mate - this is favourite song ever ....it reminds me of my teens with my big sister. I'm a old man now and only started playing guitar 5 years ago ...this lesson is golden and has allowed these old hands to play a very special song to me...can't thank you enough for helping me achieve this ...you're a star.
Thank you for sharing this, Doc. I was on the verge of selling my guitars due to lack of progress on my part, but this tutorial (along with your many others) has encouraged me to keep trying. Thank you.
Never give up dude,, I've got songs down that have taken years to learn,, but got there in the end,, Ian Anderson is a phenomenal acoustic guitarist,,, most tull songs will take loads of practice to get them fluid 👍
I want to share something with You dear Snoozedoctor and with the community: After two month of training I recognized that I'm now able to play "Wondering aloud" without staring to the tutorial, to find out, where I have to lay my fingers next. Ok, it's really not fluently, the tones are not always clear and my little finger refuses the G-expanded absolutley. My progress shows me that I can continue to improve and that nothing stands in the way of becoming a female Ian Anderson (except my pinky). So I decided yesterday to drive the long way to Stuttgart (a city in Germany near Großbottwar) to buy a new guitar, which will be my companion on my way. That was not easy. All guitars I tried made not much difference to my spanish Rodriguez. They had steel-strings instead of nylon-string because I asked for a western guitar, but my fingers felt more stiff and immovable than on my Rodriguez - I didn't unerdstand it - maby my fingers had hold the steering wheel to long. The Salesperson got more and more bored and in a mood of final desperation he went to a dark colored Guitar with an smaller corpus and a shorter neck. He gave it in my hands and I started with the "C" of "Wondering aloud". I was immidatly surprised because my fingers felt well and it sounds full and clear. So I went on to "A-minor and up to my crooked tone of "G-expanded" - but... it didn't toned crooked! It didn't toned as if someone is closing a trashcan. It sounds full, clear, clean and wonderful. The salesman and I looked astonished in each other eyes and said at the same time "That is it!". I tried some things more, confirmed my decision and took this wonderful little brown new friend home. It is a Martin 000CJR -10E StreetMaster. The small size with the short neck is exactly what I need and I love it's sound. I'm so happy!
My pinky is a wild child. It never wants to go where I want it to go, so I know what you mean. I just looked up the Martin 000CJR. Looks like a really nice instrument! I'd love to give one a try!
The longer I practice on the Martin 000CJR, the more wonderful it sounds to me. It sounds full and clear. The tones are very differentiated and every single string seems to sing. The fact that it seems that way to me may be due to the overtones, which can be heard much more clearly on the little Martin than on my other guitars. It's body vibrates in such a way that I can also hear it in my chest and stomach. It's almost like a therapeutic sound treatment. It was a real stroke of luck that I discovered it. Maybe that's how every good guitar should be and what I'm describing here bores a master like you. However, I also have to tell you that I retuned the Martin 000CJR to DADGAD to try "One Brown Mouse". That was a real Celtic hammer sound that completely blew me away!
I've been playing this song for 50 years, there have always been little bits that were not quite right but I long since gave up on trying to perfect them. Until now, now it is complete :) Thank you for a really good tutorial.
Thanks for this. I've been playing many of these Tull songs on my guitar for thirty years, but I never learned them with the technical precision that you illustrated here. It's cool to learn the exact picking technique!
When I was a teen I strummed the chords of these songs and thought I knew how to play them. It's only been in the last 10 years or so that I really sat down and listened intently to what was going on in them. The answer many times is, a lot!
My wife and I danced to this song at our wedding. I've been playing since I was 11 years old and have never been able to play this as accurately to the original recording until watching your lesson. Infinite thank you's for your work.
This is excellent. I'm a big fan of Tull and an even bigger fan of Ian Anderson. Thank you Doc for this great tutorial. Hoping for more of Ian's acoustic gems. Nursie and Slipstream come to mind as hopeful tutorials. Thanks for giving me a good reason to improve my guitar skills.
one of my favorite songs of all time, thank you for this great lesson! I find this song difficult but I will master it with time, congrats and lots of thanks from Brazil!
Dear SIR, i‘m very impessed. You are a very good teächer and Gitarist. Please more of this Stuff and Jethro Tull. Lovley Greatings from Köln- Germany. Excuse my wrong English. 🖖🏻👍🏼 Willi.
Coming back to your excelent tutorial again and again. It is very obvious that you and so many other have a love afair with the tull. Thank you so much!
As a Tull fan for over 40 years and veteran of 20+ concerts, these are the best tutorials I have found. You capture the essence of the acoustic music. Like to see much more. Could you do a "One White Duck" or even try a total acoustic "Aqualung." Will be a regular follower. Thanks, Wayne
I'd have given my huevos to play this, and other Tull acoustic pieces, when I was a young man. I am glad I didn't give them :) But here I am at 68 having a blast. Thanks so much for your work Mr. Snoozedoctor. I can go to the next world, a happy man.
Glad you're finding these helpful. I didn't learn these past the individual chords when I was younger, even though I enjoyed the songs. It's been fun in my retirement learning these as they were played.
Wow, what a great tutorial. I’ve been trying to learn this song for years, but haven’t been able to find an easy to understand video. This is it! You nailed it! Job very well done, much respect for accuracy and passion. 👍🏼
Thanks again! I think my tutorials drag for some people that just want to strum the song and move on. I'm here for the purists who want to replicate ii!
Fantastica! Ti ringrazio per avermi fatto apprezzare di nuovo questa canzone che fa parte della colonna sonora della mia gioventù. Grazie, grazie mille!
Great one Doc! Thanks for the indepth lesson. The only other place I've seen this as a lesson was years ago on VanDerBilly. Was a lesson by FiveThumbsFrank.
Thanks for a great lesson. I was searching youtube, with a critical eye, looking for a great tutorial on several JETHRO TULL songs, and I finally found them here. Faithful and accurate representation of the original and easy to understand. Subscribed and keen to learn more. PS: I have been wanting to learn to play this song for a long time *(since I first started listening to JT long before i took up the guitar). Finally getting there thanks to this tute.
Doc. Thanks. I've been listening to this since 1977. Started guitar in 1983. Never started considering playing Ian Anderson's acoustic stuff until I though I was good enough. I tackled Aqualung on the electric way before I started with songs like Thick as a Brick. I wanted to point out what a great help you are to point out the timing of his singing with key parts of this song. To me that is the tricky part. Thanks for putting in the time. You're a good teacher.
Really good dude,, don't worry about going to fast,, we can always go back,, personally I need to learn it in blocks then add together,, I can't learn complex songs in one sitting,,, 👍
Yes, learning in blocks is the way to go! When I'm learning a complex piece I go in 10 second increments and play the hell out of each one until it's automatic. Drives my wife crazy!
Hi Doc! Another perfectly analysed and instructed piece. I would really love to sit down and play all these songs with you. I guess I need to start recording some of my own versions on here. Thanks again! I see you're even doing One Brown Mouse - haha! One of my favorites - and another great example of IA's amazing picking.
Hello sir, I can't thank you enough. Excellent tutorial of this song that I longed wish to be playing and just now I'm at the technical level for it. Very important to pick the right songs for developing out playing and this one - besides being so beautiful and a true masterpiece of the band - has great phrases as you said yourself. Cheers from Brazil!
Thanks so much, this has been high on my list of songs that I really want to play for a long time and you have brought it within reach. I can't be the only person longing for a much longer note-by-note version, preferably with tab as well. Even if that was a premium paid option, I'd be up for that, absolutely. Please can you do it! (Please!) Thanks again.
@@snoozedoctor Funny you should reply today, I was just about to message again to say that with time, effort and guitar in hand, I finally followed the fingering of some of the runs that were unclear to me. Also some parts where I would have appreciated rhythm beats being called out I sussed out with your great other two playthrough videos. You've done an amazing job and I can now play one of my old fav' songs. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much. I'm not good at picking and I am learning just the chords but I might try a few small parts of the more detailed aspects of this beautiful song. I've had the Aqualung album since I was 17 in the 80 s and never imagined I would be able to strum the chords to this in my 50s. I m also learning the acoustic parts of Aqualung. I think the suggestion made for a solely acoustic lesson of Aqualung would be great if you could do this 😀 thanks so much for your very patient examples and clear explanations. Great lesson!
Great job! It will be great if you'll make another ones from Tull. I suggest: "Life is a long song"; "Only solitaire" 'Cause you have a really nice way to explain the movements... Specially that first riff on "G chord/ 5th string bass" at "Skating way"... Only You attempted for that thing... great job! Sorry for bad english...
Good lesson. I would like to suggest that, for those of us more advanced players, playing the song first at normal speed before going into the details would be helpful. We can earn by just watching and don't need the detailed explanation, though its certainly very well done and thorough. Cheers and thank you.
thats great thanks i knew ians wife before he married her she took me to a tull concert in london i was not into them then we also went to a few other concerts together. stranger still Ians father in law dated my mother for a short while when both their respective spouses had passed away. Small world really. This is probably my favorite Tull song although some of their rockier stuff is good. I preferred captain beefheart who was tulls support act for a while.
Wow, that's a great connection. Was this Shona or Jennie Franks? I think it's somewhat ironic that Tull's greatest hit, Aqualung was probably the only Tull song he didn't write all the lyrics to. I saw Captain Beefheart open for Tull in '72. The crowd wasn't much into them, and they had technical issues that night, but I enjoy them.
@@snoozedoctor Hi it was Shona we grew up in the same town not far from each other I dated her and her sister for a while they were very nice people. Yes i saw a lot of acts over the years as i lived most my life in london but never saw Beefheart. I had heard that tull fans booed him a lot of the time he supported tull. I think beefhearts backing bands were of the highest quality actually i think in some ways they were much more creative than Ians
I was born and raised in the South West of Germany, the wine country left of the River Rhine, where "Father Rhine bends his knee" as we say, easily to find on Google Maps. The unique "Terroir" where we grow our white Riesling and red Burgundy grapes since the Romans came for a brief visit, about 2,000 years ago. And we rather drink the wine ourselves before selling it to some "new money", who even ask for ice cubes during a wine tasting or buy wine just by the highest pice You may ask what does that has to do with guitar strings- A lot! It's pretty binary: For me there are no good or bad strings. There are strings i like and use (1) and I don't like and will not use (0). The binrary for wine is slightly different: There are wines I don't even ignore (-), wine I like (0) and wines I like more, the more I drink of them (1). Does that even makes sense? I wonder... P.S.: What guitar are you using in this tutorial? Looks D-45ish to me
@@KlausJWeyerhaeuser "Wine is the only liquid that when on the palate, forces one to think." Not the exact quote and I don't remember where I read it. I love wine. I love Germany. Was in the Stuttgart area in 2015 visiting the family of an exchange study we hosted for a school year. My mother's family immigrated from GroBbottwar (near Ludwigsburg) some generations ago. Lautenschlager surname. I'm eager to try those strings. I'm intrigued now. The guitar in this video is a 1990 Collings OM3. Wonderful instrument.
U should always play what youre teaching in full at the beginning of each video so we get a picture of what to expect. Big picture first then the details
Hi Matt here. XLNT tutorial as always!! Thank you so much for all the info you share and the time you put in to your lessons for us all. Is this the first part of wondering aloud. Will there be a tutorial" wondering aloud again" . Kind of like zero to the power of ten following one white duck? . Seems similar having two songs incorporated. I got my hands full with this for now. Hope you are having a great summer. Maybe I missed it looking on your channel. Thanks again
I just listened to Wondering aloud again the other day! I put it one the list for an upcoming tutorial. I'm kinda running low on pure acoustic numbers.
@@snoozedoctor I am thoroughly enjoying all the tutorials you have shared. Morning practice seems to work the best for me. I look forward to keep on learning I cant wait to share some songs with friends in Portland later this summer.
@@snoozedoctor Thanks so much. I feel i'm getting a handle on this lesson. I thought of an acoustic tune that I think their would be great interest in. "Bad eyed and Loveless" from To Old to Rock and roll album. Brings me back to my early high school years. I was lucky to see that tour. I have only seen two people play it on you tube. One was from about ten years ago. Thanks again! and again------
I struggle going from strumming to picking notes in that I land on the wrong string randomly. I try to go slowly and then speed up, but even when slow I miss. Do you have suggestions for how to approach this skill? Thoughts on technique errors that might need to be corrected? I cannot tell if, when you transition back to picking after strumming whether you are planting a finger (maybe pinky) or edge of your palm as a reference or if you stay floating. Many thanks for the excellent lesson! If you think a different song would be a better start, I'm all ears. My goal is to learn Anderson's style. My background is really fingerpicking and a more classical position. Thanks!
It’s not easy! Ian has effortless control of his right hand. Really amazing. I’ve done a technique video on playing arpeggios with a plectrum. It’s called “want to play like IA? Do this.” That may be of use. Cheers!
@@snoozedoctor wow that's a long time and how good you are. I play since the end of 1989 but had phases where i played not for a long time. So I'm miles away from your playing skills.🙂 Edit: Aqualung is probably the song I've heard the most. Not only for Tull. Such a fantastic song.🙂
Thanks! I play only Elixirs on all my guitars. Light gauge on my acoustics and 09s on my electrics. For recording solo finger style songs, they don't squeak. I just like the feel and they last 3 times longer than non coated strings.
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mate - this is favourite song ever ....it reminds me of my teens with my big sister. I'm a old man now and only started playing guitar 5 years ago ...this lesson is golden and has allowed these old hands to play a very special song to me...can't thank you enough for helping me achieve this ...you're a star.
Glad to be of some help! Cheers!
Me too bro. One of my favorites for sure. Have you heard this? th-cam.com/video/9H3ki1FhBlM/w-d-xo.html
@@snoozedoctor I never understood why guitar teachers would use a guitar without fret markers.
Fret markers are plenty useless when you have a capo on. 🙂 @@realitycheck4960
Wonderful tutorial of this great song I've listening to for 50 years . thank you
Thanks so much! Cheers!
Excellent tutorial. Always knew the chords.. just needed tidying up with the little nua6. Very good job doc. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing this, Doc. I was on the verge of selling my guitars due to lack of progress on my part, but this tutorial (along with your many others) has encouraged me to keep trying. Thank you.
Never give up dude,, I've got songs down that have taken years to learn,, but got there in the end,, Ian Anderson is a phenomenal acoustic guitarist,,, most tull songs will take loads of practice to get them fluid 👍
Never give up mate , great tutorial from the Doc.
Keep at it man! Glad to be of some inspiration! Cheers!
I want to share something with You dear Snoozedoctor and with the community:
After two month of training I recognized that I'm now able to play "Wondering aloud" without staring to the tutorial, to find out, where I have to lay my fingers next. Ok, it's really not fluently, the tones are not always clear and my little finger refuses the G-expanded absolutley. My progress shows me that I can continue to improve and that nothing stands in the way of becoming a female Ian Anderson (except my pinky).
So I decided yesterday to drive the long way to Stuttgart (a city in Germany near Großbottwar) to buy a new guitar, which will be my companion on my way. That was not easy. All guitars I tried made not much difference to my spanish Rodriguez. They had steel-strings instead of nylon-string because I asked for a western guitar, but my fingers felt more stiff and immovable than on my Rodriguez - I didn't unerdstand it - maby my fingers had hold the steering wheel to long.
The Salesperson got more and more bored and in a mood of final desperation he went to a dark colored Guitar with an smaller corpus and a shorter neck. He gave it in my hands and I started with the "C" of "Wondering aloud". I was immidatly surprised because my fingers felt well and it sounds full and clear. So I went on to "A-minor and up to my crooked tone of "G-expanded" - but... it didn't toned crooked! It didn't toned as if someone is closing a trashcan. It sounds full, clear, clean and wonderful.
The salesman and I looked astonished in each other eyes and said at the same time "That is it!". I tried some things more, confirmed my decision and took this wonderful little brown new friend home. It is a Martin 000CJR -10E StreetMaster. The small size with the short neck is exactly what I need and I love it's sound. I'm so happy!
My pinky is a wild child. It never wants to go where I want it to go, so I know what you mean. I just looked up the Martin 000CJR. Looks like a really nice instrument! I'd love to give one a try!
The longer I practice on the Martin 000CJR, the more wonderful it sounds to me. It sounds full and clear. The tones are very differentiated and every single string seems to sing. The fact that it seems that way to me may be due to the overtones, which can be heard much more clearly on the little Martin than on my other guitars. It's body vibrates in such a way that I can also hear it in my chest and stomach. It's almost like a therapeutic sound treatment. It was a real stroke of luck that I discovered it.
Maybe that's how every good guitar should be and what I'm describing here bores a master like you. However, I also have to tell you that I retuned the Martin 000CJR to DADGAD to try "One Brown Mouse". That was a real Celtic hammer sound that completely blew me away!
I've been playing this song for 50 years, there have always been little bits that were not quite right but I long since gave up on trying to perfect them.
Until now, now it is complete :)
Thank you for a really good tutorial.
I'm so glad you found it useful! There is so much nuance in Ian's playing.
Beautiful song. I already played it on the guitar although I was missing some of the tricky parts you mentioned. Thank you for the lesson!
Those little quirks can drive you mad but they make his guitar sound.
What a fabulous tutorial ! 25 years ago it took me a whole month to be able to play it .I loved that song so much that i never gave up.
Glad you like it! Fun song to play.
Thanks so much! This is an excellent lesson!! Feel grateful for this!!
I hope it helps. Thank you!
Thanks for this. I've been playing many of these Tull songs on my guitar for thirty years, but I never learned them with the technical precision that you illustrated here. It's cool to learn the exact picking technique!
When I was a teen I strummed the chords of these songs and thought I knew how to play them. It's only been in the last 10 years or so that I really sat down and listened intently to what was going on in them. The answer many times is, a lot!
Beautiful guitar playing & sound, excellent tutorial, thank you. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🙌🏼 🤙🏽 🖖🏽 ✌🏽 🙏🏽
Many thanks!!
My wife and I danced to this song at our wedding. I've been playing since I was 11 years old and have never been able to play this as accurately to the original recording until watching your lesson. Infinite thank you's for your work.
I'm glad it helped!
This is excellent. I'm a big fan of Tull and an even bigger fan of Ian Anderson. Thank you Doc for this great tutorial. Hoping for more of Ian's acoustic gems. Nursie and Slipstream come to mind as hopeful tutorials. Thanks for giving me a good reason to improve my guitar skills.
Thanks for listening and commenting! More tutorials to come.
you are a wonderful teacher my dear snooze! this song is a masterpiece
Thanks so much!
one of my favorite songs of all time, thank you for this great lesson! I find this song difficult but I will master it with time, congrats and lots of thanks from Brazil!
You're very welcome!
I immensely appreciate this lesson - so well explained!
Glad it was helpful! Cheers!
Well done. Easy to follow and accurate. Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers.
Excellent. Thank you master
Dear SIR, i‘m very impessed.
You are a very good teächer and Gitarist.
Please more of this Stuff and Jethro Tull.
Lovley Greatings from Köln- Germany.
Excuse my wrong English. 🖖🏻👍🏼 Willi.
Danke. Meine Familie kommt aus Stuttgart.
Excellent !
I will definitely.get this one right with your tutorials .
Enjoy! Thanks for listening and commenting!
Wow..you nailed it my friend! 👍
Thanks!
Perfect
Coming back to your excelent tutorial again and again. It is very obvious that you and so many other have a love afair with the tull.
Thank you so much!
Thank you! Cheers!
Bonjour, merci pour cette étude, c'était le bon temps !... Un chef-d'oeuvre du groupe. Merci beaucoup pour la leçon
thanks! glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing song.
Thank you for your tutorial.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Terrific lesson, thank you very much!!
Thanks for listening!
Excellent tuto. I love that song for so long. I can play it now thanks to you
Glad it helped!!
As a Tull fan for over 40 years and veteran of 20+ concerts, these are the best tutorials I have found. You capture the essence of the acoustic music. Like to see much more. Could you do a "One White Duck" or even try a total acoustic "Aqualung." Will be a regular follower. Thanks, Wayne
A total acoustic Aqualung sounds intriguing! Let me think that one through!
I'd have given my huevos to play this, and other Tull acoustic pieces, when I was a young man. I am glad I didn't give them :) But here I am at 68 having a blast. Thanks so much for your work Mr. Snoozedoctor. I can go to the next world, a happy man.
Glad you're finding these helpful. I didn't learn these past the individual chords when I was younger, even though I enjoyed the songs. It's been fun in my retirement learning these as they were played.
Ian's beautiful song. Thank you very much for your effort and your teaching.
You're welcome!
Great lesson! Can’t wait to get out of work and try this.
Have fun!
Awesome man. Excellent. Beautiful song. And now I can play it. Will introduce to my boomer band. Thanks
Glad you found it helpful!
great tutorial! Really helps a lot. I appreciate what you are doing! Thanks a lot!
Glad to do it!
You did a fantastic job. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
Well-done, Sir!! New subscriber.
Thanks for listening and commenting!
One of the best song lessons I have seen on TH-cam ...thank you so much!
glad you enjoy it!
This is so helpful- thanks for the beautiful instruction!
Thanks! I’m glad you find it helpful!
Wow, what a great tutorial. I’ve been trying to learn this song for years, but haven’t been able to find an easy to understand video. This is it! You nailed it! Job very well done, much respect for accuracy and passion. 👍🏼
Thanks! I'm a bit obsessive over these things but it seems I'm not the only one. Cheers!
Great, you nailed it. Learned a lot from you. Greetings from Colombia.
Glad it helped! Cheers!!
Excellent lesson sir perfect for a beginner like me thank you.
You're very welcome!
Another excellent TT . I just love the way you present it , and it's so entertaining.
Thanks again! I think my tutorials drag for some people that just want to strum the song and move on. I'm here for the purists who want to replicate ii!
Fantastica! Ti ringrazio per avermi fatto apprezzare di nuovo questa canzone che fa parte della colonna sonora della mia gioventù. Grazie, grazie mille!
Prego! Io amo l'Italia. Sono stato 4 volte e voglio tornare il prima possibile!
@@snoozedoctor We are waiting for you! Have a nice day.
Found "One White Duck" on another search engine. Great tutorial thanks. Hope to see acoustic "Aqualung" soon. Keep up the great work.
Glad you found the tutorials. I love to share these gems!
Thanks. Nice singing voice
Thanks so much!
Great tutorial. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thank you - your Video has been most helpful 😊
Glad it was helpful!
That Collings “sings” to me! Nice tutorial. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Great one Doc! Thanks for the indepth lesson. The only other place I've seen this as a lesson was years ago on VanDerBilly. Was a lesson by FiveThumbsFrank.
Wonderful little song. These things are always harder than they sound.
Congratulations for the lesson! This really help me a play this beautiful song! Thanks man! Hello form Brazil 🇧🇷!
My pleasure! Greetings!
Fantastic captain !!!
thanks so much!
Perfect tutorial. I’ll be surprised if anyone at my high school recognizes it, but hopefully they can appreciate the music
Glad you like it!
Thank you so much! It was perfect
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Thank you!
No problem!
Thank you very much. From. Brazil. Live Jethro. Pace is perfect for me!
Obrigado!
A brilliant tutorial, very clearly explained. Thank you! Love the old acoustic breakdowns. Would love to see Up To Me get the same treatment
That's a great tune! One that I haven't learned yet but was thinking about.
Nice and clear, thanks 🎼
Glad it was helpful!
This is a really, really super lesson!! Helping me so much. Thanks.
Great! Glad it is helping! That is my goal.
Thanks for a great lesson. I was searching youtube, with a critical eye, looking for a great tutorial on several JETHRO TULL songs, and I finally found them here. Faithful and accurate representation of the original and easy to understand.
Subscribed and keen to learn more.
PS: I have been wanting to learn to play this song for a long time *(since I first started listening to JT long before i took up the guitar). Finally getting there thanks to this tute.
I'm glad you stopped by! Cheers!
love this tutorial! you're my hero!
thanks so much!
Perfect! Thank you sir.
You're welcome!
Doc. Thanks. I've been listening to this since 1977. Started guitar in 1983. Never started considering playing Ian Anderson's acoustic stuff until I though I was good enough. I tackled Aqualung on the electric way before I started with songs like Thick as a Brick. I wanted to point out what a great help you are to point out the timing of his singing with key parts of this song. To me that is the tricky part. Thanks for putting in the time. You're a good teacher.
Glad you're finding these helpful!
Amazing. Thank you very much for teach us to play Jethro music
My pleasure! Cheers!
Really good dude,, don't worry about going to fast,, we can always go back,, personally I need to learn it in blocks then add together,, I can't learn complex songs in one sitting,,, 👍
Yes, learning in blocks is the way to go! When I'm learning a complex piece I go in 10 second increments and play the hell out of each one until it's automatic. Drives my wife crazy!
Thank you Doc!
My pleasure!
Hi Doc! Another perfectly analysed and instructed piece. I would really love to sit down and play all these songs with you. I guess I need to start recording some of my own versions on here. Thanks again! I see you're even doing One Brown Mouse - haha! One of my favorites - and another great example of IA's amazing picking.
Sounds great! Please do!
Excelente tutorial, muchas gracias!!
De nada!
Hello sir, I can't thank you enough.
Excellent tutorial of this song that I longed wish to be playing and just now I'm at the technical level for it.
Very important to pick the right songs for developing out playing and this one - besides being so beautiful and a true masterpiece of the band - has great phrases as you said yourself.
Cheers from Brazil!
Cheers to you! Glad this helps.
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you sir, so kind!
You are welcome!
nice singing too. bravo
thanks!
Awesome. Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much. As the others mentioned, itś a Great Tutorial
Thanks for listening and taking time to comment!
Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
You can play, you can sing and you can teach! Wow!
Thanks for the kind comment! Cheers to you!
Great to see you playing Jethro Tull again. Great tutorial on this classic song.
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Thanks so much, this has been high on my list of songs that I really want to play for a long time and you have brought it within reach. I can't be the only person longing for a much longer note-by-note version, preferably with tab as well. Even if that was a premium paid option, I'd be up for that, absolutely. Please can you do it! (Please!) Thanks again.
I'm not very good at writing out tab. Maybe I can do a more detailed version in the future. Thanks for listening and commenting!
@@snoozedoctor Funny you should reply today, I was just about to message again to say that with time, effort and guitar in hand, I finally followed the fingering of some of the runs that were unclear to me. Also some parts where I would have appreciated rhythm beats being called out I sussed out with your great other two playthrough videos. You've done an amazing job and I can now play one of my old fav' songs. Thanks so much!
@@snoozedoctor It would be awesome! 👏
Thank you so much. I'm not good at picking and I am learning just the chords but I might try a few small parts of the more detailed aspects of this beautiful song. I've had the Aqualung album since I was 17 in the 80 s and never imagined I would be able to strum the chords to this in my 50s. I m also learning the acoustic parts of Aqualung. I think the suggestion made for a solely acoustic lesson of Aqualung would be great if you could do this 😀 thanks so much for your very patient examples and clear explanations. Great lesson!
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying the content. More Aqualung tutorials in the works! Stay tuned.
Love it .... any ideas on how to do "Wondering Again'?
I'll take a listen. I haven't listened to that one in a long time. I'm looking for something new so that might be next.
really good lesson. wonder if you.ll get round cto doing Bad eyed and loveless. hint hint
I'm not familiar with that one. I'll check it out!
Thank you so much, great tutorial - thumb up and subscribed :-)
thanks so much!
Great job! It will be great if you'll make another ones from Tull. I suggest: "Life is a long song"; "Only solitaire" 'Cause you have a really nice way to explain the movements... Specially that first riff on "G chord/ 5th string bass" at "Skating way"... Only You attempted for that thing... great job! Sorry for bad english...
Thanks! I think a "Life is a Long Song" tutorial will be forth-coming.
Exelent lesson of the best song of Jethro tull.
Glad you like it! Cheers!
very, very cool
Thanks!
Thank you sir
You're welcome. Cheers!
Good lesson. I would like to suggest that, for those of us more advanced players, playing the song first at normal speed before going into the details would be helpful. We can earn by just watching and don't need the detailed explanation, though its certainly very well done and thorough. Cheers and thank you.
Great suggestion! Thanks and cheers!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Actually “Stand Up” from 1969 featured a beautiful acoustic piece entitled “Reasons for Waiting”
I covered that one! Check my channel for that.
Could you do a version of Wondering Aloud Again as it’s so beautiful? please..
I did do a slowed down play-a-long of it.
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Thanks, do we need a tutorial? Cheeky to ask I know…
Obrigado! Muito gentil.
You're welcome! Cheers!
A fantastic song from Tull's greatest album.
I wore this album out in high school!
@@snoozedoctorMe too.
Thx ❤
you're welcome! Cheers.
thats great thanks i knew ians wife before he married her she took me to a tull concert in london i was not into them then we also went to a few other concerts together. stranger still Ians father in law dated my mother for a short while when both their respective spouses had passed away. Small world really. This is probably my favorite Tull song although some of their rockier stuff is good. I preferred captain beefheart who was tulls support act for a while.
Wow, that's a great connection. Was this Shona or Jennie Franks? I think it's somewhat ironic that Tull's greatest hit, Aqualung was probably the only Tull song he didn't write all the lyrics to. I saw Captain Beefheart open for Tull in '72. The crowd wasn't much into them, and they had technical issues that night, but I enjoy them.
@@snoozedoctor Hi it was Shona we grew up in the same town not far from each other I dated her and her sister for a while they were very nice people. Yes i saw a lot of acts over the years as i lived most my life in london but never saw Beefheart. I had heard that tull fans booed him a lot of the time he supported tull. I think beefhearts backing bands were of the highest quality actually i think in some ways they were much more creative than Ians
Great work! Thanks for sharing. What strings do you use?
Thanks. I use Elixir nano web on all my guitars, acoustic and electric. They don't squeak! and they last forever.
@@snoozedoctor old school! I use PLECTRUM AC110 by Thomastik-Infeld of Vienna / Austria
@@KlausJWeyerhaeuser Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely try some!
I was born and raised in the South West of Germany, the wine country left of the River Rhine, where "Father Rhine bends his knee" as we say, easily to find on Google Maps.
The unique "Terroir" where we grow our white Riesling and red Burgundy grapes since the Romans came for a brief visit, about 2,000 years ago. And we rather drink the wine ourselves before selling it to some "new money", who even ask for ice cubes during a wine tasting or buy wine just by the highest pice
You may ask what does that has to do with guitar strings- A lot! It's pretty binary: For me there are no good or bad strings. There are strings i like and use (1) and I don't like and will not use (0). The binrary for wine is slightly different: There are wines I don't even ignore (-), wine I like (0) and wines I like more, the more I drink of them (1).
Does that even makes sense? I wonder...
P.S.: What guitar are you using in this tutorial? Looks D-45ish to me
@@KlausJWeyerhaeuser "Wine is the only liquid that when on the palate, forces one to think." Not the exact quote and I don't remember where I read it. I love wine. I love Germany. Was in the Stuttgart area in 2015 visiting the family of an exchange study we hosted for a school year. My mother's family immigrated from GroBbottwar (near Ludwigsburg) some generations ago. Lautenschlager surname.
I'm eager to try those strings. I'm intrigued now. The guitar in this video is a 1990 Collings OM3. Wonderful instrument.
Many thanks for doing this. Any chance of "One White Duck"? Asking for a friend :)
One White Duck coming up. I'm doing all the ones I know first. But I'm not doing that part II. That one is murderous. But I'll do the first section.
@@snoozedoctor First section would be great!
U should always play what youre teaching in full at the beginning of each video so we get a picture of what to expect. Big picture first then the details
Hi Matt here. XLNT tutorial as always!! Thank you so much for all the info you share and the time you put in to your lessons for us all. Is this the first part of wondering aloud. Will there be a tutorial" wondering aloud again" . Kind of like zero to the power of ten following one white duck? . Seems similar having two songs incorporated. I got my hands full with this for now. Hope you are having a great summer. Maybe I missed it looking on your channel. Thanks again
I just listened to Wondering aloud again the other day! I put it one the list for an upcoming tutorial. I'm kinda running low on pure acoustic numbers.
@@snoozedoctor I am thoroughly enjoying all the tutorials you have shared. Morning practice seems to work the best for me. I look forward to keep on learning I cant wait to share some songs with friends in Portland later this summer.
@@snoozedoctor Thanks so much. I feel i'm getting a handle on this lesson. I thought of an acoustic tune that I think their would be great interest in. "Bad eyed and Loveless" from To Old to Rock and roll album. Brings me back to my early high school years. I was lucky to see that tour. I have only seen two people play it on you tube. One was from about ten years ago. Thanks again! and again------
I struggle going from strumming to picking notes in that I land on the wrong string randomly. I try to go slowly and then speed up, but even when slow I miss. Do you have suggestions for how to approach this skill? Thoughts on technique errors that might need to be corrected? I cannot tell if, when you transition back to picking after strumming whether you are planting a finger (maybe pinky) or edge of your palm as a reference or if you stay floating. Many thanks for the excellent lesson! If you think a different song would be a better start, I'm all ears. My goal is to learn Anderson's style. My background is really fingerpicking and a more classical position. Thanks!
It’s not easy! Ian has effortless control of his right hand. Really amazing. I’ve done a technique video on playing arpeggios with a plectrum. It’s called “want to play like IA? Do this.” That may be of use. Cheers!
@@snoozedoctor Thanks! I'll have a look.
Seria um grande desperdício viver essa vida sem conhecer o Jethro Tull com essa música maravilhosa ❤
Concordo! Obrigado!
Aqualung was released in 1971. I know it so well because I was born that year.😉🎸
that it was. I was 15 years old. I started playing guitar the next year. Aqualung was one of the first songs I learned on electric guitar!
@@snoozedoctor wow that's a long time and how good you are. I play since the end of 1989 but had phases where i played not for a long time. So I'm miles away from your playing skills.🙂
Edit: Aqualung is probably the song I've heard the most. Not only for Tull. Such a fantastic song.🙂
Love all your videos! What strings do you typically use?
Thanks! I play only Elixirs on all my guitars. Light gauge on my acoustics and 09s on my electrics. For recording solo finger style songs, they don't squeak. I just like the feel and they last 3 times longer than non coated strings.
My faves as well. Thank you!