this is refreshing to see, a musician actually giving a free lesson and asking for some original covers of his song without copyright issues. What's the world come to. David Cook you're a 5 star guy. Glad you won
He so mastered singing Light On on this one. Wow. Totally perfect! Loved the acoustic version with David and Neal. Very nice. Congrats on this wonderful song going Platinum!!!
I'm in the middle of teaching myself to play guitar (no lessons at all) so this is a freaking awesome youtube discovery :) thank you David Cook, for posting this. And also for being such an incredible artist and a total sweetheart
David, one of the coolest things I've ever seen on youtube. I have a huge respect for your talent. The fact that you post stuff like this is unbelievable. Can't wait for your next album. Much Respect! I'm definitely a fan!
whoa, i didn't know you are this cool. you are like the open source programmer of the digital world! you really have the passion and even sharing it to others. i should support albums of people like you and will recommend your music to my friends.
wow, not only was the lesson pretty sweet, he can basically sing wherever he goes! i mean everytime i hear him he's never horribly pitchy....sigh...i love david!
Wow, that was awesome! I wish all singers would teach us how to play... he is so cool. Unfortunately, not an easy song to sing so I will not even attempt to post my version...
Thank you, David! It's great singing and playing with your songs. Really, thank you for the instructional! I'm definitely going to have fun with this song. ^_^
B/A is just the B chord with an A note as the bass. Play your B5 power chord X244XX, for the B/A just let the A string ring open X044XX....and on to the Em chord 0220000. B/A is just a passing chord from the B5 to the Em. Hope this helps.
Love your song. I struggle with my own stuff a lot, and I just have one question. Starting on an Am chord, for the first and fifth lines, you end with a D (note), but keep on the Am. There is no D in Am chord. I finger pick the parts from AEGIS's recording (I'm in the Phils and they played at the CG in Manila) and so I stay on the Am but pick the D string. If you strum you pretty much gotta hit a "G" chord for the melody to match at the end. Same could be said coming off the C chord on the 2nd and 6th lines. Am I missing something? Not criticizing, just wondering if you could add some color here for me. I sure would appreciate it. TIA Brian
this is refreshing to see, a musician actually giving a free lesson and asking for some original covers of his song without copyright issues. What's the world come to. David Cook you're a 5 star guy. Glad you won
He so mastered singing Light On on this one. Wow. Totally perfect! Loved the acoustic version with David and Neal. Very nice.
Congrats on this wonderful song going Platinum!!!
Unbelievable. A successful artist that has not forgotten his roots and takes the time to give back to his fans. Thank You David Cook!!!
AWESOME video and lesson. Thanks David, can't believe you are doing this for all of us. You are a special person and artist
lol He is the Bob Ross of guitar. I watch him and think, "I can do that!" regardless of the fact that I've never played a guitar before in my life. =P
DAVID! you are UNREAL!
the fact that u actually took time do do this... i'm ur fan for life!
u should do this for every song from the cd! :D
Wow, thanks for this, David! I've been wanting to learn this on guitar, and who better to show me than the man himself =)
Wonderful guitar lesson from David Cook ❤️🥰🎶🎵🎸
I just found this video this morning, and you better believe I'm saving it so I can learn how to play Light On.
OMG just amazing!!
david's voice is so powerful and exquisite
even in the morning!!
also he's so sweet!!!!
Very very cool and informative. I Love ALL of your music and you were definitely deserving to win on IDOL 👍😃💝🦋🇱🇷💙
I'm in the middle of teaching myself to play guitar (no lessons at all) so this is a freaking awesome youtube discovery :)
thank you David Cook, for posting this. And also for being such an incredible artist and a total sweetheart
David, one of the coolest things I've ever seen on youtube. I have a huge respect for your talent. The fact that you post stuff like this is unbelievable. Can't wait for your next album. Much Respect! I'm definitely a fan!
DUDE.......i have no doubt in my mind that i LOVE YOUR SONG .
that was awesome! i was playing my guitar while listening! it was awesome :) love hiM!
Definitely my favorite video. It was more personal! David is amazing!! Great job! And excellent voice! You're the best Idol!!!
I love David ❤️🥰🎶🎵🎸
Thank you so much! I have been wanting to play your song for a long time. This really helped a lot!
thank God! Two geniuses build youtube!!! DC, thanks a lot for the lessons..
FINALLY LEARNED THIS, THANK YOU DAVID COOK 😍😍😍
love this...ehhehe....really the best...still my idol forever..."david roland cook"....
Thank you for doing this David!
omg this is so amazing! for so long ive wanted to learn to play the guitar now i want to play it even more
Amazing..I like this song a lot..
😊 Thanks
Thanks for your tab. Best wishes to you from Lisbon - Portugal.
Sounds great! Thanks for posting it, hopefully be able to get it in a couple of days!
I wish I could sing this way...
Great job...
DAMN! David... Beautiful Gibson Hummingbird!
whoa, i didn't know you are this cool. you are like the open source programmer of the digital world!
you really have the passion and even sharing it to others. i should support albums of people like you and will recommend your music to my friends.
Thank you david :) now i can play this. So nice.
LOVE YOU DAVID!!!
david you can be my guitar teacher anytime! ty so much ya helped me alot! =D ily
wow, not only was the lesson pretty sweet, he can basically sing wherever he goes! i mean everytime i hear him he's never horribly pitchy....sigh...i love david!
learned it finally thanks David Cook
beautiful guitar!!
Wow, that was awesome! I wish all singers would teach us how to play... he is so cool.
Unfortunately, not an easy song to sing so I will not even attempt to post my version...
Thank you, David! It's great singing and playing with your songs. Really, thank you for the instructional! I'm definitely going to have fun with this song. ^_^
David, dude this is really cool. Thanks
Oh yeah I agree. What a passionate guy.
awesome... the coolest person in the world...
Amazing! As always..
B/A is just the B chord with an A note as the bass. Play your B5 power chord X244XX, for the B/A just let the A string ring open X044XX....and on to the Em chord 0220000. B/A is just a passing chord from the B5 to the Em.
Hope this helps.
woW!!!!tat's great !!! i like it so much !!!
I love it. Can you create one for time of my life???
wow!! real real voice!!!
amazing .......
omg luv him! i luv him singing with just a guitar! him singing without any music is pretty hot too! ha ha
aww. thanks!
love you david!
:)
I would love to see a lesson for Neal's parts, too :)
Awesome! THX!!!
looooll ! so much you helped me a lot ! thx..! do more guitar videos leson
on the last two lines you have down to play and Am then E, but it's supposed to be G then E just like how he plays it if you are watching his fingers.
that was fkng incredible. what. wow. keep it up please and thanks :)
how could people dislike this video???
great!
NEAL!!!!!!!!
*melts
um. incredible.
he makes it look easy...
very very good
i think i will now learn to play guitar just so i can play this song
Thank you
@etian18 Yes, replay the video of course. LOL. I watch it to see David though.
hehehe this is the first thing i learned how to play on guitar...from this vid...
Very nice video. David looks quite handsome and sounds so good. Did an excellent job teaching, but how could anyone remember all that?
woah!
he's a good teacher!i just wish knew wtf a Aminor is?
David's guitar: Gibson Hummingbird
Neal's guitar: Gibson Dove
awesome, but i miss his baritone voice, the one he used last year at idol
Love your song. I struggle with my own stuff a lot, and I just have one question. Starting on an Am chord, for the first and fifth lines, you end with a D (note), but keep on the Am. There is no D in Am chord. I finger pick the parts from AEGIS's recording (I'm in the Phils and they played at the CG in Manila) and so I stay on the Am but pick the D string. If you strum you pretty much gotta hit a "G" chord for the melody to match at the end. Same could be said coming off the C chord on the 2nd and 6th lines. Am I missing something? Not criticizing, just wondering if you could add some color here for me. I sure would appreciate it. TIA Brian
his hair looks great here....keep it short Dave! ;-)
(and great guitar lesson.)
looks sort of like a gibson hummingbird, but i don't know acoustics that well
who better to learn from than the guy who wrote the song? Rock On!
...I have NO clue what the 'a minor' and such mean. But I get it... sorta. I get how the guitar changes in sound anyhow...
your voice - a mix Chad Kroeger from "Nickelback" and Corey Taylor from from "Slipknot" and "Stone Sour" ) atomic mix) thank you!
how do you play the electric parts?
tabs for the lead? do you have one?
whooot! i love to play this song!!!
can't sing thou.... haha
thnx,it was less confusing when it was just A minor though
what's the fingering supposed to be for the B/A?
Aw.. wish I could play :(
what's the strumming pattern? thanks! 😅
does anyone know what kind of guitar hes using?
I wanna know the answer to the first question :D
i wanted to know neal's part :P
PLs guitar name ??
He's a lefthanded guitarist.
name guitar ?
whats a better place to get help then from the man himself huh?
lol this helped alot :D
This is the exact same song that Santana did, "leave your light on" the exact same
just realized that he's using a left handed guitar
the problem is i dono how to do the B chord.
Thats like saying he is wearing a white t-shirt in this video. no schit he is a lefthanded guitarist....
@silverz1972 LOL what.....? you know it's his song, right? ....i'm pretty sure he would know the right chords................
why he stop singing when he start play the guitar?
bs0707 "This is song is so fucking hard to sing... "
That's probably because it was written by Chris Cornell
this is hard:P
Of course it was going to be tricky. Chris Cornell wrote it.
This guy always makes me laugh
5 people are David Archuleta fans.
if u think his gay ..i wanna see u sing this song like him