The REAL Fingerpicking Strumming of Blackbird Guitar Lesson - Galeazzo Frudua

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    www.fruduamusic.com - The fingerpicking strumming of Blackbird as played by Paul Mccartney and the Beatles in The White Album is apparently not covered correctly by any guitar tutorial and lesson on UA-cam. In this video, I am showing it as played by Paul in the White Album so that you can have a better understanding of how to reproduce it in your covers. ギターでブラックバードを演奏する方法
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    Learn how to play the fingerpicking strumming of Blackbird by Paul McCartney on guitar lesson exactly as it was played on the record. Blackbird guitar tutorial by Galeazzo Frudua. Como tocar guitarra Blackbird.
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    TIMESTAMPS:
    00:00 video intro
    00:15 A video of Paul McCartney playing Blackbird live
    01:00 No tutorials showing the fingerpicking pattern correctly
    01:29 The guitar that Paul used for the original recording and still uses
    01:40 Where to fingerpick the strings
    02:00 Let's divide the pattern into two movements for quicker learning
    02:28 The first movement
    03:23 The second movement
    03:50 Muting the D
    04:15 An exception in the fingerpicking strumming
    04:44 Bonus trick
    05:00 Video outro and new videos
    The video is in nature instructional, with the purposes of education, comparison, and criticism only. The material included is included in an effort to explain, critique, and/or comment on works on significant cultural impact.
    This should constitute a “Fair use” of any such copyrighted material (referenced and provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law).
    Such material remains the copyright of the original holder and is used here for the purposes of education, comparison, and criticism only. I reserve all rights to my interpretation of how the song was played, which is my own work.
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    #beatles #blackbird

КОМЕНТАРІ • 109

  • @TheBeatlesVocalHarmony
    @TheBeatlesVocalHarmony  2 роки тому +15

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  • @stevemd6488
    @stevemd6488 2 роки тому +61

    I knew he was using that unique picking/strumming since Yesterday but I've never seen it broken down so intricately, well done sir.

  • @shogen0227
    @shogen0227 2 роки тому +22

    You are my teacher! Your videos are always helpful. My friend and I always call you “Sensei” which means Teacher in Japanese. ☺️
    The Beatles forever!

  • @nicknewman7848
    @nicknewman7848 2 роки тому +55

    I've played this song for almost 30 years now and it has morphed and changed over time from a basic beginners version into something that is my own way, I've even added a few extra additions here and there. I learned it by ear from the record originally and you would always meet other guitarists who played it in a slightly different way adding to the confusion about what the strumming hand was actually doing. I looked it up a few years ago and found a video of Paul where I could just about see his hand. Even though my own finger picking part is technically more complicated I find Paul's way actually more difficult with the "strumming first finger".

    • @yensilluap
      @yensilluap 2 роки тому +3

      I agree - Paul says he can’t do “proper” fingerpicking - travis style - but I agree that I find his one finger strum more difficult for me to do. I’ve seen it done well Paul style by another you tuber - I forget who though - but this one here is very good. sounds just like Paul himself. I’ll have to give it another go.

    • @alisterfolson
      @alisterfolson 2 роки тому +1

      TLDR: I learned to play the song my way; probably as Paul intended

    • @nicknewman7848
      @nicknewman7848 2 роки тому

      @@yensilluap Apparently Dylan showed the Beatles one fingerpicking pattern as their introduction to it (I can't remember which one or which Beatle)

    • @yensilluap
      @yensilluap 2 роки тому +3

      @@nicknewman7848 Havdnt heard that before. I know Donovan taught John Lennon Travis style picking when they were in India. Paul said he tried it but it was too much work and he couldn’t be bothered.

    • @Noitisnt-ns7mo
      @Noitisnt-ns7mo 8 місяців тому

      Bob at one time was an amazing guitarist.@@nicknewman7848

  • @frank326
    @frank326 2 роки тому +5

    ero convinto di aver colto tutte le sfumature, dopo decenni di ascolti da ricovero...e mi vantavo di avere ormai il miglior fingerpicking "a la Paul" dell'universo...ma grazie a te ho scoperto che mi mancava ancora un trucchetto...mi mancava un ulteriore "colpo" di pollice.
    Grazie infinite!
    Anche dalla mia Martin D28

  • @kennywally
    @kennywally 2 роки тому +4

    You are the best, I mean the very best Beatles music teacher ever! Thank you so much for opening my eyes and my heart to this beautiful Beatles music.

  • @rubievale
    @rubievale 2 роки тому +10

    I worked Blackbird out myself years ago, and I used a claw hammer type of finger picking. I was blissfully content in my ignorance and thought I was right, which I wasn't. I'm classically trained to diploma level and strumming with the index finger is something that was essentially beaten out of me, discouraged, forbidden, so I always used P, I & M, incorrectly it appears. Thanks for sharing that insight

  • @nomo4u886
    @nomo4u886 2 роки тому +3

    I just got to see Paul McCartney live in LA he performed blackbird such a great song

  • @Adamfront
    @Adamfront 2 роки тому +3

    Nice one! Probably the most thorough examination of this tune on the net.

  • @LAghemo
    @LAghemo 2 роки тому +11

    WOW! What an analisys of Blackbird. The funny thing is that I learned that song almost 40 years ago, and I still have to learn it again!
    No internet back then, we where young boys with an LP, a record player and a lot of desire to be able to play the song. It was fun and fashinating, but I'm so glad that now someone like you point out how many mistakes I did back then!
    Keep going!

    • @Schlumpf.Meister
      @Schlumpf.Meister 2 роки тому

      Likewise, picked it up around 1982 or 1982, and I keep coming back to it with improvements …

  • @MusikMan
    @MusikMan 2 роки тому +7

    I have noticed too that all tutorials o UA-cam are wrong about how to play Blackbird. I recorded that song too trying to make it as close to the original Hope you like it. Find it in my channel. Greetings, Galeazzo.

    • @ThomasZachary
      @ThomasZachary 2 роки тому

      Just went to your page and played your version. Very nice technique! good cover

  • @ericbergmueller2981
    @ericbergmueller2981 2 роки тому +2

    I love your videos! I have found so many useful parts for myself and my students at school. Keep the up the goodness!

  •  2 роки тому +6

    You're 100% right! I've been playing it like this forever and arguing for years with everyone playing it wrong. I think this confusion started because of a bad transcription where the fingerpicking pattern turned into some arpeggiated arrangement, losing the countryish percussion role that the index finger plays. Great video!

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 11 місяців тому +1

    Really well explained, so much right hand control, or for Paul left hand control

  • @FinalCurve
    @FinalCurve 2 роки тому +1

    I subscribed aaaaages ago when I found your awesome Strat setup videos and I love how the channel has evolved. Keep it up!!

  • @riccardobertola77bg
    @riccardobertola77bg Рік тому +1

    Impressionante la tua precisione nel riprodurre fedelmente ogni singola nota, sfumatura, intenzione..solo complimenti....sei un grande. 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @StefanoBallad
    @StefanoBallad Рік тому

    Thank you Galeazzo, your videos are great!

  • @terrypussypower
    @terrypussypower Рік тому +1

    Wow! Just amazing. I always knew there was something not right in so many interpretations on line, and that was it.

  • @bigsidable
    @bigsidable 2 роки тому +2

    I lost over 100 Guitar World Mags in the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa in 2017. A long lost girlfriend went on a mission to help me find more guitar mags. Some how she found a guy on Facebook who had tons of them. He gave them to me. Come to find out he does music fir Lucius Ranch. We met and I got 5 crates of guitar World mags. When I got home and open up. The fist mag had tabs to Black Bird. My Holy Grail of songs to learn. That was 2018. Jumped right on it. Beautiful Song. And to think Charlie Manson tried to created Armageddon from it. I was living in L.A. at that time. Song has a lot memories with me.

  • @rickb1266
    @rickb1266 2 роки тому +2

    I think this is a bass player thing! I play bass and noticed that I was using this same technique on bass and guitar without ever noticing Paul doing it. Sting also uses a similar style on bass and guitar.

  • @dainherndon9946
    @dainherndon9946 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for this! So many mediocre transcriptions out there but this tutorial was very true to their performance

  • @dfdprofessionalstandardstr5640
    @dfdprofessionalstandardstr5640 2 роки тому

    Excellent! Thanks for sharing.

  • @petersmichaeld59
    @petersmichaeld59 2 роки тому

    Galeazzo.......good work...practical application...not alot of talking best thing.....most appreciative...thanks for sharing

  • @drewsacks
    @drewsacks 2 роки тому

    You nailed it. It's the first one that is 100% spot on.

  • @guitarschoolnorthampton1870
    @guitarschoolnorthampton1870 2 роки тому

    Great work!

  • @TheClownTC
    @TheClownTC 2 роки тому +5

    Il migliore come sempre

  • @BIGeSTRING
    @BIGeSTRING 2 роки тому

    Its a real helpfull video, thanks a lot.

  • @daveogarf
    @daveogarf 2 роки тому +1

    Molto grazie, Galiazzo!

  • @lupercal8997
    @lupercal8997 Місяць тому

    Thank you so much!

  • @AcousticTreat
    @AcousticTreat 2 роки тому +1

    Your channel is brilliant

  • @gregslosek6846
    @gregslosek6846 2 роки тому

    Beautiful
    Thank you

  • @tristocrisco11
    @tristocrisco11 2 роки тому

    Thanks for the video it brought me back! When I was learning guitar in high school this was one of the first finger picking songs I learned. I learned it from a tab, so I was just picking every note. When I showed my buddy what I had learned, he showed me how to strum it correctly because his guitar teacher had just taught him. As far as where that guitar teacher learned it? He must have just had an ear for it. What's funny now is 16 years later I play most finger picking songs more like Blackbird rather than picking all the notes.

  • @alessandrorigobello7551
    @alessandrorigobello7551 Рік тому

    fantastic!

  • @moko8237
    @moko8237 2 роки тому

    Great video!

  • @alessandrorigobello7551
    @alessandrorigobello7551 Рік тому

    Pure Genius, Pure Music, Pure singing.

  • @marcelvandam7176
    @marcelvandam7176 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this video ! I actually had a discussion about this with a fellow teacher who was rather picking than strumming. So I got the right hand pretty right when doing this song by ear about 30 years ago before the internet era. I have my own way for the left hand though which I like and never seen someone play it like me. It's not the way Paul plays it though. I'll make a little video of it and show it to world :) Keep up the good work !

  • @Shaverboy516
    @Shaverboy516 2 роки тому +5

    Paul asked the audience at his got back concert who tried to learn black bird, a lot of people raised their hands and Paul said you all got it wrong😂

  • @OKellyP
    @OKellyP 2 роки тому +1

    love it, it's how I have tried to play it for years, but I struggle to get the strum bit right(it's an age thing.... I'm old)

  • @sachachanyan
    @sachachanyan 2 роки тому

    Good job! 👍

  • @ellenbeckmann4293
    @ellenbeckmann4293 2 роки тому

    So schön gemacht. Lg from Germany, beatles Fan Ellen 😍

  • @dr.p3637
    @dr.p3637 2 роки тому

    BOOM! Perfection! Paul would approve I am sure! :)

  • @jhonyalbert2299
    @jhonyalbert2299 2 роки тому

    Excelent !!..Thank's. !

  • @wagnerargolo
    @wagnerargolo 2 роки тому +1

    I'm happy, because I've been playing it right!

  • @tamdsms
    @tamdsms 2 роки тому +2

    Great job Galeazzo! I first got to know your work on a vocal training video for "Mr. Moonlight," a very underrated song I've always liked. Great job on that one too! This song brings back memories! A friend taught it to me in early 1969,

  • @benoitbessy4766
    @benoitbessy4766 2 роки тому

    super you're the best ! BENOIT from Paris

  • @ScareglowSkull
    @ScareglowSkull 2 роки тому

    Damn. You nailed it.

  • @cliffhughes6010
    @cliffhughes6010 2 роки тому

    Thank you. I've never managed to play this correctly - until now.

  • @samuelagtorn3500
    @samuelagtorn3500 2 роки тому +1

    Would love to see you do a harmony video on dedicated to the one I love by the mamas and papas!

  • @celedoniomonje6693
    @celedoniomonje6693 2 роки тому

    Galeazzo, te voy pillando. Galeazzo muy bien, moltó bene e grazie.

  • @RockCoversMusic
    @RockCoversMusic 2 роки тому +1

    Nice channel!

  • @superhore8345
    @superhore8345 2 роки тому

    Clever strum...no wonder Ringo choose drum rather than guitar✌...btw you're great teacher sir..👍🙏

  • @pauloguitar4366
    @pauloguitar4366 2 роки тому

    No matter how many videos I see, I can't for the life of me do this "claw" picking technique lol, I always do a hybrid of conventional finger picking with a percussive down strum using my index and middle fingers. Good explanation on what he does though, I think John Mayer sometimes use a similar technique in some songs.

  • @alisterfolson
    @alisterfolson 2 роки тому +2

    Paul McCartney, James Taylor: it's because we're both self taught

  • @Xesparaz
    @Xesparaz 4 місяці тому

    Is there a specific tab you use? The ones online tend to vary.

  • @khmak9387
    @khmak9387 2 роки тому

    I think it might have appeared in Guitar World or Guitar World Acoustic once, but I can't remember which issue.

  • @merontfeelta2557
    @merontfeelta2557 2 роки тому +2

    GooD)))))))

  • @dougandrade2850
    @dougandrade2850 2 роки тому

    Good! Morning! Music.

  • @denisemaia7706
    @denisemaia7706 7 місяців тому

    👏👏👏

  • @johnwoods6539
    @johnwoods6539 2 роки тому

    Thanks I learned it wrong... now I know it right..

  • @sunking2001
    @sunking2001 2 роки тому +1

    Very, very well done on the "correct" way to pick and strum this tune. I've seen Paul 7 times and he played this tune each time...beginning with 1976 "Wings Over America" tour. I either read it or heard Paul on a video say he actually uses a fake fingernail (I believe the index finger) because while on tour he will physically wear out that nail...because of how he strums "Blackbird."

  • @livingadreamlife1428
    @livingadreamlife1428 2 роки тому

    Let’s give credit where credit is due. The “strumming” technique utilized here is known as the “Carter Brush Stroke” created by mother Maybelle Carter of The Carter Family. I’m sure that’s where Paul picked it up. She used the Brush Stroke technique in her songs in the earliest years of country music, many times the technique is clearly visible in UA-cam videos of her picking.

  • @juniferumbao3092
    @juniferumbao3092 2 роки тому

    I'm a fan of the Beatles.

  • @Rodrigodealencarlima
    @Rodrigodealencarlima 2 роки тому +1

    👏👏👏👍🎹

  • @GeorgeMassalas
    @GeorgeMassalas 2 роки тому +2

    You're such a GENIUS ~ and your analysis is spot on. Thank you so much 😊

  • @jorgesimoncanedosoria6288
    @jorgesimoncanedosoria6288 2 роки тому

    Galleazzo.... Any tutorial on goeoge finger style!

  • @hectorrivera5622
    @hectorrivera5622 2 роки тому +5

    por favor subtitulado en español!!!!!! 🙏

    • @mabelmccartney1449
      @mabelmccartney1449 2 роки тому +1

      Si se puede, te vas a subtitulos y te vas a traducción automática y le pones en español y ahí ya está :)

    • @hectorrivera5622
      @hectorrivera5622 2 роки тому

      @@mabelmccartney1449 Mil Gracias!!!!! no lo sabía 👌👏👏

  • @erwinvandijke6169
    @erwinvandijke6169 Місяць тому

    And don't forget tapping both left and right foot same time!

  • @davidmacleod9313
    @davidmacleod9313 2 роки тому +2

    When you pluck the two strings it’s called a “pinch”.

    • @TheBeatlesVocalHarmony
      @TheBeatlesVocalHarmony  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you sometimes these english terms are quite odd to find :)

    • @davidmacleod9313
      @davidmacleod9313 2 роки тому

      @@TheBeatlesVocalHarmony English can be weird sometimes if not outright baffling! Lol (You’re welcome! And thanks for this lesson! Most appreciated)

  • @tdyfqdb
    @tdyfqdb 2 роки тому

    2000 M guitarists in this world playing Blackbird, 2000 M ways of doing it differently. There is even an Apple video of MacCartney playing it at the time, and then another video from the eighties, he saying that this came from the Bach's Bouree and other bullshit (it doesn't, and the real thing, the open G string, is never used nor mentioned by anybody). Of course, both MacCa video versions were different, and also different from the white album recording.
    Thanks for your videos, Galeazzo, you say interesting things.

  • @vecernicek2
    @vecernicek2 2 роки тому

    Please do one on Her Majesty.

  • @dougandrade2850
    @dougandrade2850 2 роки тому

    Chow!

  • @raysparks3161
    @raysparks3161 2 роки тому

    I play a shit version of this, it's lovely to hear it played better than I'll ever learn.

  • @tomc.3987
    @tomc.3987 2 роки тому

    Follow the bass line.

  • @stevescontriano860
    @stevescontriano860 2 роки тому

    🛑

  • @XmanddrakkeX
    @XmanddrakkeX Рік тому

    Why not with a tab... 🥴🥴🥴🥴

  • @matcoffidis1135
    @matcoffidis1135 2 роки тому

    I thought the notes he plucked between the strums were kinda forceful.

  • @user-fd5hx9sl4z
    @user-fd5hx9sl4z 2 роки тому

    FENのDJみたいな早口の英語なんでついて行きにくい 💦
    日本語の字幕希望~

  • @MarkAnderson-ip9iw
    @MarkAnderson-ip9iw 2 роки тому

    Im one of the millions doing it wrong or my own way since i was 14...

  • @a.c.7541
    @a.c.7541 2 роки тому

    Just like Rocky Raccoon 😔

  • @stratosoldano
    @stratosoldano 2 роки тому

    azz come vibra il la...

  • @marconavarrodiaz7225
    @marconavarrodiaz7225 2 роки тому

    Mucho rostro y mucha explicación yo lo que quiero es aprender la canción