Tricks of the trade in the Key of D
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2021
- The key of D is LOADED with open strings!
Hopefully you’ll get something out of this 20 minute exploration into this fantastic key. I’ve deliberately not dropped the low E down to D…. that might be cheating 🤣….. so I’ve kept things very standard. That said, I totally recommend doing the drop D thing as it opens up even more tonal possibilities!
Happy jammin’ folks 🤘
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Equipment used in this vid:
Fender Telecaster (‘52 custom shop heavy relic)
Cornell Romany 12 (10 watt valve amp)
No pedals, just straight in to amp.
No computers, laptops, audio interfaces etc. Just my humble little iphone placed a couple of feet from the amp’s grill cloth. Then iMovie then up to CZcams.
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Further info about me, including contact details, can be found on my CZcams home page (click “ABOUT”) - Zábava
Somebody rich and famous needs to send this guy a million quid, so he can give up the driving instruction and do what he was born to do! What a superb player and top bloke! Keep the lessons coming and I hope my wish for you comes true.
Ah, Tony, what a lovely comment! Thank you man, I really appreciate that. Delighted you like my playing 😊👍
I agree best player I've seen to date .fine bloke as well .
Yeh, I emailed Joe Bonamassa's team to tell them abot PSC but received no reply. They are scared of such talent.
Yeah this guy is unbelievably good. I’m not sure most understand how good he really is. He understands this instrument better than most.
Paul, I think the main reason people respond so exuberantly to your channel is your genuine joy playing guitar. You are that rare player on CZcams who inspires not only with your knowledge and skill but more importantly, with your unadulterated love of the guitar! And that love is reflected in your playing. Its' a gift you have that you generously share with us. Thank you. Hughes
Thank you Hughes, what a lovely comment. I really appreciate that, cheers 👍
Rory in 1974 was like no other..a man at his best....He is missed..Thanks for the tricks in D Paul..
Thanks Michael 👍
Often the best are the most humble.
Impressive use of triads to explore tones that I find very inspiring and I have been playing for 53 years. Learn always and explore. Thanks Mr. Cook.
Thank you James. Delighted you liked the vid 😊👍
What planet, are the people who have given thumbs down, coming from. At a loss as to how someone can dislike the music, tones and informative approach. Jeez! Another great Vid Paul
Thank you Neil! Yes, I guess I’ve got a few haters out there 🤣
Thanks again Paul for your lessons and especially for these recent open strings tricks in those keys having great open string opportunities. In the short time I have come across your lessons I have learned a great deal and the fret board is becoming evermore open to my better understanding and creativity. I see my playing becoming more nuanced and imaginative with understood purpose. It seemed that I was always noodling about and would eventually find a useful discovery. You are sharing techniques and basis that have been somewhat a “missing link” for me. Love your lessons, your playing, and your very pleasant manner. It’s all the “cherry on top” for me. Cheers mate - Bob
Well thank you Bob, what a lovely comment! Makes my heart swell with pride 👍😊
Well said, mate 👍
So good! And I always love when you include your dad. What a treasure.
Thank you Ritchie 👍
Thanks for breaking down and explaining "a million miles away". I was at the Irish tour ‘74 (Ulster Hall). Saw Rory on numerous occasions. Very underrated guitarist and never got the recognition he deserved. Thanks again Paul. Love your videos.
Thanks Alan. Man, seeing Rory in ‘74…. I’m well jealous!!
Paul, ah RORY GALLAGHER my second favourite guitarist after PAUL KOSSOFF, as usual superb playing kid. I was on holiday recently and walking down the beach in my brand new gold lame`SPEEDOS, when I was suddenly aware that all the children were running away from me, I looked down and noticed that the S had fell off. Take care pal.
Just read this one out to my wife…… she actually burst out laughing at that one! Finally. Cheers John 👍🤘
As always. Watching and learning and to coin your phrase "stealing a few ideas" 😃
Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for showing us!
Thank you W Boynton, appreciated 👍
Love the bass line run down lol.Faultless and terrific
Greetings from Germany, Paul.
You love what you do...thx for sharing on CZcams
Thank you Stefan, appreciated 👍
So much in this one Paul, thanks! amazing,love the passion for the instrument.
Thank you Tom, cheers mate
Inspring and a joy to see you play and talk about your love For music. We love your video’s!
Thank you Filip, that’s appreciated 😊
Thank you Paul for making these videos. You have opened my eyes & ears to so many possibilities these past few weeks. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Tim, what a lovely comment. Thank you, it’s appreciated 👍
I've enjoyed these tricks of the trade videos. I knew some of this already but you've well filled in the large gaps I had. Thanks a lot, keep up the good work!
Thanks Paul, I’ll get back to work now on the keys of E & B 😊🤘
Just so many new (to me) ideas, I’m loving these lessons/demonstrations of how to produce some amazing sounds
Thanks Richard. Delighted you like my wee lessons 😊
Just found your channel today and I LOVE IT!! Very inspiring. Fantastic playing and tone!!
Thank you William, delighted you like my playing 👍
One of my favourite songs, thank you so much.
My pleasure, cheers Stoney Mc
As always Paul excellent content. My favorite Channel!
Thank you Cory, it’s a thrill reading comments like that 👍🤘
Only watched 3 minutes and already put a like. I'll save the rest of the video for Sunday morning, perfect moment to enjoy your play and practice something new on my guitar!
Thanks Alberto! A like at 3 minutes in 🤣, excellent. Cheers 👍😊
Dude! Your playing is amazing. Thank you so much for breaking this stuff down for us. BTW, its great to hear the parts slow and note for note as you break things down and explain things...stil very pleasing to the ear and we get to appreciate everything that you play that much more!
Thank you Wayne. I’m really enjoying making this mini series. Cheers mate.
Best guitar channel on CZcams, thank you for sharing everything you do, I’ve become so much more melodic when playing from watching your videos! Thank you!!
Ah, thanks Alex, it’s such a thrill to read such nice comments 😊👍
Brilliant. And the best Rory rendition. Thanks
Thank you Ian 👍
Lovely playing Paul. am really enjoying the tricks in the key! Really good helpful stuff.
Thank you man, appreciated 👍
Great stuff this Paul. My absolute favourite Rory track. I've been admiring that Tele of yours for months now and I just bit the bullet and bought one - a custom shop relic Tele 60 in 3 tone burst. So happy with it. Cheers for the great videos.
Hey, congratulations Jeff, I wish you many happy hours on your new Tele! 😊👍🤘
Good on your Pa! Thanks Paul.
Brilliant work
Thank you Stephen, cheers mate 👍
Hey Paul, these are great tricks/lessons. I like that they're loaded with cool tricks yet are still musical. I often go down the road of practicing licks by noodling with not enough harmonic intent and it can be difficult to then tie all the pieces together in meaningful ways. Thanks for the inspiration to maintain my focus. Thanks - Gus
Thank you Gus, that’s appreciated mate. Happy noodling (with harmonic intent). 😊
just like to say thank you for the vids they are great work keep it up
Thank you ginochipchip, I’m delighted you took the time to tell me. It’s a great feeling to think players are enjoying my silly wee videos 👍
Thank for sharing such an exceptional lesson☺️
Thank you rorykarate! Appreciated 👍
These are great! Still working through the Knopfler bit of the G one - using the fingers to arpeggiate looks so easy when you do it!
Thanks Phil, delighted you are liking my wee videos 👍. And yes, keep persevering with the fingers and arpeggios…. and you’ll get it.
Fantastic Stuff, thanks for this one Paul its really clicked with me.
Thanks Sid, it makes me happy to reads comments like this. Cheers
EXCELLENT teacher.
Thank you Mitch 👍
Love your lessons man!
Thanks man, that makes me happy
Great vid Paul! My favourite key! I love your ability to show a lick and then get right back in to the music. It's like you pop out of a trance with a cheeky smile to show us a lick then pop back in! That's a compliment by the way. 😍 Subscribers really going up. Well done mate you deserve it.
Ah, thank you Brian. I like the way you described it….. “popping in and out….”. Yeah, I like that 🤣. Cheers Brian, I’m thrilled about the subscriber numbers too 😊
@@paulstaffordcook8799 I mean it Paul. Check out Julian Lage. Notice how he has cheeky smiles to himself? It's not because "he has just played some great notes" it's because his soul is smiling and he acknowledges it in a smile! You are not far away from that mate. You always play from your soul. I'm an empath so I see it. Now go away and smile! czcams.com/video/8a3qAp81vY8/video.html
Just watched that Julian Lage video. What a treat it is to watch that man. It’s like he’s just a channel for the music to pour through. Wonderful stuff 🙏
@@paulstaffordcook8799 He is great to listen to and wonderful to watch him become immersed in the music. You ain't far behind mate. I'm just kicking yer arse! 😉
Good stuff! I liked the similar stuff I was doing using the open strings, but wanted a similar sound over a 1,4,5 chord progression, and found I could barre some of the fingerings, for the low & high E strings together stuff, further up the neck, (like a moveable capo) for the sound I was after.
What a musician (not only guitar player) Rory Gallagher. I would have loved to see him live.
Thanks for the video. So cool 😃
So this Telecaster sounds so, so tasty. Love this tone mate.
Thanks Jagercaster 👍. Yes, I’m sure Rory’s talent will live on for decades to come.
Oh paul. As always theres a great deal of emotional feeling and intelligence in your playing. You can tell the mark of an excellent musician when they need no lyrics to sound scapes you create. The lessons you make are invaluable to us. Weirdly I was thinking of Rory Gallagher at the start of this video then you said it while I typed out this comment. Coincidence or planets aligning!? Who knows! What I do know is that although I've not watched your videos in a good while I really hope you leave your mark here on youtube. Fantastic is an understatment.
Ah, thank you Matthew, it’s a joy to do these wee videos. And a bit of a thrill to see more people subscribing 😊. Cheers man, keep playing (and skating) 🤘
Oh my! Too much Inspiration for one heart to hold.
Thank you Haensel, hope you’re doing good and continuing to build your beautiful creations 😊👍
5-Star content & lessons! ★★★★★
So beautiful man. I'm stealing all of this :)
Thanks sellian, steal away 🤣. Delighted you liked my wee video
Cheers Paul
Y'all need ta put some BONDO in the hole on your blackguard...
...every key has it's special place on guitar according to it's open string relations.
Always an inspiration, master Paul
Thank you Jonny. And I like your suggestion as regards the BONDO 🤣
In 50 years I've never met a luthier or builder, or read an article that suggests filling (similar type) holes with Bondo.
I seriously doubt you will see this happen to this Tele. The Tele sounds great. Even though, kudo's for a super nice reply to Jonny Beck from Paul.
@@mitcharney1 Mitch you're even funnier than I'm not 🤓
So pretty!!
Very interesting video, thanks.
Thanks Jeff 👍
Guitar matches kitchen
Great lesson 💪
Thanks Bob 😊
Some of the first few minutes reminded me of James Taylor's machine gun Kelly which is in D. Also country roads. Which carries that legato hammer on/pull off riff.
This and you Gibson Les Paul Junior is the sound 😎
Yet another great video. I’ve always loved a behind the nut bend too! 👍🍷
Cheers Emlyn 👍
Paul, I really like your playing, we have a similar way on the guitar it seems from a distance. Lovely tele as well. 👍🏼
Thank you JEUXolim 👍
Love your technique with plectrum and little finger Paul- D is not a key I would normally get into :) Love the Dire Straights influence too- PS That Strat is to Die for
Thank you Les 👍
Best RG interpretation i saw so far on YT. Unbelievable close to the 74 Orig. Irish Tour version. Great!!! Isnt Wayward Child with that fantastic intro in the same key? Maybe you could show that too. BTW Great Tone on the video, thats way much better than you can hear on most guitar related videos.
Well thank you OP, what a lovely compliment! Thank you, appreciated 👍
That took me a million miles away!
I see what you did there 😊. Cheers Martin
Thowing in some rory Gallagher... Great stuff!.
Thanks Steve 👍
This is amazing! Rory Gallagher is a legend. Would you consider breaking down 'What In The World'? the guitar on that is phenomenal - tried to play it right myself but can't quite get it down
favorite one so far, spose thats the key of most of the stuff i like. If you remember the song by Supertramp, give a little bit, love all those open string chords, especially on the 12 string and of course the Knopler stuff, thanks for posting mate , whats next ???? :)
Thanks Charlie. Stay tuned for Ticks of the trade in E 😊
Reminds me of the Thin Lizzy tune "Borderline" :-)
D has so many different voice options and it's a true moveable chord as well.
The fun of the open chords is that you can literally do whatever you want and still find a rub and a resolve.
You don't need to know what chord it is.😆
Love seeing your Dad's guitar collection. The question is did he get the guitar to match the kitchen or the kitchen to match the guitar?
🤣, yes, he LOVES his kitchen to coordinate
Another Great video Paul, thanks. May I ask where you set your Volume knobs when you play live? Thank you
Thank you Paul. I often play at 80-90% on my guitar’s volume pot. And then wind up to 100% for certain moments. I particularly like doing this on Gibson guitars, i.e. 80% gives me blues crunch and then 100% gives me Gary Moore kinda overdrive 🙏
Excellent! I was just thinking about how I felt stuck in my playing and needed some inspiration to try something new. Your video was recommended for me by YT today. Good timing! Now I have something to work on. Thank you! I’ll be watching your other videos and will subscribe.
Did you put the humbucker in or did it come that way? Can you share what it is?
Thank you Brian! And sorry for late reply. It’s a Custom Shop heavy relic ‘52 reissue that I bought new in 2017. Stock pickups were the normal Tele bridge and lipstick neck. I knew it had more to give, so after 6 months or so I got my local guitar tech to swap the stock pups for a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound in the bridge and a Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday in the neck. I also changed the tone pot from a stock 250k to a Bare Knuckle 550k. I just love this guitar 🙏
@@paulstaffordcook8799 No problem about the delay! Thank you for the information; you’ve been very helpful!
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Is that an 8-hole pickguard? It looks like it from what I can see. I can’t find a 5-hole for humbucker.
awesome, thanks. what duncan pickup in the bridge?, cheers
Thanks 64firebird👍. The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound (Tele). I love it.
Beats me how it took You Tube so long to put Paul's videos on my feed. Last night I sat and watched this on big screen telly. Sounds and picture quality are amazing. MUCH better than phone or PC . Was that the Romany ? Are you just using an iPhone ? or is there some kind of mic used ? It just sounds SO GOOD.
I love the dissonance which you call half step rub. Also you mentioned James Taylor. I think he reverses normal fingering of D so that his index finger is on the top E string. When he hammers off it's very clean as there's no chance of a finger muffing the open E note.
Alan
Thank you Professor Parrot, delighted to read that you had me on the big screen telly 🤣👍. I find that very interesting about James Taylor…. I did not know that…. but it makes so much sense, because that signature of his is always so clean and precise. Cheers 👍
I was just listening to the start of the video and thinking that it sounded like Rory ;) He used a Telecaster tone pot in his Strat to get those lovely ‘wah’ sound effects he used. One of my heroes. Thanks for another great session! I love the way you just plug in and play through your amp, I prefer that too 👍
Edit: A gear question, if you don’t mind. I have a ‘52 Tele reissue. I have had it for a while but the finger board is still quite sticky. I can clean the back of the neck stickiness when I need to but after playing a while, the fingerboard starts to get slow and sticky too.
I was wondering if you knew of any solution (avoiding wire wool) apart from simply playing the hell out of it. Thanks mate!
Thanks D Geetar. Your gear question…., hmm… I certainly had a similar problem with the back of the neck of my cream coloured custom shop Strat. Couldn’t stand it, so out came the sandpaper and that fixed it. Must have been the lacquer. But I’ve never had a problem with the finger board. I presume you’re talking about a maple board? My Tele has (and my new Oswald) a maple board but it’s heavily relic’d and worn so doesn’t suffer that problem. Personally….? I’d WOULD get the wire wool out.
@@paulstaffordcook8799 Thanks for your reply. I’ll have a think about it. Your Tele looks great, by the way. Cheers!
Amazing video. Going to steal all this lol thank you! Are you familiar with Blake Mills?
Thank you Gym! Delighted you like my vid. 👍. No, hadn’t heard of Blake Mills…. So I’ll go give him a listen.
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Thank you Josiah 👍
I've got respect for you fellas that teach freely and tip. There's why I don’t understand thumbs down arseholes. 😂😂Respect and stay healthy all.
Sweeeeet
Thanks Dale 👍
My friend has this theory that Shadows fans are such grumpy pedantic gear obsessives because once you’ve learnt their “best of” hits - which are not highly technical, let’s be honest - you have nothing else to do apart from debate the authenticity of vintage tape echoes 😁
I’m sure your subscriber is lovely though
Watching you noodle in the key of D reminded me of meeting Ben Powell in Bath
czcams.com/video/T-BNryzgwKg/video.html
He's a stunning player and a really nice guy. Very humble about his talents.
Just watched that link….. Wow, what a talent! Awesome
Amazing how fixated people are with guitarist's left hands. All the while, as he is pushing the neck toward the camera to emphasize the fretting hand, the notes are ringing out because of what the other hand is doing. Paul is probably driven to do it this way by people's comments or maybe some generally accepted belief that this is "what they want to watch." Want to learn to play like this guy? Look at his right hand! Want to learn to play like Mark Knopfler, EVH, Tommy Emmanuel? Watch him hybrid pick. Paul could fill a room without even moving his left hand. For heaven sakes people, pay attention to what he's trying to show you. Paul, you are contributing mightily to the body of important instruction on CZcams. I just wish people would show the same interest in your other appendage! Without it, the left hand can be no more than an unfulfilled promise. It's not simply just the right hand folks, it's the doorway to everything!
Thanks Grady! And yes, you make extremely valid points. All that damping, pick & fingers, picking along different parts of the string length, etc etc. You’re right, it all adds up. 👍
hate the bloke😉