English Beat "Save It For Later" Rhythm Guitar Lesson - featuring an Interview with Dave Wakeling

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The English Beat "Save It For Later" Guitar Tutorial featuring an interview with frontman Dave Wakeling. This is the first of my new "Artist Approved" lessons playlist.
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[@URKillingme100]

I've saved this for later. Always loved this song. I met Dave and Roger in the 80's. Super nice guys. Thanks to you both for showing us the "secret" tuning.

[@rustywidebottom4678]

What a kind and humble man. I’m lucky enough to have seen him perform in concert a few years ago. I know I’m a few years behind, but thank you for making this video.

[@kennethszmed6553]

ugh... posted 8 years ago - I only just discovered this so I guess l literally saved it for later. This is the BEST "Save it for Later" lesson on youtube!

[@peterlawlor5237]

Years ago, I was working with a band on a cover of Save it for Later. For the life of me, I couldn't get the guitar part right; approximations, yes, but it never had the magic of the original record. So the brilliant Chris Gutch (who was working with me at the time) managed to get a message to Dave Wakeling via his management company. Amazingly, Dave called me up and explained the mysterious tuning. What a fantastic guy he is; utterly charming. Unfortunately, the band I was producing lost their US deal before the album was finished and their version was never released. However, the original is one of those recordings with a profoundly special quality; like a Beatles recording; you're never going to equal it, so maybe it was a good thing after all!

[@kewrock]

You sure that was you, and not Pete Townshend? Pete tells that same story all the time.

[@peterlawlor5237]

@@kewrock Yep.

[@swiftlessons]

Hey friends, Sorry for the delay on this video, I needed to make some last minute adjustments. I really enjoyed jamming and talking with Dave. I hope you all find something useful within his words of wisdom. Thanks so much for watching, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions on who I should meet-up with next! -Rob

[@spacedoginnebraska]

Dave Wakeling is an outstanding human being. Thanks for sharing this!

[@mikmacarthur]

Known as the beat over here, no English involved but probably my absolute favorite beat song hands down, thanks so much for the lesson. Dave plays upside down and back to front like Hendrix but without switching the Strings, wow!

[@WD-41469]

Saw the Beat a few nights ago, they sounded fantastic.

[@unitedguitarplayers8059]

Great video Rob! thanks so much for taking the time to make it. I'm sure it was a total blast!

[@christopherroche9058]

This is such a great video. It was so nice to hear Dave Wakeling play and hear the background of the song---What a treat to hear you both play to gether. Been trying to play this song for a long time--thank you so much for breaking it down!

[@gracekao5831]

What a great interview and lesson! I was so honored and happy to witness it. :D Cheers to many more artist-approved lessons! I especially enjoyed hearing about Dave Wakeling's insights about interacting with the audience.

[@Eiende]

great job! fun watch,great to hear and see Wakeling!

[@ChrisMedici]

Brilliant is the perfect description - for Dave W, for this song and for your lesson. Thank you!

[@richardburt9097]

Just him and the English Beat last weekend near St.. Augustine. So much joy.

[@danielwhitworth8691]

Thanks for the tuning. Been trying to figure it out for awhile. Great interview.

[@daneli9770]

that song stayed in our heads for your year's we still dance to the song.

[@SMytfa]

Amazing video, thanks so much!

[@Ojibwas]

Thanks, all these years the right way to play it finally.

[@killyourtelevision]

I saw the Beat for the first time at the US Festival in 1983 from the beginning of the video. So awesome.

[@itchyego]

Simply Wonderful!

[@funkyflipper7]

Awesome! Thank you! You and Dave both Rock!

[@kjguitarman]

A classic! Thank you!

[@brandonspencer6012]

Nice lesson and interview. Hope to see more "Artist Approved" lessons. Great way to learn a song and what goes into making them.

[@swiftlessons]

Brandon Spencer Thanks Brandon, glad you enjoyed this project. Producing "Artist Approved" lessons is my main focus right now, and I hope to get a lot of recognizable players in the coming months. Check back. -Rob

[@BabyBoomerChannel]

Open tuning. Reverse stringing. Good luck figuring that out. No one would be able to know how to play this without Dave sharing it. Great video.

[@tubularbill]

I have met Dave. What a nice guy. Makes you like his music even more.

[@ME-ru4hv]

so glad I decided look closer after realizing how brilliant _save it's_ guitar part is!

[@KarlHainer]

I loved/love 'The Beat'.

[@Musicman3832]

So cool. I’m 14 and I’ve been playing for nearly two years. Will be 15 June 19th and started on my 13th birthday. I learned this tune and the tuning is magical. I play it on my tele. I would like to play it on an acoustic once I get it set up for that tuning.

[@swiftlessons]

Right on, I started at around the same age and I love that a new generation of guitarist are benefiting from my videos. Keep playing, it’s an awesome journey, and it only gets better with time. I’m 38 now, and every time I pick up my guitar I feel like I’m 14 again. 🤘

[@Musicman3832]

@@swiftlessons that’s lovely. I saved it for later. Love how you explained the strumming. As an autistic person whose first time watching the channel, your explanation was so good. I’ll definitely check out more of your lessons.

[@tina-xu7nf]

genius of a song thanks for the lesson

[@salubrious]

Great stuff.

[@johnstucko2740]

Nice job!

[@ludmillaroman]

Very engaging and generous individual to share insight to creative process. Wonderful interview and thank you to the patient interviewer who lets the subject speak.

[@wiltaylor]

Thanks for this! thought it was an alternate tuning didn't know what though.

[@Dantianblue]

What a great guy.

[@tomcarl8021]

DADGAD is also used extensively in Irish music. If you see a guitarist playing traditional Irish music in a pub using an open tuning, it's almost a certainty he's in DADGAD. And the guitar is a relatively new addition to Irish music. The Chieftains only added a guitarist in the early nineties. Also, I may be wrong, but as far as I know blues players do not have a tradition of using DADGAD. Yes, they use open tunings extensively, but not that one. I think the tuning comes from English folk music more than any other.

[@scratchy45]

Yeah, "beat" me to it, on all yr points! Great interview with Dave W, love John Martyn too, but I've never heard of DADGAD in blues. I play a lot of Irish, Scottish & English trad, but have always resisted playing in DADGAD: partly cuz I'm a perverse so&so, but also so I can throw in some fat unambiguously major chords when appropriate, and throw in licks on slide too.

[@walkerhjones]

So cool

[@telestoe]

Always loved this song. Thanks guys. Great video

[@swiftlessons]

telestoe Hey thanks, glad you enjoyed the lesson. Great tune, and a great guy this Dave Wakeling!

[@telestoe]

swiftlessons Cheers. First heard (The British) Beat, as they were called in Australia, in 1980. Mirror in the Bathroom was their first hit down here. Had a unique non keyboard Ska sound. From Coventry i think. Great band. Ps, the lead guitarist & bass player later formed Fine Young Cannibals with much success

[@gracekao5831]

telestoe Dave Wakeling formed General Public. Fine Young Cannibals included Andy Cox and David Steele from The (English) Beat, but not Dave Wakeling.

[@beng.3459]

Awesome, thank you so much.

[@swiftlessons]

Chase Warner Very welcome Chase, thanks for checking in!

[@court02380]

thanks a lot,it works very well with Dead Flowers too.....

[@miahconnell23]

Dave is great !! Saw an iteration of the Beat in Portland Maine in 2007 or 2008, and they crushed it. Very slightly different versions of what we’d know as “album tracks.” Dave talking to the crowd was kind, friendly, & sincere. Portland City Music Hall had great sound. I think Dave mostly played one of his (VOX ?) teardrop guitars or a tele…

[@alosadav]

I really love this song, both The Beat and Pete Townshend version

[@visanic]

Pete Townshend does a great cover of this awesome song!

[@daneli9770]

awesome***

[@jeffoff7795]

I love his voice.

[@bluerocker5563]

So finally realized that Dave is playing his guitar upside down.

[@Kidderman3]

Thanks a lot. I grew up in Birmingham, England around the same time as Dave. The English Beat? Nah, the labels on the 45's didn't specify any nationality. I guess contractual and royalty issues took over, same kind of stuff which destroyed UB40. I had no idea that Dave had written some of The Beat's songs in altered tunings. Always loved Save It For Later. Will definitely be including it in an acoustic set now that I know it can be done.

[@JoeNapf58]

Fantasic

[@mcinmosh]

I just realized Dave LITERALLY plays his guitar the wrong way around. He plays left-handed, but it's still strung like it's right-handed!

[@mgbird6547]

Thank you so much. I helped paint my ska buddies ‘Special’ school bus checkered in those days. Oh crap! Brain funny noise - visual translation issues !!! Wierd open tuning, originally played left-handed strung right-handed. Leave it to Dave..and you to pull this off. Magnìfico. ••• So are you strumming up where he is strumming down? Not..kidding.

[@AlexcheSmithy]

Hey man i've always tuned open D as D A D F# A D, and i did not know of the Dave version if to say haha, it sounds awesome, i really enjoyed this "extended" lesson with the interview very lovely!

[@swiftlessons]

***** ***** Hey thanks, I wasn't sure how people would react to this "extended" format, but it seems like every once in a while it's something you all want to see. I'll be adding some more "Artist Approved" lessons in the coming weeks. Thanks!

[@swiftlessons]

***** Hey thanks, I wasn't sure how people would react to this "extended" format, but it seems like every once in a while it's something you all want to see. I'll be adding some more "Artist Approved" lessons in the coming weeks. Thanks!

[@mjhrpgiv]

Just stumbled onto this. Where was the show in New Hope? John & Peter's? Swift, are you locally based? Just curious since I'm in Bucks County.

[@lilyaverill384]

Your tutorials are great! They've helped me a lot :D I was wondering if you'd be able to do some Elvis tutorials soon?

[@darklordojeda]

Lily Averill he could but Elvis would have to come out of hiding in order to get artist approval.

[@ecarneylaw]

The tuning is introduced at 11:17

[@terrywitzu7874]

I hate using alternate tuning's, but here I am sitting Open D and loving the shimmer, of what would be a terribly boring guitar part to play at acoustic shows. Might have to start bringing a second acoustic, but open - D is a pretty quick tuning. Now, I know why some my last band's VU covers never sounded quite right. I'm gonna need some more guitars. :)

[@TeddScheckler]

So just how bad is it on the neck to tune a G string to A?

[@royalrod_]

10:38

[@cdigdawg]

I cant place your accent, where are you from? Great video BTW.

[@BeesWaxMinder]

Midlands

[@terrywitzu7874]

P.S - Now I know why this song speaks to me so much. I'm just shy of 43 going on 25, and still get mistaken for 25-29 years old. I'm sure I'm not the only young man who can relate to the theme of this song. Whether your 25, or 45 just WTF does it take to become a man in such strange, and shamefully disappointing times. It's songs like this that make me want to celebrate my disenchantment! :)

[@2scents434]

You sound like me same problem old but so young strong and handsome looking its a terrible curse so i can relate :)

[@TheMrbeasely]

Wish the "variations" weren't immediately included in the "Save it for Later" tutorial. I'd get more out of the "how to play this song" if the standard way was played first so people have an idea of how to play it, then include variations later so others can learn something different.

[@mrnelgin]

I heard Dave is going to re-write the song for a modern generation. It'll going to be called Bookmark it for Later :)

[@williamchen1040]

very noice

[@swiftlessons]

william chen toight!

[@JayMon39]

Do Mirror in the Bathroom! (nudge nudge, wink wink)

[@nickjimenez6138]

Not enough commercials.

[@rmh9371]

Fyi. The Lesson starts 10:56 minutes into the video.

[@moreme40]

He looks like Lee Westwood

[@Rudimentarypenis]

Jesus Christ that was a huge spit in the beginning there.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Normal guitar tuning (from top to bottom): EBGDAE... or.... reverse: EADGBA.... DADGAD Bass E goes DOWN to a D Leave the bass A Middle D... stay Middle G... stay High B goes DOWN to A High E does DOWN to D

[@richrichie378]

It sounds tops.. But why not just play the chords .. rather than un tuning the guitar?

[@swiftlessons]

Yeah, it's a cool sound and for me that's reason enough to go with this weird tuning, it's just a different sound even though the chord progression itself is very common.

[@chrismacdonald2134]

a song Pete Townshend wished he wrote

[@scottpatrick8645]

Now just turn the guitar upside down.

[@myyootube2]

Protest this amount of ads dude. Didn't hit unsubscribe yet cuz you're good but will that last? Yeah you want to monetize we get it but use good cents.