I've been trying to crack that intro for a few too many years now and this is by far the best tutorial I've seen. Thank you so much for explaining this in great detail. Marvellous.
Same here. I've been playing my own intro version at local folk clubs for years. Now I'm gonna crack this if it's the last thing I do! Fantastic tutor.
This tutorial is excellent. Maybe , for the most difficult songs( like Rover) , have a beginner and advanced class. Only , if it doesn't intrude on your enviable life!!!! Cheers!
Wonderful! I can play this, but your layout of teaching it takes so much patience and integrity, I think I would have a stroke trying to break it down like that. Bravo!!
Wonderful lyrics and melody-Ian anderson at his best-"when your falling awake"..I mean thats just genius-you nailed it-looks like you got a nice guitar collection too-thanks
These few months of 'lockdown' has given us the chance of learning some Ian's fabulous songs that we always wanted to play! Thankyou you have been a great help. Cheers from Downunder........
Thank you for this. You are a great guitarist & teacher. I have spent several happy hours trying to follow your instructions. I've more or less got it now but still struggling to play it in a regular rhythm. Ian Anderson also deserves massive credit for writing it in the first place. I look forward to watching more of your tutorials. Once again, thank you very much.
Jethro Tull was , and still is, my number one, but the acoustic Tull was always a bit hard for me to figure out. So i'm very happy with your tutorials, it made me pick up my acoustic guitar more often and i 'see' it now how to play it, so thanks a lot! And keep on goin'. Greetz from the Netherlands!
Greeting from Dublin Ireland again - a bank holiday weekend over here and I’m sitting here working through your lessons and they are absolutely brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing. Let the music keep your spirits high! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I searched your subscription page as well as youtube and never brought this up, so thank you for providing the link over on the Witch's Promise lesson. I'm so grateful to you for these lessons. You're a great teacher and I'm almost incredulous that this lesson is available for a song I have loved for about 50 years or so and never ever thought I'd be able to learn how to play. That has yet to be determined but it's sure going to be fun to try and I won't give up until I die with this guitar cradled under me! Hope that takes a while, too! Incidentally, love the video of your trip and find it so interesting to learn about your guitar(s). I also have a guitar with a rosewood body but a cedar top and love it so much because the guitar just vibrates right through my body.
I'm really glad you found my channel. Your last line says it all when I'm test driving new guitars. If you hold it against your body and you feel in vibrate into your chest, that's a great sign of resonance. In general, I've found the more lightly built, the more resonance. I've played quite a few vintage Martins from the '20s and '30s (my friend owns a music store and collects vintage Martins) and when you pick those things up they feel like air. I think it's because they were built lightly in the first place and then the wood dries further during the decades. Those are some of the best guitars I've ever played but I'm not willing to pay a fortune for one. Cheers!
Thank you so much for providing these videos. I have just stumbled across this channel and I am so grateful that you have taken the time to tutor many of the acoustic guitar parts to the songs of Ian Anderson. Brilliant!
I just came across this and a new song for me. I’ve never been a JT fan but this definitely changed my level of respect for Ian A. You did a great job breaking this song down. I also think that you did a great job adding your vocals. I look forward to checking your posts. I would love any tutorials of Darkhorse (GH) or maybe a Colin Hay song. Keep up the good work and helping to play this accurately as possible. Thx dude
Masterful! That will take some serious practice to learn, but definitely worth the effort. Thank you for that very thorough tutorial. Already looking forward to the next Ian Anderson lesson.
I managed to learn Witch's Promise pretty quickly - at least enough to play along with the 3/4 speed video but it's going to take some more time to perfect it. This one, though, is going to take a whole lot of practice for me! Good luck to you!
That was a cool trip. I hope you are having lots of those. Also very experienced way of teaching a song. All the relevant things are there and now it is up to the student how patience and willing they are to learn the song. Reword is for those who do follow it thru. And I could not agree more on how great the song is. Thank you for your effort and time into making this video. much appreciated!❤
I owe you my life for capturing Ian’s genius and attempting .. quite masterfully how to … try… snd play it ! Too many stories to tell of my obsession with Ian on acoustic then and even today ….. big thanks
I am so glad I found this! I'm at work now, but I will start this over the weekend. If it takes me a year, that's fine. Thank you for taking the time to make this lesson!
@@snoozedoctor So am I! Recently, I nailed (as best I can nail things) "Here Comes the Sun." I finally started to figure out how to strum chords through a measure, hitting certain melody notes while not breaking the rhythm. Then "Life is a Long Song" came up on my shuffle in the car, and I thought, "Y'know, that's the same sort of song. Hmm...I wonder." So I went looking for a lesson and I found yours. I looked at it and thought, "Well, if it takes me a month...six months, it'll be worth it." Now, admittedly, I did nothing yesterday and this morning much more than working on this, but @snoozedoctor, I got it, thanks to you! I was a 30 year beginner until about a year and a half ago, when I decided, "hey man--you're 52. If you want to get good at something that's hard, you better do it now," so I started practicing every day, and it's made a difference. Still, I've listened to this song for 40 years and it's always seemed like a miracle to me that anyone could play it. I dreamed about it. Now I can, or at least I can make my way through it almost at the right tempo and hitting most of the right notes. It'll get there. Maybe I could have found my way through it on my own, eventually, but this lesson was really what made it possible. The world can be a pretty screwed up place, and the internet displays some of the worst of us, but man, there are people like you willing to give their time and talent to strangers to help us do something we've always wanted and add a little musicality to the world. That might not seem like a big thing, but trust me, it is. I thank you for it. I am really grateful to you.
I wouldn't have even attempted this song without your tutorial. It's the only tutorial I've found for this song. There are a couple of covers, but that's not quite the same.
Thanks! I also did a video on how he plays it now, which is slightly different, mainly in the intro. ua-cam.com/video/NTzidq3U1jc/v-deo.htmlsi=1xI_7ugy2wr1oJFB
Thanks. Brilliant tutorial. Takes me back 50 years and never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I might play this. Thanks to utube and your tutorial
Thanks Doc. Adding this to my Tull list. Saw them with my grown son a few years back at the Greek and it was truly memorable. many guys like us with their sons who have discovered our music.
Really like your tutorials. And your comments are interesting too. The only albums of jethron tull that I had were taab and heavy horses. I am finding out more about jethro tull thanks to your tutorials. Great fun! Thanks!
Glad you're enjoying them. TAAB and Heavy Horses were fantastic albums. Stormwatch had some good material but, for me, Heavy Horses was the end of the classic era of Tull. Cheers!
I agree he is an outstanding musician & vocalist, in the band was probably better known for his flute playing while the brilliant Martin Barre played most of the guitar parts.
Again I like to thank you for the wonderful tutorial of Life is a Long Song. I haven’t mastered it completely yet, but I’m working on it… This song especially is very important to me. I heard the song on the radio in 1971 and was immediately drawn to the radio. It was my first acquaintance with Jethro Tull and basically to serious music. It was such an experience. It was the first (and only) single I bought as a 15 year old kid from my (paltry) pocket money. But as it was an EP (with 5 songs) I nevertheless spend the money, with no regret. And I’m in love with Ian Anderson’s music ever since. So thanks again, greetings from The Netherlands Kees van der Lely
Bravo! Your Tull acoustic covers are the most precise I’ve seen for Ian’s unique acoustic style. I don’t know if you take requests but would love a tutorial on Requiem - and I’d pay good money if you can manage to break down Bad-Eyed and Loveless.
I should condense and update this video. It was one of my earlier attempts at a tutorial and it drags. But, I like to repeat things so people don't have to keep rewinding the player over and over to learn a passage. But, the more advanced players find it annoying and that's why I've been doing the 3/4 speed play-a-longs.
Hello, I love how you added in your beautiful hike into your video. I miss hiking. Well I have been craving Jethro Tull instruction for a long, long time and the universe brought me here. Thank you, I am going to master this song until It feels natural. And I am delighted to see you have “Look into the Sun” as well. That has done unique timing. You have a kindred friend with love for Ian Anderson and Tull. ❤️. I hope you read this. Take care
@@snoozedoctor Your videos have revived me from a guitar hiatus. Truly a gift. I have this afternoon fully occupied working on this song (and then others).
Fantastic !!! I have played with a Furch Parlou ... and it sounds amazingly like the master vibes !!! Thank you ... really clear and amazingly well played at the end !!!
@@snoozedoctor yes Captain ! Furch sounds great and that original feeling of a real medieval guitar of the Ministrels in the galleries ;) thank you once again for your master classes !
"One of the more remote places you can go..." And if you're into wrestling Grizzlies for their salmon lunch, heck this is the best place to go to. I'm glad you made it back!!!
Doc, I love you, and you are the best, but this is a rare occasion where you are not playing the song the way Ian plays it.. At least in a more recent youtube video with a string quartet and his piano and drummer. There is a good closeup at the beginning of the video with Ian playing the intro. He is capoed on the fifth fret and instead of the 4th finger G string hammer on, Ian plays a pull off on the B string. Much easier than your version I must say. The strumming pattern is also different. It's my favorite Tull acoustic song. I made my own arrangement of this song on ukulele last year. But, still, I can't live without your TT (Tull tutorial) videos! 100% fan.
@@ludlow52 Thanks Dan. yes, in the linked video, at 9:07, I demonstrate how he currently plays it. But on the original album version he did play it as I demonstrate here. I like his newer version better. It's easier, except he does that Am arpeggio on every verse rather than just the intro. That thing is a bear to play accurately every time. ua-cam.com/video/jdJonDeZryU/v-deo.html
Always love some Tull. I'm 66 and didn't pick up any of the albums until Aqualung One of these days i'm going to hear a couple of the ones i never heard yet. Thanks
I hope it will be helpful. This one rambles a bit. I did an updated version recently. You can check my channel for that one. I show how to play it as Ian did on his 2000 DVD, I think it was called Living With the Past.
Muchas gracias, en éste canal estoy encontrando todas las canciones acústicas de JT que siempre quise tocar. Como comentan Ian Anderson es un guitarrista muy infravalorado que hace las canciones complicadas para ser sacadas de oído .
I've always assumed Ian was heavily influenced by John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and all the other fine technical acoustic players in england in the late 60's, all of whom tried to learn each others tricks and outdo each other. In retrospect Ian was right up there with all of them, an extraordinary composer and all round performer with a unique energy. I love this piece so much. Thank you for explaining so carefully how to play it.
I was always a bit surprised that Ian never took up finger-style guitar, at least not that I'm aware of. What he manages with a plectrum is quite impressive though. An amazingly original and accurate player.
Thanks! Yes, it isn't easy. I find this one particularly difficult to get the nuances and sing with any degree of phrasing at the same time. Ian was so automatic with his guitar that he could really focus on vocal phrasing, something he doesn't get enough credit for. Right up there with the best.
wow. I'm really jealous. Although, make sure you check out snow conditions in June. Many of the high passes may still be snow covered. The Wind Rivers are one of my favorite ranges. Wild, unspoiled and incredibly rugged. You're probably headed to Titcomb Basin? Tried to make it there once but turned back due to severe storms. Had beautiful weather on the trip this year!
I'm glad you found my channel! I don't have tabs but I do more in-depth tutorials on songs of anyone's choice, available at jethrotulltutorials@gmail.com. It doesn't have to be Tull material, I'll do any lesson as long as I'm able to play it.
Thanks! It's a little disorganized. I did a more recent tutorial on how he plays it more recently. The intro is a little different. ua-cam.com/video/NTzidq3U1jc/v-deo.htmlsi=Klevi-OtCP9aSYjH
ua-cam.com/video/lsQJl8tXO1Y/v-deo.html Here's a link for snoozedoctor to one of the tunes from the forthcoming new JT album. I find that Ian's vocal is quite good for a guy with his wear and tear.
I've listened to some of the tracks from the new album. His voice is definitely better on studio work compared to live performance. Maybe it's because of the strain of a tour?
let me know how I can refund your payment for the lesson. A great pointer is that you can actually use your mouse or track pad to scroll forward on a YT video to the place you're interested in. If you need a free lesson on how to do that, let me know. I'll send you a private link.
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I've been trying to crack that intro for a few too many years now and this is by far the best tutorial I've seen. Thank you so much for explaining this in great detail. Marvellous.
Great! Hope it helps.
Same here. I've been playing my own intro version at local folk clubs for years. Now I'm gonna crack this if it's the last thing I do! Fantastic tutor.
@@martynroach182 good man.
@@martynroach182 I'd stick with your own version, I bet it sounds just as good. Your hands are just as unique as Ian Anderson's.
Agree, great tutor.
This tutorial is excellent. Maybe , for the most difficult songs( like Rover) , have a beginner and advanced class. Only , if it doesn't intrude on your enviable life!!!! Cheers!
Thankyou. I've a feeling you're owed many beers.
Cheers! I'm raising a pint now.
Wonderful! I can play this, but your layout of teaching it takes so much patience and integrity, I think I would have a stroke trying to break it down like that. Bravo!!
Thanks! I can be tedious at times but I have fun trying to get the nuances.
Wonderful lyrics and melody-Ian anderson at his best-"when your falling awake"..I mean thats just genius-you nailed it-looks like you got a nice guitar collection too-thanks
If it wasn't enough that Ian's gift of melody was incredible, he was also a brilliant lyricist.
These few months of 'lockdown' has given us the chance of learning some Ian's fabulous songs that we always
wanted to play! Thankyou you have been a great help. Cheers from Downunder........
And cheers to you!
Thank you for this. You are a great guitarist & teacher. I have spent several happy hours trying to follow your instructions. I've more or less got it now but still struggling to play it in a regular rhythm. Ian Anderson also deserves massive credit for writing it in the first place. I look forward to watching more of your tutorials. Once again, thank you very much.
Glad to help! I agree, Anderson is a master composer.
Jethro Tull was , and still is, my number one, but the acoustic Tull was always a bit hard for me to figure out. So i'm very happy with your tutorials, it made me pick up my acoustic guitar more often and i 'see' it now how to play it, so thanks a lot! And keep on goin'.
Greetz from the Netherlands!
Greetings! Glad to be of some help!
Ian Anderson is magnificent to listen to, I. can't imagine how hard it is to replicate his skill.
that he is!
Greeting from Dublin Ireland again - a bank holiday weekend over here and I’m sitting here working through your lessons and they are absolutely brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing. Let the music keep your spirits high! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Raise a pint for me!
I searched your subscription page as well as youtube and never brought this up, so thank you for providing the link over on the Witch's Promise lesson. I'm so grateful to you for these lessons. You're a great teacher and I'm almost incredulous that this lesson is available for a song I have loved for about 50 years or so and never ever thought I'd be able to learn how to play. That has yet to be determined but it's sure going to be fun to try and I won't give up until I die with this guitar cradled under me! Hope that takes a while, too!
Incidentally, love the video of your trip and find it so interesting to learn about your guitar(s). I also have a guitar with a rosewood body but a cedar top and love it so much because the guitar just vibrates right through my body.
I'm really glad you found my channel. Your last line says it all when I'm test driving new guitars. If you hold it against your body and you feel in vibrate into your chest, that's a great sign of resonance. In general, I've found the more lightly built, the more resonance. I've played quite a few vintage Martins from the '20s and '30s (my friend owns a music store and collects vintage Martins) and when you pick those things up they feel like air. I think it's because they were built lightly in the first place and then the wood dries further during the decades. Those are some of the best guitars I've ever played but I'm not willing to pay a fortune for one. Cheers!
Thank you so much for providing these videos. I have just stumbled across this channel and I am so grateful that you have taken the time to tutor many of the acoustic guitar parts to the songs of Ian Anderson. Brilliant!
Glad you like them!
Another great TT . Your attention to detail makes it so , everytime. Thanks again for the best TT's on UA-cam.
Thanks again!
I just came across this and a new song for me. I’ve never been a JT fan but this definitely changed my level of respect for Ian A. You did a great job breaking this song down. I also think that you did a great job adding your vocals. I look forward to checking your posts. I would love any tutorials of Darkhorse (GH) or maybe a Colin Hay song. Keep up the good work and helping to play this accurately as possible. Thx dude
Thanks for listening and commenting! Much appreciated.
Masterful! That will take some serious practice to learn, but definitely worth the effort. Thank you for that very thorough tutorial. Already looking forward to the next Ian Anderson lesson.
Trying to decide what's next. I'll deliberate on it.
I managed to learn Witch's Promise pretty quickly - at least enough to play along with the 3/4 speed video but it's going to take some more time to perfect it. This one, though, is going to take a whole lot of practice for me! Good luck to you!
That was a cool trip. I hope you are having lots of those. Also very experienced way of teaching a song. All the relevant things are there and now it is up to the student how patience and willing they are to learn the song. Reword is for those who do follow it thru. And I could not agree more on how great the song is. Thank you for your effort and time into making this video. much appreciated!❤
Thanks for the kind words! Cheers!
I owe you my life for capturing Ian’s genius and attempting .. quite masterfully how to … try… snd play it ! Too many stories to tell of my obsession with Ian on acoustic then and even today ….. big thanks
Thanks for the kind comment!
I am so glad I found this! I'm at work now, but I will start this over the weekend. If it takes me a year, that's fine. Thank you for taking the time to make this lesson!
Hey, I'm glad you found it!
@@snoozedoctor So am I!
Recently, I nailed (as best I can nail things) "Here Comes the Sun." I finally started to figure out how to strum chords through a measure, hitting certain melody notes while not breaking the rhythm. Then "Life is a Long Song" came up on my shuffle in the car, and I thought, "Y'know, that's the same sort of song. Hmm...I wonder."
So I went looking for a lesson and I found yours. I looked at it and thought, "Well, if it takes me a month...six months, it'll be worth it."
Now, admittedly, I did nothing yesterday and this morning much more than working on this, but @snoozedoctor, I got it, thanks to you!
I was a 30 year beginner until about a year and a half ago, when I decided, "hey man--you're 52. If you want to get good at something that's hard, you better do it now," so I started practicing every day, and it's made a difference. Still, I've listened to this song for 40 years and it's always seemed like a miracle to me that anyone could play it. I dreamed about it.
Now I can, or at least I can make my way through it almost at the right tempo and hitting most of the right notes. It'll get there.
Maybe I could have found my way through it on my own, eventually, but this lesson was really what made it possible.
The world can be a pretty screwed up place, and the internet displays some of the worst of us, but man, there are people like you willing to give their time and talent to strangers to help us do something we've always wanted and add a little musicality to the world. That might not seem like a big thing, but trust me, it is.
I thank you for it. I am really grateful to you.
It had been a year or so and I'd forgotten how to play it. Came back for a tune-up. Thanks again, Doc!
I wouldn't have even attempted this song without your tutorial. It's the only tutorial I've found for this song. There are a couple of covers, but that's not quite the same.
Thanks! I also did a video on how he plays it now, which is slightly different, mainly in the intro.
ua-cam.com/video/NTzidq3U1jc/v-deo.htmlsi=1xI_7ugy2wr1oJFB
Thanks from Denver CO. Not too many tutorials on this great song. This is by far the best - in fact the only one worth looking at.
Hey, thanks. Love Colorado! Cheers.
Thanks. Brilliant tutorial. Takes me back 50 years and never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I might play this. Thanks to utube and your tutorial
I recently did an updated tutorial on this, more in line with how Ian plays this more recently. He changed a few things.
@snoozedoctor yep seen it, thanks.
Thanks Doc. Adding this to my Tull list. Saw them with my grown son a few years back at the Greek and it was truly memorable. many guys like us with their sons who have discovered our music.
You're welcome. I always like to hear when young folks get into our "old" music.
They have turned me on to some of their "young" music too. @@snoozedoctor
Really like your tutorials. And your comments are interesting too. The only albums of jethron tull that I had were taab and heavy horses. I am finding out more about jethro tull thanks to your tutorials. Great fun! Thanks!
Glad you're enjoying them. TAAB and Heavy Horses were fantastic albums. Stormwatch had some good material but, for me, Heavy Horses was the end of the classic era of Tull. Cheers!
I think he is the most underrated guitar player in rock.
Funny thing is he isn’t really playing rock. It’s straight up folk music.
Folk, as in around 1450AD, folk, music
@@panzerlieb folk birthed rock
I agree he is an outstanding musician & vocalist, in the band was probably better known for his flute playing while the brilliant Martin Barre played most of the guitar parts.
Martin Barre is the guitarist in the band Jethro Tull
Again I like to thank you for the wonderful tutorial of Life is a Long Song. I haven’t mastered it completely yet, but I’m working on it…
This song especially is very important to me. I heard the song on the radio in 1971 and was immediately drawn to the radio. It was my first acquaintance with Jethro Tull and basically to serious music. It was such an experience.
It was the first (and only) single I bought as a 15 year old kid from my (paltry) pocket money. But as it was an EP (with 5 songs) I nevertheless spend the money, with no regret. And I’m in love with Ian Anderson’s music ever since.
So thanks again, greetings from The Netherlands
Kees van der Lely
Thanks for such a kind comment! Tull deserved more airplay than they received back in the day. Cheers to you!
Thanks, I learnt this amazing song in 22 minutes flat. Great lesson! Thanks mate!
Awesome!
You must be one helluva player! Congratulations!
Thanks you are great! I'm waiting years for this lesson :) you're doing it with a lot of patience
Stay tuned for more!
Nice video, thanks for the tuning moment and well-known parts. What a great tune, thanks!
My pleasure!
Bravo! Your Tull acoustic covers are the most precise I’ve seen for Ian’s unique acoustic style. I don’t know if you take requests but would love a tutorial on Requiem - and I’d pay good money if you can manage to break down Bad-Eyed and Loveless.
Requiem is coming up. I'm doing all the ones I already know and then maybe I'll learn some new ones.
snoozedoctor Thank you. Very kind of you to take the time to make these tutorials.
Thanks a lot for all your tutorials of the JT acoustic stuff which I love so much especially this song.
Glad you like them!
This is THE song that ,I'm sure will bloody my fingers. But I WILL learn it using your great instruction . I'll check back in a year.:>
I should condense and update this video. It was one of my earlier attempts at a tutorial and it drags. But, I like to repeat things so people don't have to keep rewinding the player over and over to learn a passage. But, the more advanced players find it annoying and that's why I've been doing the 3/4 speed play-a-longs.
Thank you so much for doing this. Much appreciated!
Stay. tuned for more!
Really enjoyed that lesson what a wonderfully bright sound you have and masterful technique. Again, I really enjoyed that
This one is a bit tricky to play. He is such an amazing acoustic guitar player.
Thank you so much for sharing . I am very grateful for your efforts. Love it. Keep up the good works.
Thanks so much!
Hello, I love how you added in your beautiful hike into your video. I miss hiking. Well I have been craving Jethro Tull instruction for a long, long time and the universe brought me here. Thank you, I am going to master this song until It feels natural. And I am delighted to see you have “Look into the Sun” as well. That has done unique timing. You have a kindred friend with love for Ian Anderson and Tull. ❤️. I hope you read this. Take care
Glad you found my channel! Thanks for the kind comment!
Just caught your tutorial. Very good. Finally can play it. Only took 50 years.
Thanks! I have an updated more recent one for this song that is a bit simpler in the intro, the way he plays it more recently. Cheers!
The song I’ve asked to be played at my funeral. No time soon, I hope. Thank you.
Thank you! May you live long and prosper. It ends too soon for us all.
@@snoozedoctor Your videos have revived me from a guitar hiatus. Truly a gift. I have this afternoon fully occupied working on this song (and then others).
Fantastic !!! I have played with a Furch Parlou ... and it sounds amazingly like the master vibes !!! Thank you ... really clear and amazingly well played at the end !!!
The Furch looks like a nice instrument!
@@snoozedoctor yes Captain ! Furch sounds great and that original feeling of a real medieval guitar of the Ministrels in the galleries ;) thank you once again for your master classes !
You are such a brilliant player. Big Thanks for your tutorial from Wiesbaden, Germany
My pleasure! Cheers! My family is from Stuttgart.
Bravo mate. Absolutely beautiful.
Many thanks! Cheers!
"One of the more remote places you can go..." And if you're into wrestling Grizzlies for their salmon lunch, heck this is the best place to go to. I'm glad you made it back!!!
It's a wonderful place!
Ive taken your advice on another video and sold a few of my lesser guitars and upgraded to an Eastman E20SS/V. It's beautiful, so thanks for the tip 👍
yeah, the Eastmans are high quality. Several of friends play them. Great value.
Thanks bro..always wanted to play this great little song and you have taught me how
Glad I could help!
I dig your tutorials of Tull.
Thanks ever so much. 👍
thanks so much!
Cheers from Chile mate!! Excellent tutorial.
Gracias! ¡He estado en Coyhaique y Torres del Paine! ¡Hermoso!
Just revisiting this. Once again, it is excellent - thanks.
You're welcome!
Awesome tutorial! Many thanks! I'll be spending some time with this video and others of yours!
Glad you found my channel!
Brilliant song, really excellent lesson. You are appreciated!
Thank you kindly!
I thought I knew this song. Now I know better. Thanks again Doc! You’re the best!
Glad to help!
Great tutorial... the most beautifull song of Jethro Tull... I will try to play... thank you!
Good luck with it!
Doc, I love you, and you are the best, but this is a rare occasion where you are not playing the song the way Ian plays it.. At least in a more recent youtube video with a string quartet and his piano and drummer. There is a good closeup at the beginning of the video with Ian playing the intro. He is capoed on the fifth fret and instead of the 4th finger G string hammer on, Ian plays a pull off on the B string. Much easier than your version I must say. The strumming pattern is also different. It's my favorite Tull acoustic song. I made my own arrangement of this song on ukulele last year. But, still, I can't live without your TT (Tull tutorial) videos! 100% fan.
It's not really a pull off, but Ian picks the C then B on the open B string (notes relative to capo).
@@ludlow52 Thanks Dan. yes, in the linked video, at 9:07, I demonstrate how he currently plays it. But on the original album version he did play it as I demonstrate here. I like his newer version better. It's easier, except he does that Am arpeggio on every verse rather than just the intro. That thing is a bear to play accurately every time.
ua-cam.com/video/jdJonDeZryU/v-deo.html
Always love some Tull. I'm 66 and didn't pick up any of the albums until Aqualung One of these days i'm going to hear a couple of the ones i never heard yet. Thanks
Thanks for the comment! Cheers!
Shall be practicing ur tutorial until perfected. Such a brilliant piece. Many thanks
thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
just wanted to chime in.... that is going to take a lot of work to get up tempo.... thanks so much for paying this forward....really enjoyed this one!
Start slow and get the muscle memory going! I still have a hard time with the tempo and singing it at the same time.
excellent!!! you have a lovely talent.
Thank you very much!
Thanks from Sydney Australia for this lesson. JT = great!
Good luck mate! Hope to make it down there someday!
@@snoozedoctor Let me know when you do. Given the current restrictions, it could be a while.
Thank you for this! Really clear... Not that I have mastered it, but I can play it through now... 👍
Glad I could help! I have a more recent updated tutorial.
Thank-you. Great song. Will try it. 👍
I hope it will be helpful. This one rambles a bit. I did an updated version recently. You can check my channel for that one. I show how to play it as Ian did on his 2000 DVD, I think it was called Living With the Past.
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Thanks. Any semblance of it would be an achievement for me. 🤣
Really helpful tutorial for a really great song - thanks very much
glad you liked it!
Really solid. Thanks brother
I've done a more recent recap. Ian changed the intro somewhat, made it easier.
Great lesson, great video, thanks for sharing…
Glad you liked it!
Muchas gracias, en éste canal estoy encontrando todas las canciones acústicas de JT que siempre quise tocar. Como comentan Ian Anderson es un guitarrista muy infravalorado que hace las canciones complicadas para ser sacadas de oído .
De nada. Saludos para ti.
Muchas gracias por su paciente y detallado tutorial. Un placer.
You are welcome!
Great lesson indeed! Many thanks from Mumbai, India👍👍
Awesome! What a joy to connect with someone so distant!
I've always assumed Ian was heavily influenced by John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and all the other fine technical acoustic players in england in the late 60's, all of whom tried to learn each others tricks and outdo each other. In retrospect Ian was right up there with all of them, an extraordinary composer and all round performer with a unique energy. I love this piece so much. Thank you for explaining so carefully how to play it.
I was always a bit surprised that Ian never took up finger-style guitar, at least not that I'm aware of. What he manages with a plectrum is quite impressive though. An amazingly original and accurate player.
Nice job. Playing this complex piece AND singing at the same time is very difficult.
Thanks! Yes, it isn't easy. I find this one particularly difficult to get the nuances and sing with any degree of phrasing at the same time. Ian was so automatic with his guitar that he could really focus on vocal phrasing, something he doesn't get enough credit for. Right up there with the best.
Thank you! Magnificent!
Glad you enjoyed it!
love the tull lessons...hmmm im doing a 100 mile hike in the wind rivers next june.
wow. I'm really jealous. Although, make sure you check out snow conditions in June. Many of the high passes may still be snow covered. The Wind Rivers are one of my favorite ranges. Wild, unspoiled and incredibly rugged. You're probably headed to Titcomb Basin? Tried to make it there once but turned back due to severe storms. Had beautiful weather on the trip this year!
I'm a recent, very grateful, follower and fan of your tuitions. Do you ever publish tabs for these Tull songs?
I'm glad you found my channel! I don't have tabs but I do more in-depth tutorials on songs of anyone's choice, available at jethrotulltutorials@gmail.com. It doesn't have to be Tull material, I'll do any lesson as long as I'm able to play it.
Very good …super tutorial and super played
Many thanks!! A bit tedious but one of my first efforts.
Nice job! Great tutorial!
Glad you like it! Thanks!
Loved it!
glad you enjoyed it! One of my earlier attempts so it meanders a bit.
Fantastic. Thank you very much. Xs.
you are welcome! Cheers!
Thank you very much! A great job again!
Thanks! Have fun with it!
thsnks for that great tutorial 👍
Thanks! It's a little disorganized. I did a more recent tutorial on how he plays it more recently. The intro is a little different.
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Very well done, thanks!
Absolutely.
A.. then I'm yours. Genius!
Thank you thank you
I want to go there. Now!
All Ian Anderson’s guitar parts are tricky.
they are. He's not an ordinary strummer of things.
One of my many, many Jethro Tull favourite songs, and the first one of their's I ever heard too.
Thank you for your tutorial.
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One of my favorite too. Such a great melody.
@@snoozedoctor, oh yes indeed. What a classic.
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Bravo..
Thanks so much!
ua-cam.com/video/lsQJl8tXO1Y/v-deo.html Here's a link for snoozedoctor to one of the tunes from the forthcoming new JT album. I find that Ian's vocal is quite good for a guy with his wear and tear.
I've listened to some of the tracks from the new album. His voice is definitely better on studio work compared to live performance. Maybe it's because of the strain of a tour?
Didn't know John Higgins played guitar. 🤔
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By George i think he's got it...! 👌👌👌👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
Very gog
Thanks!
Dude. Came on here for a lesson. No one cares about your camping trip, your home videos or what guitar you're playing. Get to it already.
let me know how I can refund your payment for the lesson. A great pointer is that you can actually use your mouse or track pad to scroll forward on a YT video to the place you're interested in. If you need a free lesson on how to do that, let me know. I'll send you a private link.