For anyone interested, there is a complete is transcription of Chet's 'Chopin Waltz No 10 in B Minor' performance available at Craig Dobbins website --- craigdobbins(.)com. -- see the downloads link - Craig's arrangements and transcriptions.
Correct, the transcription won't 'make you play like Chet', but there is much to learn from it and add to your own playing technique. That man was so good, great musician (not just a guitarist).
@darthjz If you've heard Chet at the peak of his talents and don't believe he had the chops, I'd have to been inclined to disagree. I'd also be inclined to wager you either don't play or have a bad lack of imagination.
Chopin's Op. 69 no. 2 is the same thing as Chopin's Waltz no. 10. That just means it was the 69th work he wrote, but it was his 10th Waltz. An "op" is the publication number. "Waltz" is the publication type.
And yes, this is Chet Atkins. It can be found on the album "My Favorite Guitars." It actually very much sounds like him.
Looks like the guy who was disagreeing with you took a college course on classical music and bought a Chet Atkins greatest hits cd and now he thinks he knows everything :)
This is why in my opp that he was the best guitar player ever lived on this planet!. He could - as someone mentioned - play everything. He mastered to FULLNESS to play the most advanced pieces in a way that no one ever will come close to.
Beautiful recording! I'm still stunned by what "country guitarist" Atkins did in his carreer...amazing. Still, I think the piece is actually Chopins "Waltz op.69 No. 2 in B-Minor", for comparison, check out this one for example: watch?v=grCe3FE_duI
Segovia was an inspirational and amazing guitarist. But he stuck to the classical stuff. Chet dared to try and be diverse and learn all sorts of styles. I love it when I see something that Chet's done that I would never expect he would do. But that's what he was like. When I want to listen to the best classical stuff, there's Segovia. Otherwise, you can always count on Chet.
Chet and les pretty much perfected recording electric guitars to get the very best recording, noe the junk kids have to have a fuzz box and distortion pedal to cover up their lack of skill in playing. Chet still is the best!
Chet and les pretty much perfected recording electric guitars to get the very best recording, noe the junk kids have to have a fuzz box and distortion pedal to cover up their lack of skill in playing. Chet still is the best!
Segovia could play anything too folks, he just chose not too. When Chet showed up one day with an electric guitar Segovia showed that he was a "snob" when it came to the classical guitar. Segovia is the guy that led the way for guys like Chet - he made the classical guitar respectable again after it fallen out of favor for a while.
@PaulKJHarris Segovia could play jazz and blues? Ray Charles, and R&B? Beatles and a little bit of rock? Tunes like "Heart of Glass", and "Let 'em in?" Seriously? He really could?
@daffydoug Of course Segovia could play anything. He was the greatest guitarist that ever lived! Chet Atkins was aware of this as well. Why else would he seek out the great Maestro so late in his life if he wasn't keenly aware that there was much to be learned from him and much to be improved about his own playing?
@johnnyreb21 I don't know how to tell you this, but it takes more, MUCH MORE than technique to be able to pull of R&B, jazz, and a myriad other styles like Chet did so flawlessly. You have got to be able to FEEL IT in your bones. I seriously, seriously doubt that the starched Segovia had that in him. It would have looked and felt and sounded ludicrous!!
@daffydoug Oh come on...where do you think Atkins got this style and who influenced him? Segovia! Why do you think Segovia is "starched"? Flamenco guitar is very passionate and so was Segovia. You could hear in his playing....just maybe not always in person. I saw Segovia before he died...the audience was in tears! Thanks for posting the video!
i find it very hard to get into Chopin, tried a few times but it didn't work for me but now thanks to Chet Atkins and his guitar play i've got a much better idea of it's beauty. ( sorry for any english mistakes )
@daffydoug see Segovia play along with instrumentalists like Boots Randolph, or Floyd Cramer, or George Benson, or Earl Klugh.
Let's see these guys play along with the best of Mark Knopfler. or let's see Segovia keep up with Jerry Reed! Put one of these guys up next to Doc Watson or Les Paul and see if they can keep up. What a laugh!!
There is only and ever will be only ONE Mr Guitar. Chet stands head and shoulders above all the rest. These kids who come on here and put down his playing
Respond to this video... playing guitar, and teaching the world how to play, and being the top guitarist of all time, of the century, recording well over a THOUSAND tunes
I don't care WHO they are. Whether it's Segovia or Hendrix, they couldn't hold a dim candle to Chet's versatility. They could all play guitar pretty good, in their chosen venue, but Chet could play ANYTHING from Bach to rock with every stop in between.
Let's see Hendrix play with the Boston Pops. Or let's
Give a classical guitar to Jimmy Hendrix or a fender stratocaster to Andrés Segovia and then you'll have an idea of what was the greatness of Chet Atkins
@chet1952 Exactly! you hit the nail right on the head. Chet could play ANYTHING. These other guitarists had their specialties, but Chet was unlimited! I kind of laugh thinking about what you said. I can picture ol' Segovia trying to play that Strat! Or even a Gretcsh! Chet, the master, could pick up THEIR guitars and play, but they couldn't pick up Chet's and play!
@chet1952 I get so tired of these young punks coming on Youtube, and watching a video of Chet playing, and then they criticize him, judging his playing as if they know ANYTHING about him. As far as I'm concerned, if they judge Chet's playing by watching one video, which shows a tiny fraction of a sliver of his enormous ability, then they don't know their arse from a hole in the ground concerning guitars, and guitar music,
I mean, when i think of Chet, I think of a man who spent DECADES
@4Topwood And not only that, but he could play dozens of other styles on that guitar, on top of that. No other guitar player in history has ever been that versatile.
I know Chet Atkins was very versatile. But what struck me was just how good his interpretation was. Chopin is extremely difficult to interpret well. Chet nailed it, using the rubato that Chopin requires with incredible delicacy. Chet's interpretation is better than most of the concert pianists' I've heard.
To: IMRezpected - Chet was not only a master sound engineer he was pretty much responsible for changing the sound of country music from that hokey old fashioned sound to the rich sounds we enjoy today. We can also thank him for that.
@stueycaster "hokey old fashioned sound"? "rich sounds we enjoy today"? are you joking? that classic country sound was far superior and richer than the over-produced, rubber stamp junk that major record companies put out now. Don't demonize chet by associating him with modern garbage pop
@CitrusSucker That was the thing about Chet that put him head and shoulders above every one else. The fact that he could play virtually ANYTHING. Everything from, Bach to Rock with every stop in between. His guitar could be country as a twang, or sophisticated as a symphony orchestra. Name another guitarist in history who could do all that, and do it with ease. Country, jazz, blues, he could do it all. Only one Mr Guitar and always will be.
Thanks for posting this wonderful piece done superbly,
I once lived in Nashville inthe60s and met "mr RCA" aka Chet Atkins, who was also a master sound engineer and produced many top records for many artists
LFD254 Chet was my Dad's favourite guitarist. I always think of him when I hear Chet, and especially his duets with Mark Knopfler which my dad really loved.
Anyone who likes this should also check out Andres Segovia and John Williams guitar solos. Especially when Segovia was a younger man, he was phenomenal.
I always associated Chet with a Country/Western sound and a fingerpicking style, he was quite versatile. I even heard him playing some jazz stuff with Stanley Jordan, but his trademark Country/Western sound and vibrato come through. So much different than the vibrato of Bireli Lagrene or Django. He is an outstanding guitarist.
You should listen to the fist classical nashville guitar quartet with Chet and John Knowles and a famous classical lady that I forget the name of Emily something, I know her but I just went blank, but any how their recording of Mostly Mozart and the brandeburg concert and others are phenomenal. Chet did record many classical piecec which were quite difficult like Recuerdos de la alhambra, but he is shown here in youtube saying that he prefered to move outside the box and not be restricted.
curious, Chet was a guitar genius, what about him that makes anybody think he "couldn't" play classical?? Nothing he did will ever surprise me... *maybe* if his & Les Paul's guitar interlocked & became transformer robot/space ships & brought them back to their home planet, then I'd be like "ohhh, ok, now I get it..." lol
This isn't surprising to me. Most of the great guitarists I've seen have, at some point, studied classical guitar. It's invaluable, no matter what your preferred style is.
yeah im in a guitar class right now and my teacher is giving me private lessons and he said the most difficult style is classical fingerstyle, so thats what he's teaching me =] it takes a lot of time and patience to get your fingers coordinated indepentantly like that
I agree with him and you. Chet used the classical fingerpicking style in his right hand unlike his competitiors who only used the two fingers style. Chet used all his fingers except the pinky. And he didn´t allways mute the bass or let his pinky rest on the pickguard, only when it was needed. In my opinion Chet some how seemed to improve the classical right hand technique and took it to another level. That is just my opinion.
I'm a classical musician. It's not easy to play this on guitar but Chet captures well the spirit of Chopin. This is a great musician with a wonderful taste for music. It's a pleasure to watch all his videos on youtube
By the way Chopin said "There is nothing more beautiful than the sound of a guitar, save perhaps two."
OMG-I have not heard this in YEARS. I have the actual LP! My late father was an NYPD Motorcycle cop who was crippled in the line of duty in 1963. As part of his therapy for his crushed hands and fingers,he taught himslef to play guitar and he did that by listening to and playing along with Chet Atkins records. Now, whenever I hear Cht Atkins, I think of my dad.Thanks so for this posting !
@LFD254 The way you tell that story reminds me again what a beautiful medium Youtube is. First of all, so much music to play and secondly; all the beautiful stories and memories of people. peace
@Wooter-I actually still have all my dad's old Chet Atkins LPs. The covers are worn and the vinyl is heavily grooved because we played them over and over. Our house had a big old stereo in the center room and you could hear the music resonate from cellar to attic. And in summer, we took those LPs away with us along with a portable phonograph. Many a summer's evening was orchestrated by this music, and people would come and sit and chat and listen quietly. Things were so different then.
@LFD254 And that's only your story and memories, imagine what Chet has brought to all other listeners. Beautiful, thank you very much. Greetings from Holland
@Wooter-likewise greetings and Happy New Year from Long Island, New York, USA! Chet's music transends language, cultures and other barriers that often keep us from being civilized. Maybe the world should do as we did those summer nights so long ago; sit, and listen.
Superbly played.TY daffydoug for posting
paulostroff99 1 day ago
@paulostroff99 You're welcome!
daffydoug 14 hours ago
For anyone interested, there is a complete is transcription of Chet's 'Chopin Waltz No 10 in B Minor' performance available at Craig Dobbins website --- craigdobbins(.)com. -- see the downloads link - Craig's arrangements and transcriptions.
Correct, the transcription won't 'make you play like Chet', but there is much to learn from it and add to your own playing technique. That man was so good, great musician (not just a guitarist).
@daffydoug -- Thanks for posting.
kbjazzgtr001 3 weeks ago
@kbjazzgtr001 Thanks for the info! Much appreciated!
daffydoug 3 weeks ago
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kbjazzgtr001 3 weeks ago
This is Chopin's Waltz op. 69 no.2 and it doesn't sound like Chet Atkins. I don't believe it's him, even though Chet was very fond of Chopin.
darthjz 1 month ago
@darthjz Why do you refuse to believe, when I pulled it directly off Chet's CD??
Google it, and you will find that it is indeed Chet.
daffydoug 1 month ago 3
@darthjz If you've heard Chet at the peak of his talents and don't believe he had the chops, I'd have to been inclined to disagree. I'd also be inclined to wager you either don't play or have a bad lack of imagination.
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Blix43 1 month ago
@darthjz
Chopin's Op. 69 no. 2 is the same thing as Chopin's Waltz no. 10. That just means it was the 69th work he wrote, but it was his 10th Waltz. An "op" is the publication number. "Waltz" is the publication type.
And yes, this is Chet Atkins. It can be found on the album "My Favorite Guitars." It actually very much sounds like him.
thejoysoftrout 4 weeks ago
@thejoysoftrout That's what I've been trying to tell everybody. Me. the guy who posted the tune. The guy who pulled it off Chet's record.
daffydoug 3 weeks ago
@daffydoug
Looks like the guy who was disagreeing with you took a college course on classical music and bought a Chet Atkins greatest hits cd and now he thinks he knows everything :)
thejoysoftrout 3 weeks ago
@thejoysoftrout LOL!!!!
daffydoug 3 weeks ago
A week and easily influenced person would immediately rush out and buy a guitar after hearing this. I plan to wait a few days before succumbing.
Even if no one can match Chet Atkins, he had a smooth clarity that makes you want to try.
Hikikomori013 2 months ago
@Hikikomori013 Yup! I've been trying for over forty years! And I have very sore hands as a result.
daffydoug 1 month ago
this is nice....ty for posting
moichido100 2 months ago
This is why in my opp that he was the best guitar player ever lived on this planet!. He could - as someone mentioned - play everything. He mastered to FULLNESS to play the most advanced pieces in a way that no one ever will come close to.
He was the GUITAR MASTER!
GuitarSir 3 months ago 9
@GuitarSir Amen! Chet, the undisputed master! Did things with an axe that no one will ever fully imitate.
daffydoug 3 months ago 3
Was he using his thumbpick in this recording? The tone is certainly unique..
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@EvanFingerstyle I wasn't there, but I can say with assurance, Chet was never without the thumb-pick.
daffydoug 4 months ago
What grade is this piece?
Oismeister123 4 months ago
@Oismeister123 For guitar Im sure its intermediate.. For Piano, I think it's beginner depending on the fingerings written tho...
juancho661 2 months ago
I do not believe the Atkins played this. This is Segovia.
briankofke 5 months ago
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kindcatsV 5 months ago
@kindcatsV Это и не Аткинс и не Сеговия. Интересно кто????
kindcatsV 5 months ago
@briankofke Correction. This is Mr Atkins. I took it directly off his CD.
daffydoug 4 months ago 7
luigis mansion anyone?
thesuperfilms 5 months ago
been trying to perfect this on the guitar for more than a year now, thought I had it...
back to work :(
Mercmitch20 5 months ago
Love it
poodiggitydoo 5 months ago
Absolutely beautiful!!!
kumhuimusicgirl 6 months ago
my god! oh its so so amazing!
pasha355 6 months ago
Beautiful recording! I'm still stunned by what "country guitarist" Atkins did in his carreer...amazing. Still, I think the piece is actually Chopins "Waltz op.69 No. 2 in B-Minor", for comparison, check out this one for example: watch?v=grCe3FE_duI
geldar91 6 months ago
One thing is clear for me: Chet Atkins is great for jazz music, but when he tries clasic music, it sucks
MrJavierjim 6 months ago
Amazing
BTBHSOHBOY 6 months ago
Segovia was an inspirational and amazing guitarist. But he stuck to the classical stuff. Chet dared to try and be diverse and learn all sorts of styles. I love it when I see something that Chet's done that I would never expect he would do. But that's what he was like. When I want to listen to the best classical stuff, there's Segovia. Otherwise, you can always count on Chet.
zmanofwar3 6 months ago
Hi : Thnks for sharing this , I haveit on an RCA LP also .
I lived in Nashville in the 60s and met Chet socially, he was
the production engineer in charge for RCA studios in Nashville ,
Also I had an opportunity to hear Segovia in 1969 at Phoenix College .
It was wndrful until so many rude (mostly minorities with no idea who he was)
students kept walking in and out , tht he stopped in the middle of a piece pronounced us uncivilized and walked off the stage
l87kmps 6 months ago
@l87kmps, ammend to add Chet was also widely known then as "Mr RCA" and was also a talent scout for RCA
besides being yrs ahead of everyone else in recording engineering at the time, also Segovia was right to have walked off the stage in my opinion
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Chet and les pretty much perfected recording electric guitars to get the very best recording, noe the junk kids have to have a fuzz box and distortion pedal to cover up their lack of skill in playing. Chet still is the best!
birthdaysuitboy 6 months ago
Chet and les pretty much perfected recording electric guitars to get the very best recording, noe the junk kids have to have a fuzz box and distortion pedal to cover up their lack of skill in playing. Chet still is the best!
birthdaysuitboy 6 months ago
hahahaha you guys ... Segovia awesome player ..... Chet Atkins . awesome player too.. ... just enjoy :-)
dominiphillip 7 months ago
Segovia could play anything too folks, he just chose not too. When Chet showed up one day with an electric guitar Segovia showed that he was a "snob" when it came to the classical guitar. Segovia is the guy that led the way for guys like Chet - he made the classical guitar respectable again after it fallen out of favor for a while.
PaulKJHarris 7 months ago
@PaulKJHarris Segovia could play jazz and blues? Ray Charles, and R&B? Beatles and a little bit of rock? Tunes like "Heart of Glass", and "Let 'em in?" Seriously? He really could?
daffydoug 7 months ago 8
@daffydoug I for one, genuinely think he could, with ease, if he wanted to.
albertelliswearengen 6 months ago
@daffydoug Of course Segovia could play anything. He was the greatest guitarist that ever lived! Chet Atkins was aware of this as well. Why else would he seek out the great Maestro so late in his life if he wasn't keenly aware that there was much to be learned from him and much to be improved about his own playing?
johnnyreb21 6 months ago
@johnnyreb21 Haha!! Segovia couldn't play the Aranjuez :P
GyveTurckee 6 months ago
@johnnyreb21 I don't know how to tell you this, but it takes more, MUCH MORE than technique to be able to pull of R&B, jazz, and a myriad other styles like Chet did so flawlessly. You have got to be able to FEEL IT in your bones. I seriously, seriously doubt that the starched Segovia had that in him. It would have looked and felt and sounded ludicrous!!
But with Chet, it flowed.
daffydoug 4 months ago
@daffydoug Oh come on...where do you think Atkins got this style and who influenced him? Segovia! Why do you think Segovia is "starched"? Flamenco guitar is very passionate and so was Segovia. You could hear in his playing....just maybe not always in person. I saw Segovia before he died...the audience was in tears! Thanks for posting the video!
RoadsideDinerLover 2 months ago
@daffydoug Yes i once saw Segovia play on stage a GG Allin song called " PISS OFF" then he took a big dump on stage and threw it at audience.
RJiminez51 4 months ago
i find it very hard to get into Chopin, tried a few times but it didn't work for me but now thanks to Chet Atkins and his guitar play i've got a much better idea of it's beauty. ( sorry for any english mistakes )
StraightIntoTheHead 7 months ago
This is absolutely beautiful.
BTBHSOHBOY 7 months ago
@daffydoug see Segovia play along with instrumentalists like Boots Randolph, or Floyd Cramer, or George Benson, or Earl Klugh.
Let's see these guys play along with the best of Mark Knopfler. or let's see Segovia keep up with Jerry Reed! Put one of these guys up next to Doc Watson or Les Paul and see if they can keep up. What a laugh!!
There is only and ever will be only ONE Mr Guitar. Chet stands head and shoulders above all the rest. These kids who come on here and put down his playing
daffydoug 8 months ago
@daffydoug are ignorant little twits, as far as I'm concerned.
daffydoug 8 months ago
Respond to this video... playing guitar, and teaching the world how to play, and being the top guitarist of all time, of the century, recording well over a THOUSAND tunes
I don't care WHO they are. Whether it's Segovia or Hendrix, they couldn't hold a dim candle to Chet's versatility. They could all play guitar pretty good, in their chosen venue, but Chet could play ANYTHING from Bach to rock with every stop in between.
Let's see Hendrix play with the Boston Pops. Or let's
daffydoug 8 months ago
Give a classical guitar to Jimmy Hendrix or a fender stratocaster to Andrés Segovia and then you'll have an idea of what was the greatness of Chet Atkins
chet1952 8 months ago
@chet1952 Exactly! you hit the nail right on the head. Chet could play ANYTHING. These other guitarists had their specialties, but Chet was unlimited! I kind of laugh thinking about what you said. I can picture ol' Segovia trying to play that Strat! Or even a Gretcsh! Chet, the master, could pick up THEIR guitars and play, but they couldn't pick up Chet's and play!
I think that shows who the TRUE master was!
daffydoug 8 months ago
@daffydoug Yep!!! ;)
chet1952 8 months ago
@chet1952 I get so tired of these young punks coming on Youtube, and watching a video of Chet playing, and then they criticize him, judging his playing as if they know ANYTHING about him. As far as I'm concerned, if they judge Chet's playing by watching one video, which shows a tiny fraction of a sliver of his enormous ability, then they don't know their arse from a hole in the ground concerning guitars, and guitar music,
I mean, when i think of Chet, I think of a man who spent DECADES
daffydoug 8 months ago 2
@daffydoug I'm glad that you putted songs of his legacy, we need people like you to remember who he was and why he's still Mister Guitar!
chet1952 8 months ago
did he arrange this?
jamesedwardtheobald 8 months ago
@jamesedwardtheobald I think so.
daffydoug 8 months ago
Marvelous. He interprets Chopin better than most, whatever their instrument.
4Topwood 10 months ago
@4Topwood And not only that, but he could play dozens of other styles on that guitar, on top of that. No other guitar player in history has ever been that versatile.
daffydoug 10 months ago 2
@daffydoug
Thanks for replying.
I know Chet Atkins was very versatile. But what struck me was just how good his interpretation was. Chopin is extremely difficult to interpret well. Chet nailed it, using the rubato that Chopin requires with incredible delicacy. Chet's interpretation is better than most of the concert pianists' I've heard.
4Topwood 10 months ago
@4Topwood Amen!!
daffydoug 4 months ago
The first time I heard this was on an old porno vhs......loved it.
DoctorWho1983 10 months ago
TALENT!! REAL TIMELESS TALENT!
GAtomicDaw 1 year ago
This is what I have to learn to play in Gifted Music. Now I have something to listen too!
JFAcoustic 1 year ago
c'est du géni
capocamilo 1 year ago
:) this makes me hate the current music of our day...... :)
teceyS3 1 year ago
To: IMRezpected - Chet was not only a master sound engineer he was pretty much responsible for changing the sound of country music from that hokey old fashioned sound to the rich sounds we enjoy today. We can also thank him for that.
stueycaster 1 year ago
@stueycaster "hokey old fashioned sound"? "rich sounds we enjoy today"? are you joking? that classic country sound was far superior and richer than the over-produced, rubber stamp junk that major record companies put out now. Don't demonize chet by associating him with modern garbage pop
AromaticDogwood 1 year ago 5
@stueycaster Well, Chet was credited with creating the "Nashville sound" , but that sound has little resemblance to today's country sound.
daffydoug 1 year ago
WOW just WOW..... inspires me to be this great someday.
IMRezpected 1 year ago
Great stuff. I don't follow modern country music, so maybe I'm wrong, but I can't envision any of today's country musicians playing Chopin.
CitrusSucker 1 year ago 19
@CitrusSucker That was the thing about Chet that put him head and shoulders above every one else. The fact that he could play virtually ANYTHING. Everything from, Bach to Rock with every stop in between. His guitar could be country as a twang, or sophisticated as a symphony orchestra. Name another guitarist in history who could do all that, and do it with ease. Country, jazz, blues, he could do it all. Only one Mr Guitar and always will be.
daffydoug 1 year ago 25
@daffydoug He was indeed one of a kind.
ZaftigWoman 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this wonderful piece done superbly,
I once lived in Nashville inthe60s and met "mr RCA" aka Chet Atkins, who was also a master sound engineer and produced many top records for many artists
l87kmps 1 year ago
LFD254 Chet was my Dad's favourite guitarist. I always think of him when I hear Chet, and especially his duets with Mark Knopfler which my dad really loved.
busterrabbit 1 year ago
It's so technical and rich that it might sound like a harpsichord, but there is too much style and expression for a harpsichord.
BrothersFreedive 1 year ago
Chet so admired the classical guitarists and being so honest and humble stated many times he wasn't in their league.
md75yt38 1 year ago
Just lovely.
dminortheory 1 year ago
OMG !! Is he playing it in A minor? This is absolutely amazing.
evhsrvfe 1 year ago
@evhsrvfe It says B Minor on the top of the video.
guitarboy543 1 year ago
@guitarboy543 But it's A minor indeed.
guitars470dxqmcn 1 year ago 2
Chet the incomparable. Thanks for posting.
Judplay 1 year ago
This is the first "classical" piece I have heard Chet Atkins play. I am very impressed. A wonderful musician.
tigranvartanovitch 1 year ago
Waltz Opus 69 No. 2 <- dude change the title
mosen17 1 year ago 4
@mosen17 they're the same thing
Mercmitch20 1 year ago
I'm throwing away all my guitars. Chet makes me sick. How can any one man do that? He probably would have made Chopin jealous too...
matt2thadillon 1 year ago 2
What an incredible Master Chet was...This is beautiful...Jack Baker NYC
MrJbaker7 1 year ago
nice
CavenEdwards 1 year ago
This is Op.62 No.2
awesomewelles90 2 years ago
@awesomewelles90 or maybe Op.69 No.2
kwastormayt 1 year ago
Chopin my last name
MrChopinMan 2 years ago
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No heart....where ist the heart?????
GegantaCatalana 2 years ago
@GegantaCatalana usually anterior to the vertebral column and posterior to the sternum adjacent to the lungs.
arsenalca 1 year ago 7
Shyett Hatkeens isst guut, issst guut kitarr.
PHDROD 2 years ago
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To me it sounds like someone playing the guitar with a nail file, stick to country!
1955anthony 2 years ago
don't be such a tard
heileman28 2 years ago 3
wow you have small horizons
bigassmatic 2 years ago
ADORABLE... THANKS
MrAsturcon 2 years ago
A really nice surprise... beautifully done.
I wonder if he transcribed it himself
hhelpmaboab 2 years ago
I like it as much as playing by piano.
doktorszoszi8 2 years ago
Perfect .
IsKeLeToR 2 years ago
Anyone who likes this should also check out Andres Segovia and John Williams guitar solos. Especially when Segovia was a younger man, he was phenomenal.
I always associated Chet with a Country/Western sound and a fingerpicking style, he was quite versatile. I even heard him playing some jazz stuff with Stanley Jordan, but his trademark Country/Western sound and vibrato come through. So much different than the vibrato of Bireli Lagrene or Django. He is an outstanding guitarist.
L4CES 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting the video, but please note that this is Waltz in B Minor, Op.69, No. 2
abbraxx 2 years ago
it's also called waltz nº 10 you dumbass
SANNAFABICH 2 years ago
anyone know what make/model of guitar he is playing here?
surfitbig 2 years ago
in the picture its a gretsch
its some acoustic guitar in the actual song.. im not sure
squirrelnutcased 2 years ago
not accoustic, its a classical guitar
neolardo 2 years ago
First buy a dictionary and look up the meaning of acoustic and then comment.
1lupus 2 years ago
Chet could play classical as well as the best,,,just an amazing talent.
1FLEWUNDER 2 years ago 7
A big amen to that! No wonder why he was called Mr. Guitar!
John
JAGU54 2 years ago 18
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I really don't think this is Atkins at all, I think it may be Segovia or something.
thegreatpumpkin1313 2 years ago
it is Chet... I have the album ;)
dlaz64 2 years ago 6
Cool, I had no idea he could play classical like that. What album?
thegreatpumpkin1313 2 years ago 3
You should listen to the fist classical nashville guitar quartet with Chet and John Knowles and a famous classical lady that I forget the name of Emily something, I know her but I just went blank, but any how their recording of Mostly Mozart and the brandeburg concert and others are phenomenal. Chet did record many classical piecec which were quite difficult like Recuerdos de la alhambra, but he is shown here in youtube saying that he prefered to move outside the box and not be restricted.
fridrikur 2 years ago 3
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Was that lady Leona Boyd?
TheZach43 3 months ago
@TheZach43 Yes I think you are right Zach, thank you :)
fridrikur 3 months ago
curious, Chet was a guitar genius, what about him that makes anybody think he "couldn't" play classical?? Nothing he did will ever surprise me... *maybe* if his & Les Paul's guitar interlocked & became transformer robot/space ships & brought them back to their home planet, then I'd be like "ohhh, ok, now I get it..." lol
gigimc 2 years ago 5
So nice!
inhymnilive 2 years ago 2
This isn't surprising to me. Most of the great guitarists I've seen have, at some point, studied classical guitar. It's invaluable, no matter what your preferred style is.
And it's pretty :)
Wufnu 2 years ago 7
yeah im in a guitar class right now and my teacher is giving me private lessons and he said the most difficult style is classical fingerstyle, so thats what he's teaching me =] it takes a lot of time and patience to get your fingers coordinated indepentantly like that
Harmonikz 2 years ago
I agree with him and you. Chet used the classical fingerpicking style in his right hand unlike his competitiors who only used the two fingers style. Chet used all his fingers except the pinky. And he didn´t allways mute the bass or let his pinky rest on the pickguard, only when it was needed. In my opinion Chet some how seemed to improve the classical right hand technique and took it to another level. That is just my opinion.
fridrikur 2 years ago 3
NICE!
Ya know....
A BIG part of me would rather have heard him playing this on one of his Gretsch Guitars... with some amp gain.... turned up to 11...
All the same this is Still amazing.
Thanks for posting this Extreme example of Chet Mojo!
BlueMoonGuitar 3 years ago
the gain would have sounded like poop
johnthemanxx 2 years ago
wow!! this is my fauvorite
MattkNT 3 years ago
Chet was the man.
hailtube 3 years ago 2
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I'm a classical musician. It's not easy to play this on guitar but Chet captures well the spirit of Chopin. This is a great musician with a wonderful taste for music. It's a pleasure to watch all his videos on youtube
By the way Chopin said "There is nothing more beautiful than the sound of a guitar, save perhaps two."
manymanero 3 years ago 6
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manymanero 3 years ago
OMG-I have not heard this in YEARS. I have the actual LP! My late father was an NYPD Motorcycle cop who was crippled in the line of duty in 1963. As part of his therapy for his crushed hands and fingers,he taught himslef to play guitar and he did that by listening to and playing along with Chet Atkins records. Now, whenever I hear Cht Atkins, I think of my dad.Thanks so for this posting !
LFD254 3 years ago 60
Nice story. Thanks for sharing.
mindbodylightsound10 3 years ago 4
@LFD254 The way you tell that story reminds me again what a beautiful medium Youtube is. First of all, so much music to play and secondly; all the beautiful stories and memories of people. peace
Wooter91 2 years ago
Thank you-for all the idiots who post nonsense, theres always good folks like you to make up foir it. Peace to you too.
LFD254 2 years ago
Heh heh so true, they're everywhere... if YouTube has taught me anything, it's that you can't educate pork.
Drweavil 2 years ago 2
@Wooter-I actually still have all my dad's old Chet Atkins LPs. The covers are worn and the vinyl is heavily grooved because we played them over and over. Our house had a big old stereo in the center room and you could hear the music resonate from cellar to attic. And in summer, we took those LPs away with us along with a portable phonograph. Many a summer's evening was orchestrated by this music, and people would come and sit and chat and listen quietly. Things were so different then.
LFD254 2 years ago 3
@LFD254 And that's only your story and memories, imagine what Chet has brought to all other listeners. Beautiful, thank you very much. Greetings from Holland
Wooter91 2 years ago
@Wooter-likewise greetings and Happy New Year from Long Island, New York, USA! Chet's music transends language, cultures and other barriers that often keep us from being civilized. Maybe the world should do as we did those summer nights so long ago; sit, and listen.
LFD254 2 years ago
Amen :-)
Wooter91 2 years ago 3
Chopin was the greatest, through the piano he discovered everything, and I've heard of them all.
doll0116 3 years ago 4
"Waltz in Bm" is played here in Am, but so what? So much easier for the billy-box. And Mr. Atkins can do it any way he damn well pleases BTW.
KapnKoolio 3 years ago 2
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this sucks on the guitar
nothinbetta2do 3 years ago
k.GTFO then
SpartanOstrich15 3 years ago 2
Amazing
Batman001 3 years ago 2
becoming one of most re-played vids
rutroe73737 3 years ago
It's becoming hard for me to keep track anymore!
daffydoug 3 years ago
this was awesome. Chopin was the greatest composer ever
MaxiMustermann88 3 years ago 5
not even close. ever heard of mozart?
nothinbetta2do 3 years ago
Chopin was the greatest. Through the piano he discovered everything, and I've heard of them ALL.
doll0116 3 years ago 2