Man I love what you're doing here. Not a big guy with 100k subscribers, and yet here you are giving the best tutorial on one of my favorite songs. Thank you!
Alexa M Sorry to be answering so late, but it might be kind of hard to write the whole thing out. The nice thing is you can keep it pretty loose. Really, just try to keep the back and forth between the two D strings with your thumb. That kind of anchors the rhythm. To be honest, I think I do a little more finger picking than he does in the song. If you listen closely he starts to loosely strum after a while. Just experiment with it. The chords are there. Find out what suits you best. Hope that helps and thanks for listening!
Bravo man! Job well done. And your singing voice wasn't all that bad either! Thanks for taking the time to put this up you deserve a lot more than just a like on the video. Keep up the good work!
Parker Mosonyi Yeah, I noticed in live performances he plays it in standard and capoed pretty high. Probably for the sake of a smooth transition between songs. Thanks!
I wasn't even looking for a video on how to play this song but somehow i stumbled upon this video. Now I can't wait for tomorrow when I'm gonna learn it myself! You just played it so beautifully that I can't resist :) Great work Derek!
Jake Doyle Oh, guess I forgot to mention that. The song is in the key of Open E, but I try to avoid tuning my guitar that high. Too much tension. So I tuned it to open D and put a capo on the 2nd fret.
Derek Kalback thanks, and sorry to be a bother, but was is the tuning for the individual strings, im not too sure what the keys represent, as im beginner-intimidate, for example, E A D G B E
Jake Doyle No bother at all, man! For an open D tuning you want to drop your low E to D, keep A, keep D, drop G to F#, drop your B to A, and finally drop your high E to D. So you should end up with DADF#AD. Hope that helps. I'm a music teacher, so this is kinda my thing ;)
@@derekkalback1977 you clearly have a Great ear and musical sense. I can relate to the voice thing as it took me a long time to find mine and I’m still finding it. have you tried matching your voice to the melody line you are playing with your fingers? Moving slowly at first. And what about examining the limiting belief that you keep telling yourself that you’re not a good singer? You can totally sing
Perfect! However the second part of the chorus seems to be slightly different regarding the change of chords: Sure as any living dream F#m7 B It's not all then what it seems A B E And the whole thing's hauled away However i don't really get how to play that part.. Could u help me?
Maher Zoubi Yeah, I noticed that part is a little different, but I think you have it. Though, the F# is a major, not a minor. Not sure which one you meant. Good luck!
Chris Collins You might be able to find some kind of tutorial on RU-vid. I kind of explained it in a comment above. As long as you can get the back and forth between the two D strings down with your thumb, you can pretty much figure out what works best for you. There doesn't seem to be a real crystal clear pattern in the song, so I wouldn't worry about getting it 100% correct. But the chords and melody are there. Just fiddle around and see what you can come up with. Hope that helps!
