Stevie Ray Vaughan by Johnny DeMarco – A Video Tutorial – A TTK Exclusive!
The Tone King | Mar 25, 2010 | Comments 12
Stevie Ray Vaughan by Johnny DeMarco :
Learn the techniques of Stevie Ray Vaughan by gunslinger Johnny DeMarco. Learn SRV pendulum swing rhythms, muting string techniques and ‘Pride & Joy’ style riffs & exercises. Learn to practice ‘licks in / over rhythms’, including dead / muted notes, all while keeping it sassy & swampy! Johnny also covers the clean feel & sound w/ finger style techniques. Check out Johnny tear it up over a SRV style track, where he not only keeps it real & authentic to SRV, but adds a bit of his own color and flavor to the mix! You’ll see him using the pickup selector to cover different tones, just like SRV did, in effort to dig in and bang out the percussive SRV licks! Johnny will show you ‘Triple-It’ techniques, and will show you how to produce ‘low pedal’ notes. Can’t forget about SRV’s trademark ‘Crossfire’ techniques, that Johnny will cover as well. You’ll see lots of SRV / Hendrix style double-stops, vibratos, punctuations and slide-downs. If you’ve ever wanted a quick lesson on SRV style techniques, Johnny DeMarco is your man, and TheToneKing.com is happy to present this exclusive!
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thanks Johnny, i learnt something as per usual – and to the moaning purists, i dont expect Johnny to sound like SRV – whats the point? if we were all SRV, Hendrix, Clapton clones, it would get a bit dull
great guitarists apparently often tend to be great people with big hearts – and their music often reflects this
i must have a small cold red pea pump though – because im crap
It is a very good video! For sure Johhny is not the same man as Stevie, so he plays a little different technique than SRV. It’s hard to copy SRV! I appreciate that Johhny shows us this difficult and beautiful style of playing guitar.
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Yea this guy is way to distorted. Anytime you use a distortion to substitute overdrive its sounds awful to me. Stevie played very LOUD giving him that awesome breakup boosted by the 808. The guy can play but I personally hate his tone. Im sure it sounds alot better with the other strats he mentioned. But never use distortion as a shortcut to cranking your amp LOUD, cuz it aint the same.
Well, blues maybe. NOT SRV in much style or tone, but it’s pentatonic. One big correction, althought a Fender Twin may get you there, SRV did not use Fender Twins, he played Fender Vibroverbs, Super Reverbs, and of course, later on in his career is used the famed Dumble Steel String Singer, but that was after In Step. His go to sound, like from the El Mocambo performance was all Vibroverbs (two of them) and Super Reverbs. Another big thing is SRV played very clean in tone, especially compared to this. WAY too much gain and distortion going on here. Stevie played LOUD, and his Vibroverbs and amps (along with a Tube Screamer to push the tubes) gave him a mid growl, but really listen closely and you will hear that there is really not much gain at all with SRV’s tone.
Johnny’s the man……great feel and timing. That Strat is screamin’!
Kinda, SRV on steroids !!!!
Great playing, great lesson !!!
Thank You TTK !
Good stuff, Johnny.
Good blues. Not much to do with SRV though!
As for emulating SRV…. well … pretty much as bad as the BOSS COSM(ic) emulations. But as he mentions in the beginning, he does not copy them “to the teeth”. (Very appropriate disclaimer).
So money, I don’t know what else to say…
Outstanding !! Very good lesson !! Well done !
SRV is one of my favorites to this day. His technique is so complicated, yet he was the master of it and could make it so rythmic & musical.
Great lesson Johnny !
Kudos to you & the tone king for posting it !
David
great job! Stevie was a master, no doubt. He absolutely attacked the guitar, almost recklessly, but in complete control… what a talent! I still remember exactly where I was(working for an airline servicing company in Las Vegas) when I heard about his death… R.I.P. Stevie!
Rock on Johnny & TTK.
Tony