Andy Summers - How To Play: Message In A Bottle

Direct from the man himself.

You can buy the full Andy Summers Guitar Tutorial DVD at:
http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Summers-Guitar-DVD-Booklet/dp/B000E6FVVS

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[mgmityu]

Jesus, what a hell he is doing at 2:15 ???

[geraberl]

@mgmityu Harmonic Chimes, I go into detail on how to do that in my tutorial; Play The Police: Can't Stand Losing You

[beavis408]

@geraberl harmonic "chimes"? He seems to be basically raking up/down the harmonics--or is there an added level of complexity i'm missing

[geraberl]

@beavis408 he is doing a form of it called 'crabbing' where the fingers 'walk' across the strings like a crab while the index finger sounds the chime. It's pretty tricky to do and takes quite a bit of practice

[go2ldook]

I actually can play it accurately , note for note, on the top 5 frets, using more open notes. It was the easiest way to play it 30 years ago when I was a kid, just starting. I have tried to learn his way, but I got so used to my way, it is just much easier...especially when I sing and play at the same time. Every Breath You Take however, I learned to play it like Andy does, with those long stretches.

[geraberl]

@go2ldook Sounds good. Interestingly enough, I noticed a lot of the time on the Police reunion tour a while back, Andy was playing it differently position-wise, more inline with how one can transpose it up between the first and fourth frets like you were describing. Maybe being a lot older now, even Andy was tired of doing those stretches ;)

[1970Said]

One of the best (but very underrated) guitarist...

[MrUndersolo]

He's got a hand like a hyperactive tarantula. Still got me stretching my fingers, Mr Summers.

[go2ldook]

@geraberl I was wrong...was not really note for note, but close enough that few would notice. Great for newbies with small hands or who have not developed much strength. I got tired of being lazy after 20 years and learned to play it correctly after this post...I am too much a Police fan to skimp! Was not as hard to sing and play as I thought.

[ArtDonna84]

@mgmityu I hear you on that ! I've been trying to work on it for the past few weeks and I'm still not smooth. I'm just now reading his book "One Train Later " and think perhaps the Jazz guitar influenze he studied early in his mastery of the guitar really paid off.

[DtheWizar]

@tarzanmorrison WTF are you say?

[Greyswyndir]

@mgmityu,

Haha! Yeah really. I've never seen that before and I'm having a hard time reproducing the effect. Andy is one the most creative and underrated guitar players out there. Even Stewart Copeland is underrated and he's one of the best drummers in the world. I guess you have to do one million-mile per hour guitar solos to be considered one of the best these days, what a shame.

[tarzanmorrison]

This dude's playing it all wrong.

Psych--thanks for posting it.

[Tapiola2007]

Andy clearly resents having to add The Police stuff to this video to make it sell. He'd moved on a long way from The Police by the time he made this tutorial video but in reality most people were/are only interested his earlier stuff. Shame but true!

[salmonfishandships]

how great to have a lesson with andy Summers himself ! thanks a lot !

greetings from france - Philippe