While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic Version) - Beatles, George Harrison

[SixStringMicky]

just great mr tricker, i have learned so much from your videos , i have started to do my own versions and would love you to have a look, thanks for all the help over the last few years. peace.

[cfdalpd]

there is not another cover better than this man, sorry a question, when you play the intro, what strings to play the rhythm?

[TheBrunosaurus]

I am very inspiring, Great Cover!

Greetings from East Germany!

[TheGrubification]

I know it's a bitch but could you post the chords...can't find them anywhere

[tsp1129031]

Very inspiring!!!!!

[TheGrubification]

is there a tab of this?

[mr4tomtio]

¿Que marca de guitarra usas? :D GOOD COVER!!

[Loky1940]

I want to super subscribe you

[Ncdude25]

You did a very nice job playing this song. What kind of guitar are you using?

[bosslydaemon2240]

Frickin awesome. Got tabs?

[oldspam]

Great and the knock out cool guitar of the day winner too.

[Kronstein74]

heather

[Kronstein74]

Another great cover. I've been playing it most of the day - and I work 6 days so that's saying something :) What chord are you playing at 1.07 please? And I assume the following chord is a b minor?

[privettricker]

@Kronstein74 That's F#min to Bmin.

[Kronstein74]

Thanks mate. By the way I'm loving your lessons too. Any chance of doing a lesson (or cover) on the very obscure 'Heather' by the Beatles? There's a demo version on youtube - it really is a sweet tune. I believe it was a McCartney / Donovan effort circa 1968.

[BrettHuckfield]

Really like this song one of my favorite george Harrison songs

[Kronstein74]

Great stuff. Lesson please.

[ihatecolereynolds]

My favorite part of the acoustic version has always been the little trill at 0:12. You did it flawlessly. Hats off to you sir.

[sofarsogut]

Very nice! I did a tribute for 10 years George left us

[bigjimmyrocker]

If I was stranded on a desert island with only one youtube channel it would be yours sir ;9)

[xanatos1231]

how do you equalize the sound between the guitar and the stereo

[jimihendrixfan2008]

Are you sure you're not really George Harrison resurrected?

Great cover as always.

[privettricker]

@jimihendrixfan2008 If I am George resurrected, I somehow ended up with someone else's bank account.

[thomassneade]

Cheers mate...I've  playin' it wrong !

[cesarcarrasable]

´cause i´m sitting here doing nothing but aging... BIG GEORGE.

[TheVasicist]

Where did you get this acoustic version? It's awesome!

[privettricker]

@TheVasicist Anthology 3, although it's been on bootlegs for years.

[martin1354]

Great job buddy! The best!

[LeFtNuT2o6]

this makes me want to learn the (acoustic) early version of "something." if you could do that one, i would be forever greatful. i've always wondered how it was played, but i just dont have the ear to figure it out.

[1cleandude]

Privettricker: Another nice axe my friend and another fine vid. Thanks for all that you've done to help us learn this music. I really appreciate it. BTW looking at you and your surroundings, i'm really doubting your being 63. Still great work keep it up and try your best to spend as much time with your sweet wife.

[privettricker]

@1cleandude 63? Heck no! I'm 43.

[djannooz1]

@privettricker your work is stellar (and prolific). you are a great american. kudos to your wife as well for allowing you to indulge. do you play in a band?

[John37816]

@privettricker Lol you look young.

[ntstowman]

Your videos are super! I have been helped a great deal by your videos. It has been a long time since I have had the time to play. Now I have the time, and your way of playing has helped me. I love the new songs when you e-mail them out. The time you put into makeing the videos is super. All I can say is Many Thanks.

[Rustablecoot]

very nice! your videos are really helping me learn more of the beatles songs.

[mydoooom]

Wow, such a nice guitar...! Is it a Gibson? And yes od course, beautiful playing ;-)

[4crevis]

I always want to play like somebody else... i'm getting sick of this ... you're too good!

[privettricker]

@4crevis No, you shouldn't want to play like somebody else. Play like yourself. It's nice to be able to mimic other players, but you can still have your own identity as a player.

[4crevis]

@privettricker Yeah see what you mean... just need to improve on my own playing style! Thanks!

[me12learnpolish]

@4crevis I agree with you..One has to be able to mimic well before forging own style. It never cease to amaze me when I come across people, who obviously can't play the piece well and has no talent at all, label some of their cover as playing in their own style.

[theseabiscuit22]

Beautiful guitar! Even more, beautiful playing!

[JosephMSmithMusic]

@privettricker the guitar playing is excellent. I just want to say that from what i can hear, you have a fantastic voice, so just sing up!

[NVprods]

Thanks for that. Excellent job. I've learned a lot from your videos. Greatly appreciated.

[Robb9096]

your singing sounds like George Harison, my friend. nice. thanks for the effective lesson.

[515742617000027]

@Robb9096 thats because he's playing along with the recording. LOL!!!

[pyro6957]

@Robb9096 thats a track in the background.

[1234Bcbc]

really cool version, just watching you play i can play it now. lots of fun. thanks

[HoraceLime]

Never seen/heard anyone play it this way....including George. Preyy nice job!

[nedlitam]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[stonz82]

Thx for posting this one, the tab I have for it sucks, this is way better!!!

[davidgilmourfanatic]

Love your videos, I started playing at age 46, am now 55. Took me along time to just get halfway decent, and your videos are helping me make giant leaps, so thank you so much. Any chance you know and could post "Green grass and high tides" by the outlaws, and "Angry Eyes" by Loggins and Messina? Just a request as both those songs crank. Again, thanks so much for your postings, love your posting of Ten Years gone by Zep and Dogs by pink floyd.

[snitpicker]

Sweet. Just learned another Beatles song in three and a half minutes...

Luv ya, dog!

[gpradzin]

great job...r u sure its a A major and not a A7 chord???

[privettricker]

@gpradzin Who can be sure of anything in this crazy world of ours?

[vitorleoneprado]

in the beginning looks like difficult but it's easy don't need a lesson

[eddiemccraw1984]

awesome version man!

[VanPinxteren]

Soo good..

Keep it up man. Love the vids.

[PACUCOWAY]

very good....

[beatlesmusica]

yes

[skipplet]

Awesome video!

[golfdom1987]

Love this version actually more than the version on the White Album. Great job!

[Baci302]

Hey. Great job. Is that you singing?

Just a thought ... when you hit the A during the bridge before you go back into the verse. What about an (the?) ascending bass line starting at the low A before you hit the Dm?

[geoffaxe]

Excellento

[ottocarpenter]

@privettricker Yes, according to "Life," Keith credits Ry Cooder for open G, although he writes that he was already mucking about with open E and D because of Don Everley ("Little Susie"). I can't think of an open tuning Beatles song unless you count drop D (which isn't really open tuning).

[IdolHans]

We all owe a great debt of gratitude to PT for his hard work and instruction. What about James Taylor's stuff PT? (you got a friend, Mexico, Machine gun kelly, fire and rain)?? ----after all, you've covered it all!

[pooner61]

Another classic performed flawlessly by the trickster -YOU DA MAN! What about Beware of Darkness? - Have you ever put that one up?

[hhi58]

Thanks for this one.....what i consider the best version of this song.

[mychickenpoped]

brilliant as usual.

[stonz82]

Well done mate!

[ottocarpenter]

Three cheers! Another tumbler drops into the lock. Just a side question: I wonder - when did the Beatles (and for that matter, the Stones) begin using capos? Were they used in the early/mid-sixties? My uninformed impression is that capos came out of the folk movement. Anyhoo - thanks for rendering this classic. Great.

[IdolHans]

@ottocarpenter Thats a good question. I think Dylan probably influenced them to start that back in 65. The other part of that question is when did they use open tunings---Beatles didn't do that, but Keith did. I think it was Ry Cooder that intrduced him to that in 1967--it sure payed big dividends with Honky Tonk Women , Brown Sugar, tumbling dice, start me up.

[ottocarpenter]

@IdolHans Woops, my mistake, directing my reply to PT instead of the rightful author, IdolHans.

[IdolHans]

@ottocarpenter ---sorry if I butted in an answered the question Otto.

[andy65guitar]

@IdolHans The open tunings started way back in the early blues and country stuff. The slide stuff was probably Hawaiian influence. Keith was using E and D a lot and then Ry turned him on to Open G and Keith took off. Apparently Ry was not pleased with this at all. He felt that Keith had stolen his style? It was invented a long time a go for Banjo players. 5 strings open G tuning. I can't think of one Beatles song in any open tuning. Zep used a lot too.

[IdolHans]

@andy65guitar I usually think of style as the "gift that keeps on giving" right? Apparently there is a mob of people angry with Keith Richards to include Chuck Berry and Ry Cooder. But if it's any consolation to the renaissance and enlightenment, then Keith claims in his autobiography that he then showed Ike Turner the DGDGBD (open G) tuning! To discover future greatness, we must turn to the past!

[andy65guitar]

@IdolHans Yeah totally! Just because someone teaches you a chord or a song or a riff doesn't mean they own the exclusive rights to them! Keith always played Chuck better than Chuck anyways. He should be flattered. Ry uses open G almost exclusively for slide anyway and Keith has always admitted that Ry taught it to him. Keith invented all of those great stones riffs out of that. Every musician borrows from one another. There is nothing wrong with that.

[jdenicholls]

@ottocarpenter I don't think the Beatles used capos a great deal. I do know they tuned down for some songs, and some songs were recorded normally and varispeeded down (they slowed the tempo down which in the process lowers the key. Nowadays you can change the tempo without changing the key).

[ottocarpenter]

@jdenicholls I read somewhere that they'd actually lay hands on the tape reel as it was tracking!

[IdolHans]

@jdenicholls Lets see if we can list Beatles capoed songs---Michelle, Norwiegan Wood, If I needed someone, Girl, Nowhere Man, She Said, Here comes the sun, ---probably a few more I can't remember....

[andy65guitar]

@IdolHans Dear Prudence,For You Blue, a few more I'm sure!

[jdenicholls]

@IdolHans I stand corrected. I remembered Here comes the sun right after i clicked post. But I notice most of those songs you mentioned are off the Rubber Soul Era. Perhaps that gives Otto his answer then.

[andy65guitar]

@jdenicholls Strawberry fields is a prime example of that. It is actually 2 tracks morphed together. Great song I love Lennon's acoustic version of this by himself. Beautiful.

[jdenicholls]

@andy65guitar I did know that actually. I think it's on the second "Let me take you Dooooown" You can kind of her it drop down, I think the key even changes slightly. Not so much that it's an actual key change, but all the notes are a little lower. I didn't know Lennon had an acoustic version of the track, I shall go find it.

[loveguitars]

Excellent

[BrikSwoony]

You're a Legend ! Thanks man. A friend of mine loves playing this - but he plays it so so wrong - and now I can show him this vid so he'll learn it properly ! hehe ! Always love hearing the different + diverse kinds of music you share with us all. They were All Important - but I think George was like 'the glue' that made Paul + Johns songs fit + stick together so well. Your tribute to him is inspiring !

[plclrk]

Thanks for taking time to play this , Georges work is great and your replica is spot on , my guitar can almost weep from what you have shown us :-)

[Mooeybubs]

Beautiful! Thank you xxxx

[Timbats93]

Please Please please do a LESSON ON THIS!!!!!!

[VanPinxteren]

@Timbats93

Just look at whats he is doing. :P

THERES YOUR LESSON!

Rock on!

[loizosdourakis]

@Timbats93 @Timbats93 oh come on its not to hard..dm, g , c , g ,a , f.....

[divrack]

@Timbats93 Isn't that what he is doing ?

[h4ckb0x7]

@Timbats93 Just watch him play it a few times. You should be able to figure out the majority of it without having problems. This is a relatively easy song to learn.

[jayrtheking]

very well done. i prefer the acoustic version. always feels more intimate.

[sunriverperson]

Great version of this classic. I like the acoustic feel of this as opposed to the electric version.

Don't you get a little distracted watching a basketball game while you are playing? LOL

Very nice playing! Thanks for posting all these great songs.

[planetgroucho]

Love that you're playing George Harrison tunes now. Would be great to hear anything off "All Things Must Pass"!

[andy65guitar]

Nice I like this version better than the one on the white album. What cd is this on? I would like to pick it up. He should have kept this song very simple. Hindsight is 20/20. Much better than the original even with Claptons solo on it. Great job. I love the high notes you can get when using a capo up the frets. Something just rings even paying the standard positioning of the chords. Love it.

[fanzappa]

@andy65guitar anthology III

[Glasbrow]

Nice tribute to George on his Birthday.

[GuitarBlues3]

Happy Birthday George

[50c50t]

Nice cover bro.

[wippokeman]

beautiful

[MrBeatles4eva]

LOVE THIS VERSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[thewhitejimihendrix]

You're such a freaking beast!!!

[MrFowlerPower]

thanks for this, I've been trying for months to work out this song and with your fantastic quality video I can play it! Thanks

[goztnK]

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