St James Infirmary - Full Tutorial with TAB - [EASY Fingerstyle Guitar]

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Tablature for the arrangements in this video can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/st-james-infirmary-guitar-lesson-beginner

[@garybryansongs]

Thank you so much for taking the time to put this on KZbin!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@garybryansongs, you are very welcome! :)

[@mikedempsey1797]

Wow this is incredible. I’ve been going back to this song for years and could never figure it out. This is by far the best way I’ve found it explained. Thank you!!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@mikedempsey1797, you are very welcome! Gald you like the tutorial and that it looks like it will help you with the St James Infirmary. It's a great tune :)

[@JaimeIniesta]

Thanks, great lesson and very well explained. Can I ask about your guitar model? I like that it's quite small, seems easy to play.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@JaimeIniesta, thanks, glad you like the lesson :) The guitar I am playing is a Guild Songbird S4CE.

[@ramonleonegea]

Hello Simon, I like very much your book Percussive Guitar Guide. It would be great if you could do simple short pieces, with percussive techniques. I subscribe, greetings from Spain, bye.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@ramonleonegea, thank you! I am glad you like the percussive book. I will keep your suggestion in mind :)

[@waynecaswell5727]

A really great lesson. Thank you for teaching so many good lessons.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@waynecaswell5727 you are very welcome! :)

[@xx-ev2sq]

fantastic, deserves more love

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@xx-ev2sq, glad you liked the video :)

[@manttheusurper]

This arrangement is so cool! Great lesson thank you!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@manttheusurper, you are very welcome! Glad you like the arrangement :)

[@Chimp_No_1]

Great lesson ! Thanks !

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@bulwul1, you are very welcome! :)

[@beckyjohnson1008]

Great lesson - as you said it is easy to play and it sounds nice. Would like to see what you could do with the Christmas carol Silent Night.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@beckyjohnson1008, thank you! Yes, could definitely do a nice version of Silent Night :)

[@danielparker1102]

Really enjoy your relaxed teaching approach. I’d love to see how you approach arranging a finger style piece-like Red River Valley or something simple like that.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Thanks! I’m glad you liked the lesson. I will have to check out Red River Valley :)

[@annemariekaczorowski1863]

Thank you

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome! :)

[@tuna22lm]

I really enjoyed this. I have a question for you. Do you have something like this for playing happy birthday? I really want to learn to play it using chords, melody instead of just hitting one string at a time, I have 10 days to try and learn to play it differently, I just saw a guy plays it the way I am talking about but he wasn't teaching it and there was no cheat sheet, so I could only watch I even slowed it down but that was awful, so just thought I would ask and hope that you did thank you.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@tuna22lm glad you liked the lesson :) I don't have a video on Happy Birthday as a Chord/Melody Arrangement. This video will help in learning how to create your own chord/melody arrangements, perhaps not in 10 days, but it is worth the investment of time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZWnaJ57fb6Kibc

[@tuna22lm]

@@acousticguitarlessons oh that's to bad I think that ,, that is one song that a lot of people would like to learn as there are birthdays happening every day. Thank you anyway, oh and that link that you gave me I already had been watching, but at my age I would find it difficult to try and do it on my own, if I see one that I know like the red river valley one the guy asked about, and you showed how you would play it with the tabs shown that would make it a lot easier for me to learn. I was just using that one as an example because I know that song. I have great difficulty learning by books I always have, I am the type that needs some kind of guidance if I watch someone do something then I can usually learn it that way but if I can't I find it very difficult for me that is how I have learned things all my life. But I will preserve if I have to play it one string at a time then I will and the guy that I seen on KZbin that was playing it the way I wanted to learn how to play it well he was filming from an angle so you couldn't tell what the chord shapes looked like and he was playing up and down the neck. He is the only one that I have seen play happy birthday that way everyone else and I have seen a lot are teaching how to play it either one string at a time or just strumming the chords, I didn't really want to play it that way if I could have learned how to play it like that one guy did, oh well such is life, thank you anyway take care.

[@elsongunn9890]

This is quite difficult to follow since you aren't playing the notes as it is tabbed.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@elsongunn9890, can you tell me where in the video I am not playing what is tabbed?

[@elsongunn9890]

@@acousticguitarlessons 3:44 the 3rd melody tab. There is a 1-0 that is never played. Sounds like it's 2-1. Then 3:48, the last melody phrase. There is a rest then 2-1-2-1-2-1-2-(2). But you seem to play 2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-(2). I think in other parts of the arrangement the played notes are from the last bar of the previous tab so the tab on screen misses out the first few notes. Just trying to work through the finger-picking arrangement. Many thanks for the lesson.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@@elsongunn9890, I see. There are some times some small nuances between what I play and what is tabbed. It's not intentional, and they are insignificant in that if you played what you saw in the tab it would sound fine, or if you played what you heard me playing it would sound fine too :) These nuances are the equivalent of saying "It's" instead of "It is" in a sentence. Both make sense, if that makes sense :) Sounds like you are doing a great job using your ear to dictate what to play, and that is a great skill to build. You would be better off following the TAB here on this page as you can see it all at once: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/st-james-infirmary-guitar-lesson-beginner

[@elsongunn9890]

@@acousticguitarlessons Thanks for taking the time to respond. Will check out the the full tab. Many Thanks

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@@elsongunn9890 you are welcome! :)