How To Play More Than A Feeling By Boston - Guitar Lesson - Tom Scholz 

First time as a teenager I called up a girl to ask her out on a date (she said yes!) this song was playing on the radio. Hung up the phone and the music made the whole experience feel…triumphant!

I was 10 in 1976, so Boston is burned into my DNA. It's what made me love that sweet, sustaining, highly compressed tone with those 2nd order harmonics just falling out of the guitar.

Watching this on a Sunday morning with coffee, just made my weekend even better.

Boston was the first band I heard on the radio where my ear said to me "That sounds awesome". So glad to see this tutorial and to see it broke down correctly👍 Thank you Sir😊 Would love to see "Don't Look Back" Always thought that was their best masterpiece😎. But very rare to find on the internet.

Love the Puppy and the Pussy chilling out in the background. You are the Man Marty - So many hours of practice, play and performance there being disseminated into 24 mins. Thanks I am going to have to replay this a few times.

Good grief man! Finally, someone who plays D Major the correct way!! Thirty years and I thought I was the only! It was always natural for me to use the middle finger on the "G" string as it is typically the longest fretting finger.

Notice that your dog has a good ear for music!🤗👍

Good lesson R.I.P brad delp.

Yeah I have to agree Marty that first album has got to be the best debut album of all time, everything about that album kicked ass, made me a big Boston fan. Thank you for a GREAT video, and apparently I've been playing it somewhat wrong, well I was pretty darn close anyway. You rock Marty thx🤘

Awesome lesson🤟🏼🎸🍻

Another excellent video man... Boston and Tom Sholz were ahead of their time. Sholz like a pioneer of engineering his own sound. I remember the 1st time hearing Boston as a little kid growing up. I was hooked, still am of course. 😁 Later on into 86 Third Stage became my favorite Boston album. We're Ready quickly became my favorite Boston tune and still is today. 😁🎸 Marty, this was an excellent video breaking everything down. Thanks for sharing this lesson with us. Again, that Rockman is killer. God bless 😎🎸

The Beatles taught me how to play solid rhythm guitar. Boston taught me how to play melodic leads, change keys within a song, and sing harmonies. This was the first song I could play start to end on electric. Great video on a favorite song.

the finger tapping solo on the first lp is awesome. great tones.

Boston is for sure a huge influence on me, in my car cd player. Been listening amazed for 30 yrs. Rock & Roll band is one of my favorites. Great breakdown, I feel like I could smash this one in the face now. Thank you!

This lesson is awesome! thank you for being so thorough!

I love the cat and dog(s) hanging out and rocking out along with.

Can't achieve the sound without the mighty Skeletor

Hi Marty and thanks for this. Been a huge fan of Boston ever since their debut album and I've been playing this beautiful tune for decades, but way more simple than this great lesson. Tom Scholz/Brad Delp(RIP) fan forever. ☮️❤️🎸

When I was learning guitar back in high school, this was the first rock song I ever learned to play (not very WELL, but still). :)

Cool band members with you in the video !!

I listened in the other room and could hear every nuance of you playing, tone and intonation and Man you have this one nailed. I have been hearing this song since it first came out.

Great Lesson. As always..I have shared it on my Facebook page... Cheers 🍻

After listening to this, I had to dig out my vinyl copy of Boston’s debut, crank up the stereo and just remember where I was, who I was with, and what I was doing when that album came out! Thanks!! 👍 (I think I was 23🤔🤷‍♂️😄)

Man! That was cool! Thanks.

It's excelent your didactic way to techo us. I was young ..in My fifthten years old...I was all morning learning your teaching in My Pacific 512 . Thanks a Lot... Saludos desde Caracas -Venezuela.

Thanks!

Love the Boston lessons !! So complex Great job Marty 🤘👍

I know I've said it before, but I absolutely love the penciled out tabs. It reminds me of learning from lessons many years ago. On the over dubs on the original, I think I counted eight or nine when the album first came out and I could still hear reasonably well. I WAS a teenager at the time and may or may not have been under the influence of intoxicating substances 😂🤣😂🤣

Excellent video Marty!! Thanks for all the work you do to put these videos together, really appreciate them.

You are the best. I really like the song references about the voicings and chord progressions you teach.

You tuned my ukulele! Thanks

It was very helpful. I'm going to try this song with the band and hopefully I can get the vocals close enough. And the solo. Thanks for the help.

Yes bro" very helpful, thanks take care,peace

Beautiful guitar!

Great lesson man, Cheers Marty!

Perfect tone!

2:42 just jizzed in my pants.. You have evertything for the epic cathcy 80s sound the Fkn Rockman. Damn i wish i had that.

Awesome lesson…the tabs make me feel grounded!

Awesome lesson, Thanks for Breaking it Down Brother 🎸

Your Boston tone is excellent. I was in college when they hit and it was like having a bucket of ice water hit me in the face, right out of my car speakers! Radio ruined it for me (along with many other songs) but since I stopped listening to terrestrial radio years ago, I appreciate it all over again when I hear it. Thanks for the lesson.😎👍 If I could nitpick, theres no T in Toms last name. It's not pronounced Sholtz ..it's Sholz.

THANK YOU SO, SO, SO VERY MUCH!!!!,,...THIS IS SO BEAYTIFUL, AND REWARDING TO TRY TO PLAY!!!... THANKS FOR BREAKING IN DOWN INTO BITE SIZE PIECES!!!

Thumbs up!🔥👍

Thanks💜🤘

That's sound is very nice! ❤❤❤❤❤

Nice thanks Marty

Hey Marty, nice Brother, I found this video very helpful in the Tom S. Playing. Tom is one of the best. Of course. I’m listening. Thx BOSTON!! 🎸

Thanks as always Marty! Love sum Boston. You Rock-Man! See what i did there? I kill me.

Love that guitar Marty! Great playing as always!

Beautiful gold top.

Thank you!!

Boston when released was my first album and on my birthday my girlfriend got me Styx Grand Illusion

Hey Marty, I see your dog. Patiently laying on the left side and listening to the Boston song.😊🎉

I admire your D configuration, wish that i had started that way.

Thanks that's awesome

Awesome 😊

Awesome!

The first album was incredible. I had never heard anything like it before and I dug it! Sat and listened to it so many times. It is in my opinion, still the best! Thanks for sharing. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to more good material like it. Again, thanks.

Sounds great!

Marty I saw Boston in 78 and he had a wall of Rock man as did Barry Goudro

I was alarmed by the weird D shape.......lol.......great work...

Great job 👍👍👍👍

Gracias ❤

Great lesson! looks like Toms Les Paul in the official video for this song.

You have such good tone and technique. Will I ever get it down? I’m playing on my Electric Blue. The sustain is remarkable on that guitar. I’m a beginner and you inspire me!

Beautiful Gold top Mary 👍

Cool

He does have a p90 in the neck ,and a Dimarzio sd in the bridge ,in the video where He does more than a feeling with Michael Sweet of Stryper singing lead vocals it's on here 2017 I think ,Man they have to be the greatest musicians of all time ,Tom , and Brad ! Together

Gold top p90s shit that guitar has been on my list for so long now my wife could tell you the specs lol

Came for the song ....stayed for the cute dog!

Beautiful Les Paul

Excellent lesson. Love the Rock Man vest too. Funny how you call it “Rockmn”. Tom came out with his original “Walkman” for guitar - so it was called Rock-Man.

Bostons great 'n all but I'm all about the pupper fluf in da back!!!!!! lol

Marty5150!!!! Hola muchacho!!! Hope you are doing well kid!! Dig your work, LOVED this video. However, I saw a little kitten, then a giant pomeranian wolf dog. Then I see them hanging out. That is cool!! God bless you my friend. You are not only talented and patient, but a loving caring human. Thank you for being an animal lover. Looking forward to more badass!! Videos. Dig the Van Halen and Boston vids. Perhaps some White Lion or Deep Purple. Specifically, If my mind is evil or Highway Star. Thank you again. RESPECTFULLY, L. Albert Jackson Munoz

Interestingly, Tom was doing way back in 1976 what's commonplace today of using a Marshall, etc as a clean platform with a high-gain pre-amp in front.

You have a great guitar collection Marty...is that a Ritchie Tele in the background i see...they are sooo easy on the eyes

Love it ,I play it the same way except i have my 12 string accustic on a stand and i don't have a rockmam

Doggo!!

Dude! Your dog and cat rule!

I heard a hint of Mary Jane's last dance (petty) in that 2nd part of beginning intro ,,,interesting

That is such a pretty LP. Those P90's on that Goldtop is such an iconic look. Me so jealous.

The one part I heard Tom Petty "Last Dance with Mary Jane"😅

Good job. It’s a tough solo I’ve just started working on the solo. Every tab I find is different 😂

i'm not alarmed by you weird D shape. i'm not sure about the ladies though. great lesson bro. thanks marty.

Man I love that guitar.....Boston is awesome also but....I am partial to Van Halen I being the best debut of all time but hey; as Eddie said music is not a sport!

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Which Rockman rack is more important to getting the Boston sound, the Sustainor or the Stereo Chorus? Great video

Great lesson & video. Where/how did you learn the theory stuff like you talk about in this video?

Tragedy seems to follow rock bands around. This band was no exception.

Great video again, what type of guitar picks do you prefer ?

I got lucky when I was kid I got to meet some famous people like Rodger Daltrey and John Entwistle outside in public at Fresh Pond in Cambridge Massachusetts. I may have already told you that story, but if not I will. hung out with Rodger and John Entwistle for about 2 hours and I guarantee they'll remember me and that was back in 73 the summer of 73. Well Jon probably couldn't remember me because he's not alive anymore God bless them and I hope he's on to his next great adventure. but if he was alive he would remember I hung out mostly with Rodger and we talked a lot and I have a messed up left eye and I was only thirteen at the time, so Rodger was very interested in what happened to my eyes so I explained it, and he explained to me how he owns a house in Belmont Massachusetts and that they were going to be on the Johnny Carson show soon. I don't know if that ever happened but it was Rodger Daltrey and it was John Entwistle no-doubt-about-it the gave us guitar pick showed us pictures of the band. I lost my guitar pick,that sucks. Anyway I had a friend who had a friend that was going to Bentley College I believe Mike was taking business courses and so when Boston first came out he put together a concert at the auditorium at Bentley College in Waltham back in 76. it was right when the album came out so steve being the stud that he was he grabbed two chicks that he never met before and started walking back through the stairwells. we didn't know the place like he did so we just followed him, me and my girlfriend and my friend Chris and his girlfriend just followed Steve and his two girlfriends, we ended up at the backstage door and Mike the guy who we were there because of which was only $3 a ticket front row seats. anyway Mike comes to the door and says he can't let us in, like really you're running this thing? and he just got distracted and walked away. we were like fuck! so Steve being an entrepreneur stud he was lol just waiting for some people with backstage passes to show up and we just follow them in. Mike is like how'd guys get in here we just walked in he's like well now that you're back here we're not going to make you leave so we got to meet the band and hang out backstage and then when the show started we got front-row seats it was General admittance so you can sit wherever you can find a seat and since we were backstage and we were ahead of everybody we just got in the front front row it was awesome I think I was 16 at the time.

Thank you... Made sense yes but how did he reproduce the lead harmony when performing live? Or was he able to coordinate with Barry?

how do you keep the sustain on the lead into the final vocal that note seems to go on for ages

What year model are those two 4 by 12 Gold Cloth Marshall cabinet behind you.... I wish I had mine back....Tom bends with his Pinky.....⚡😜

More Boston and more other AOR artists like Journey Aldo Nova Toto Survivor Foreigner FM etc...

Sometimes you do it, and sometimes you don't, but the last note in the D arpeggio is G, not A, anticipating the switch to the C. It's the kind of thing a beginner might do unconsciously to ease into the next shape, but it's also very musical to anticipate the harmonic change luke that. Even Beethoven employed this device, to good effect. Why you don't mention it?

do you use celestion greenbacks or celestion v30 speakers in the cabinet

Cool video whats youre delay setting? Rock on

Actually, Tom did the drop D on the walk down on the end of the chorus. If you have't seen Rick Beato's dissection of this song you really should go watch that. It will blow your mind. It will be his "What Makes This Song Great?" series. This is it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ynFNt4tgBJ0.htmlsi=cBmSeuXQ5H6R9Tnd ( I had to sit through 4 minutes of ads when I checked it for this post. Hopefully it won't be that way for others.)

The verse tonality sounds more like G major or D mixolydian, not D major. Also, G major fits the tonality more during the chorus too. The major indicator to me that the verse and chorus are in G major and NOT D major is the presence of a C natural in the Cmaj & Amin chords during the verses.

Im not sure if Brad Delp ran that system