Guitar Lesson - Dear Prudence - Beatles

[crisflamemq]

thanks a lot from spain for this video, mark! it´s great to understand how to play this complicated "travis picking" thing ;) you make a great job with each video you upload.

[PJHAIGHT]

You look just like my algebra teacher. Rock on!

[RmSlayR]

You are some chubby son of a bitch aint yah

[jonasjar]

I think your fingering of the main riff is sub-optimal. If you use pinky for 2nd string in the first shape (regular D) and then ringfinger for the C-bass note, and then index finger for B-bass, you'll end up with a smoother sequence, with less finger/hand movement.

[PinkBeatleQueen]

you suck singing

[SirLordHockey]

perfect lesson.

[xXxRashidFxXx]

What the Hell? o.O

[MoveOverCasanova]

great video!

[xXxRashidFxXx]

Fuckin' Awesome man!!!! You inspire a young soul like me!!! I learned the parts I couldn't figure out by listening with you!!!! Greetings from Colombia!!! Keep on Rockin'!!!

[drh45sth]

By far the best guitar tutor on Youtube, in my opinion.

I dont know how you do it, but you make the seemingly 'too hard'' stuff quite learnable & in a such a short space of time.

You are amazing.

Thanks !!!!!

[Ezmend]

Thank You Mark for a great lesson....You are a good teacher....

Blessing to you...

Ciao

Eddie

Tulare, CA

[Scubar123]

Is this just a Travis Pic?

[goldsmithstudent]

i dont remember john coughing in this song. lol im kidding buddy great job u teach me so much thanks again

[lobsterrawr]

Holy shit-excuse my french mister, but really, youre very talented.

Of course im a 5 week beginner, every saturday, but i think i can try this with my teacher.

[oienmac]

so many of these online lessons get undeserved praise, but U have got it Correct my friend!!

so I'm giving u an enthusiastic two thumbs up!!

Thnx for the lesson

keep up the greaaaat stuff!!!!

[delta38rambo]

i love the beatles. its my favorite band,

and Dear Prudence is my favorite song.

i think you be the best beatles guitar lesson man in youtube :)

i try your tabs, and is still work. really great work and thanks

[jeferstrings]

thank you...this has been in my "MUST LEARN" file for several years now..

I'll have fun with this one!!

[DamianSix66]

Mark would you recommend to a finger picking beginner (like me) to get some of those things your wearing on yer fingers or would you advise I learn first without them ? Everytime I see you fingerpicking Beatles songs it is such a great sound and I need to learn it as at the moment I just strum songs.

From Damian on Penny Lane Liverpool

[goldhat3]

@DamianSix66 Hi Damian, good question, I learned with my fingers first, and then I got the plastic fingerpicks. It took me about a month of practicing with them every day to get used to them.

[caffrey75]

Only decided I wanted to play this song yesterday and found the tab - which gave me problems. Should have realised you would have covered it and come here first! Thanks to your lesson, I can almost play the song. Many thanks Mark, 5* as always :)

[Mrsjessywessybessy]

What guitars that Please?

[carmantulla]

dude u are like soo awsome....ur like jesus on that guitar

[Brynjulvify]

@carmantulla Do you really think Jesus plays guitar? :D

[HinataShy00]

You're far out dude I learned Norwegian Wood from your vids. :D I'm a huge Beatles fan and I hope to be as awesome as you one day. Peace brother.

[johnd1224]

great lessons mark i enjoy them all

yet another who has come back to guitar im now 66 . keep on rockin

[speedamod]

Great enjoyed your lessons, havent really done much picking but I am going to try...

Thanks

Carl, Wales, UK

[pickeringpat]

Mark you rock,I'm 59 started guitar about a year ago after a 30 year hiatus,you have it all buddy great playing,awsome voice.Your my inspiration.From one old guy to another "Keep on rockin",take care.

[goldhat3]

Yep, don't forget us old geezers invented rock and roll. Rock on bro!

[jus4funtim]

Just came across your videos today.

You can add another old fart head banger

to your subscriber list.

[japroctor]

Really excellent and great video quality regards John & Keith

[alambada]

Bravo, bella canzone (song) che mi ero dimenticato.;)

[FiremanOly]

Another great lesson and perfoemance from you my friend. Always a joy to watch somehting of yours, even if I am several weeks behind. God Bless!

Oly

[jhanes313]

Thank you as always sir...

[kitykat74746]

this is amazingly easy to follow I love your lessons :)

[goldhat3]

Glad you like it.

[UManBoston]

thank you so much for these lessons. dont know how you do it

[goldhat3]

Me neither.

[herbiesnerd]

Great job. Donovan taught Lennon how to finger pick and the result was Dear Prudence and Julia. There is a Youtube interview of Donovan with his guitar before a live audience reliving the Lennon lesson. "Donovan teaching John Lennon a guitar finger style" is the YouTube link. He called it the CLAW HAMMER technique.

[goldhat3]

That's an interesting video, although Donovan plays dear prudence in his own way at the end. He does call it clawhammer, but that is what we call a particular type of banjo and guitar strumming from old timey music down here in the appalachians, which alternates a base or melody note with a strum pattern. That goes back a hundred years or more.

[herbiesnerd]

Donovan is an under rated folk icon of his time. His comparison to Dylan hurt him, accused of copying. He was his own singer songwriter who came out of the folk era and transitioned it into pop like many others of that time. Dylan denies he was a folk writer early on but he was. Dylan and Donovan were probably the best at it as singers too.  Kingston Trio and the likes used others songs like the Easy Riders who wrote many hit folk songs but weren't the best performers. Sloop John B is one.

[beatlemaniac6270]

wow i watched that, and it was really interesting!

[smallboy56]

you did it again! great..thanks mark

[madeforyour]

merci

[Vleatles]

Great!! One day I'll learn this! :D

[goldhat3]

Hey Vleatles, looking forward to seeing your version;-)

[OperationCrossroad]

The white album is really awesome!

[deanb92]

Awesome Lesson Mark! 5 stars!

[goldhat3]

Yo Dean, glad you like it. There are some good covers of this around youtube.

[fredthejunkman]

I admire your talent, Mark. You're a good "picker".

[goldhat3]

Greeting FTJ, thanks for stopping by.

[mjd0124]

another valuable lessons. Thank you so much sir, I learned a lot from you

[goldhat3]

Hey mjd0124, glad you like it.l

[lertez]

very nice done, you sounds alot like Neil Younge

[goldhat3]

Thanks, I have a couple Neil Young lessons on my channel too.

[jordanthecat]

It's real hard to teach or convey what Travis Picking is, at the same time as teaching a new song which requires it. And I know it seems just slightly overwhelming to guitar players unfamiliar with the technique, because I remember what it was like for me at first.

Lennon learned Travis Picking from Donovan, and must surely have struggled with it at first also- it's hard to keep your thumb going the first time you start doing those finger plucks.

***** on your lesson by the way!!!

[goldhat3]

It does take time to learn to keep an alternating base going with your thumb, but if feels very natural once you are used to it.

This is a common folk style which I don't consider Travis picking, because Travis usually just played a one finger melody over the alternating base. This folk style alternating base with treble string patterns as a vocal accompaniment was pioneered by people like Donovan, Paul Simon, Paul Stookey, and then was learned by Lennon, John Denver, and many others.

[gnuonageoj]

thanks i've been waiting for this one. This is one of my favorite songs ever. Great video

[phototecglobal]

Nice playing dude!

[emolover3991]

another great video!!