Guitar Lesson: How To Play City and Colour's Rendition of Alice In Chains' Rain When I Die

I believe Dallas Green is the only person in the multiverse who could have pulled off turning Alice In Chains' Rain When I Die into a beautiful acoustic guitar ballad. Here's how he did it.
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LOVE IT!!! I didnt think to change the A string, sounds great, Ryan!

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[@jurgenbaumel6652]

Love Alice In Chains. This version of Dallas is beautiful. Thanks for the video!

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Would love to learn City and Color's version of Nutshell! Keep up the great work! Love the channel!

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Please do teach dallas' version of nutshell.

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always such a blast whenever you do alice in chains :) even when it’s someone else covering them! great lesson as always

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This song sounds really nice in D. Green acoustic guitar & voice! Tks for it! Bruno from 🇧🇷

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that was spot on, thanks !

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Dude, so cool!!! And thank you

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Thanks man, been looking for this since MoPop videos released.

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Thats really cool. I will have to watch the performance. Great lesson.

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Shout out to Jeff in Seattle......from Mike in Detroit for the request....I just learn about AIC a month ago

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Sounds killer!

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Awesome! A-B thing is was super interesting!

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Thanks a lot for that one, man!

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The exact reason I wanted to learn this in acoustic

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Wait wait you're telling me someone covered my favorite song, and blew it out of the park, AND Ryan has a full tutorial of it??? I haven't even had my morning coffee yet, must be my birthday! Congratulations on 1,000 videos! 😎😎😎

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@@RyanLendt Only took me a year of getting better at guitar to sing/play at the same time, but this is finally a staple at my campfires. Thanks again for this lovely tutorial!

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Hi. Been following for long time and taken many of your acoustic songs into my music bag. A recent song I’ve been looking for is Paul Simon Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes. There are a ton of awesome covers but zero instruction videos for guitar. There’s just a loop of 3 chords, but the fills would add spice. I think awesome for the Campfire Series? 🔥 ???

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Is there a chords chart I could follow? thanks for the great video

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Dare you to do Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes acoustic version...bet you didn't see that coming. You'd probably cover that well too.

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[@alternativestudio9807]

Hey nice vid 👍🏻 you might have a check it seems that Dallas put his little finger on the second fret B string just on the intro and outro ( you ll see on the vid ) let me know cheers !!

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Great video Ryan! Now please explain to me please how to sing as hi as he does! hehe. In the original mopop video it seems that he is using his pinky finger second string third fret during the verse ... Is he?

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probably helium ;)

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Any chance you'll teach City and Colour's version of Nutshell?

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So the tuning is an open Emin7 tuning? my brain does not comprehend these various forms of tuning somehow hehe. It sounds great btw thanks!

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How the hell does this come up on your radar? A1. Keep em coming! That first chord sounds like John mayer daughters.

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Blame jeff in Seattle :) it does, F#m7add6 and Bm7 have many notes in common, which are the chords, respectively

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I'll be your lover too- corey Taylor's live cover

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Who is City and Colour? I guess I will have to watch the rest of that performance.

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