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Eclectic Electric: 61 SGLP
Performance Study & Analysis for Rock Guitar
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About this course
Peter Frampton refers to John Jorgenson as the “guitarist's guitarist.” Elton John calls him, ”brilliant.” Brad Paisley says, “If there was one guitar player I'd like to be, it would be John Jorgenson.”
In his first TrueFire course, John presented Gypsy Jazz Journeys: Sonora Spring, an illuminating curriculum revealing many of his key Gypsy Jazz concepts and techniques. Here in Eclectic Electric: 61 SGLP, John shares many of his signature go-to concepts and techniques for electric rock guitar.
John plays a wide variety of styles from Rock to Bluegrass to Gypsy Jazz, all at a virtuoso level. He’s toured, recorded, and collaborated with the likes of Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, and dozens of other top artists. You can hear him on numerous platinum-selling and GRAMMY-winning albums.
”Electric guitar was my first love, and I spent hours listening to my favorite rock bands learning as many licks as I could. Over the years, all of those influences have melded together into my personal style. In this edition of Eclectic Electric, I’d like to share these techniques and ideas with you through a song I named after my first good guitar: It’s called "61 SGLP.”
John organized this 61 SGLP edition of Eclectic Electric into 6 sections, each focused on a particular section of 61 SGLP. John will perform the sections at-tempo and then break down all of the parts. Along the way, you’ll also learn a variety of very versatile rock phrases to add to your own rock vocabulary. John will also teach you the solo note-for-note. Slow and at-tempo playalongs are included for each of the sections for your practice purposes.
All of the performances are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, John includes all of the backing tracks for you to work with on your own, in addition to all of the slow and at-tempo playalongs.
Grab your guitar and let’s rock our 61 SGLPs with John Jorgenson!
In his first TrueFire course, John presented Gypsy Jazz Journeys: Sonora Spring, an illuminating curriculum revealing many of his key Gypsy Jazz concepts and techniques. Here in Eclectic Electric: 61 SGLP, John shares many of his signature go-to concepts and techniques for electric rock guitar.
John plays a wide variety of styles from Rock to Bluegrass to Gypsy Jazz, all at a virtuoso level. He’s toured, recorded, and collaborated with the likes of Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, and dozens of other top artists. You can hear him on numerous platinum-selling and GRAMMY-winning albums.
”Electric guitar was my first love, and I spent hours listening to my favorite rock bands learning as many licks as I could. Over the years, all of those influences have melded together into my personal style. In this edition of Eclectic Electric, I’d like to share these techniques and ideas with you through a song I named after my first good guitar: It’s called "61 SGLP.”
John organized this 61 SGLP edition of Eclectic Electric into 6 sections, each focused on a particular section of 61 SGLP. John will perform the sections at-tempo and then break down all of the parts. Along the way, you’ll also learn a variety of very versatile rock phrases to add to your own rock vocabulary. John will also teach you the solo note-for-note. Slow and at-tempo playalongs are included for each of the sections for your practice purposes.
All of the performances are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, John includes all of the backing tracks for you to work with on your own, in addition to all of the slow and at-tempo playalongs.
Grab your guitar and let’s rock our 61 SGLPs with John Jorgenson!
What you'll learn
- Execute hammer-on techniques
- Master complex string crossing techniques
- Recognizing rhythmic phrase reduction techniques
- Learn a complete original electric guitar composition
- Understand complex rock intro rhythms
Release date: 10/30/2017 • 1h 15m runtime
Sample lessons
'61 SGLP: A Section
Performance
'61 SGLP: A Section
Phrase 1 Breakdown
'61 SGLP: A Section
Phrase 2 Breakdown
'61 SGLP: A Section
Phrase 3 Breakdown
What's included
42 lessons • 7 charts • 14 Jam Tracks
Eclectic Electric: '61 SGLP
Hi I'm John Jorgenson, and welcome to Eclectic Electric: 61 SGLP. Electric guitar was my first love, and I spent hours listening to my favorite rock bands learning as many licks as I could. Over the years, all of those influences have melded together into my personal style.
In this edition of Eclectic Electric, I’d like to share these techniques and ideas with you through a song I named after my first good guitar: It’s called "'61 SGLP". We'll work through the song section by section, and I include both slow and at tempo playalongs for each of the sections. Everything is tabbed and notated for you, plus you'll get all of the rhythm tracks to work with on your own. Grab your guitar and let's get started!
In this edition of Eclectic Electric, I’d like to share these techniques and ideas with you through a song I named after my first good guitar: It’s called "'61 SGLP". We'll work through the song section by section, and I include both slow and at tempo playalongs for each of the sections. Everything is tabbed and notated for you, plus you'll get all of the rhythm tracks to work with on your own. Grab your guitar and let's get started!
'61 SGLP: Full Song
Let's start things off by going through a whole performance of "'61 SGLP". We'll break it down section by section in the following lessons, but first let's listen to how the complete song is supposed to sound. Dig in!
'61 SGLP: Intro Section
Here we'll start by looking at the introduction section of "'61 SGLP". I'll perform it in its entirety, and then we'll break it down until we've learned it all.
'61 SGLP: Intro Section
You just heard the intro to "61 SGLP", now let's break it down the first of two phrases. This is based around a B barre chord, and there are a couple of pick-ups into it, kind of like a Pete Townshend feel. You do those on the low E string, playing B on the 7th fret, and then you'll mute that string and play 8th notes. Next, bring in the two notes on the A and D string at the 9th fret, using your little finger and ring finger. You lift those off and put them back on.
You play this part three times in a row, and in the video, we'll look at this phrase slowed down. There you have the first riff!
You play this part three times in a row, and in the video, we'll look at this phrase slowed down. There you have the first riff!
'61 SGLP: Intro Section
The second phrase of the intro is something that's going to be repeated often throughout the song, and has lots of classical rock elements in it. It has groups of three eighth notes in 4/4 time, so it gives a sense of shifting time. You start again on the E string 7th fret (B), and then you hammer from 7th to 9th on the A string, and then play the 9th fret on the D string. Then, you do the same hammer on, but you have a different top note. Move the whole thing down two frets, then move it down a string. You finish by playing a G, and don't forget to add vibrato to it!
'61 SGLP: Intro Section
Now let's go through the intro section again, this time a little slower. Once you've mastered this, it's time to move on to the at tempo playalong. Let's check it out!
'61 SGLP: Intro Section
Now here's the intro section of "'61 SGLP" at tempo. If this is too fast, go back to the slower playalong until you've really nailed it.
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Reviews
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jeffc
02/20/19
Interesting view into his early song writing
So what is the idea behind teaching a lesson about a song that you wrote some time ago? I am not really sure but you know there were a couple of good things that can be taken away from it so not a total loss.
G S.
10/30/18
John Jorgenson's Eclectic Electric, a breakdown of Just One Aspect of a Master's Styles
John Jorgenson has been a multi-instrumentalist artist that I have long admired. As a young man, he was a "Dixieland style" musician at Disneyland before breaking out as a modern country guitarist-vocalist member of the Desert Rose Band (where I first heard of him); and later as a menber of the Hellecasters, a hotshot guitar instrumentialist band. He also worked as a studio musician and a touring guitarist, backup singer for many famous artists; artist genres ranging from Elton John, Bob Dylan, to Barbra Striesand. He is known for Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, New Country, and Rockabilly. More recently, he expanded his capability to gypsy jazz, channeling Django Reinhardt's musical style so well that he was asked to portray Reinhardt in a feature film. He has also been involved in giving lessons and teaching others along the way. My point in this long introduction is to say that John is a rare artist in being able to master so many genres. He has two courses, that I am aware of on Truefire, one in the Gypsy Jazz genre, and this one focuses on pop rock style. I gave this one a try. Rather than being a guidebook John provides us a song, named after his first electric guitar (A 1961 SG), and breaks it down piece by piece, and then shows how to play it; breaking out the rhythm and the leads. For someone exploring this course, watch the introduction and the free course segments and you will have a good understanding of what you are getting. Essentially John shows you a song that he wrote that provides several good elements of his rock style, and he shows you how he plays it. It's not a guide book for style, or a sharing of music theory. If you are a fan of John as a musician, you will find this a useful course. But remember, you are only getting a sampling of one style, what he could fit into this one song. No Desert Rose Band or Hellecasters licks. Again, watch the free samples tand you will get a good representation of what you will be getting. I rated it a four, as I am so used to Jeff Carlton. You will have explore on your own (look at the free samples) to see if you see content that you can use to help you along. I am glad I bought it.
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