how to play "Shape Of My Heart" on guitar by Sting | guitar lesson tutorial
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An acoustic guitar lesson on how to play "Shape Of My Heart" by Sting, co-written by Dominic Miller who also plays the great guitar parts. It's from the "Ten Summoner's Tales" album released on March 9th, 1993. My version is a mix of the live and studio versions.
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yay! Tabs are back!
Will there be tab bundles any time soon?
Simply, the best lesson!
Can you tell me the guitar brand and model? Thanks for the tut!
What guitar is that??
Great tutorial.... It's time to bust out the Classical, change the strings, oil her up and get to business....
6:56
LOL.... Dominic once called it the "chord from hell"...
The Shape of My Hand is destroyed after learning this.
lol
Genius.
Little finger rip
Haha
I feel you😂😂
My fingers havent stopped hurting since i first watched this
Same
😂😂
😂 So true. And he makes it look so easy. Nothing like a sweet little ballad as u die from joint pain.
@@petersister I have to say after playing it almost everyday for three months its super easy and not painful at all :D
Play it over and over and over then. If you fingers are hurting, it’s because you haven’t worked enough on stretch chords in the past. Like anything, it gets easier as you do it more and eventually, you’ll forget it was difficult for you 😉
This move is what I call "Learning a song way out of my league"
I couldn't agree more
After a few months of trying to play this whole song you’ll be able to do it with minimal errors just keep at it!
If you’ve been playing long it won’t take long. But also, finger picked stuff like this is great to learn. You learn more of the mechanics; what’s going on. Tho it seems daunting it really isn’t.
That’s the secret to finger picked stuff, in a lot of ways it’s easier. I learned this song in about half a day, not perfect, and I did it mostly by ear. Took a week of obsessing but I nailed it. But that comes with time and patience. I’m here because I wanted to make sure I’m dead on.
That’s the thing with guitar. It’s all being patient and just sticking to it. The song will be in your league one day, before you even realize it.
Practice makes perfect, don’t ever give up.
"A Noob's Fantasy"
I've been on this for about 10 days. An hour a day mostly. Some notes throughout don't ring out like I want yet. I am determined to be patient and build muscle memory. I know it takes time after time of revisiting it. It's a beast! Playing it slowly as I can stand, then trying full tempo too much like we all do. Thank you for the great lesson. Making my guitar playing better for sure. MY HAND HURTS in a good way!
That's the way!
I remember when i was like that... Nowadays i can't sit myself down and learn anything
I miss the days when i was that passionate....
@@sirdaniel9936 dude did your situaton end now in 2022?
Hello mate, i've never played guitare myself and really wanna start by this fabulous song. It probably is my most favourite song of all time and I want to know how to play it.
I started like 1 hour ago and my wrist hurt for sure.
But it is really amazing to see how you can make a guitare sing in just an hour.
I hope you did manage to learn it
Have a good day
@@MsMisterCvery ambitious start😮
Man, I didn't think my fingers could stretch that way, but after a few days I'm getting it. Feels great to play out of my element.
Do you have any advice? For the first chord when I put my first thinger on the 6 on the G string, the furtherst I can get my pinky is just barely the 9 on the B
Honestly, I think it was easier for me, because I play lots of bossa nova and mpb, which usually has lots of these crazy chords and positions that envolves a hard stretch. I actually advise any starting guitar player, even the ones who are not from Brasil and don't like this genre to check it out, it's great for learning new techniques, use of the thumb, finding new chords, and changing from to weird positions on the guitar.
Ya man.....YES !
Damn! I’m 59 and you have brought me back into playing and have not stoped for going on 2years! You have inspired me and can not thank you enough! Even purchased a new Taylor 214 ce and lookin at a 324ce or 524ce once I’m able! You are, in my opinion the best player/instructor on UA-cam! Thank you!!
Rayvonne SR he certainly is.
Wasn’t too easy, wasn’t impossible. It was just perfect to learn and practice something new!
You know what you did? You inspired me to start playing again after about 20 years of abstinence. The guy who wrote this piece is a genius, and so are you, breaking this down in an understandable way. I probably won't master this but as you said it is a fantastic workout. Thank you so much!
Well done you. I stopped playing 20 odd years ago now and Im getting that itch.
Dominic Miller wrote the guitar part. Stongs right hand man for years.
@@KennyEvansUKI am a big fan of Stongs work
Jeez. It’s Stong’s, with an apostrophe 😂😂
Ok these comments are WAYYYY underrated ... 😂😂
so far this is the BEST guitar lesson of this song.
Every lesson Andy gives is the best.
Dominic Miller himself also has done a guitar tut for this song. Not much explainers but a good camera angle so its good enough.
So creepy weird and coincidental that he posted the lesson for this song when I literally was just listening to it yesterday and wanted to learn how to play it. 😳
Ye tell me something 😁
You're not alone.....! It may or may not have been the same day, but it's close....
This is an awesome tutorial, btw....I've got most of it down.....
There's no such thing as coincidence ;)
Acceptable reasons to be here:
1. Sting
2. Leon the Professional
Yes
3. GTA vices city
RIP Juice WRLD
999shit
Lets be Honest JuiceWrld did a great job if you see that different you didn’t hear the song 😂
You blow me away, you never cease to amaze me, fantastic job.
EXCELLENT -
why would anyone put a thumbs down - beats me - obviously take offence at someone playing really well ? - I've played over 50 years professionally - this guy never deserves a thumbs down
it's an amazing guitar part. you can see the stevie ray vaughan influence, strangely. The Lenny chord is in there and all those stretches and unresolved chords, especially at the end, are like Riviera Paradise. Always loved this song, it's on another level.
I find it awesome that Dominic Miller actually wrote this piece for the purpose of practice and when Sting heard it he insisted they make it into an actual song.
One of my favorite Sting tunes! He's got so many, it's hard to pick. 'Fill Her Up' is also a great deep cut.
Andy, you kill it every time. You are the ‘guitar’ man!!!
First of all, and this is my first comment on one of your videos and long overdue, I want to say your videos are amazing and you are amazing. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re playing is terrific but the talk track including some history on the song/guitarist and insights is equally excellent. I’ve been learning this great song and want to say i discovered another option on how to play the “want to make you give up chord”. As im playing in that chord shape, i start off just like you but then I slide my pointer finger up a fret to get that hard to reach note on the high E string without moving anything else and then play the last note on the B string.
I've been waiting ! Beautiful!!!
I get to know of such beautiful songs because of him!
One of my most favorite songs and again the best tutorial of it by far! Man since I've found you on Yt I no longer look for any other instructors, to me you're non-comparable to others! Many many thanks!!
I am so happy that you have finally figured out how to provide TABs for your lessons. These make a huge difference and will add to your popularity! Yea!!!
Man …..I don't need to tell you about the difference a high quality instrument and a proper setup makes in terms of playability. On my cheap guitar, I cannot afford to relax my pinky a bit and allow it to rest closer to the middle of the fret like he does here and still produce a decent tone. Because I'm forced to play every note as close as possible to the fret wire, those finger twisters he talks about are incredibly difficult to pull off and sound relatively clean. Same applies for the barring parts.
That being said, what an incredible composition by Dominic Miller though! And what a great lesson to help students learn such an iconic tune! Despite the obvious hindrances, I was able to learn the basics of the tune in a few hours. In a few days time I was able to play the majority of the song and sing along with it!
I would give a lot to be able to play this magnificent piece.
Correction: I will give a lot (of time) up until I'm be able to play this magnificent piece.
Signed: the guy who played 1001 times each of your 3 videos for the Since I've been loving you tutorial.
Bro just practice. it's easy, you can do it
Thank you so much for your lessons on here, they are absolutely fantastic! I worked on your "I Don't know why" lesson first for at least a month and am starting to slowly get there now, not sure how long this one will take but it's been a long time I wanted to play this so I'm sure I'll get there with your superb break downs! Kudos and thanx again!
Thank you so much for your tremendous work, blessings ever from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
this is by farr the best intermediate kind of guitar channel i have came across.
Its taken nearly 3 weeks but I've just about got this memorised, but its a slog. I just have to keep practising. THANK YOU so much for this lesson. Its incredibly valuable and of course the piece is just beautiful so well worth the effort.
One of my all time favorites. This song makes me weep.
Amazing as always, love the fact that he teaches live tricks as well
STILL the best guitar lesson tutorials on youtube. Thank you
Always good to hear from you. I remember you from practically day one of my channel! Cheers, Andy.
You're by far the best Guitar teacher on youtube. These are flawless!
Just note that Dominic Miller usually plays it on his 3/4 size guitar. It makes his life much easier.
indeed. Is this lesson on a full scale?
@@rockyjohnstoneto me it like like a full size in this video, i have a 3/4 Classic Guitar and it looks much smaller.
yeah my pinky is demolished on a streel guitar
Maybe I'll try it on my 1/4 guitar 😅
Thanks , you are a great teacher, made my day with this song.
Thank you for the tutorial, I am from France and now I know that's the best song for finger and hand stretching... Just amazing!!
Blows away all other tutorials on UA-cam.
Thank you for you kind words. Cheers, Andy.
Wow, I keep playing your rendition in the beginning over and over… Fantastic!!! You make it look so easy. Great job.
Amazing Tutorial. Your lesson coupled with Rick Beatos interview with Sting and Dominic Miller, Life is now complete!
Hi there, I really appreciate the time and value you've put into these lessons, it's such a joy to play these songs
Dominic Miller has a lesson for the intro on UA-cam, nice to have the rest of it.
I watched Dominic playing this during an interview with Rick Beato. He made it look so effortless.
The most well explained video ive seen and by far the best version of this track 👊
Dude, this is the most perfect lesson ever. I love how you play back after pretty much every new explanation of a part.
I have said this often but I am really glad I am at the level where I am at currently in terms of technical proficiency and how quick I can learn new things.
I have just watched your video while eating eggs and I bet if I focus real hard I can play 60% of the new stuff in the next 1 or 2 tries already.
That's how well you explain this stuff and repeat it showing it's place in the greater whole.
I also agree with everything you said at the end about the workout and such, I have pretty big hands but jesuschrist I need to really stretch and be warm for this great exercise haha.
That's how I tend to write as well. "can my fingers still do this after some practicing and does it sound cool" is kinda my motto.
tl;dr u just gained a lifelong subscriber guy if this is like exemplatory of ur videos
You played this so nice and cleanly and it really highlights what a stunning little bit of guitar work it is. Sounds simple but is actually complex in it's make up and twists and turns all over the place.
I tried this exact lesson around a year ago and couldn’t do it at all. After a year of on and off practice I came back to it and picked it up within an hour. Very hyped about it🙏🏽
This is one I'm going to sink my heart into, such melodic playing, done exquisitely beautiful. I tell many of my friends to watch your channel. Another best from your tutorials. In my opinion, the Best on UA-cam! 🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for taking the time to patiently teach me this song!
Man, you are a genius for real, I really appreciate the content.
Never heard this before....its always nice to be enlightened. Great material as always man...cheers
Thanks Andy ! You made my little fingers getting crazy but what a satisfaction to be able to play this lovely song !!!... good job as usually ! I really enjoy your way of teaching and I want you to know that my english comprehension is getting better from day to day thanks to your explanations .Best regards from France !!
Amazing. A student of mine mentioned this tune to me, and even though I was in college when it was released, I never heard it before. Great lesson!
Request - please do Silver Wheels by Heart
At this time I'm thinking 'I'll never be able to do that'! I'll let you know when I've got it! Fantastic tutorial though. Beautifully played and taught well.
Great lesson, as always. Really good song to learn, not that bad when you get at it. Thanks for making guitar lessons for guitarist!
Finally, i didnt have any new thing in my repertuar for a long time. You are the only teacher on youtube, that actually teaches the song perfectly. Last one, the rolling stones one wasn't in standard tuning and i was disappointed... Thanks for this classic!
This song was on my mind, so glad I can learn it now! Thanks Andy!
Yes! So gorgeous. Sting is a genius.
I always wanted to learn this song and I finally got it done thanks for your tutorial is right on point thanks man.
Это именно то произведение, которое каждый уважающий себя гитарист должен знать!
You are an awesome player and teacher, thanks for sharing. I have enjoyed learning some complicated stuff that you have videos of, it helps a lot to see someone play them the right way first. Your accuracy and chord choices are right with the original songs and artists. Most people may not recognize that playing just cowboy chords adds nothing to the original compositions, it makes them sound flat and boring. 🎸🎸
This is a fire lesson, appreciate it.
Thank you very very much for your effort and enthusiasm in teaching all these pearls of good music! I'm learning a lot from you and respect u a lot....wish u all the best
youch, I like it! I went with 2 different voicings ( utter laziness) to simplify the fingering). Small tonal difference. Terrific, thanks Andy.
This is the best of the best tutorial, is complete !!!
You’re a freak of nature bro… Respect! Thanks for the fantastic videos..
finally some tutorial who figured the transposed part out. Thank you veeery much! This brought me the little, but important missing parts I wanted so much.
Thanks. I put a lot of time and effort into making these videos. I like to keep them free for those that can't afford it, but if you can, please support what I do. Cheers, Andy www.shutupandplay.ca/donate.html
@@ShutupAndPlayGuitarTutorials missed opportunity to host the website at "shut up and pay" LOL
Thanks for the tutorial, I'll get this eventually. Such beautiful work by Dominic here
Amazing key change in the break love it
What a great tutorial.... Time to change the strings and get to it....
Awesome as always...ten sommoner’s tales is a great album...”it’s probably me” is a fav!!!
The best yet. Well done.
This is the best taight tutorial i have learned before
Sorry for my borken english
Keep up the good work
Best tutorial by far on that song .
Thank you...
Genial! And i now begin to learn play this beautiful song. Tks so much. From Vilcún Chile Iván Ponce.
Finally came back and finished learning this, now to practice!!!
I’m watching Leon the Professional right now because of this, and after I’m learning it
(some background, this song was used in Leon the Professional(1994 classic film) which gave it so much meaning)
I need to play it live next weekend, you've svaed my life, thanks!!!
Fantastic playing and teaching !!! 🙏
The sound of your instrument sounds so cool..thanks for teaching the entire piece, now I'm learn it too👍
Just amazing how you play it. Thanks for taking the time. I’ll say it again, really amazing playing!
The tricky bit at 7:03 is a lot easier if you keeping holding the bar at the 4th fret. You're already in position...
This guitar sounds so beautiful and so soft oof
a big, big, big, thank you very much for this fantastic lesson! good life and good music for you
ohhh...
BEAUTIFUL 😍
HEAVENLY 🤩🤩
thank you!
That intro was so clean jeeez
wasn't as hard as I thought! thanks for this
Have to use the cheat code. Small arthritic fingers, not gonna beat myself up. Wasn't paying attention when you said there was a bit of a bass added in, thought I was missing notes haha
Wonderful... S&P is the best on the net!
Thank you very much.
As soon as I started this video, I knew I wanted to play like this man
I got the riff down over a weekend. Now I just need to practice it for 20 years.
You look very happy teaching, it's like a friend who's going to show you something, you make the lesson very friendly, and your tricks are wonderful, I introduce some Brazilian chords, since a have a classical guitar, beautiful... really.
Thank you, ive tried for one night and it is started muuuch easier to understand what is going on and how to play this lovely song ❤Now im gonna practice for a while 😅
Incredibale what a great teacher you are, yes indeed this will be like olympics for stretching my fingers but it’ll make me a better guitar player as you said. I’m going to check your website, I am a beginner and I hope you have this course available. Thanks for your awesome youtube video’s!
I'm gonna shut up and save this to my lessons list right away...such a beautiful song, thx for the awesome lesson!
Thanks for this amazing tutorial. The most difficult musics I know I learned by watching your videos. Greetings from Brazil.
The tricky bit at 7:03 is a lot easier if you just keep your bar at the 4th fret...you are already in position...
My God Andy the sound of your guitar is amazing. Another awesome lesson. Thanks
God bless you brother for taking the time to gift this ethereal vibration my guitar collecting dust for months just recently deciding to tackle fresh composition deciding on 3 songs composed by Sting starting with this Jewel. Thank you sincerily Mickey Czopka Los Angeles
Genius/ Thanks... this is a great gift for all that we want to learn this song.
Thank you so much. I am finally able to play one of my most favourite songs on my guitar.
So interesting how fretting the D note at A5 vs the open D string changes the sound. The fretted note is thicker and rounder, and noticeably anchors the chord over the open D.
Super nice!!!!! Love the song, and the movie Léon!!!! Thanks for this one Andy