“Don’t play it wrong just cause you didn’t learn it right the first time.” Great words of wisdom for guitar players or basically anything . Great lesson B.J.. Oh and that’s a cool looking and unique capo! 🙃
Great looking capo! ❤️ And thank you, my man. That is literally like my mantra for students. I feel like too many people claim they don’t like to learn a song note-for-note, or the right way, because of creative license, or that they just want to do “their own interpretation.” Every once in a while, that may be true, but I’d say 95% of the time, it’s just because they didn’t want to put in the effort to learn it correctly.
@@RealWorldGuitar Im a stickler in trying to sound as close to the original as possible. In my opinion the listener/or audience should know the song in the first 30 seconds . If a minute in and you then realized “oh that’s the song “ yikes 😅
What it sounds to me at the end of the chorus is, you position your fingers for the D chord, but add the sus4, then during the last 2 measures of the chorus, you play the Sus4, then lift the middle and pinky, then press down again the middle finger to make it a D major again. Sounds good to my ears.
Thank you so much man! That was definitely the goal - not that everyone has to play it perfectly, or exactly like the album, but I feel like that should be the starting point, and then each person can make his/her own creative decisions from there. I'm really glad you dug it!
Hands down best tutorial on this song. Detailed but not laborious. Perfect. Thanks so much. A lot of bad tutorials floating out there on this one. Happy to finally land on this. PS: is it just me who's brain goes numb when people do the up up down stuff or the count to try to teach strum patterns...I can only ever get strum by feel. Lol
Thanks man! And I hear you on the rhythm thing - I think to truly internalize something, you definitely have to "feel it," but there's a lot of value in getting comfortable with the counting/understanding of rhythm too - they go hand in hand!
Great video. Before I saw your video, I had to figure out that slide to an open D (using the C shape) myself instead of that dumb hammer-on part that everyone plays wrong. There are even people giving lessons on youtube teaching it with the hammer-on method that sounds so wrong.
thanks - i didn't realize i was playing the intro wrong. i think the pre-chorus riff has the lowest note as an A (actual sounded pitch Bb) in the recording, though, instead of the D.
Agreed - and there are some tunes that you just can't recreate without the alternate tuning, but I feel like this is one you can get pretty darn close in standard!
The main riff sounds close but everything else just doesn't sound right in standard. The chorus for example, John does a whole walk-up thing that you just can't replicate in standard because you don't have the open strings at your disposal. Instead you just play boring regular D and Dsus chords there to compensate, it's just not the same though. Call me a stickler but you gotta play it in the original tuning or what's the point? Why play something 80% right when you can easily play it near 100% just by playing it in the right tuning? Don't be lazy.
Thanks for your insight, I really appreciate it! I'd love to see a video of you playing it so I can hear that walk-up more clearly too. If you've got one, feel free to share it here. Thanks!
“Don’t play it wrong just cause you didn’t learn it right the first time.” Great words of wisdom for guitar players or basically anything . Great lesson B.J..
Oh and that’s a cool looking and unique capo! 🙃
Great looking capo! ❤️
And thank you, my man. That is literally like my mantra for students. I feel like too many people claim they don’t like to learn a song note-for-note, or the right way, because of creative license, or that they just want to do “their own interpretation.”
Every once in a while, that may be true, but I’d say 95% of the time, it’s just because they didn’t want to put in the effort to learn it correctly.
@@RealWorldGuitar Im a stickler in trying to sound as close to the original as possible. In my opinion the listener/or audience should know the song in the first 30 seconds . If a minute in and you then realized “oh that’s the song “ yikes 😅
@@RenRen2577 - Haha, absolutely!
Thank you..sounds great in standard, saving me tuning time. Love it!
What it sounds to me at the end of the chorus is, you position your fingers for the D chord, but add the sus4, then during the last 2 measures of the chorus, you play the Sus4, then lift the middle and pinky, then press down again the middle finger to make it a D major again. Sounds good to my ears.
Best lesson on this tune. Love your attention to detail and getting it right.
Thank you so much man! That was definitely the goal - not that everyone has to play it perfectly, or exactly like the album, but I feel like that should be the starting point, and then each person can make his/her own creative decisions from there. I'm really glad you dug it!
Nice job! Very helpful, positive and well presented. No fluff to your lessons
Thank you very much man! I try to just get right down to it, so I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Super helpful! I needed to learn this for a cover band and there was no way I was tuning my guitar to the original!
Awesome - and I hear you on that!
Great job. Very informative!
Thanks James!
Hands down best tutorial on this song. Detailed but not laborious. Perfect. Thanks so much.
A lot of bad tutorials floating out there on this one. Happy to finally land on this.
PS: is it just me who's brain goes numb when people do the up up down stuff or the count to try to teach strum patterns...I can only ever get strum by feel. Lol
Thanks man! And I hear you on the rhythm thing - I think to truly internalize something, you definitely have to "feel it," but there's a lot of value in getting comfortable with the counting/understanding of rhythm too - they go hand in hand!
Thanks ❤, and thats true about learning it right thevfirstvtime through..the tab sure did help ..peace
Thanks!
Great video. Before I saw your video, I had to figure out that slide to an open D (using the C shape) myself instead of that dumb hammer-on part that everyone plays wrong. There are even people giving lessons on youtube teaching it with the hammer-on method that sounds so wrong.
Great vid!!!
Thank you very much - I definitely appreciate it!
Nice video BJ
Dig the time stamps too
Thanks Andy - I appreciate it!
(And I always like those on other videos, especially if I just want to track down a certain section.)
Well explained, thanks mate.
Thank YOU - I appreciate it!
I’m going to learn this version for gigs! Love this!
Awesome man - good luck with it! And let me know how it goes!
@@RealWorldGuitar I just started learning it today. Is it cool if I post a link of me playing it?
@@mattlefler9854 - absolutely!
Great lesson!
Thanks!
this was great.
Thanks Jim - very much appreciated! I hope you're doing well and I hope guitar is going well for you too!
thanks - i didn't realize i was playing the intro wrong. i think the pre-chorus riff has the lowest note as an A (actual sounded pitch Bb) in the recording, though, instead of the D.
Thank you! (And you're exactly right - good catch!)
Do you mean the last note before you strum the Cadd9? 7:02
love it
Thanks!
great tutorial ,I hope you make more
Thank you very much man - any songs you'd like to hear?
Great video! I love the sound of the alternate tuning but unless all you are playing is Goo Goo Doll songs it's a pain to have to retune.
Agreed - and there are some tunes that you just can't recreate without the alternate tuning, but I feel like this is one you can get pretty darn close in standard!
Dude! Nice job. I can alternate tune and played it just like the record, but what a pain!
Thank you man! I appreciate it - and I feel you 100% on the alternate tuning thing!
Thank you so much. I wanna learn this song for a special woman and your video will help me a lot 😊
I WAS playing it WRONG. You just set me free to SLIDE.
Hahaha - nice!
Do you have a version of you playing and singing this?
Thank you. This is very helpful.
Awesome - I'm glad!
Did you cover the Name by goo already ?
Lol I don’t mean to dunk but you didn’t take your own advice about the finger off at 3:50
Haha - good catch!
Finally someone plays it right.
Thank you!
dude you look like Kirk Cameron no offense..
Hahahaha - that’s awesome. No offense taken!
The main riff sounds close but everything else just doesn't sound right in standard. The chorus for example, John does a whole walk-up thing that you just can't replicate in standard because you don't have the open strings at your disposal. Instead you just play boring regular D and Dsus chords there to compensate, it's just not the same though. Call me a stickler but you gotta play it in the original tuning or what's the point? Why play something 80% right when you can easily play it near 100% just by playing it in the right tuning? Don't be lazy.
Thanks for your insight, I really appreciate it! I'd love to see a video of you playing it so I can hear that walk-up more clearly too. If you've got one, feel free to share it here. Thanks!
Way to nitpick things normal people listening to the cover band don’t care about… that also don’t alter the song to most listeners.
Thank you for the feedback man, I appreciate your thoughts!