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  • Thats... Super easy? .-.

    <3

  • scuba dee dot da da dee da 4:24

  • I have a question. When do you go to the 4th fret of the low E? You go from an A to a D to a G and then are you suppose to finish the whole strummin cycle of DDD DU UD DD. So is it that last D stroke that you go to the low E? hope someone can help thanks

  • So I watched some videos of Jack Johnson and his back-up guitar guy playing this live. When he plays it live it is indeed 1 step up from the record so it become:

    A->G (barre)

    G-> F (barre)

    D-> C (with some strums on F too)

    E-> D

    The intro guitar lick starts on the D string at the 9th fret (on the record it starts on the 11th) and is played while he hits the other strings which are muted.

    Marty’s version matches the recording of the song which is obvious when playing along.

  • is it just standard tuning??

  • @sraleig I think a majority of us came here to learn a song and have fun playing it. Why does music have to be such a picky thing for people like you. Music is about chilling out and having fun not about playing every single exact note perfectly. Id even bet that Jack Johnson doesn't give two shits about how people play he's song, just as long as there having fun doing it.

  • wow

    

  • can you show us how to play the intro you played?

  • man you rock thanks!!

  • blister in the sun

  • How you could screw something so simple up is beyond me.. do your homework... WRONG CHORDS there buddy... If your going to try and teach someone to play that song- teach them the right way.. Why not trying watching Jack Johnson himself play the song.. maybe then YOU would learn something

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  • @sraleigh6 you're a dick

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  • how is this easy?!

  • your such a ledgend dude

  • can't help but notice that blotch on your pickguard is it a scratch or a design?

  • you...need...a...mustache.... O.O

  • oii marty can you please teach us blood by middle east!! awesome song!!

  • Awesome! Your a great teacher!

    But i think it would be good to hear the whole piece at the end to get an impression of how to put all the parts together with the transitions...

    Anyway's very good explanations!

  • you make melaugh so much and are such an excellent teacher

  • marty i love you!

    

  • marty, can you teach blister in the sun by the violent femmes? one that you played at the end of the video

    YOU ARE AWESOME!

  • Thank you so much!

  • G to A.... then we play a D to G... catchy

  • @Swax6302 Ikr haha. I was thinking of the same thing. Sounded like a song.

  • looking classy marty

  • awesome lesson marty! you might need some visine though haha

  • wow dass ist ein geiles lied aba der gitarrist is klasse der beste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • you are the MAN!

  • HAHAHA!!! Love the ending!

  • You're an excellent teacher!

  • I love your videos! THAAAAAAAAANK YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!! <3

  • 12 ppl who disliked r faggots....fuckin cunts...!

  • Marty looking slick XD love you and your tutorials man !!! you give so much for nothing in return!!! Marty = God

  • dude you kick ass to post these for us! thanks!!

  • Yo Marty, great cover. Any reason you chose to play the opening with single notes rather than chords like Jack does? I'm a beginner (one month in) so this cover is good picking practice :) Thanks, keep up the great work! 

  • YAY! you rock!! thanks! :D

  • How do you request a song?

  • @3TheEthan go to his website and request it there ^.^

    

  • Hey thanks for this because loads of jack johnson songs are really hard! i was just wondering how do you play the last bit ''hope that time will take our lines away'' is it the same as the verse?

  • stick to playing guiar bro, you can't sing :L

  • Tried to sign up for the ebook , didnt get the email Marty Mcfly ...

  • he tought me how to count

  • have you guys never heard JJ play this song? good on ya marty, but you always play your covers so differently

  • id love to burn a fatty with ya marty then jam for an hour or two

  • Hey Marty thank you for this fantastic lesson, you are a very good teacher

    Jack Johnson plays it 2 frets higher...

    Here is a live video where you see it

    /watch?v=myihVcd2DHY&NR=1&feat­ure=fvwp

    Anyway: YOU ARE AMAZING :)

  • Great lesson, lots of respect for how well you can teach and wear hats.

  • You call that Super, Huh.

  • this is great, thanks so much for the help!

  • woody

  • Your the reason why I can play guitar!

  • So schade, dass ich nicht älter bin un keine Amerikanerin oder so :D

  • super awesome, think i learned good :)

  • i love it

  • great job man

  • tommys emmanuels son has grown to be a good guitar player this is tommys son

  • thats my boy 

  • I reallly think this is helpful since im playing football and can not do guitar lessons, so thanks.

  • Oh man, you make me learn every song 1000-times faster! Thanks so much, I dont know why I pay 20$ to my guitar instructor for a half hour if I van just learn it from you. So please keep doing what you are doing!

  • yo if i had a dollar for every hat you had.....id probably buy u another hat

  • @OPSice made my day, I was thinking that same.

  • martys always lookin higher than a kite

  • @steve1296 i wonder why...

  • fresh boy :D

    

  • the real song is so different

  • Great lesson! I don't have a great talent in music and it makes especialy strumming patterns hard to figure and that is where you make yourself stand above the others for me. One thing i noticed in this video that you didnt metion. On the Double pattern played for the D chord you do an upstroke after finishing the pattern once and it sets you up for doing it again instead of playing the 7 downstrokes. If i'm wrong let me know. people reading this, try and see how it sounds for you.

  • MArty your the BEst you masterise all youtube learning video Mannn Keep it up :)

  • thank you so much! your videos are really helpful. i've been wanting to learn guitar for a long time. you make it easier!!

  • you are so helpful! vie been wanting to learn guitar for a long time. you make it so easy by breaking it down, thank you!!!

  • G, D and B not E

  • horrible

  • Lol discussing about English grammer???

    I am not american or english, eitherway I wont be winning my life with youtube comments so I dont give a shit

  • You show us how it should sound. How to basicly play (the chords), and how to play it short. Not many of the persons in the youtube lessons do alle those things which is why it is difficult to follow. You make it as easly as possible. Thank you very much! :)

    (- excuse wrong spelling please)

  • dude ur amazing at teaching songz this is the secong song i learned from u the first one wuz come as u are but thats kinda easy and then this one i just learned and its soooooo fun 2 play

  • And guys below me seriously, nearly under every YouTube video, there's 2 or more people having an argument/annoying discussion so I suggest to cut from here and take your discussion up in the personal messaging section

  • Cheers marty for teaching everone out there, your guitar lessons are by far the best videos on youtube

    at first when I started guitar, it was mainly because I wanted to impress other people and because it seemed cool(although it is anyway).. But as time went by I started to feel the music I played and my music ear improved so now I play songs because I want to and its enjoyable/relaxing

    Thumbs up if you agree!

  • I need one of them hats, seems like the key to playing the guitar.

  • really helpful mate thanks

  • Marty Schwartz will create world peace by teaching anyone who wants to know how to play the guitar. Make music not war.

  • This man can teach every one to play guitar,amazing!Tnx for the lessons,they've been realy helpful

  • he marty about a year ago i begon playing time of your life from your teachings to impress a girl haha but i liked it so much now ik can play california dreamin fingerstyle! and its all becouse of u! you got me started and learnd me the basics on guitar thank u sooo much you gave me the thing i never loose 4 the rest of my life!

  • @dennis27391

    that's good to now

    from your grammar i'm guessing you're not american?

  • @Jsalcedo23

    Well if you're gonna call someone on their grammar I might as well join the party...

    1) Sentences start with a capital.

    2) No ending punctuation on the first sentence.

    3) There is a k in know.

    4) The I in I'm is capitalized.

    5) American is capitalized.

    6) "I'm guessing you're not from American" doesn't make sense.

    I'm done trolling for now though so this grammar session is over.

    P.S. Marty you are a great teacher. Keep doing your thing man!

  • @trogdar22

    if you could actually read correctly you'd see i wrote "i'm gueesing you're not american" not "you're not from american" idiot

    so get it write before you try to act smart

  • @Jsalcedo23 no i am from holland sorry for my bad grammar..:/

  • kinda sounds like the friends theme songXD

  • What was the thing he played at the end there? It seemed super familiar

  • lookinh healthier

  • Thank you so much for post this song! It's very cool to see how I have to play!

  • Thank you sooooo much!!!

  • are you jewish? your last name sounds jewish :)

  • Nice hat.

  • can anyone please give me the tabs from 4:28 to 4:38 ???..please!!!!

  • @666pillepalle i just put up a vid lesson on the whole song

  • not trying to bag on your ability to play or teach because you're good, but this isn't how you play this song bro. chords go G F C for the verse, F G C F for the chorus, and G C G C G C G C D for the bridge/ending. at least thats how jack does it. your lessons are very good and instructive though for sure.

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  • @matcalimpong Jack playis it in a different key live, this is correct to the studio version of the song

  • @maddy52101 Word, i'll give you that. I stand corrected. I still like the way the other style sounds better haha. This way just doesn't sound right to me, but thats why i'm not teaching these videos haha.

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  • the cool about marty ... is you dont have to know anything about music .. and u get to learn and play your favourite songs

    thats crazyy .. Rock on marty

  • please teach belle by jack johnson!

  • Thank you so much! I've wanted to learn Jack's songs for so long and finally i've found your lessons. It so easy learn song using your videos. Thank you again!

  • yeah jacj johnson lesson juhu :D

  • Martyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy .. hhhh cool man

  • in the original he mutes every other chord while playing the intro.  how does he do that?? the vid is in the right(live in studio)

  • marty the hat is bad , and you are dangerous... you writting history and you are still unbreakable... i love you more

  • Another great tutorial.

    Thanks Marty! You da man!

  • thank you!!!!!!

  • nice lesson but not the way jack plays it ;)

    but thumbs up :D

  • YOU. ARE. THEE MAN!

  • Can anyone help me out please?

    So he's playing the G chord with the strumming pattern, is he hitting all the strings on the up and down strum? I'm completely new to strumming so I don't know whether it's essential to hit all the strings.

  • @Jangoski in the g chord you have to play all of them , but on d the first 4 and on a try hittin 5

  • marrttyyy!! awesome man! cheers so much... it helps wen u sorta sing the chord patterns.."then we play a D to G" hahaha love it!

  • Marty looking FRESH is right...thank Marty, always so helpful....thanks

  • Wait what about the beginning part? Is it on another video?

  • thanks marty the smarty.. you make me love guitar playing and you make me loving you too like my brother

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  • whats the name of the song he plays at the very end

  • @thatsrightbro Its called "im-prov"

  • @thatsrightbro blister in the sun by violent femmes

  • great job!

  • Betterwithout the TACHE !!

  • You are SUCH a great teacher--pretty rare stuff. And on top of that, you are too cute. Love the faces you make.

  • hey marty can you teach some john mayer songs pls ?

  • my boy marty lookin fresh!!!!

  • @bstiles916 agreed

  • @bstiles916 i was ur 100 like 0.0 

  • wish you would count out those DDD DU UD DD, otherwise very well done. Thanks

  • wow you look different with out your stashhh haha not in a bad way lol great tutorial thank you :)

  • ahhhh new look ???

    cool one mate !

  • Wow. This is exactly what I was looking for. PERFECT, great job!

  • loving ya work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more please x

  • GUITAR name please!!!!!

  • I like the blister in the sun at the end. You should do a video on how to do that song. All the other ones are weird and don't sound right.

  • marty can u please make a tab of this? and chords? pretty please lol i love this song and ur teaching skillz :D

  • Thanks for all your work. Is it possible for you to play the entire song back at the end of the video to help bring it all together? I think this would help people to get the flow of the song. I'm sure you put a lot of time in already but just a thought.

  • Thanks for all your work. Is it possible for you to play the entire song back at the end of the video to help bring it all together? I think this would help people to get the flow of the song. I'm sure you put a lot of time in already but just a thought.

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  • yo marty whenever im in the mood to learn a good song ur the first to pop up for a vid lesson ur awesum and keep on rockin bro

  • Hey Marty!

    /watch?v=S9tfFeIUvLo&feature=r­elated

    Check this link out, interview with jack describing his influence for this riff.. and shows where he plays it on the neck.. couldn't post it with y.o.u.t.u.b.e.com in front for some reason.. sorry

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  • Does Marty use steel strings??

  • this was by far the most helpful video i've found so far

  • Gosh!! This is SO not "super easy beginner".

  • @NavyaGreenDayMalik,

    Just learn the chords and everything will be fine.

  • @amgoo12 Yeah, I sorta know the chords but I SUCK at strumming. But then, I'm just a beginner.

    But seriously, I don't think that this song is for beginners.

  • most of it is in the blues scale o-o

  • Ahh now I find you free ebook link about 20secs too late.Haha.

  • Are you using and acoustic or electro-acoustic guitar?

  • Thank you soooo much Marty!!!! Great lesson.

  • You should teach Shark In The Water by VV Brown. I would love that so much! I know I'm just one person. But, does having a big heart count(: I love this song. Oh please please please:D

  • Great lesson Marty, best guitar teacher on youtube!

  • nice hat,marty!:)

  • this chord aren´t completely right... it´s G-F-D ...:S

  • youre the best guitar teacher ive ever seen , i learn so much things from you, its great!!! not only this song , also the other song youve teached!! keep doing it!!!!

  • grazie Marty !!! 

  • When someone asks me who my guitar teacher is I tell them its Marty Schwartz!!!! Thanks again Marty you are the best teacher ever! I thank you for every lesson you have taught us! Keep up the lessons! You are the best!

  • nice express shirt!

    

  • Thank's Marty! The first time I heard this song, I said to my self, I'm going to try to figure this out by myself. You beat me to it! Thanks again.

  • This is not a Super Easy Beginner!

  • @Samimi11 if you have watched all of his videos from the start it is kinda super easy!

  • I asked for this yea!. I guess he made it great video Marty. :)