Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull Guitar and Harmonica Lesson by George Goodman

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Jethro Tull Locomotive Breath Lesson on Guitar and Harmonica
Hey, George from GeorgeGoodman.com here. Welcome to this video where I show you how to play Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull on guitar and harmonica.

Locomotive breath came out on the Aqualung album of 1971. The song was written by Ian Anderson, the band's lead singer, flutist, song-writer. He also played acoustic guitar.
So let me give you a quick demonstration and then we'll talk about it. 1 2 3 4 1...
OK, so that's the very first part. That's E minor, G, D, and back to E minor.
Then mute the strings with your little finger.
The rhythm starts on the and of one. So if we count it, one, two, three, four, one, and. The and is on the upstroke; and two and; G is on 3 - downstroke, D is on 4 - downstroke, and Em is on one. Then we have muted downstrokes; two, three, four, one.
& 2 & 3 4 1 In the shuffling madness 2 3 4 of the locomotive breath 2 3 4 1 comes the all time loser ... then we're going to go to B7 which is here and we're going to muffle it by laying it down and playing muted down strokes - 2, 3, 4, 1. and 2 and 3, D on 4, Em on 1.
Now we're going to go into the chorus which brings us to G on the downstroke on 1, & 3 &, A on the downstroke on 1, & 3 &, and then we're going to go to B7 and I'm going to hit the upstrokes on the off beats. So it's 1 and and and and and 2 and 3, 4, 1.
So those are the chords we have for that. We have E minor to G to D to E minor. There's the part where it goes to B7. And we have the chorus which is G, A, B7, D, E minor.
OK, so let's take that and put the harmonica on it. We are in the key of E minor which is the relative minor to G major so I'm using a G harmonica. I'm playing a Hohner Special 20, a diatonic key of G is what you need. Visit George's Harp Shop at http://www.georgegoodman.com/everything-harmonica/ for great deals on harmonicas and related gear.
So what we'll do, I'll go through the chords and we'll just do this slowly and I will play the harmonica to the melody to give an idea of how the chords go with the lyrics and then we'll wrap it up.
Check out the website for the harmonica tabs at www.georgegoodman.com/music-lessons/jethro-tull-locomotive-breath-how-to-play-on­-guitar-and-harmonica.
Alright, so that's the whole form of the song. There's three verses with choruses. There's the flute solo in there. I do a harmonica solo like the melody bit I just showed you.
Staying on the them of Locomotive Breath, I like to put a little train sound, train whistle as the intro to the song.
Hopefully, you can use that, you can put that all together to create your own version of it. You can do different feels with it. You can make it more laid back or play it more on top of the beat. Play around with that and have some fun.
So thanks for watching the video. I hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a comment. Sign up for the mailing list at www.GeorgeGoodman.com and I'll send you lessons to your inbox.
Alright. So take it easy. See you next time. Cheers. Peace

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[Juanako677]

Hey George, could you please post the harmonica tabs?

[GeorgeGoodmanDotCom]

@Juanako677 Click the link just below the video. That will take you to my website where you will find the tabs about halfway down the page with lyrics and chords.

Cheers, George

[liontarious1]

Absolutely great....many thanks

[GeorgeGoodmanDotCom]

@liontarious1 Hey, you're welcome and thank you

[1BattleRattle]

Great vid. The strum pattern was/is EXTREMELY helpful. I can't walk and chew gum at the same time...so I can really appreciate your talent.

[GeorgeGoodmanDotCom]

@1BattleRattle That's great. I'm glad it helped. Cheers, George

[Blaas123]

You learned me to play guitar. Thank you so much :D

[Juanako677]

@GeorgeGoodmanDotCom Got it. Thanks a lot. That is by far the best transcription i've already seen.

[Blaas123]

@GeorgeGoodmanDotCom Maybe Aqualung :) That would be nice

[GeorgeGoodmanDotCom]

@Blaas123 Hey! It's been my pleasure. Got something else you'd like to learn? Cheers, George