The Secret to the Johnny Cash Guitar Sound // Luther Perkins Rhythm Guitar Lesson
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In this guitar lesson, Hayes teaches you how to sound like those classic early Johnny Cash records by unpacking Luther Perkins' rhythm guitar style.
By the end of the lesson, you will know how to play three variations of Luther's signature rhythm pattern. Hayes also gives you some tips for how to dial in your amp and pedal board to sound like Johnny's cuts on Sun Records.
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Have you ever tried the Luther Perkins style of rhythm guitar?
No, but thanks to you I'm working on it.
Almost every gig...
Dang straight.........now you gotta tell them about the walk up/down patterns....... that's the missing piece here.
@@DeadKoby totally with you!
The walk up/ down helps if the bass player doesn',t know the song well
A really important factor in achieving the authentic Luther Perkins tone is to use flat-wound strings with a wound G. Good lesson!
Thanks for the tip! That’s great info
Just put them on mine. Exactly what I was after, played through a princeton
I started out playing guitar from listening to cash and I learned a lot of his sound self taught, his sound help make the picker I am to day.
Just discovered your channel...like the "here's how you do it" approach. I'm 63 with no musical education except self taught and lucky enough years ago to work around Nashville and made friends with many RCA recording musicians...took this 20 something self taught "thumper," under their wing and taught me the Nashville Number system, how to listen and pick up the subtle sounds of major, minor and 7th's so you could chart quick without needing to know what key and best of all, sat me down in jam sessions and not only showed me how they were playing...made me take the lead (on rhythm ....all other rhythm players dropped out) of a song so I had to try to play professional quality....didnt always work...but they showed me how to do it right instead of making me butt of a joke or something....I got good enough to be part of a local band and was even offered a job as the entertainment for the Belle Carol riverboat on dinner cruises. I bowed out in that....too chicken and knew I wasn't good enough to be solo. Guy I worked for owned the boat too and heard me playing a practice tape I had made at a friend's little studio. I give background to show where I'm coming from...I'm a "monkey see-monkey try to do, monkey screw up many times" player. I have learned a lot on your videos. I haven't been able to play much in many years due to carpal tunnel and arthritis in my hands so I'm nearly a student again...plus I've gone almost deaf so having to learn visually because even with hearing aids, can't hear well enough to pick up chord changes. Etc very well.
I recommend these videos.
Thanks so much for sharing your story! What an awesome ride. Sounds like you know a lot about guitar already, but I really appreciate that you got something out of my videos.
Great story! Thanks for sharing that. Just a thought- lap steel might be more friendly for your hands these days. You could start a new chapter on monkey see , monkey try to do. I just picked up a lap steel and find it tone very fun and challenging. FYI, I’m 63.
An excellent video, I always wanted to learn this technique. Thank you for sharing this information . It will definitely help me in my "Johnny Cash " learning process .
You're welcome Wayne! It's definitely been a go-to tool for me when I'm playing electric. Happy pickin!
This was a fantastic tutor!thanks e span!i can watch this over and over!what a joy!
Thanks Vernon!
Greetings from the UK. To get that early sound i plug my tele into a watkins copycat tape echo through a vox ac 30 amp, my rig hasnt changed in decades!! For that early rhythm playing from Johnny try slipping a playing card or a dollar bill behind the strings. Johnny used that trick before WS Holland joined on drums to give a snare effect
Yes... I figured out the Luther Sound back in the early Nineties...
I had an old Esquire and a tweed Pro... I could get the sound CLOSE, but it just didn't make it until I started running 12-56 flatwounds on the guitar.
Then I ended up buying a D.O.D. digital delay and figured out to set it for a single slapback... Old tape echo machines were a dime a dozen back then, but the old ones were notoriously finicky... So we all just used Boss or D.O.D. pedals.
But NEVER use any reverb or anything that'll "color" the signal... Reverb as we know it (not RCA plate style) wasn't invented until Rockabilly was almost "over" in the late Fifties.
Natural room reverb will round everything out.
And yes, the palm-muting is a must.
Oh... And a fun fact -
All of the Sun Johnny Cash stuff was played out of "F" because it matched his voice better than "E"... I read that in a book about him years ago.
CHEERS
Thanks for sharing Slick! Really appreciate the info and perspective 🤠🙏🏼
Thank you!!! Everyone plays Cash's songs in E, and I try to tell people they're in F. My dad was a Cash imitator in the 50s 🙂
I’m in from Wayzata, Minnesota. Thanks Tim!
Terrific video, super clear. Thanks!
Thanks Simon! You’re welcome.
Thanks brother
You’re welcome!
Great stuff... will be practicing this soon
Awesome! Let me know how it goes 🤠🤘
His sound... sounds like rhythm of a human heart, especially, Folsem prison Blues.
Thank you great info
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful!
Excellent lesson ... thank you very much!
You’re welcome Michael! Glad you liked it.
Thanks dude! Very good lesson 🙂
Thanks Don! Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, thanks
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment 🙏🏼😊
Thank you
You’re welcome John!
I would start with A Fender Tele or Esquire. as far as The Tone is concerned. most likely using the bridge pickup.
He also played a jazzmaster occasionally
as a German I wonder
would we ever know Cash
without Perkins????
Very nice lesson, easy to follow, without a lot of useless music theory
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
Like Joshua Said
@@tedshillitto6886 thank you!
I find plucking the 6th, 4th, 5th, 4th.....constantly and regularly extremely difficult. how can so few notes be so hard to play, I could never keep that up.
I can totally relate! Keep at it though, I know you can do it 🤠🤘
*How about the Rumble Link Wray?*
Hey, I just discovered your channel, and I really like your approach. I was particularly taken with your short "This is your brain on mandolin." I know it was intended to be funny--and it was!--but I'm struck that there's a lot of technique there that I could learn a good deal from. Any chance you could post the content in regular video form so I could slow it down and pick it in bite-sized pieces at my leisure?
Hey Thane! I appreciate the kind words my friend. I’ll see if I can get that video up in a more useable format for picking apart. In the meantime, if you access it from a desktop, I’m pretty sure you can slow it down that way. Thanks again buddy!
Yeah, now we're talking. Overdrive! 😉 👍!
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It's like the William Tell Overture or The Lone Ranger ramble rump titty rump titty Rumpke Rumpke Rumpke
don't forget the bass runs!
You got it buddy! Guess I'll have to do another lesson... 🤠
220?
Or 110 as I’m realizing most folks like to say 😂😉
Boom Chicka ;)
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Wearing a Mile Twelve band shirt. they are bluegrass.
I can wear my Alice In Chains shirt next time if you’d rather?
Should add that when Luther past they found Bob Wootton and he was even better with the style for 30 odd years.
Thanks for pointing that out Mark!
🤫I disagree that Bob was better , he built a career from Luther. Luther though not an accomplished player invented it , he had the magic that’s what everyone remembers !!!
Listen to the original recording of "Man IN Black" Luther Perkins would have been hard pressed to play the way Bob Wootton plays on that. @@roybarker5896
Its either true or a rumour that Johnny Cash's manager used to hide Luther's guitar after gigs so as he couldn't practice improve his playing and thus progress from the familiar monotonous sound he was known for.😂😂
LOL good business strategy 😂
Why are you using distortion? It sounds like you are playing through a wet paper bag
I really appreciate the feedback. Will try to make the next better 🤠👍
@@HayesGriffin I don't hear distortion, maybe a slight overdrive. But the "wet paper bag" analogy might just the be way you have the amp mic'd. It sounds like a room mic, and not a close mic on cab.
Luther made Johnny boy ,and John treated like crapp ,f Johnny boy.
I don’t know much other than the fact that Johnny would roast him on stage with some jokes. Would love to hear more if you have some stories!