Dear Prudence Guitar Lesson - The Beatles - John Lennon Fingerstyle Guitar Tutorial
In this guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play Dear Prudence by The Beatles, taken from 1968's 'The Beatles' (AKA The White Album). Guitar Pro and PDF tabs are available to all members of my Patreon group (see below).
This is a beautiful acoustic guitar fingerstyle song that I've been meaning to learn for a LONG time.
John Lennon wrote this and plays the acoustic guitar in the original recording, which might explain the rather unorthodox approach to the picking pattern.
It was written for Prudence Farrow, sister of actress Mia, during The Beatle's time in Rishikesh, India studying Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The meditations were said to have made Prudence paranoid and too anxious to leave her chalet. The song describes The Beatles' attempts to coax her out!
We're in Drop D tuning for this one. You can check out my video lesson on tips for Drop D guitar tuning here - • Drop D Guitar Tuning T...
Have a listen to the Vocal, Guitar & Drums version on the 2018 re-release to get a clearer listen to the acoustic parts:
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0:00 Video Intro
0:41 Picking Pattern Breakdown
2:22 Picking Pattern (70 BPM)
2:36 Picking Pattern (148 BPM - song tempo)
2:55 Intro Chords
5:50 Intro (70 BPM)
6:32 Intro (148 BPM)
6:51 Main Progression (Verse) Chords
8:21 Main Progression (70 BPM)
8:50 Alterative Chord Grips
9:44 Verse 1
10:18 Verse Ending Chords
11:28 Verse 1 (from 43s)
11:51 Verse 2
12:13 Bridge 1
12:28 Bridge Chords
13:05 Bridge (from 1m59s)
14:21 Bridge 1 (148 BPM)
14:55 Alternative Bridge Chords
15:58 Verse 3
16:18 Bridge 2 (Strumming)
17:12 “The Sun is Up” (3m18s)
18:25 Ending
19:05 TABs/Patreon Group
19:21 Shop/Fretboard Mastery
19:44 End Screen
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Nice playing with a warm tone and keep the tempo steady. As a guitarist for comic book trailers who's looking for inspiration, your teaching is nice since you clearly model how to use a metronome and using precise fingering while accounting for strings that need to ring open. Cheers!
@Rynaylorguitar
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the support and feedback. This is definitely the format of my song lessons going forward, so I’m pleased to hear it helps 🙏🏻
the picking pattern breakdown (string 5 and one at the same time, and so on etc.) is easily the best explanation of I've seen of this.
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Great to hear. Thanks Mark 🙏🏻
@josephmumbulla3648
2 жыл бұрын
The best breakdown of Dear Prudence, explanation of both string and picking patterns. I always thought that this song was done with 2 guitars. John and George.
Brilliant. Blinking Heck how good were those four lads.
@michaelwebb4151
5 ай бұрын
Apparently Lennon learned the basics of the guitar picking style from Donovan while in India - see kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2eouc2yibvJfMY.html
Very Nice. Estuve buscando estos arpegios para poder aprenderlos y al fin los encontré. Muchas gracias.
@Rynaylorguitar
4 ай бұрын
De nada !
I play the second chord in the verse keeping a standard D shape and using my pinky to grab the A string.
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Also works 👍🏻
Ry This is an excellent video and your teaching ability is very much appreciated. Keep up the Beatle songs too !!!! Thank u
@Rynaylorguitar
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Stephen. Pleased to hear you enjoyed it 🙏🏻
You’re a very good teacher…I like this song because I play in fingerpicking mode since 1976. Thank you, Nice teaching!
@Rynaylorguitar
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rene
Excellent teacher. The fingering options have been very useful. Thanks for your time.
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
WOW Very nice Earned a subscribe for this. Very helpful, eventhough I play it different since 30 years and happy with it.... It's a very good exercise, very nicely explained, straight forward, not to slow not to fast. Thank you from Berlin
Hermosa canción, hermosa explicaciòn.
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Gracias
Thank you for this finger picking lesson Ryan! 👍🏾👍🏽🕊
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
You’re very welcome. Thanks David 🙏🏻
Explained clearly with tempo. Well done!
Congrats, this is an instructive, clear and helpful tutorial. You got a new subscriber, cheers
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Wonderful guitar lesson! Thank you.
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New subscriber here. Ry, I'm going back to hear the White Album again. Your description of the pattern is pretty awesome
@Rynaylorguitar
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Robert!
I do believe this is the finger-picking pattern John learned from Donovan, in the time they spent together in at the Ashram in India.
@Rynaylorguitar
9 ай бұрын
I think you’re right 👍🏻
Very nice ----you follow the chord arpeggio pattern down--well done ! --one fella player 5 th fret A major -----as C major! I corrected him --only to find later on -- he prefers to play the 5 TH fret --A major ---as a C chord ! sounds pretty awful --been playing this for 30 years !
How only 344 likes?? Are you guys crazy!
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