I can't stop hearing Paul's bass in my head.

@victoirelacaille3009

3 жыл бұрын

so do i ta da -ta -ta ta la-tata

@Axel.Agui14r

3 жыл бұрын

Look around

@jackdawson5490

3 жыл бұрын

maybe its because the guitar is playing it too with that alternate bassline

@devlore5321

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely one of his best

@doughnut3639

3 жыл бұрын

The bass in this song was a work of art.

This is THE song that forced me to learn some finger picking. I had to learn this song at all cost's. Still dont have it down but "It's getting better all the time."

@GeneralxMayhem

3 жыл бұрын

Can't get no worse (in my case!)

@georgestevens1502

Жыл бұрын

Donovan Leitch taught John the claw hammer picking technique when Donovan was with the Beatles in India. Then John came up with this.

I must say, I have been playing guitar for 36 years, I gig regularly and I am a near-lifelong professional audio engineer and I teach guitar as well.... so I felt a great need to tell you that your lesson was one of the clearest, well-done tutorials I have seen in years. Great job.Sometimes you just have to pat somebody on the back ...

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

9 жыл бұрын

Stone Soup Thanks! cheers

@MrJuliesguy

5 жыл бұрын

Gee, how honored...there is always some jackass that has to be the imaginary expert, shut up stone soup, go away

@farshadh6363

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrJuliesguy huh?

@arnoldcaines9012

5 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!!

@juana1483

4 жыл бұрын

He shows us and teaches us...(professional), not rants on about himself like you. If you're such an awesome guitarist, why you watching guitar lessons on KZread? You sound like a blowhard!!!You get your example from T-Rump????

Best part of this video is when he says "I guarantee it will happen.. you will get it". It took me 2 weeks to get this finger picking down. But he was right. I finally got it.

@WALTERNA1

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulwitveendaal3381 And it would have taken you no time at all to not be a dick about it.

@mynameisalsojohn

4 жыл бұрын

Tijmen Hoff lol

@WALTERNA1

4 жыл бұрын

Cha Feel? There used to be some other comments before mine, but they seem to have been removed haha

@mynameisalsojohn

4 жыл бұрын

Tijmen Hoff savage🤣

@nmcg2587

4 жыл бұрын

@@WALTERNA1 Thanks for explaining your comment - I was scratching my head. Far as I could tell, the OP didn't say anything dickish.

Lennon what a freakin GENIUS composer. To think he just came up with this to get a meditation student out of her room and played it to her and she came out to play after 3 days locked inside!!!

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

3 жыл бұрын

That wasn't just a meditation student that was Mia Farrows sister

@bendagostino2217

2 жыл бұрын

It amazes me that he was able to put together some of these chord progressions without any musical theory knowledge. He just had a great ear and a natural ability to find chords that work well together.

@bassesatta9235

2 жыл бұрын

@@bendagostino2217 the thing is, even with music theory how the fuck would u think to come up with that specific chord sequence from the top of the guitar. its one of those things where once you see it or hear it youre like “oooh how did i not think of that”. but to come up with it from scratch, with or without knowledge on theory, is impressive

@gianthonour

2 жыл бұрын

@@bassesatta9235 Donovan taught him a basic finger pick exercise in India, Lennon then ran with it and I absolutely agree with you, incredible chord pattern

@ren7ee

2 жыл бұрын

@@truckerkevthepaidtourist Of course. He wouldn't have done it for just anybody.

First of all, your youtube videos are far and above some of the best tutorials anywhere. Your patience and detailed explanations are simply amazing. You have over 70,000 thousand subscribers. We should all send him a dollar of month. That's less than a cup of coffee a month for the best tutorials on the planet by some of the greastest song every written. He should be able to sit home and devote his time to more videos. 12 dollars over the course of a year is meaningless to us for all we get back. I am headed to paypal to give him 12.00 now. I challenge all of you to do the same. Let the man do what he does!

@MattKimsal

8 жыл бұрын

+1luckycat challenge accepted

@jlunch

7 жыл бұрын

That's a really fantastic idea. This guy's work is absolutely worth that. It's actually far more valuable. I've been teaching music lessons for many years as I'm a symphonic violist. I'm also a very inexperienced guitar player. I stumbled upon this channel so I could learn how to play a few songs on guitar. I've been playing the viola professionally for 25 years and played my first ever guitar gig a week ago. This man taught me how to play Heroes! I'm super thankful for that. When I saw that Heroes was on the set-list I was not remotely excited by the prospect. What the hell was i to do in that song without feeling like a complete dork?! This guy helped me own that in a huge way. I was convinced it'd be the cheesiest thing I'd ever done in my life. We rehearsed it once. It was, for my extremely limited experience in my first ever gig as a guitar player, a very positive experience. I think it conveyed some familiar vibes and decent tones shared in the original recording. I was so fearful of it being a truly shameful experience and this man completely removed that feeling. That alone is worth a bucket full of goodies and a substantial financial offering. This guy has an awesome channel. I've had the chance to work with many of the world's greatest conductors, who are essentially teachers. I had a wonderful education with great teachers. I paid for that then and continued paying for many years afterwards. This guy gives it his all and he gives it for free right here on KZread. It's absolutely top-notch instruction. It's not charity, it's insurance. If one gives 500€ a year for lessons once a week, that's less than a tener per week. There are exactly zero music teachers that would accept such a paltry sum. Then there are people like this, Let's just pay the man.

As a beginner this can seem impossible, I was at that stage too, but with good practise you will accomplish this. All of a sudden your fingers will start to play without thinking and the sense of joy you will get is priceless, coupled with a huge grin that would need a jackhammer to chisel off your face. The unsung heroes are people like "shut up & play" who remove the mystery of songs allowing everybody no matter what skill level to enjoy music. For many of us this guy is the de facto guitar channel and a total legend. Kind regards. A. Fender.

Until I'm cold and dead the intro to this song will send chills through my bones all the way to my ancestors.. I'm a bassist, this will be the first song I'll learn on 6 string. Thnx for the help...

That took me ages to learn. Someone should write alternative lyrics to the tune. New Title: "Dear Patience". Thank you a lot for the inspiration.

It's a weird thing-no really... I mean getting the picking right. I was doing my nut trying to get my thumb to do the base crotchet rhythm and then play the syncopated treble picking with the two fingers over the top. I began to think that there was something mentally wrong with me because I just couldn't do it and was ready to throw my guitar out of the window. Then, suddenly, it just came together and I could do the picking with ease, as if it was natural. Clever little brain cells making connections. It just works! So if anyone else is in the same boat and ready to give up... DON'T! It'll all "come together" (sorry for the Beatles pun). Fantastic tutorial and thanks for your patience in teaching it to us.

OH this song is so beautiful but learning it makes me wanna strangle my guitar

@BigMonke419

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@drzjay0993

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@rodwavings

3 жыл бұрын

I had the first part down in a day then the rest was hard

@ARichardP

3 жыл бұрын

Those droning ‘D’ strings with the melody on top - so beautiful.

@Insidia85

3 жыл бұрын

@@misterj9619 other than Julia and Dear Prudence, what are the other Jonh Lennon Travis Picking songs?

Thanks for the compliment. I appreciate you watching. Yeah I remember those days of dropping the needle on the vinyl too. And that was if you had the record, and if you didn't you'd have to save up and buy it. It's much easier for guitarists these days, thankfully. Cheers man.

I'd like to add a comment on your "finger picking will probably screw you up". Back in the day (pre-Beatles, or at least pre-Sgt. Pepper), pickers came from folk and blues traditions. We only ever did "Travis" picking, aka "Alternating Thumb". Rock and Pop were almost exclusively chord strumming, or the "advanced" boom-chuck, bass-strum-bass-strum. To master alternating bass finger-picking, we spent anywhere from a week to a month playing just bass string 6 - bass string 4 - bass 6 - bass 4 ad nauseum. You knew you had it when you woke up playing alternating bass, and could keep the thumb going while you watched TV with full comprehension, or carry on a political discussion and the bass line never wavered. It was pretty hard on everybody in the house, but at the end, your thumb played that bass line without occupying any of your attention at all. In a matter of days, we'd add in a simple melody on the beat. As our teacher tells us, one day it just clicks in, and you can play almost anything, with style. Then move some of the melody notes 'between the beats' and throw in some hammer-ons. slides and pull-offs, give it some swing, and you had a really good version of Song #1 on full auto-pilot. You learned Song #2 in a day or so, and pretty quick had it on full auto. Song #3 went faster still, and you discovered you could play almost anything with pattern picking, and you were what everyone aspired to. Things are way more complicated now, but it remains true that if you once train your thumb to work with a mind of its own, you can train it to do something more creative still on full autopilot, and you only have to learn half a song at a time. So if you haven't done it already, spend that week or two or more with a guitar glued to your hands and being the most annoying person in town. Then start learning a new song or two every day. Honestly. It works.

@AsharellaNightAngel

7 жыл бұрын

According to Donovan he taught John finger picking this way when they were both in India in '68 and I guess the result was that John wrote this song.

@fredlyr1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! gotta be good for the brain/nervous system

I've played guitar for over 50 years. Over the years there are so many songs that I've wanted to learn, but never did. This is one of them. You are an extremely gifted player and teacher. Thank you so much.

At last, after about 50 years of playing it ( frustratingly )not quite right, the puzzle’s solved and I’m a happy old picker!

Amazing how Lennon learned to play these incredible chords in such a short time. I started at 32 messing and was shown 3 chords and I was hooked. I had the talent and never knew it. I bought my first real guitar in Rochester ny house of guitars and was playing in a band by my 33rd birthday. Its great for anxiety and PTSD. IM 60 now and still play Lennon, Oasis, matchbox 20, Country a must in Florida and I’m Rican from NYC.. I CAN HEAR AND PLAY ALSO READ MUSIC AND TABS. AWESOME HOBBY. I WAS MARRIED AND COULDNT BE A ROCK STAR LOLOLOLOL THANK YOU FOR GREAT LESSON .....

@petepalmeri

2 жыл бұрын

bought my first guitar at the HOG also (in 1967)

I started that fingerpicking style 3 months ago after this video just to learn this song. It took about a week and about a milion times practice but it open a world to you as musician. Now the hardest part is to keep a clean sound on D/C chord. Anyway thank you sir

So appreciate your approach! It is refreshing to hear a teacher simply show the student where the fingers are placed and simply name the note he's on. By the time most teachers get through telling me where the "pinky", "pointer finger", "ring finger" and "bad" finger go on this or that string and this or that fret, I have done lost track of what it is I am learning and where I am in the process. I just want them to "get to the point", and that is exactly what you do. As a result, I learn faster from your videos than any I have tried. I play by ear also, and your approach works for me. You got skills, bro. Thank you!

I will never not upvote this guy. You're truly one of the web's greatest teachers and resources. Thank you for all your contributions. May you never tire!

D chord in this tuning is a beast. Never knew it since I learn this song. But, I feel like the very first picking of the song sounds better with the first and the fourth string. The next chord goes like you suggest; the first and the fifth.

Wanted to share a playing tip / suggestion for this song. Because we all have different finger / hand sizes, I found one passage in this lesson that’s easier for me to play using my pinky instead of the middle finger as is demonstrated in this great video. The passage I’m referring to is the main riff part which takes place at the 2nd fret using the baby d shape. Specifically, the first bass note run down on the 5th string, third fret. I just can’t seem to play the open 4th string without it being muted by my middle finger which is holding down the 3rd fret 5th string. I found if I bring my pinky finger over to fret that C note, the D string then rings clear! Hope this helps others who might find this part challenging too.

@gabrielkessler6363

Жыл бұрын

thank you! this was really helpful. Would you still play it like this?

best instruction I've heard. drop d travis picking kicks butt. this tutorial is a major challenge I accept. this song been in my head since 1969

I've said it before, I'll say it again...Andy, you're the only one that really nails the originals as they deserve...on top of that you convey it to all of us in a simple yet precise way...on top of that my perception is that you're not only skillful and musically knowledgeable, but also a kind and generous person. Keep on. Thanks.

This is the best tutorial of this song I have found online. The picking pattern is tricky but it's worth sticking with till you get it right. Great work! I will be watching this over and over!

I’ve always wanted to sit down and play this the right way. Once you get the picking pattern on auto pilot it transforms to beautiful music. Thank you!!!!

At 70 now and learning this off the vinyl lifting the needle up when this albumn actually came out decades ahead of the internet you all have it made and a tutor like this😌👍well done my man and exactly perfect and yes i wore out pretty much atleast a couple albumns each teachin myself the structure of the tunes 😆 thank GOD for a decent job Christmas and birthdays and a girlfriend or two 🎸 🎶

Beautiful masterpiece from Lennon and a superb tutorial:) Thank you.

What a great guitar lesson. I have been a Beatles fan since the age of seven and have 4 Beatles guitar music books that I play songs off of. The books though never teach you how to actually play the song like it was recorded. Your video was so cool! I had not picked up my guitar for over six months and after watching your video I sat down with my Washburn guitar and started practicing. Although I do not have the picking quite right yet, I learned the majority of the song in one night. You are a great teacher and you have brought me a new found love for my guitar. This was a great gift on the day before Christmas. I am going to subscribe to your videos on KZread and learn all the songs that you have posted. Thanks so much and Merry Christmas!

The Beatles did love that D chord It's in Here Comes the Sun, We Can Work it Out and this obviously and tons of other stuff from them

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

2 жыл бұрын

Almost half of Norwegian Wood runs around that D chord

Excellent, Sir!! As a lifelong Beatles fan I've been playing these songs with only a faint whisper of a likeness to the recordings...this is so much more fun!!

Studying classical guitar when I was a kid really opened up a whole new world later on when I found Rock. I was a teen in the 1970s when Sooooo much timeless music came out.

You were right. The "light" went on....it took about 3 hrs of practice, and the picking suddenly got easy and made sense. Thanks!

For the F>Ab>G (9:00) section I like to keep the same picking pattern on the bottom 3 strings. (5-4-6-4-5-4-6-4, etc) and play the major triads on the top 3 strings. (2 on G, 1 on B, 1 on E, etc. 5-4-4, 4-3-3. A little dissonance sounds good.

What I admire from you is that you reach perfection, always playing the exact note & chord just like the original. I'm hoping for a composition of your own, you have the gift to do it! And what is highly appreciated from you is you answer to all comments!! It's the 1st time I've seen someone doing this. Thank you, you're amazing!

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

9 жыл бұрын

mich0008 Thanks so much for the kind words bud. I have a lot of respect for all of these songs and I think it's important to honor them by trying to play them as close as possible to the original versions. As far as writing goes, I just don't have that "gene". In my experience, good guitar players are pretty common, but good songwriters are rare! I'm going to try to keep up on the comments as long as I can, but with the growth of the channel it's actually starting to take up a big chunk of my time! Thanks again bud. cheers

OMG I DID IT TO THE LETTER AND CAUGHT ON IN 10 minutes thank you brother

my favourite channel, no BS just the music

Mighty fine. You are gonna make me sound like I know what I am doing!

There was an old VHS tape and I can’t remember the name of the guitar player who had this lesson along with Julia and another that shared the same picking pattern. There are a couple of spots where there is a minor change in the picking pattern I believe on Julia. But these are excellent songs and like anything worthwhile it takes time to commit them to muscle memory. But once you have that down, it’s fantastic you just sing and don’t even think about your fingers anymore. The funniest thing, don’t expect Non musicians to appreciate the time and effort it takes to do something like this, but other guitar players will be wowed. One of the keys to this once you work your way down the neck to where the song versus begins as I always tell people, when you’re doing the walk down, you have to keep that sharp covered on top. There are so many songs where you pulled it off on the walk down but this isn’t one of them and it makes a huge difference in the sound. Excellent video!

Just realised after 10 years or more I've been playing the intro to this a bit wrong, but it sounds better to me. I've been playing the D shape at the 7th fret as the same shape as the first 2 shapes(on the 5th fret) only one note change though. Don't forget the little slide on the outro too. Love that bit

Guys, I know I’m late, but I found out a way to do the fingerpicking pattern in only like 10 mins or so. You do the bass pattern over and over until you can talk normally while still picking at a consistent tempo. I did the same thing for the high notes and now I can do this. (I still need to perfect it, but if you have nothing else to do then this should really help)

Some people or natural teachers. We all remember we had one or two in school. This guy has it. Just a natural.

Thanks for the tutorial, your method of teaching is awesome, i dislike tutorials that take a half an hour just to learn an intro. Hence your channel title.

Once again another GREAT instruction - Thank You - I've learn a lot from you - I do find it easier to use my pinky on the C (A-3) second descending root chord - BIG FAN Cheers, Dan

Excellent lesson! When I clicked play, it took me back to the day. The days. It's still the same today.

I love all your videos bro. Especially, since I'm missing my pinky on my chording hand. There's been several times you've saved me a world of hurt and aggravation by showing some short cuts. Thank you so much for your very excellent and informative videos! God bless!

Thank you for such a clear and effective way to play this (apparently simple) style/pattern. Peaceandlove.

It's basically theft of knowledge with videos like these , wow my fav song I've learned for free , thank you sire

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks JACOB. I put a huge amount of time and effort into making these videos. I like to keep them free for those that can't afford it, but if you can, please support what I do. Cheers, Andy www.shutupandplay.ca/donate.html

This truly good Dude is like Wilson from Home Improvement. Faceless, behind the fence, offering wisdom, ...except he's a guitar Genius.

John lennon is one of the most underrated rhythm guitarists of all time. The fact that he was able to come up with so many of these unusual chord progressions without any musical theory knowledge just shows what a great natural musician he was. He just a great ear and great ability to find chords that work well together.

Really appreciate your style of teaching these courses with the black background, it helps in not getting distracted. Your abilities as a instructor is well thought out.Keep up the good work. Love all the Beatles songs..if only I could sing.omg.

You can also play it with the Julia right hand technique and use 4 fingers with your thumb only touching the low E (drop D) and A strings.

I've been trying to Travis pick for ages. Yesterday, in trying out my new Martin SM, the lightbulb went on! Thank you! I haven't got it up to speed yet, but now I'm confident that I will. If I can get a handle on this technique, my playing will jump to a whole different level. I'm already a good player, but this... I will have doors that were always closed open up.

"If you're not used to fingerpicking, it'll probably really screw you up." I laughed. I appreciate your candor. I knew a guy who learned Leo Kottke songs off of vinyl records and man, it was amazing.

nice pace to your teaching style. The repetition and pausing to explain shapes and picking is crystal clear. thanks

Absolutely a great job on the illustration. You made that so easy to learn. A big thumbs up!

Really want you to know that you have the perfect balance of playing, showing and describing, which is so hard to find in many tutorials; I have overcome my fear of Travis picking through practice, which I have you to thank for- as silly as it might sound, it is, as you said, just a matter of practice. Great content and great playing. Thank you so much for proving such an excellent guitar-playing community service to us all.

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

9 жыл бұрын

Sean Earl Thanks so much for this really nice comment Sean. I appreciate it! cheers

Excellent tutorial. I believe Donovan showed John and Paul this style of playing while they were on a retreat in India.

A very well-done instructional video. I've played the tune for many years myself almost exactly as you've shown it. (I'd worked it out from the original LP with my turntable slowed down and my guitar lowered a bit to match.)

musically..the song has a meditative peaceful tranquil feel to it...fitting that he wrote that in india on a meditation retreat...the mood totally reflects what he was experiencing..lyrically is is spot on in regards to prudence farrow who would not come out of her hut...i love the acoustic guitar part john constructed...the he played it and what he played...what chords...nobody today could write this..the slop they have ed sheeran is an imposter next to these great masters

@LaMusicade4

7 жыл бұрын

Dean Martin well maybe not so much an imposter as a different style. But I can dig what u mean by slop, there is a lot of that today

beautiful tutorial-smart and to the point. Why can't more be like this?

Thanks for the lesson The "light" never came on, I just had to repeat it incredibly slowly, starting with just using the high E string for teaching my brain the rhythm on the high notes. Then after hours/days of repeating the full 3 high strings, from incredibly slow, to slightly faster, I had it. I am in awe of people who can just try it a few times and have it down in a few minutes. I am obviously a lower life form, haha! The lucky part about my brain, is that I can sing/scat completely different rhythms/notes over it while I play now ( after the days of metronome speed improving mantra/torture ), so I maybe a bad guitar player, but a natural singer/player I could never do 2 hands on piano very well either, but could always sing different rhythms over just my right hand etc! So, for all those that took days to get this down, you are not alone!

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

10 жыл бұрын

CaribSurfKing1 Thanks for watching bud.

@SoWhat.BigDeal.

9 жыл бұрын

CaribSurfKing1 I wouldn't feel bad about taking a while to learn the fingerpicking...in fact, I don't (I'm struggling). I suspect that people who pick up a new song quickly have already learned some fingerpicking on some other song(s). Can anybody comment on that? Can some people pick it up very quickly, or are they "pre-trained", as it were, by having worked it out on other songs? I don't know if I'm kidding myself on that.

Man, I can smell that beautiful guitar 🎼

Dude! Awesome lesson... I'm not much of a finger picker but this demonstrates very clearly why it's an important skill to acquire. Thanks so much for posting this!! :-)

He seems to play it more relaxed. I've seen other KZread how to play it videos where it the guitarist seems to be rushing through it. Sounds better when it's not rushed.

@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials

9 жыл бұрын

MJ1341 Thank you.

Super, I got it... I just can´t do it with 3 fingers, I had to use the ring finger too, and in the D part can´t do it barring the strings, I used the D shape and did the trick with my pinky... Thanks bro.... by the way, I did it in 2 hours.

Thanks to you I was able to play it in one afternoon

I've been playing this song for a couple of years, but had a couple of the finer points wrong. Thanks for helping me get this right -- and actually making it EASIER with all the proper chord forms.

This was awesome! All I need to do is perfect picking .

such a good melody

Muchas gracias por enseñar la forma correcta de tocar Dear Prudence como debe ser...felicitaciones por el video!..excelente!!

I haven't even tried finger picking. That pattern is doing my head in lol! Those chords are so timeless aren't they.......so mesmerising .....very moving

So many life-long guitar players here with over 50 years experience!!! Were teens in 60s 70s!!!!

Real nice tutorial man!! Been playing about 4 years now. All through playing on my own and learning songs via KZread. I have "my version" of this song. Mostly because the "Travis Picking"....much like you say...just isn't clicking quite yet. Close...but still no cigar. Your tutorial is concise and to the point!!

Thanks "A" Man...for all of your great tutorials...please continue to help all of us plunkers out with the music of our youth!!

Truly a great song and lesson. it's interesting that John- with the incredible dissonance in the song and drone (from drop D) seems to evoke 'India' more than Harrison's sitar ever did. Not that I don't love Harrison's sitar - but this is TRULY an evocative, brilliant piece. For EVERYONE learning: record into a DAW - I have an expensive one, Audacity is free. Then "play along," double-track yourself. INFINITELY easier this way. Then, discard the double-track when mastered...

Thanks for the video! After reading the comments, it seems I have the opposite problem from most people here - the picking wasn't really a problem, the chords are. I've always played much more than I practiced, seems I'm missing some basic skills here.

Thanks for your lessons. I definitely consider them among the most authoritative on KZread.

Wow! You are talented, these lessons are great! Thank You

With this video, I learned the finger picking pattern and the chords. But the biggest hurdle IMO is being able to master one or the other (or both) without looking. The finger picking is so difficult to do blindly except for when I look. And when I look, I can’t focus on getting the chords perfect so I mess those up. What a challenge but I will get it soon!! Went from nothing to just about to put it together within 4 days

Thanks for the lesson man. Great balance of clarity and directness. You're super clear but leave the figuring out up to the student. I just got the fingerpicking bit after hours and hours. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work

one thing i really dig about your teaching style is you dont go into nauseating detail about how to finger the chords.. im guessing you assume that anyone who is watching these tutorials already has some basic knowledge of chords and especially movable chords. for me this makes the tutorial easier to learn.

"I got blisters on my fingers"! Thanks. My Grand daughter is named Prudence and I want to learn it for her.

brilliant song and a brilliant lesson to compliment it

I'm really enjoying watching your videos! Extremely helpful and I can't wait to go home and pick up my guitar!!🎸🎸🎸

I'm good, lol, I just can't get the fingering down on the e d and a. I've got a new challenge. I realized the Beatles and David gilmoure use alot of the same chording on some stuff. Well done man.

Very nice lesson. Thank you from Italy.

Great tutorial! It took me six five-minute blocks to get picking down (don't give up people). I find it easier to play the descending d-chord progression--starting in normal d position and playing the C with my pinkie. Then, your fingers are already in position for the next two step downs.

@kindofsimplereally

3 жыл бұрын

I found the best way for me is to start that progression playing the D chord with pinky on the 2nd string 3rd fret (instead of 3rd finger) and keeping it there, then the 3rd finger is free to hit the C and the 1st and 2nd fingers can stay in place, 1st finger going to B and Bb as needed. With your way my pinky doesn't stretch that way too well.

I like drop d tuning songs.. like "the end".. man my picking really needs work. Thank you for teaching the hard picking parts and making it seem easy enuff to try!

This is a great lesson brother!!! Wow!!! I needed this!!! THANK YOU!!

Beautiful song to learn for sure.. just follow the thumb pattern when he's playing, not when he's telling you which strings they are as he makes a small error on the last string which should be D not A. A-D-E-D.

Thank you ... 'tis a magic song to play. A magic song full stop.

Just wanted to thank you for all of your tutorials. I've learned a lot of great music. This one in particular was great. Short and to the point.

Well, I certainly DID get something out of it. That's the intro picking begins on string 5 (A) not the D note on string 4 that you'd expect as a root note. I had my bass picking part all arse about. When you hear the later electric bassline d d D d, c c D c, b b D b, Bb Bb D Bb it's really hard to swap. If you are trying to pick the whole gtr part, sing the song AND alter to this electric bass line later for contrast it's a pretty tough load to carry alone. With this new simpler but more enlightened approach playing from the start - 5 4 6 4 - then thing falls into place more easily. It's a really simple but inspired solution, and I'm pretty sure it's just when Lennon played as he was really good at that intuitive stuff. PLUS having just learned technique from Donovan et al I'm sure he wouldn't have been accomplished enough to swap to the tricky pattern while doing the vocal to the song either. Always thought the 'round round ' part was diminished 7th chords - but I could be getting mixed up with that little instrumental break in I've Got A Feeling off Let It Be. Anyway, huge thanks to you - time to break out the axe, the White Album and a little cold one.

awesome lesson. i really enjoy all of your lessons, especially the lennon/mccartney songs. thanks!

really great, the voicings are dead-on and your explanations and modeling are crystal clear! Many thanks!

Thanks a ton, trying to learn this for my friends birthday, she loves dear prudence.

I love your simple straight forward instruction.

I'm certainly going to have to practice finger-picking because the light ain't made it to my head yet but you're doing a great job and thank you for sharing I will pray like your traveler guitar there The Parlor looks like a Taylor

This guy is such a master.

Love the structure of your lessons. Accurate, great detail, easy, well thought out explanations. Hands down the best I've found. Thank you for sharing.

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