The SECRET Behind This Underrated Manics RIFF!
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2023
- When I discovered watching this video by James Dean Bradfield from The Manic Street Preachers I had been playing the Riff "My Little Empire" All Wrong. Now I know why and it sounds Amazing now.
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Thanks so much for this. JDB is incredible. Few people can play like him. Few people can sing like him. I can't think of anyone who can play and sing that well at the same time.
He is an amazing player and is underrated as a guitar player! Some of his parts are hidden gems like this. Thanks for sharing
The manics are simply a force of nature. Between the 3 of them the sheer amount of power they generate on stage is astounding
It’s so nice to love a song for years, never figure out the tuning/playing of the intro riff and then a video like this appears soon after JDB’s. You’ve helped me play an intro properly I’ve always wanted to play. I thank you.
Glad you like it!
My mate who is League's above me on the guitar has always said how great JDB is James is an incredible guitarist and also a great singer . Enjoyed watching this keep up the good work .
Hi Neil, thanks for the comment and i'm glad you enjoyed watching the video. Yes he is incredible and he is an underrated guitar player for sure. Manics are still going strong and have a huge back catalogue of tunes. Which ones are your favourites?
I love the song ocean spray due to the fact a close family member past away and the song has a deep meaning to my Wife and I
@@neilevans6229 yes that is a great tune. Sorry to hear about your loss. The powers of music can have many benefits from pin pointing memories and helping through difficult times which are often not always thought of.
Your friend is right.
One of my favourite Manics intros. JD Bradfield is a guitar hero. And yes, the tuning does make a massive difference. It somehow manages to " lift" the song.
It’s a beautiful piece of music!
Thank you SO much for confirming what I have long suspected, that he does incorrectly tell us the D goes all the way up to F. I got there eventually, but it’s great to see I wasn’t the only person struggling with this track for years. I learnt it in standard tuning many years ago and it just never sounded right! Great video.
Glad it was helpful! It nice to have the two options, standard and non but it does sound better in the odd tuning he uses
Great work. Love this song.
Great video!
Ive been a Manics fan for 25 years and seen them about 20 times. Only heard this song been played once. This is yesterday is in open G tuning I think.
Thanks for sharing. It's a great tune and love experimenting with the tuning
Could never play or work this out even in standard tuning, so you did well! Not many things I couldn't work out back then. I heard JDB saying the guy from RHCP uses this tuning.
Thanks so much. Thank god for CZcams videos so you can see interviews with the secrets like this one. Really? Wonder what song that is?
Ah man, thanks a million for this… YEARS trying to play this without any joy.. can tell I’ll still struggle, but at least I can see whats going on now. Nice one 🙏☘️☘️☘️
Happy to help, it’s a awesome tuning that I need to explore more but this riffs it’s highly addictive
great video! and jdb is indeed so underrated
It really is!
Phenomenal
My friend this is the video I’ve been looking for, for years. Legend. Can’t wait to learn this. Always been an absolute killer riff
Yes! Are you going to go for Standard Tuning version on How James plays it?
@@RiffsRhythm Alternate tuning all the way.
Dude! My life is now complete, thank you 🙏
Happy to help!
I've chased this since I was 14! Man, that tuning is nasty. But that song is worth having an extra guitar lying around in that tuning to play this utter masterpiece at will. Always heard inspiration in this track from Life Becoming a Landslide from GATS.
The real crazy thing is JDB puts music to words, which is much harder than working out a melody and finding words to fit.
Any excuse to purchase another guitar. I'm with you!
Mate, its a beautiful and useful video. Thanx
What a nice comment! Thank so much and I’m glad you found it useful. I really enjoyed putting this one together. If you enjoyed this style check out my Johnny Marrs Saddest Riff video
I read somewhere that a hipshot trilogy bridge was used in the original gear which would allow them to switch between these alternate tunings easily. I too was bamboozled by the tuning until I found that exact same video
Thanks for sharing this!
Great video !!! I'll make sure to play it by myself oneday. Thanks
Do it! it's addictive but tricky in places especially standard tuning
I saw jdb video recently that you're referring to. Good to see him play that riff - my 1st thought was _how on earth did he come up with such a weird tuning ?_ (you're right btw; even he says it wrongly, lol!)
In the end I concluded he must've dropped a Jazzmaster out of a 4th floor hotel window, gone down, collected it, necked half a dozen vodkas & then composed that riff.
But fuck it man, it is very damn cool - thx jdb, frusciante, jimi😂
Would love to see you do a video on Nobody Loved You or The Girl That Wanted To Be God. I realise I’m probably the only person on the planet interested in this though😅
i can put it on the list but just to let you know my Patreons get first dibs
Bloody great guitar work 👍
Thank you kindly!
I can't remember when I figured the tuning out, but the fingering I basically got from the video you mentioned. It's a great riff. It takes a hell of a lot of talent to produce music like this. But James has it in his locker, that is without doubt, just I think these days he doesn't seem to let it loose as much.
Great guitar player, Songwriter and Showman. He can pull from each for sure!
@@RiffsRhythm totally underrated. I have done a few manics covers on my page if you want to have a look. :)
Great video! 😊
Glad you liked it!!
Used to listen to album on repeat with my brother while playing FF7 in the 90s. FUCK AY
Great album! Bring back the 90's awesome tunes!
Always nice to receive a guitar lesson from Lee Ingleby,
Of course it is great lesson to achieve the way JDB originally meant it, but I found he made things overly complex with that peculiar tuning, and how he decided to pick some of the notes from moderately difficult positions even if he could have pick'd them much easier closer to the nut for example.
I still think I prefer to play it with standard tuning, and I noticed I've taught myself it little different you showed you would play it.
Just my opinion but you'll still be able to spice it up a little and make it sound great in standard tuning.
Great lesson anyway, Chees!
Lee Ingleby haha Never been told that before! Be interested to know how you play it. I could of used more open strings in standard tuning but felt I got closer to the altered version.
I’ve always been a huge admirer of JBD when you hear somebody like him play other peoples music. You really appreciate what a talent he is listen to Sweet Child O’ Mine live on the sleeping next to plastic album. It is mind blowing.
Yeah that it's a stellar performance, and he's not just playing, he is singing, playing and running around the stage. Legend
@@RiffsRhythm it's fucking wild. the way he just absolutely rips out those riffs and solos while spinning around, jumping, etc... incredible. that video you reference is a goldmine of technique
@evilotis01 there’s not many that can do that!
Nice upload fella! Always enjoyed guitar work by JDB however I realised he doesn’t make the fret board difficult for himself, if stretching for notes across chords it’s something or somewhere else on the fretboard.
Hey Man glad you liked the video. He plays the same way at 2:28 on the video. Although a slightly different fingering. With the video i was making a point, if you use altered tunings you can make notes rub against each other that would be difficult before hand!
Inspired by John Frusciante. JDB is such an underrated guitarist
the secret is in the tuning change
It’s magic
What key is this song in?
The saddest of them all... Dm. Chord Progression - Dm C Bb F - One bar each, try strumming over the top of the riff, sounds ace
Thanks for confirming! Fantastic video - would be interesting to cover some other “misplayed” riffs
Sound's like Nicky Wire's voice saying My little empire for me, not James.
do you think? I thought it was James! whoops
@@RiffsRhythm I think so, or a mixture of James and Nicky! My little empire is a decent track 👣 but I think there are far better on the lp. Great lp btw.
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 they sound quite similar and its not the best audio. Yes it a great album and brings back many memories!
@@RiffsRhythm phenomenal band
That tuning strummed open sounds Japanese...no?
Yes It was got that vibe. Time to write a japanese inspired tune?
If you tolerate this your children will be next, Nobody loved you, You stole the sun from my heart, Ready for drowning, Tsunami, I'm not working, S.Y.M.M. are much better songs in my opinion.
Thanks for the comment, i was looking at this as vision of the actually riff (guitar part) all listed are great songs though
It's a great album but The Holy Bible is much better in my opinion.
Disagree, it's okay, but far better songs on the album though.
They may be better songs but as a Riff it doesn't get talked about much?