The thing I like best about JG's vids are that if you're an intermediate player who just quickly wants to know a song, JG's camera positioning and chord voicings are so clean that you can often figure it out from just the beginning without needing the lesson. Still, the lessons are handy for harder stuff. Thanks again JG!
Amazing talent in teaching! In addition to your beautiful talent playing the guitar and singing! Thank you for really studying the piece before teaching it! Thank you
You did this one very well. My wife's 17 yr old nephew and her sang this at her brothers funeral and did a very good job at it. Now I feel a strong need to learn it as well. Not an easy strum despite how easy it sounds. I have had a hard time making it smooth, but just started working with it. Thanks for the lesson Sir!
Gary Cooper what a nice tribute to your brother in law. I've often thought I want a Neil song played when I go. Been my favorite artist since I was a teen.
A few months ago at a folk music festival I met a guitar player and I told him that I practice flat picking as part of my practice routine with acoustic guitar. He told me I was wasting my time??!! I told myself he didn't know what he was talking about as I want to cover Bob Dylan and Neil Young who both use flat picking in their music. Now that I'm learning this song my flat picking practice is bearing fruit. Thank you for this exellent lesson!
Thank you for the enormous body of work that you have shared with so many. Your methodical approach and easy going style have really enabled me to become a better player.
this is the magic of neil young, cause some people think- Oh he is just playing easy chords. and the foundation is basic chords, but the neil young magic is how he plays them, and it will take a beginner rubbing his head wondering how does neil make his guitar sound like that. I have been playing his songs for years, and to learn how to play like him, is not for the beginner, I would say a little more advance player, if you don't believe me and you are just starting out, try and play needle and the damage done.
yes totally agree i play guitar for 3 years. i learn this song 2 years ago and never get a good tone and feel in this song.But today i played it with more expierence and smoother picking and strumming.And id sounded good not perfect ofcourse but good.The trick is dont think just play and feel !
john dennis No doubt Dennis. Neil has made the he easiest chords into the best Chord Riffs. I been playing 20 yrs and teach. Everyone wants to learn Neil starting out but it's not thee chords, it is the switching off and muting that they can't figure out. when I play Neil Young once in a while I still go back and check how he does it. First song I ever learned was America horse with no name. Ha. Great song though. Peace
john dennis hahahahahahaha, how true you are, until I heard and followed Justin's techniques I made the exact same mistake in the same place every time, sad really I am now 68, I started to learn needle since 1975. I've given it away so many times because of frustration. Neil Young's music has pricked my senses in such away I can not move on until I have learned the many songs that I became accustomed to. What a waste, my life has much to do with Neil's lyrics, that touched my soul .
"You could pick it out. It doesn't have exactly teh same ... feel. I'm not sure how to describe it." Described it perfectly. Seems like if you played the right notes on the correct beat but a different way it should sound the same , but it doesn't. Justin gives great Neil Young lessons.
Great to revisit this great teaching video. Neil Young is the reason I started playing guitar. As you say it’s all about what he does with his strumming hand, pretty much in all his songs. It’s a tricky but great technique to master.
Neil has that amazing strumming while picking out notes like no one lve ever seen, l learned this first on trying to learn "Ol Man" which l have watched him do live on vids and it's baffling how easy he makes it look but it's really what makes the song..the chords and changes are basic, he really makes unique songs out of this technique... Ughh maybe one day it will come together but lm not there today.. thanks for your great vids!!!
Great lesson I've loved this song forever! Always wanted to learn it and thanks to you l finally have. Little trickier than l expected. Especially to sing And put the fills in. What a legendary songwriter.
Such a great tutorial. I'm a beginner (playing since 1 1/2 months) and your tutorials help me out with the chord change pretty quickly. Greetings from Germany :D
Justin, your absolutely an amazing Guitar player, spot on with impeccable timing, as well as a phenomenal teacher. Thank you for all of your tutorials. ❤ 👍 💪
I'm totally stoked Justin. I can play this strumming the whole time while hitting the bass notes and all. Which I am usually poor at doing. Like you say, this is a good song to learn that technique. I found the chords/lyrics as you played them at Ultimate guitar. I printed them out, and can now play and sing the entire song. Thanks Justin. I've been digging the acoustic guitar lately and I think it's improving my overall playing, as I usually only play electric. It's kinda fun trying to sing like Neil as well. lol
Neil is such a guitar virtuoso ! His rythms are so intricate and his solos are so complex and technical! Every time I hear him play I still can't make myself believe he didn't graduate from MIT. I think he also taught Joe Satriani and Steve Vai how to play.
I'll tell you what Justin, the way you go step by step on the chords makes it so much easier to learn songs, and enjoyable! Number one in my book, thanks so much!
Driving in my car today listening to this song, deciding it needs to be the next one I learn. The first tutorial I find is by Justine, and the song is within my reach. This is a good day, thanks Justine.
i enjoy ur videos and like to jam to your tunes ty sooo much now im learning the second song of this old god of Musik Neil young u explain very good i i can follow ur musical flow very good ty for the great gift ur offering to the people for free i will donate when i finished my studies and as long as i go to university i learn sometimes with ur videos ty
Neil Young and a guy named Jeff" Buck" Blackburn wrote that in Santa Cruz(Pleasure Point) back around the time Neil played with the Ducks, with Buck, Mosley Mobey Grape and Johnny Craviatto. I used to listen to them practicing
You got it wrong - YOU ARE AWESOME! Big, big thanks for your incredible guitar lessons. I can't tell you how much my guitar playing has improved from watching your videos. I feel guilty watching them, because they're so good and free. You are Da Man! THANK YOU!
Glad to see no Neil Young freaks getting too worried about mixing up "hay hay, my my" with "my my, hey hey". :) That linking riff is really nice, especially the Am to G link. I can see that being stored away to be pulled out in other songs.
This is very fun to play! I can't play the way you/Neil do (keeping that strumming hand constantly moving but still hitting the notes precisely is damn tough), but it's still a fun one. I need to practice that G-chord shape though as I keep defaulting to the index-middle-ring shape that I'm used to which causes me to accidentally mute a note sometimes on that second little riff in the opening.
Caesar Belisarius , it’s interesting the development of playing guitar. I started out playing G the way you are. I moved on to learning finger style and it is common to keep the index finger free. And fret with the other two fingers and small finger. It originally felt so foreign, but now I can’t tell what way I’m playing G chord. Some songs I use ons or the other. But I have noticed than the transition to C after G is a lot easier and quicker for me using the finger style version. It’s amassing how ply able the brain is. I love playing guitar because of this. Remembering words and chord patterns also works the brain. All the best with your playing. Brent
