Don't Think Twice, It's Alright -- Lesson
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- How to play the version I recorded with Carson way back in 2011. Includes a chord chart. No tabs, though. I just don't like 'em.
questions and feedback are more than welcome!
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What a joy! Clear, concise, focused, broken down and strung back together in a way that lends me hope for this generation. Clone him.
0:00 - Intro at full speed
1:24 - Interlude chords
2:00 - Verse chords
4:05 - Exercise chords by strumming at slow tempo
5:40 - Picking the interludes
7:33 - Picking the verses
9:42 - Strumming at the 3rd verse (You just kinda wasted...)
I keep coming back to this video, so I thought the links to different sections would make the life easier for people like me. And of course... Thank you so much for creating these videos, Josh!
I've watched this video for a whole.afternoon With my suck English level. Although it's difficult to me ,i actually really really learn sth now and cool thibgs ,such as the right hand skills. Thank you 3000000000000000 times. LoL
Thanks for the time notations. I keep going back to parts of this.
I'm working on learning this as my first full fingerpicking song.
I think once I can do this one well, I can learn anything.
It seemed almost impossible at first, but now it just seems hard.
Josh plays so cleanly!
Josh's voice is like asmr for me... this made me laugh; having timestamps.
8:27
Your work is much appreciated!
I'm blown away by your absolute perfection, and your patient teaching. I'm learning it faxilime from you, chord by chord, finger by finger. THANK YOU!
You are an incredible guitar player and this is a beautiful rendition. With that said, this is so hard! I’m gonna keep practicing and I will revisit this lesson in a month or so :)
I've learned a lot of songs on UA-cam and can honestly say that this is one of the best tutorial videos Iv'e ever watched. thanks Josh!
Literally subscribed because you said “No tabs, though. I Just don’t like em.” I like your style haha. Great tutorial.
Thanks Josh, will give it a try.
Writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Always great to see you and Carson play in UA-cam, hope have a chance to see you live some day.
good tutorial fantastic! The bass pick thumb index middle finger explanation was the thing i needed...!!
So appreciate this breakdown of a sentimental favorite. Thank you.
Delightful. Don't think I've seen a clearer lesson. Thanks!
Very clear explanation. Well done sir. You are a excelent guitar teacher. Thanks a lot.
Awesome lesson Josh. Love that ole´strumming E7 at the end. It really gives an extra touch to an already perfect version of this song.
Excelent step by step lesson! I got here because of Billy Strings, the version you and your friend (sorry forgot his name) is amazingly well done as well! Thanks for the clear step by step presentation! Been practicing for an hour and its really coming together now! Couldn't have done without!
Best lesson on this song. Accessible for anyone who wants to give it a go! Take no notice on all the negative comments...they're just jealous! You're very talented!
Josh, thanks very much! You’re an excellent teacher! And I really enjoy all of your performance videos! Thanks
Thank you so much for this!!!! I was trying to learn the song from watching your video from 2011 again and again but this was very helpful! Never stop playing!!!
The best lesson on this song ignore others they are weak
Hello Josh! My name is Richi and I'm an amateur guitar player with a lovely Sigma baby Guitar :) I would like to congratulate you for your amazing cover songs and thank you for the tutorials! this was really helpful for me ;) Keep on playing, I will follow you :)
This was amazing, I have been learning this song for months, but I could never get it to sound the way you played it, thank you so much. :)
Thanks for taking the time to do this man! Love this version.
Thank you for making an instructional video that is broke down and made clear
that is so awesome !! I was like "oh my god.... finally" ... keep going that's so good to learn your covers
I can' believe you've made a video like that... That's perfect explanation!
I’ve just realised how similar your voice sounds to James Taylor’s... glad I could come across this walkthrough - thanks!
So cool, Josh. I watched and listened to your video with Carson literally a hundred times when I was working on my version. Great to see a tutorial now. I will check out the "My precious time" part now 🙄. Thanks again,
Zs
Thanks for this, after a couple days of practicing and watching this vid a thousand times I can now play it exactly like you :)
Did I hear that train go by again? Great lesson by the way. Been working on this since seeing you guys play it on your channel so good to watch the full breakdown. I even have a rail track behind my house for full effect! Cheers.
Wow! You're an excellent teacher too. Please make more lessons.
Hey man!!!! Dude thanks. I appreciate you. I hope people know you didn’t have to do this. I admit to being to lazy to figure it out. I actually learned it from the performance video you did with the other kid. Which was fine, I just had to apply a Bit of effort. Lol Then I saw this!!!! Man you break it down. Good on you. I have to admit two things: 1. As a lazy player who finds it hard to get time to learn; I THANK YOU! Sincerely I do. 2: I watched a lot of your stuff before I watched this lesson. Great Job man. Keep it up
Would you be willing to help me out since you sound like you've already got the best of it?
Very talented and smart respectful young man.
tried to learn this one by ear, but couldn't get the fingerstyle pattern right and it ended up being my own weird shitty version lol. Glad you've uploaded this
Holy hell I wanted to this and never thought it would come. Thank you so much.
Josh! Which Martin is this? It sounds gorgeous!
Josh, come back and play at Purdue :) Your notes are still ringing after you played around the same time last year. Love your playing !
Wow Josh! I love your voice and you playing the Guitar. Still learning and wondering if that is a Takamine Guitar
Great performance of a tough song to pull off cleanly. Is that a Martin DM? I have one too!
You're outstanding. I would love to hear you play the song.
Liked and subscribed. I feel like I can play this song after watching this video.
Crack! Saludos de argentina🇦🇷
Great job how long did it take you to learn this? This will probably be my quickest and fastest Pace song I will ever learn. You do not use finger pics? I’m trying to learn the thumb pick which I think I have it down pretty much and then the hardest finger pics I have several types. Are those your real nails and have you ever used finger pics if so which ones? What type of background music training and guitar do you have? Besides Dylan who are some of your guitar acoustic guitar idols that I’ve helped you to learn to Travis pick?
I love your videos man, but could you show us how you played the "Life in the fast lane" blues you did a while back?
I really want to learn from you!
thank you for making this video, damn its a great song!!
Thanks for this, great job!
Josh. This is amazing man.. BUT do you think you could do a lesson on It Was a Very Good Year?
That is probably one of my favorite covers by you. It was flat out perfect and amazing.
and amazing job on this too man. keep it up!
Great lesson
Josh, I'm sorry if this stuff is too basic but, what do you mean when you say "walk up to a G7" or "walk down to a G"? Which notes are you playing there? Is there a general rule for "walking up" to a chord o "walking down" to a chord?
good teacher
Hi Josh! Amazing content thank you for sharing!
I would love if you made a tutorial for your Sultans of swing cover, I've been watching that video for months and It's brilliant.
Also, sinatra's it was a very good year was so great, you think a tutorial is possible?
Amazing player. Thanks man.What guitar model ? I love it ❤
Hey Josh, some banjo lesson would be appreciated (I enjoyed your "Martha My Dear" cover etc..)!
Great lesson , subbed
Thank you so much ^^
Thank you
this was written and recorded by Bob Dylan before Don McLean
Dammit Josh i wanted to start a youtube channel with the ole delta fingerstyle guitar but you have most of the songs already uploaded xDDD Il be a Mississippi utuber i guess
Love it
Thanks!
could you do a tutorial of your cover of summertime?
You rule dude
Thanks for the detailed lesson. Nice guys your age like Mr. Dilan
Hey Adam ! If you see this I want you to know that even though you’re old you can do it ! 😂🤘🏼
Thanks babe, but I don't think 24 is old
gone fishin you da wrong Adam hunny haha
What a legend
Please do "I Try" next. Thanks
this helps but, man, this song is tough.
Cheers man.
I love cheesy setups.....
Would you consider adding a Paypal account and email address in all your "show more" sections, so that people could simply transfer money to you directly? That would be so simple, no extra time needed by you for rewards, no credit cards processed.. just transfer whatever someone feels they want to contribute to you via Paypal accounts. No way can you survive on what you are getting now. "... don't work harder.. they are not paying you enough". Love that.
nice channel! fast lane tutorial pls.
merci !
nice
I didn't learn a thing... i was just enjoying him...
Same here 😂 Now I want to go find his cover that he did
😅
Same...one of my fav tunes tho
... Playing the guitare today is quiet easier than in the seventies ...!!! Thanks
Love your teaching style. Clear, concise, organized, and well paced. Thank you.
Great comment:Clear, concise, organized, and well paced.
Teacher's pet
Hi Josh
I just discovered you a few days ago and I can't stop watching your videos. It is really great what you do.
I wonder how your arrangement process is. I am specially interested in the "Summertime" you recorded long time ago. Can you explain how you arranged it? Like where did you get the first chords from (I use real book chords but never get those nice arrangements, chords, etc. ). Do you start by some sheets and follow then by ear? Do you write the music down?. How do you think? How do you choose the chords?
This would be really helpful for me.
Anyway, and again, very nice what you are doing! Thanks for sharing these vids!
Regards
How good is a tutorial aimed at people that can already play guitar!? Just gets to the important, tricky bits. Not 50 sections note by note. Very refreshing
Hi could you tell me if every G7 is played with a hammer on thanks
Thanks for making this! When I am ready for the epic task of learning this in full, this'll be the video I come back to. Keep it up.
Looks like ya did it lol
As he calls us all dumb guitar players we keep watching
Thanks for a kick ass lesson for us numb... for real.. kick ass
Never realised how badly I'd been playing this!
go for that! One of the best tutorial I ever see. I do appreciate the green rectangular box on the chords while going.. great feature
Yah I've been playing this song since it came out this kid is a wonderful player and a very good teacher. I don't understand the negative comments at all as a fellow guitarist you should watch and play with better player to get better well done Josh
Josh I've been following you for a few years now and didn't know u did these. Are you still doing them.
This is really great!
Your cover of this song inspired me to learn more fingerpicking techniques a while back because you made it look so effortless. Please continue to do lessons once in a while! It's like a fun behind-the-scenes glimpse into your covers.
I think I might suck at guitar
Ruly Sire hahahaha I feel you
Well, you got the right attitude to suck at guitar.
Learning guitar or any instrument or anything, is to really want to learn it, commit, and focus on a course of how to learn and what to learn first, always focusing on whether you're learning properly, and keep correcting the course if you are not satisfied but don't give up, just keep correcting the course and practicing diligently. The first three months are a bitch because of finger pain on and off and can't play for days sometimes, feels like razor cuts on finger tips but it all passes after a while. It is worth it. I play several instruments but those nylon or metal strings on guitar resonate right into your heart and brain and ear and the ether.
Here's a tip: Learn classical fingerpicking style first because strumming with a pick is easier and if you learn that first you will never want to learn something so much more difficult. Fingerpicking is more satisfying when you use all your fingers you feel more intimate with guitar than using a pick closed fisted, but you will learn both anyway.
If you like guitar, be sure to learn to read music at the same time, this is best advice you will ever get. That TAB shit really sucks because you don't understand what you are doing but only following directions which is stupid.
Research, and learn. If you're not having fun, then you are doing something wrong or you have a defeatist attitude. ciao.
Excellent lesson! Thanks!
I think you might be trying to learn something particularly hard from a teacher who's assuming a fair amount of knowledge in his students. Try some of the other YT tutorials on this. A lot of them take it a lot slower and give you a much closer up view of what the fingers are doing. That's how I learned it, but, as a beginner, I'd have been lost with this lesson.
John Moseley indeed, i am lost. Chords was easy, its the finger picking pattern that I’ve listened to at .25 speed 80 times
One of the most fun musicians on UA-cam....besides being so talented! Always great videos.
I've been playing the classical guitar for 15 years and I am amazed by the clarity of your explanations and the musicality of your playing. Keep it up, you're amazing.
Best instruction on the net on this iconic song .. clear and easy to follow.. now if I could just convince my hd - 28 to play like he does I would find nirvana .. nicely done my man😂
this is a five star video and very good teaching techniques, keep up the good work!
Excellent guitariste, excellent chanteur, et maintenant excellent pedagogue ! Bravo !
Thank you for this excellent well-done tutorial. It's great that you took the time to share your knowledge with us. And you are a great easy to follow teacher!
Mike Baron is that supposed to be a translation? 😂😂
Could you do a lesson on how you guys did the two voices singing, or more generally on how to harmonize a two voice setup on a song ? :P thx ! Love this lesson and your "don't think twice it's alright" version btw ;)
Thanks for the 'dumb guitar players' comment :P
Ye why did he say that?
I pointed at myself when he said that.
@@MrDannerr // Because when using a capo you change the actual chord played but use the easier chord formation name / many new guitar players do that/ I do / but Josh is not a newbie.
Yeah that was a little off putting but I think he was saying all guitar players are dumb not that referring to the chords that way is dumb (it's not, it's perfectly acceptable as long as everyone is on the same page)
It did seem a little condescending
Hey, thanks for the lesson Josh. Sure hope you are doing well in NY, love that new guitar you have... Nice to hear you man, take care!
thank you so much for speaking with us as you do, so purposefully, yet eloquently and kindly. And most certainly with intellingence! All of these characteristics resound in your playing, by the way.
Thank You For Sharing Your Artistry With So Many - My Son Plays and I am going to share this with Him once Again Thank You Young Josh and God Bless You on Your Musical Journey......
I think you omitted the most important part, i.e. the basic picking order of the right hand. To me that is the mystery, not the chords. But good off course. 😀
That's what I'm trying to see and hear but it is hard to
I watched your original video of Don't Think Twice like 25+ times. This lesson just made my day!
Hey JT! Love this new channel and how giving you are with your knowledge ! I love your videos on how to get the best find from your gear! I even got the new zoom h2 and love it. I was wondering what you used to record this and where the mic was placed. Out of the frame ?Was the guitar straight into your interface? Or miced from an amp? So many questions lol. Thanks!
Hey man,
Thanks so much. Glad you're liking the new channel. I recorded this with the zoom, which is placed just below the bottom of the frame, roughly by my knee. I then slapped a big old compressor on it to make my voice louder because the mic was closer to the guitar.
Thanks! Josh
love that you can sing, too XD
Awesome. Looking forward for more lessons (aka the "If I was a fool" one :D)
"Big ol' cheesy setup." Classic man!
The way you do this tune is absolutely ace, but you teach it at a level that would probably be most accessible to somebody who is advanced enough to be able to figure this all out themselves anyhow. When you’re explaining the hammer ons and walk up, for example, it would be nice to just see a bit more slowly which string/fret/finger is involved in the walking etc. How this walk up is done is not obvious to me...and maybe not to most intermediate players? I’m the first to admit I could use more theory knowledge, but at the same time i know I could play this song today if I could see a few parts more clearly and slowly.
mysweetroux I just listen to it, pause, and figure out 3-4 notes at a time till I get his sound. I think that is a big key in becoming the next level... you gotta learn how to learn stuff haha. Sorry, not trying to be rude but the one-note-at-a-time lessons will be the ones that frustrate you if you just get this down. Makes learning a ton faster. Good luck! Tony
You can go to the settings tab and slow down to as much as 25% normal speed, pitch remains constant (though a little warbled at that speed). I use that function all the time when I'm trying to learn something. It works.
Hey man I agree with you and here's a link to tutorial that gets most of the song right and breaks it down insanely well if you're still interested in learning it. ua-cam.com/video/Ii0kyeghbuo/v-deo.html
For me the tell was in his comment @ 0:32 - even though he knows it's in the key of E and the root chord shape is "C" he says ............."I'm gunna be referring to things as C and G because that's the language that dumb guitar players speak".... Mmm from watching Josh play with his group and others, I see he is musically educated in a broad way and because I am NOT is NO reason to call me a "dumb guitar player". Thx Josh I'll be skipping your commontry from now on.
@@redrock1963 I think you misunderstood what he meant.
Hi Josh, sorry to bother you, but I just wanna say that you are unbelievable on guitar. You don't need to make a video for it (if you could that would be great) but is there anyway you could tell me where or how you learned to play "Sultans of Swing." I think that you did an amazing job playing it and I'm starting to like it better than the recording by the Dire Straits. If this is possible, it would be great. Thanks!
You're teaching style is so relaxed and yet confident. Thanks, great video.
Dude this has helped so much. Anybody who was trying to finger pick based on ear and feeling, I would recommend following what Josh says here is the oldest trick in the book. It does the work for you. Still working on all those walk downs. I feel that high e string G7 hammer on and pull off and the one in the F (shapes) are most important. Anyway, thanks again for this!
God... he had to add "all guitar players". I apologize on their behalf. Obvious that you meant yourself aswell