1968 incredible string band guitar lesson Mike heron

Welcome back One of the joys of doing these lessons is that it forces me to revisit some of my old work and in doing so I find mistakes or I just miss parts like the introduction to Jane And the same with today's song it's a beautiful poignant song full of beautiful sadness It' s a fan favorite and I read online yesterday someone's view that it would have been the best If they put it on hardwood and silk and twine it's Mike Herron's Quantum 1968 You don't have to play it in C G C G C D which I'm going to do today so it's C G C G C D D It does have some advantages as you can get some of the lines in that you might not be able to in standard tuning so it starts off with a quite long introduction which is just based around two Chords which is if you're thinking in your head that it's a minor which I'm playing on the two and five and four on my five fourth and third strings It goes to G which is OH 2020 and you can get the timing of the changes just by thinking to yourself s starts off with some small ones on top of that so the first one goes so that's two four on the second third and second strings and the third string is four five four oh sorry four five four open four and then there's another one that follows it which is which is two on the fourth string two open four on the third string two on the second string four I just put those in as examples there are other little ones they do and then not long into it it then standardizes in my hearing onto these two riffs back to back so The first one goes I'm playing on the third string two four five four two open so it's and then the second one is similar to that it goes two four five two so two four five four two this time it's so first one when I'm playing that four I usually play the second fret of the fifth string along with it to give you the A minor sound and then the next one goes and then the part which you Those are the little runs that are played I think five six seven times and then there's another major piece that comes in the instrumental piece goes so this song itself so I'll take you to that so we' re on the third string again so it's five four five and I'll play the G chord which is O two and four on the fifth fourth and third string five two four on the third and the next part is four and five on your fourth and fifth strings six and seven nine and seven that repeats five seven six seven and nine It finishes with 12 and 11 12s on the fifth 11s on the fourth That's 11 and nine nine and seven seven and six four and five so Just before they start singing there's another little one that comes in which I'll show you some starts on the fourth string on the fourth fret That's four six seven go back onto the third string on the fourth fret seven six and then we're into the song itself so it starts with my friend that's a G chord That's a C chord I'm playing it on the fourth and fifth strings That's a D chord so that's six seven and six Do you think it's a minor chord with two five and four on the fifth fourth and third strings Do you think we're learning more Do you think so Do you think we're learning So G chord which is oh two do you think we will is a D chord across the bottom three frets o ree strings of the second fret we will be sure That's going up to E minor of all the song there is and just go back to D so my friend see the nice and do you think we'll learn more do you think we will The next part is C which I play 5 4 5 on the fourth and third string Do we step on somewhere G do we my friend to A minor aga G and then the instrumental section returns and one to the chorus and starts in A minor e chords are C ree different ways but the first one is playing which is four and five which is zero two and zero on the fourth and fifth strings so that's the bar and the cross on the three strings of the fourth fre And repeats again let's do it one more time it's A minor and keep the fire burning And here if you want to play a different C B minor A minor you can come all the way up to the top which is quite attractive which is 14 12 Right so it's 14 12 12 bar across 11th with top finger on the 12th fret slide it down two to nine and ten on top sunshine That's your E minor again and just another way to play that C B minor A minor you can play it Is C so you can play up five and seven so it's bright it's five and seven sun is the B more than six and the A minor is two and four on the fifth and fourth strings and then it goes to another prolonged slightly prolonged instrumental part which is again based around that A minor to G and you either play or be thinking of Come back and sing we kept looking long so that looking long a minor to G We can play strong minus your G and you do another and then the I Ching talks softly in A minor and I play a bar of A minor to G all parts are in A minor and then another up to G still so it's the voice of running water Running and you get cold it turns to G D which is played by and across the second fret on the bottom three strings to me at's E minor so you just move that D up two frets and then it says I still love So that's it C to B minor A change you can play that or I still love to see a rainbow Sing the chorus again A minor let's do it one more time and then it has another instrumental section the one we had earlier the end of it shame if it has to end it's such a beautiful song I hope you've enjoyed it and that it's given you enough information to play it the way you'd like to play it if you just want to use the same chords in standard Tuning they will work fine you'll just have to look at the instrumental parts in a different way If you liked it I'd be grateful if you would click the like button give it a thumbs up and if you want to be notified about any more such lessons like this Then please hit the subscribe button but for now I'll say goodbye