Pinch Me (Ed Robertson) guitar lesson

A tutorial file of the guitar for Barenaked Ladies' "Pinch Me". Suppliment to http://www.rockitoldschool.com

Did this file more instructively, similar to Ed's demo for "Crazy". If this is more helpful, I'll do more songs this way.

Larrivée L-09E; room mic.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pinch
• Barenaked
• Ladies
• Ed
• Robertson
• Guitar
• Demo
• Lesson
• BNL

[lamrock0]

I think for this song you where right not to take it down so you could teach absolutely anyone it, because it would take too long. However I think you focused a bit too much on the fingerings, and not enough on the strum, the strum in my opinion is much harder to get down, and even ed him self says it is, just a little bit on it would have been helpful.

[TheHYPO]

@lamrock0 Duely noted; If I ever get to another video session, I'll consider a supliment.

[cathwon]

Look I dont want you to redo your video again, it's actually really thoughtful, it's just you play it way too fast, and for some really bad music learners they can't keep up with you. I know you're ultimate at guitar n all but when you're teaching you gotta learn to keep it at a slower pace for beginners. Also, I'm kind of in the intermediate range and I still had to replay the video alot, which I don't mind but just some tips.

[TheHYPO]

@cathwon (continued) 2) With the greatest of respect, my audience for these videos was intended to be the more intermediate player. I could do (as I see in many tutorial videos) "so then you just play a G-A-D - that's G, 2nd finger on the E string at 3rd fret.... 1st finger on the A string at 2nd fret..." for each chord. This is great for beginners, but once I knew chords, this frustrated me. (continued)

[TheHYPO]

@cathwon (continued 2) I will add a number 3, 3) At the time I made this (2007), youtube was not as full of 'complete lessons' of songs, and I envisioned the use of youtube as being a suppliment to the written tab which I created and linked to. The tab was to serve as an instruction sheet that can be read and learned at any pace(before youtube most people learned songs from tab). I expected viewers to get the tab, read it, and use the video if they couldn't visualize a fingering or riff (cont.)

[TheHYPO]

@cathwon I'm glad that youtube has thrived since then, and my later videos have been a bit more overall-instructional, but this was an early one, and I'm not planning to redo it. Perhaps I'll add a "caption" at the start of the video that more clearly says "get the tab, of course you're going to be lost without the tab, because I recorded this assuming you had the tab in front of you."

All that said, I certainly take all such comments under advisement should I ever do any more videos.

Thx

[TheHYPO]

@imover18lol89 You apparently haven't trained your eyes either, as I brought the fingering right up as close to the camera as possible. if you can't see what's being done, that has nothing to do with your ears. If you feel it doesn't help you, That's fine. you're no worse off than you were before. Plenty of others have replied that this helped them.

[AcousticVet]

Great video, the only part i'm having trouble with is the part you describe as "picking and muting" around 1:57, can't seem to get the hang of playing anything around the base notes - any tips you (or anyone else!) could give me? Thanks!

[abe259r]

Hey man really helpful video and everybody that's trying to learn this song knows it ...I like how you took the time to show us some of the thing Ed does on that song... palm muting is a technique that If you don't have down makes this song hard to play you should do something on it I'd watch ..

[rrtaylornz]

Great video, you broke it down nicely. Now I'll go away and practice it a couple of million times. This song is a bit above my ability but you've given me enough to go on, and in time it won't be. Keep up the good work !

[LanIost]

The F chord sounds amazing. Your guitar -- sounds amazing.

[badewannenmeister]

Pretty much over my head - I´m still way too bad at playing. :-) But really motivating all the same, I think you really did a good job there, thanks! Keep it up!!

[andmcg1]

Wow. That looks pretty hard. Ed is a really good guitarist (and so are you)!

[hunchdrunk]

Great job on a great song ... thanks for a very thorough lesson

[jmoses00]

@cathwon

dude he does it slow enough. you want some one to walk you through and hold your hand get a guitar teacher