City Love Intro (Crossroads DVD)

[TheGerardhdz]

THANKS A LOT MAN. GREAT JOB.

[johhnyringolevio]

wack

[RyanMcVicker]

thanks for the video...a++ i know the whole fretboard pretty well (all the modes) and learning these things def. helps progress your syncopation and different variations to get different sounds

[gooman989898]

nice bro! thats shit is bro'ing awesom bro!

keep up the bro!

[KellyIsMusical]

Great job. Perfect on those rakes! I wish we could see your right hand!

[mrsasafrass]

GOOD ENOUGH BABY! I fell in love with his intro when I bought the Crossroads DVD! Thanks!

[kanix999]

@lefte18 hahhaha... that was awesome wasnt it

[NateSmith1992]

Evening all. For those that still can't figure this out i have just done a tab. Check on ultimate-guitar in a couple of days, hopefully they'll submit it. Feel free to all leave praise as someone has (me) has finally done it. Hope it goes through, sorry to get hopes up if not.

[markitymark90]

Thanks man!

[lstaahl]

Great. do you have a tab for this?

[asher6189]

Yeah I agree with TunesByTanzil, you do an absolutely awesome job on this and I'm definitely going to use this video and learn it some day too.

[Jhonnyzilla]

is this a drop D tuning?

[CptZeroTonio]

City Love is in drop D, so I think Mayer played this intro in drop D tuning =)

[TunesByTanzil]

This never gets old sir. NEVER :D

Note for note perfection. Gotta learn this in some free time.

[bricktopra3]

nice playing, I'm too lazy to learn it note for note, (it's not classical music), so I just hear a riff and copy it and throw my own shitty licks in and try to make something happen. :-)

[chrismiuz]

it's jimi hendrix's machine gun, no city love jam, salvag89's right. I know he plays this right before getting in city love btw...

[salvamg89]

sounds like jimi hendrix's machine gun to me

[harrietnalyssa]

yes

[dbl108]

spending hours trying to decipher someone else's playing is definitely NOT how JM learned how to play guitar. One does not judge a guitar player on how easily or quickly he can LEARN a song. It doesn't really matter HOW you learn a song; whether watching this video repeatingly, or by a tab. What IS important is that you DO learn it, or you will never be able to utilize the licks and the style that JM uses in this solo. So why doesn't someone just tab it out or make a tutorial please?!

[palmster56]

if you all want to learn it, learn it from this awesome video, never mind with the tab.

[mburke11]

where is this tab!!!!

[imalwaysright1]

definitely at like 0:55 he plays the open E string. and you can tell its drop D

[barsx101]

amazing

[djharper234]

dude please tell me where you got this tab, this is my favorite john mayer solo

[slashrocks768]

No it's Drop D. City Love is Drop D. He doesn't tune or get a new guitar and when the vid hits open, you can tell it's Drop D!

[CAAMMMMM]

nope, standard

[godkonx]

same whoever tabs this i will build a statue to dedicate to him/her there are some poeple out there that just wanna learn a classic tune but down have teh time to learn to play by ear

[CAAMMMMM]

learn the Machine Gun intro by hendrix, its the same thing, john just funks it out some more :p

[tfakesoundofprogress]

then find the time! john mayer didn't learn to play guitar by using tabs in the internet, so why should you?

[palmster56]

exactly lol

[Spartan867]

TAB!!!

[1Year2PlayLikeMayer]

How on earth did you figure that out. By ear i bet. It sounds so accurate. I am setting myself a goal to play like mayer in one year lol. oh dear...

[blahman178]

sweet

[oldbook1985]

Why can't anybody ever tab this?

Or at very least tell us what scale this is based off of? My mission in life before I die will be to tab this and put it all over the internet.

To the guy who says tabs kill good solo's, we don't care, we want to see some tabs. To the guys who posted this video, I have nothing but respect and praise for you. You're helping alot of people.

[dododovich]

HAHAHAHA MATE!!! I signed up to you tube #1 because of the likes of mr simpleangst-well done!keep it up!and #2 because of the hilarious and hipocritical rants of the likes of JOHNMAYER07!!mate, are you john mayer????!!!I think not, if your name was original i may take you a tiny bit seriously... no, not then either!ur not an elitist snob, just a very average snob with nothing to snobberise about!simple angst is awesome, ur not!

[JakeMachado]

Is this in D Dorian and D Lydian? Anyone?

[JakeMachado]

Or is it just the D Natural Minor scale with the flatted fifth?

[RoomForSquares14]

Dude! right on target nice ive been tryin to find the tabs for this but nothin i guess no one's good enough to tab this out except you.(lol) well i was wondering if u could tab this out or if u could tell us where u got it from because it's one of john's most famous solo's and im just a beginner but if i practice it enought i know i will learn it

[popcorny11]

Wow nice one SimpleAngst..Sorry but are you playing without an amp?

[carolinalax305]

you guys do know that the first couple of riffs, and pretty much the whole intro is from Machine Gun By Jimi Hendrix

[JohnMayer07]

He's right, it's a jam based off of Machine Gun.

[voljindarkspear]

hey man, you prolly get asked all the time, but could you possibly send me the tablature? if you cant thats cool, but if you can, thatd be awesome

[therocknrollman]

The same way you shoot me down, baby

Youll be going just the same

Three times the pain,

And your own self to blame

Hey, Machine gun

[godkonx]

tabs pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaase i have never been able to play by ear and never will

[DBAD14]

tabs? tabs? tabs????

[mebaran]

im assuming you guys don't play guitar very well if at all then haha, because a main part of guitar, or any instrument for that matter, is trying different genres and seeing if you like them. this is an EXCELLENT straight blues riff to try out if you want to practice some of the scales. Cheers!

[vanglo100]

exactly man playing guitar is for expression not for emulation

[gregg441]

Exactly. That, in my mind, is the difference between "guitarists" and "musicians."

[dpinsker]

Why do people learn this note for note? Just pickout 1 or 2 riffs and make a tune outta them =)

[mebaran]

TAB? If so I would like a copy please. I've been trying to play this by ear and i got a little ways..but not anything special. thanks.

[Thilo278]

Have you made a TAB for this Solo ? ;)

Would be really great, although your Video helps me a lot, too.

[slashrocks768]

Fuck i love this, never get sick of it :D

I'm trying to pick up some licks outa this, so funky!

[Frin9]

Great dude, really thx :) You don't know half how mutch i love this intro.

[dancar]

This kicks ass dude. Envious 16 year old bedroom guitar players will have their arms folded and claim they can do it better but won't post a video.

[tyler124307]

john mayer used the intro from jimi hendrixs machine gun too intro city love at crossroads just to let all you uneducated guys know

[JohnMayer07]

not note for note.

[dancar]

I still don't see what's wrong. You're not the only one that likes John Mayer

[SimpleAngst]

I guess the point to my doing this was for me to learn some new 'colors' to add to my own playing. Learning it note for note helps me understand the music better and adds a dynamic to my own playing by using chords, notes and phrasing that I never even knew existed. I hoped it might do the same for others. It's true I'm not very original nor a very competent guitarist, I just love the exploration.

[RyanMcVicker]

@SimpleAngst agreed completely. I am a music major and iam pretty sure every other musician out there learned alot from copying their inspirations. John definitely learned his playing from hendrix and stevie ray vaughan. SRV learned his stuff from hendrix and other blues greats... You eventually get your own style but only after learning the tools... Look at eric johnson.. he is one of the most technical guitarists out there, he is who he is because his fav artists inspired him to learn.

[EyeofyourMind84]

dude, whatever, I'm glad someone slowed this down, I've wanted to learn certain parts of the jam for a while...

[JohnMayer07]

I hate anyone who is so fucking unoriginal as to copy this note for note.

Jesus.

[slashrocks768]

I agree but this is an exception i think. I loved the intro to this, i was just jamming to this the other day while my friend was watching it. Good fun! But yes, something just along same lines woulda been funky.

[Local83fanJM]

i would suck your dick...

if you had one

PICKLE FUCKER

[JohnMayer07]

Your maturity amazes me.

You just managed to call yourself gay, as well. What an effective insult.

Dumbass.

[teeeaaabagger]

you need to settle down hes showing the correct notes and i gauruntee hes fuckin better then u

[JohnMayer07]

You don't seem to understand the concept here. I understand what he's fucking doing, but I seem to be the only one who has realized that now we're gonna be seeing people copying this exact solo all over the place, people too lazy to learn it by ear.

And as for your attack at my skill, I learned the roots of this jam by ear myself. Copying note for note is gay and unoriginal.

[dancar]

why is it gay that someone learned a solo note for note? It just means he pays attention to details. He didn't rip this solo off or claimed it to be his. And the unoriginal claim can not apply here because he's covering a song which means he never meant it to be original.

[JohnMayer07]

A song is one thing. A one time improvised jam is another. I don't hate him for doing this, I hate him for opening this jam up to millions of completely ignorant guitarists who will learn it note for note.

[dancar]

Hey look...how do you know that other guitarist are ignorant? I don't think they are ignorant if they stumbled upon this video therefore learning about John Mayer's music and his influences. Getting inspired to play or play better - to me isn't ignorant.

You know that Jimi Hendrix never does Machine gun the same twice but yet major guitar publications still puts out the transcription note for note.

[Beshimi]

"ignorant guitarists"?

woah now. get off your high horse there, chief. everyone starts out somewhere, and there's nothing wrong with a beginner hearing something they like and then needing a step-by-step tutorial to learn from it.

you're 16 years old.. take it easy with the dissing of growing musicians.

[JohnMayer07]

I have no problem with people doing this for songs. This jam will only be done once. It was a singular moment in time, and shouldn't be learned so easily by every mediocre blues player who hears it.

[Beshimi]

you obviously have a very high opinion of yourself and your ability, and reasoning with teenage guitar-center types is pointless. a kid wanting to learn one of Mayer's jams isn't going to interfere with your bedroom guitar playing. take it easy. the blues is not some secret that is locked away with a key and bestowed on only those worthy. if it was, suburban white 16 year old kids would not be playing it and using it as means for a high ground.

[JohnMayer07]

Way to read my post and disregard my points.

I have no problem with this type of thing for recorded blues songs, but the original version of this, the live jam by Mayer, shouldn't be exploited so every single person who feels like it can play it.

Bedroom playing my ass, suburban kid my ass.

Although I am white, what does that matter?

[Beshimi]

i addressed your point. you're saying that you don't think that these jams should be opened up to easy access for people to play, and i told you that the blues is not some snobby country club.

Buddy Guy said of SRV;

"Stevie was the type of person where they gave this guy the key, he opened the door, and threw the damn key away and said, 'All of y'all come in here. Let's play and show people how this shit's supposed to be done.'

again, if not for guys like SRV, you wouldn't be playing blues.

[JohnMayer07]

The second half of your post literally made me laugh out loud? haha wth dude? Of course I wouldn't be playing the blues if it weren't for my heroes (SRV, Clapton, Mayer, etc.). I know this.

[Beshimi]

i'm glad i made you laugh, but you missed the point. i was saying that if it wasn't for guys like Stevie who really opened the blues up to a completely different demographic, you wouldn't be able to sit here and talk about the blues as if you're an authority on the matter. 60 years ago, a white kid would have gotten laughed at for trying to play the blues. it was rooted in the oppression of African-Americans at the time and it wasn't a good idea for anyone to intrude on that. (cont)

[JohnMayer07]

Granted, I suppose I'm being a tad snobby, however, guitarists aren't what they used to be,and I really despise all the youtube commenters asking for tabs. This is virtually the same thing.

I know about the cultural roots of the blues; I was challenging it. It's now been a while since a white kid couldn't freely play the blues.

[Beshimi]

that's exactly your problem. you "despise" people who may not have a natural talent for music and need that extra help. some people do not have a musical ear and really have trouble figuring things out, and some people just like playing guitar as a hobby just want to learn something that they enjoyed hearing, again, whether it be a one-time jam or a song doesn't matter. does that mean they should be condescended by some kid? no.

it's music, not a high ground.

[Beshimi]

the point is that if it wasn't for the greats of the past that stopped being so snobby about the blues and opened it up to younger kids, we would not have our John Mayer, Derek Trucks, Joe Bonamassa, or Davy Knowles, so you need to get off your high horse and realize that you're just a kid with no place to decide what is okay for other people to want to play and happen to need it explained to them, whether it be learning a one-time jam by their hero note-for-note, or their favorite song.

[davosurf]

Beshimi, your comments are dead on...coun't have said them better myself, and you know seem to know your lincon log. Trucks, Bonamassa, Davy Knowles...that's my inpiration right there and at the top of my list on current legends in the making. Hey is there anybody not on that list that I should check out? Always looking to get some inspiration and you seem to have the same good taste as myself... Thanks alot if you happen to reply to this. All the best, David

[Beshimi]

hey there. as far as great guitarists of this generation, those guys are at the forefront. really, the only one i can think of that's doing something interesting today is Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Johnny Lang is another great young guy, but he's been around for a while and you've probably heard of him. lately though i have been drawing inspiration from a lot of the acoustic greats, like Tommy Emmanuel, Phil Keaggy, Antoine Dufour, and so forth.. Trucks is always on the top of my list, though.

[davosurf]

Thanks! I haven't heard of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez...I'll be checking him out as well as the acoustic guys you mentioned. Speaking of which there's a guy with a killer acoustic style on here that does a phenmonial job with little wing. You may have heard of him... Monte Montgomery? If you haven't seen the vid its worth checking out. And Trucks is my all time favorite guitarist...definitely at the top of my list too. Thanks again for your response...I really appreciate it.

[JohnMayer07]

Furthermore, I am not trying to be an elitist snob, I'm saying I don't want a bunch of retarded guitar-hero-brand guitarists putting up their 'awesome sweet' cover videos of this jam, and I know they will after seeing this video.

I want to see people respect that this was an improv by Mayer and that they should go make up their own jams.

[philphie]

is there anyway that you ca play this faster?

[vzrk]

plz make a tab of this intro !!!

[miriamleaman]

Please forgive me for posting 3 times. It was an accident. If there is anyone willing to help me tab this I will put it into a texted format tab and a guitar pro format tab. Any takers?

[miriamleaman]

Is there any way someone who has learned using this vid could do a vid of it like super super slow? I am having trouble seeing and hearing the individual sounds and I forget it when I try to figure out what is being played. This is what tabs are handy for, although I totally agree some things are better figured out, this is just a little much for some people. Anyone willing to tab this would probably be held in the highest eteem. PLEASE MAKE A SLOW VID (for all of the slow ppl) OR TAB! PLEASE!

[sinned8888]

SimpleAngst, i love you!!!! you help me so much! your vids are great!! keep it up and thanks a lot dude!!!

[ryanmfscott]

agreed...keeps me busy!

[Uthorion91]

tabs sur Guitar pro exist ??

[lazzerocketboi]

5/5 excellent job!

[eduardoobregon]

f*cking brilliant!

[staplestrat]

omg thank you so much for figuring this out, and pretty slow too with the camra zoomed up on the guitar, if anyone asks for tabs, they should kill themselves. it doesnt get any easier to figure out how to play this after watching this with a guitar in your lap

[RISEAGAINSTTM]

tabsssss

[eliotguitar]

Tabs are great for beginners but some learning something by ear or sight, or both are much more beneficial in the long run. Trust me. Good Luck.

[blahman178]

Hey awesome!!! Isn't it a tad bit faster on the DVD though? Anyway 5/5 no matter what.

[ademar77]

Great effort man! Thanx! It was a nice surpirse to run into this video. I noticed that some parts are not played in the same position that John did live, but that´s only being picky! It´s awesome!

[guitarfolife]

i dont think anyone realized that this is taken from hendrixs live intro to machine gun

[6strings27]

I know...

[55schfiftyfive55]

Man, I just finished watching all your vids. You've worked out some of the best pieces of mayer's guitar work. Great job!I hope you keep it up. Now we just need someone to tab them.....

[pbauw]

Thanks for posting this!

[tdbNdtb]

at 2:01 you do like a fall off, cant seem to get that right.. what exactly is it

[SimpleAngst]

If it's exactly at 2:01 it's just G(string)-7th fret, G-5th fret then D-7th fret D-5th fret and A-8th fret. Does that help at all?

[cursedreject]

haha i like how you messed up at the end when the whole thing was perfect. serious props awesome b( ^^)b

[barsx101]

so nice

[Aestheticsguitar]

thank you so much dude!

[gusstro]

does any one have tabs for this it would speed up my progress a lot

[tmoneydog]

the lick at like :29 can neone help?

[slinkyman2007]

Cheers buddy

[jolangli]

can you explain to me in a message the lick at 0:36 pleas??!!! I Need it !!

[johnnybgood12345]

its a really quick hammer on 10 to 12 on the b string.

then do a quick high to low sweep. the notes are (from high to low, b to d) 10, 11, 12.

its hard to explain bout it sounds like the quick hammer on. then a quick triplet downward sweep

[ibanezplayer5533]

your amazing

thank god for you

[funkmasterchill]

wow dude thanks a lot for doing this!!!

[KoreyWGarvey]

it's not his version of machine gun everyone its just a jam he did in drop d because city love is in drop d!

[crazyalp23]

nice nice nice play it faster and it would sound awesome

[anexiole]

tha;ts the machine gun intro to City Love. It's on youtube. Many thanks. .Can you please tab this if you can? thank you!

[SimpleAngst]

Sorry I learn from watching mayer's hands and listening to the music. I really stink at writing tab but would be glad to help someone else in any way I can if they would like to tab it.

[anexiole]

hey dude :) no problem I have been trying to figure it out and getting there (albeit very slowly).. You have broken the ice for a lotta us. Thank you once again :)

[jolangli]

And the lick at 2:21!!!

[pax273b]

nice dude!

[lefftyguitar12]

niiiice! :) could you tab it??? you did an awesome job!

[ninepointeightone]

no way?? you're amazing, seriously, I always wanted to learn this but was always kind of intimidated...

THANKS!!!!