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The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” – Fingerpicking Acoustic Guitar Lesson Made Easy

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, thank you so much for hanging out with me today I want to give you a guitar lesson in the style of the Beatles “Dear Prudence”. This is a great song, kick start your finger picking and we’re going to break down the intro.

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First I’m going to break down the left hand and just a couple comments 1  in drop D so I’ve lowered that 6th string down from E o D and then I’ve got these sort of three note kind of fretted chords up here these little triads and my third finger is going to start on the 3rd string 12th fret then my first fingers 10th fret and then my pinky is on the 12th fret so I’ve got 12, 10, 12, with a D in the base and then I go to a D shape and this is just a little baby D chord 10, 10, 11, and then that drops down a whole step to a C shape and then I’ve got 7, 8, 7, which is a G cord but it actually looks like a stock a little D shaped just relocated up here then I’ve got 6, 5, 5, which is an A chord with a D in the base and then the last two chords are a C triad 5, 5, 3, again with a D in the base and then a D chord, that D chord is just your stock 2, 3, 2, so I’m going to run through those real quick slowly here.

We go get those down and then we can work on the right hand and this is really where you know we start breaking up those chords and arpeggios. I’m going to start with my thumb on the 5th string and my middle finger on the 1st string and I want to stick using the same fingers, I really use these three thumb index middle and I want to be consistent as I’m practicing the pattern. I’m trying to use the same fingering just like if I played a chord if I play the D chord I wouldn’t one time play it this way and then the next time play it this way and then the next time switch my fingers like this you know there are reasons for changing but when you’re learning something new you just want to pick away and sort of burn it in and pick the way you know that that works out the best for the song.

So that’s what I’m going to show you with this pattern so we’ve got our thumb and our middle doing that pinch then the thumb comes down to the 4th string and then your index is on the 3rd string so the first half of the pattern goes like this and then the 2nd half your thumb drops down to the 6th string and then my middle moves up to the 2nd string and then I actually use my thumb on the last D-string there so the whole pattern is like this one and you’re basically just going to repeat that for each chord so it will go chop it down and on this one we’re going to do it twice then we start into the that so the whole intro goes kind of slide the chords you hear that on the record you know you it’s kind of sliding from one.

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How To Play Come As You Are by Nirvana

Want to learn One of the Easiest Guitar Riffs Ever? Beginner Guitar Lesson on “Come As You Are” by Nirvana from Guitar Control instructor Jon MacLennan.

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Introduction

Hey how’s it going? My name is Jon MacLennan and I hope you’re doing fantastic. Today I want to show you a guitar riff in the style of Come As You are by Nirvana. So let’s zoom in and break it down.

Playing Tips

So the first thing you got to realize if you want to play along with the recording you gotta tune down your guitar a whole step and then you’ll be able to play along with the recording; I’m in standard just for today’s purposes. One thing I have added to the tone which is classic on the recording is a watery sounding chorus pedal.

Come As You Are

So I’m going to start how to play Come As You Are by Nirvana by hitting the open E twice then you put your first finger on the first fret sixth string and then you put your second finger on the second fret. So you walk in like this and then you play the fifth string open and then back to open. So I’m alternating between that too and that’s zero and there the strings are right adjacent to each other so you need to make sure that your second finger is up on its tip so that that other note can come through. If it’s down like this you’re going to get a muted string in there so you have to keep it all in the tips. And then you play two twos on the sixth string and walk back down and the fifth 00, the sixth 2 and then walk back up and then you start over. So if I played it slow it’s like one two three.

Conclusion

Alright well I hope that gets you started play Come As You Are by Nirvana. I remember the first time I heard Nirvana I was just a kid and it was down at my friend’s house down the street. We were like jumping on his trampoline and his dad had these huge speakers in the backyard and he was like check this out man, I’m going to put on nirvana, check out this band and he put it on and we would just blast it and hang out in the backyard. Anyway don’t forget to hit subscribe below and we’ll see you in the next lesson. Thanks for watching how to play Come As You Are by Nirvana.

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How to Play “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley – Classic Rock Song Guitar Lesson

Hey this is Matias Rengel with Guitar Control, we’ll be learning this song “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley.

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This song has two different parts that we’re going to be checking out the first one is the beginning is you have half step down so if you want to play along with the song you make sure your tune half step down on your guitar and if you don’t know what a half step down  is , I will show you at the end of the game so you’re going to put your index finger on the 6th fret of the 5th string and ring finger on the 8th fret of the 4th string pinky finger on the 8th fret of the 3rd string. Now you want to play only the 5th, 4th, and 3rd, don’t play on the other string. You’re going to repeat that eight times first starts and now we start singing right there.

So the full times always start singing at the 4th and the 5th time if you put a 4th time against so what I want you to do is be very careful with not playing the strings and for that middle finger is going to help you mute the six, the pinky is going to help you move the second and the first is mute a little bit by the index right you’re going to play that the strings no matter what if you hit and so basically you start earlier after the fourth a 1, 2, 3, 4, so that’s for that part now for the next part what’s going to happen so what you going to be doing it’s actually the same thing over and over but just me changing strings or changing positions but the shape if you see it as a drawing the shape is going to be the same so for the first one you’re going to play the open 5th.

Now I think it would be better if we do it without any rhythm at first we just see the notes and then I show you specifically in the rhythm so for the first one you have open 5th 4th fret of the beat 2nd fret of the 4th, fourth fret of the fourth second to the fourth. Now what’s going to happen is you going to play each note twice you’re going to put a little bit of a shuffle in there you know like okay so practice that just that practice that we talk so now I’m using this no I’m using these fingers like open obviously nothing here index here and then ring once again there if you want you can do from there what you’re going to play this exact same thing but you’re going to play it a string up so you’re going to play using six and the 5th right now you were using the 5th and 6th and 4th. Now we’re going to use in the 6th and the fifth so you would do the same thing over 15 4th fret of the six on the 5th 4th fret on the 5th song and again you play each note while so do you have you got this and then go to this.

Now there are two notes that we are not playing twice which is basically the last ones we do okay and you repeat that thing twice now see how we land there you’re going to play the 2nd fret of the 5th 6th fret of the fifth fret spread of the 4th 6th row the 4th for and then go back to the open the first one so you have it now you could play potentially this one is their way if you want you could just do this is too much of a stretch for you can do sacrum stays the same in 1st fret of the 4th four fret of the fourth then 1st fret of the third and then fourth of the four so now I think it’s cooler if you mute the strings a little bit with this part right there supposed to right now check this out that when I go into this one I only play it once just once so really we got to see so we go twice.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this lesson it’s a really cool song by Elvis Presley this is like a classic so make sure you download the tab to learn what I just showed you even better and make sure to subscribe on our You Tube Channel and we’ll see you in our next video lessons, thanks for watching.

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Classic Licks Played From “Hey Joe” In The Style Of Jimi Hendrix | Watch it now

Hey, how’s it going this is Jon McLennan with Guitar Control, I will break down some Classic licks by Mr. Jimi Hendrix from a song called “Hey Joe”. I really love this song and it’s one of the few tunes that Hendrix doesn’t tune down a half step on, he put some great licks up here in a pentatonic minor.


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The first Bend is on the 15th fret of the 2nd string, bend up a full step using your third finger then you play the same note on the 12th fret of the 1st string and you descend pentatonic scale 15, 12, 14, and on 14, you bend it up a whole step release and pull off down to 12.

Then you add two more notes 14, 12, 14, on the 4th string 12 on the 3rd string, so I’ve got the first phrase and it’s your entire minor pentatonic scheme, basically this is a blues. Hendrix was a great blues player then he returned back up to that 15th fret on the 2nd string same thing this time slightly different ending so what we did was one once we get to that 14 bend grab our first finger to play the 12th fret on the 2nd string then back to natural 14 and then play 12, 14 pull off to 12 on the 3rd string and then you get that 12, you push it up slightly a blues bend and resolve on the note E 14th fret 4th string, so the second phrase goes like this bend a little too high there so I’ve got both phrases together those little I mean there’s so many little nuggets in there and what I do there is just 12, 14, 12, but I use a double stop, then you can slide into 14 just go up pentatonic scale.

There you have it those are some classic licks from “Hey Joe”, be sure to practice them over and over and add them to your bag of tricks.  Make sure to subscribe on our You Tube Channel and we’ll see you in our next video lessons, thanks for watching.

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