Just in time for me! I watched a couple of tutorials for this song, and yours reveals the nuances and subtleties in terms of rhythm and chord fretting for playing it. Best tutorial for this song!
@gechli3433 thank you! I really wanted to do a lesson that describes exactly what she plays. Also, sometimes, with her thumb, she plays more than one of the bass strings (like the E and A strings together), but that's a VERY subtle point. You hardly hear it and it only happens now and then.
I like your tutorials because you really emphasise the rhythm but in a real world way which is by emphasising melody or bass notes depending on the song. Very few people do that. If you listen to a track enough then you get it. You clearly do. So cheers.
Thank you so much for the lesson! I've always wanted to try out the guitar part of this song and your video really helped! Made sure to subscribe to find new tutorials :)
You really nailed the subtleties that a lot of people miss, but I've got a music theory question that's been bugging me. The art side of my brain loves the way all this sounds, but the engineering side wonders why E & A are used in a F# major scale song? I know, I'm probably missing something really basic, but can someone spell this out for me?
You have to think of the E and A in terms of the chords they precede. That is, F# and B. To each of these chords those notes are flat 7ths, which is a very pentatonic/blues thing to do. I hope that makes sense?
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Just in time for me! I watched a couple of tutorials for this song, and yours reveals the nuances and subtleties in terms of rhythm and chord fretting for playing it. Best tutorial for this song!
@gechli3433 thank you! I really wanted to do a lesson that describes exactly what she plays. Also, sometimes, with her thumb, she plays more than one of the bass strings (like the E and A strings together), but that's a VERY subtle point. You hardly hear it and it only happens now and then.
I like your tutorials because you really emphasise the rhythm but in a real world way which is by emphasising melody or bass notes depending on the song. Very few people do that. If you listen to a track enough then you get it. You clearly do. So cheers.
Thanks so much for that. Appreciate the comments, mate.
this is awesome! really clear and easy to follow! thx for this!🙂
Glad you liked it!!
thanks Tom needed some bar chord pain 😃
Haha! Good luck with it. The pain goes away the more barre chords you play!
Thank you! This was wonderful for me!
Well done mate
Thank you so much for the lesson! I've always wanted to try out the guitar part of this song and your video really helped! Made sure to subscribe to find new tutorials :)
Thank you! And welcome. Thanks for subscribing.
You really nailed the subtleties that a lot of people miss, but I've got a music theory question that's been bugging me. The art side of my brain loves the way all this sounds, but the engineering side wonders why E & A are used in a F# major scale song? I know, I'm probably missing something really basic, but can someone spell this out for me?
You have to think of the E and A in terms of the chords they precede. That is, F# and B. To each of these chords those notes are flat 7ths, which is a very pentatonic/blues thing to do. I hope that makes sense?
@@OneChartguitarlessons Every little bit of information helps. I'll file that in "if it sounds good, do it". Thank you.
G Flat??? Why???
I think it's because she uses the open E bass note quite often. Also the open A string.