Ah, so thats where Mr. Randy Rhoads gets his fast fills from huh 1:41, I always knew there was more to it than just classical. Chet puts all these new "musicians" to shame.
Chet was as slick as crap through a goose! Anyone that WOULDN'T put Chet up there with greats like Reinhardt, Hendrix, etc. has no real appreciation for guitar and guitar innovation.
is this is standard guitar tuning ??? it sounds like it reaches a lower d o n the E string and the pull of on the high E string sounds like a D to an E....
Before i saw that video i couldn´t belive that this was only one guitar.
LEGENDARY
He is one of the best guitar players in his Category. Most people think, this is boring and then they show me Hendrix,Page or Satriani, yes all of them a amazing guitar player. Still at the time when Atrinks was playing notbody thought of Hendrix. His Picking technique is amazing you cant plagarise that.
To categorise a guitar player is pointless IMHO. It's all very subjective on a lot of levels. A mag that concentrates on Rock isn't going to vote a Classical player into top spot and vice versa. I go with Innovation, and Chet had a lot of that .... along with a host of other guitarists who came after him. You have to sit on the shoulders of giants to become a giant.
One of THE best players ever guitars were a life long love for this guy it has nothing to do with style although he gets tagged as a country player which is fine, he was so much more than that. rip Chet.
Absolutely correct rrtodd95. It's all God given talent and these fella....Chet, Doc, Lester, Earl, Roy...influenced the others. Genre of expression doesn't matter.
What a great arrangement of a great tune< Learning to play this at the moment and just realised i'm playing it half the speed of what Chet is, Oh well, You've got to start somewhere!
its so hard to hand out best guitarist, only because everyone is awesome at guitar lol and my opinion is that chet is/was great, for his era, but comparing him and the Edge isn't fair because its 2 different styles in 2 different eras, I'm not saying he shouldn't be on the top 5, back then that was ridiculous, now its mediocre to play like that, so in my opinion I can only give credit where its due: chet Atkins was the greatest guitar player of his day.
@SurfGreenStrato: Cool, i'mma send it in pieces; too long for one message. What I'm about to send you is my basic understanding of how to become a great musician. It's a reaction to a music scene that for the most part is dominated by sub-par musicians/artists, with the hope that more people will become more awesome and help make shite music the minority.
@kingny17 i really like that ideal, im fuckin sick of hearing shite music on the radio. does my head in. im a musician and would like to hear your ideas. cheers
Chet Atkins is absolutley amazing! But so that everyone is clear, he is not country music. At most he is bluegrass. Regardless, in my opinion, he is one of those musicians that transcend genres and, I do not care who you are, you have to respect and love for the sheer talent that he possesses.
@rrtodd95 I'd put Chet way up than Julian Bream, Joe Pass and Zack Wylde. He's on a whole other level, only achieved by real legends. Well, real UNDERRATED legends, like Clarence White, D. Boon, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder and James Burton.
@rrtodd95 yeah man, people when they talk about great guitarists straight away spurt out rock guitarists, theres more to the guitar than rock, this guy could do anything with a guitar, great guitarists always have one thing in common, "great character" that can be captured in the way they play.
@rrtodd95 Would you believe that Chet Atkins is the 3rd best guitar player of all time. He is behind Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. That was taken from a magazine, so its official, I just can't remember which magazine.
@InABook4Real Lol! You think because someones opinion in a magazine makes it official. All that means is you believe everyting you read. Now that's gulllible. Neither one of those two you mention had half the real tallent as Chet. I've played guitar for over 32 years and can tell you that without blinking.
@InABook4Real Lol! You think because someone's opinion in a magazine makes it official. All that means is you believe everyting you read from magazines. Now that's gulllible! Neither one of those two you mention had half the real tallent as Chet. I've played guitar for over 32 years and can tell you that without blinking.
@cholly853 Did I say that I agreed with what the magazine said?? I didn't think so. Just because you play guitar doesn't mean you know everything about guitarists either. As you said, THAT IS YOUR OPINION!
@sadbutsandman91 ) When it comes to versatility in guitar music, Chet Atkins is way, way above the likes of Halen, Hendicks, Reinhardt, and pretenders like them! NO COMPARISON ............!
@rrtodd95 YEP; It is a different flavor of greatness. Still great. I wonder at folks who hear this and say "Ew; Country music... Ew!" as it that disqualifies it somehow. American Roots music all the way!
There was, and will only ever be one Mr Guitar, Chet Atkins. That run from about 1:40 on is pure genius. And the best thing is that he was the most modest guy you could meet, from all the articles I have read about him. We will not look upon his like again.
DaNorthernLight~ Type in links to Ray Price, Faron Young , Merle Haggard~Guys like these that are COUNTRY not the POP Country we here today they cant hold a Candle to any of the Musicans and Singers you'll hear and I'll bet the LAST Dollar I Have you'd become a Coutry fan of REAL Country music~Steve
Spot on, Steve. I'd probably add the late and very great Waylon Jennings to your list. Country music has a great tradition. Like most things these days, the newer stuff seems to be pure crap.
A man, a thumbpick, a guitar, open G tuning, which incidentally is DGDGBD from low to high pitches. What's truly amazing is the razor like precision with which the late great Chet Atkins was able to play ANY tune he turned his hand to. There were, (and are people who didn't / don't like his playing), but the early stuff like this...he was an unstoppable force of nature. He went on to do a lot of record production in Nashville, and became a part of the country music establishment, and the machine
Y'all think this is pretty good,,right? Well, check out Chet twelve years later after he's turned into a much more lethal guitar player playing his virtuoso variations on "Lover Come Back To Me" here on youtube search
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I have said it many times before and I say it again. Chet even though he is not among us anymore he will stay as the best guitar player on this planet.
Tommy Emmanuel (with all respeckt) he is just impressing his audience like a 5 year old kid with his speed and tempo.
Thank you for this video because for all these years I thought Chet played this song in standard tuning. Good thing is though, I learned it the "hard way".
Meanwhile, there are no more Maphis, Travis, Atkins, Bryant, etc. type players around today. Danny Gatton was up there but now he's gone as well. The ones considered "good" today mostly sound alike or play a shitload of notes without an ounce of soul. Just my opinion, mates.
It's just because modern country has lost its roots to other genres and branched off to the 'modern mainstream genre'; it's often consisting of baseless or generic lyrics and simple, uncreative, and repetitive melodies. Just my take on the subject.
Don't get no better picking than that. Guitar players get yourself a thumb pick or just use your thumb and your right hand fingers. Put down the flat flat picks they won't work.
A true Master at work here...dang,Chet was so smooth at doing amazing,complex stuff....you know I've never been a major country fan but I've had a hobby of playing guitar for about 30 yrs now and Chet's stuff is truly great country,great "music" that crosses all genres.I see same complaints on how the country genre has faded since Chet left but you know it's happening in all styles of music.Music in general seems to have lost the "Class" that guys like Chet represented.It's all $ not talent now
@electrostatic1 Yeah I agree...my last statement was a bit broad.I had just watched the documentary "Before the music dies" and it was showing more the illness in the "business" for making money at the expense of artistic integrity.Cases like "Doyle Bramhall" whose record co. jacked him.Statements by Bonnie Rait,etc...how people like herself, Ray Charles,etc wouldn't get a chance today.How the short lived "image" has overshadowed the talent.It was great when guys like Chet could be mainstream.
@Kradantube 3 things. see chet about guitars. the bassline with the thumb then he fills in the rythm and melody! then you have your own orcestra he said. and you can be doing it after 30 years or so. that last line he said in the video here on tube with that clive guy. also in chet and marks album,mark said half the stuff chet could play,he could never play. that says it all
and at 1:41 and a cpl of seconds forward when he does the fast part...try and convince ANYONE with decent hearing that that is all chet atkins..just watch the video and LISTEN..you can clearly hear the bassplayer and that chet atkins hand is nowhere near to produce those sounds..not that he could either, considering its frequency is way too low to be produced by his guitar.chet was good, but not THAT good. just because the bassplayer aint in the picture doesnt mean hes not there playing..
who ever said something about cheating? your taking it right out of the blue. alzheimers? and yes you're right, i cant play like chet could, but then again, who can?
This is all Chet! My father mastered the Chet Atkins style and formed a company called Guitar Phonics in the 1960s. Guitar Phonics in partnership with RCA produced albums with a teaching method included called Play Guitar with Chet Atkins. No offense to those who think there is a base player off screen playing with Chet. He is so good and his style so remarkable it is hard to believe there is not a bass player.
That's all Chet! I've listened to it, and it's just a part played more forceful than the part preceeding it! You can see Chet strumming a downstroke with his thumb pick.
on a sidenote: saying theres no need for a base when its played fingerstyle is like saying theres no need to have two electric guitars in a band, or two drumplayers, yet both occur regularly. its all about choice and preference. just because chet is thumbpicking doesnt mean he never plays with a base in the band. this footage is obviously proof of that. theres plenty of other vids on here with chet and a baseplayer to further cement the statement. see for yourself
no...watch the movie thoroughly and also LISTEN. theres clearly another bass involved. anyone with half a brain aknowledges this. try and explain 1:34-1:35 away please...
@pootubeftw The entire Chet Atkins style centered around Chet using one chord for the bass line and shifting octaves from one beat to another and back, alternating between two octaves. No offense, but you are wrong.
no, im not. unless the recording isnt from the video itself, you can clearly hear the baseplayer. i know what thumbpicking sounds like and you can clearly hear chet's bass note aswell (produced by his right thumb). more proof: 0:35 check his left hand and make me believe thats from his left or right thumb.
I hear some stuff in there that Jimmy Page has played.
natrix611 1 week ago
would definately pay up to $30.00 american to have a still from this video on a T shirt.
tollchuck 1 week ago
Eddie Van Halen doesn't deserve to be in a list with Chet Atkins...
TheFilthy4 3 weeks ago
damn, i really wish i could visit the 30's...
hombreg1 1 month ago
`In your face, mainstream!´
11Kralle 1 month ago
the first time i heard this i was like: There must be two guitar players!
Man, that Chet is awsome
keeffan49 1 month ago
Proof, if any were needed, why there will only ever be one "Mr. Guitar".
srvgtr 1 month ago
Ah, so thats where Mr. Randy Rhoads gets his fast fills from huh 1:41, I always knew there was more to it than just classical. Chet puts all these new "musicians" to shame.
TheStormtrooper94 2 months ago
Chet was as slick as crap through a goose! Anyone that WOULDN'T put Chet up there with greats like Reinhardt, Hendrix, etc. has no real appreciation for guitar and guitar innovation.
theflash1952shodan 2 months ago
is this is standard guitar tuning ??? it sounds like it reaches a lower d o n the E string and the pull of on the high E string sounds like a D to an E....
almostnormalCB 2 months ago
@almostnormalCB The guitar is in open G tuning
47mattbrown 1 month ago
Before i saw that video i couldn´t belive that this was only one guitar.
LEGENDARY
He is one of the best guitar players in his Category. Most people think, this is boring and then they show me Hendrix,Page or Satriani, yes all of them a amazing guitar player. Still at the time when Atrinks was playing notbody thought of Hendrix. His Picking technique is amazing you cant plagarise that.
LBJ282 3 months ago
Alabadas sean tus manos Chet.
MusicIsMyFaith 3 months ago
Never realized that Chet used open "G" tuning on this.
ROCKSTARCRANE 4 months ago
aah that was so nice to listen to, and was rootsy allright! I ve always liked doc, travis and hurt, so this fits in nicely!
sightsizemethod 4 months ago
"Chet."
That says it all!
pegheadproductions 4 months ago
i click like n add before play the song
elvinagrillo 4 months ago
Music 101...
a Rag is not country and neither is Dixieland or Swing - yet all of them share aspects... stop calling this "country" music
andrewmward1 5 months ago
danny gatton said that chet is the greatest. what more authority do you need?
elstroshitnonstop 5 months ago
@DaNorthernLight Chet didnt like to be called a "country" guitarist
sadbutsandman91 5 months ago
@peppedeleo It's an open G tuning; 1-6: D,B,G,D,G,D.
penn4644 6 months ago
Remember the SCV. This is great stuff and we could help.
SCVORG 6 months ago in playlist 2011
EPIC LICK AT 1:38
BurgerGrabber 6 months ago
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BurgerGrabber 6 months ago
To categorise a guitar player is pointless IMHO. It's all very subjective on a lot of levels. A mag that concentrates on Rock isn't going to vote a Classical player into top spot and vice versa. I go with Innovation, and Chet had a lot of that .... along with a host of other guitarists who came after him. You have to sit on the shoulders of giants to become a giant.
emjaybee63 6 months ago
Someone somewhere told this guy, "You're wasting your time."
skrimpshidy 7 months ago
One of THE best players ever guitars were a life long love for this guy it has nothing to do with style although he gets tagged as a country player which is fine, he was so much more than that. rip Chet.
carron1971 7 months ago
Absolutely correct rrtodd95. It's all God given talent and these fella....Chet, Doc, Lester, Earl, Roy...influenced the others. Genre of expression doesn't matter.
tchrbaby 7 months ago 5
What a great arrangement of a great tune< Learning to play this at the moment and just realised i'm playing it half the speed of what Chet is, Oh well, You've got to start somewhere!
pauljannone123 7 months ago
Bad ass!
ONE9ER54 7 months ago
its so hard to hand out best guitarist, only because everyone is awesome at guitar lol and my opinion is that chet is/was great, for his era, but comparing him and the Edge isn't fair because its 2 different styles in 2 different eras, I'm not saying he shouldn't be on the top 5, back then that was ridiculous, now its mediocre to play like that, so in my opinion I can only give credit where its due: chet Atkins was the greatest guitar player of his day.
BigBubba8410 7 months ago
Mr. Guitar himself. Thanks for posting!
LarryRickenbacker 8 months ago
dosent jimmy page play part of this song in bron y aur stop?
juggHERnutt 8 months ago
@juggHERnutt No, but I think in black mountain rag he rips off a few riffs.
rrtodd95 6 months ago
Probably his greatest tune. Tires my fingers out just watching. (Joe G.)
available1731 9 months ago
amazing, that easy brilliance. Hats off fella
tinmccool 9 months ago
He makes it look so easy. That's the only thing I disliked about Chet... He makes it look so easy.
SurfGreenStrato 9 months ago
@SurfGreenStrato purr-actice
kingny17 9 months ago
@kingny17 Partly true sure! but you can't practice talent. I could play all day, but this level... it's beyond my abilities.
SurfGreenStrato 9 months ago
@SurfGreenStrato I'm not buying it. Give me an email and I'll send you something that'll help get you where you wanna as a musician
kingny17 9 months ago
@kingny17 feel free to send me a pm here! Looking forward to it! Not gonna post my email here in public, due to spambots :)
SurfGreenStrato 9 months ago
@SurfGreenStrato: Cool, i'mma send it in pieces; too long for one message. What I'm about to send you is my basic understanding of how to become a great musician. It's a reaction to a music scene that for the most part is dominated by sub-par musicians/artists, with the hope that more people will become more awesome and help make shite music the minority.
kingny17 9 months ago
@kingny17 Thanks mate, I'm gonna read it a bit later tonight, need to go now! But I will send you a pm back!
SurfGreenStrato 9 months ago
@kingny17 i really like that ideal, im fuckin sick of hearing shite music on the radio. does my head in. im a musician and would like to hear your ideas. cheers
clerkhog 8 months ago
cool, the whole thing fit in one message. Grab a drink, enjoy the read, become enlightened
kingny17 9 months ago
@SurfGreenStrato have you tried practicing 6-8 hours a day for your whole life?
VASKBKEA 8 months ago
I'll bet somewhere amongst the hay bales lurks a Standel 25L15.
Chet's using an open G tuning here. Cheers!
penn4644 9 months ago
He has the guitar tuned like a banjo.... the little E string is tuned to D
gtrjames1 10 months ago
If everyone does not know, check out Leo Kottke. Better than Chet? Equal at least.
howlinwolf1759 10 months ago
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howlinwolf1759 10 months ago
Chet Atkins is absolutley amazing! But so that everyone is clear, he is not country music. At most he is bluegrass. Regardless, in my opinion, he is one of those musicians that transcend genres and, I do not care who you are, you have to respect and love for the sheer talent that he possesses.
howlinwolf1759 10 months ago
Laugh if you will, I put Chet up there with gods of guitar like Eddie Van Halen, Julian Bream, DJango Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix and Joe Pass.
The music may be different but genius doesn't recognize genres of music.
That's why you see Zack Wylde chicken picking and Kirk Hammett studying latin jazz.
rrtodd95 10 months ago 57
@rrtodd95 Dude, chet would out play EVH by a long shot... I bet he can't even travis pick.
TheBigbootyhole 10 months ago
@rrtodd95 I'd put Chet way up than Julian Bream, Joe Pass and Zack Wylde. He's on a whole other level, only achieved by real legends. Well, real UNDERRATED legends, like Clarence White, D. Boon, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder and James Burton.
FriedChickenofDeath6 9 months ago
@rrtodd95 yeah man, people when they talk about great guitarists straight away spurt out rock guitarists, theres more to the guitar than rock, this guy could do anything with a guitar, great guitarists always have one thing in common, "great character" that can be captured in the way they play.
clerkhog 8 months ago
@rrtodd95 Would you believe that Chet Atkins is the 3rd best guitar player of all time. He is behind Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. That was taken from a magazine, so its official, I just can't remember which magazine.
InABook4Real 8 months ago
@InABook4Real Guitar World, though the list includes the Edge and omits Nancy Wilson so I'm not crazy abou the list.
Virtuoso had him listed 3rd as well behind Andres Segovia and Django Reinhardt.
That's a huge honor in my opinion.
rrtodd95 8 months ago
@InABook4Real Lol! You think because someones opinion in a magazine makes it official. All that means is you believe everyting you read. Now that's gulllible. Neither one of those two you mention had half the real tallent as Chet. I've played guitar for over 32 years and can tell you that without blinking.
cholly853 8 months ago
@InABook4Real Lol! You think because someone's opinion in a magazine makes it official. All that means is you believe everyting you read from magazines. Now that's gulllible! Neither one of those two you mention had half the real tallent as Chet. I've played guitar for over 32 years and can tell you that without blinking.
cholly853 8 months ago
@cholly853 Did I say that I agreed with what the magazine said?? I didn't think so. Just because you play guitar doesn't mean you know everything about guitarists either. As you said, THAT IS YOUR OPINION!
InABook4Real 8 months ago
@rrtodd95 Chet is godly : ) its not how fast you play its the emotion and mood
DaftFunkable 7 months ago
@rrtodd95
I completely agree. In general I'm not a fan of today's country, but this guy is a master.
brownsoundrecords 7 months ago
@rrtodd95 Who's laughing, i would say that Chet Atkins has more musical talent than Eddie or Jimi anyways
sadbutsandman91 6 months ago
@sadbutsandman91 ) When it comes to versatility in guitar music, Chet Atkins is way, way above the likes of Halen, Hendicks, Reinhardt, and pretenders like them! NO COMPARISON ............!
iditarod9 5 months ago
@rrtodd95 ; Score one for the good guys !
1954tele 5 months ago
@rrtodd95 YEP; It is a different flavor of greatness. Still great. I wonder at folks who hear this and say "Ew; Country music... Ew!" as it that disqualifies it somehow. American Roots music all the way!
JeffMountainPicker 5 months ago
@rrtodd95 You forgot Andy Latimer and Camel, and their songs, Snowgoose Excerpts and Lady Fantasy. Andy's guitar will blow you away. LS
MrJohnStas 3 months ago
@rrtodd95 Chet would possibly take off his hat to Django. The rest of 'em, he'd cut off at the knees.
georgegillette 3 months ago
@georgegillette You obviously don't know much about the man.
TheRailwaystationist 3 months ago
@TheRailwaystationist Consider the concept of metaphor. Met-a-phor.
georgegillette 3 months ago
@rrtodd95 His nickname was Mr. Guitar after all.
digglesMcgee 1 month ago
@rrtodd95 i wouldnt put any of them near chet!
bluesBro18 4 weeks ago
There was, and will only ever be one Mr Guitar, Chet Atkins. That run from about 1:40 on is pure genius. And the best thing is that he was the most modest guy you could meet, from all the articles I have read about him. We will not look upon his like again.
srvgtr 11 months ago
Eleven people have rags in their ears.
ashie259 11 months ago
damn. pretty awesome
huntercrainsmusic 11 months ago
DaNorthernLight~ Type in links to Ray Price, Faron Young , Merle Haggard~Guys like these that are COUNTRY not the POP Country we here today they cant hold a Candle to any of the Musicans and Singers you'll hear and I'll bet the LAST Dollar I Have you'd become a Coutry fan of REAL Country music~Steve
Payola65 11 months ago
@Payola65
Spot on, Steve. I'd probably add the late and very great Waylon Jennings to your list. Country music has a great tradition. Like most things these days, the newer stuff seems to be pure crap.
srvgtr 11 months ago
@DaNorthernLight It's not country; it's bluegrass, a combination of country and blues, which is a lot more palatable than straight country.
gubaldino 11 months ago
Chet Atkins is one of the all-time gods.
gubaldino 11 months ago
A man, a thumbpick, a guitar, open G tuning, which incidentally is DGDGBD from low to high pitches. What's truly amazing is the razor like precision with which the late great Chet Atkins was able to play ANY tune he turned his hand to. There were, (and are people who didn't / don't like his playing), but the early stuff like this...he was an unstoppable force of nature. He went on to do a lot of record production in Nashville, and became a part of the country music establishment, and the machine
simonofthedissenters 1 year ago
@DaNorthernLight just shows how things get twisted around over time.
lastwave235 1 year ago
Chet is way cool in my book as a guitarist and I'm a metal head and classic rock and Blues guy!!
quicksilver717 1 year ago
Finger tapping technique @1:35, Chet was rockin it way before Jimmy Page's "Heart Breaker" solo.
MrJrodarod 1 year ago 2
hi chuck thanks for posting, enjoyed it just like a homestead bean picker should
squidrowinc 1 year ago
Y'all think this is pretty good,,right? Well, check out Chet twelve years later after he's turned into a much more lethal guitar player playing his virtuoso variations on "Lover Come Back To Me" here on youtube search
watch?v=UAuI1B8zRFY&feature=related
CribNotes 1 year ago
@CribNotes Youtube not load search code properly. For humorously mind-bending-blowing Chet Atkins guitar virtuosity youtube search
Chet Atkins "Lover Come Back to me"
CribNotes 1 year ago
1st string is tuned down to D also! Tuning is thus G not G6.
mejimcrick 1 year ago
kmhob - 1st string is tuned down to D also!
mejimcrick 1 year ago
what year is it?
2manythoughts 1 year ago
So tasty.... so so so tasty.
rlholo 1 year ago
I watch his thumb on this one and get dizzy, so fantastic.
brucew44guns 1 year ago
@ BoshRat ...& at :02 , 1:45, 2:00...pretty much the whole vid he says "check this out"
1223baddad 1 year ago
He plays in open G6 tuning, 6 string is D and 5 string is G.
kmhob 1 year ago
Does anybody know which tunning he plays in?
panbread89 1 year ago
lolz at 1:10
TheOpitimy 1 year ago
lolz at 1:10
TheOpitimy 1 year ago
@Ryan07Murphy Are you kidding me? You are really comparing John 5 to Chet Atkins?
NothingSacred27 1 year ago 2
NOBODY plays like Chet. He was the original. Look for elements of jazz, re-phrasing of musical cliches. Everything sounds fresh ... because it is!
Featherocks 1 year ago 2
I've seen many great players live, including Tommy Emmanuel, but Chet never ceases to amaze me!!
boguitar87 1 year ago
@boguitar87 probably because you haven't seen chet live...
luckyfucky7 1 year ago
@DaNorthernLight You took the words right out of my mouth!
antzzy1 1 year ago
One of the songs ill be playin'.....right next to Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson, Gary Moore and Free
TheBassguitarfreak 1 year ago
i really like this.
frankguitarman40 1 year ago
wow!
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wwwtotalitaerde 1 year ago
I have said it many times before and I say it again. Chet even though he is not among us anymore he will stay as the best guitar player on this planet.
Tommy Emmanuel (with all respeckt) he is just impressing his audience like a 5 year old kid with his speed and tempo.
lpdplp 1 year ago
@lpdplp Amen, brother. Exactly my point below including the bloke you mentioned.
penn4644 1 year ago
Thank you for this video because for all these years I thought Chet played this song in standard tuning. Good thing is though, I learned it the "hard way".
Meanwhile, there are no more Maphis, Travis, Atkins, Bryant, etc. type players around today. Danny Gatton was up there but now he's gone as well. The ones considered "good" today mostly sound alike or play a shitload of notes without an ounce of soul. Just my opinion, mates.
penn4644 1 year ago
i think this is better than doc watson's version
sabbathdisciple94 1 year ago
It's just because modern country has lost its roots to other genres and branched off to the 'modern mainstream genre'; it's often consisting of baseless or generic lyrics and simple, uncreative, and repetitive melodies. Just my take on the subject.
q0zi 1 year ago
Such a bad ass
tcap6string 1 year ago
i listen to metal and jazz and i must say...THAT WAS SOME AMAZING SHIT RIGHT THERE!
slipknotandmh 1 year ago
I am sending you this for a reason. I will ALSO send an intrumental version of
my RED SHOES with a lead guitar played in this style - CHET
I call my Chet Style recording
Chet's wearing Red BooTs
charles43110 1 year ago
No!! Chet your supposed to play it the same every single time!! Now my head hurts..
revolutionstrtr 1 year ago
Bad ass!!!
WEISsGEBeter 1 year ago
Is it open tuning?
SylvainBrunerie 1 year ago
@SylvainBrunerie its in open G tuning, and its very hard to play
GuitarMan2269 1 year ago
@GuitarMan2269 As hard as many other Chet Atkins tunes, or really harder?
SylvainBrunerie 1 year ago
@SylvainBrunerie Its bango tuning tuned down to g you can play open chords just strumming on it
chester777ful 1 year ago
@chester777ful Yup sounds like an open G tuning you have good ears...
hitnmisssideshaft 1 year ago
i m not american but i ve always loved american country music. I feel it so familiar, i dont know why
issentidu 1 year ago
@issentidu Because country and western came out of the folk music of the immigrants. A lot of it has celtic roots.
Blueindiefree 1 year ago
@Blueindiefree ok...but i haven't celtic roots and i'm not son of immigrants.
issentidu 1 year ago
Love chet but I like Doc Watsons version better
rygertheodd 1 year ago
Don't get no better picking than that. Guitar players get yourself a thumb pick or just use your thumb and your right hand fingers. Put down the flat flat picks they won't work.
shrineme 1 year ago
@shrineme Or just grow out your nails. It's cheaper lol
pooponmyfacefetish 1 year ago
@shrineme
Go tell it to django renihardt and the rest of the gypsies
zalman595 1 year ago
chet must be one of the 10 greatest of all time.. perfect playing :)
crazyboyhate1976 1 year ago
The ones now will fade with time but real country from our past will still be tops on my hit parade.
camden38 1 year ago
You see, this is what happens when a guitar player teaches himself and doesn't do what every other player around him is doing.
nucha33 1 year ago
1:41 awesome lick
tele100 1 year ago 3
A sexy tune on an equally sexy guitar. It's obvious Jimmy Page took some notes from this man.
dancetoska 1 year ago
I love it how he never even misses a note.. It makes me sick to my stomach how great he is.
Aceguitar11 1 year ago
Душевно))
MrMatveevIlya 1 year ago
A true Master at work here...dang,Chet was so smooth at doing amazing,complex stuff....you know I've never been a major country fan but I've had a hobby of playing guitar for about 30 yrs now and Chet's stuff is truly great country,great "music" that crosses all genres.I see same complaints on how the country genre has faded since Chet left but you know it's happening in all styles of music.Music in general seems to have lost the "Class" that guys like Chet represented.It's all $ not talent now
austingunsmoke 1 year ago
@austingunsmoke There's still amazing talent out there, it just doesn't get the credit it deserves.
electrostatic1 1 year ago 3
@electrostatic1 Yeah I agree...my last statement was a bit broad.I had just watched the documentary "Before the music dies" and it was showing more the illness in the "business" for making money at the expense of artistic integrity.Cases like "Doyle Bramhall" whose record co. jacked him.Statements by Bonnie Rait,etc...how people like herself, Ray Charles,etc wouldn't get a chance today.How the short lived "image" has overshadowed the talent.It was great when guys like Chet could be mainstream.
austingunsmoke 1 year ago
on the fast track? country musics already been ruin for years. they just dont make it like they used to.
OregonLumberjack 1 year ago
almost got it... my next open mike bit.
MrShadsmith 1 year ago
hey all you young folks this is a real guitar god...a true GUITAR HERO!
antzzy1 1 year ago 30
this is played in open g tuning. you have got to have some SOLID finger picking skills for this one.
" that thumb has a mind of its own"-setzer
lastwave235 1 year ago
OMG he's playing like 2 different things at the same time: the rhythm with his thumb and the lead with the other fingers
JUST AWESOME
Kradantube 1 year ago
@Kradantube Holy crap it's like the same thing a piano player does, yet it's harder right? lolz
mangledmonkey 1 year ago
@mangledmonkey yeah xD but i never saw someone do that on a guitar thats why im impressed
Kradantube 1 year ago
@Kradantube 3 things. see chet about guitars. the bassline with the thumb then he fills in the rythm and melody! then you have your own orcestra he said. and you can be doing it after 30 years or so. that last line he said in the video here on tube with that clive guy. also in chet and marks album,mark said half the stuff chet could play,he could never play. that says it all
3439ra 1 year ago
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Wow the roll at 1:38 has convinced me. It's time to learn some country.
Maybe I'll start with a good churchin and cleanse my minor pentatonc soul.
Thank you Mr. Atkins ,sir.
jaberjaw123 1 year ago
WOW The roll at 1:38 has convinced me .
It's time to learn some country. Maybe I'll start with a good churchin first and cleanse my minor pentatonic soul.
Thank you Mr Atkins, sir.
jaberjaw123 1 year ago
Now I know what inspiration sounds like.
ihcatihjwh 1 year ago 2
What happened to people with talent playing real music on real instruments? This is awesome. Chet was one classy musician.
barker747 1 year ago 3
Chet was and always will be the king of honkey tonk. RIP
shizzle5150 1 year ago
yea country sounds like pop music now!!music sucks now
shua559 1 year ago
Great!
bossanovaboy 1 year ago
You're all a bunch of nerds. Quit arguing over whether or not there is a bass player and just enjoy the music.
pw51508 1 year ago
Nashville will NEVER produce anything that came close to the talents of this country gentleman. RIP sir!
stratkiller86 1 year ago
and at 1:41 and a cpl of seconds forward when he does the fast part...try and convince ANYONE with decent hearing that that is all chet atkins..just watch the video and LISTEN..you can clearly hear the bassplayer and that chet atkins hand is nowhere near to produce those sounds..not that he could either, considering its frequency is way too low to be produced by his guitar.chet was good, but not THAT good. just because the bassplayer aint in the picture doesnt mean hes not there playing..
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@pootubeftw just because you can't play it doesn't mean he's cheating
flouz2 1 year ago
@flouz2
who ever said something about cheating? your taking it right out of the blue. alzheimers? and yes you're right, i cant play like chet could, but then again, who can?
pootubeftw 1 year ago
besides the lowest bass note is WAY too low to come from a electric guitar. if you ppl actually used your ears when listening before you comment.
pootubeftw 1 year ago
I heard this on CD and could have sworn it was two guitars! Yikes was I wrong! AMAZING!
GORDON330 1 year ago
Watch the right thumb with the thumb pick and left thumb how he wraps it around the neck to pick up the base string. That is the magic!
asavid01 1 year ago
This is all Chet! My father mastered the Chet Atkins style and formed a company called Guitar Phonics in the 1960s. Guitar Phonics in partnership with RCA produced albums with a teaching method included called Play Guitar with Chet Atkins. No offense to those who think there is a base player off screen playing with Chet. He is so good and his style so remarkable it is hard to believe there is not a bass player.
asavid01 1 year ago 2
That's all Chet! I've listened to it, and it's just a part played more forceful than the part preceeding it! You can see Chet strumming a downstroke with his thumb pick.
skinengine 1 year ago
Definitely a bass on the side, but Chet didn't need it. It just added a little bit to it.
BCRSIX 1 year ago
on a sidenote: saying theres no need for a base when its played fingerstyle is like saying theres no need to have two electric guitars in a band, or two drumplayers, yet both occur regularly. its all about choice and preference. just because chet is thumbpicking doesnt mean he never plays with a base in the band. this footage is obviously proof of that. theres plenty of other vids on here with chet and a baseplayer to further cement the statement. see for yourself
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@pootubeftw BASS!!!! it's spelled BASS people!!! holy FUCK!
blackdeathgrind 1 year ago 8
I'm starting to learn that the world did not begin and end with Brian Setzer
gmashe 1 year ago 2
what a great clip - Awesome!!
tompicks 1 year ago
That is a mean run about 1:40!
simonguitarman 1 year ago
country music used to be so awesome. wtf is this taylor swift shit??
junkmailboy1000 1 year ago 124
that goes for about every contemporary mainstream music today. mainstream music has lost its glory, nothing but garbage today.
pootubeftw 1 year ago 24
@pootubeftw chets only bass is being played with thumb!
chester777ful 1 year ago
@chester777ful
no...watch the movie thoroughly and also LISTEN. theres clearly another bass involved. anyone with half a brain aknowledges this. try and explain 1:34-1:35 away please...
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@pootubeftw The entire Chet Atkins style centered around Chet using one chord for the bass line and shifting octaves from one beat to another and back, alternating between two octaves. No offense, but you are wrong.
asavid01 1 year ago
@asavid01
no, im not. unless the recording isnt from the video itself, you can clearly hear the baseplayer. i know what thumbpicking sounds like and you can clearly hear chet's bass note aswell (produced by his right thumb). more proof: 0:35 check his left hand and make me believe thats from his left or right thumb.
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@pootubeftw
you are absolutely correct. This should be obvious to any musician.
KingNast 1 year ago
@KingNast
yes, or atleast anyone with half the ear capacity ;)
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@pootubeftw YOU NERD GET A LIFE
chester777ful 1 year ago
@chester777ful
great randomness, i give you a thumbs up pal.
pootubeftw 1 year ago
@chester777ful After watching and listening closely(especially at the 1:34-1:35 ) I agree totally that there is indeed a bass player added.