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A dozen years after you recorded this, it remains a fantastic tutorial and breakdown. I’m learning from it now. Thank you so much. Subscribing and seeing what else you’ve done :)
Thank you for your support; it's very much appreciated and makes the time spent doing these tutorials worthwhile. I hope you find other Dylan songs I've covered helpful to you, or indeed any of my covers/tutorials. I'm currently working on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" and finding it a real challenge, but enjoyable also!
An easier way to play it is to not bother with the pinky on that top E string (2nd fret) and just play a D7 shape on strings 5, 4 & 3. Also you may find it easier to play the chord at the 4th & 5th frets as a partial barre chord (XX4445). Assuming you can play a C7, then another trick is to hold the C7 shape and slide down a fret leaving your 2nd, 3rd & 4th fingers in place on strings 5, 4 & 3. That C7 shape works well slid up 2 frets for a D7 and another 2 frets for an E7 too of course. My advice would be to stick with it and eventually master the standard B7 shape and the others too. Very good luck!
This video really helped me out. Im new to guitar and your tutorials are very easy to understand. Could you perhaps do a tutorial on “Rambler Gambler” the way Dylan plays it in The Bootleg Series Vol. 7?
Thanks for asking - I should have included them in the chords list. They are inversions of the minor chords. At 01:15 there's a Dm shape shifted 2 frets up (005453). At 01:20 there's a partial or power chord Am (077500) which is a full Am barred at 01:47 (077555). Then at 03:32 there's those little 2 finger runs (double stops) between frets 2, 4 & 5 on 4th & 5th strings switching to the 4th & 3rd strings. At 03:43 there's a brief barred B Major (x24442). Finally the song ends on an Em (079000). If you played a full barred Em up at the 7th fret it would take the Am shape (779987) so I'm simply leaving strings 6, 3, 2 & 1 open. Whilst played in the key of Gm all my notations here are in relation to the capo position and expressed as Em & Am rather than Gm & Cm. I hope that helps but if you need any further tips please let me know. Very good luck - it's great song! (PS - The harmonica is a Gm Lee Oskar)
Many thanks for your support and compliment! One of my many tributes to the great man is to say (in my opinion) "nobody does Dylan like Bob" but I accept that not everyone loves his voice and delivery. Thanks again, and very good luck with the song.
Great video, Jim. I noticed you played “it ain’t me, babe”. Have you thought about doing a video on that song? If I understand correctly, he actually move Up to some sort of d chord using a c shape moved up 2 frets, but I’m not too sure. Is there a reason you didn’t play it that way? Or do you just prefer one over the other?
Strange coincidence! I was sorting through all my song sheets 3 days ago and came across that one, thinking it's many years since I last sang it and should dig it out again. I never played it the way I sampled it here, but the picking pattern for Don't Think Twice does fit the song. I'll upload a version soon. Thanks for your valued support!
Capo 3rd fret its Em Am Em Bmaj x 2 then C for standing on the gallows with........ B7 in a Em noose C any minute.........break looose BMaj then back to Em Am Em Bmaj for people are strange....................................for solo same chords some little stops, and on the Am hammer on and off the E and B on 3rd fret........ great song i love it forever
Thanks for listening and your suggested chords; I don't agree with you on that Bmaj though. I find Ultimate Guitar get chords wrong more often than they get them right. Ears are very useful, and for accuracy on Dylan chords you can usually rely on Dylanchords.com. Eyolf Østrem has spent a lifetime studying Dylan's work in intimate detail - check him out!
Do you prefer this version, or the version from the Witmark demos? He’s does a little lick when play the picking pattern that I can’t seem to figure out on the Wittmark demos.
I prefer this New York Town Hall live version in 1963 that was on his "blue album" (Greatest Hits) - it's the version I always sing in public. It's in standard tuning of course, whereas the Witmark demo version is played in Open D tuning with capo on 2nd fret (I try to avoid retuning at gigs). I assume that "little lick" you refer to is that little hammer-on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string? It's just played on the open D chord (sounding in key of "E" with a capo on 2nd fret).
@@Lowdenjimthank you for the response. That really clears it up for me. And yes, it sounds like a hammer on and pull off that occurs through the whole song, but mainly the verses. I think I prefer version a bit more than his greatest hit version. It has this beautiful dreamlike feel to it. I’m enjoying videos a lot so far. Thank you. I’ll continue supporting!
@@Euthyphro You are most welcome and thank you for your support. There's a great cover of this song played in Open D with capo on 5th fret here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-utt1fSkcHcA.html
@@LowdenjimI saw that cover and really enjoyed it. Just one last question regarding the open D version. Is the right hand the same as the version you’re doing? Along with the chords? Obviously the shapes will be different, but if the chords are the same, it would be easy to transition to open D, no?
@@Euthyphro Yes, it sounds like a very similar picking pattern. The open D chord has variations with a G on the 3rd string (000100) and also Gb on 1st and 6th strings (400004). The 4 chord (G) has 3 variations (020120; x20100 and 020100). The 5 chord (A) is played as 200200 & x40300. Very good luck with it!
Many thanks for listening Roger, and for your lovely comment. I will always be especially grateful to Paul Simon, along with Gordon Lightfoot and Bob Dylan for the inspiration they gave me back in the mid 60's.
It's nonsense to claim you have the "correct" guitar chords to a song recorded in the way that this Holly classic was done - heavily strings-based and without guitar accompaniment of course. This song especially is very much open to interpretation (did you read my description?). My "alternative" chords work for the way I have interpreted the song, but I'd love to hear your version of the song, especially with that erroneous Dm as the opening chord of that sequence!! Let me know when you've uploaded it Lennon.....
@@lennon1252 No apologies! - You certainly didn't hurt my feelings; I welcome all comments on my channel, and love a chuckle when folks who think they know best drop obvious clangers. Relying on Ultimate-Guitar.com for chords to songs is not advisable as so often they include errors. That Dm is a classic example, but if you care to demonstrate how it can work in this song I'd love to see & hear you do it here on RU-vid. How about it?
@@Lowdenjim right now I'm too busy dying from cancer. I'm 72. But I'll try and do something on my ukelele for ya when I can. I've been a musician since I was 6. I worked out chords and lyrics with my ear... never the internet because they are wrong most of the time. Long live Buddy
@@lennon1252 You learned the best way; I did the same, and agree with you there. I cried the day the music died - long live his music, and my best wishes to you.
Why on earth would anyone wish to follow a series of videos on how to play a song they've never heard of Stephen!!?? My tutorials on how to play Bob Dylan songs show how he played them, so anyone following them presumably would have listened to the original Dylan track, decided they liked it and wanted to learn how to play it. Or am I missing something??
Many thanks for your support and nice compliment. Good luck to Spurs this coming season. I've got to get used to learning names and faces of a bunch of strangers turning out in the red & white!
Thank you for your support and endorsement; it's very much appreciated. Good luck with this Dylan classic and other Dylan songs. Enjoy the movie - I hope it does justice to the brilliance of the great man.
Ah now James I'm so sorry my video doesn't meet your specific requirements, though I assume folks wanting to learn this song might have heard it first and maybe even be familiar with the melody and a smattering of the lyrics. My approach is a structured one designed for adults, progressing from beginner through intermediate to advanced, and depending where you are on that scale then you can choose where to start. If, however, you struggle with detail or have an attention span no longer than a gnat's pecker, then there are always loads of 1 or 2 minute wonder videos here on RU-vid that race you through from start to finish in about the time it will take you when you first get laid. I note your channel has a label, "This channel has no content" but I genuinely welcome your limited efforts to contribute something of substance here. Good luck with your guitar skills......
Thank you very much for listening and your nice comment. I love this song - maybe not so well known of the hundreds he's recorded, but another great Dylan song nonetheless!
That’s great teaching, thanks! I think I heard the rhythm of this song wrong in my head when I started liking it, and this is finally a walkthrough that can straighten it out.
Thanks for taking the time to walk through the details of this song. At first I didn't think learning the base line was the way to start here, but after a few minutes, I realized I was wrong. It was tremendously helpful to start with the baseline and the chord shapes and then fill in the rest later. I found that once I was able to nail the base line and the chord shapes, the other fingers pretty naturally did the rest with a basic Travis picking pattern. Thanks again!
The art of teaching anything in a logical way is to identify the basic building blocks first and start with those, and from there progress gradually from the simple to the most complex. Sometimes great songs start with complex lead riffs that often define them, and it's a mystery to me that some so-called guitar tutors always choose to show how to play a song from the beginning of a song "track" and work in a linear fashion through to the end. It's illogical and unhelpful to folks wishing to learn. Very good luck to you and thank you for your comment.
Thanks again! Yep - I can remember hearing it on its release and where I was. Within days we were a group of giddy teenagers downtown singing it at the top of our voices. The best band on the planet.....
@@FlaschDJ Many thanks for your support which is very much appreciated. As a retired teacher it's a privilege to be able to reach folks wanting to learn the guitar and know that they get something from my videos here on RU-vid. When I first picked up a guitar there was nothing available to help so I had to rely on my ears and a primitive book called "First Steps on Guitar" so RU-vid is an amazing resource and I'm pleased to be able to contribute. Very good luck to you!
The opening slide is based on a Dm chord slid up 2 frets to an Em or G6 with D bass. In Dropped D tuning the classic 2 finger run down so useful in different songs is based on "alt" chords for D, A7 and Bm. The "A" shape at the 7th fret is of course a D chord, so at the start of a 2 finger (2nd & 3rd fingers) run-down you just pick the 2nd & 4th strings. You can then slide down to the 5th fret to play an A7 on the same 2 strings. For the Bm you slide down to 4th fret on the 4th string but switch to 1st finger to play the 2nd string. From there you can slide down to the standard A7 using 2nd & 3rd fingers again. I hope that helps but if you need any more tips let me know. If you slow the video playback you should be able to see the picking sequences used. Good Luck with it! (PS - the Bm chord works well played simply as an Am shape at 3rd & 4th frets)
Thanks! I've really loved this song and its mysterious guitar part since I was in high school, back in 1965. I made some clumsy attempts at playing it in E using standard tuning, back then. It's great to have it all revealed like this.
Thanks a bunch Paul; I've always loved this song as it was a one-off Chuck Berry classic with that very special piano solo interlude. All the tutorials on RU-vid (even including the famous JustinGuitar) tout this as a simple two-chord song. Any solo acoustic guitar player is going to struggle getting much audience attention just playing C & G, even including rolling 6th & 7ths, and missing out the highlight of the piano solo just ignores the main reason the record was and still is such a standout smash hit. It's well worth learning to play those very special parts of the song - audiences love it. I've also done a strummed version here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CdVRDCrO804.html
Thank you very much for listening and your lovely compliment. This is one of my all-time favourite Dylan songs and I've sung it many many times over the last 50 years or so, but I don't think I've ever managed to play/sing it quite like I did on this video; funny how everything seems to come together but can't ever be repeated exactly the same way.
