David Bowie - Starman | guitar lesson
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- David Bowie - Starman guitar lesson
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Starman is not a simple song to play though! The intro especially always drove me nuts, but the rest of the song is a big mix of open and barre chords, and they jump around a lot. Bowie tended to play E-shape barre chords with his thumb on the low E string rather than barring with the first finger as I'm doing (and his way may have simplified things a bit).
I've included a guide to a few variations on the intro, finishing up on what I think is actually being played on the record.
The strumming also varies wildly through the song, and helps to lend each section its own feel.
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I am learning guitar now, this a very difficult song but your strumming is so clear that I can get super easy. Thanks man.
Very happy to help, your majesty.
@@LeftHandedGuitarist LOL 😂🤣
All them years I played that intro wrong mate. and there's another couple of chords in there i didn't no about. thank you tony UK
yes, a video that shows the chords, strumming pattern, and a play along. Perfect video for learning
He's just like guitar zero 2 hero just left handed
Finally a definitve version! Congratulations, thanks and greetings from Brazil.
Glad you like it! It took some effort :)
Finalmente achei um brasileiro KKKKKKKKKK
I've been playing guitar for only 3 months and yet your videos allow me to play so well!! I'm learning so fast, thank you!!
That's so great to hear! I'm happy I can help.
Thank you so much!!! I just started to play guitar and this song I love the most! ❤❤❤ I'm a big David Bowie-Fan!!!!
Great job. Bowie's chord styling so were very creative. Similar approach was used in Space Oddity.
Thanks so very much for keeping this short and sweet!
For the intro you can play an A chord on the third fret. It's a Bb with the E string open
Really the best lessons on youtube. So easy learn songs that way, thank you!
Good lesson, thanks from Brazil.
Как я рад что нашёл тебя, ведь я тоже левша!
Сначала я подумал:
-хмм, это так мило что он пишет аккорды и для левшей тоже, а то меня так достало переворачивать их у себя в голове, но потом увидел твою руку и обрадовался
Hi, from another left-handed guitarist. Not sure about the theory, but I find it more intuitive to think of the F#dim as a D7 over F#. Great tutorial. Thanks!
Wow, really nice learning video. I really like the left-handed chord shapes. Finally someone relizes there are also lefties. 😅😅🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
You make it look easy
brilliant for such a short lesson, I've been meaning to learn this for years. I noticed on the original with Bowie playing the 12 string that there is a big cigarette burn near the hole of the guitar, so the guitar had seen some life.
Like a mirrow 😮. Nice tutorial, thnks!
Getting into guitars now after years playing bass - your videos are very good - thank you for your time, tips and knowledge!
Thank you for the reaction! I really mean it ;) I watched a lot of tutorials and a lot of people should learn from you on how to teach and make videos - short and very effective - all the info you need to start strumming
I'm so glad you find my stuff useful! I always think that short and to the point is the best way to learn.
LOKI?
You're not the first to say that!
hahahaha nice tutoriul man
Really ? xDDD
I freakin' lost it at your comment🤣
Aha, someone else is finally hearing the high E to high F toggle in the intro. It's amazing that so many popular youtube videos completely ignore it. I'm not 100% sold on your theory as to how he plays it on record - musicians often change the way they play a song for live purposes (cf Keith Richards). Personally, I use my thumb on the low E-string, for the main chords and let the top E string ring out when playing the first two beats of the Bb chord (in VI position), then mute the E string with my index finger for the last two beats so that the F on the B string is the high note. And the same with the F chord (in I position)- leave the E-string open, then lower your index finger onto the high F. It seems truer to the album version than your approach, at least to my ears. But it's all subjective, and admittedly I haven't tested this with a 12-string guitar.
Yeah, I think the definitive way to play it is a mystery that may never be solved. Maybe if the studio multitracks ever get released into the wild. There are certainly multiple ways to approach this which all sound good.
And as I said, we need 12-string guitars to test. I prefer my approach because on a 6-string guitar more notes are being played for the Bb chord, which leads to a lusher sound. But your approach on a 12-string guitar would already have that "lushness". Also, do you really hear that maj7 in the Bb chord (i.e. the A) that your chord shape has? I would have thought the initial F would have provided enough dissonance for the Bb chord, but I could very well be wrong. An other alternative would be just to play the Bb partial standard chord in I position with the middle, ring and little fingers on the D, G and B strings, with the open top E, then bring the index finger down on the F.
Yeah, ideally Rick Beato gets the multitracks and does this song for one of his videos.
The thing which really makes me believe that it's all played down at fret 1 (on the studio recording, at least) is that there is no "string sliding" sound that would occur from moving down/up the fretboard between the Bb's and the F's. But yes, the use of a 12-string changes everything.
The B flat 1st pos play a A chord shape on the 3rd fret mute low E string so 5th open 4..3..2 strings A shape 6th open
LeftHandedGuitarist its def played at first as i watched other fay on bbc4 bowies music documentry where they were coving his 2 albums from ziggy album and that song a prouducer said its starts of with a B Flat inversion with some open notes and goes to a F maj
great, simple & straight forward
RighHandedGuitarist thanks you so much for this lesson!
Hanks for the tutorial. My guitar tescher and I are playing star man with this tutorial
Kind regards dev 😊
Love your tutorial style, super helpful. Would've been awesome to have the little solo included too
Excellent, well done. Thanks. I really like the video lesson format that you use.
very useful :') thanks from Argentina
BEAUTIFUL!😃👍
You being left handed makes it so much easier to learn
Great tutorial, thank you so much, now got to give it a try!
Superb.
Love the way the whole video was set up and I'm not a fan of many tutorials (Just Guitar 365, Carl Brown) but I'm gonna have to sub!
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks.
Great tutorial, thanks so much.
You're welcome, I hope it helped you!
Thanks. Id come here after vewing Belew perfomance. Definitely like
Okay, I pic you're method. I'll get back to it soon.
Right on with the light on.
quick like. So, hey, where you located? I'm an expat in California now. Left UK in 73 when fish and chips may or may not have ink on the paper. I think it was ended by then. Loved that ink.
Thanks to this vid, I can play the song now
excellent tutorial many thanks
Love ur videos guy, in the first mooment i saw your good teaching ;D 1 viewer more, 4 sure!
Good lesson, thanks from Ukraine
This was very helpful thank u
That's awesome!
Thank you for this tutorial! But, when you played the song it seems like it's not the whole song, maybe in the end there is chorus again?
Here in Brazil,that song has another name but is the same acords,it's called "astronauta de mármore"
love it man!!! that shit was dope!!!
Wow, thank you very much, well donde
Woaaaaaahhhh. Its cool maaaan 🤩🤩🤩
Thank you!
Hey la-la
Oh, oh, oh
Didn't know what time it was
The lights were low, oh, oh
I leaned back on my radio, oh, oh
Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll lotta soul, he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no DJ
That was hazy cosmic trace
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
I had to phone someone, so I picked on you
Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window, I can see his light
If we can sparkle, he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
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Muito boa aula, onde eu arrumo esse acompanhamento para violão, obrigado
Bowie sure liked that Am/C chord
All I have to say is:
David Bowie was a genius🤔
Bummer he's "gone from us...into the stars".🤔
"Atleast we still have Bowie."
~Wade Wilson/Deadpool
"Yeeaaahhh...we still have Bowie."
~Weasel
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Love me some Bowie🎶
merci beaucoup !
About the intro, in the Top Of The Pops performance of Starman, David Bowie is playing the first chord (Bbmaj7) the first way you showed it. I don’t know what videos or photographs you found of him doing it differently.
You can't see Bowie's hands at all during the intro of the TOTP video. This is the video I found which shows him playing both intro chords down in the fret 1 area: ruclips.net/video/bJO97AKDgH0/видео.html
I watched the recording in the link and its def sound like a B flat maj7 i tried the bflat myself and to me it just dont sound right
@@LeftHandedGuitarist In those Dunstable and Aylesbury clips, he is clearly playing it in first position - If I remember rightly, in the 1970s the BBC required musicians to mime to a backing track that they recorded for the show - so Bowie's hand position may not represent what he actually played on the track.
Hi! Your vids help me very much, and I appreciate your way of playing Bowie's songs greatly. I don't know if you read the comments after two years of publishing this video, but there's a question. I wonder how you mute open strings of the chord at 2:24. Thanks in advance :)
Happy to help. String muting (or string damping) in general is done by using the fingers of your hand at certain angles to stop unwanted noise. It can take a while to figure it out but it eventually happens naturally. Often it's very subtle, and in this case it's a mixture of releasing pressure and angling the fingers down just enough to dampen the sound by only lightly touching the strings.
@@LeftHandedGuitarist Yeah, I was thinking of that. Thanks again for the reply and greetings from Russia :)
Got everything down except that transition from F to Fm Diminished.
So for now I'm using D7 lol
Nice one man. How do you make background sound?
And how long does it take to make one tutorial?
I make the backing tracks with Guitar Pro. Making one of these videos takes quite a while - I'd say an average of 10-15 hours from start to finish. Sometimes I've made one in an afternoon if the song is simple.
Wow thats a lot of work. Im looking forward for some more radiohead. Thanks for doing what you do man i really appreciate it.
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Hi! Great demo/ lesson thank you. What make and model is your guitar? It has a great sound. Thank you for a reply in advance 👍🌠🌌🌅
Thank you! It's a Washburn D10.
LeftHandedGuitarist Ahh thank you for the reply. I thought it was a Washburn from the headstock shape. If you could tell me what year roughly and where it was made I would really appreciate that. And I promise no more questions lol. Thank you 🌠🌌🙋♂️👍
It was made in China and I believe it's from 2006.
LeftHandedGuitarist Thank you so much. 🌌🌅🌠👍
The best.. Compared to others
Y el rasgueo cual es? 😢
....on the intro F, one can "cheat" a bit and not thumb that F note on the Low E. It allows you to accentuate the open high E which is the key to this intro. Without the play between the high E open and high F it's pointless to play it this way and better to just to do the first incorrect way I guess. The intro here is all about that high e. Another reason why this song is absolutely no joke. There's no real cheating. You gotta hit the notes
What does the "x" mean?
You don't play that string. Like if a low E is marked "x" you'd mute it with your thumb hanging over the top of the fret touching the string but not pressing it down so it's muted
Ross Matheson Muted String.
Took some effort ?....you bet ...but does not seems that way ..... regardless that was Awesome !!
Is it in standard tuning?
Yep.
Well done. Where can i donate?
Thank you! You can support me directly through RUclips with the 'thanks' button, or use Patreon (LeftHandedGuitarist)
@@LeftHandedGuitarist i cannot find it.. sry....?!?!
@@nikb4886 www.patreon.com/LeftHandedGuitarist
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just for help me
Alguém em 2024 ?
This song is only for seasoned players. You better like Metallica & Megadeth first to learn how to downpick. You better have full chords ready to be able to play any of this. I've been playing twenty five years and this song is tricky tricky
The edgy comment is uncalled for... Downpicking is quite a challenging technique, but also speed requires a fine brain development. Nice you've been playing 25 years, but this is an authority bias
@@joaquinfernandopiratequeca9281 be quiet 🤡 - what is your point? I pointed out a song is hard a d you have some slef bloated post 2 years later? Get a life 🤡
No one covers this tune. And theres a reason why. Its hard
What kind of guitar is that?
A Washburn D10.
Left handed like Ziggy Stardust
Ok, but nice hair, dude.
I got it, the only problem is that I can’t bar a cord-
Man...holding the Bmaj chord is hard.
Barre chords become a lot easier with time, just need to train your finger muscles. Keep at it!
@@LeftHandedGuitarist Thank you sir.
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Hey la-la
Oh, oh, oh
Didn't know what time it was
The lights were low, oh, oh
I leaned back on my radio, oh, oh
Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll lotta soul, he said
Then the loud sound did seem to fade
Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase
That weren't no DJ
That was hazy cosmic trace
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
I had to phone someone, so I picked on you
Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too!
Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two
Look out your window, I can see his light
If we can sparkle, he may land tonight
Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds
There's a Starman waiting in the sky
He's told us not to blow it
'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Бля надо на выходных попробовать главное не сдохнуть до воскресенья