Thank you Justin, what a great way to celebrate his memory. I'll do my best on this one and try to not ruin it !
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+JustinGuitar Songs you are awesome dude! and you obviously play guitar like the greats BUT... your singing sounds restrained.. I think you could do "fake" falsettos or something... just scream(sing) like you were drunk... and please dont think that im saying that you cant sing... youre really awesome haha
00:00 Playthrough 02:40 Introduction 03:20 Intro chords and strumming 07:11 Pre-verse 10:53 Verse 1 14:16 Chorus 17:53 Cool instrumental bit 19:34 Verse 2 19:58 Bridge For all of you and for myself, since I'll be using this lesson a lot :)
I started learning guitar in 2020 and had this video saved since then. I would always come back and learn a little bit of this song at a time as it felt too overwhelming at the start. Today I finally put all the parts together and it felt great to play along with the original recording. Thanks Justin for another excellent tutorial.
Clive you're not alone !... I started at 61 ! and this last week started learning the piano, not to mention a dabble on a harmonica : () ... keep going !!!
This guys lessons are great, but he also plays so clear and crisp. It’s so easy to work out the tune just by listening to him cover the song at the start. He’s a very gifted musician like that
It's actually very intuitive...because it helps you to understand the relationship of lyrical melody and when the chord changes occur during the song. It keeps you in time. Great work Justin, as always!
I am an absolute beginner at guitar. I got my first guitar 1 week ago, it's surprising that I managed to learn the intro to "Nothing Else Matters" in just 3 days. That's when I got the desire to learn this song. Simply all praise for this channel and all the effort you put into the video, congratulations. One of the best classes on You Tube.
Hi Justin, i´ll give you a big hug just for bringing this amazing song to us! David Bowie was an exceptional musician, an icon. I love playing and singing this song because it has that certain vibe, that special energy. Thank you very much for taking us by the hand with all your knowledge and bringing us closer to all these techniques and songs! I've wanted to say that for a long time, well - finally done 😃👍 THANK YOU Justin, ...and RIP dear David
Its funny how you listen to this song on the radio and it sounds pretty simple but theres more to it than you think. Thanks for the tutorial Justin cheers.
I sang my heart out to Space Oddity when I was 10 years old and it was No. 1 in the UK 1975 ... the melancholic deep space loneliness of that first opening strummed Fmaj7 chord has stayed with me since ... now I'm 50 years old ... most songs get used up over x number of listens, but Space Oddity remains wondrous to me 40 years later ... RIP David Bowie
A truly spectacular tutorial. It runs fast, but rewind and rewatch until you understand, and you will play a truly gorgeous tune. AND ALL HIS TUTORIALS ARE THIS CLEAR AND COHERENT!! I will be watching this religiously for a month.
Justin keep bringing it my man. You always seem to nail it where everyone else plays something that's "almost" right. My ear doesn't like almost right, it likes how you play the songs. Thanks for teaching me this magnificent piece of rock history by a true legend.
I'm sure you must get flooded with comments on here, Justin, but I just would like to express my gratitude towards you for taking time out of your life to teach us songs. It really means a lot, thank you. Cheers!
Wow! I have played this song since it was released and you made a huge change in the way I play it now!! I just love the way you ALWAYS go back to the artist's way of playing AND making it obvious that everythins is about choices. There is always another chord or way to render a song and by teaching us how you hear it and or see it, you are showing a remarkable sense of ethic for both viewers and artists. I just love your channel Sir and from the bottom of my heart and in all sincerity, thank you for all the work you put into this! I always send new guitartists to you, because I know that they are in good hands!!
Very good as usual Justin. I think the effect at 10:00 sounds better going up the strings, its supposed to represent the launch of the rocket so increasing pitch does a better job IMO.
+JustinGuitar Songs youre great!! my name is gonzalo from panama city panama!! central america man!! rock n roll!! my favorite bands are the who, beatles and zeppelin!! thanx to you i learned the stairway solo back in 2009!! thank you so much a big hug hope we could meet one day!!
So you say that the rocket is falling towards the observer? Because the dopller effect marks it's just like Justin did. ua-cam.com/video/h4OnBYrbCjY/v-deo.html
You played this brilliantly, this song has such a particular groove and its complicated because Bowie was so complicated. Such a talent sorely missed but you do him proud.
After thirty+ years of acoustic playing, I am kicking myself just now learning this classic tune. You make learning these songs a real joy. I never noticed before, of all the times I've heard Space Oddity, how much it seems Bowie was channeling Bo Diddley!
thanks for this great lesson. Although strictly I'm not a beginner , this lesson is very interesting for me. You have the talent to put in something special for every player in your lessons regardless of his or her level. Will be buying your book when it comes out...
I agree Denis. Been playing for ages but always learn a little something from Justin. Love to see him teach Life on Mars.Really a keyboard song but really interesting chords and an amazing progression.
Very well done, Justin. Learning these chords to this song has been a nice experience, because you're approachable and humble about various techniques. I have learned a lot of unusual chords, the song's unusual rhythms, and that cool bridge of sliding bar chords. Thank you. Also, RIP to you Sir, David Bowie.
I appreciate you singing the lyrics, but especially appreciate your ability to place the chord changes within those lyrics. I build charts as I'm learning a song and I find this particularly helpful. Thanks Justin!
Yaay! You're back! I'd thought that maybe you had abandoned this channel for other projects for a while. Thank you for all of the patience, hard work and effort that you must put in to produce these videos.
Justin you are the BEST. I bought (another) guitar last week and I spent twenty minutes discussing your guitar lessons with the seller who's a professional player and he admitted that he picked up a few things from you. Another great lesson.
Heard this on the radio today and decided that I wanted to learn it.Glad you're the one teaching it. And with so many different ways to play all those chords, it is a wanderer anybody learns how to play 😂
I watched a few tutorials of this great classic and no one seems to want to try to explain the psychedelic little instrumental after ".........may God's love be with you". I did read your disclaimer about the tasty electric solos. I have listened to different versions and it seems there are several ways it is done. It never occurred to me to use a pick scratch. I find that keeping the D chord fingered after the pause and then moving that shape up the fretboard (with effects) whilst strumming seems to work well. Of course you need to build up to a crescendo, emphasiisng the first beat of each bar, speeding up your strumming (straight 8s) and intensifying it as you move up the fretboard, say to the octave of the regular open D. A Deluxe Memory Man or Behringer Time Machine seems to work well, but other effects could be added, maybe flanger, tremolo or both. Different versions done by Bowie have variations of this little instrumental and it lends itself to experimentation. To me, this instrumental is an integral part of the song, especially if you are in party mood and it is turned up a little loud! It would be interesting to see how the D shape coupled with your suggestion of the pick scratch would work. The idea, I think is to make it sound a bit chaotic, which seems to be an ingredient of psychedelia. BTW, I enjoy your tutorials because they are accurate, concise and thorough and you explanations have all the right details. Many thanks. RIP David.
From France, love your way of playing.. but I'm such a beginner in practicing guitar... anyway, from now on I'm following your channel because your tutorials please me very much ! You do a great job ! ... Rock in Peace among the stars, dear Bowie
Thank you for this lesson! I have to play this sing soon and I was having trouble with the sound of the D7. I had tried putting the 7 in the bass and leaving it out on the 2nd string, which sounded better than a typical D7, but the F# in that you put in the bass solves the whole issue. The 3rd in the bass keeps the 7 in the high end from dominating the sound of the chord. On a less mundane note, thank you for making David Bowie accessible to so many people now that we've lost the man himself.
Finally landing my bar chords successfully thanks to this tutorial and my determination to get this classic tune under my belt. It’s been quite the challenge for me. Thanks Justin, you’re a star!
very nice... if it helps anybody, same strumming as cortez the killer for begginers and there's a graphic there. easy to practice. thanks as always justin. awesome job!
Welcome back Justin! It just so happens that i was working at this song, on my own and you just made my day. Thanks for the pointers you are THE MAN! And i also want to point out the fact, that after following your lessons at your webpage, i am able to play- in less than a year- tunes like these, (and some harder than this) is just freaking miraculous! I play together with my friends and my brother who happens to be a great guitarist, and he can't believe my progress!
I was learning this song from another channel, you hadn't uploaded for months and miraculously one of the first videos you put up is this song. Very ironic. Good lesson as always.
Wow! I got fed up with another channel who's teachings are fine, but the chords just aren't always sounding right to me. I watched the Bowie video and saw he was playing differently - but you never know with music videos how lazy they might get. Turns out, Bowie wasn't being lazy at all and his chords are here incorporated into this video! Thank you.
I've watched all the lessons for this song and again Justin you are by far the best. This is gonna take me a while to get one, but can't wait. Just have the opening strumming pattern down so far 😬
I'm so glad you started making videos again on this channel, and this is one of my favorite songs! Thanks Justin, dont think i would have ever learned to play without your videos.
Always a pleasure watching your pedagogic tutorials. Your dedication and respect/love for the songs are bloody compelling and inspirational . It's also really fascinating looking up your tutorials of (quite simple) songs I've learned long time ago, just to realise that I (as and exemple) really need to shape up on my old lazy strumming technique. Keep up the good work, Justin!
THANK YOU JUS! Not many GOOD tutes on YT for this song! Bowie's BEST! Have no trouble playing it but getting some of the chord voicings right is tricky! Thanks bro!
Nice lesson Justin. I have a NEW interest in this song. When this song 1st came out I wasn't impressed, I liked it but I didn't appreciate it. After watching your tutorial and trying to play along on my guitar I can hear how beautiful these cords are together. I've only got a few hours of practice in so far but I believe I'll be able to memorize this song within a month. Thanks for your lesson. Brad
Yeah that Fmaj7/E really is the space oddity chord, the quark quaternion space tension chord, sets the whole feel when it vamps back and forth w E minor, cool sound . A lot of times Bowies stuff is core acoustic guitar , but w overdubs and studio magic overtop is different. Never stopped to figure this one out, I was just staring off into the sky today, nice day, watching the loudspeaker roll by, space oddity just sort of fit the moment, how cool
I learnt this just recently before you put it up. Thanks for elaborating on the chords, that Fm7/E was never explained before. Some cool chords in here and a really easy tune once you got them.
Really cool version. I like the fact that you try to be as close as possible to how David Bowie played it. Sounds so much better. Many thanks for all the tips and tricks ...
Great video again! The main reason David did not use bar cords was that he did not play guitar that often and found it very difficult to play a bar on an acoustic! Some people just don't have the strength in their wrist to accomplish this unless they do exercises to strengthen them...Keep up the great work and I'll see you on UA-cam!
I've noticed that Jimi Hendrix also seemed to prefer using his thumb this way, instead of the classic bar chords. But he had really big hands, so my guess he found it easier that way. I've tried it myself over the years, but I really suck at using the thumb instead of bar chords, lol.
Thanks Justin - your teaching gets better and better. One thought: Bowie probably wrote this song on his Hagstrom 12 string, which probably means he didn't use bar chords.
Glad to see you're back Justin! I checked my UA-cam account everyday faithfully waiting for a video. Lol Been following your videos and going to your sight for almost 10 years. Keep up the nice work!! Appreciate all that you do
15:40 - Justin you're ace. I could not believe that this G-Chord actually is also an E-minor. Then checked again. And of course youre right. First Em is the parallel minor Chord to G - so apparently they share a lot of notes together. the notes you have from high to low (with funcitons) are e=1, d=7,B=5,G=3, D=7 and E=1 again. So just your perfect Em with all the necessary notes.
Perfect. I cant see anything wrong with the chords. I also like how you sang the low vocal so I could sing along and do the high vocal. We sounded pretty nice together...
Hi Justin ! This lesson is top ! So generous to share your experience. You're a really good teacher. So bad you're not in Paris... I could have lesson with you ! Thanks.
Justin, so good to see you back, love this tune it was the first song I tried to learn, some 40 years ago, with your help I think I might be able to crack it :-) Keep up the good stuff
I have been playing a long time and I just discovered your lessons. I have been wanting to learn some Bowie and these chords are so similar to chords I use in my own writings. Fun stuff, well explained. Thanks from well across the pond!
R.I.P :(
Tribute lessons for Heroes and Ziggy Stardust now live.
Thank you Justin, what a great way to celebrate his memory. I'll do my best on this one and try to not ruin it !
+JustinGuitar Songs you are awesome dude! and you obviously play guitar like the greats BUT... your singing sounds restrained.. I think you could do "fake" falsettos or something... just scream(sing) like you were drunk...
and please dont think that im saying that you cant sing... youre really awesome haha
+JustinGuitar Songs :really enjoyed this tutorial. rip to a legend :(
+JustinGuitar Songs Please do a cover. I really liked it, but unfortunately you cut it off in the beginning. Thanks.
+Pablo Muñiz He must have tried to not to tear up..thats why his voice sounded like that i guess
00:00 Playthrough
02:40 Introduction
03:20 Intro chords and strumming
07:11 Pre-verse
10:53 Verse 1
14:16 Chorus
17:53 Cool instrumental bit
19:34 Verse 2
19:58 Bridge
For all of you and for myself, since I'll be using this lesson a lot :)
He's Great...😁
R.I.P. David Bowie the best rock music legend EVER!!!!!
Adolf Hitler queen + David bowie should be best (maybe)
Adolf Hitler Bowie is far better than queen
@@osheen7337 they both are great
I started learning guitar in 2020 and had this video saved since then. I would always come back and learn a little bit of this song at a time as it felt too overwhelming at the start. Today I finally put all the parts together and it felt great to play along with the original recording. Thanks Justin for another excellent tutorial.
Bowie always has those great chord riffs in the middle of the song...such a natural song writer...a true great r.i.p starman
I sang the countdown the background
Me too!!!😂😂😂😁💖
Still a newbie to guitar playing (at 57!) but you're helping, and inspiring, so please keep giving us more!
Clive you're not alone !... I started at 61 ! and this last week started learning the piano, not to mention a dabble on a harmonica : () ... keep going !!!
Clive Bradley are you’d till playing?
How's it going now
Hang on in there bro, keep strummin. 👍🏻😎👊🏻
Cole Waldron Yep, still strummin’ and still enjoying making a noise!
This guys lessons are great, but he also plays so clear and crisp. It’s so easy to work out the tune just by listening to him cover the song at the start. He’s a very gifted musician like that
" Ground control to Major E minor " well, that's confusing ;-)
you must be quite dumb if you find that confusing !!!
It's a joke
why is it a joke? why not share with us how you play it ??
+fenderland1 He has substituted the words 'E Minor' for 'Tom'.
Ah hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahah.
ha.
It's actually very intuitive...because it helps you to understand the relationship of lyrical melody and when the chord changes occur during the song. It keeps you in time. Great work Justin, as always!
This song captures the mystery of space in such a beautiful melodic way, what a classic.
Thank you for keeping Bowie alive.
I am an absolute beginner at guitar. I got my first guitar 1 week ago, it's surprising that I managed to learn the intro to "Nothing Else Matters" in just 3 days. That's when I got the desire to learn this song. Simply all praise for this channel and all the effort you put into the video, congratulations. One of the best classes on You Tube.
Hi Justin,
i´ll give you a big hug just for bringing this amazing song to us!
David Bowie was an exceptional musician, an icon.
I love playing and singing this song because it has that certain vibe, that special energy.
Thank you very much for taking us by the hand with all your knowledge and bringing us closer to all these techniques and songs!
I've wanted to say that for a long time, well - finally done 😃👍
THANK YOU Justin,
...and RIP dear David
So great to finally be able play this song. RIP Starman :(
Its funny how you listen to this song on the radio and it sounds pretty simple but theres more to it than you think. Thanks for the tutorial Justin cheers.
I sang my heart out to Space Oddity when I was 10 years old and it was No. 1 in the UK 1975 ... the melancholic deep space loneliness of that first opening strummed Fmaj7 chord has stayed with me since ... now I'm 50 years old ... most songs get used up over x number of listens, but Space Oddity remains wondrous to me 40 years later ... RIP David Bowie
A truly spectacular tutorial. It runs fast, but rewind and rewatch until you understand, and you will play a truly gorgeous tune. AND ALL HIS TUTORIALS ARE THIS CLEAR AND COHERENT!!
I will be watching this religiously for a month.
Justin keep bringing it my man. You always seem to nail it where everyone else plays something that's "almost" right. My ear doesn't like almost right, it likes how you play the songs. Thanks for teaching me this magnificent piece of rock history by a true legend.
I'm sure you must get flooded with comments on here, Justin, but I just would like to express my gratitude towards you for taking time out of your life to teach us songs. It really means a lot, thank you. Cheers!
Wow! I have played this song since it was released and you made a huge change in the way I play it now!! I just love the way you ALWAYS go back to the artist's way of playing AND making it obvious that everythins is about choices. There is always another chord or way to render a song and by teaching us how you hear it and or see it, you are showing a remarkable sense of ethic for both viewers and artists. I just love your channel Sir and from the bottom of my heart and in all sincerity, thank you for all the work you put into this! I always send new guitartists to you, because I know that they are in good hands!!
Very good as usual Justin. I think the effect at 10:00 sounds better going up the strings, its supposed to represent the launch of the rocket so increasing pitch does a better job IMO.
+Peter Simonson Why didn't I think of that? ;)
+JustinGuitar Songs youre great!! my name is gonzalo from panama city panama!! central america man!! rock n roll!! my favorite bands are the who, beatles and zeppelin!! thanx to you i learned the stairway solo back in 2009!! thank you so much a big hug hope we could meet one day!!
JustinGuitar Songs nice one justin
So you say that the rocket is falling towards the observer? Because the dopller effect marks it's just like Justin did.
ua-cam.com/video/h4OnBYrbCjY/v-deo.html
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
D U D U U D D U D
Thank you :)
thanks
I was just about to upload the same up/down sequence for people but you beat me to it. Thanks. Justin really should do this himself.
Thanks!
Is the drumming pattern always the same ? Or does it change at th second part of the song ?!
i dont know what i love more in the begining of this one, your singing or your guitar skills
You played this brilliantly, this song has such a particular groove and its complicated because Bowie was so complicated. Such a talent sorely missed but you do him proud.
David Bowie better not quit his day job, because Justin nailed this song.
Do you think so.. I think he needs capo on fret 2.. Have you heard Justin sing a bit of heroes.. It's beautifully sung by justin
David smiles down on all of us now.
RIP
After thirty+ years of acoustic playing, I am kicking myself just now learning this classic tune.
You make learning these songs a real joy.
I never noticed before, of all the times I've heard Space Oddity, how much it seems Bowie was channeling Bo Diddley!
Good to have you back teaching online. Looking forward to seeing what new lessons you do for us. 👍🏻
F sharp base with you~
I just love how your lessons are "peculiar"
You're the best free teacher online mate, probably forever.
Martys better
@@rybug Nah
@@rybug I love Marty but he kinda simplify some stuff
Glad you had this one... and glad I found it! Rest in Peace, Ziggy !!!
thanks for this great lesson. Although strictly I'm not a beginner , this lesson is very interesting for me. You have the talent to put in something special for every player in your lessons regardless of his or her level.
Will be buying your book when it comes out...
+Denis Hermans Cheers Denis!
I agree Denis. Been playing for ages but always learn a little something from Justin.
Love to see him teach Life on Mars.Really a keyboard song but really interesting chords and an amazing progression.
Very well done, Justin. Learning these chords to this song has been a nice experience, because you're approachable and humble about various techniques. I have learned a lot of unusual chords, the song's unusual rhythms, and that cool bridge of sliding bar chords. Thank you. Also, RIP to you Sir, David Bowie.
I appreciate you singing the lyrics, but especially appreciate your ability to place the chord changes within those lyrics. I build charts as I'm learning a song and I find this particularly helpful. Thanks Justin!
Yaay! You're back! I'd thought that maybe you had abandoned this channel for other projects for a while. Thank you for all of the patience, hard work and effort that you must put in to produce these videos.
Justin is one of the top teachers in the world. Hands down. Incredible talent!
terrific! Strum 5:55, 4:54,
David was surely a genius
it's a blessing to have you back
Justin you are the BEST. I bought (another) guitar last week and I spent twenty minutes discussing your guitar lessons with the seller who's a professional player and he admitted that he picked up a few things from you.
Another great lesson.
Loved the attention to detail with the muted strumming. Helped a lot in understanding.
Hey justin, please do a lesson for Starman by David Bowie!
+Dieter Krauss ^ THIS!
+Dieter Krauss Someone just saw The Martian.
+newcoyote Well sir, the movie is amazing and it reminded me about that awesome song
+Dieter Krauss I just saw it too and agree.
came looking for this!
a must know acoustic song. nice chord progression, and very cool sounding with or without vocals.
I love you Justin. Mourning about Bowie... RIP and long live
Heard this on the radio today and decided that I wanted to learn it.Glad you're the one teaching it. And with so many different ways to play all those chords, it is a wanderer anybody learns how to play 😂
This is another great lesson Justin. It's a fitting, lasting, tribute.
RIP David.Your memory will live with me always
thanks sooo much for all your teaching, it makes a huge impact on my progressing as a player , you are a fine gentleman, all the best to you,Jay.
I watched a few tutorials of this great classic and no one seems to want to try to explain the psychedelic little instrumental after ".........may God's love be with you". I did read your disclaimer about the tasty electric solos. I have listened to different versions and it seems there are several ways it is done. It never occurred to me to use a pick scratch. I find that keeping the D chord fingered after the pause and then moving that shape up the fretboard (with effects) whilst strumming seems to work well. Of course you need to build up to a crescendo, emphasiisng the first beat of each bar, speeding up your strumming (straight 8s) and intensifying it as you move up the fretboard, say to the octave of the regular open D. A Deluxe Memory Man or Behringer Time Machine seems to work well, but other effects could be added, maybe flanger, tremolo or both. Different versions done by Bowie have variations of this little instrumental and it lends itself to experimentation. To me, this instrumental is an integral part of the song, especially if you are in party mood and it is turned up a little loud! It would be interesting to see how the D shape coupled with your suggestion of the pick scratch would work. The idea, I think is to make it sound a bit chaotic, which seems to be an ingredient of psychedelia.
BTW, I enjoy your tutorials because they are accurate, concise and thorough and you explanations have all the right details. Many thanks. RIP David.
Great lesson, absolute genius song, still can't believe he has left us....
From France, love your way of playing.. but I'm such a beginner in practicing guitar... anyway, from now on I'm following your channel because your tutorials please me very much ! You do a great job ! ... Rock in Peace among the stars, dear Bowie
Thank you for this lesson! I have to play this sing soon and I was having trouble with the sound of the D7. I had tried putting the 7 in the bass and leaving it out on the 2nd string, which sounded better than a typical D7, but the F# in that you put in the bass solves the whole issue. The 3rd in the bass keeps the 7 in the high end from dominating the sound of the chord.
On a less mundane note, thank you for making David Bowie accessible to so many people now that we've lost the man himself.
Finally landing my bar chords successfully thanks to this tutorial and my determination to get this classic tune under my belt. It’s been quite the challenge for me. Thanks Justin, you’re a star!
I'm thinking Bowie probably wouldn't care what way we play it, as long as we are using the Bb--Am--G--F chords. Rock on Justin.
very nice... if it helps anybody, same strumming as cortez the killer for begginers and there's a graphic there. easy to practice.
thanks as always justin. awesome job!
I'm sitting here with pen and notebook listening really attentively - and loving it ;) Thank you!
‘i’m f minoring in a c peculiar f’ truly the most iconic line in this song
Great job Justin ..what an inspiration you are.
Welcome back Justin! It just so happens that i was working at this song, on my own and you just made my day. Thanks for the pointers you are THE MAN! And i also want to point out the fact, that after following your lessons at your webpage, i am able to play- in less than a year- tunes like these, (and some harder than this) is just freaking miraculous! I play together with my friends and my brother who happens to be a great guitarist, and he can't believe my progress!
I was learning this song from another channel, you hadn't uploaded for months and miraculously one of the first videos you put up is this song. Very ironic. Good lesson as always.
You have one of the most cheerful smiles man. Love your videos, my opinion the best tutorials out there!
As usual, Justin, another fabulous lesson. TY for all you do to share the love and music.
Wow! I got fed up with another channel who's teachings are fine, but the chords just aren't always sounding right to me. I watched the Bowie video and saw he was playing differently - but you never know with music videos how lazy they might get. Turns out, Bowie wasn't being lazy at all and his chords are here incorporated into this video! Thank you.
Hey Justin. You are an amazing teacher. Can't thank you enough. Cheers and God bless.
Spot-on. Accurate and true to original, both vocally, and instrumentally. Good guitar lesson (for me).
I've watched all the lessons for this song and again Justin you are by far the best. This is gonna take me a while to get one, but can't wait. Just have the opening strumming pattern down so far 😬
I'm so glad you started making videos again on this channel, and this is one of my favorite songs! Thanks Justin, dont think i would have ever learned to play without your videos.
Always a pleasure watching your pedagogic tutorials. Your dedication and respect/love for the songs are bloody compelling and inspirational . It's also really fascinating looking up your tutorials of (quite simple) songs I've learned long time ago, just to realise that I (as and exemple) really need to shape up on my old lazy strumming technique. Keep up the good work, Justin!
Thumbs up for going over the rhythm pattern before jumping into all the chords.
i'm a beginner but this lesson learned me the song in 1 hour so keep up making these kinda videos in some sort of way it makes it look easy thanks!
THANK YOU JUS! Not many GOOD tutes on YT for this song! Bowie's BEST!
Have no trouble playing it but getting some of the chord voicings right is tricky!
Thanks bro!
Another masterpiece class by Justin! Like we would expect anything else, right? What a great teacher!
Great teachings Justine. I keep bumping into your videos on youtube ranging from CCR to Marley to now this. Great taste in music I see. Cheers!
So glad to have you back Justin, you're my hero :)
Nice lesson Justin. I have a NEW interest in this song. When this song 1st came out I wasn't impressed, I liked it but I didn't appreciate it. After watching your tutorial and trying to play along on my guitar I can hear how beautiful these cords are together. I've only got a few hours of practice in so far but I believe I'll be able to memorize this song within a month. Thanks for your lesson. Brad
We don’t often get to see what an amazing guitarist you are, Justin. But we do on this video.
Yeah that Fmaj7/E really is the space oddity chord, the quark quaternion space tension chord, sets the whole feel when it vamps back and forth w E minor, cool sound . A lot of times Bowies stuff is core acoustic guitar , but w overdubs and studio magic overtop is different. Never stopped to figure this one out, I was just staring off into the sky today, nice day, watching the loudspeaker roll by, space oddity just sort of fit the moment, how cool
I learnt this just recently before you put it up. Thanks for elaborating on the chords, that Fm7/E was never explained before. Some cool chords in here and a really easy tune once you got them.
Really cool version. I like the fact that you try to be as close as possible to how David Bowie played it. Sounds so much better. Many thanks for all the tips and tricks ...
Great video again! The main reason David did not use bar cords was that he did not play guitar that often and found it very difficult to play a bar on an acoustic! Some people just don't have the strength in their wrist to accomplish this unless they do exercises to strengthen them...Keep up the great work and I'll see you on UA-cam!
I've noticed that Jimi Hendrix also seemed to prefer using his thumb this way, instead of the classic bar chords. But he had really big hands, so my guess he found it easier that way. I've tried it myself over the years, but I really suck at using the thumb instead of bar chords, lol.
Good to see you back Mister. Greetings from south of France.
Thanks Justin - your teaching gets better and better.
One thought: Bowie probably wrote this song on his Hagstrom 12 string, which probably means he didn't use bar chords.
Glad to see you're back Justin! I checked my UA-cam account everyday faithfully waiting for a video. Lol
Been following your videos and going to your sight for almost 10 years. Keep up the nice work!! Appreciate all that you do
David Bowie - Starman please !
Pure awesomeness, Justin! Greetings from Brazil.
15:40 - Justin you're ace. I could not believe that this G-Chord actually is also an E-minor. Then checked again. And of course youre right. First Em is the parallel minor Chord to G - so apparently they share a lot of notes together. the notes you have from high to low (with funcitons) are e=1, d=7,B=5,G=3, D=7 and E=1 again. So just your perfect Em with all the necessary notes.
Man, the actual song on the begining was so great... Thanks
one of my favorite idol and favorite song
rip david bowie
Could you pleeeease do a tutorial on Starman? That would be so great!!
Perfect. I cant see anything wrong with the chords. I also like how you sang the low vocal so I could sing along and do the high vocal. We sounded pretty nice together...
Hi Justin ! This lesson is top ! So generous to share your experience. You're a really good teacher. So bad you're not in Paris... I could have lesson with you ! Thanks.
glad to see that your back in the song lesson. nice job as always
Question: 7:40 Do we follow the same strumming pattern? Down, up - down, up - up - down - down - up - down ? Or did he change it?
Thank you very much Justin this tutorial was so very much helpful! I really appreciate your help 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
Happy to help! Cheers 😊
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Justin you do a fine job explaining these songs . Keep up the good work... Great tutorial...
i´ve waited for this a very long time ...
thank you Justin, for all
That launch sound though... Genius
Great lesson first full tutorial iv seen for a while . Nice one Justin .
wow i dont expect new song today. Thank You Justin!
You are a genius bro. You take your time to explain things so well. Thanks a millon
Justin, so good to see you back, love this tune it was the first song I tried to learn, some 40 years ago, with your help I think I might be able to crack it :-) Keep up the good stuff
I have been playing a long time and I just discovered your lessons. I have been wanting to learn some Bowie and these chords are so similar to chords I use in my own writings. Fun stuff, well explained. Thanks from well across the pond!