If you look closely, SRV does the slide from D to E on the B string with an upstroke, not a downstroke, which makes a small but significant difference in speed. The last note of the lick (open E) is also usually done with an upstroke, which is harder to do but also more efficient in terms of speed.

I am working this lick every fuck*** day to get enough speed. This tip is gonna help me. One day maybe I'm gonna be able to play this correctly, cuz it's just the best introduction you can do if you play in front of people

Mind blowing, this information is massive for any SRV fan, including myself. Great find and thanks for sharing 👍

It's about time someone showed us how to play this.

My biggest problem with learning this song is if I invest a lot of time and effort not being sure that I am playing it right. Everyone has a different version they're teaching.

I literally said holy s out loud when it was revealed his hybrid picking… After 20 years I had just about got it down with just picking…. and I'm not great at hybrid picking. That snap on the high E is definitely accomplished with the middle finger....Back to work. Damn it Stevie! Other songs SRV uses hybrid picking that I can think of are Hide Away and Mary Had a Little Lamb but those are more obvious to hear. Incredible discovery. Thank you sir!

On the studio version they are bends, not slides - and it's important because you get better phrasing with the bends- sounds better with bends as well in my opinion.I think he does the slides live to make it easier on the hand in the heat of battle.

What a great discovery. I love playing that song and that picking section has always been the biggest challenge for to execute cleanly. I just tried it and within just a few minutes I can tell it will be an improvement. Cheers

Omg I actually noticed this a few years ago from obsessively watching his live performances. Thank you for sharing it!!

Thank you for sharing this piece of detective work. This is going to save me a lot of time learning this song. People put tech down but used for the right reasons it can reward due diligence. Thanks once again.

Thanks so much for this updated lesson, I was recently watching your older video and trying to learn it that way. I’ll try with this authentic way cause this lick is so fun to play and sounds so cool

I have so much respect for you. Been watching you for years.

Nice work! and very kind of you to share. It is a very nice kind of madness we all share. Love your vids.

That was just a brilliant find and to share it with the broader guitar community is much appreciated 🎸❤️🎸❤️👌👍🏻

I learned that sweeping down to the high e and then sweeping back up to the b (while also hitting the high e on the way up) is the easiest way for me to play this song at SRV’s insane speed while still getting that fast picking sound. Hope this helped some, RIP SRV🙏🏻

Perfect! I hear the difference immediately. I'm trying to incorporate this hybrid picking to as many as possible! Thanks

That's 100% spot on I noticed that when I was learning it last year that he uses he's 'F' finger for it makes it a lot easier to play Regards Mike :)

You are so right with this. I never got the same articulation and feel the way most people play it. Leave it Stevie to always be the master!

Great lesson! Learning how to hybrid pick has really opened up a whole new world of playing options for me.

Mind. Blown

I gave up on this lick years ago. You need to be super human to play it perfectly I guess.

Anthony,great detail on the breakdown, very informative brother.

3 months ago i wanted to learn this lick but couldnt be fast enought, i finally find a way to do it ! Thx for the video

Wow! That's brilliant and I'm gonna try it! Thank you so much!

Wow. Great lesson! I’m workin’ on it. Big fun!

Thanks man you saved me a lot of picking! Amazing work breaking this riff down.

Man,.. The weird nuances of an individual's playing technique can be so innate that the player isn't even aware of how they do it sometimes. This is one of those little kooky artist things that develop after playing a song for awhile. Thanks for rooting it out, Anthony. Very fun to see. Not judging, but I imagine one of the guitar or pedal companies might have some better studio slippers in there stable of merch. Maybe slip your feet into some fuzzy tube screamers.

Fantastic find on using the finger!! great stuff! 👍

This is the first time I'm glad to learn there is hybrid picking involved. Very natural.

I’ve been playin for six months I don’t think I’m ready for this speed lol

The best video thumbnail of 2020!

Thank you so much, already am able to play it faster and opened up so many possibilities with hybrid picking for me!

Amazing work Anthony

Very informative. Thanks for posting!

Awesome job, been fighting this for decades, thanks!!!! Subscribed!

So many years... Dude... Thank u!!!

Thank you for this, l thought he was doing a hybrid picking thing, Philip Sayce is a master of this as well 🙏🏼

Wow! I've been working on this for a few days and struggling same spot ... and found this. You're right, this is the trick!! Thanks!!! I'll join your locals site again if this gets me back into SRV :)

I have been playing this for a few years, using pick only (I thought quite convincingly), I always wondered if he used his finger to hybrid pic, now we know, Thanks a million, now its time to learn it the way god intended, your analysis is forenSick!!!

You can not play any music without feeling it

Thanks for the video. I've also had trouble with that section. It will take some practice to get my middle finger used to picking the high E string. Mainly because the lick is so lightning fast.

I'm pretty sure you solved the mystery! The picking of the 2 open strings with just the pick is awkward.

Thank You so Much

Amazing discovery!

awesome, will def try this, thanks!

Great video again mate. Trying this way now..

Love that 4K vid of scuttle buttin

Really nice catch!

THANKS!!! IT WORKS!

You're still an awesome player and teacher, Anthony (hi from Australia) ... even when in Crocs. 😉 Ha ha ha. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 J.

Liked and subbed to new channel thanks for your work preserving old material

thats great man !

I always thought I was cheating by throwing in my middle finger. Thank you for the help

Awesome man. New channel looks sweet. I’d love to see the el mocambo Lenny version cleaned up

Nice find!

I honestly don't think you can duplicate SRV, u might be close but that is why he's so special. Keep up the good work and thanks.

Lovin the crocs

My sensei, respect.

Cool diamond of info.

best tips!!

Nice find. Though working through the song with a pick helped me get some stuff together.

I play with my fingers like that no matter what so I guess I was doing it right the whole time!

Ok, this is epic

Nice crocks bruh! Lol great lesson. I learned this lick from your old video. I can play pretty fast but it never sounded right to me because of the open b. ALOT people cover this on yt and it isnt right either. Now i gotta train my finger to pick that open string. Thanks brother man

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Man this is even harder lol thanks tho for the effort

Anthony any chance you could cover the intro to SRV’s famous sound check??

Ah... the Lonnie Mack influence 👌🏽

dude... that's why SRV was the master

thanks i woner if he is also use this hybrid picking in mary had a litle lam? there is a lick who looks a litle like this

Great...if you get a chance do..rude mood or collins shuffle...

OOOOOH WHAT A LEGEND HE’s WEARING CROCS!

This man got Crocs!!!

I just came to say ya that’s how I been playing it, with my middle finger lmao

Yeah, pointed this out to you a couple of years ago

Great opening, srv might used the same technique in some other fast open e licks

Should we just do the second e with finger too, after the slide to 5th fret of B?

It’s called hybrid picking. SVR did this a lot. John Mayer does it even more.

How do I get the "Pro Player" program (shown at 3:28)?

Nice crocs

And also we could use that tip for the intro of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" too... Right?

i have seen him both bend into the first note and slide into it.

How to improve like scuttle butin time signature? I feel loosing some momentum when play it

Hey I tried finding your 4k blues channel and I can't get in. It says it " is private "

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Thanks Anthony for that tip....considering Stevie's style was so plenty of techniques you nailed the most. Imperceptible he did in the hand that most of the people weren't aware of....thanks so much man

If you watch VC (Vaugh Cover) the Stevie Ray Vaughan scuttle buttin he does a good job but you got to watch it a few times he is a fingers a lot on their right hand I guess I called hydro picking and no negative on this guy's teachings but when you brought up the finger I just thought of the other video on it great info

Awesome! That’s actually been the way I’ve always done it, but I thought I was “cheating” ;-)

The bastard made it impossible to play slowly, you basically have to sweep the whole riff

Well that makes total sense Anthony that Stevie would be using his right hand and middle finger to play that lick. Some of that gets back to that chicken picken style alot of the country guitar players use when their playing some of their links in their solos with their right hand. Good observation!

Love this man!! I like the song srv so exited. The tone and licks just make me want to play it so bad

Texas Blues Crocs 7:31 et. al.

can you teach us please "im leaving you woman (comit some crime)"

Yes, live he slid, but on the recording he bent. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/grp9oLRlmpvenHU.html

There's no way hybrid picking makes this lick easier to play, at that speed. If anything, it makes it more complicated.

so basically do you always use the picking hand middle finger to play the high E string in this song?

Sweet jesus thank you for pointing this out. Been going crazy trying to pick the entire sequence and it's been rough haha.

Playing by ear level: Forensic.

so far this video has 22 idiot trolls. You rock Anthony

And I think that Smoke On The Water was hard to play :(