BEST Blackbird Guitar Lesson On The Internet | SECRETS REVEALED | ALL other videos are incorrect

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The BEST Blackbird Guitar Lesson On The Internet | SECRETS REVEALED | ALL other videos are incorrect
So today we need to address something unfortunate that has been happening for a while now in the online guitar space. Every day people turn to the internet to learn how to play "Blackbird" by the Beatles, but not ONE single video on the internet actually shows you how to play it right!
Yes, ALL of the videos including the top-ranked and highest-rated ones with MILLIONS of views are misleading droves of guitarists and not actually showing you how Paul really played it. While some get close, watch this video and I will demonstrate and debunk every other approach.
Let's set the record straight!
Guitar Tabs in Jon's KZbin Vault ✅
Blackbird Guitar Lesson Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - The 2 secret patterns (pattern 1)
4:20 - Pattern 2
5:22 - here's where most go wrong
7:19 - Fretting hand shapes (intro)
8:05 - Verse
8:27 - Chromatic bass motion
10:39 - Play through
11:24 - Turnaround
12:55 - Chorus
14:44 - Congrats, here's what to do next
🎤Lyrics:
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
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[@jonmaclennan]

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[@Alex_Martz]

SPOT ON!, the right hand is the most important part on this song to play it accurately!

[@raineraltvater]

Hi John, I first must be 68 years old to learn „Blackbird“ from you. I bought the white album when I was 14 and I played my fingers bloody! I forgot this Song for year, but when you explained the semitone basspattern, everything was clear and I understood the song, now I'm practicing diligently! Your tutorial is the best and thank you for your great way of teaching! Rainer 😎👍

[@Heene1028]

You actually just wrote almost verbatim what I was gonna write… except I am 63 years old … mom got me the album when I was 8 years old… Learned this song from my guitar teacher when I was 16 and now I am trying to remember and perfect it and this is the closest I’ve seen the way I was taught in the way I think Paul is playing it so thank you oh thank you oh thank you all so exciting so exciting!❤️💫🙏🎸

[@lucydayLucida]

@@Heene1028 Same here! Just returned to playing after 35 years and blackbird was the only one I could remember being able to play. It's coming back to me, but this tutorial adds a new dimension I'd never understood previously.

[@ramjtme]

Great lesson. Paul always asks for a show of hands at his shows for guitar players playing this song. Then he tells us we are playing it wrong. I’ve got it down now with a minor change. Thanks.

[@Rossdink]

This guy is the only teacher on the internet that makes me awesome at guitar.

[@highlightspotent127]

You know what.. I’ll add another note that I stumbled on just now. I saw a clip of Paul McCartney on a talk show where he plays black bird with the finger plucking style. So even he jumps to different styles it would seem

[@DaanZijp]

yo, actually, best tutorial video i might have ever seen. I tried playing the song with just the tabs, and got nowhere, but when i watched your video, i learned the songs in just 2 days.

[@69indian70]

Great lesson, Jon. Presented in a very organized and understandable fashion. Thanks. Love those Beatles classics.

[@DavidYarber]

Really love the album lessons. This is one of the best. Excellent instruction.

[@PascalsWager5]

This really IS the only lesson on KZbin that teaches the RH 100% correctly

[@gregglashauser4125]

Great lesson, beautiful sound and very well explained thanks 🙏🏽

[@EmerCalhoun]

BRILLIANT lesson! Thank you vey much,John.

[@GaudzRamirez]

Perfect! Thank you, Jon!

[@dalerogers2490]

Another awesome lesson Jon 👍

[@henryrodriguez2054]

There is a live version on the tubes of Paul playing it and I learned to do it that way. But I must say, your version has that sound of the album. So I'm going to go with this as I really like it.

[@michalchabo7589]

Beautiful :) I learned this from you. its one of my favorites :)

[@drewsacks]

Jon, I just discovered your channel looking for The Boys of Summer. A very good teacher taught Blackbird to me with finger picking as you suggested many do. Then I saw a video on KZbin that was sort of a hybrid of yours and my teachers. Thankfully I found this. So far I'm only 5 minutes into yours and it's clear..... this is exactly correct. I should be able to modify what I had been doing to adjust to what is clearly so close to what McCartney was doing. He has his own almost slightly 'sloppy' or just say 'free' way of doing it, cause he wrote it. But you're spot on. Can't wait to learn other things from your site!

[@shaunmcarthur3616]

Thanks for this. Well taught.

[@FrankPersico]

The best blackbird lesson on KZbin. I was going to make a video teaching blackbird on my channel but after seeing yours I just decided to make a video giving some tips on how to play it and revealing the best and worst blackbird tutorials on youtube. so referred my viewers to YOU! lol. i don't have that many of them but just showin the love. thanks

[@angelelices]

Thanks a lot for this lesson of such a beautiful song. Greetings from Spain.

[@dnluc9]

Love this!!

[@jocelyn7733]

You look so effortless, especially in the "take these sunken eyes and learn to see" line... My hand seems to be all over the place! ha! Sounds great! I've been revisiting this song for 30 years, still haven't got it! Not giving up though. Love the strumming idea, it does sound better! thanks 😃

[@peterharris1657]

That's how I played it classical.ive nailed since watching your tutorial which is a lot easier thank you

[@U.T.A.]

Great!!! 💋 thank you sooo much!!! Hugs from Germany 🌞

[@krebstarinc.4225]

Yes! I've never really played fingerstyle. I've known the chords for a million years but watching all the "this is the way McCartney plays it" videos just didn't help me to get the right pattern and sound. This works! I thank you (and my niece who has me playing this at her wedding would thank you too if she knew). 😉

[@eddiet2]

I love your shirt and hat--man, it's perfect on you. Nice lesson. I've always had trouble playing it the "correct" way; I prefer your way. Thanks for the lesson.

[@gavinritchie649]

You have totally nailed it (...as far as I can tell). Thanks.

[@billcrook9602]

Super, many thanks.

[@andrewmoore193]

Thanks chum great tune 👌 greet lesson

[@aalb1970]

Great lesson.

[@delta1ster]

Thanks a beautiful song great!!

[@69indian70]

Jon, great instructive video for this classic. Question, for strumming pattern #2; are you pinching strings 2 & 5 twice or pinching once and just plucking # 5 with your thumb the second frame?

[@janinefenouillet7704]

Vraiment la meilleure leçon mille thanks janine

[@TheDrums1967]

Hi, very cool and very helpful - Thank you ♪ ♫

[@charlievance8750]

Great Lesson Jon! I have been playing it wrong for a long time! I love this way of playing it! I was fingerpicking it, This is so much easier,

[@drewsacks]

Me too. Not only easier, but for me it sort of takes the stress out of having to maintain the 'drone' of the bassnotes and get the same quality yet using this approach.

[@scotbrenton4304]

Great video and almost correct. Do watch the MTV Paul McCartney Unplugged session from 1991 and the camera does a great extended close up of his right hand... To my eye it does look like his uses his index finger on some down strokes... All in all yours is the closest to accurate I have seen. I did just recently see Paul do it live from about 12 rows back.

[@wikolib6821]

Thanks. I like that you played the intro and the verse through in the very beginning. Many tutorials don't. Then you had the bridge lesson at the end. I'm a good finger picker so I don't have a problem with the picking/strumming pattern, but I was playing some of the notes in the wrong position. Same notes but incorrect position. If you're going to play Blackbird you should do it in as authentic way as possible. When you hear Paul play and sing this song and "Maybe I'm Amazed" live you realize what a brilliant composer and musician he is on base, guitar and piano.

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

Thankyou John --you play it so easily -- first tried blackbird in 1969 --played the first chord by ear--(OPEN G -_)---(Open B open D ) THEN 1B /2 D----3B/4 D--etc --- sounds ok --but obviously incorrect----thankyou --got it right eventually!

[@bendenson4402]

Other versions have had me twisted in knots and big stretches. Need a complete tab where can I access it? Luv this version!

[@perrymaizon]

This is VERY good.

[@seanandben]

Cool lesson John. I've seen Paul play it and use his index finger for the "brushing" or strumming parts, but the thumb certainly sounds fuller and less like a pick for me personally! The chords are not unlike "Willin" by Little Feat - maybe you could do a lesson on that sometime?

[@winstonian88]

I can’t believe how good those Maton pickups sound.

[@Bubblegoose9000]

Great lesson- I'm not sold on the idea that that strum pattern is easier than finger picking - requires a very light touch! I made up a beginner version while I figure out how to make that sound right...

[@StarDarkAshes]

Definitely a great lesson! The only critique that I have is that there really wasn’t any clarification as to which notes should be muted, and which notes can ring out. There was one mention in the beginning about the first cord and how it was OK if some of the other notes rang out but For some of the other positions if you let certain notes ring out it sounds pretty bad. And obviously if you have a decent ear, you can figure it out yourself but it would be nice if there was a little bit of clarification on that and it wouldn’t take very long.

[@donaldhobro9602]

First ime. This guy is very good!

[@Djamieson713]

the picking sounds better though to my hears, but i guess i'll try the strumming version first

[@awittypilot8961]

That is it! Nice! Sorry...gotta steal

[@M_C79]

The picking reminds me of banjo two-finger style.

[@ponzo1967]

Best Blackbird yet, I would love to get your take on Mother Nature's Son.

[@Jeremya74]

You could learn these SO much fast if you showed the camera over the shoulder...not in this mirror way were you have to think in reverse..it amazes me how 99% of teachers dont realize this

[@highlightspotent127]

You know, even after all that I still prefer a quietly plucked string over the brushed technique. Great video though 🙂

[@albertorendongutierrez6595]

You are Grey Grey You Are Great

[@welcometothecave6186]

claiming that all other videos are incorrect is ridiculous and thats why am heading over to Marty and learn his version

[@philcaffrey]

Nice video but I'm still not convinced this is the technique. The mini strum that you do with your thumb should actually be played by the index and middle fingers if you want a truly authentic replication of the original. It is the frailing technique and it offers a much better result as the fingers can target the higher strings. Your thumb technique is a bit more likely to catch the lower strings which is not ideal for this song. That said, I love your videos which always have food for thought and not forgetting that music is subjective - that's why we all love it so much.

[@M_C79]

Feels more like two-finger banjo style than frailing, where the thumb plays lead the lines (and you can still frail a bit). I'm not too fussed about playing it exactly like the record.

[@DavidMHughes-cu7vm]

Wasn't the original recording on the White Album played in open G (D G D G B d) tuning?

[@user-pc5iz7vm7c]

Hey! What's up you guys, Marty Shwartz here....wait no

[@zetmoon]

Paul uses his index finger to strum not his thumb.

[@adil1965able]

✌🎵👍🎸🎵

[@reggyperin1]

I wouldn’t bother signing up to the emails you dont get the tabs for this song, unless you want to pay to subscribe.

[@fibrofrecuencia]

And the first bass in the second part is diferent

[@cindyhull8313]

Close…but not what Pauls doing….he uses his index finger [very gently] to strum the high strings…no thumb brushing….but your right , no picking. But cool lesson…your keeping it simple [ other than naming chords..I find that unnecessary].

[@yazandhr6939]

there's not enough slow motion for teaching the techniques , u r doing them fast !

[@momcheto1822]

Hello Jon, you are certainly a great guitarist and teacher, however is it necessary to include this in your title "ALL other videos are incorrect"? Why this insulting generalization? So many great colleagues of yours out there with great guitar teaching content, who have covered the Paul McCartney original pattern as well.

[@tylerwilson2924]

Y he low key look like Jason Mraz 😂😂😂

[@SirCatflap]

Title says "all the other videos are incorrect" when this tutorial is just as wrong. Paul plays the brushed strokes with the nail of his index finger, plenty of videos out there showing how he does it.

[@appleturnover519]

Unfortunately, your lesson seems to leave some important information, i.e., in Pattern 2, if I brush with the thumb the sound is discordant; therefore, I believe that some strings should be mutes: You don't cover this. Also: Could you specify which strings are brushed with the thumb for the different chords, especially the chords down the neck like the A7 and D7sus4.

[@twanto]

I think technically Macca is playing the open G by flicking his index, not coming down with his thumb. So this is not the most correct vid on youtube. In fact, Macca himself has a video demonstrating how he plays it.

[@Matonrules]

Not even close.

[@user-fy6sy6eb7f]

WHO ACTUALLY WROTE THE SONG.... ?

[@Patrick-uf1cq]

You all realize that other than Paul no one plays this 100% correct so get over yourself ..just saying.

[@fibrofrecuencia]

Nothing new man....and you play like a country song...

[@TheBertCol]

Sorry dude… I would have thumbs up this if it was without accurate in the title. Try again

[@kez375]

Slow down for gods sake...... way to quick to be useful for this old boy......

[@joshmcdevitt137]

Thank you dear god