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Who fancies a midweek blues jam?!.. this is a fun one! Peter Green’s take on Freddie King’s classic “The Stumble”. The challenge with this piece is to keep that picking hand nice and articulate at higher speeds. You have to really dig in if you want to get that legit blues tone 👌🏻

Let me know how you get on with it guys! 🤩

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The Stumble - Peter Green/Freddie King (Sunbear PAF pickups soundtest!)

*Due to popular demand, you can download my transcription for this at the link below.. https://smogfalls.gumroad.com/l/mnter You know when you’re just feeling super inspired by your gear and tone and it sends you on a trip down memory lane?.. Well I’m in one of those moments right now. Since getting my 335 back with these new @sunbear_pickups PAF’s installed I’ve been revisiting some of my favourite “PAF” tones, this Peter Green piece being one of them. This is “The Stumble”.. originally written by the great Freddie King. The new “Atom” pedal by @browneamplification is providing some beautifully dynamic, low gain dirt. This is fast becoming a favourite of mine, which is no surprise as their “Protein” pedal is my favourite dual overdrive of all time and this is the fabulous green side from that. And a splash of reverb courtesy of the @strymonengineering Flint for the cherry on top. The amp is my @lazyjprojects J20.. I’ve had this amp for 10 years now and it’ll NEVER leave my side. One of my greatest gear purchases of all time without a doubt. I’d love to hear what some of your favourite “PAF” tones are, so please, if you read this, do comment below with your top 5 ;) @honey.picks 1.5mm “honey bee” @drstrings Pure Blues 10-46 @openplanrecording “grill” ribbon mic @shure sm57 @uaudio apollo twin x If you’d like to support the work I do, feel free to buy me a coffee at this link; https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alexfarran I post most days on insta: https://www.instagram.com/alexfarranguitar #guitar #guitarist #guitarra #guitarsolo #blues #rocknroll #bluesguitar #guitarsolo #petergreen #bluesbreakers #fleetwoodmac #gibsones335 #lazyj20 #sunbearpickups #guitartone #gearybusey #guitarpedal #pedalboard #vintage #freddieking #ericclapton #clapton #johnmayall

Comments

Paul Scafidi

Fun! Had me toe tapping at 5:00 am US EST. Coffee helped too.

Gert De Groof

Ah…what a relief! Time to put my morning struggle with Charlie Christian aside, take the Flying V of the wall and blues-on! Perfect timing 👍 nice 6th’s run btw.

Peter Kelly

Sounds great, will have a proper look at it this evening

Kenton

Great feel and tone. A little snarl, a lot of soul.

MarkW

Alex!! Is that a Memphis 335? I'm looking at a 2016 with Burst buckers. Just hemming and hawing on the price. What's your take?

Kenton

Dude, I was waiting for about 10 more times through. Killer.

Mark Gavin

I've been working on this for a while. Freddie used the same sequence of 6's in Hideaway but with different phrasing. This one is harder as you have to move all the way back to the 12th fret very quickly. Thanks!

Shmookie

The perfect combination of tone and ‘tude! Amazing!!

Wayne America

HI Alex. This rules! I like how you are digging up guitarists that I have never heard of until now. As for me, I have a lot of catching up to do. I am currently working on Michelle, Georgia on my Mind, the Jimmy Bryant song in Western Swing and Wes Montgomery's West Coast Blues.

Alex Farran Guitar

That’s great stuff Wayne!.. glad you’re finding so many pieces you enjoy! Keep up the hard work mate 🍻

James

Mate more Peter Green please! Slabo Day solo stuff!!!

Alex Farran Guitar

🧡More Peter Green on the horizon for sure. Jumping at Shadows is my personal favourite 👌🏻

James

Classic. Those Sunbears sound great, as you’d expect. Stu made me a set to compliment my Suhr PT. The Thurnbuckers sounded too modern to me - with the Sunbears I’ll swear it now sounds like a vintage LP.

Brian Johnson

nice! also, like the new lead studies collection. or, if it’s always been there, new to me

Alex Farran Guitar

Really cool.. hard to beat Sunbear for quality. Stu is such a nice bloke too 👍🏻

Michael Sosebee

This is going to date me but I saw Freddie King several times at the Las Vegas Convention Center. He was the opening act for Grand Funk Railroad on New Years Eve 1972. Great guitar player. Hideaway was a classic.

Alex Farran Guitar

Oh man that’s super cool! Grand Funk Railroad were a cracking group too! Must’ve been an ace gig 👌🏻

Allan Rodrick

Just when I think I’ll never hear another blues solo that inspires me, you come up with this jem!! And I am blown away by your flawless performance. I’m calling in sick so I can go practice.

Alex Farran Guitar

Ah thank you Allan! Haha that's a fantastic reason to call in sick! ;)

John Ortley

Tone sounds killer is that the lazy j or a drive pedal?

Alex Farran Guitar

Thanks John. Lazy J is set clean and I’m getting the drive from the Browne Amps “atom” which is basically a Nobels ODR-1. I always set those circuits with Level and tone at 2 o,clock, and drive at around 10 o’clock 👍🏻

Jim Wingard

Wow, this is a rockin (stomp) blues with wonderful playing and energy ! I recently joined and am glad I did. I would love to see you break this one down in a lesson. Thanks !