About the studio version, with bendings, check out this video : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bd2opdFltZ3NdIE.html Also check out my courses here : lessons.albertolombardi.com/

not being funny, but i've finally almost nailed this at tempo by simply commencing my practice routine with a couple of beers.

A lot of people agree that this is one of the hardest riff that Stevie ever made, I agree because even though the notes are easy, the speed is what kills people, I was able to play it at 100bpm by the 1st month, I’m on month 2 and at full speed and trust me, once you get the speed it actually becomes really easy. Now time to learn the solo section

There is no right way, Any version you play I will love. Stevie's legacy continues on every time you play. In playing his music you honor his legacy, as do all of us, when we try and play his music. Nicely done!!!

It's nice to hear I'm not the only person who has been spending decades trying to play this!

"I've been working on this riff my whole life" haha I instantly subbed :D

This is simply brilliant! I have tried and given up on learning this many times over the years. Now it makes sense so I will try again. Thank you Alberto.

Cool vid Alberto. Actually there are two 'right' ways to play the lick. The original version of Scuttle Buttin' on Couldn't Stand the Weather is played with bends instead of slides. But Stevie decided the whole step bends were too hard on his left hand fingers considering he had 13's on the E and 17's on the B so he changed it to slides for live performances. Makes perfect sense that he would write it with bends since crazy bends on those 13's were such an integral part of his playing. Just saw a slowed down audio of the lick from that album on Paul Davids' channel, and it is definitely bends instead of slides.

This is the best and most nuanced analysis on the internet. You correctly explain the rundown on the G string while all the others (as did I) miss that it starts on the A note. Thank you! Here are 2 small points you might consider discussing: 1) On the studio version Stevie is clearly bending (not sliding) on the G and B strings while on all the live versions (that I could find), he is using slides. To my ears bending sounds more powerful, while sliding sounds more accurate (probably because on fretted guitars only 3 notes are played when sliding while many micro-tones sound-out when bending), so both methods seem to have their advantages. 2) At 8:30 of your video you say that Stevie always stays on the V chord for 2 bars, skipping the standard blues progression return to the IV chord. This is usually the case, but sometimes Stevie in live performances did go back to the IV as you can hear (at times) in the KZfaq video titled "(4K) SRV - Scuttle Buttin' (Live In Japan)" posted by "Vintage Blues in 4K". I think this adds more variation and makes for more interesting soloing vs. always staying on the V for two bars before resolving to the I in the final bar. Your thoughts? Finally I want to say that I greatly enjoy all your fingerstyle posts. You are truly a master! Thanks again for posting this video.

What a great breakdown! As soon as I added to Low E I played it right for the 1st time in 20 years of attempts. If you come to Spring Bar in LA your $ is no good! Got all your drinks for life!

Very helpful. I too have tried for a couple of years to play that riff . Thanks man

You’re right. It’s the right hand middle finger that makes the difference. I’ve been searching for this answer for years.

Stevie played it differently in the studio than he did live.

Your lessons are the most comprehensive,in depth lessons I've ever seen on KZfaq.. You're a natural teacher

SRV was a genius touched by the hand of God

I want to say that you are an amazing teacher buddy. Thank you for being here !

best tutorial so far very innformative thank you

I've learned that when I was 15....and I agreed with most of what ya said. In my experience.. with Stevie. I started listening to whi he liked. And learned a lot then. But scuttle. Will always be that lick

The Word is "The Blues". Great playing.

Thanks again for you continued & ongoing high quality & quantity output of; lessons; demos of your own compositions; covers; "Monday 'LIVE' "; background videos; your personalized sharing of your person & personality freely with all your fans; + all the TAB & CDs you've generated, & more!!! "Rock on," & see you at the next "Monday 'LIVE' !!!" Kind regards :)

I learned to play this song (well, just the part featured on this video) about 10 years ago, but what I still have so much trouble with is that I don’t hear just a quick slide the first few notes on the G string. The studio version almost sounds like he slows the slide down and makes it sound like 2 hammer-ons as opposed to a quick slide. This actually makes it sound like faster picking to me, because the 2nd middle note is more accentuated and shares equal time. It makes it difficult because it’s like playing at 2 tempos as he goes thru the entire riff. I know it sounds like over analyzing, but the point is I can never make it sound as awesome or fast, even if I play it as fast. Great instructional video by the way 👍

thanks for sharing your interpretation alberto, & as long as we can appreciate the inspiration SRV has left us in his legacy we have plenty to work on and wonder at , stay cool !

Very helpful, just like your Little Wing lesson.

Yesterday I was at Tommy Emmanuel's gig, when he invited an Italian guy on stage to play with him. He played really well, together with his majesty. Bravo Alberto!

This cat is unbelievable, vary blessed!!!! I'm trying not to get discouraged!!

Fantastic! I’ve been working on this forever.

I think you nailed it bud, thanks, I’ve been working this out for years

The world is unic. thanks for the tutorial

about once every three years for 20 years I go back to trying to play this thing and every time I do it in a new way

I just alternate pick with right hand, its easy after about a decade of practice, lol

There's only 2 people who get this right. This guy and another. Every other person, and there are many, many, even Paul David miss the third slide. It is so fast, it's almost impossible to do. You can see in all the videos, the third slide is the "fastest" part of the lick. Even on the record, it sounds like he does it the first time around and then skips it after that. Live, SRV always does the fast third slide. That's why he is the GOAT God rest his soul. Huge kudos to this guy for getting it right!!!!!

Really good job man. Sounds and looks exactly like SRV. Best tutorial for scuttle buttin!

best tutorial of scuttle buttin I've ever watched!

Best lesson I have seen...Thank you

Bad ass 👍🏻 I think the word you were looking for is “Fluid”

Thank you so much. Great to hear how accurate you have this, and really well done in terms of showing is exactly what you are doing. I've been messing with this for a long time and it's really over the limit of my skill set to get the speed up, but I'm certainly looking forward to sitting down later today with your video to have another go at it.

Best tutorial I found so far.

you nailed it. Saved me a lot of stress! Thnx

Like that you're a great jazz player as well. These are fun and familiar tunes for improving my chops so my jazz playing improves.

Just bought your Fermi de Parma Will def check out pride and joy The Sky is crying and Riviera Paradise are faves for sure TY ciao

You are a VERY GOOD teacher I could pay you anytime show more songs

Very well done! Thanks for sharing. I will finally get it right...

I've been meaning to learn this riff for about 30 years. Thanks for the vid. Really helpful

probably the hardest blues riff ever!

The best yet well done sir exactly like Stevie

Super video, tanks a bunch! I have learned so much from this. Its so many comments here, so I dont know if someone else have comment on this. But I argue that SRV hold the pick differently from you, he was not using pointy end as you do in the video (but the blunt). I feel that changing the way I hold the pick acutally makes it easier to play the riff at high speed.

Very impressive. Just dropping in the comments to help you in the algorithm. You deserve it

Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux 1985 FULL CONCERT shows his fingering its low res see you can make it out its a youtube live version of this scuttle buttin is first song so makes it easy...well, and harder at same time.

lol, I think you got it right on this one, I commented on the other video that you did for this song. I sorted it out myself with complex hybrid picking but as I compare the recording with what you're playing here , this sounds more like what he is doing. More of a speed picking thing than lots of bends. Good job!! I don't know that he does it the same throughout, he might mix it up a bit.

this is a serious tutoltal. thanks a lot

That is a beautiful Strat

Good lesson! Today I was again looking for my right hand on this lick and I did not have any idea to pick the e-string with the finger. But you are right - now it works ;)

Thanks for making things seem a lot easier, but it's still difficult for me, I need more patience and more practice. You are such a great guide. Im from Taiwan.

This was a huuuuge help to me as I'd been trying to bend that A note at the beginning since the first time I tried learning this song. Also the knowledge of the middle finger being used to pluck was a gamechanger! So thank you! I did notice something though slowing down the isolated track (on youtube). For the part near the end leading into the open E he doesn't seem to be doing a (starting on the G string) 2-3-2-0 slide. Instead it's a 3-2-0 slide into the A string e (2nd fret) so he can hit the low E string after easily. Obviously you can still do it your way but as far as how Stevie played it (on record) this is what I am hearing. The 2-3-2-0 slide just wasn't feeling right to me when I was practicing & now watching you play it full speed in the beginning it does seem to trip things up a bit trying to slide 3 notes so fast. Just some observations :)

Thank you. I have tried since the 90s myself.

great vid, just a couple details I'd like to add: - in the studio version, Stevie's bending those notes instead of sliding them (if you listen to it pretty closely, you'll see). I can guarantee you that, cause I've seen some old footages of the very first live performances of this song (about 82' or 83'), and you can clearly see him bending those notes (sadly I couldn't find these footages again, I guess YT took them down). - second point is that at the live performances, he used to play the open A string right after the B7 chord (right before playing the last lick, kinda similar to Mary Had a Little Lamb)

GRAZIE MILLE! Best vid on this out there!

i wish more musicians we're as honest as you . thank you so very much ,i also been working on it all my life. You got it done perfect.

The word is fluid! :)

Excellent video - got my workout here!!

Awesome man!

So goodd!

Che bello!da imparare subito di grande effetto.!ok Lombardi!!

Excellent

Very helpful Thanks

Excellent! Thank a lot!

Awesome! Thank you for the lesson.😊

Merci Alberto ! Il n'y a pas de meilleure vIdéo sur ce riff légendaire que la tienne 👍🎸

Thanks !!! Super lesson👍👍👍Best regards!!!

Sei un Grande! Bella lezione

Grande, bellissimo tutorial!

lol, at your guitar, I do the same thing, the volume knob is forever in the way, I either move it one spot or stuff one tone knob into the recess tapped , 'full on' and wind up with volume and one tone.

Thanxs very much for that

As usual very nice and full of energy and aggression... 😊 Please provide tutorial of yesterday played by you.... Specially filler part and harmonics. Regards Vikas from India 🇮🇳

You sound great!

Grazie Alberto, spiegato benissimo.

Excellent!

Good lesson. Only comment is regarding the right hand. These details are simply how Stevie felt natural in his own playing style to play this riff. I submit that it isn’t required. As long as it’s played well i5 doesn’t matter your right hand technique on this song. The hybrid one note pic is completely insignificant

Well done Thankyou from Australia

4k video not accessible unfortunately - great analysis though, tx a lot. I thought I was the only one tying to get to the essence of playing rightly songs, to make sure it sounds right

Thanks a lot!! Great tutorial.

Your not wrong. That's how he did it live. A close listen to the studio recording will reveal he was bending not sliding. I learned it both ways and alternate for the hell of it.

Awesome thanks 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶☮️

Just wondering was SRV obsessed with Freddy King’s song “Just Picking” ? Both ‘’Mary had a little lamb” and ‘Scuttle buttin' seem to be derived from this song. Not implying plagiarism because he put his own take on it

The magic finger... it all makes sense now

Nice job 👍

shoiwwww! gracias amigo!!!!!! un abrazo

Hi Alberto. I believe it schould be an A-note (A flat more correct) on the 4-count. Then slide up to the B flat and back again. I have also practiced the tune for a long time and think it makes more sence with an A and think that that's what i'm hearing. I have made a music sheet but could not attach it. As you say, SRV uses slide (at least live) in stead of bends. The slide up and down from A to B flat sound like a standard blues-bend you can hear on for example Catfish blues with Hendrix. You are defenitly one of the best to play Scuttle Buttin that I have heard.

Thanks you 🙏

thanks. This is great.

thank you for this lesson

Great job!!

Bellissimo tutorial. Ottimo canale

Muchas gracias ... excelente explicación, aunque no pueda tocarla 😅 pero tu trabajo es brillante... bravo

Bravissimo!

Fantastic! Thanks for the clearing this up!!!!!

Gracias viejaaaa!!

Finally!!! Someone playing it right.

Fantastic tutorial, I think you got it absolutely correct!

I am very curious what you think of Mr. Tabs version of this song. I have been playing his version for a while, but I have seen SRV play it your way. Very interesting. Thank you friend.