piano it's more scales you have to memorize. on a guitar you can just learn a couple barre chords and then you can play all the chords all around the neck easily.
I will concede that guitar is easier to start making music on. I can agree with that.
But what I am trying to say is that If you play an A triad, for example 1st inversion, your fingers will be on A, C, and E. And octave up will be the same fingering.
An A 1st inversion on guitar starting on the E can have one fingering,as well as starting on the A string being the same. The strings above that, it is a new shape due to the tuning in a major 3rd between the G and B.
On a piano, you only need to use a finger press to strike a key. Before you start talking about two hand independence on a piano with both hands in comparison, it isnt. After a guitar player can sync his pick with the string. Then right and left hand independence can enter the equation, too.
Im sorry, earlier I didn't mention the A,C,E as a MINOR arpeggio. I meant to do so.
on keys you have to have YEARS of classical teaching before you can even THINK about playing rock. guitar you can self-teach some powerchords and shred to a reording and be crazy in a day. compare the musicians in any band that has both instruments: Dream Theater, ELP, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Deep Purple, Edgar Winter Group... even something like the Allman Brothers. the keys are almost ALWAYS more technically advanced and unique even if they're not front and center all the time.
well i certainly exagerrated right there. but there's alot of what i said that you didn't respond to. when you only counter one small snippet of what i say, it makes me think everything else i said was right
jerry lee lewis was an excellent pianist and i love his songs/solos but his music is very simple. although i still agree with you. i definitely overdid in the statement about classical training. but just out of curiosity... did paul gilbert get any classical training? emerson did. w/e.
What does training have to do with what instrument is harder to learn?
Emerson studied classical...fine...now put him up against Segovia, and he's smoked.
but that point is moot. I am talking about logical layout. Where a chord on a guitar can be two shapes, piano is one. Take an A chord 1st inversion across all strings, there will be a change in pattern. There will not be one on the keyboard. When you learn an octave scale on the keyboard, the same pattern repeats octave to octave. On a guitar
There is a displacement between the g and b string. Do you play guitar? I definitely am more proficient at guitar, but when I went to keyboard, the fact that chords, scales and arpeggios do not have that displacement made me absorb keyboard concepts a lot easier.
There was a guitar player, Stuart Wittrock, that tuned his guitar in perfect fourths for that reason, tuning his top strings C and F instead of B and E. Makes it a lot easier, still, the art of fretting and plucking and synchronizing
if you still don't believe me just watch the original ELP video with keith emerson. he's so much more all over the place and technically skilled than paul gilbert (just so you know, i LOVE paul gilbert but not as much as emerson.) and if you're gonna go down the road of how keys are all technical and no soul, listen to classical keys, jazz keys, certain rock solos, gospel music.... there's a ton of soul in guitar as well as keys.
Do I think Keith Emerson is a better MUSICIAN? Yes. The fact that he is much more "all over the place" means nothing . If any thing his ability to go "all over the place" in comparison to a guitar player means that it is easier to play, no? The fact that piano players can play musical phrases much more smoothly than a guitar player points to this too.
I've been playing guitar 11 years, and piano for 14. They are both difficult and each require completely different styles of coordination. This song is impressive on either instrument.
How crazy...
owatism 8 months ago
Amazing! Great job Paul
alphadogstudio 1 year ago
I want that kinda shirt Paul wears here! Find me!
turkuaz100 1 year ago
damn, that sounds better as a guitar piece than the elp version
taradead 1 year ago
paul gilber tocando juntyo a billy cshehn absolutamente magnifico
osokaron 1 year ago
seen mr. big 3 times and they never did this jam. my skull woulda been rockin like beavis & butthead if they did.
MRCJCOLLINS 2 years ago 3
I'm searching this tab but I can't find it, somebody please can help me?
maxolotto 2 years ago
This is a 20th century composition by american composer aaron copland. Keith Emerson made it his own, and Paul Gilbert has the guts to try it. And he did it well! Great guitar! Great performance!
DesideriusErasmusRot 2 years ago
damn thats alot of notes to pick for a guitarist and paul picked every one
wow
krang07 2 years ago
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If you like this, you HAVE to listen to Jon Finn's Hoedown Extravaganza.
krelbar 2 years ago
Paul Gilbert really loves ELP, and I love him more for that. I mean, first Karn Evil 9 then Hoedown? DO TARKUS NEXT!!
Kazelfox 3 years ago 16
Just to set the record straight, Hoedown is Aaron Copeland...you may know this already, just want to clarify for anyone else...just to give credit where credit is due, y'know. In all fairness, this was definitely taken from ELPs version, though.
krelbar 2 years ago
Awesome cover!
GrayLeader2184 3 years ago
STEAK ... It's what's for dinner!
TheSFFog 3 years ago
to play that fast on keyboard is awaresome. to play that fast on guitar is totally kickass incredible!!!Paul is legend!
RockxxPunk 4 years ago 15
Trust me, it's harder to play fast on keyboard than guitar.
GrayLeader2184 3 years ago
No it's not. Where do you base your facts on that anyway? yourself?
Flornmonk 3 years ago
Did you play the guitar? It's incredibly easy to play fast on piano, practice for two years and you can play kick ass solos.
When on guitar it takes a lot of practice and even then it's not always perfect because EVERYTHING affects your playing - the way you hold the pick, string action, pickups, style of playing (wrist/arm/fingers), and when you play on one string you have to mute 5 other strings. It's incredibly HARD to play fast and CLEAN. When on piano it's always clean. I tried both.
NowaqP 3 years ago 2
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IllusionaryMind8 3 years ago
It can't be:
1 note on keyboard=press 1 key
1 note for guitar=press 1 key on neck+1 pick
It's logic. Playin' guitar need more movements.
LukeBerto 3 years ago
You can immediately play fast on a keyboard using one finger on each hand. Try doing that on a guitar the first time you pick it up.
Not to mention memorization of scales. Keyboard repeats the same pattern all the way up the board. Guitar, no.
krelbar 2 years ago
keyboard has white and black notes. guitar just has frets. guitar has the same pattern and you don't have to think "ok white or black." but the main reason guitar is easier than keyboards (and i've been playing both for over 5 years) is that the keyboardist is expected to have melodies, counter-melodies and harmonies and and the same time create a background setting or theme. and you have to create your own sounds and know theory out your ass. i love both but there's a clear winner in diffuculty
AnarchyRules17 2 years ago
12 white or black notes. That REPEAT exactly up the keyboard, so you only need to learn one octave, and then you know your way anywhere on the board.
You don't need to know theory out of your ass and have to create your own sounds on the guitar? Segovia wants to kick your ass.
krelbar 2 years ago
do you play both instruments? i'm sorry but it really just doesn't work like that. where do you get off saying they just "repeat all the way up the keyboard'? when you play on a guitar you can transpose a few steps into any key easily because you can just play a few frets up or down. on the piano it's more scales you have to memorize. on a guitar you can just learn a couple barre chords and then you can play all the chords all around the neck easily.
AnarchyRules17 2 years ago
I will concede that guitar is easier to start making music on. I can agree with that.
But what I am trying to say is that If you play an A triad, for example 1st inversion, your fingers will be on A, C, and E. And octave up will be the same fingering.
An A 1st inversion on guitar starting on the E can have one fingering,as well as starting on the A string being the same. The strings above that, it is a new shape due to the tuning in a major 3rd between the G and B.
krelbar 2 years ago
The other strings are a fourth apart.
So basically, every time you learn a new chord, you have to make the adjustment between the G and B string and create a second pattern.
I remember Jeff Watson from Night Ranger, who was a piano player before picking up the guitar, said he found the guitar to be more difficult.
Lets not forget about synchronizing your with the fretting hand, too.
krelbar 2 years ago
On a piano, you only need to use a finger press to strike a key. Before you start talking about two hand independence on a piano with both hands in comparison, it isnt. After a guitar player can sync his pick with the string. Then right and left hand independence can enter the equation, too.
Im sorry, earlier I didn't mention the A,C,E as a MINOR arpeggio. I meant to do so.
krelbar 2 years ago
Or Minor Triad, however you may look at it
krelbar 2 years ago
on keys you have to have YEARS of classical teaching before you can even THINK about playing rock. guitar you can self-teach some powerchords and shred to a reording and be crazy in a day. compare the musicians in any band that has both instruments: Dream Theater, ELP, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Deep Purple, Edgar Winter Group... even something like the Allman Brothers. the keys are almost ALWAYS more technically advanced and unique even if they're not front and center all the time.
AnarchyRules17 2 years ago
You said "on keys you have to have YEARS of classical teaching before you can even THINK about playing rock."
Are you kidding me? So ALL Rock Keyboardist had to learn classical first?
Jerry Lee Lewis was an awesome rock piano player, but he didn't have years of classical training. He was self taught.
krelbar 2 years ago
well i certainly exagerrated right there. but there's alot of what i said that you didn't respond to. when you only counter one small snippet of what i say, it makes me think everything else i said was right
jerry lee lewis was an excellent pianist and i love his songs/solos but his music is very simple. although i still agree with you. i definitely overdid in the statement about classical training. but just out of curiosity... did paul gilbert get any classical training? emerson did. w/e.
AnarchyRules17 2 years ago
What does training have to do with what instrument is harder to learn?
Emerson studied classical...fine...now put him up against Segovia, and he's smoked.
but that point is moot. I am talking about logical layout. Where a chord on a guitar can be two shapes, piano is one. Take an A chord 1st inversion across all strings, there will be a change in pattern. There will not be one on the keyboard. When you learn an octave scale on the keyboard, the same pattern repeats octave to octave. On a guitar
krelbar 2 years ago
There is a displacement between the g and b string. Do you play guitar? I definitely am more proficient at guitar, but when I went to keyboard, the fact that chords, scales and arpeggios do not have that displacement made me absorb keyboard concepts a lot easier.
There was a guitar player, Stuart Wittrock, that tuned his guitar in perfect fourths for that reason, tuning his top strings C and F instead of B and E. Makes it a lot easier, still, the art of fretting and plucking and synchronizing
krelbar 2 years ago
both hands is a lot harder than striking a key.
krelbar 2 years ago
if you still don't believe me just watch the original ELP video with keith emerson. he's so much more all over the place and technically skilled than paul gilbert (just so you know, i LOVE paul gilbert but not as much as emerson.) and if you're gonna go down the road of how keys are all technical and no soul, listen to classical keys, jazz keys, certain rock solos, gospel music.... there's a ton of soul in guitar as well as keys.
AnarchyRules17 2 years ago
Do I think Keith Emerson is a better MUSICIAN? Yes. The fact that he is much more "all over the place" means nothing . If any thing his ability to go "all over the place" in comparison to a guitar player means that it is easier to play, no? The fact that piano players can play musical phrases much more smoothly than a guitar player points to this too.
krelbar 2 years ago
I've been playing guitar 11 years, and piano for 14. They are both difficult and each require completely different styles of coordination. This song is impressive on either instrument.
natrick 3 years ago
can you upload more clips of this concert?
coz i don't know where to get a copy of this.
thx so much for posting this
i love mr. big
iloveupeterpan 4 years ago
Awesome.
dandan321 4 years ago 2
Very enjoyable!
B3Rock 4 years ago 3
Total crazyness. Awesome!
mindstormd 4 years ago 2