Played this in the 1970’s with my friend Tom (Bambi). One of the best guitarists and singers I have yet to met and found a 45 year old reel to reel..sadly, this song isn’t on the tape. Thanks for bringing this back
Thanks a lot for making this tutorial! I'm learning this to play for my mother tomorrow, since it's mothers day, and this is one of her favourite songs.
@@SnippetGuitar besides "Ode to Joy", this song I dedicate myself to learning. My dad has a harsh way with words, tho his heart is big, and he's very loving toward his wife. My point was to play for them, since she could no longer speak due to ALS. I learned "Claire de Lune", her favorite piano song her Uncle used to play when she was a younger girl. I thank God He took her, because the ALS thing was panic attacks, scared for your life, not able to breathe, talk, eat, walk. it's an actual hell on earth. I'm grieving still bc 2 hours after we visited, she passed away, right after moving to the west side of Washington State, since my father couldn't handle carrying her back & forth to the toilet any longer. I told her "I don't want to put words in your mouth, and I don't want you to go, but if you're ready, lady, I got your back until the very end, and we will see each other on the other side."... and after I left, she passed away. Maybe it was denial, but my dad thought she had a year left... but anyone who could see, knew better. Every message she sent, every time I called, they said she was doing alright, and because of COVID, I couldn't risk driving out to visit. Thank you. I'm sorry for getting emotional on you, but this song describes my father, to my mother. "Every time I try to tell you, the words just come out wrong, so I have to tell you I love you, in a song." It's more than beautiful. thank you for giving me this opportunity, even if it's too late.
This is AMAZING!! Thank you so so much. Croce’s music sounds so simple yet there are so many complexities in Jim’s and Maury’s guitar riffs that make their music what it is. I would be so grateful if you ever found the time to learn and teach a few of his other songs: Box #10, One Less Set Of Footsteps, Walking Back To Georgia, Tomorrow’s Gonna Be A Brighter Day, and/or Learned the Hard Way Every Time. There really aren’t any good lessons on these that I’ve found. Thank you again!
I really love this style tutorial! You pick everything apart so thoroughly and that is SO nice. And on top of that you put all the parts together in a separate video as a cover, which is seriously so nice because we can here what we are learning. It’s obvious that you’ve put a lot of work into your videos and it really shows. Subscribed with the bell on. Keep making videos please! P.s. please do more Jim Croce! Preferably "I got a Name" Thank you! :)
Thanks for your comment Ben - Got more Croce coming up in the next couple of months. Operator and Lover's Cross already recorded, just need to edit the videos now. Not got around to recording I Got a Name yet but I'll add to the list of future lessons :)
Thank you and congratulations on simplifying a great song. Your teaching style is well done and effective for me. Thanks for both guitar parts. I look forward to checking out your site.
A superb lesson and tutorial- thank you very much. After far too long away from my guitar and music I’m just getting my fingers back, this has been an inspiration. I’ll look for more of your videos :D.
Learning this on piano - I'm very happy for the included notation above the tablature. If I was to make a suggestion, since there's only two distinct progressions with that little variation in the verse, your in-detail explanation after the first playthrough should focus on playing through those sections at half tempo instead of the pause/explanation/pause/explanation after each bar. It's an astonishingly in-depth tutorial, but I think that someone new to guitar might get confused by the wording used to describe each finger movement. It might be better to show than tell in this situation.
I've since refined the explanation process in later videos to make it less wordy and also less cutting back to previous bars. In this first video I was new and was trying to be excessively detailed :) Thanks for your comment!
Seems liken you have put an open string where it should not be an open string sometimes. Like the E chord for example. Sounds horrible when I leave that last g-string open and much better if I put the pinky on the g string at 7th fret. Otherwise a really great tutorial! Much appreciated! :)
Good point Jack, and I agree. In my most recent videos I've already started writing any M7 chord as a maj7, so this should be less confusing from now on.
Great tutorial indeed. However, I find the open G string in several parts very strange (sounding) since this note is not in the key of A major. I doubt it's in the original (although that is hard to hear). I think the final eighth note is sometimes muffled or, when it's possible, it's the note that's in the chord (e.g. B in B minor on the third string).
I was playing a Walden G3030CEQ on this video. It does have a Fishman Prefix Pro preamp, but I wasn't using it here. This was one of my really early videos where I was recording the individual notes and then splicing them together on six separate tracks on Audacity. Took ages - so glad I changed my method!
It's a Walden 3030GEQ Supernatura, but the guitar doesn't really sound like that. In my early days of recording like in this video I recorded each note separately beforehand and then spliced them together afterwards. Took ages and ended up sounding like this. I quite liked the sound originally but prefer recording the actual guitar as I play the whole song now.
Thanks Kim, glad you enjoyed it. Current website is www.snippetguitar.com although it's in its very early stages. There is sheet music on there I made as accurately as I possibly could for the lessons.
I spent hours listening to the song at slow speeds when transcribing it for this tutorial and am almost certain I got all variations, but are there any specific bars and notes that you noticed were incorrect? This is on my list of videos I'd like to remake in the near future, so it would be very helpful to know if there are any parts I need to update.
@@SnippetGuitar Most notably is both b minor chords on Jim's guitar part during the solo. In bar 43 he mirrors the guitar solo melody on counts 3 & 4. and in bar 47 a does a similar variation of what was played in 43. But I'm struggling to find the picking pattern he used.
@@CagedGod After a repeat listen, there are quite a few additions I need to make for the updated tutorial. The part where Jim is playing over the solo is difficult to make out as even when panned left and slowed down to bring out Jim's part, the notes of the solo still come through clearly and it's tricky to make out what is being played. You're right though - it seems that Jim mirrors parts of the guitar solo on the bars you mentioned. Still working on getting the updated tab as accurate as I can, but will post a link here when it's done.
@@CagedGod Updated tab for Croce's part: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ug9kuAMKBFN1f1MSKfkJsU41ifbEg5g2/view?usp=sharing Not final by any means, but definitely an improvement on my original tab. Check it out and if you notice any other issues please let me know.
This is played as an open G natural note to help with the transition to the C#m chord. This happens at the end of some measures in the song when changing to the next chord as it's not always possible to keep holding the fretted note and changing from or to a barre chord. I slowed down and carefully checked Croce's version of the song and he does this too, so the way he plays it is represented correctly in the tab.
What is left unresolved here is that most of us are going to sing this song while we fingerpick a single guitar, but you have 3 guitars between this lesson and the TAB. Which guitar part, 1, 2 or 3 will stand alone to supoort the vocal? Please advise.
Key of A, not tuned to A. Normal guitar tuning of (from the thickest to thinnest string) EADGBE. Key of A means that a song will usually have the chords A major, B minor, C#minor, D major, E major, F#minor, although there are a few extra chords in this song such as the D# half diminished.
@@nodnarb3772 Ah, sorry. It's the first time I've used time stamps in the description so a few of the video timings are off. Timing was out by a second on the link here so I adjusted it.
@@SnippetGuitar Oh, no problem. I didn't see those anyways😅. Still an impressive tutorial. My teacher and I are learning it. I have one more week to learn😬
It's to do with how I used to record the guitar. The notes were all recorded individually and then spliced together in Audacity. An extremely time-consuming way of doing it (many, many weeks) that got the timing perfect, but gave it an unnatural midi sound. In later videos I no longer use this method and record the video and sound in one go. Less time consuming and sounds better!
No - I tried this but both parts are pretty technical and couldn't make it work combining them. I preferred to try and keep as accurately as possible to the parts that were played individually by Jim and Maury. I believe LickNRiff has a tutorial for this song which combines both parts however.
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That has got to be one of the cleanest sounding performances I’ve ever heard. Absolutely flawless.
Agreed! (That kind of playing sells a ton of acoustics.)
This is the best Jim Croce tutorial by far 👍👏🙏
Played this in the 1970’s with my friend Tom (Bambi). One of the best guitarists and singers I have yet to met and found a 45 year old reel to reel..sadly, this song isn’t on the tape. Thanks for bringing this back
You're very welcome. It was a pleasure to learn and play this song.
The detail you put into your lessons is incredible! Don't think I've ever seen a more helpful guitar lesson, truly.
Thanks Austin, appreciate your comment
the MOST comprehensive learning of this song I have ever seen HEARD, GREAT
Thanks a lot for making this tutorial! I'm learning this to play for my mother tomorrow, since it's mothers day, and this is one of her favourite songs.
How did it go over? Were you able to play it through without messing up?
You're welcome, Spoopy. Hope the performance went well
sweet bro
This is perhaps the greatest tutorial of this song yet!!! Thank you!!
You really view every detail how to direct and focus with illustration timely. 😊
Great tutorial. Extra clear. No guessing. Everything can be seen and understood. Well done.
Excellent. The explanation with the video halt at the right spot make this a clear understanding to the fullest
Just ran across your channel and Jim Croce made me want to learn fingerstyle guitar. Keep doing what you're doing... Excellent.
Will do Brandon, thanks for your comment.
you're an amazing teacher. i hope more people will learn to play, esp. this incredible song
Thank you :)
@@SnippetGuitar besides "Ode to Joy", this song I dedicate myself to learning. My dad has a harsh way with words, tho his heart is big, and he's very loving toward his wife. My point was to play for them, since she could no longer speak due to ALS. I learned "Claire de Lune", her favorite piano song her Uncle used to play when she was a younger girl. I thank God He took her, because the ALS thing was panic attacks, scared for your life, not able to breathe, talk, eat, walk. it's an actual hell on earth. I'm grieving still bc 2 hours after we visited, she passed away, right after moving to the west side of Washington State, since my father couldn't handle carrying her back & forth to the toilet any longer. I told her "I don't want to put words in your mouth, and I don't want you to go, but if you're ready, lady, I got your back until the very end, and we will see each other on the other side."... and after I left, she passed away. Maybe it was denial, but my dad thought she had a year left... but anyone who could see, knew better. Every message she sent, every time I called, they said she was doing alright, and because of COVID, I couldn't risk driving out to visit. Thank you. I'm sorry for getting emotional on you, but this song describes my father, to my mother. "Every time I try to tell you, the words just come out wrong, so I have to tell you I love you, in a song." It's more than beautiful. thank you for giving me this opportunity, even if it's too late.
You're welcome, and thank you for your heartfelt comment. It really is a beautiful song.
@@SnippetGuitar Stay healthy. i hope you decide to grow your channel.. What a treat.
He plays it without any feeling at all. Machine like.
This is AMAZING!! Thank you so so much. Croce’s music sounds so simple yet there are so many complexities in Jim’s and Maury’s guitar riffs that make their music what it is. I would be so grateful if you ever found the time to learn and teach a few of his other songs: Box #10, One Less Set Of Footsteps, Walking Back To Georgia, Tomorrow’s Gonna Be A Brighter Day, and/or Learned the Hard Way Every Time. There really aren’t any good lessons on these that I’ve found. Thank you again!
Thanks Ryan, glad you enjoyed it. Lover's Cross and Operator coming up soon. I'll add your other suggestions to the list
You are an awesome teacher,your playing and clarity is unbelievable.This is a complete tutorial.Thank you can't wait to get fingers on my guitar!!!!
You're very welcome :)
I really love this style tutorial! You pick everything apart so thoroughly and that is SO nice. And on top of that you put all the parts together in a separate video as a cover, which is seriously so nice because we can here what we are learning. It’s obvious that you’ve put a lot of work into your videos and it really shows. Subscribed with the bell on. Keep making videos please!
P.s. please do more Jim Croce! Preferably "I got a Name"
Thank you! :)
Thanks for your comment Ben - Got more Croce coming up in the next couple of months. Operator and Lover's Cross already recorded, just need to edit the videos now. Not got around to recording I Got a Name yet but I'll add to the list of future lessons :)
@@SnippetGuitar I'm loving your work, sir! Will you also do both guitar parts for Time in a Bottle in the near future?
The best guitar lesson in TH-cam and the best arrangement in your tab. Thank you so much.
I think so too!!!,l agree with you!
Thanks both. You're very welcome
Very beautifully done, very clear! I ll try to learn this song! Thanks for sharing! 👍😊
You're very welcome - thanks for watching :)
You are such a dedicated and professional gentleman performer. This a perfect tutorial for this song. A bit fast but beautifully explained.
Thank you very much for watching :) I did go a bit fast in some of these earlier videos.
Thank you for the great detailed instruction of Croce's best song.
You're very welcome :)
The best detailed tutorial i ever seen.
Thank you very much :)
Best tutoria ever
Thank you and congratulations on simplifying a great song. Your teaching style is well done and effective for me. Thanks for both guitar parts. I look forward to checking out your site.
Perfect.
Hey, thank you so much for this tutorial! It's actually helping me with other songs I'm learning how to play. Wonderful job!
Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much!
A superb lesson and tutorial- thank you very much. After far too long away from my guitar and music I’m just getting my fingers back, this has been an inspiration. I’ll look for more of your videos :D.
Thanks Robert - Glad you liked it
Learning this on piano - I'm very happy for the included notation above the tablature.
If I was to make a suggestion, since there's only two distinct progressions with that little variation in the verse, your in-detail explanation after the first playthrough should focus on playing through those sections at half tempo instead of the pause/explanation/pause/explanation after each bar.
It's an astonishingly in-depth tutorial, but I think that someone new to guitar might get confused by the wording used to describe each finger movement. It might be better to show than tell in this situation.
I've since refined the explanation process in later videos to make it less wordy and also less cutting back to previous bars. In this first video I was new and was trying to be excessively detailed :) Thanks for your comment!
ive literally been searching for a good tutorial for this! thank you, this is one of my favourite songs ;)
You're welcome - glad the tutorial helped :)
amazing tutorial!! Thank you !
Really impressive attention to detail!
Thank u for this tutorial sir. You made it perfectly. I loved it.
You're very welcome - thanks :)
Thanks man you gave by far the best tutorial on youtube for this song
Thanks very much, glad it helped
Very good lesson , clearly to see the chords and picking . Great explanation of the picking too !
Thank you - glad the tutorial was useful :)
Awesome job Mr. Snippet. Thanks very much :)
Beautifully performed!
I’m so far off this unfortunately, but a beautiful rendition of the song - good luck all those learning it
I thought the same thing, but I did not give up and now I can play this beautiful song, so pls do not give up
Awesome...Thank you
Wow very nice tutorial complete with tabz,,,love it ,,tnx bro
You're welcome - thank you :)
Perfect. Thank you.
Wow! Nice job!!
Thank you so much; I really love this song though it’s still hard to tell him I love him with this song.🍀💕
Thanks Maria, glad you enjoyed it. Hope the song helps with telling him!
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Musch appreciated sir
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Thats some clean pickin' brother. Subbed!
The audio isn't him picking, it's a synth guitar sound, with some software.
Thank you. What is this guitar by the way? Sounds amazing
Brilliant!
Seems liken you have put an open string where it should not be an open string sometimes. Like the E chord for example. Sounds horrible when I leave that last g-string open and much better if I put the pinky on the g string at 7th fret. Otherwise a really great tutorial! Much appreciated! :)
Let me try this one.
Bravo! ❤
Love it ! Very much !but it is not free for download.
Thank you
Very welcome :)
very nice
Honestly the solo is easier than the other guitar parts
Wow que hermosura gracias por compartir 😍😍😍😍
¡De nada! :)
Great inst. vid. Thank you! However I did notice the AM7 Threw me off . I always thought the "M" represented minor. it should be Amaj 7
Good point Jack, and I agree. In my most recent videos I've already started writing any M7 chord as a maj7, so this should be less confusing from now on.
Great tutorial!Can you do tutorial of These Dream and Lover's Cross,thanks.
Thanks Glen. Lover's Cross coming up before the end of the year.
Great tutorial indeed. However, I find the open G string in several parts very strange (sounding) since this note is not in the key of A major. I doubt it's in the original (although that is hard to hear). I think the final eighth note is sometimes muffled or, when it's possible, it's the note that's in the chord (e.g. B in B minor on the third string).
Absolutely killer brother! Can you please tell me the make and model of your guitar in this video? Also, does it have electronics? Thanks in advance!
I was playing a Walden G3030CEQ on this video. It does have a Fishman Prefix Pro preamp, but I wasn't using it here. This was one of my really early videos where I was recording the individual notes and then splicing them together on six separate tracks on Audacity. Took ages - so glad I changed my method!
great job thankyou ! What is that guitar you're using?...it has a wonderful sound which both my guitars dont have !
It's a Walden 3030GEQ Supernatura, but the guitar doesn't really sound like that. In my early days of recording like in this video I recorded each note separately beforehand and then spliced them together afterwards. Took ages and ended up sounding like this. I quite liked the sound originally but prefer recording the actual guitar as I play the whole song now.
24:05 This is just a time stamp for me
Awesome man! Thanks!
You're very welcome :)
Thanks a lot!
No problem, glad you liked it :)
i'm starting guitare and i like this, could you give me how tunued is the guitar for this song please ?
amazing
Thanks!
Nailed it!
Thanks Hilal, glad you liked it
Hello sir, What gauge of guitar string are you using? it seems so beautiful and loud.
Hi - I use D'addario .12 gauge strings, EJ16.
First bar : 5:21
Perfect! The best guitar lesson I've seen on TH-cam. Do you have a website or share your tablature?
Thanks Kim, glad you enjoyed it. Current website is www.snippetguitar.com although it's in its very early stages. There is sheet music on there I made as accurately as I possibly could for the lessons.
Great tutorial, but if you listen closely to guitar 1's part during the solo, it actually changes slightly.
I spent hours listening to the song at slow speeds when transcribing it for this tutorial and am almost certain I got all variations, but are there any specific bars and notes that you noticed were incorrect? This is on my list of videos I'd like to remake in the near future, so it would be very helpful to know if there are any parts I need to update.
@@SnippetGuitar Most notably is both b minor chords on Jim's guitar part during the solo. In bar 43 he mirrors the guitar solo melody on counts 3 & 4. and in bar 47 a does a similar variation of what was played in 43. But I'm struggling to find the picking pattern he used.
@@SnippetGuitar If you manage to tab it out before the release of your video, please send it to me.
@@CagedGod After a repeat listen, there are quite a few additions I need to make for the updated tutorial. The part where Jim is playing over the solo is difficult to make out as even when panned left and slowed down to bring out Jim's part, the notes of the solo still come through clearly and it's tricky to make out what is being played. You're right though - it seems that Jim mirrors parts of the guitar solo on the bars you mentioned. Still working on getting the updated tab as accurate as I can, but will post a link here when it's done.
@@CagedGod Updated tab for Croce's part: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ug9kuAMKBFN1f1MSKfkJsU41ifbEg5g2/view?usp=sharing Not final by any means, but definitely an improvement on my original tab. Check it out and if you notice any other issues please let me know.
Last note in first measure of tab shown should be G#, you have G natural
This is played as an open G natural note to help with the transition to the C#m chord. This happens at the end of some measures in the song when changing to the next chord as it's not always possible to keep holding the fretted note and changing from or to a barre chord. I slowed down and carefully checked Croce's version of the song and he does this too, so the way he plays it is represented correctly in the tab.
After Dm shouldn’t it be E7 instead of E ?
Photograph and memories please!!!
I'll add it to the list of definite future lessons. I love that song too :)
What is left unresolved here is that most of us are going to sing this song while we fingerpick a single guitar, but you have 3 guitars between this lesson and the TAB. Which guitar part, 1, 2 or 3 will stand alone to supoort the vocal? Please advise.
Guitar 1 will support the vocals.
5:34
Can i request a song by Esteve Lawrence Pretty blue eyes ? Thanks friend.
I love you
Ha, thanks Shazam.
Thank you so much; how can I buy the sheet music on your tutorial, please?
The sheet music I made for the lessons is currently up for free at www.snippetguitar.com
could you do Next Time, This Time
Yep! It is on my future tutorial list. Few more to get through first but I'll get there eventually
@@SnippetGuitar looking forward to it
Alabama Rain?
Gooooood
Thanks! )
are you sure it's tuned to A? I tried tuning my guitar to A and the bottom notes sound really off
Key of A, not tuned to A. Normal guitar tuning of (from the thickest to thinnest string) EADGBE. Key of A means that a song will usually have the chords A major, B minor, C#minor, D major, E major, F#minor, although there are a few extra chords in this song such as the D# half diminished.
Snippet Guitar: That G natural sounds awful. It should be G#, correct?
Do you mean the passing note between chords? It sounds awful when played slowly, but at fast speed it's what Jim plays when passing between chords.
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Ta, corrected.
@@SnippetGuitar what? I was just marking the beginning for myself
@@nodnarb3772 Ah, sorry. It's the first time I've used time stamps in the description so a few of the video timings are off. Timing was out by a second on the link here so I adjusted it.
@@SnippetGuitar Oh, no problem. I didn't see those anyways😅. Still an impressive tutorial. My teacher and I are learning it. I have one more week to learn😬
how does your playing sound robotic
It's to do with how I used to record the guitar. The notes were all recorded individually and then spliced together in Audacity. An extremely time-consuming way of doing it (many, many weeks) that got the timing perfect, but gave it an unnatural midi sound. In later videos I no longer use this method and record the video and sound in one go. Less time consuming and sounds better!
I don't hear him hit the open g string in the song
Tabs?
Now added :)
@@SnippetGuitar ahhhh, YES THATS MY GUY. You pulled through 8 months later 😂
@@YungMonkeGoony LOL! Got there in the end ;)
@@SnippetGuitar I take it back, you're an A hole for making me pay for them after you share it for free
Very impressive, but can u make a lesson for guitar work mixed with rythem and lead?
No - I tried this but both parts are pretty technical and couldn't make it work combining them. I preferred to try and keep as accurately as possible to the parts that were played individually by Jim and Maury. I believe LickNRiff has a tutorial for this song which combines both parts however.
This almost sounds like midi.
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