“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Performance Notes for the Bridge
In the final installment of her video lessons on the Guitar Noise arrangement of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” guitar teacher extraordinaire Jamie Andreas takes you step by step through the bridge section of the song with very clear and detailed instruction. I learned quite a bit from Jamie’s videos and I hope you do, too!
In this lesson I cover the bridge of the song. There are some real challenges when it comes to making these chord changes and position shifts smoothly. There are good ways of doing these things, which result in ease of movement and good sound… and there are not so good ways.
Here are the good ways:
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You can still find David’s original text for this lesson here: While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- A Finger Style / Chord Melody Arrangement
Or, if you prefer, there is a “condensed tablature version” that David created for the Guitar Noise blog here: Download gif (Right-click and “Save as”)
As always, please feel free to come by the Guitar Principles website (Guitar Principles) and drop me a line if you have any questions or comments.
Don’t miss Part 1 (Performance Notes) and Part 2 (Performance Notes for the Verses) of this lesson!
