God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Ed Robertson) guitar demo

A tutorial file of the guitar for Barenaked Ladies' "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings". Not currently up at http://www.rockitoldschool.com, but will be some day.

Had to do some heaving editing on this one to put it under youtube's 10 minute limit. Hope it's clear enough. I also noticed a few mistakes I made while recording and noted them with some overlays. Wasn't a good day for bloopers.

Larrivée L-09E; room mic.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• God
• Rest
• Ye
• Merry
• Gentlemen
• We
• Three
• Kings
• Barenaked
• Ladies
• Guitar
• Demo
• Lesson
• BNL

[Barinnn]

Could you please break down the strumming pattern (up and downs etc)? I tried copying by watching this video for weeks but not successful. Thanks!

[TheHYPO]

@Barinnn For which part of the song?

[Barinnn]

@TheHYPO the one between 0:22 and 0:38 .... I can't figure it out .... what are the pattern of Ups and Downs? which strings you play (all or just lower three)? Which Down do you silence them? thanks!

[TheHYPO]

@Barinnn For the basic rhythm, it's a shuffle rhythm like:

1+2+3+4+

D duDUdu

The capital letters are more hit on the bass strings (E-A) and the lowercase letter are more hit on the treble strings (D-G-B-E). You can, for style, add a bit of muting on those treble hits (lowercase).

Hope that helps.

[bobbymarines1]

You so good wow if you teach guitar lessons I will learn from u

[XninjaXtacosX]

phenomonal. Help more than a ton

I wasn't sure if I liked this tutorial at first, but after searching a few more [horrible] tutorials, I had to apologize for doubting this. Forgive me.

[Barinnn]

@TheHYPO please?

[FreakFolk391]

My friend that was extremely helpful. Thank you very much.

[milibabe31]

wow!

[thesithwithashotgun]

since when did you wear glasses?