"Breakdown" - Tom Petty - Guitar Lesson - Mike G. Lessons

[Dyna6363]

I liked it, got it down and wanted to say thanks for giving a great lesson.

[mguzzardo]

@Dyna6363 my pleasure!

[Timflan]

I'm trying to get my 11-year-old daughter and her friends to play this tune, and this is the most helpful (and accurate) guitar tutorial I've found so far. I couldn't find a keyboard tutorial for the song, so once I figured it out, I posted one of my own, which appears now as a "video response" to this video. Hope you don't mind, Mike!

[trenchhopper]

Thanks fella!

[Pholtron]

excellent - wached and played along , had it down quickly

the amp FX were easy to match

[bhouck1000]

Great job! your the only person on youtube who nows how to give a good guitar lesson. It took me about an hour and i was nailing it. Thanks ! BH

[jenayferc]

what tuning?!?

[mguzzardo]

@jenayferc Good ol' Standard!

[jenayferc]

@mguzzardo But when I play it it sounds nothing like u 

[DreamfallenOne]

Wow, I've just come from listening to many people brutalize this song while looking for a decent cover of it, and you are the first one who has nailed the guitar :) Do you have a cover of the song? or just the lesson?

[mguzzardo]

@DreamfallenOne Glad it helped! I do have a fuller video of me playing along WITH the song if you're interested.

[thesawgrassraven]

Excellent! Sweet Fender sound!

[ibanique]

wat guitar are you using?

[mguzzardo]

@ibanique That's my Custom Shop Fender Telecaster on the Neck pickup which is a 52 Reissue Tele Neck Pickup

[duda60]

the best i'v seen. good job

[mguzzardo]

Glad lots of you guys are benefiting from the video. Glad I could help. Tom Petty's Greatest Hits collection is a staple for any guitarist....keep playin!

[kingmick13]

good job.now i know this lead thx

[uscjason10]

thanks, it helped allot.

[DarkWhite25]

nice tone

[mguzzardo]

@DarkWhite25 Thanks! PODFarm does have some good tones

[wannabscene]

Great Lesson..... Well done and a lot of help on such an awesome classic. 5 stars

[mguzzardo]

@wannabscene Much appreciated!  I love Tom Petty.

[1971SuperLead]

Very nice keyboard substitution there. Missing a small bit of the lead solo. The part right before the little keyboard thing on the 15th fret. Am I right?

Tom plays full barre chords on the chorus, Mike not.

One of the better lessons on uTube.

Nice guitar tone there. What kind of amplifier are you playing through?

[mguzzardo]

Thanks! I was running through POD Farm on that one..I forget the exact preset, but it was nothing complicated...they got some great stock tones.

As for the missing part; possibly; I took it all straight out of the book, but there's a chance I could have missed something.

[1971SuperLead]

Actually, when I watched your video again, I noticed that the video ends right where the longest solo would have begun. Where the rest of the video and song?

Anyways, I had a lot of fun last night playing until 3 in the morning with your video. I love Tom Petty.

How about coving Mike Cambells lead solo on the Fleetwood mac song they covered called "Oh well".

That's such a killer lead!

[XxDEFTONESxX]

amazing break down of break down man ...much appreciated

[mguzzardo]

Glad I could help!

[humancomputerthinker]

nice

thanks

[BlueSteelband]

Thanks - nice job, very thorough. (Sounds like a Rhodes!)

[Gutzee]

It wasnt a rhodes... it was a wurlitzer electric piano

[HallStationBand]

Thanks for a great lesson. I especially like the fills.