Heart of Gold – Neil Young
Neil Young’s Heart of Gold is a classic guitar-harmonica song. Take a four chord song, add a few simple touches, and you’ll be amazed how cool you sound!
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Neil Young’s Heart of Gold is a classic guitar-harmonica song. Take a four chord song, add a few simple touches, and you’ll be amazed how cool you sound!
There’s a lot of fun to be had with this song as we work through straight strumming, a little bass-and-chord work and even toss in some arpeggio playing.
Tangled Up In Blue is the opening song from Dylan’s classic album Blood on the Tracks. In this lesson we take advantage of MP3 examples and do a lesson focusing on strumming.
Silent Night is a classic three-chord song. Here is a simple yet elegant, single guitar arrangement of this beautiful Christmas song.
Sometimes the simplest of songs present the biggest of challenges – how do we take a basic song of four or five chords and make it memorable? Well, one way is to use all the dynamic power built into your guitar, working in bass lines along with the chords and playing with the dynamics of a song.
Check out our arrangement of this Rolling Stones classic for the single acoustic guitar, made possible by the use of open G tuning and a cool driving rhythm.
Neil Young’s songs are relatively easy to learn yet still complicated enough to help you hone your skills. They also appeal to both the electric and acoustic.
In today’s lesson, yet another (very) old chestnut from the early seventies, we’ll be seeing practical applications of the chord shapes learned there. For good measure, we’ll toss in a few (very) easy fills and then also look at how we’d play it in Drop D tuning.