Man is this a lesson I have been wanting for a minute! Thanks for what you do for all us bedroom warriors around here. Jimi once said Billy was his favorite player and that’s saying something!

I like the framed album changes as you change licks. I wore out two copies of the Degüello album. The reverend Billy is so great. Great presentation David.

I’m sitting here watching you on my iPad, with my Les Paul in my hands!! Thanks for your hard work!!

Oh man, this is great!

Just saw a video by Mark Zabel where he tuned the A string to G for that Jesus Just Left Chicago turnaround. Sounds great like that.

ZZ Top......yes...i'm here.....😃

I've got 10 ZZ shows under my belt. Thank you David. Boogie children !

Love this!

as you said David...there are loads of "tricks" up Billies sleeves....and they allsound damn good....so very........Billy....!! i just love it....❤

"Walking thru The Parking lot at That invisible 7-11"

Your Chordplay series is brilliant, David. It reminds us that if we want to get really good on guitar (like you), we have to work on mastering the simple things ... which are not, it turns out, simple at all ... Thanks again and please keep them coming.

Me too, 70s ZZ is my fave. Too bad many people have never heard the first 3 albums. different from the 80s ZZ, but Billy always incorporates blues in his playing while putting his own spin on it. Gibbons once called it "abstract blues." I call it "100 ways to play the blues. "

Love this lesson man! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talents! Billy Gibbons is a master of Texas-boogie-funky hooks and turnarounds…we don’t see this kind of musicianship these days from larger artists, only the ones you may catch at smaller gigs or festivals it seems.✌🏻🎸🎶

a great lesson mate, really helped and inspired.

Great stuff. Thanks!

I'm more of a 70s ZZ Top fan, but I believe they might have become a footnote in history without their 80s stuff

@simonvanderheijden432

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I'm afraid you're right.

@michaeltobin643

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What many people don't realize is that ZZ Top were only popular regionally prior to their major breakout in '83 with the release of 'Eliminator', and the ensuing music videos on MTV to support it. Their first 'intercontinental' live performance didn't occur until 1980, in Germany, as documented in the (now) widely-available Rockplast video, which was broadcast live on German TV at the time. Prior to that, they had many pockets of support globally, but were not considered to be a major act, even though they had pulled off the most expensive tour ever (at the time) in '76-'77 with the wild west shows.

@davedavid7061

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@@michaeltobin643 so,I was a teen in 76 and ZZTop was kinda always in the conversation for best band while I was in Omaha

@michaeltobin643

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@@davedavid7061 Absolutely, they were popular in the south, as well as other regions of the country where blues-rock and southern-rock were popular, because it got radio support and an appreciation was developed for it. ZZ always did well in my hometown of Detroit also, because of that appreciation, which developed with promotion by folks like Jimmy McCarty (Detroit Wheels; Cactus), who is a longtime compadre of the Rev and held a lot of sway with our local radio programmers. So because of that influence, support was built and the Top were able to develop a decent following in and around the Detroit area, as well as Toledo/Cleveland Ohio and throughout eastern Ontario, Canada. Obviously, many great national acts in the 70's benefited from the generous support of their Detroit audiences and the notoriety that came along with it (KISS, the J. Geils Band), along with natives like McCarty (with Mitch Ryder then Cactus), Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Brownsville Station, and Grand Funk Railroad to name just a few.

Desde Argentina te saludo !y te doy las gracias por tus excelentes lecciones de blues. Tu sonido es muy bueno!!!

Great lesson! Very well explained and performed. Thanks!

This is so good....thank you for this.❤️

Thanks🎸,....greetings from Germany

That arrested while driving .. riff is terrific. And all riffs are well explained in terms of key context for drongos like me. Great lesson David.

What perfect timing Dave!!! I've been working on blues turnarounds and hybrid picking lately. Fantastic lesson, great tips and more to work on. Thanks!!!! Keep up the great work 🎸🤘🎸👍

The Top is such a great band. Thank you for another ZZ lesson.

Gimme the shivers! ❤

Excellent Billy Gibbons Blues/Rock Lesson, David! Thanks!

awesome lesson great selection of tunes some of my favorite

Thanks for this Dave! You can never have too much Billy in your bag of stolen licks! Always handy to have some cool Reverend turnarounds to get you out of a jam at an open jam night😎 Best Damn Channel Out There🤘

Thank you so much! I'm constantly learning tons of invaluable stuff from you. You always present super interesting stuff and you do it in an easy way for us to follow and to top it off you also come across as the coolest and most likeable guy ever. Cheers! 👍🎸😎

Killer!! Thank you!!

This episode is quite philosophical

@patrickkish6662

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2:07

Really great lesson. I’ve been binging on Bukovac and David Grissom and this is the type of rhythm stuff that’s been drawing me to them.

@mma1st105

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I really dig Tom's playing. I've been watching and listening to Guthrie Trapp a bunch lately. They've actually done a few things together. It's crazy to me that we get to learn from the pros.

If anyone hasn't told you lately, you're freakin' awesome Dave!

Awesome

❤🎸 fantastic ❤🎸

+++ Thanks!

Great lesson, as always David; really appreciate your ear and insights! The turnaround in 'Waitin For The Bus' is the one that really kills me...just a wild series of notes under the lyrics "...got mah Brown paper bag, and mah take-home pay". I managed to sort most of it out watching him perform it with Sammy Hagar, on the episode of "Rock & Roll Road Trip" he was featured on...check it out! It's all in the timing.

@simonvanderheijden432

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Tim Pierce does a lesson on Waiting For The Bus. He's pretty close (if not spot on) on that turnaround. Here it is (Hope you don't mind Dave. If so, let me know and I'll delete it) kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWqrmqVsk5eup8Y.html&ab_channel=GuitarJamz The turn around starts at around (pun intended) the 7 min 50 sec mark. You'll find it's not a wild series of notes, it's actually pretty simple. But keep in mind that keeping things simple is very hard and that's where Mr Gibbons often shines. But with Billy Gibbons (like you pointed out) it's mostly about timing and feel, which (in my humble opinion, can't be learned or taught unless you start "living and breathing" this stuff at a very early age. That's it always sounds off when most people try and cover ZZ Top. It's the same with Eddie Van Halen. People cover his stuff so much and sometimes it's very close. But to the trained ear (and my ears aren't even that trained so I can't imagine what it sounds like to someone with "advanced ears" (don't know how else to put it..) like Dave here. But i digress.. Check out the Waiting for the bus lesson. And Dave, ( I know you read all the comments) you're an awesome teacher and a monster guitar player. Your tone, timing, feel and (VERY!! important) your vibrato is up there with the greats.

@michaeltobin643

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@@simonvanderheijden432 Yes, totally agree...it's not even the notes as much as the timing and feel that are hard to pull off accurately. Thanks for the reminder about the Tim Pierce lesson; yes, I did see that previously also, and felt his interpretation was spot-on, as are David's in the subject presentation!

The right stuff.

From Texas, originally - you either had to loveE ZZ or both. I chose ZZ

If you ain’t first you’re last

Hey David! Thanks for doing a video on Billy Gibbons' playing, this is awesome! My favorite Billy Gibbons song transition is the moment when Waiting for the Bus changes to Jesus Just Left Chicago - it's one of the most brilliant & genius song transitions in all of rock & roll in my opinion. One really important thing, though. Do you know what particular pedals and amp Billy might have used to get that incredible guitar lead tone in Jesus Just Left Chicago? I've been trying to figure that out since the very first moment I heard that song. It sounds like some combo of distortion and chorus or something, but I just can't figure it out. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much again !!

@michaeltobin643

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On many/most (?) of Billy's early recorded parts, they are doubled with a second guitar that's slightly out of tune, compared with the original. It creates a 'beating', chourising tone that really fattens things up in the mix. On later recordings, and live, he's duplicated the technique electronically using octave pedals, such as a Pitchfork, that can add a detuned signal into the mix. It's often mistaken for chorus, which is similar, but you have more granular control over the random pitch-shifting such a device can produce. There's a ZZ 50th anniversary special, which I believe was on Netflix, that includes a 'graphic novel' segment about their earliest recording sessions where the use of the (original) doubling technique is acknowledged and explained. The other reference is more recent; check out Premier Guitar's 'Rig Rundown' segments on YT with his (then) guitar tech, now bassist, Elwood Francis, who provides a detailed insight into some seriously surprising (at times) methods and hardware they've used to achieve that unmistakable BFG tone!

@sventextor1309

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Hi Mike love that transistion as well. I heard that Waiting for the Bus was mistakenly erased in the end part and the ZZ Top hombres linked up JJLC and ran with it.

@mike42441

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@@michaeltobin643 Wow, thanks, I never thought of that! Now that you mention it, I remember reading an article long ago about EVH doing some kind of split line trick with one of the guitar signals being his normal tuning down a half step, and the other signal tuned slightly different to create a chorus effect. I didn't even realize BFG was doing something similar even before EVH recorded the 1st VH album. Makes me wonder how long this technique has been around. Thanks again for replying, I'm going to watch those videos you mentioned, and then experiment to see if I can get closer to that 'bad ass' BFG tone !!

@mike42441

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@@sventextor1309 Interesting, I hadn't heard about that, but isn't it crazy how some of the best moments in recorded music were originally unintended? Fortunately, the end of Waitin' for the Bus was lost, and that magical transition went down in music history!

@sventextor1309

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@@mike42441 Hi Mike yes it's amazing that some of the best moments in great music are down to accidents....I think EVH had the same take on things and welcomed what ever happened during the creative process.

On the first one you did, another guy said he tuned his A string down to G so the final pull off is on the 3rd fret to open on the 5th string.

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are you using that behringer v amp pro for these videos? you should do a video about that thing cause your tones are killer.

That ZZ Top tune sounds so much like the majority of “ride on” by AC/DC off of their Dirty Deeds… album.

Do you know the score for Flyin High - I can't find decent tabs online?

Do turnarounds always have the chromatic element to them?

@LateNightLessons

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In blues music they usually do (but not always). Jazz turnarounds are usually more chord -based and feature a different flow/layout compared to the blues versions out there. It's really just that magic that (usually) occurs at the end of a blues/jazz progression that leads it back to the beginning.

What model Strat is that, a American Professional, Mexican or Japanese?

@LateNightLessons

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Hey! It's a heavily-modified 1996 Fender American Floyd Rose Classic Strat, that I eventually changed the neck, bridge, and much more over the years. Honestly, the only originaly parts on the guitar are the body and the neck plate on the back. Everything else has been changed since '96. Anywho, thanks and rock on! : )

@AngelMartinez-qs3cf

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@@LateNightLessons Thank you brother! Rock on!