how to play "The Chain" on acoustic guitar by Fleetwood Mac | guitar lesson tutorial 

the best part is between 0:00 and 22:25

Him: *plays intro* Me:.... LISTEN TO THE WIND BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Sheesh... 22 minute, 25 second video.... Buys the tabs, then 300 hours of trying to get it just right, following tabs and slowing down parts, even installed a looper for RU-vid, my wife likes it, but I know I am still not there.... LOL I am not worthy!

It's a guitar floating by itself played by disembodied hands. Never mind hes just got black clothes on in a dark background.

Man Buckingham is a genius.

I love how your lessons really get the authentic sound of the song, by focusing on how they actually play it and stressing the rhythm

hope someone sees this, i’m a pretty decent finger picker but holy shit i can’t seem to play the E and D at different intervals than the bends at G5 and the high E5. my brain won’t allow it man like shit

This was so frustrating to learn as someone who is not great at fingerpicking

This guy is such a master.

It's amazing how fresh that still seems after all this time. Been 42 years since that was released and still sounds awesome, especially when you play it. That's longer than the time between WWI and WWII, Elvis's start and Bush II, The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and Y2K. Good lord time flies. Merry Christmas to you and yours

I'm up all night trying this, and hopefully I'll play it smooth in a week or so. Your version sounds better than the original in my opinion. Thank you so much

"And if you don't love me now You will never love me again" ©

I don't know of any other online guitar teacher better than this guy. He really is one in a thousand.

4:10 just so I can keep popping to.the right spot

This is going to keep me busy for a while. Maybe forever actually.

Hi can you do a fingerstyle tutorial love of my life by queen:)

I have been playing music for 45 years and every time I watch a tutorial or lesson on “Shut Up and Play” I learn something new! Music to perfection! And what an absolutely wonderful teacher!!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

Absolutely brilliant, that guitar has an incredible tone. Lyndsay Buckingham is a truly gifted musician. You too are a fantastic guitarist and teacher, thanks so much for the great work.

I’m being forced to watch a George Michael Tribute Act tonight when all I want to do is have a go at The Chain! So after Club Tropicana and Wake Me Up Before You GoGo I’ll be digging the acoustic out and learning this one. Great vid as per usual. Thanks 👍🏻

You are the first and only teacher I don't mind supporting with donations. Your lessons have helped me tremendously and saved me hours and expense in tabs. I just wanted to say that your work is admired and appreciated. I'm an intermediate semi-pro player still managing to find places to play in the current Rap and DJ dominated scene and your lessons are the Best on RU-vid. You deserve success.

Another brilliant performance and tutorial. This channel has kicked me up to a new level and it’s worth the hard grind of mastering it. As for the tutor huge respect and as others have said super clean playing and timing. More donations on the way from me. This stuff is priceless. Many many thanks

Andy, you did it again you masterful SOB!... you topped my ALREADY- high opinion of you.... this is an awesome song and you said on your website "Once you learn it, it's amazing how much sound you can get out of one guitar it's awesome!"..... No, dude, YOU'RE awesome! I'm definitely buying the tab and working on it as long as I have to until I can get it down!

Was that recording in the beginning scrubbed clean by Mr. Clean himself? BECAUSE THAT WAS TOTALLY CLEAN.....AMAZING Rock on brother \m/

Gotta love that booming Taylor! Sounds awesome on that guitar. I have the 914CE. Thank you!!! Great backward arpeggio by the way!

i just came here to listen to the amazing cover, literally no mistakes it sounds amazing man

Ughhh the travis picking is so hard to get right🙁😔

FANTASTIC! Thank you for the superb lesson, but all your lessons are excellent!

Nice ! priceless as usual. L.B. has to be thE most under-rated writer/player/singer from the rock band world.

Fleetwood Mac should have called you instead of Mike Campbell

You are not only a great player but a great teacher. You make it look so easy.

I remember growing up to this and other great albums of the 70s. Rumours was/is such a great album. Thanks for the lesson, Andy.

Absolutely amazing! I appreciate you explaining how you tuned, taking parts of both versions, etc. Very thorough, and *_beautifully played!!!_*

When you have 10 mins could you have a listen to ‘A Long Way There’ by The Little River Band,and give us your thoughts?Would love to hear what you think!Cheers Maestro!

Almost cut my nails. They were gettin' kinda long. Glad I didn't! Another gem from Andy!

I can play it. After watching this guy, I feel ordinary. The timing is surpurlative

🎵 For more information on this lesson and the TAB: www.shutupandplay.ca/the-chain--acoustic.html

*Time Stamps* (for the most complete tutorial of this song) 3:07 - End of cover 4:09 - Start of the tutorial 5:25 - Intro's bends 8:52 - Start of the verse 13:35 - Pre-chorus 14:22 - Chorus 15:37 - End of the First Section

This is so wicked!! Love finger style guitar... outta my league but gonna try

I can hear the vocals filling my brain cavity as I just hear the guitar

0:20 0:28 0:31 6:45 9:56 10:47 14:07

Thanks a lot man! On any boring or lonely night, I can always ~ by Gods strength, pick up my acoustic guitar and take some time and learn some real, super cool tunes. And you make them soo accessible by showing us the chords that make it super easy to learn! Now, it's the muscle memory that takes some time to get down while you try to play it in time. During this lockdown time though, I thought I would be good to take the time it takes to finally learn travis-picking. It seems if you can learn that, you can make any chord sound good! But thanks again for making my (and probley everyone else's) time fly by productively by expanding my mental playlist of tunes to go through on my guitar!!! God bless you brotha!

Thank you for make these tutorials. I played when I was younger but not in many years and now I'm thinking of starting up again thanks, in part to your videos. Hey, the only one I could annoy is my dog! Suggestion box: Could you do a tutorial on vibrato and bends? I've always had problems in that area and could never quite get it. I tried playing again after a long break some years ago and, like when I was younger, I _still_ couldn't get it. Thanks!

One of my all time favorite songs. What a Great tutorial on this song. Excellent job. Love it!!!

Now I know what I'll be learning for the next month or so. Thank you for all your Fleetwood Mac's lessons, they are all amazing

Fantastic! Is it possible to get a tutorial for circus mtv unplugged from Éric Clapton

Great lesson as usual. And, as usual, I learn the song elsewhere and then come to you (long subscribed) to really learn it. In the process I was also mixing parts from the studio and live versions. Now I find you also did that for me! Tanks again!

What is that guitar sound dude, holy shit… what model is it

Thank you very much for this - it's a fantastic lesson, and my fingers are hurting (in a good way)

Surely this will be the next song I will learn! I have only been playing for a year and a half but with your videos I have improved a lot! Thanks for your tutorials! :)

Love it! Would also love to see more Fleetwood Mac, particularly some hidden gems off of Mystery to Me and Behind the Mask.

Consistently the best tutorial vids for me

Great lesson, as usual . It inspired me to spend $7.99 the tab too, which was very accurate thank you. However, both could benefit from the addition of the famous outro section which is so iconic and to me still seems incomplete without it. Please could you add lesson "2 of 2"?

Thank you for all...because of you...I Play a lot of new songs ...😃

Thankyou so much! Your lessons are brilliant for a frustrated intermediate like me. Perfectly explained and demonstrated to make intricate details accessible. I’ve also really enjoyed your Big Love lesson which is a tune that I’d worked out myself about 80% accurately, but your lesson means I can now play it like a pro. Keep it up, please! Thanks again 😁👍👍👍

(LYRICS) Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies And if, you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain) And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain) Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies Break the silence, damn the dark, damn the light And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain) And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain) And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow) Chain keep us together (running in the shadow)

Thank you!! Didn’t take that long and definitely wouldn’t have learned by ear

The solo on this song rocks.... acoustic might not be the best choice but still if you could make a great acoustic version for the solo, it would complementary this lesson nicely.

Any chance of you doing a Jefferson Starship's Find Your Way Back tutorial? Im sure you'd kill it. Love your vids 🤘

Watching this at 6 am I'ma do this tomorrow

Amazing. I was just working on this last night and this morning...

Thank you very much!!!!! Amazing tutorial

Such a great song by Lindsey... always wanted to learn this. A heart felt Thank you from a life long Fleetwood Mac fan at 53. Did you ever want to try his acoustic Go Insane cover? Keep the videos coming, and I will keep watching and practicing... Deaf Gryphon

Hey, I think a tutorial of John Martyn's May you Never would be superb! Thanks for everything

Hi, thanks for the great instructions and incite to guitar playing. I have a request: can you please provide a lesson on the Eagles (recorded version) Tequila Sunrise demonstrating all the guitar fills, including the intro. Thank you.

Playing this song is like climbing the Everest: only well trained experts can succeed. Anyway, thanks for quiet lesson, and such a beautiful play.

Hey Andy.....as one Andy to another...Could you work up a "Bare Trees" tutorial?

THANK YOU !!! THANK YOU !!! THANK YOU !! As a teenager in the 70's trying to figure this on a nylon acoustic drove me mad as well as when the levee breaks..never tried it again ..That is until now !! You are an awesome guitarist !!

Andy can I ask, are you using lighter gauge 2nd and 3rd strings when playing this number? In particular an all steel 3rd string.

Wow! I was looking for your version of this song just the other day, and bummed you hadn't done it yet. Today, it just pops up on my browser - you must be a mind reader!

Dude that’s such an amazing performance of a great song! Thanks for this ✌🏼

I need a backing track for this

Hands down the best tutorial of this on youtube.

You're an amazing guitarist. Thank you for your videos. They're really great to watch and learn from!

9:45 i don't understand why we need to barre the b and e strings on the 3rd fret. don't we only play the high e? i don't hear or see the b string played there

Oh! This is gonna be so much fun to learn! :) Thanks so much!

Magnificent! Took me two days to nail it. Great lesson! Thanks a lot!

God damn this was your best video by far in my opinion. Not that it's the hardest song you've taught but you put so much soul and originality into this particular rendition, it's like you created a perfect acoustic arrangement of this song and then taught it better than anyone else ever could have. I literally spent all of last night learning it from this video and my thumb has a blister on it from all the travis picking. THANK YOU!

Everything is easy on this except for the freakin' Travis Picking!! It will be the death of me!! However, Tom Bresh said that Tal Farlow couldn't get it either! Damn!! BTW, great lesson!!

I hope he's made a million doing all these for the world. They are the best. Plus you can play.....with him. Just sit in. He'll make you better. Like playing golf with scratch golfers.

Even Travis himself said :'... fuck...' before he played the original take of this song 😅😅

Look that's good to know you're here, I'll be back when I find a capo. LOL look man I've never even known the cable I'm not going to lie but I need one because I have like the Pink Floyd The Wall type book and a good number of things that I never did completely Master because I needed cable. But don't nobody break my balls too much because I did learn how to do a whole bunch of different tunings at most people don't do. I learned how to play with a slide correctly which everybody wants to play guitar around my area none of them hardly any of them can play slide correctly they buy glass ones they break and drop them all time I had to stainless steel was right perfectly clear great clarity. But the brass was is smooth and his golden sounding as it looked. I don't care all three in the glass once and I accidentally Break Stuff anyways unless it is typically made of metal. Only real smooth fretless bass player and people play a few other instruments get down fact that when you're playing the slide you have to stop right on the front wire right in between the actual Frets themselves but on a slide my brother man he just he's a genius guitar player. He's unbelievable I mean got to learn how to play Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix and Red Hot Chili Peppers all sorts of stuff within a very short amount of time all sorts of guitar players more advanced than us were quite Blown Away.. I'm not an actual guitarist like that it took me awhile but when I play something like Immigrant Song or When the Levee Breaks or cashmere I got the tuning, the strumming everything down as much as anybody could. But it's hard for me to try to do something crazy like eruption then my brother can his fingers are just like extreme. The Dimebag Darrell solos I have trouble with stuff like that. I've learned how to play with my fingers well and learn how to play slide pretty well. Sultans of Swing solos are my best. But this finger picking this style of finger picking is a bit beyond me. I was just learning some of the guitar riffs to Rhiannon. And it's just insane. Definitely don't see Landslide coming anytime soon. But I really do want to get this down and a couple others. I used to have an analog synthesizer that's actually perfect for somebody's guitar parts on dreams, gypsy, and you make love and fun he uses some kind of volume pedal sometimes and you can hear it through a good number of his songs it's like a volume pedal that allows almost kind of a vowel sound. Sounds much more akin to an old like analog micro synthesizer pedal. Not only do you have the volume control but it allows you to add resonance and it change the tone up a bit. Although it does he's definitely using some kind of rare synth type pedals and some of his stuff like the song Hold Me you can hear it quite a bit in that. Some people claim it's only volume pedal that he's using in dreams and gypsy and you make loving fun. I don't think so on a certain songs like hold me you can hear that it's much more than just a volume pedal you can't even see him use it on Dreams live as it appears whatever he's using the studio he's not wanting to take out in the road and Lock synthesizers would be something like that that can't be quite difficult. I was able to use mine to acquire all sorts of stuff anything just from changing altering phrases bands like the police used. But taking it to an extreme with some other pedals and driving a rectifier tube amp completely to Insanity creating a super psychedelic iridescent sound according to Isley brothers, who's that lady? One of great many times you can achieve using old high power tube amps crank to insanity got to have rectifier tubes in that guitar amp. That's how you get all the old crazy sounds including worked out stuff like Spirit in the Sky, or if you want to sound like a chainsaw or even the demon like iron butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Into , main1a, main1b, strumA, main2a, main2b, strumb, strum+, endin Intro: 0:06 - 0:32 main1a: 0:32 - 0:58 main1b: 0:58 - 1:11 StrumA: 1:11 - 1:27 main2a: 1:27 - 1:50 main2b: 1:50 - 2:02 StrumB: 2:02 - 2:29 Strum+: 2:29 - 2:42 Endin: 2:42 - 3:07 1:32 11:26 11:28 Eb, g, d, e, E, b, d 12:27 13:36 16:03 Well that took some time, thank you.

I don't remember when was the last time I was so annoyed and got a headache from learning a song. It's because of this travis picking. It's unnatural to me and when I try to remember and pick the exact same strings as you then I get literally get a headache haha. Even tho I'm playing for about 9 years I never got around to trying travis picking and now i have a problem.

Its just the picking at 5:36 in that was giving me trouble but my little pee brain finally excepted it 😂

Always bear in mind that should you not exactly nail a part, Keep Playing, Keep It Going.

Your talent, ear, ability, and facility are simply amazing dude. Thanks for another great visual-instruction lesson. I've been very fortunate in being able to "fetch out the 'bits' & tunings" and learn the songs I wanted to play correctly by ear, but they and I both seem to have gotten old and impatient lol. I majorly appreciate a good "shut up and let me show you how" lesson these days, and you're certainly one of the best at it ever.

You rock brother, thanks for the great lesson! You might not get enough requests for this, but what are your thoughts about doing Fleetwood Mac's "I'm So Afraid"? Chords and solo?

the travis picking doesn't have to stop on A and D chord slide down to 12 fret bit. you're right on the album it does, but live lindsey actually keeps the bass line going on D string sometimes. out of thumb habit i can't stop keeping it going due to auto pilot

I have a choice. I either quit right now or I spend the rest of my life working my ass off to try to get as good as this guy . (Knowing I will never get that good ) … I think I am going to keep trying.

dam......... Thank you

Did you already covered Through the barricades, Spandau Ballet?

everytime I try to play the bends with the bass either my thumbs stop or my picking fingers stop. any solution to this ?

Like your teaching style-may subscribe! Thanks:))

I’m having a hard time with 6:32 that part for some reason won’t seem to stick to me does anybody have tips they can give me idk maybe I’m doing something wrong

I'd like to get the drums backing track you use in the video for playing

You inspire me to keep at the Travis picking!

I’ll be back tomorrow, promise. this one is gruesome😂😂

If I can't play it now, I'll never play it again.

The video turns into an hour lol, are you pinching Travis picking or both

Such a Masterpiece, Is this song played in Standard Tuning?