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  • Ok Brian... you learn us your skills on playing guitar. May I please learn you something?

    When the sun is shining, take off your sunglasses once in a while...

    :-)

  • Brian is the man when it comes to Rockabilly/Jazz. I just wish that he would explain what he is doing. I already know that he can play the stuff. I would like to steal some things he does, but even on his instructional DVD's he just plays the licks and moves on.

  • There are so many great guitar players. Setzer is one of my favs because of his style....but a lot of people on here saying he's the greatest, there are others you could say that about...Mark Knopfler, Ricky Scaggs, Chet Atkins....are just 3 names that come to mind.

  • One of the best thats ever walked on stage. Hands down man!!!!

  • not as good as I thought he was

  • I wish I could play like that! I was mesmerized not only by his playing but by that gorgeous guitar! I want one!

  • Really dig this stuff; Good feel and groove. Checkout and comment on a few rockabilly originals at rockabillygone  all one word.

  • Brian Setzer used to kick ass. I love that guitar rhythm of a 50's rock and roll sound.

  • Country music has a rich history of having quite a few excellent guitar players & that heritage culminated in certain persons such as Brian Setzer...one of the best with six strings in his hands

  • He's sick !

  • damn I miss my hollow body

  • easily one of the greatest if not the greatest electric guitar player on the planet!!!!!

  • Awesome. I've been doing the same "pick trick" as him. Makes me feel like there is some hope for me yet. haha.

  • 5 fucktards prefer playing guitar hero!

  • dudes too awsome!

  • He's wearing a Horton Heat shirt.. Super cool

  • @FULLR3TARD Norton Motorcycles shirt, but both are still awesome.

  • If I could play like any one guitar player, it would be Mr. Brian Setzer.

  • @notchback..now that's a good idea, brian are you listening?

  • setzers a talented dude...

  • Actually, most of B.S."s solos aren't that difficult to play technically, except for those really fast arpeggios. It's just that most modern guitarists work mostly out of the pentatonic scale and don't do a lot of melody based arpeggios which is what a lot of rockabilly and swing soloing is. This is more jazz oriented than rock. Setzer combines different genres to create a unique sound. The hardest part is not playing the notes, but getting the feel right.

  • i love the sound by fingerpicking. it makes another sound as if you where playing with your findernails. I love it so much! yeah!!!!

  • Fascinating!

    You can hear in the playing how jazz, blues and country all blended to form the early Rn' R technique..

    A great guitar player ain't he..

  • Very inspiring and helpful

  • 3:41 to end... oh my gosh, i think i just died and entered heaven.

  • I'd love to see Brian Setzer and Junior Brown play together.

  • So underrated!!

  • You solved my finger picking pick problem YOU ARE GOD

  • Mr. Setzer... thanks for the tips. You sir, are f***ing awesome!

  • Brian!!! YOUR AWESOME!!!!

  • the boys a genius

  • everytime this guy plays... no words.

  • Boohh - shall I be ashamed now how I play on my Gretsch? Yes! But . . . it's still fun to struggle with the beast, even if Brian is lightyears ahead. Great guy - fantastic player and guitar acrobat. I like his shows, his playing, but not so much the recordings. They are overdone - too much fiddling disturbes the spirit. Sometimes less is more. But I think he is damned to play at his limits!

  • wow this vid is really instruMENTAL!

  • TOTALLY AWESOME! HE IS THE BEST!

  • at that show off peice at the end, you can hear much of that jazzy influence of gene vincents guitarist. cool

  • what you lot talking about shreading? you trying to get rid of documents for your bosses?

  • nice package Bri...just saying

  • @curiousdebois For some reason, after reading your comment, I couldn't stop watching his crotch. o__0

  • sounds good to me........ROCK N ROLL

  • The last minute of this clip is impossibly good...!!! very inspiring

  • SETZER IS GOD

  • so is rockabilly like country but more... i dunno. sounds cool but what is and who plays rockabilly? excuse my lack of knowledge on it, I love country and this seems like it but not so :P

  • @t1mel1ne its about hot rod cars drinking women and having a damn good time

  • @t1mel1ne Rockabilly at least in the 50s was southern rock n roll

    Elvis, Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry to name a few all played Rockabilly its a type of Rock N Roll.

    Rock +Hillbilly = Rockabilly

  • Brian, we understand how to do it...............WE JUST CAN'T!!! Awsome lesson.

  • @elebeu Ha-ha! Yeah, so true. I always wondered how he did that lick he demos at 3:12. Brian is such a cool genius - right down to that Norton T-shirt :-)

  • remember when this video came with the magasine ''guitar techniques'' it inspired me to start play rockabilly for the first time... I still do and always will :)

  • Im an All Around guitarist and only play whith heart,soul,and sound,also i let the fingers do the talking,so while in my shredding riff i might play a blues solo or maybe the other way around,my point is that it dosent matter what kind of guitarist you are, as long as you play with your ears,fingers,and above it all Soul and Heart.

  • is that a Fender Bassman??

  • ziopork

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  • I love your style man!!!!!

  • What amp model is that he's using?

  • I don't really see the point of doing the tucking the pick under your finger thing, unless that's the way you've already taught yourself. When I go from solo to picking like that, I just use the plectrum for the bass notes and the other fingers for the higher notes.. You don't lose/gain any extra fingers using either method compared to each other, but I just think it makes more sense to play with the plectrum and fingers at the same time..

  • @Nekroguitar Not really, using a plectrum gives a different sound, if you're using fingers, it makes sense to use all fingers/thumb for a consistent sound.

  • Ok, I know this is a serious instructional video,I don't want to offend anyone but...thanks for the tight jeans Brian.

  • @userbc44

    I didn't even notice until you mentioned this. Thanks a lot, asshole.

  • screaming like a lil school girl right now.....lmao

  • fabulous!..thanks Brian.."Instru-mental" is an awsome album..buy it today all you guitar lovers out there..peace

  • Grand guitariste et grand monsieur....

  • He's just having a great time, good to see

  • he doesn't shine when he's using the pick much. but damn, his finger picking is crazy good

  • did I hear an ambulance in the second lick?!?!?

  • Wery cold,, mean cool.

    Katukissat ruless..

  • Few people are as cool as Brian Setzer.

    I remember when Stray Cat Strut debuted on Mtv I was in a hard rock band and we just by sheer chance happened to take a rehearsal break right then. We were like "Who the fuck are these clowns?" by the end of the song we were like "Whoa, where the hell did this guy come from?". Totally blown away. Been a huge fan ever since and never forgot that first introduction to Brian Setzer.

  • @SotR59 Too funny!...I remember when these guys (Stray Cats) broke. Your comment: "Who the fuck are these clowns?" was the exact same thing me and all my metalhead buddies thought as well. I saw the BSO at Bogarts in Cincinnati and was blown away by the difference in sound that seventeen plus stellar musicians could make. Like you, I've been a fan and admirer of Brian Setzer because of it...

  • Yeah

  • Oh Lord! You are such a beast!!!

    You make that look easy and is so hard to us.

  • @vilmadb its brian setzer, best rockabilly guitarist ever

  • 3 justine bieber fans dislike this

  • GREAT PLAYING !!!  AND LET THE SHREDDERS BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE THE FASTEST.........it's much harder to play these teqniques fast than shredding believe me...

  • @sielos27 not agree

  • @sielos27 this dude is a shredder in my book, and i'm a metal guy.

  • @sielos27 different. definetly not harder.

  • @sielos27 Coming from a guy who started out with shreddier music and moved over to a more "expressive"" yet slower technique, trust me, its not. However it is a lot harder to make it sound as good as with this sort of music you need feel an groove whereas with shred this isn't the case.

  • @sielos27 Dude the shredders ARE fast ,and I have to disagree with you that this is harder than shredding, because THOSE ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT STYLES you can't compare them like that,but yes! THIS IS GREAT PLAYING!!

  • @DH31701 Lawl why do people think you can't compare things that are different? That's the whole point of comparison. As far as Im concerned anyway, shredding is athletics, whether it's harder is irrelevant to me, but it doesn't express anything, so it makes it pointless IMO.

  • Well,my point is,the ways that shredding and playing slowly delivers feelings are different, for example let's say when you play slow you and you want to let ring a note,the the note you stop at will produce different feel according to the chord that's being played at the back. and for shredding,if you play C major scale up and down very fast,it'll just sound like any other major scale.but if you add an A chord beneath the speedy C major scale,the combination will produce an Minor scale feel

  • And another point is that you might be comparing a shitty emotionless shredding to this great masterpiece.But there are in fact a lot of great solos out there that shreds but carries emotions with it

  • @DH31701 No, I'm comparing shredding I've heard, to 'non shredding' music I've heard. I don't oppose fast playing, in taste and with tact. But when it's to show how big your 'guitar penis' is, which it pretty much, I'm not interested. I've never heard a shredding solo that carries emotion, point me in the right direction :)

  • @TheModCon Well you're right at that point.Truly most shreddings are indeed emotionless,well......try this,it's a instrumental metal song called"Emotion" by a Japanese metal band called "Galneryus" it may not be your kind of taste.But I think it's quite different from those feelingless fast playing.cheers

  • @sielos27 eh..I don't know if it's harder...it's just apples and oranges...I love some shredding too..but this is just cooler...

  • @sielos27

    Why fucking compare them?! Shredding somewhere down the line is influenced straight off the back of rockabilly's hand, and besides, there probably equally as hard.

  • @sielos27 speed means nothing unless it's still tasty...

  • @sielos27 brian setzer is one of only a very small number of musicans tht i look up to. but hav u HEARD mark tremonti or rusty cooley? o.O

  • @hiverjr yes, and they are terrific players....look,I don't wanna be misunderstood by my enthusiasm so I have to tell u that I don't have a problem with shred, It just happened in my life, I've met some guys that said to me "speed is the hardest thing"...well for me it's not ! I think the ability to "fuse" is much harder....but what the hell.... its music anyway...;)

  • @sielos27 ya i kno wut u mean. any fast player kan chop through a basic scale or even multiple scales but it takes a real musician to morph it nd put a piece of themselves into it nd wind up creating something truly unique. and thts y brian nd mark r my biggest inspirations :)

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  • he is a GREAT PLAYER....

  • Man he was cooking. Love it c]:-)

  • This is just too, cool. It's like sitting at the knee of the master, with nobody else in the room.

    That last one was so much fun!

  • Best Rockabilly Player Ever!

  • Thank

    You!!!

  • that palm muting tone ... no words

  • he just murdered that gretsch!!

  • Norton Motorcycles!

    Yeeeeee nice shirttt!

  • Awesome  !!!!

    Can anybody say me the name of the song from "Example 1"

    pls

  • The cops are commin for Setzer! Run Setzer run!!!

  • @goldenhopper No, Setzer kicked someone's ass earlier and it's the sirens of an ambulance rushing the dude to the hospital! lol

  • Man, he's just chillin and having a good time! True musican right there =)

  • W... O... W... !!!!!

  • Stuff to die for.....thanks Brian, your the man....would like to know how your amp is set up plus any effects.....

  • I LIKE!

  • He sure can play, wish I could play like that (naturally). Love that pinstriping on the guitar too!

  • tabs

  • By the end, hes just showing off :) lovin it! lol

  • i wish there were tabs.. i fail

  • uhm. What chords are these?

  • Awesome!

  • Brian's guitar is a work of art, beautiful! A very talented guitar player and gracious to show other guitarists how he plays. Thank you for sharing this video.

  • Awesome .....

  • Oh my God...what a lesson. Could you show us again?

    Great guitar player! Makes me want to sell all my guitar gear...

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  • song?

  • Brian is the king !

    

  • XDDDDDDDDDD so cool 3:20

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  • i cant play this... it's too awesome! i just dont understand it

  • Does anyone here use SuperTrons, and how do they compare to TV Classics?

    (And btw - I've already read the description on tvjones.com)

    Thanks,

    A

  • whoa... amazing...

  • Example 8, shades of Danny Gatton ! Brian Setzer is brilliant !

  • This guy is a real treasure - he makes it look so easy...

  • Wow!!  His guitar is gorgous!

  • Thank you for posting this!

  • It sounds like jazz.

  • Wenn einen gibt dann ihn :D

  • run run run run the police

  • Does somebody know if it is a lesson, released on DVD? If it is so, what is the name of this DVD?

  • Great vid from a much underrated guitarist, who makes the guitar work for the song, not the other way round

  • Meu herói!!!!!

  • almost like a what? 3:30

  • very interesting, thanks for posting!

  • ma li mortacci sua!

  • are my eyes goofy or are they blurring his tats

  • The incredible Mr. Setzer!

  • listening to the last bit made me cum *.*

  • is that stnadart tuning?

  • Does somebody have by any chance something like a guitar pro file of this "example 5"??? ... pleeeeeeease, that one is soooo wicked!!!!!!

  • I can't wait until I can play something that cool when i'm only goofing around

  • genius, and a likeable one at that.

  • I gotta practice his pick-flip

  • rockabilly is my favorite on the guitar but so hard for me to learn. there really is no right way to do it. but so much to learn at the same time.

  • nice

  • Einfach Geil..

  • i wish i had a tenth of that skill/talent!

  • You know whats realy cool if you listen to folks like Robert Johnson, Blind Melon this feel and style is very inline with what they did in the 1900's. obviously he adds jazz chording. Most of the Country style such as Chet Atkins and Travis spawned from this old Blues music. Obviously each one has added their own sound style and grace, but it is amazing how close it is.

  • Awesome tutorial and very generous of Brian. Thanks!

  • What is the first song he's playing?

  • pretty sure it's the beginning to "Rumble in Brixton"

    great song.

  • @frijolero01 rumble in brighton! but yeah great song

  • ♥

  • crap, got the spelling confused with their "Live At Brixton Academy"

    woops. lol!

  • Number 1 guitar man!!!!!

  • i wish i could fingerpick like him

  • practice man, I never though I'd get it. But it's muscle memory and getting comfortable. If you can use a pick, you can finger pick. It's all about getting your fingers to do what you want them to do. Keep them lose. Good luck.

  • yeah lots of practice

  • and the right amount of beer too. Gotta find your swagger.

  • haha

  • Incredible - leaves you speechless.

  • It looks ease......mmm

  • pero ke hijo de pu... xD

  • awesome....!!!!!

  • i like his rock n roll playing but if you listen he gots kinda jazzy playing too, thats what i love the most of his style

  • duse i wish i had enough money for lessons from you

  • I just love his guitar play...

  • this guy rock !

  • O_o  brian setzer - and beyond the stray cats - KICK ASS

  • so did you customize your gretsch? looks like a g5120

  • That's a ridiculous looking guitar. Sounds very nice though. :)

  • awesome this guy...