How to play Love Minus Zero/No Limit

[tanikyu]

Thank you. Excellent lesson. Clear and short.

[5nickell]

holy moley! i think that's better than Bob himself! thank you so much, I've been trying to find the chords for this but none of them told me where to put the kapo.

[rayoll]

cool!!! thanks of that...I am not trying to start anything but a couple of times you say go up to when in fact you are going down a course of string or note or....just a little thing to notice perhaps that might confuse someone...again thanks, I hadn't thought to figure out what the tuning was.

[migo1954]

Thank you.

Greetings from Germany.

Michael

[jzmassive]

you're an absolute gobshite

[jd51452]

Just play the damn song.

[BoillyR]

Thanks a lot. This is the lesson that taugh me how to play this song. If you don't feel like changing the tuning, you can play it with straight tuning, sounds ok, not perfect, but still do the hammer thing on the C chord.

[mackb909]

Thanks- v. helpful!

[BillBaroud64]

Thanks a lot my friend ! I've tried and it really gives something more to the sound, beside that you're a good teacher

[bumzdiesel]

thanx heaps!!!

[Tshots77]

thanks man...helped!

[greatestunknown]

Thanks. Dylan really had is own way that is not always easy to figure out.

[ljwright1]

Excellent!

[BennyElie]

Thank you!

quick question: what kind of an acoustic guitar do you think would be the best for playing these bob dylan kind of songs?

[connorlawhorne]

I've seen him playing classical guitars in the early days, and martins and gibsons mostly. you can find some specific records online, exactly what he was playing when, etc.

[BennyElie]

Thank you very much!

[SimaanFreeloader]

@BennyElie

Bob Dylan can be seen playing it on his Gibson Nick Lucas Special parlor guitar in the documentary Don't Look Back. I have read he used it for many of the songs on Bringing It All Back Home and Another Side of Bob Dylan.

So I guess if you want to be really Dylan-like you should play it on a parlor guitar. I think a parlor guitar could be particularly good for this song as it helps keeping the low C (E) kinda subtle, where it easily comes to dominate on a regular dreadnought guitar.

[Rage2834]

thanks man!

[connorlawhorne]

no problem! glad to help.

[dirtywater74]

awesome man.:)

[Scoobydoobiedoo2]

great

[Etni69]

Your guitar has a nice tone!

What kind is it? Nice tutorial btw

[aj4kenne]

just wanted to express my appreciation, very clear and accurate

[ZZJoCa]

Where were you two days ago when I was figuring it out? Good lesson, though I think you skip the F on the second Dm go around. .

[Zarich88]

Thank you for this great video, I've wanted to learn this song for a long time. But I have a little problem with the strumming pattern. I play it as down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Which sound okey to me but the problem comes when I should jump between, C, G and F. How to do think I should do? Like another up, down on C, then up, down on G and the same with F? Btw, do you know how Dylan's picking in Every Grain of Sand?

[justAnotherJapanese]

I'm impressed but why did you quit the rest part? It's a pity.

A very good piece of work, though.

[connorlawhorne]

thanks, this video is just a how-to. I do have a video of me covering the song, but that was before this and I didn't really put as much effort into it haha

thanks though, enjoy.

[HiddenDriveways]

Great job. Thanks for this. I would love to learn the real way to play Girl From North Country. I've played incorrectly for a decade or two...

[uttfan]

hey connorlawhorne, do u like bob dylan?

[connorlawhorne]

sure am.

[uttfan]

ur awesome.keep it up:)

[connorlawhorne]

gracias.

[ShagOff]

im usually pretty critical of some of these videos but this was seriously good

cheers mate

[connorlawhorne]

thank you thank you

[derikolson]

I am a beginner player, and don't know tunings very well. I have an electric tuner, and when I try to change the 6th string (i.e. tune it down), the tuner never tells me I am playing C. It goes from E -->D--->B--->A. Where is C? I know it can't be far from E because both you and dylan only take a few seconds to get there. It looks like you're only turning the tuning key once around.

thanks

[connorlawhorne]

it's two full steps below E. so tune down to D, and then go one more step. It may help to tune to the guitar itself. Play the 3rd fret on the A string, that's a C note. Tune your E string down until it sounds like that note.

[sean455]

awesome man, thanks alot =)

[dom12345678987654321]

i knew the chords n stuff but didnt know bout the dropped string so thanks a lot man. also, this is how "how to play" videos should be done - nice job!

[baishalisharmah]

great babe..thanks for the invaluable lesson..can you please teach me how to fingerpick in the song " diamonds and rust"? and in "suzanne"

i shall be highly obliged

[connorlawhorne]

I'll take a look at diamonds, I don't know the song suzanne at all.

[sleepyduo37]

ew you like unbreakable?

[connorlawhorne]

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[tongkrut]

You are amazing! I have wanted to play this song for 40 years and now you and YouTube have made it possible. I have the B&W Dylan video(with Donovan) and with your help I have realised my dream. THANK YOU SO MUCH. P.S. any other Dylan lessons will be appreciated.

[connorlawhorne]

Thank you so much man, I really appreciate that. I'm glad I could help, that's what it's here for. Let me know if there's any other songs you're looking for and I'll see what I can do.

[tongkrut]

The song I like to play most is "Heaven" by Talking Heads, the acoustic version from "stop making sense" I have the chords from "Chordie" but I need the picking details.

[connorlawhorne]

I don't know that song, but I can look into it.

[rgallen22]

very nice man,gotta just love that tune, never thought of tuning the e to c. gracias.

[connorlawhorne]

yeah, it's a great one. thanks for checking out the video.

[guitarchrisacoustic]

Great job man. helped alot. REALLY

[connorlawhorne]

glad to help!

[newportjdfan]

cheers fella, your a bleedin diamond!!

[connorlawhorne]

haha I'll take that as a compliment?

[libertetoujours]

helped me a lot, thanks.

[richelgin1963]

Really excellent. I think I have the strumming pattern. But could you count it out with the downs and ups for each measure and chord.

Thanks

[connorlawhorne]

The strumming is literally just up down up down the whole time. The rhythm comes for lifting your left hand and dampening the strings. When I play I tend to do that on the 2nd and 4th beat during the C and F chords. I hope that's helpful. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

[richelgin1963]

Yes, I will try it out.  Thanks:-0

[dinorwicdan]

that was good, but in the video Dylan capos the fifth fret.

[connorlawhorne]

I think that guitar was tuned down a half step, so he compensated by moving the capo up rather than taking the time to tune it. If you play along with the capo on 4 you'll see that it's the right key. And it's the same key as the album recording.

[carlyw91]

thank you so much for posting this, very helpful! x

[connorlawhorne]

No problem sir or madame, glad I could help.