He also just after that said “I thought America was the land of the free” and the crowd erupted. As I Canadian-American, I was laughing my ass off
@barronasi_4737 Жыл бұрын
That Commie bastard! HOW DARE HEEE
@HiVizCamo Жыл бұрын
What was he referring to?
@retrored5606 Жыл бұрын
@@HiVizCamo he was explaining why he wrote blackbird; when the Beatles first came to America they were all surprised about the racial tension. And then he said that
@starjunkie5328 Жыл бұрын
Pssst...guess what? There are no Chinese sub-police stations in America, either. Hahahaha!!!!
If you’re trying to play exactly like Paul, I read in an interview that playing that way was killing his fingernail, so he had a ladies’ press-on nail put on his finger for concerts. Smart fella.
@jonny-b4954 Жыл бұрын
Dude. I used to annihilate my finger cubicles. Right where nail meets finger. Always played with no pick regardless of the song but nowadays I use a pick when appropriate to play louder
@hardtravelin2 Жыл бұрын
More like fart smella
@elliegonzales8212 Жыл бұрын
It was one of his daughters who suggested the press on nail. Can't remember which one.
@JerehmiaBoaz Жыл бұрын
Watch Mdou Moctar play (here on youtube), he has this crazy fast index finger technique he can keep up for hours without destroying his fingernail or skin.
@sarahfullerton6894 Жыл бұрын
@@jonny-b4954 , I think you mean cuticles, unless you're really hard in the little box where you work in an office bldg.! 😅😂 Take care, and God bless you!😅
@joehernandez9722 Жыл бұрын
Damn, I was only waiting for this moment to arise. Now I learned to to play it like Sir Paul.
@feellucky271 Жыл бұрын
Paul McCartney and Wings were one of the best bands in the 70s w straight up rock and roll and really good melodies and lyrics like Magneto Titanium Man. Medicine Jar is great as well.
@carlbaumeister3439 Жыл бұрын
So I’m guessing your favorite album was Venus and Mars?
@Davidgilmourswhammybar Жыл бұрын
Ah Wings.......the band the Beatles could have been!
@carlbaumeister3439 Жыл бұрын
@@Davidgilmourswhammybar Ha. Funny you should say that because my dad, a true audiophile, never cared much for The Beatles, but really dug McCartney’s solo & Wings stuff.
@ronaldelliott4373 Жыл бұрын
Saw this Wings Tour in the 70’s, where I was finally able to watch him play it live. It was a surprise to see how he actually played it with his right hand moving way up the neck just as you did without missing a single note. The man was always clutch and made everything look effortless. There is a concert video of Wings Over America from what I believe is the last night of the North American Tour in Seattle, WA. A great show.
@grimtapestry5585 Жыл бұрын
It's really not all too hard a song to learn the fingerings for. The technique definitely, but if you play it fingerstyle it still sounds wonderful. You should look up a tutorial online if you'd like to learn it. It really is quite easy, just supremely well written
@Samuel-dw9mw Жыл бұрын
@@grimtapestry5585 😊
@slandrum7350 Жыл бұрын
Holy fret buzzing
@dig1272 Жыл бұрын
Just gorgeous!! That's one of my favorite songs.
@davidpetersen1 Жыл бұрын
Yeah.. it's the "strum" while picking that becomes the challenge. Blackbird was the first song I learned in it's entirety. My interpretation of how it sounds has changed over teh decades quite a bit.. sometimes picking, sometimes strumming. it's an awesome tune. If you can learn Blackbird you can be guaranteed you can learn anything.. given enough time and practice. Thanks for the tip.. I will try it out.:)
@Junkysnake9 ай бұрын
I Like the Jeff Beck “Black Bird”. Makes me Cry. Makes me Love you and all People and Animals. Makes Me Humble.
@adecree Жыл бұрын
Interesting, this is almost like playing the guitar like a ukulele. Very cool to see improvised techniques like this from such iconic songs!!!
@jpape42 Жыл бұрын
O. M. G. Thank you for finally clearing up what I’d heard years ago - that no one plays blackbird correctly. I had no idea what that meant. THANK YOU!
@LuckeGabriel Жыл бұрын
I've not played this song before, but I started using this technique after I started making my own song that used it, it came about when I was trying out Ben Howard's pick-n-go technique.
@benjackson787225 күн бұрын
Nice. What’s the song called?
@LuckeGabriel24 күн бұрын
@@benjackson7872 I didn't give it a name. It was almost 10 years ago I was playing it and it was maybe my second attempt at writing. I think the instrumental has something there worth returning to for when I want to go back to it. And if you mean Ben then it's this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bZiBZNRmlszYg4k.html
@boeing_opal Жыл бұрын
That change really did make it sound more like McCartney. At that slightly slower speed I was actually hearing a moment of Mother Nature's Son
@marctoleds62595 ай бұрын
Great job, sir!!
@pinballjunky7117 Жыл бұрын
I was at that concert. Paul is a fricking great musician 👏. And for sure a LEDGEND
@pnichols6500 Жыл бұрын
Still got my ticket stubs, he stayed in Dallas while they were practicing/preparing for Wings over America and his first show (first time in concert since The Beatles) was in Ft. Worth. Dallas based Showco did the lighting/stage for the tour and he did some recording at January Sound Studio in Dallas also. So was extra cool to see his first concert.
@TaoistDragon Жыл бұрын
Honestly Blackbird is one of my favorite songs by the Beatles. In large part it's because of Paul MaCartney's instrumentation with the guitar. The buzzing twang of the guitar really tugs at the heart strings.
@GaveMeGrace1 Жыл бұрын
Incredible! Thank you.
@renatacantore3684 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing us that we must pay closer attention to the details.
@Lord.Kiltridge Жыл бұрын
Really enjoying this kind of content.
@GaRciiA805 Жыл бұрын
I was at that concert, Los Angeles’s sofi stadium. Hilarious when he said that
@wokeupinapanic Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it was every night of his Got Back tour, as he said the exact same thing at Fenway lol
@timothyjones3410 Жыл бұрын
Me too. I got Covid. Nice to see him though.
@fredrodnick28812 ай бұрын
I've been playing it differently for many years. First ,how my teacher taught me. Then many years later I saw him in concert and noticed how his fretting was different and I started playing it like that. Now I hear the difference in how your strumming it and realize that's what Paul was playing cause it sounds right. So now I'll try I like you're doing it.
@less_than_amateur Жыл бұрын
So this is why I mix this tune up with some John Mayer songs
@ac158 Жыл бұрын
I learned that song in the late '70s and I never played it like that. I just enjoyed playing it on my 12 string.
@jackielangley5154 Жыл бұрын
I'm not changing the way I play Blackbird. It was too hard to learn to unlearn.
@harrytiltmam307511 ай бұрын
😂
@inshambles29 ай бұрын
so
@marcknight9334 Жыл бұрын
I prefer the first version
@demej004 ай бұрын
But Paul can't do it that way. Haha.
@tasteslikeawesome Жыл бұрын
Thank God I always played it correctly. It just felt right, and sounded right.
@trippwhitney9197 Жыл бұрын
Nice it’s the little details . I had to learn on one of them little black, Panasonic, cassette players I swiped from the library at school.
@buggemon3607 Жыл бұрын
It's been 20 some years ago he did a concert on TV. When he played Black Bird he hid his guitar behind an upright piano. So, all you could see was his face.
@hogantezza6469 Жыл бұрын
Almost like a Mayer “stop this train” kind of technique
@sarahfullerton6894 Жыл бұрын
Except Paul McCartney came up with it first.
@hogantezza6469 Жыл бұрын
@@sarahfullerton6894 wow thanks for your brilliance
@scouperful Жыл бұрын
That's a big one. It does make all the difference
@_RLY_ Жыл бұрын
Thats actually how I play it because I tend to use Mayers neon fingerpicking style
@fb176710 ай бұрын
I always played like this because 1) it sounds right and 2) it's easier to play 😂
@acousticmelody568 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! I knew something was off when I was playing it. I would try and pluck the G string twice but even tho it sounded closer it wasnt right!
@richardpeetrinpeetrin1814 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, That's the "Sir Paul" style 👌,man. If U may remember, back in the late 90's, On the TV family drama show "7th Heaven", that they incorporated that "Sir Paul "McCartney acoustic guitar 🎸 style on the shows soundtrack? "Rock-On", man......
@MrTomengle Жыл бұрын
I really like the version that The Analogues do. He plays it really well.
@neoneapolitan21228 ай бұрын
Gen Xers had guitar tabs. Every guitar player I knew all played the same songs 'cause of Guitar for the Practing Musician. Blackbird was one of those songs everyone played. (I thought then) it was because of tabs for the song. Other fingerstyle songs I played was Clap, Mood for a Day, Horizons, & Dear Prudence.
@finlaygibson8356 Жыл бұрын
I was there! he said this right before playing blackbird in Baltimore
@mike1962129 ай бұрын
This was in a guitar tab I borrowed from a library and it was,I think,a series of rather hard---at least for me--chords to fret. I THINK I might improve if I watch you here. Buddy of mine used to be in a band and he played some of it for me when he came to visit. Should have asked him for help then(he's in a different province now). Decades ago a cousin played it for me. Can't ask him now. He's in Australia. lol. Thanks.
@jefferyburns5808 Жыл бұрын
Almost with a claw hammer style
@shawmutt Жыл бұрын
Fellow Gen X'r here, it was good when we didn't have youtube to watch and imitate musicians. I really think that's why we got such great music in that era and everything sounds the same these days.
@stevenarellano6698 Жыл бұрын
I went to that concert, it was the second show when he came to the t mobile arena in Vegas
@NickBollingerMusic9 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s the motion Mayer based his “hammerclaw” technique on. The nice thing is both sound lovely and you don’t need to play percussively to get it right.
@SavitTheGoalie Жыл бұрын
The frist way sounds better though the actual way sounds to scratchy
@robertkrepek2561 Жыл бұрын
I've always heard that along with the foot tap.
@marinahansen5964 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the chords
@dav_dxd6801 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of John mayers “easy” technique for songs like neon and stop this train where it’s not using multiple fingers for multiple strings but instead using only about 2 to brush over strings
@yeahyeahyeah5089 Жыл бұрын
I just went to listen to it and ur right.... I can actually hear it.... I wish I hadn't seen this video cuz im curious if I would've caught that on my own.... I probly would have but there's a chance I wouldn't have 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@billherbert4961 Жыл бұрын
Quoting my son: Hey, that's the Boss Baby song.
@dopamining6932 Жыл бұрын
I remember doing this because it seemed to sound right and my guitar teacher would pull me up and make me use three fingers lol
@ericdee6802 Жыл бұрын
Paul has a funky six string strum!
@rockydaleАй бұрын
That's exactly how I heard it and play it.
@kentuckyblugrass Жыл бұрын
New strings? The attack and crispness is crazy.
@Stoneylfm Жыл бұрын
I heard him say that! Nice licks man! 🎉
@vince_vatican777 Жыл бұрын
Love you content Brother. ⚔️
@MeneerHerculePoirot Жыл бұрын
The best thing about McCartney's concerts is the in-between song stories. If you're going to video his concerts record that. You already know the songs. You'll be glad you did. 🎼🎵🎶🎸👍
@dracopalidine Жыл бұрын
I learned it on guitar when I was also learning banjo so I play it like I'm playing banjo
@lmctheman Жыл бұрын
I was at that concert, it was amazing
@artistaloca4 Жыл бұрын
🤣
@davidav8orpflanz561 Жыл бұрын
It's also a Civil Rights movement promotional song!!!
@shuroom577 ай бұрын
That sweeping index finger is the same one he always plucked his bass guitar with.
@Peter-vb3dc9 ай бұрын
The story I heard 20 years ago was that when McCartney heard Kenny Rankin’s version, he liked it more than his own. Dont know if its true but its a cool story and Rankin’s version is beautifully whimsical and melodic.
@nickpropst493810 ай бұрын
I still prefer the claw or talon method in playing this type of song. Unless you have a broken finger it sounds a lot cleaner than the brush technique. Bass guitar brushes are good because the strings are thicker.
@vannersp11 ай бұрын
Wow! That's amazing!
@zeppelinmexicano9 ай бұрын
It does sound great with that brushing technique.
@Justin14379 Жыл бұрын
Me who learnt from KZfaq and plays it right “my cuticles are non-existent”
@segnoggin Жыл бұрын
Im pretty sure for the slow rise the bass note on the A string just move up chromatically from the 3rd fret to the 7th. Ive never seem anyone play that right
@damiensladeАй бұрын
"Paul actually plays it like this" - starts slapping E string.
@stephenbobic3226 Жыл бұрын
He did that when he played in Knoxville, TN. And I laughed in acknowledgement!
@orangeiceice1224 күн бұрын
Dude thats brilliant. Sounds very 60s.
@krimzy5267 Жыл бұрын
also note that Paul was not actually plucking with pointer but using his thumb instead
@craigslist6988 Жыл бұрын
makes more sense
@zackorr421Күн бұрын
IMHO you are almost correct. It’s even more strummy with the pointer finger and drops the bass thumb notes during the strummy bit.
@letavik10 ай бұрын
I always knew how he played it, but always played it how I felt like playing it lmao
@wakeuptotheonepartyoverlor8797Ай бұрын
You have to use that technique for the short chords too, not just the longer held chords.
@jameshalbert181 Жыл бұрын
I've always considered myself a serious Beatles fan but I always assume George Harrison played that. I guess we really can learn something new everyday.
@kondopop4251 Жыл бұрын
Paul is a genius
@matthue1 Жыл бұрын
very helpful. thanks for the info!
@sb_dunk Жыл бұрын
Well the first version sounded nicer, maybe that's why most people played it that way
@raatroc8 ай бұрын
He also uses this technique on Yesterday.
@helpineedchannelname899 Жыл бұрын
Bruh I saw someone playing this at my school today wondering what it was called then the first yt short i see is this lol
@polomulder9556 Жыл бұрын
It's easier to keep the g string going with the thumb alternating with bassnote and keep first finger strumming if you like that strumming sound
@UntrynАй бұрын
Great video sir thanks
@warren52nz Жыл бұрын
I've always played it correctly since it was released.
@jackronan8355 Жыл бұрын
nice
@warren52nz Жыл бұрын
@@jackronan8355 I think my dose of OCD had something to do with it. I can play Classical Gas note for note as per Mason Williams too and I learned that in the 70s.
@brandono3139 Жыл бұрын
I was at this concert and there wasn't a dry eye there during this song.
@petermelnyk7664 Жыл бұрын
Awesome shirt on the wall....
@cincinnatipedalsteel4347Ай бұрын
That’s an awfully conceded statement to make to people when you have no idea how they play your song Sir Paul. I used my ears to learn it and I always played it like this.
@1bls Жыл бұрын
However it is played, it is a beautiful piece of music
@josesolismusic Жыл бұрын
I will still play it the way I do.
@Dandymancan Жыл бұрын
I always have played blackbird with two finger. Using my pointer finger to slip off the b string and strike the g string.
@pigeon4422 Жыл бұрын
I still can't get over how every time I see you the dead milkmen shirt is hanging in the back i love it
@c.ssturmer6794Ай бұрын
at another Paul McCartney he exploded and died while singing living let die
@nomo4u88611 ай бұрын
Paul’s way or no way!!
@vincentscarpitti7346 ай бұрын
Truth is, while in Rishikesh singer Donovan tried to teach Paul, John, & George the Travis fingerpicking method. George could already do the Chet Atkins version of this, bouncing a flat pick between 2 bass notes while completing the pattern with his middle & ring fingers. John, often considered the least capable guitarist of the three, learned to execute the actual Travis pattern perfectly (ie. Julia/Dear Prudence). Paul couldn’t get it - so he worked out his little “cheat” using only his thumb & index finger, hence - Blackbird. More recently, this has become the famous John Mayer fingerpick, usually with a thumb/palm slap on the backbeat. Playing Blackbird using the actual Travis picking sounds really good, but you’re correct - it’s not what McCartney does.
@Man_named_guiseppe Жыл бұрын
When i tried this i never learned finger-picking and just used my index finger to play black bird
@unrefined5156 Жыл бұрын
That’s how I learned to play it when I saw the tab, to me it’s ten times easier with just 2 fingers.
@itisMe04 Жыл бұрын
That's kind of how I do it... Because I suck at finger picking.
@bricknolty5478 Жыл бұрын
It's called crab claw. Get good, scrubs.
@louiscampbell1416 Жыл бұрын
Different people different times different music Time Marches On
@ColonelNickSteel Жыл бұрын
This is a pretty good channel. 👍
@harrytiltmam307511 ай бұрын
Thanks for making my version of blackbird seem weak 💀
@alf5617 Жыл бұрын
Minus the string slap of course
@MeneerHerculePoirot Жыл бұрын
If you listen to and watch videos of Paul performing Yesterday and apply that pattern to Blackbird? That's it.