Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Guitar Lesson 

Come on. Let's get him over 100,000 subscribers. Best instruction on RU-vid.

Neil Young took drop D tuning and made a hall of fame songwriting career out of it. I've been playing this song for a few yeas but I still stop to watch your video so I can REALLY know how to play it! Love all the little details you added.

Saw Neil and Crazy Horse in May. A stellar rock and roll show. I was stunned by Neil's energy and passion at 77 years old. Amazing.

Was 11 yrs old when I came across this song around 1971... got hooked on his guitar playing ever since. Learned double D dropped tuning from his catalog of songs.

1869 I was playing ❤ today I'm learning how it's really played, I'm a simpleton comp

It’s amazing how many of my favorite tunes from back in the day were performed with alternate tunings. Thank you for decoding this one!

Man that verse! Love that part. Great to hear it front and center. That little Bogen sounds beautiful too.

Great choice..... I learned this song when it first was released.... I'm that old

This is an awesome lesson! I never learned such a cool song so quickly! Thank you.

This is the first song that I worked out all the parts to, and recorded on my old 4-track by myself. 2 guitars, bass, 2 voices and an old Alesis drum machine for the drum track. I forget how I mixed it down, but I fit everything into 4 tracks somehow. Yeah it was a little muddy, but 19 year old me was pretty proud of myself!

Another fantastic, in depth lesson. Great to see Danny get some due.

An all time rocker! Great lesson, as always.

Great job! I forgot that this one was on my bucket list. Not anymore. Thanks 🙏 😊

Another good one Doug . You ROCK ! from Les's hometown.

You always get the authentic sounds. I love that. Such beautiful sounds here!

Great song from a legend...nicely done!

I learned this by ear and play it almost identically except for a few fills you just showed me.

8:55 Damn! I wasn’t even close! Thanks for pointing me straight! So cool! 😊

Happy and excited to see the Bogen busting out the tunes....so cool, thanks for posting.

10 silver saxes A bass with a bow The drummer relaxes And waits between shows For his cinnamon girl!!! What a verse!!!! I love the live version where they repeat the bridge and expand on a second solo. Stretches it out a bit. This song is far too short.

Best one note solo ever.

Great lesson, now I understand why I never sounded right, I was dropping the DS!

Another Gem from 12 ft. His fine work enables myself in fine tuning songs I have played for years.Thanks for helping us all in our guitar playing journeys. Once again you are the best!

Excellent lesson, it’s a bit easier to play than it sounds

Yet.... ,another of my Favs....!!! Thanks!!

Another fantastic choice! Nice work!

Brilliant lesson! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great stuff ❤

Totally correct and well taught, can't ask for any more than that.

Awesome lesson. Cool SG perfect tone.

Love the 2 guitar part breakdown. Request for next one that features great 2 guitar parts: Sway

Love your videos and tutorials.

Nicely done . . . thanks! 👍👍👍

Thanks for this!!

I love this song. Doug, so many of your lessons are the classics I enjoy the most. You should do another Neil Young double drop D classic "Ohio".

You might as well play in standard tuning instead of drop tuning here in this lesson. Its the bass notes also. The whole point of the drop tuning is to use all six strings ringing in the chord shapes. Especially the three open D notes in the first position chord and the slidfing barred third, fifth and seventh positions chords. Its way thicker and fuller. The original white volume II 1969-1973 COMPLETE MUSIC Niel Young book.. shows the exact use of this drop tuning.

Brilliant epic heavy drop D TUNING. Never gets old

VERY NICE! Thank you

Did a great video. Like another contributor , I got to learn this back when it first come out. Thank you for the memory.

Your awesome 👍 thx for the lessons

Another great lesson - thanks :)

Great lesson , those guys new their stuff , I’m off to detune my guitar

Luv this song you do excellent job explaining how to play it sounds exactly how it's played great lesson keep them coming thank you 🎸👍😁

I play Gold Dust Woman in this Double Drop D tuning. Awesome lesson as usual, lots of details to take it as far as we want. Thanks for the extra material on your Patreon site.

Absolutely great lesson! One of my first records in Junior High School. An even better style contrast was Stephen Stills/Neil Young like in Almost Cut My Hair.

I heard, but did not see, Neil in concert last month. It was $400 for lawn seats, $20 beers and no jumbo screen so unless you pay thousand you won't see him. In order to do this song correctly you need to put your camera about 2 football fields away from yourself and charge $1000 for the lesson to capture the Neil vibe

I play this with all 2 finger notes learned it in the 70s from a song book

Thanks!

Bravo! Great lesson. Felt the thrill of learning how to make a great song sound correct. I saw Sonic Youth open for Neil and Crazy Horse in '91. Both bands were mind-blowing. If there are any Sonic Youth fans out there, you can do a passable version of "Total Trash" on the E and A strings in this tuning

Thanks for the lesson. Been playing this wrong for years. Saw an old video where Neil Young showed some guy on the sidewalk, or in a parking lot, the double drop D tuning. Duh! Thanks again. Was already subscribed ;-)

One of my favourite songs, can you maybe look at Powderfinger sometime?

Great video as always Doug. On another note ( no pun) I had mentioned to you how I had revisited Axis, Bold as Love, and we both agreed we almost forgot how good it was. It had seemed to get lost between Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland, Band Of Gypsies, and Hendrix in the West. Well, another album I have been revisiting lately is the first Eric Clapton solo album from Aug 1970. It seemed to get lost in the mix of The Bluesbreakers " Beano" album . Creams second and third album Disraeli Gears,and Wheels of Fire, the Blindfaith album, and the Layla album. Though Clapton doesn't have the thick woman tone or long sustains and firey licks. The guitar solos are masterful in their clean but out of phase in between pick up switch tone. Mixed with a little wah wah. The album has horns and back up singers. A large band. But right from the begining as in the song Slunky, till the last song Let it Rain it has masterful maj to min solos with an emphasis on economy of licks, taste and thought. Don't go from memory. One day when you have a chance listen to it with headphones and you will see or better yet hear what I mean. You don't have to do a video on it. I just want you to see how that album was much more then it first appeared to be when everyone was saying the Gibson sound was gone. But that out of phase Fender sound is unmistakeable there with no real gimmicks or pedals to hide the playing. Also I am in no way comparing Hendrix and Clapton. I love both of their music. It's like I love Pizza, but I still love Lasagna too. I just think this album is a 54 year sleeper that just get's better too. Peace.

Spot on man! How about the Loner? in Drop D?

OHIO , same tuning right? Very cooll, I got some nuances from your lesson excellent. I usually have to play as the only guitar.

Way cool. I play that alone using the double drop D but on 2nd and 3rd frets as D and then the intro riff there with my pinky using open 6th and 5th till I do the G. Hope that's clear. What I'm saying is I never walked up the neck and it sounded right. lol Great pickin'.. as usual - one thing.. could you by any chance record both parts singly and then post the whole song or is it maybe a copyright thing?

Can you do a lesson on how to play the top gun theme song

Thanks! Please consider Fogerty's Old Man Down the Road?

I used to have a guitar book of Decade where the turn around on Cinnamon Girl is given as a slide down and up rather than a jump. I wonder now what is correct.

Gear question for you. Looks like you are threading the neck strap button through the face of your strap to compensate for one button being on the back and the other being on the side of the guitar. Is that right? I ask, because I have an Epiphone ES-339 with the same orientation and can find no other way of securing the strap without twisting it. I very much want to move the button, but like the SG, there is really no place to move it to.

My god... not another song I have to retune to play... I hate songs like that

Shut up and play. Talk later. Thanks

Good Lord guy, get to it!!!! 3 mins and you haven't done or said anything.

Too slow. Just start the video hping straight into it, then stop and explain. You wouldn't want to read 8 chapters before you get to the first plot point. Seems like an ok video but it's too slow. Also same lick as don fielders heavy metal, sounds like to me, without looking it up. Wonder which was first. Anyway.

Great stuff ❤

Thanks!