How to Play: Beeswing (Richard Thompson) Part 1 of 3 | TABS 

I am a disabled guy and not currently working. I play the guitar for pleasure and to relax and these lessons and free tabs are a blessing to me and I'm sure many others. I wish I could contribute financially towards your channel and this amazing resource, it deserves to be supported. Your kindness, patience and the time you put into it is greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson David. Superb choice of song.

The hidden legends of the music world are the youtube tutortial people, thanks man

God i love this song and i've not heard it for ages. My friend Pete used to play and sing this song beautifully when he used to come around. He passed away around 12 years ago, hearing it brings back so many fond memories. Thank you so much for this brilliant lesson.

This is such an amazing lesson, thank you so much

Brilliant lesson! I like how you break down each part carefully......love the Kalamazoo as well.....beautiful old guitars....I live about 75 miles from where it was made.......

This is a great song, I saw him live a few years ago here in Italy and I had goosebumps during this song. Thank you for this great lesson.

Many thanks for this David. Your teaching style in very good. Slowly working through it.

Thank you for a most excellent lesson on this great song. Your patient explanations and demonstrations are the best I've yet found. Cheers!

Such a great and thorough tutorial series. Thanks a lot!

Hi there - just to say your teaching style's great. This is challenging for me but you've made the 'impossible' accessible. There's work to do on this but I'll get there! Looking forward to exploring the rest of your channel- thanks

Merci bien pour cette vidéo pédagogique et pour avoir choisi cette magnifique chanson. Richard Thompson est mon guitariste préféré; il sait tout faire, mais ce qui est plus rare, c'est un virtuose avec de la sensibilité. Il utilise souvent des accords ouverts folk avec maestria. Et chose rare il est à la fois un guitariste génial, un excellent interprète et un songwriter à faire pâlir d'envie Dylan. Et de plus il est d'une grande modestie. Que demander de plus ? Dommage qu'il soit ignoré en France, mais les français ne sont pas un peuple très musicien. Je l'avais vu à Paris début années 2000 dans une petite salle alors qu'un artiste de ce calibre aurait du faire le Zénith ! Ou du moins une série d'Olympia ! Il y a cependant donné un concert de 2 heures, très généreux et, comme à son habitude, parsemé de remarques humoristiques très british, y compris sur le public restreint qui était venu le voir. Bref c'est un grand monsieur. Une chose qui ne cesse pour moi d'être un mystère et une humiliation pour le guitariste amateur que j'essaie d'être: comment bon sang arrive-t-il à jouer en picking avec un mediator pouce+index tout en maintenant l'indépendance des autres doigts ???!!!! PS: je signale que des recueils très complets des partitions avec tabs des chansons de Thompson sont disponibles en 3 volumes (peut-être augmentés depuis ) aux éditions Beeswing: une amie Australienne me les avait offerts en 2012 : indispensable pour connaître les particularités des accords de certains morceaux , surtout si on est habitué à l'accordage classique.

I really enjoyed watching these and playing along today. Thanks so much.

Thanks for the great transcription. That done the trick 😊

Thank you for this. It's a stretch but you explain it soooo well.

Legend! Thank you, brother✌

Great lesson, thank you!

You are a fantastic guitarist and I know you would make any guitar sound great but honestly although I watch loads of RU-vid videos where they play and compare different vintage acoustics and electrics with each other and different amps etc etc I usually think it's a bit crazy to try to compare and judge tones when I'm listening through my lap top into an old cheap sterio amp and speakers BUT when I heard you do this lesson on Beeswing on that Kalamzoo acoustic the tone quality hit me big style. It sounds fantastic. Your teaching style is also spot on by the way.

Thank you so much for this lesson and the tab! I have to do it without the capo for my voice which does make it sound a bit different but that's ok. Subscribed!

Thanks my man I’ll check this out tomorrow we’ll explained I like the way you sing the melody it helps me get in my head .. im Gona combine this version and Christy moores Irish version together.. Christy guitar is sparse but I’ll use richards intro and use it as an interlude between verses.. thanks happy new year from Ireland 🇮🇪 🎸🎸🎸Brian

So brilliant putting this up, explained so well, means less able players like me can learn fave tunes like this (slowly!), thank you(isn't the very first chord Asus of some sort rather than D? ie. 3rd & 4th string on 2nd fret - probs no difference)

Nice work. Thanks. Broadway Market? Takes me back... ;-)

Do you have a video where you play/sing the whole thing for us??? 🤩

Can I just check with you, at '15:49' have you captured this ? sounds like a small variation ? or, its that note at '10 seconds' PS Im a average player, so excuse me, if im off point!

You are mint

Howdy, love this, but the download is for a song called qualeys seven?

Hi David, any tips on nailing bar 4 of the intro, ie Asus to Bm7 chord change?

Isn't it easier to leave off the 'major' on the major chords and save it for a major7 where it really makes a difference? Keep it simple.

Great song but I think Roy Bailey's version is even better :)

Hi David, the link for the tab does not work