Peter Green Guitar Riffs and Tone | Reverb Learn to Play
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- Peter Green's guitar work arguably defined the Fleetwood Mac sound, but his influence as a guitarist (in Fleetwood Mac, the Blues Breakers, and beyond) extends further than a single band or era. Today, Jeff Massey (Steepwater Band) is back in the studio to discuss the tricks, techniques, and mythology of Green's notorious backward pickup, as well as break down a few riffs for you to learn.
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Rest in peace Peter. You have inspired many
My first guitar hero. Thx for all the beautiful notes. RIP Peter.
2020... Such a bad year for guirar heroes and a bad year overall.
Peter green is one of the GOAT guitarists
Many of peters best solos were on the neck pup. I’ve got a mind to give up living(live at the warehouse 1970) is one of the best most emotive solos I’ve ever heard.
Link that so?!
Hands down best solo!
Agreed. He also nails the same song at a Swedish gig...I think Stockholm...around the same time. Dig: Mike Bloomfield did a fine version of the tune when with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
@@sidgriffin813 god bless paul
RIP Peter Green, truly inspiring artist.
love the way greeny comes back to the forefront in lessons lately......the mans a legend with ears of gold.....long live the green god!!
Now, RIP.
I will never forget when I saw Peter play at Pirates World Florida. It was loud! It was great! It was amazing! And inspired me to start playing guitar within a year after that. Yes! It was the Orginal Fletwood Mac Band! Bluesbrakers!
I saw (the original) Fleetwood Mac two or three times at the FILLMORE EAST in NYC back in '68 and '69. They and (Savoy Brown) were my favorite British blues bands of that era.
this is perfect timing for me…..i have been spinning their Play On record the last few weeks and i think it is one of the best records i have ever hear…..great video man!!!
Rip pete sadd loss so many took up guitar because of you legend hope you meet Gary up there 👍
Peter Green has a few very good solo albums. Well worth checking out.
Of all the reverb videos his lessons are my fav. Intuitive and clear, amazing.
been waiting for a Peter Green video, glad to say it didn't disappoint. Great job!
it´s not just about turning the pickup around - you would have to turn the magnet inside to get that out of phase thing going. just sayin`
This guys gets it.
+Modestoney That is correct. It was the magnet that got turned around
in Greenie's guitar.
larry geetar Actually it was both. But turning the pickup around doesn't really alter the sound that much. The flipped magnet makes it out of phase.
Yup
Marjin Slot
I had my guitar set like that for years. It was very different and actually really close to that Green sound. You gotta rotate it, not roll it over. I switched back because it was reallllly lacking any of the sweet body that position normally has. Its a quick and simple mod, every Greenie fan should give it a try.
Awesome ! Thanks Jeff. Loved Peter Green's feel and touch. This was great insight into his inspiring tone.
Awesome, love the out-of-phase sound on a Les Paul! Long live Peter Green! Next up, you guys should do Danny Kirwan. Criminally underrated, and mostly forgotten nowadays.
Just heard he passed away. Great guitarist and complemented Peter so well
@@jperryfan He was a great songwriter, too. LIKE IT THIS WAY!
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You got that right.
Is your profile pic Tsunayoshi Sawada from _Reborn!_
Smooth!Very smooth!Great work,Jeff!
Great group of licks. I'm just getting into Peter Green. Thank you!
Riff 3 is just so beautiful and original.
Thanks Jeff. Another one of my favourite guitar players. Love to see more
Love Jeff's videos he chooses the best guitarists and he knows his stuff.
It's unfortunate that the term "out of phase" is so often used erroneously. It's like what Leo Fender did with vibrato and tremolo (though he obviously gets a pass for all of his other contributions to music). People will call the 2 and 4 positions on a Strat "out of phase" when actually it's just the two pickups in parallel with each other. What you hear in the video is a true out of phase sound, where the sound loses a lot of body and volume but gains an extra "quacky" character. It's really helpful to have a switching mechanism to turn it on or off because most people miss the volume and can find it harsh. Alternately, it helps to dial back the volume of one of the pickups just a hair when using the out of phase sound, you can kind of dial in a half-in/half-out of phase sound where you gain a little bit more body and volume but retain that distinct quack. It's a wonderful sound on Gibson ES series guitars as well, where it was a stock feature on the vintage 345 and 355 because they were usually wired for stereo.
Im a simple man, I see Jeff Massey, I stop everything I’m doing and watch the video 🎸🔥
Great video, looking forward to part 2.
I love these videos such great tones and playing. Please do more
Man ..this was great..with that guitar and the understanding and awareness of Peter's touch and sensitivity when so eloquently playing his riffs...so many people are not aware of him ..I am glad you are .and how daunting an endeavour it is to play with that feel. Also to explain the theory behind it of why it works is amazing too. THanks..4 riffs to work on ..100s to go..hahahaha
RIP Peter
Jeff is awesome. Thanks for doing this.
Jeff you are an inspiration ! Thank you !
Jeff - great demo and explamation
Great video Jeff. Having seen Fleetwood Mac in the early '70s, I think you have pretty much nailed Peters sound and feel.
Thanks I like the way you call out the string and fret . Everybody should do that !
I learned as a total beginner of this guy and vid . So easy to understand and consider this to be the best on the net .. thank you sir .
You of your best Jeff 👌
RIP Peter Green. Favorite Fleetwood Mac project is their work with Willie Dixon & Otis Spann!
Great stuff!
Nice work Jeff!! Woof!!
Thanks Jeff, nice one
LOL most of the comments debate the whole "out of phase" bit. What I appreciate about this vid is that Jeff takes his time, tagging each note and giving context in musical notation. I very much enjoyed this demo.
Right I'm just amazed. Learning
I love that sound!!!!
Nice playing and lesson! Sweet axe, too, of course!
Glad to see Danny Kirwan at least get mentioned. Another fine guitarist. Jeremy Spencer primarily played slide.
You gotta flip the magnet (or the leads if you have a 4-conductor pickup). The direction of the pickup means nothing. Great playing though.
Awesome! Thanks!
Live, he was untouchable in my opinion
dasbear10 about a 6 to 8 month window in 1970 just before he ate the acid and lost his mind at that German hippie mansion....NO ONE COULD TOUCH GREENIE. AND I MEAN NO ONE. The dude was on a whole other level than other electric rock guitarists. Scary almost if you think about it. Like a not normal human telepathy spiritual level. I got just about all the stuff he's ever recorded. Seen him live a few times (he's NOTHING like he was) And there is a short wah solo on Rattlesnake Shake on Live at the BBC Sessions that's just fukin SCARY!!! If you haven't listened to it...you really should. He had the hand of God (or the devil.or both) for just a few months in 1970. Danced on the razors edge of sanity and lost. But he's back to earth now. Whatever he saw on that other side...he wants nothing to do with it anymore.
Not your opinion, FACT
Get the these two CDs: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Live in 1967 - Vols. One and Two to hear Green live with Fleetwood and McVie as the rhythm section. They're rougher recordings, but IMO more satisfying that 'A Hard Road', the production of which disappointed me after the great job Mike Vernon did on the 'Beano' album.
....untouchable. Absolutely right !
Well, he was no Justin Bieber, but yeah, Greenie was a great one. Made Clapton look like Tiny Tim.
Green's The Supernatural (from The Hard Road album w/John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers). Lushest tone ever heard from a guitar.
When Peter Green started with John Mayall he was actually a bass player. He had to learn how to play guitar and played by ear. I would say he mastered it. He was such a kind and humble man.
Umm, I think you're thinking of Jimmy Page in the Yardbirds. Peter Green filled in for Clapton in the Bluesbreakers
@@sfusiondj The moron is wrong on both points. Page AND Green both were great guitar players already before Bluesbreakers or Yardbirds.
Well done, Jeff. I did the same thing to my ES 345, with the push-pull on the
bridge volume control. But when mine is in, it's the regular middle sound. Out,
it becomes the P.G. sound. It gets really close to that quack ... I think Greenie
took a whole lot from BB King, his major/minor crossover licks and the way
he used space to get the emotion of his playing across. The famous "BB King
box," especially. BB once said Peter Green's playing was "exquisitely melancholy,"
and that Peter's vibrato gave him goose bumps.
A suggestion: Michael Bloomfield's guitar style. Never seen anyone do a good
job on Bloomfield, who was a master before all the Brits we hear about. A white,
American who was immersed in the blues. Very unusual style, amazing player.
R.I.P. Mike Bloomfield, my first blues guitar inspiration.
I flipped the magnet of the neck pickup and it honestly gets so much closer to the sound as opposed to so many folk who have just flipped the pup itself. I'm running through a JVM410 with tonnes of reverb and it's the closest I've ever heard it without splashing out on Larry Corsa pickups.
I flipped the magnet of the neck pickup and it honestly gets so much closer to the sound as opposed to so many folk who have just flipped the pup itself. I'm running through a JVM410 with tonnes of reverb and it's the closest I've ever heard it without splashing out on Larry Corsa pickups.
Peter played clean but very loud with lots of reverb. He hated distortion; that’s why you can always hear his fingers. He loved fender amps for their clean tone, headroom and reverb. If you want the Green sound it’s got to be a Les Paul matched to a beautiful fender tube amp.
I still listen to the 'Then Play On' album. It's amazing stuff.
Nice job, thanks .
Turning the magnet around sounds authentic and you don’t have to rewire your guitar.I did it to my 2013 Signature T it works great.
Love ya man! Thank you so much for great guitar!!! Thank you!!!
The story I heard was he had issues with the neck pickup cutting out, so he took it to Selmer's on Charring Cross. They removed the pickup(there's photos of Peter with the neck pickup missing from his guitar) The repair chap at Selmer's rewound the pickup with "formvar" wire. He wound it in the opposite direction from the original and flipped the magnet by accident and the lead has a plastic covering. There are photos of the control cavity showing the wiring. so the magnet flip and the pickups' wire being backwards give the guitar it's voice!
LPCustom3 You would get the out-of-phase effect by (1) reversing the magnet N-S, (2) winding the pickup coil in the opposite sense, or (3) swapping the output leads. If you do any two of these, the effects cancel.
@@DavidMFChapman agree, out of phase is t accomplished by turning the pickup 180* in the (neck or any) cavity as was discussed. The magnet was supposedly flipped, but it could have been wound ‘backwards’ as well.
Peter Green was a musical genius! one of the greatest guitarists of his time.
Thank you Chicago
Mick Taylor next?
I sure miss him. And as much as I love Pete Green Mac, he and claptons mayall years were the best.
YESSSS GREENIE
Sounds amazing! Wish we could get more info on the gear he used.
very good
Good stuff
Great!
In an interview Pete said he took the neck pick up out in an effort to emulate E.C after witnessing him play all night just using the neck pup. Another story states it was removed to assist with sustain for The Supernatural. I don't care what the truth is, the result is legendary.
Please, anyone who watches this don't expect turning your pickup around to make it out of phase. It's the bar magnet between the two coils that needs to be turned around. Sometimes, players like the slug side towards the neck, but that is a more subtle sound change than changing the magnetic polarity of the pickup.
If you don't know who this guy is, he is the guitar player and singer from The Steepwater Band. Go check them out, they are awesome!
Listen to his wah work on his solo "the end of the game"
Do some more greeny lessons!!!👍🏻
That’s all you need - economy and taste - Greenie was the best ✌🏻🎶🎸
Yes, Peter Green was the best. He was the best guitarist that John Mayal had.
Its an inverted bar magnet. Flipping the pup is not the case .. so to attain full PG tone one must invert the bar magnet 180@ then install PUP backwards ,from there "THEN PLAY ON "
Correct, Jason, however it is not really necessary to install the pickup in backwards. The reversed magnet will suffice. When Gary Moore first got it he took it to a tech here in the U.S. that stated the solder joint was original for the neck pickup and it had not been tampered with. Likely it was that way from the factory.
The manalishi man a true blues legend RIP Peter Green
Have a Hamer archtop setup to copy that. Run into a cocked wah you get a great single coil sizzle all bucked up. Hard to explain but fun to play.
i wanna know where the funk my man Jeff Massey is getting all these amazing les pauls! The beat up gold top, the faded white custom, and now this one. Reverb, we NEED an in-depth vid on these three LP's please !
splendid. now lets get a rundown of the three pauls next time they're in the reverb studio
The other two are Jeff's, we'll be doing a video on his prized Goldtop very soon!
Reverb, thank you! my goldtop dream prayers have been answered !!
Darrien Day
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I know where he got one of them gold topped Les Pauls. Me!
That's a really nice guitar!
Rotating the pickup 180° will not bring the pickups out of phase. You have to actually take the magnet out of the pickup and flip it over
ENDLICH MAL JEMAND DER WIRKLICH AHNUNG HAT!!!!!!!!!
You can actually hear the notes swell first when they should decay...those pickups are nailing it. The playing too, killer lesson- thanks! I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, especially the older stuff. As tone goes- Peter Green had magic tone, deservedly so and only Gilmour, Page or May are in the ballpark. Trower too.
My SG tribute project needs to make these sounds. Way better than normal middle tones. I understand you can rotate the magnet 180 degrees in the neck pup and get the sound that way as well as winding the coils backwards.
so nice. i want another LP moded after Peter's 59....before i die.
Great video from Jeff, as always. The tone he gets on that les paul is amazing. What kind of amp is this being played through?
The bendcreates several notes and vibrato. Watch Dickey Betts videos and he is a master at it
Well done! Looking allways to something a bit beyond pure pentatonic.
Excellent interpretation
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the greeny scales grin, once there, you stay there
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The part that you're uncertain about at the end of (riff #3) was played live by jeremy spencer, he uses similar formation (different key) in the song " Oh Well " live ( live on UK Television) in fact most of the 'lead' part is played by Jeremy Spencer live. Oh Well.
More of Jeff. We like Jeff, give us some Roy Buchanan.
Hell yea that'd be great
I concur
Roy buchanan was a genius
There’s magnetic and electric “out of phase”. PGs pickup was modified by accident with the magnet reversed. If you have a switch that puts the two pickups out of phase, that’s electrical and not quite the same thing as Greenie’s tone.
I think the key to Peter Green's playing is the phrasing (whén do you start the notes and when do you stop). And like the video shows, thats is hard to get (or better; you got it or you don;t).'
I lived through the 1960s and Peter Green touched lots of people. Maybe there were a lot of people that were out of phase with what was going on and that's why they connected?
RIP, Peter Green.
Fan since '72. Copped some lines and alot of inspiration over the years.
I LOVE the options offered on this 'Paul.
Would love it on my '06 Epi MIK LP Std + but think it would cost what i paid for the guitar ;)
Rock On !
btw, i'll always go with the Joel Danzig from Hamer assesment,,,The neck pickup was taken a part and the magnet was installed backwards.
Next time i restring my Epi, i'm flipping the pup around. Its about time. they're potted so that's all i get. Good guitar, though.
I'd really love to hear a video of the "How to sound like" for Buddy Holly, one of the pioneers of Rock N Roll.
50s Fender Strat to specs, Fender Tweed Deluxe, or any Fender with in-amp reverb. The rest is simply his magic.
and pump the treble probably
Jeff Beck expressed disappointment about when he found out that Buddy Holly did not play on 'That'll Be The Day'. And seeing as this is a Peter Green feature: on the first Fleetwood Mac album after Green's departure, 'Kiln House', the band did a Holly-style tune called 'Buddy's Song', with Jeremy Spencer taking the spotlight. There is also some great Danny Kirwan playing and tunes on that record. czcams.com/video/YiWs3UQ05gs/video.html
Buddy Holly didn't play on 'That'll Be The Day'? That's completely falsified.
@@grannysmith9971 Or is it?
Thats Peter right there
I love another woman off the first album spot on tone pre much!
Always enjoy your videos brother and out for sure Lil Peter Green sorry of his passing if I took my neck pickup and flipped upside down is that all I would have to do?
Are you or are you not Clegg from Eastbound and Down?
You forgot his famous riff from "Someday After Awhile". That's a Classic Riff.
This is very nice. I can’t get enough of it. I was listening to the album end game. Heavy on the Wah. Does anyone out there know anything about this record. I don’t hear much conversation about it. ✌️
As said you don’t get an out of phase sound by just turning the pickup backwards. You have to flip the magnet inside or solder it the pickup wire the other way around. Nice playing!
Green got that high D minor chord from Otis Rush. Check out "All You Love."
There are a couple early pics around of Pete playing his 59 with the neck pickup mounted correctly so my guess is it wasnt a factory mistake.
Coolest lesson to date on the channel; next do "Jumping at shadows". Ehehe