Hi Lauren. I am a 63 year-old man who has struggled off and on for over 30 years with guitar but made very little progress beyond "noodling" blues and harmonic minor scales. Over the last couple of years (because of partial retirement) I have decided to "get serious" but have found most lessons on the internet extremely frustrating because they simply go too fast and do not give me a clear sense of how the song being played is supposed to sound. I deeply appreciate your "chords first" method, followed by the comparatively slow pace at which you go through the details, as well as the way you SIMPLIFY the the tunes. Please stay online and keep teaching; you are the best of the best!
Lawrence “Fleet” smith here. David I am same age and same situation. Lauren is the best and I have tried all of them. Keep up the great work Lauren and we will try to keep up with you. Fleet
Hey David. I hear your frustration with the guitar. I just picked my 4 instruments up in Jan of 2022 after taking a 30 year break. Back then I had no You Tube, internet. Since then I have looked around for a teacher that is slow like Lauren above. I am relearning things that I did not finish, like the song above Sweet Home. I sure wish they were all like her. I have quickly found that the better the guitar player the worse the teacher in SOME cases. They teach at their level and their speed not at a beginners speed. I am trying to relearn and have had some success with Classical Gas. I could only find one person that taught it right but again he goes too fast. I cannot recall how many times I have had to use the rewind on the remote. Keep practicing and be happy with what you have accomplished. We are only in competition with ourselves.
These are the best videos I've found on RU-vid. Especially for beginner / intermediate players. Great having the chord charts etc on screen, very clear. Thanks
This is probably one of my all time favorite songs. I love the way you break it down. After about a 45 year layoff from playing when I was a teenager I decided to pick up a guitar and give it a go. I ran across your Platinum member grouping of lessons and they are awesome. The next few months I'm really going to concentrate on getting this song down good. Keep up the videos! You do an awesome job.
I agree with David hinkley, other RU-vidrs are too fast and tough to follow. I also trying to learn the basic blue’s riffs and chords. Thank you Lauren for making it easier for older guys to follow.
I really enjoyed that lesson. Now to practice practice. I enjoy your teaching style and have started following you more often. I can't believe you can make that 5-9 stretch because it was killing me and I an 6'8" with large hands. The more I did it the more my fingers stretched out but wow. Thanks
Wow thank you so much@Lauren i have been trying this song from months back, i'm lucky enough to have you👍👍👍 please upload "When The Children Cry" by White Lion.
Hi Lauren. I am in my early 70's and have attempted to play a guitar on and off for over 50 years but made very little progress. I came across you on RU-vid by chance and have enjoyed your lessons so much I'm addicted to learning this particular song. Thank you so much for your inspiration.
Hi Lauren, I just recently signed up for your finger picking class, I have a long way to go. I wanted to let you know that this is the best teaching that I have ever had on Sweet Home Alabama, you are the greatest instructor who I have ever been around, Thank you, Lauren.
I began learning guitar (Nov. 2019) - Lauren, I believe I have learned more with you in the past few weeks then the past 6 months on my own. I am having feel good guitar moments all the time now learning from you! I cannot begin to say how much my enthusiasm has sky rocketed! Krazy FUN....LOVE IT - THANK YOU!!! ROCK ON, ROLL FORWARD!!!!🎸👍🚀
@@LaurenBateman Sorry- meant to leave this earlier...if requests are ok. I know you got BUNCHES- but maybe some Supertramp's "Give a little bit" sometime in the future? Zach Browns "Toes"....or even Metallica's "Nothing Else Matter's" ....Sorry- so excited! EVH FOREVER!!! G
62 year old....been looking for .....EXACTLY THIS!!!! I'm a monkey see monkey screw up a few times type player. I have said I could die happy if I could ever play this song to sound good more than just my usual 3 chord rhythm playing and here it is....thank you. Thank you, thank you! Now it's on me to learn.
This is the more Iconic version of this classic, but Ed, Gary, Steve and Allen were always tweaking it. Excellent job, Lauren... This is the way I'll learn, practice and play (!) this tune!
@@LaurenBateman It's a pleasure! Lauren, thanks to the Product Promotion You made in one of Your previous Videos, I've got just NOW my 1st new Thumbpick with the spring! I'll later try, I hope I finally will succeed in playing with NO flying away Pick!.... 🍃 😁
İ've just tried to play the İntro's Picking and all of the three Strumming Patterns You've shown us... That's OK, the difficult thing for me is singing the Song in the meantime! 😄
You're pretty awesome Lauren.. I'm still working on it and i still appreciate you and what you are doing with all these song's it's easier to follow you in learning how to make beautiful music 🎵🎶
Great job Lauren! These videos are invaluable. I picked up the intro and interlude from the 'harder' video and the strum pattern from the 'easier' video. So much fun!!
Thank you! Just found you. Loving it all. Your teaching here really improved on "my version" of playing this song, and gave me a closer version to shoot for. Time to keep practicing. Now with some new motivation to get it right. :)
I am sorry I didn’t watch this video when you made. I knew a version with opening lick and strumming pattern, so I thought why watch again, however once again you proved to me why I recommend you to my students in the Guitar 4 Vets program to continue playing beyond their 10 lessons. I never played the double stops in or the walk down prior to today. I have taught very simple the D Cadd9 G. You made the song much better for me to play. Thank you so much, Happy New Year!
Had my guitar a lil over a month but I almost have the first 2 parts. It's a lil harder than knocking on heavens door. Really enjoying your lessons so far. Thanks for what you do.
@@LaurenBateman no Iam trying to stick with regular cords. I did do the 1 finger blues shuffle though. That was a lot of fun. The knocking on heavens door has helped with cord changes. The g was a lil hard at first but getting easier.
Thanks for a great lesson and actually, my poor guitar has been getting dusty for years with limited play. I've only just realised the power of RU-vid lol!! Thankyou
Sweet Home Alabama....PLEASE SING AND PLAY THE WHOLE SONG BEFORE THE LESSON. You have a great voice and your playing is great so I just want to hear it. Thank you!
Super lesson Lauren. I really enjoyed it. Your just full of surprises. Almost expected you to throw in harmonics part. 97k plus subscribers. I played some of the parts along with you just for fun.You are becoming a u tube star. A big congratulations. You have earned it. Grinding out great lessons.
Lauren Bateman Wade Schoenthaler here. I have found Norwegian wood much easier to pick out with capo on the second or third fret and played in the key of C. Check it out it sounds cool
Thank you so much for this one, Lauren! I'd reconciled myself to the reality that it would be a while before I progressed enough to tackle this classic. However, that was before i watched this video and discovered your arrangement which, although still a stretch, seems like one I might be able to pull off on a human timescale.
Yes I watch you also what it is with me I used to know just a little on a guitar and when I say little I mean very little and so I had this buddy that could really play I mean really play he kinda like to drink a little al so me included but we would like go down on what we call river road and just set in the back of the truck and fish and most of the time he was playing in a band a very very great band at any rate we would set in the back of the truck and he would play and I mean he would wear it out and at anytime that I wanted to know about what chord's he would gladly show them to me but it seem like what he was showing me everything just clicked and i was doing good on the guitar and i just quit one day and now he has passed away and i have been trying everything to at least get back to where i was but thing's are not clicking like before it's like it goes through my head and right out but that wasn't the case before but it is now me remembering the chords just gonna keep on trying til it clock's again and it will and this time I will stick with but I just wanted to thankyou so very much for the lesson you give and explaining them the way you do thankyou so very much hopefully a guitar player before long with everyone's help they have really been very nice on RU-vid about everything for sure thankyou also RU-vid and thank's to all the very nice people out there keep a picking and stay safe thank's ! Gary G !
@@LaurenBateman Lovely.I know you got to practice lot and your fingers will find the way I progressed really fast because I practiced everyday.Thays why I'm learning Lead fast too.Im dedicated to learning seriously whatever n very successfull too.My eyes caught your videos Hence I'm interested t learn more from you too.I like the way you teach.Im an English Language and IELTS teacher too.I teach my students every age to the dot and very comprehensive.I go deep in putting to head like you.Good Luck .God bless ❤️ your profession
Great lesson but is there a easier way to do that 5-9 stretch, because i wear a large to ex large glove but I don’t have monkey fingers. I can’t get the pinky to reach 9 without really curling my hand around and then 5 & 7 are lifting. 🤬
