YGS - American Girl - Tom Petty - Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lesson

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[01Refuges]

First to thank for a wonderful lesson..

Idiots.

[superbetoboyrules]

helpful and brilliant as always :)

[lovemusiceveryday]

wats the strumming pattern 4 this song ?

[tompetty1976]

You look sleepy in that video. heehee

It's D, Em, G, A in (d,d,u). open tuning no capo.

At least that's how Tom plays it...There is some kind of B in the chorus on "Make it last all night" but you can just use an A. I think the A sounds better if you're in a hurry.

[WeirdDoline]

Awesome song indeed! I'm having some difficulties with this particular strumming pattern, though. Every time you start strumming like that I go "Noooooo! Not that one!" XD One day, I'll get it right and I will be able to play a lot more cool stuff. Only, you know... not today... ;-)

[xtremegamer515]

Hey Erich,

how often do you change your strings?

[godwithahatchet]

lol nice video man, ending was hilarious

[timdoog42]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I hate the Bm. my fricking hands are smallllllllllllllllllllll.

[XeeGen]

Is erich on something these days? He looks so happy and cheerfull :D

[SuperfluousMy]

is there any way u could post some more advanced acoustic finger picking like kids and good lesson of american girl

[billandlindsey]

more Tom Petty song lessons please

[rony042]

nice video. How do you walk down from G to A? Would be awesome to learn that.