Chords for Why JEFF BECK is UNCOPYABLE

So this past weekend I went to see Jeff Beck.
Actually this is on Saturday night, so two days ago.
And one of my really good friends is this front of house engineer and I was lucky enough to stop by and see the soundcheck before the show.
And I've seen Jeff play probably three or four times in the past over the last 25 years or so.
Jeff's now 78 years old.
I've never made a video on Jeff Beck because as I said in my interview with Eric Johnson,
he had mentioned that the first solo he learned was Jeff Beck for Yardbirds, I think, with New York City Blues.
I think that was the song.
One of the first things I learned, New York City Blues by the Yardbirds.
I remember learning that.
And when I was learning it, I was so young, [A] I couldn't [G] understand what Jeff Beck was doing.
I still can't.
And then learning the Nazar Blue.
And when you talk about the sound of the guitar being in the hands, his sound is completely in his hands.
I was in the audience at the front of house and then I was lucky enough to go and stand next to the monitors and watch from the side of the stage.
You can't even tell what he's doing.
It's really incredible.
I'm going to show some videos here where you can see his right hand and left hand.
One thing is he plays the most unique phrases of anyone I can think of.
I have a really good friend, Harper, who said he went to see Jeff play in Alabama the other night and he said he is one of one.
And I thought that was the perfect description.
He is one of one.
[N] No one sounds like Jeff Beck and no one could.
No one could sound like Jeff Beck.
I went and was looking at Jeff Beck videos for Jeff Beck videos on YouTube transcriptions.
People just playing along with stuff.
There's almost nothing.
Why?
Because he's uncopyable.
You can't really copy Jeff.
You'd have to spend your whole life trying to play like that.
He plays the most beautifully interesting melodies.
He never plays a bad note, but his uniqueness is just it's almost impossible to talk about.
So let's actually look and listen to his playing and I'll talk about it.
The first tune I want to start with is because we've ended as lovers, which is off the blow-by-blow record, which came out in 1975, which was actually produced by George Martin.
Here's Jeff with Vinnie Kaluud on drums and Tal Wilkenfeld on the bass.
Last time I saw them play together was a few years ago.
I'm trying to think of when it was.
Maybe it was five years ago or something.
I saw them them play together as a group with a keyboardist, but but you'll see mainly in this you'll see the three of them.
So let's just start this [Eb] off here. _
Check _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Fm] _ out the whammy bar there.
Just the odd way he holds his hand. _
[Cm] He's going below the notes above them.
[D] Vibrato.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [D] _ [Cm] _ _ He [Fm] never [Bb] plays a bad note.
[Cm] _ [Fm] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] And every note, [D] like I said, is a different [Eb] volume.
_ [Ab] It has [Bb] a different.
_ [Ab] _ [Cm] Oh, _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] that's sus to the to the [D] major third there.
_ _ _ [Cm] Beautiful.
_ [Fm] _
_ The [Bb] space [Ab] between [Bb] phrases. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ Beautiful Lydian [Fm] line.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] [F] Here's a solo.
_ [Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] [Fm] Never plays the whammy bar in the same way either.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] He _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ doesn't use the same fingering.
You notice he uses pinky in that.
Then he went to his third finger.
[F] _
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ It's [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
like a human voice.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
Oh, [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[N] there's never a bad phrase.
There's never.
It's just just flow.
I remember when I interviewed Vinnie.
I always bring this back up.
I've known Vinnie since the mid 80s or so.
And my first question to him was Vinnie.
Tell me about flow.
And he said thought is the enemy of flow and Vinnie as you can hear him back on the drums.
Just flows and that's what Jeff does.
This is just a flow of melody.
He's there's never any question where he's going to play things.
He's never fishing for notes or anything.
Everything is spontaneous.
Yet.
It's so well constructed.
Every idea just leads to the next idea.
But the thing that's amazing and and the other person that's like this is Pat Matheny.
Because Pat talked about this about never playing notes the same volume.
He's always playing into notes differently.
And he always is playing every notes dynamically differently.
And Jeff every note is dynamically differently.
Every tone is different.
Every attack is different.
It can be swelled into it can be attacked where you know,
we're a little tag it really hard and it'll have a lot more [D] gain on it and it just jump out at you or the phrases will just move.
Well, I'll play it again.
Listen, you'll hear it. _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ There's never _ [C]
notes that just don't do anything. _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ Every bend.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ Oh, _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ I love when he plays the sustained notes with the. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ He's at low E on the C chord and pulls it down to a low C _ beautiful.
_ _ [N] _ And then he always has one to give credit to the other people that he's playing with.
I did get to meet Jeff during soundcheck or actually in between soundcheck and the show.
He actually had walked back in and I was introduced to him and I mean,
it's Jeff Beck.
I mean, what a legend.
It really blew me away.
It really did and he was so nice.
I just said hello to him, but but it just kind of was like wow,
that's Jeff Beck and I've met a lot of well-known people,
but this was just kind of blew my mind.
I want to [Gbm] play a little bit of another song here to show you some other techniques.
They just some of the faster things it does,
which is really great.
[Dbm] _ Notice _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ how when he [Bb] grabs his [Dm] lambi bar,
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] he grabs it differently each time and he uses it.
[Gm] It's always using it differently.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] [Bb] Because if you tap on it [Gm] the _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ thumb there.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ What is that?
_ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [N] _ _ And _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] when I [F] hear him play, I just [Bb] start thinking of these players [F] like Eddie Van Halen.
_ The harmonics that he was [Fm] doing the other night and [Eb] the [Fm] sounds like this.
[Eb] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Ebm] _ [Bb] _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [D] _ [F] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [D] _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ [Ab] I [D] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [N] can't even.
Fathom how he's just improvising like that.
It's really _ _ _ real to see it like this up close.
It didn't matter the other you know, the other night.
So this is from probably 10 years ago or so
and he sounds just as good at 78 years old.
Those hands, you know, just what he's got in the hands
and the sounds that he's able to pull out of the guitar.
It's like _ nothing I've ever heard
and I heard him sound check.
He came back in to try out a different amp
and it didn't matter if he was playing through a different amp.
It's he just sounded like him.
The other thing was during sound check.
He never _ was messing around.
It was all music.
It could have been the gig.
So he's doing sound check.
He's playing and every phrase every articulation everything.
It's just it that's what flows out of him.
It's unbelievable.
So this is my why Jeff Beck is uncopyable video
and and love to hear your thoughts.
I know there's a lot of huge Jeff Beck fans that follow this channel.
Please let me know any personal stories or anything of seeing him.
This is really incredible.
Like I said, I've seen him.
I think four times in the last 25 years or so
and to see him now at this age
and he's as good as he ever