AVALANCHE - LEONARD COHEN fingerstyle GUITAR LESSON 

I just want to express my sincerest gratitude for this video. Avalanche was the first Cohen-song I heard years ago. It stuck with me and eventually inspired me to pick up and learn guitar in my late twenties. It always felt hopelessly above my skill level. The rapid picking, finger picking the barre chord and the way he emphasizes particular notes to create that entrancing sound. Thanks to you I can now play it, albeit not with the same flair that Cohen has. Yet. It's a little goal in life achieved for me. Thank you for the excellent lesson.

Thanks for such a beautiful and comprehensively broken down video

Have been looking for the exact picking pattern for that incredible song! Thank you for sharing!!!🙏

perfect, concert version of Leo

Awesome ! I've looked for this pattern for a long time and your tutorial is the best ! Thanks A LOT !

thank you sir! if not for you I wouldn't have been able to find anybody teaching this song online.

Thank you so much! Full page tab is super useful

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Frans!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much. This is very appreciated

Thanks so much! Such an excellent song, and such an excellent video!

Thank you my friend.

Cheers Frans! Love your Cohen videos

Solid effort with one slight point on technique which will really improve the feel in-line with how Leonard plays it. Did for me anyway so I hope it does for you. If you take your pinky off of the body of the guitar you notice immediately how much it helps with the technique. And as it becomes more comfortable, I found with my own playing the quality in terms of ability to use dynamics increased tenfold because your fingers are moving in tandem. He also adds the third finger to the mix a lot by playing the E string at the same time as the B to add texture. You can hear this drop in and out, most clearly I would say in the intro. Much harder to do when you're resting your pinky on the body! You're doing holy work putting this up though as I spent months trying to find someone who played it correctly! Same goes for The Partisan, Teachers, Love Calls You By Your Name, Tonight Will be Fine and loads more. In the end I just had to work it out by ear 🤣

Youve gotta do last years man. I love your tutorials 💖

Thank you very much.

really well done! congrats

Great stuff thanks

Great tutorial!!

Thanks!

Leonard Cohen - unvergessen. Danke. Gruß Michael

I really enjoy your database of songs. Have you ever considered doing some Tom Rush? And thanks for the many hours of fun your lessons brings!

Great video

A very very sexual video. Although the chords are simple the picking pattern is a tricky beast to master. Subscribed.

Instead of tuning down would be using a capo be also an option or do I mix up two different things?

Thank you very much! Very cool!

it seems to be the same technique that he uses in the stranger song and in teachers right?

Thank you so much! So I have to tune the guitar down to two steps? Can I play it in E tuning? Thanks again!

This is the first song I'm learning at the guitar.. I think I'm being a little too ambitious

Thanks!!!