Gary Rossington was always my favorite Skynyrd guitarist. He's one of those guitarists whose style is so distinctive that when you hear a guitar part, you know it's him, sight unseen. RIP.

Man, I needed you 40 years ago! This is a great lesson Mark 🤛

Gary was also influenced by Paul Kossoff from what I read. Another great Mark lesson.

i have fallowed Lynyrd Skynyrd from the first album they are one of my all time favorit bands i felt so sad when gary passed thank you for spotlighting gary talent

It’s amazing how simple = effective

I love the Rossington Collins album.

Like the respect you gave Gary. I appreciate you Mark. You are a natural teacher.

Very cool, insights...I saw them two days before that fateful crash in Lakeland Fl. when I was 14. Steve Gaines definitely had the boys on their toes. What a show!

Yup them boys lived up the road...Great band ...never knew when to quit a song...Learned a bunch from them...Gregg and Duane Allman bros same neck of the woods.Duane taught them boys a thing or two.

Thank you for taking the time to post these videos Mark. It really is appreciated.

Much as i love and respect all the boys, Steve was not of this world. He brought so much new life to the band.

Thanks for the video! Easy to understand and fun to learn. Break it down! Them Skynyrd boys weren't fancy, but they always played it pretty. I was told by reliable sources a long time ago that "Tuesday's Gone" was Allen Collins' favorite Skynyrd song even though Gary played the lead on it. Thank you Allen Collins. He was an awesome songwriter and guitar player.

I love Skynard. I love Southern Rock. It has such a great sound to me

MARK, Duane Allman used the BB box pretty much only when playing without the slide. Try make a video lesson about the allman brothers melodies being applied to the BB box. Ed King was a master at creating hook riffs and melodic solos he is in the Gilmour camp of chord tones melodic lead guitar and trick in the bag licks

Mark!!! This hit me harder than any lesson I ever heard from you. VERY well done!!!!

As far as I know most of them, maybe all of them had no formal training but intuitively knew this stuff just because it sounded good to them. Amazing talents.

I had a tab book with one more from the road live album I learned all I could thru the yrs there are alot of gold nuggets from rossingtons playing...great vid man...👍

Gary is one of my favorite guitarists ever, and Tuesdays gone is my favorite song

Great tone and instruction....you really captured the feel of Mr. ROSSINGTON...well done sir. I immediately subscribed after seeing your passion for the music and artist.

I really like this guy, he teaches smart simple root playing without the too cool for high school attitude. Thanks Mark!

O Mark thank you for the triads sheet this explained a lot to me love your style

Gary and Leslie west are my top 2 they are the reason I play today. Gary loved to hybrid pick also. His technique at times his picking hand would look motionless.

Great video brother. Blessings 🙌

Well played Mark, perfect song to express chord tones! Thanks 💯👋🦋🖤🦋

Allen Collines,Steve Gaines,Ed King they where absolute good guitar players but Gary Rossington RIP was my All time Favorite guitar player all his solo's before 1977 and also later where famous. People talking always about Ed King and Allen Collins but they forgot the master of all Gary Rossington. I know every Lynyrd Skynyrd Fan had his own favorite Mines was Gary and together with Ronny , Artimus, and all back up singers they make Lynyrd Skynyrd a Great band. Also Lynyrd Skynyrd 2 with Jonny van Zand they make good music like the Last Rebel and many more. Dont forget that the crowd like it 😘

I remember banging Skynyrd songs out back in the 70s. Cops would come to shut us down after curfew and end up sitting through a couple songs first. Good ole days

An accurate explanation of this magic solo of one of the best Lynyrd Skynyrd (never hear a french guy pronouncing the name of this group!)'s song. I'm 65 years old and started playing guitar two years ago. I have now a good even not perfect command of this song that I'm starting to sing also.

Very informative, this guy is a professional teacher.

Thank you from Jacksonville Florida keeping their music relevant and passed on to the next generation.

4 great guitarists in that band. I was a big Alan Collins fan so I got a Firebird. But I loved them all.

Thanks!

I was born in 59 and this is what I grew up on

This was awesome.

I’m glad Mark to see you again with more gems 💎

A man I grew up in Roseville and the 70s lived in Detroit up till I was like 6.... Brave block I 12 and little Mac is where i lived and i had a band!

No one held a Les Paul with as much style as Gary Rossington! Enjoyed the vid👍

Bad man hes incredible also no ego crying about playing rhythm

Rossington, was the glue of the band!

I met Ed king back stage at a rodeo in Oklahoma late 80s ,he was going to jam with Billy Ray Cyrus..

I think we both grew up on the same rock and roll 'soup stock', if you will! I'm 56 and play with a bunch of middle aged dudes and we cover 'Gimme Three Steps' and 'The Breeze', and always have fun playing these! Great lesson Mark, thank you!!

I'm on my wife's KZfaq having to leave a comment but I want to say I just wanted to say that one of the most underrated songs of Lynyrd Skynyrd of all time to me is a song called was I right or was I wrong

Nice! I discovered through playing and covering songs that Billy Gibbons did this as well.

Great lesson for a song from my all-time favorite band. Thanks!

Very cool stuff!!! Tuesdays Gone is a Masterpiece!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎹🥁🎤🎼🎶Forever in our Hearts!!!❤️🙏

Good stuff 🎉

Great lesson, Mark! I bookmarked this and will get my old electric out and give this a try! I am going to wear your channel out! Thanks!!!

I think he loved the way Paul Kossof played on Free

I am glad to see you are still cooking , Mark Your videos kept me busy as I believe I told you before ,during the Pandemic and my Long Hospital stay ... I pretty much got "THAT SMELL DOWN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THANKS TO YOU ..,I was wondering if you had broken down the chords and lead for "THROUGH IT ALL" from the 'EDGE OF FOREVER ALBUM ? Please advise and 'KEEP PICKIN AND WE'LL DO THE GRINNIN WHEN WE WATCH YOU LATER Jake

It's good to see other stuff then shredding licks.. Good topic..

Beautiful

Great video and tribute to Gary Rossington. Also, I was raised in Detroit in the seventies, Union Lake area. Maybe we ran into each other at some point. I used to play quite a bit in the Detroit area, especially Oakland County.

Great example of a melodic solo. Very tasteful one too. 🎶 Walter Cronkite pronounced them Linyerd Skinyerd. I like that. Thats how it would be technically pronounced as I see it. 🤠

Right on. great lesson Mark. What do you think of learning solfege?

Great video!

Great Channel ❤❤❤

Excellent lesson but mostly a great reporting on this now last and final original Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member of this classic rock band, MZ! The true background aspects of their tragic plane crash really make this sad day in R&R (the afternoon the music died) even more tragic as this band had already risen from the cheap seats and deserved to be transported in a modern jet with experienced pilots and ground crew (not to mention fuel gauges and fillings) but instead wound up in this death trap encouraged by the band's leader Van Sant. There are a couple of very accurate YT videos that cover the true story worth watching but what a super concert these guys put on especially during their earlier heyday!! Jim C.

Interesting. We both were influenced by our big brothers, 10 years our senior. I wasn't yet 4, my brother not quite 14, when The Beatles hit Ed Sullivan. For his next birthday, he got an electric guitar and an amp that was taller than I was. Right against my bedroom wall…

O Mark and Gary Rossington was not a bad guitar slide player either.

I was hoping you were gonna explain Sweet Home Alabama. No other song compares.

Yeah

It's a very simple lead. Just put the Skynyrd CD on and learn the lead. It'll takes about 10 minutes.

Great lesson... would be great to hear the song over your solo as well to visually see the chords tones in your chart and hear it ( asking a lot of a guy giving it away on KZfaq I know)

I signed up to get triad map but never received it. I check spam folder as well.

Are you tuned to standard or d#.

Yeah, it's all good when you know music by the book....

On "pronounced", Ed King was on bass, not lead.

Great video. I think your mother was my 1rst grade teacher…

hey young man is that in standard tuning ?

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Michigan native, and mention of Grand Funk? Shame on you. Any insights into Making Farmers playing? Thanks

Gary Rossington was at LEAST as good a slide player as Duane Allman, and in my opinion a stronger overall guitar player and songwriter.. And one of the most overlooked guitarists of all time the late great Ed King could actually blow them all off the stage playing slide. Also I think it's a real question; who was picking what up from who? They were all playing the same clubs around the same time. In Gene Odom's book he tells a story about when the Skynyrd band used to open for the Allman Joys they would play whatever the Joys new song was during the first set, even if they had just heard it once. They told them it was because they admired them so much, but it was really to show them how simple thier songs were.

If you think Rossington was consciously aware of “chord tones”. while composing this solo you’re headed up the wrong path. No one who thinks and analyses music in that reductive way can really make effective melodies. More likely a simple process of experimentation and natural musicality would’ve brought him there.

Why is the name lynyrd skynyrd hilarious??? Is there some sort of inside joke, funny story or play on words that im missing?

Probably one of Garys most boring and slogging. Try Call Me the Breeze

Your great !!!

Loved em all Allen was King Ed was King King Steve was master King Gary was Kingy as well