Dude ive watched hundreds of guitar lesson videos and they all seem to be a bit too ‘all over the place’ in their explanation and teaching but your pace and explanations, even the edited visuals, are all perfect for me. Thanks!
Peter, I'm very happy to find your channel! Your teaching style is detailed and clear, much appreciated. I've always loved Bob Dylan and am excited to learn to play his songs with you. With appreciation, Cher
Really great lesson of a beautiful song I've always wanted to learn, won't be easy but I'm gonna try. Thank you so much and keep up the good work Peter!
Great video! And perfect timing with the new Dylan film being released later this month. I spent last year concentrating on my acoustic playing, in particular, fingerstyle, and was looking for some 'new' material to play. Cheers.
Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it. I’ve always loved ‘Girl From the North Country’, but I have to admit that the timing wasn’t a complete coincidence 😊.
Thank you very much. I was s teacher and then a trainer for many years, so the channel enables me to bring those skills together with my love of music. I’m still learning though!
If you learn this you get 'Boots of Spanish Leather' (from TTTAAC) free, as they have the same chord progression and more or less the same picking. I saw Bob on tour in the 90s and saw him on a couple of nights when he swapped the two of them out with precisely the same full band arrangement. Brilliant, actually.
great lesson ....however the chord you call "a form of D" at 13:56 is actually named E minor 9 when played without the capo...in order from lowest note to highest ....E D F# G D E ....or Root b7 9 b3 b7 root...the B or 5th is left out
Thanks Joe. Yes, that makes sense, as the E is on the bottom and the top. It's a nicely ambiguous chord because it has elements of E minor, and also elements of D major (the D and the F#).
Thank you. I’m a big fan of ‘Simple Twist of Fate’. It’s in Open E tuning. I’ve got another two early Dylan lessons coming out over the next couple of weeks, and am then going to move on to some non-Dylan stuff…. …but I will put ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ on the list 😊
Hi - I've had a couple of listens to the original. It's a grower. I noticed it has a bass pedal, as you would hear in some acoustic blues playing, and to my ear it mixes elements of bluegrass and blues in a very atmospheric manner. I wonder whether it was recorded on a small-bodied guitar (the bass is very quiet, and the middle and the top is prominent). It's probably not one I would try to teach, but it's very unique and well-played.
Hi, what strings are you using on your guitar? And, if it's not too much to ask, I would like to know your guitar model (even if I'm quite sure it will be out of my league). I'm want to buy an acoustic guitar - having played a classical one for years - and I'm trying to get an idea of the sonority of the different types of strings. PS: Great tutorial (it was my first fingerpicking song years ago)
Hi. The strings are light gauge Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze. The guitar is a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find.
Yes, that chord should be called C over G. The diagram is right except for the name, which should be ‘C/G’. Sorry about that - the name of the chord has got stuck in my head the wrong way around!
Yesss, it's very good the way you play ! But ALSO I hear a good guitar sound ! *Bourgeois* I see. But, please, can you tell me the model of YOUR personal guitar. It's because there are many kinds of *Bourgeois* on sale.. but I'd like to know what *Bourgeois* exactly you are playing in this video. Thanks for all .. and especially for your kind attention. Hi PS: what strings too.
Thank you. Great question. It's a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find. The strings are light gauge Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze.
Hi. The guitar is a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find. BTW, the Mic I use for guitar lessons is a Blue Yeti USB podcasting mic (a condenser) - so it's a very good quality guitar with an affordable microphone.
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel thank you for the reply. I thought it was a Bourgeois and suspected an Adi aged top. I have been looking at replacing my old 00028. Now wondering if I shld look at OMs. Thanks again. Very nice playing. Inspired. :)
I bought it second hand a bit under a year ago. Interestingly, the middle seems to have opened up a lot in that year. It was a bit 'tight' for the first few months. I know torrified guitars are meant to sound 'mature' from the get-go, so perhaps the opening up of the sound was a result of mechanical 'loosening'. Anyway, that has been my experience.
Hi Rory. Currently, I don't provide downloadable tabs. This is something that I may do in the future, if the channel grows. There is a good tab at the Dylan Chord website, though I don't think it is downloadable: dylanchords.com/02_freewheelin/girl_from_the_north_country
Hi. I don't provide tab at the moment (beyond what you see on the screen anyway). I may do this as the channel grows, but in the meantime, I can recommend the Dylan Chords website for Dylan-related tab: dylanchords.com/albums
Thanks for this and will be learning or I should say relearning as I had played it slightly differently but you do it better. I would say that your diagrams are pretty annoying to follow as you do tabs in one direction but chords at right angles. I'm sure most look and give up as it does your head in. Someone mentioned it in your early tuition vids but you haven't changed it although you said you would sort it out. Thanks for the tuition which is great otherwise.
Thanks Phil. I understand the difficulty with the diagrams, and I did look at it. But I am following the convention for tabs and chord charts (direction of pitch for tabs - so with the highest pitch strings at the top; chord charts with the highest pitched strings in the right and the lowest pitched strings on the left). If I changed to align them with the guitar as you see it in the video then I feel that might confuse more people than it would help.
It’s Bob. Listen to the Wittmark Demos. That’s definitely him and it’s nearly identical. There’s no way a second guitarist could sync up with his harmonica playing and broken bars on a song like “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” While “Girl from the North Country” is more straightforward and steady in terms of form, if Dylan can play “Don’t Think Twice” he can certainly play “Girl from the North Country.”
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel in key it’s actually a dm6 obviously as G is really Bb with the capo on but the opening chord is not a G ( really Bb) it’s a bm6 (which is really dm6). Here’s the best most accurate tutorial I’ve seen on this song th-cam.com/video/9dBYmBM0yf8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ouh7DHlu4CKFAMCT
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel he’s right it’s more accurately a bm6 when you play the “form of D chord”. They sound similar and are similar notes but the sound is a minor 6 not a D major (‘with the capo on these chords are dm6 and F major)
Not Bruce Langhorn, it’s Bob who's playing. He fingerpicks himself on all of his folk albums, this weird rumor that it isn’t him seems to pertain no matter what
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Done.
Dude ive watched hundreds of guitar lesson videos and they all seem to be a bit too ‘all over the place’ in their explanation and teaching but your pace and explanations, even the edited visuals, are all perfect for me. Thanks!
Thank you.
Peter, I'm very happy to find your channel! Your teaching style is detailed and clear, much appreciated. I've always loved Bob Dylan and am excited to learn to play his songs with you.
With appreciation, Cher
Thank you Cher.
Really great lesson of a beautiful song I've always wanted to learn, won't be easy but I'm gonna try. Thank you so much and keep up the good work Peter!
Thank you - and good luck. It’s worth working at this song.
Just have to say that all your videos are awesome. Great explanations. Great vibes. Thanks!
Thank you.
Fantastic video - your instructions are brilliant. This is one of the best tutorials I’ve seen
Thank you very much.
Magical song, great timing on the tutorial
Yes - it's a wonderful song. The 'In the darkness of my night' line always gets me!
Great lesson. I’ll be working on this in the new year.
Thank you.
Really great tutorial and song.... style I want to learn and picking it up largely thanks to this - great job!!
Thank you.
your visuals shows coordination of left and right hand really well !
Thank you.
Fantastic lesson and a great sense of joy from Peter. Thanks!
Thank you very much.
Good lesson well explained with good video support. Thanks Peter for this keep up the good work of working on songs of the best song writer ever!
From one Dylan fan to another - thank you ☺️.
This was an amazing lesson. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
Great video! And perfect timing with the new Dylan film being released later this month. I spent last year concentrating on my acoustic playing, in particular, fingerstyle, and was looking for some 'new' material to play. Cheers.
Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it. I’ve always loved ‘Girl From the North Country’, but I have to admit that the timing wasn’t a complete coincidence 😊.
Awesome 👍 Soo very helpful 🎉
Thank you very much.
amazing lesson thank you
Thank you.
Now I see that not everyone has pedagogy even if they know how to play the guitar, but you do! Thank you!
Thank you very much. I was s teacher and then a trainer for many years, so the channel enables me to bring those skills together with my love of music. I’m still learning though!
Excellent work
Many thanks.
excellent
Thank you.
Very well done! Just subscribed!
Thank you, and welcome.
This is fantastic and very timely! Definitely the next song to learn on my list! How in the world did a 21 year old write this? Amazing.
Thank you. Yes, I think somebody described him as a young man writing old man’s songs.
If you learn this you get 'Boots of Spanish Leather' (from TTTAAC) free, as they have the same chord progression and more or less the same picking. I saw Bob on tour in the 90s and saw him on a couple of nights when he swapped the two of them out with precisely the same full band arrangement. Brilliant, actually.
Ah - 'Boots of Spanish Leather'. Another great lyric there! I will have to try it.
great lesson ....however the chord you call "a form of D" at 13:56 is actually named E minor 9 when played without the capo...in order from lowest
note to highest ....E D F# G D E ....or Root b7 9 b3 b7 root...the B or 5th is left out
Thanks Joe. Yes, that makes sense, as the E is on the bottom and the top. It's a nicely ambiguous chord because it has elements of E minor, and also elements of D major (the D and the F#).
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel right on...the chord is in the key of D major as the 2 chord or G major as the relative minor 6 chord
Great lesson Peter - thank you.
Have subscribed 🙂
Simple twist of fate would be amazing...
Thank you. I’m a big fan of ‘Simple Twist of Fate’. It’s in Open E tuning. I’ve got another two early Dylan lessons coming out over the next couple of weeks, and am then going to move on to some non-Dylan stuff…. …but I will put ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ on the list 😊
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel Will look forward to them Peter
Check out Sawkill River, curious about your opinion on the picking pattern
Hi - I've had a couple of listens to the original. It's a grower. I noticed it has a bass pedal, as you would hear in some acoustic blues playing, and to my ear it mixes elements of bluegrass and blues in a very atmospheric manner. I wonder whether it was recorded on a small-bodied guitar (the bass is very quiet, and the middle and the top is prominent). It's probably not one I would try to teach, but it's very unique and well-played.
Hi, what strings are you using on your guitar? And, if it's not too much to ask, I would like to know your guitar model (even if I'm quite sure it will be out of my league). I'm want to buy an acoustic guitar - having played a classical one for years - and I'm trying to get an idea of the sonority of the different types of strings.
PS: Great tutorial (it was my first fingerpicking song years ago)
Hi. The strings are light gauge Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze. The guitar is a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find.
@PetersAcousticMusicChannel Thanks!
Peter, at 3:30 shouldn't the second chord of the intro be C over G not G over C? i.e. it's a C chord with G in the base?
Yes, that chord should be called C over G. The diagram is right except for the name, which should be ‘C/G’. Sorry about that - the name of the chord has got stuck in my head the wrong way around!
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel Thanks for clarifying - I had the same question!
Yesss, it's very good the way you play ! But ALSO I hear a good guitar sound ! *Bourgeois* I see. But, please, can you tell me the model of YOUR personal guitar. It's because there are many kinds of *Bourgeois* on sale.. but I'd like to know what *Bourgeois* exactly you are playing in this video. Thanks for all .. and especially for your kind attention. Hi PS: what strings too.
Thank you. Great question. It's a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find. The strings are light gauge Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze.
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannelThanks. Very kind of you.
Can you tell me about the guitar you are playing?
Hi. The guitar is a Bourgeois Vintage / HS Heirloom Series OM, with an aged tone Adirondack Spruce top and Indian Rosewood back and sides, made in 2021. It's especially good for this style of fingerpicking I find. BTW, the Mic I use for guitar lessons is a Blue Yeti USB podcasting mic (a condenser) - so it's a very good quality guitar with an affordable microphone.
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel thank you for the reply. I thought it was a Bourgeois and suspected an Adi aged top. I have been looking at replacing my old 00028. Now wondering if I shld look at OMs. Thanks again. Very nice playing. Inspired. :)
I bought it second hand a bit under a year ago. Interestingly, the middle seems to have opened up a lot in that year. It was a bit 'tight' for the first few months. I know torrified guitars are meant to sound 'mature' from the get-go, so perhaps the opening up of the sound was a result of mechanical 'loosening'. Anyway, that has been my experience.
Is it possible to get the tab from you? As a file I can download?
Hi Rory. Currently, I don't provide downloadable tabs. This is something that I may do in the future, if the channel grows. There is a good tab at the Dylan Chord website, though I don't think it is downloadable: dylanchords.com/02_freewheelin/girl_from_the_north_country
tab would be great
Hi. I don't provide tab at the moment (beyond what you see on the screen anyway). I may do this as the channel grows, but in the meantime, I can recommend the Dylan Chords website for Dylan-related tab: dylanchords.com/albums
The intro is hard
Yes, it's tricky. But worth persevering with I would say.
Great. Right technique. Play more, talk less 👍🏼👌🏼
Thank you.
you should start video with a few secs of you playing too inspire people to watch on - grab people by the goujons :)
😂
Thanks for this and will be learning or I should say relearning as I had played it slightly differently but you do it better.
I would say that your diagrams are pretty annoying to follow as you do tabs in one direction but chords at right angles. I'm sure most look and give up as it does your head in. Someone mentioned it in your early tuition vids but you haven't changed it although you said you would sort it out.
Thanks for the tuition which is great otherwise.
Thanks Phil. I understand the difficulty with the diagrams, and I did look at it. But I am following the convention for tabs and chord charts (direction of pitch for tabs - so with the highest pitch strings at the top; chord charts with the highest pitched strings in the right and the lowest pitched strings on the left). If I changed to align them with the guitar as you see it in the video then I feel that might confuse more people than it would help.
If you listen carefully you will hear Bob (or Bruce Langhorn more likely) play a Bm6 not a G chord - big difference
Hi Alan. Whereabouts in the song do you hear that Bm6?
It’s Bob. Listen to the Wittmark Demos. That’s definitely him and it’s nearly identical. There’s no way a second guitarist could sync up with his harmonica playing and broken bars on a song like “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” While “Girl from the North Country” is more straightforward and steady in terms of form, if Dylan can play “Don’t Think Twice” he can certainly play “Girl from the North Country.”
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel in key it’s actually a dm6 obviously as G is really Bb with the capo on but the opening chord is not a G ( really Bb) it’s a bm6 (which is really dm6).
Here’s the best most accurate tutorial I’ve seen on this song th-cam.com/video/9dBYmBM0yf8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ouh7DHlu4CKFAMCT
@@PetersAcousticMusicChannel he’s right it’s more accurately a bm6 when you play the “form of D chord”. They sound similar and are similar notes but the sound is a minor 6 not a D major (‘with the capo on these chords are dm6 and F major)
Not Bruce Langhorn, it’s Bob who's playing. He fingerpicks himself on all of his folk albums, this weird rumor that it isn’t him seems to pertain no matter what
Too wordy.