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  • Does anyone know if he's doing the tremolo after the intro?

  • @oetjensm He doesn't do the tremolo on the main guitar after the intro, but if you listen super carefully, you can hear a layered guitar in the background that plays the tremolo portion during some of the fills.

  • @oetjensm when he played it live, he did the whole song tremolo. Robby's version is brilliant, but it'd be awesome to see someone tackle this song the way Elliott did it live (instead of switching to strumming as Robby does at 1:08).

  • Wow! Nice work sir.

  • top notch man!

    

  • god ur good man i really need to learn that tremolo technique

  • ahh what are those chords? can you give me simple tabs? like i have the picking down i just wana know the finger placement every time u change

  • ahhh hat are the chords you do!? i think i got the first few but, idk sepecialy when you start sining, give me tabs? simple tabs i got the picking down perfect just where you start every time you change plz

  • :D

  • This is really beautifully done. Thanks for posting this.

  • Well what can I say... First of all thank you SO MUCH for putting the tab up, I'm honestly so grateful. Secondly you play and sing this song so brilliantly, it's truly fantastic.

    Really, thank you so much for taking the time to put up the tab - there should be more people like you in the world!

  • @johntle Thanks a lot for the kind words.

  • This is fucking excellent, well done.

  • great cover robby...the best I have seen

  • nice martin sir.

  • VERY VERY GOOD COVER!!!!!!..

  • bro well done on this cover man you did a sweet job. ive seen alot of shit covers of this song and its a bit of a disgrace to elliot haha. where can i find a good tab to learn this?

  • Yikes, I won't have to worry about trying to do that favorite Elliott cover now that you have done it so very beautifully. Thanks for all the work you surely put into learning that and performing for all of us ES fans. None of my covers will ever be as close with your right hand showing how it's really done. Wow, truly awesome

  • elliott RULES and so do you!

  • yeah, i'd have to say, fucking amazing cover! seems like you're having a blast too.

  • do you use your ring finger in the tremolo plucking in the intro?

  • yes! love it!

  • Fantastic.

  • this isnt standard tuning is it?

  • Yep. Elliott played it in Nashville tuning (where you use the high 6 strings of a 12-string set on a 6-string guitar), but this is played with standard strings/tuning.

  • really awesome video. though i do have to say, there a little bit of a napoleon dynamite vibe coming from you.

  • hahahaha i just spat coffee everywhere! brilliant!! the cover is totally brilliant too!! hahaha.

  • great work dude, i've only ever seen one person on youtube play Elliott so well!

  • Wow why does this have only 24k views? This is by far the best ES cover on youtube.

  • Sounds great mate, very good lesson on your website, cheers for taking the time out to explain it so well, I will get much frustration and joy attempting to learn this, I cant wait! Thanks again

  • amazing wish i could play like this

  • Fantastic cover!

  • if i could play and sing any song it would be this, you do it perfect, real nice did you learn from a tab?

  • great job! this seems like a really hard song to play you did it justice.

  • Yeah ROBBY! nice video that was cool.

  • great job :)

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  • Yeah, um wow you are amazing! I love this song, and it's a great cover! I've been attempting to play an Elliott Smith song myself, Needle in the Hay... haha it'll probably take me at least 50 years to even sound half as good as you :| What's your secret?? haha

  • Holy shit... *bows down*

    probably the hardest Elliott song to play, let alone sing at the same time...

  • zomg astounding

  • DAMN Your Good!!!!!!!!!

  • do more elliott covers... your amazing man... sounds exactley like it....

  • um...

    flawless

    wow

  • wowsers! that was really good =]

  • Holy crap. That was amazing.

  • Hats off to you man, thats pretty good! fucking hard song to play .. dont see many people attempting that one much.. good job! wasnt expecting such a good cover haha

  • okay. . . this is scary good. my friend, you've got it.

  • holy shit this is soooooooooo goood

  • I didn't expected you to be that good. Wow. Much better than over covers.

  • Great playing! I'm starting to try some elliot smith songs on guitar and this one is my favourite sing of him, but it's probably the hardest :)

  • woah. that is so incredible. well well well done

  • holy fucking shit , you rock man the best elliott smith cover ive seen wow im blown away,ive been trying to learn this song it's pretty hard

  • Excellent man!

  • porca troia..ci ho provato, ma è troppo complicato...che cazz.

  • Hey man great job!!! Do you have any tab of this or just the chords? If you have can you give them to me?

    Thanks man keep going!

  • wow. that looks really hard. great job!

  • slow it down just a bit...

  • dude can you write me up a tab?

  • real good job man. Thanks for the post

  • Man, a good cover

  • excellent cover!

  • amazing

  • can't even explain my love for this song.

    you did an amazing job with it.

  • fanananananTASTIC

    <3

  • Very impressive

  • this is beautiful! thanks!

  • that's a hard song to play. awsome!

  • that was fantastic!

  • Increíble, me encantó

    Brillant, it was excellent

  • Beautiful. You did a great job on that.

  • Fuck the guitars sound exactly the same!!!

  • This is beautiful.

    The guitar drowns out your voice a bit, but the guitar is so beautiful I don't mind =D

    Great work, great vocals, great string work, BEAUTIFUL

  • Absolutely brilliant. You manage to get the feeling from both the guitar and your singing the way that elliott did it. Absolutely worthy.

    Hope to see more of you

  • do another!

  • fuckin sweet

  • holy shit, man. wow. :D

  • I still dont get this freaking picking.... very nice btw !!

  • yo you are the man (and the reason i can now play this)

  • outstanding job Robby. You have the technique and the feeling. I'll have to learn this one too.

  • Wow what a wonderful cover. I'm loving this one

  • pretty gross man

  • this is really diffucult song..and your fingers' move is perfect..

  • This is an extremely diffcult song and you got it pretty  well. very nice job.

  • WOW! Wonderful cover. This is great.

  • you are amaznig

  • my index pinky and ring finger feel retarded now.

  • wowaweewa ... i lyke :)

    gret job

  • That's what I'm talking about! Cripes, man... this is awesome. So, did you learn from listening? Watching concert footage? How?  I must know!!

  • he went on sweet-adeline dot net slash tabs dot html, went to the second version of the tomorrow tomorrow tab under XO and practiced playing from the tab.

  • that's fuckin excellent man. you are a hero.

  • This performance is a testament to Elliot Smith's musicianship and composing. He songs can sound deceptivley simple to some, but...

  • this is such a touching song

  • Great job man!

  • dude, this is really really good. how did you learn to play it so well?

  • omg.... just wow... :D

  • dude-that was a great performance...great

  • great job bro!!!

  • Robby Grossman, you are a legend. This is easily one of the best Elliott Smith covers on YouTube.

  • One thing, if you absolutely have to play along with him and you can't be bothered tuning your guitar lower, put a capo on the first fret and start on Dm.

  • good fucking job, you caught me by the ear.

  • wow dude...its amazing how people find places to put the work "fucking"

  • what the fucking fuck are you talking about?

  • Thank you very much for playing this wonderful (and difficult) song for us. I started to learn it and of course I am waiting for more clues on your website.

    Greetings from a fellow guitarist

  • hey robby , this is good man .

  • the hardest song to play in elliotts repertoire.... hands down...

  • wow. fantastic job.  this is a *hard* song. :)

  • fantastic....this has to be one elliott's most challenging pieces to play and you nailed it. have you taken a peek at "easy way out"? it has some similar triplet finger picking.

  • wow... seriously..where do you live? I want to book you....i am a huge elliott smith fan and this is masterfully played.

  • pretty goddamn good if you ask me

  • incredible

  • absolutely excellent.

    just absolutely excellent.

  • fuuuuuck! awesome.

  • you da man

  • i really can't see how some asshole would rate this video under a 5... fuck them, this is the best shit i've ever seen.

  • that is actually amazing.

  • Great work man! Anyone know where I can get a decent tab of this, I can only find ones that are half-right at best.

  • soooooo good, i have absolutely no idea how in the hell you are able to sing and fingerpick.... soooo great, i am extremely jealous...

  • sweet dude. now I'm gonna try and learn this again, I'll post it if I get it right

  • hahaha looks like napoleon dynamite playing elliott smith

  • Oh My God!! that's fucking brilliant!!HOw did you manage to learn that?!

  • Awesome job you're finger picking skills are amazing. you should do more elliott songs

  • i have to say that is amazing.

    gotta admit you did justice to elliott man, nice work.

  • sweet mother of jc!

    toughest cover of Elliott yet, keep 'em coming!

  • very well done. very hard song to play. Beautiful underated ES song.

  • it looks like you're taking the greatest shit of your life. lol

  • Bravo, Robby Grossman. Bravo.

  • bueno.

  • This cover forced me to give this song another listen. Thank you (and excellent job)

  • thats impressive

  • dude, you own, this rocks...is that a roland vs-2000 20-track in the background?

  • you my friend can finger pick like a pro!

    ive attempted this but i am not nearly good enough to fingerpick so consistently like that

  • nice :)

  • this really is an amazing cover. i hope you will share some more elliott covers.

  • Very well done sir.

  • Dude holy shit

    This is fucking excellent.

  • yeah how the fuck did this guy learn this? haha

  • By ear.

  • i wouldn't go that far, i'm pretty sure he watched performance and figured it out from there.. but yea some parts he'd need to know by ear, but atleast the video gives him a foundation on where to start

  • Idk I showed it to my guitar teacher, he was playing it at about 65-70 bmp (its 90 i believe), he had the intro down in 8 minutes.

  • shit, that would be sick to learn that quick

  • Yeah he grew up without a guitar teacher, so his ear is amazing.

    He had all of southern belle figured out in about 30.

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