How to play 'Closer To Fine' by The Indigo Girls 

OMG- thank you so much! This has been my “carrot” song! I’ve been playing about a year and a half and thanks to you I can finally learn this great song!

Great to see some Indigo Girls tutorials! They're incredible guitar players! They deserve way more recognition and to be played on Indie ,rock,folk and even country stations... So glad your are teaching this song ! I knew it already but you clarified a couple details. Great job! We 'll take more!!!!

Dude, you are the best teacher out in the vastness of the internet. Thank you so much for posting these!

Well... I’m playing this song for graduation tomorrow, wish me luck!

Really brilliant lesson. Been wanting to play this since 1991.now I'm getting there. Thank you 🌟

This is fantastically done. My guitar skills are not yet up to speed enough to play it though. But working on it has REALLY improved my overall skillset. Really appreciate how you broke everything down.

the indigo girls are one of the bands i grew up on and i was so glad to find your video since i just picked up the guitar and you make it super approachable, without removing all the flourishes that make the song sound like itself! this is the first song ive been teaching myself (very very slowly haha!) and its so exciting to start hearing the song i love in the noises im making :) thank you for the excellent videos.

You are a great teacher. Thank you!

Best instructor I've come across on YT.

I have been trying to learn this off and on for years and now, thanks to you, I got it. This is much easier than what I was doing!!

I like this show about the guitar and playing it and learning about it. I'm an older person getting back into it.

After years of searching for a good tutorial for this song, I found this and it exceeds all expectations. Thank you!

Very good and easy to follow. You are the first person to get that “d11” chord right. I’ve been playing this and never thought just a d sounded right. But that is what was taught on another channel. I watched them play it and saw it looked like a c on the 3rd fret, not thinking that was really a chord and I played it and realized that is what it was! So then I checked on your channel and you also play it that way. Thanks so much! And you really cleared up the strumming for me.

Phew, what fun!! Thanks for this wonderful tutorial, your pace and how you broke down the song, explained the chording and fingering, and worked through the parts slowly then faster was absolutely perfect. I also enjoyed when you said "good!" and I was like "thanks... wait, he can't even hear me?! but that WAS good!" :D

You are a phenomenal instructor! Specific and simplistic teaching. I can follow you easily. Thank you!

such a great teacher❤

You are such a great teacher! I wish I came across your page sooner. Thank you for all the time and work you put into these videos!! I am going to see what else you have right now!

This is my favorite song of all the songs ever singed! I just started playing (with an excellent teacher,) and it was really cool to watch you lay it out. Thanks!

SUCH an AWESOME tutorial. You are an incredible teacher! Well done! And thank you!

Thanks for your great teaching style! It is truly appreciated.

Beautifully clear lesson. Thank you so much.

I have watched hundreds of guitar "how to" videos and you - ROCK! I find your teaching style very helpful. Thank you Shane! Subscribed!

I am just learning how to do more than on the beat 8 count strumming and this is exactly what I needed to work on that. Big thank you!

Love your teaching style...well done

Thanks, this is great! So clear. You're a terrific teacher.

Fantastic!

You are a fantastic and encouraging teacher. Thank you!

Love your teaching style! I am learning this song and it’s fun. Would love to see more Indigo Girls’ songs on here if you can. You’re great! Thanks!!

Please do Power of Two:)! Such a fun guitar teacher:)! Love how you explain the chords with such gusto and clarity❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩

Wow, I really appreciate your teaching style thanks so much

Where have you been?…, or where have I been? Best Guitar Lesson Ever! Thank you!

You’re fantastic! A great teacher!

Your a great teacher! Thanks loving the lessons!!

Great! My mom’s favorite song from college. Love from VA!

amazing instruction. thank you!

Amazing! Thank you!

Excellent lesson. Many thanks.

That was such a great tutorial!!! Thank you!

I don't even play guitar and I feel like I could learn to do this by watching you!

Excellent teaching video. Thank you.

I love your style! good lesson!! subscribed!

You should play it once fully through in the beginning of the Video for the more experienced players. Thanks!

Thanks for your great work. This is very helpful. Very best regards 🧘🏼‍♂️🕉️🎸🎈🌌

great work! really enjoyed this

Great song and killer lesson! Thanks.

Thanks, our band will cover this song and I it was really hard for me to find out the strumming, chord changes etc. This was extremely helpful. Superb. !!!

Thanks so much for the tutorial! I was having a hard time with the line at the end of the 3rd verse (I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free) and realized it is an extra line and has a different chord progression than every other verse: G D Cadd9 D, then for "I was free" back to G A7sus4 G. Appreciate the help with the strumming and everything else. Really useful.

Thank you!

Very good tutorial: one suggestion (from a long time player/teacher): the "G Major" chord taught to most beginners is the 3-finger version (open "B/2nd"). Your using the variation with the added "D" note on that 2nd. string. This should be pointed out in the beginning to avoid confusion. Thank you. Keep up the good work! < SZ/bs>

Great song... Thx, Shane

Your name..is Shane..of course it is. Haven't picked up my guitar in months. My boyfriend ..named Shane just played this song and said I should learn it and now I have to because wierd coincidences put us back on track. Thanks Shane and Shane.

Really love your work and song selection. Would love for you to play full song at the end. Great work. Bud F

Very helpfull Thanx

Thank you kindly. Subscribed.

sweet!!

Such excellent teaching! As a singer who plays just enough guitar to get by, the guitar work on this song seemed out of reach . Thank you for breaking it down and making it possible.

"There's a Big Kids version of that" - LOL! Shane, I miss your lessons!

Fantastic. Do you teach in person?

Thank you! I just finished learning Elderly Woman by Pearl Jam and that was a great primer to get to this song. G, C ad 9, D

Shane thanks for teaching me! Can you show us welcome me by the indigo girls?

Thank you

very easy to follow once I got over your speed of delivery -- (talk ) at first I thought you were on amphetamines --- thanks for the tutorial -- an old tune I once knew and I wanted to get it back asap

Dude. Just found you. Great job

No sheets link visible - the Best Buddy promo appears to us all the space, but... I am on my phone...laptop may be different...

Love this, thanks. It would be nice to have a better close up of your chord hand though. It’s just a little far away for me to see clearly switching back and forth between chords or adding variations. I do love how slowly you take each section but still bring it up to speed to remember what it is you are working towards. I think the close up, or even a fingering overlay in the corner, would really help though ... especially for folks that don’t know all the variations of different chords. Thanks! Love IG!

Great tutorial, but I think you're missing a small detail here. I think you have the intro right acoustically, but during the rest of the song on all versions I've heard (with bass, at least), listen and you'll hear that the second chord is Am with A in the bass (not an F#). I think it's a more powerful climb (G, Am, C, D). At any rate, I love your tutorials.

Sorry what is the website with chord sheet? You said it so fast! Can you add it to the video description? Thanks!

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To Guitar At Work, or assembled hive mind: I'm looking for the chords to Indigo Girls' "Birthday Song" Anybody have a resource?

hi shane , what guitar do you play. mine doesnt ring as nicely. thanks

Thank you, now I'm officially pussy whipped. It's D sus4 add 9. You left out the last bit, the title lyric and actually I can't figure it out. Awesome instructor in any case.

Can you play it so singers can go to to town? Lol

Love everything about this video, except that you have one too many downstrokes on the strum pattern. It didn’t feel right to me and then I watched another video on this song and that one is right. I think. Anyway, it should go down, pause, up down up.