Guitar tutorial: Kathy's Song by Simon & Garfunkel

[arfurlife]

bless you dude. I always wanted to learn this. Many thanks. Great lesson.

[chieromancer]

Excellent tutorial. I only wish we could have seen your face and not your crotch.

[TheKyomu2010]

Excellent teaching! Concise and to the point! Very good indeed!

[sixstringer82]

sweet voice too man!

[rifftricky]

Great playing. 

[bragard40]

realy love listening to you play the guitar is there any way you can send me a slowed down version of cathys song tutorial please it would help me a lot and your version is the best by far on youtube thanks......

[gerdymad]

fantastic lesson fella,youre very talented as a musician and a teacher,ta.

[phoebelee2]

hi.. this was one of my favorites years ago.. suddenly, it's been coming back to my mind.. i hope to start to learn it again.. after all those years..thanks a lot for your efforts to give us back the song.. that has touched a lot of my emotions years ago.. i want to go back to my plucking in guitar.. thanks again...

[freak49]

Very good! That's really close. I love this song and it was one of my earliest song on guitar. I got into a bad habit of trying to do it with a Travis Pick.

[kenmercermusic]

Really nice video, you explain very clearly how to play this beautiful song, and your guitar skills are obviously of high standard!

[easybuck1]

At last! - An intelligent concise and well presented tutorial for this lovely song. Well done my friend - Keep them coming!!......how about some James Taylor or Mark Knopfler acoustic numbers?

[johndidierkong]

jeez you're good man

[gfalinski]

Hi

zeige mir bitte die Griffe deutlicher. Vor allen Dingen schluss.. ich bin Anfänger und liebe diesen Song..

LG Günter

[JigoroKano]

This tutorial is very helpful!! I am a newby with the guitar and I found a lot clearifying information. But, AS you said, If you could e-mail me the patterns will help me a lot. Would you do that please?

[jessicadtfld]

Thanks so much for this. Could you post the picking patterns? It is very clever of you to fit all this in to a 4/5 min tutorial. You are clearly an accomplished muscian, but with a lot of practice I hope I can play it as well as you. Sadly my voice isn't as nice as yours though!! With regards from me and the Queen in sunny England!

[bumblebeeishotnow]

This is a very easy tutorial... I also learnt a guns n roses song at GuitarLessons(dot)TK

[ramblingdude2008]

Thanks for the great step by step with this song. I will certainly put it to good use.

[dereksmallsuk]

superb mate

[dylanpolack]

hej man great video it will help me alot. was wondering if you could send me pickig patterns for kathys song and (if possible) homeward bound, it would be great. thanks man sounds great cant wait to try for meself

[me99615]

Wow, great tutorial ! Thank you !

[porkyo123]

tHANKS ALOT WILL WORK ON IT

[BATCH420]

I think the Am/G chord is actually with an open B. 3x220x Like the one in April Come She Will. The vocal melody is singing a B right there, so it makes sense and sounds a little better IMO. Thanks for the video!!

[osmondlover129]

can do you a tutorial for me and julio down by the schoolyard? please and thank you :D

[jnonno]

looks pretty good! i usually play D/F# instead of a Bm, but both sound good!

[slackmaster2000]

That was great but what about the chord shape at the very beginning of the song?

[songsofdave]

Great tutorial ... I couldn't find a single tab anywhere on the net with the correct chords!

[rgriff29]

Excellent,thanks for a great cover of a great song.

[seigneurpistache]

wow tu joues bien et ta une belle voix!!! thanks a lot

[ROBERTOPIAUALMEIDA]

bem sou brasileiro, gostei da desmonstração mas não entendi nada. bacana que você tem interese em mostrar e ensinar estas belas canções a todos. Sucesso e Paz. Fica com deus.

Beto Almeida - brasil

[F1Fanatic]

Thank you SO much for sharing this.. One of my favorite songs.

[JonWaking]

Excellent instruction, sir! (I particularly love Eva Cassidy's version). Keep up the great work.

[bollak778]

well done dude....great works,i got it how to do that....ty a lot for sharing .byeeeeeeeeeee

[inconfortable1976]

i do really thank you for sharing this! for a long time i've tried to play some of simon and garfunkel's songs( i'm a big fan), your way make it very simple to me thanks ;)

sorry for my english, peace from morocco !!

[Hauff1988]

nice tutorial. i am going to get it!

[cuffeg]

Great Vid THANKS! I'v tried this both ways, and like the Bm. Thsi song brings back great memories of my younger years

[TheSlim1976]

your spot on sixstring i play it the same way, he s right running the bass from the c to the am apart the ending were its plucked. good vid though

[SixStringStrumming]

Great. But I have to say that I think the Bm sounds a bit off. When I play it I just play the G and then drop the base note from the 3rd to 2nd fret . I also play it with a D note up top instead of the G note . So really from 5th to 2nd string I'm playing almost the same notes from a Bm. Let me know if anyone agrees that this sounds better than the Bm. Maybe I'm wrong? Awesome tutorial. Sorry to knitpick! Thanks.

[ImOfTheWoods]

Thanks very much for this lesson. It's a big stretch for me, but I'm going to give your version a try. *****

[dclasz]

I always wondered how they made it sound so good and you have a great teaching style. Thanks very much for that.

[peterjones5664]

Many thanks. Fabulous tutorial!

[KingMoses3]

paul simon...what i would do to be able to hear such beauty in my mind

[clayludicrous]

Mahalo for your dissecting this song to a learnable, achievable level!! I know you must be busy, but are tabs available?

[mikastu]

Great stuff! Thanks for unlocking Paul Simon's brain!!!

[hookthreader1]

Thanks this is a really good tutorial. Would appreciate email with any info on this song and April come she will, if it's no trouble. Cheers

[Hinidas]

What the f... is a picking pattern?

[dizzitoast]

I love this song soooo much! Thank you so much for giving me a chance to learn it!!!!!

[bigbearjohn]

Man, I love you. Thanks for providing this.

You are a PURE natural artist. I can feel your soul through your music. Thanks for being here.

[malicioussmurf]

Beautiful.

[jmgcg]

Thanks a lot. You show here more then i can read in the S&G Songbook a bought almost 20 years ago. Great lesson.

[goldhat3]

Well done, perfect.

[themusicman1979]

thanks for this tutorial it helped alot ...check out my version if you like love to play this great song

[danslatente]

Im depressed and I wanna learn this song to play to my also depressive girlfriend.. PLEase, can I email you for the tabs or picking patterns? pleasee.. I'm just so unable to concentrate. The tutorial is great I just can't concentrate. please

[sahooq85]

good tutorial but to hard for me specially the hammer c kinda chord that comes after the g chord

[antqav8r]

Hi, the picking pattern Paul uses in the early versions of this song is the Travis picking pattern. If youre trying to play along with the studio version on the Sounds of Silence album he has tuned down 1 semi-tone (half note) to match his voice. A lot of folk songs from the 1960s used the Travis pattern and Kansas uses it in the introduction on Dust In The Wind. There are good examples of how to play it on the web.

[TaKaMiNePT508]

my god dude ure the man

thanks so much for the tutorial

cheers from brasil

[SCP1SCP1]

God bless you...

[perfik]

he seems nice. didn't sing bad neither.

[yadamatrix]

Straight forward and to the point.

No bullshit in this lesson.

One of the ebst tutorials I've ever seen.

[Gagtor]

Thanks a lot! All the tabs I could find were wrong. And my ear isn't that great. You really helped me.

[gazmull]

go to paul simon neck of my guitar its pretty acurate

[IngerAnna]

Thanks, I'm gonna try this out.

[KEITHWLEWIS]

Hi a really good tutorial, Could you cover the riff please which I can't seem to get into my head. Cheers Keith

[GabrielleFaeth]

I have a couple of questions. At one point with your picking pattern you start using the 6th string, how does the picking pattern go for that in terms of string pattern, and fingers?

And also, can you break down the walk down from C to G after the Bm that way too please?

Really good tutorial, and it sounds beautiful. thanks :D (wouldnt be able to play it without your picking help)

[airbornegasguy]

This is the best tutorial for this song that I've seen. I've always wanted to learn this song and your video really breaks it down.

I'm inspired!

[ElliotWoolf]

Dude, you are awesome. Thanks!

[ediself]

favorited :p im gonna practice until my fingers fall off , thank you i've been wanting to play this for years :)

[putkettleonfilms]

Thank you for explaining about the "rolling pick" pattern for the right hand. I have been playing this song for years in my wierd way, but it never sounded right. You have set me on the right path.

[burner1978]

Perfect rendition.

Just started playing guitar just under a year ago. When you say going from a G to a C, I have ahrd time deciffering what exactly your picking. Can you point me in the right direction for maybe an illustration of this? website?

thx,

ryan

[katerina5k]

That was an excellent tutorial! I've been practicing with Mark Hanson's Paul Simon book but a book isn't the same as watching somebody actually play the song. Thanks so much for sharing this video. It cleared up the problem I was having with those measures after "like a memory it falls" (Hanson plays a barre Bm and a barre G. Anyway...I get it now! Thanks!!

[GitaristaNaKumakanta]

Hello Brother, can you make a tutorial of the Boxer and April Come She will.

Thanks.

[GitaristaNaKumakanta]

You are awesome!!! I'm Learning a lot from you. thanks a billion hehehehe

[meadowqueen]

Great instructional style & I really like your playing & voice. Gratitudes for your clip!

[moneomone]

thanks a million..

[manouch69]

thank you very much man !!!!

[basocelular]

Great lesson,thank you

[bulldog1960]

hi do you thik you could slow the tutorial down, with a little more information, chris

[bulldog1960]

i really would like to be able to play this song ,

[gprentice303]

me too brosef. next day off i have ill get it!

[mrsuliban]

ty4a very good vdeo. but a bit 2 fast 2 follow :)

[haveatomato]

thanks alot. this really helped! beautiful song.

[amyfaurot]

Thanks so much for this. I just started playing my guitar again after about 20 years. I know with your help, I can learn this song. I never had the confidence that I could do this before! If you have more detail on this tutorial I would appreciate it

[gm2363]

Wonderful. The greatest thing that has happened to me during the last six months . Thanks a lot Mtreed. Please keep it going

[hudd1e]

this is great, i've been looking for ages for something like this. I love the lost chord the am/d7. i must've played it more times than psimon. do you think there is room in there for a d7 ?(a c7 on the 3rd fret..which is really a d7)one other point..i sometimes think that the d major is too "nice" and it should be another Bm. btw a fantastic perfomance, thanks again

[robertohess]

Very well done, thanks a lot. I've been looking for someone who would show me to play Kathy's song for a long time. (P.S.: The chord you called "between A minor and D7" is actually called A minor six (Am6) with an F sharp in the base).

[tamajoey]

Your tutorial is very much appreciated on this one as it is a song I have have been trying to get right for ages It explains what I need to know very well and I am grateful you are willing to share your expertise with myself and others. Thanks again

[G44GOG]

Great job.

[GoodFriendRam]

A Zillion thanks to you Sir. Amazing and most helpful. I sure think this is amongst the best tutorials and very well done. Thanks again :) You will make a very good teacher Sir!