Guitar Lesson: How To Play Everlong (Acoustic) By Foo Fighters

This must know drop D acoustic guitar song is now within your grasp! I hope you enjoy woo-ing the men and ladies with Foo Fighters' Everlong.
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haha I think it's been at least 4 months! every song has a lot to teach us... BTW figured out building a mystery yesterday. the tuning is, get this, EADABD (??!)

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You commented recently that someone said you had a “show”. It was something that came up around the time you met Mike M. That was a dang interesting story dude. But I’m getting off topic. You do have a show! It’s not just lessons. It’s not “just do this to play this...”. I’m happy that I’m a part of this community. Your “lessons”, which technically they are, are also super entertaining. You almost make music theory fun. And that is practicality impossible to do. But you do it some how. I’ve been working hard on this song. I’m finally starting to be able to do the whole thing - the vocals and the guitar. It’s awesome. Thank you for all you do.

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haha woo hoo!! Congrats Mark! it was Stone who said I have a show :)

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I love how Dave’s most original instrument is the drums, so he basically plays the guitar like the drums😜🤙

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don't want to be picky, as no one should be picky on Ryan's channel...but Dave was originally a guitarist...he taught himself drums while in his second band after High School...so he was in a guitarist-drummer-guitarist sandwich 😁🤟🤟🎸

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he actually learned the guitar as a kid before playing drums

[@Platipus23]

I’m not sure if this is what OP was referring to or not, but Dave has spoke about this several times over the years. He absolutely considers himself a drummer and very much looks at the guitar as a drum set. I know this is newer than these comments, but I would suggest searching KZbin for “foo fighters everlong (acoustic - march 20 2021)“ for anyone interested. Dave talks about this very topic and even about how he created Everlong.

[@khimaros]

I remember struggling to play this on Guitar Hero almost 20 yrs ago, couldn’t get the rhythm, and here we are, playing it for real and it sounds DOPE! Haha, cheers Ryan, much appreciated, love your lessons 👍😎👌

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I appreciate you Brian

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Beauty song in tow formats, studio and acoustic!

[@markwulff655]

And this is one of very best lessons for me so far. The timing stuff is invaluable!

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I was just looking for this acoustic version and was hoping to find one coming from the biggest hits album and I said, I’ll check if Ryan has done it, and damn amazing to my chances that I find it on your channel, thank you man amazing

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Mr Ryan appreciate you and your teaching guitar lessons. In my youth I had a hard time in school . Always had a passion for guitar . Music growing up was my best friend. Will now that I'm all grown up I found a special friend his name's Ryan it fill good to have you a pipe Piper like you to bring us joy. Thank you.

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Just learned this. Ryan is the man. I Keep going to his channel for great tunes. It rocks!

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thanks so much for that Mark! Glad you're here man

[@salder70]

Great lesson. A student of mine (High School Science Teacher here) asked me to learn this. I keep a couple of guitars in my room and give free lessons in our down time. She is going to love it. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@RyanLendt]

spread the news of everlong fellow teacher :)

[@markwulff655]

Did this lesson intently for another or two tonight. Maybe I’m up to 10 or 15 hours or so. .I am enjoying this immensely. I keep getting a little better at it, bit by bit. The strumming pattern, the timing, playing it slow, playing it at speed... it’s an amazing lesson dude. This song is right at the limits of what I am capable of right now if I take into account basic skills, strumming/striking precisely skills, fretting perfect skills, counting skills, knowing the lyrics and music by heart skills... and then keeping it relaxed and meaningful, as opposed to stressful and forced. I could never have come close to playing this where it didn’t sound like shit without you. But with this lesson, and enough hard work on my part, I will be “campfire ready”. I quote you often whenever it comes up about my skills. I am indeed “campfire ready”. I would have done anything to get to hang out with you and play music together when I was young. Back then there was no internet. So new songs were ginormously harder to come by. Had to have a friend who was better than you back then. Otherwise, you we’re screwed unless you were naturally talented. You’ve changed the world bud. At least you’ve changed mine.

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it's my great honor Mark, I'm just glad my efforts are useful to someone! Congrats on your effort.

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Mark, I feel your pain! My buddy taught me the basics back in the day, he was a phenomenal guitarist and an absolutely terrible teacher, everything came so naturally to him he couldn’t explain anything! Thank god for KZbin and people like Ryan 😎

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I’m always telling my girlfriend how stoked I am that I found you online. My daughters are also grateful for you. Finally Dad is playing some “new” music. So you’ve had a good impact on me and my family Ryan. Merry Christmas. And Happy Hanukkah. Or whatever else suits you and everyone else. Keep up the awesome work my friend.

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it's an honor to be there in spirit Mark :) Christmas for me, but after the kiddo heads off to college I think I'll become a solstice party kind of guy.

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You're the only bloke I wanted to teach this one. Been waiting for it for a while and now I can't wait to practice!

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I just recently came across your lessons.....super helpful and entertaining. Keep up the great work.

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[@andrewbeetham4218]

this is the best and most simplified tutorial for this song out there. It clicked instantly for me. Thanks!

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Dude you are one of the best teachers out there that was really good. I love the blueberry blueberry blueberry blueberry nine ten nine Brilliant. This is February 2023 still going strong

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Nicely explained. Thanks 👍

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I'm gonna be stuck on this one for a while cause I love iiit, thanks for clearing it up Ryan

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I'm glad you enjoyed that Meska :)

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Thank you again. Friends and I are heading to Cleveland this weekend to watch them get inducted and wanted me to learn the song. You are fantastic at what you do Ryan.

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e ver long

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Coming back to this classic.

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Awesome Ryan! been waiting for this one

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you should do a play and sing along for this

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I'll definitely keep that in mind :) thanks for asking RB!

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Wow!! Great lesson!!

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You have a TOTALLY engaging way of teaching, my man! (Whatever about the blueberries, but I absolutely see how they would help.) With your help I nailed the patterns from a standing start in one sitting. Now to practise...

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thanks Pat! and thanks for not holding the blueberries against me :P

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Dude thank you so much your versions are always so close or exactly like the real one. I only trust you for real foo fighters song version thx alot

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Just watching you power through the songs has made me realise how to count the technicalities not as important and getting a song chopped out is the way to do it thanks I have strong fingers but no rhythm

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one piece at a time then glue them all together :)

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Thank you for posting...

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pleasure.

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Such a fun song to play.thanks 🙏🏼

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Even dave grohl would not explain this like you... Best guitar teacher ❤️

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I did not think that I’ll ever be able to play this song but this tutorial is so great that now I can. Its really fun to play, thank you so much.

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don't give up AP

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I'm gonna work to upgrade that 'probably' to 'extremely likely' :)

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Thanks brother. I been meaning to learn this for too long. I’m personally not big on Dave or the Foo.. but there are some musical gems there and this song especially acoustically has always been so amazing to me. I been following you for years from a different channel and always look for your tutorials first when looking up a new song. You the best man! Thank you for all you do. ✊💚✨🎸

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thanks for that flowers!

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@@RyanLendt oh you are most welcome, Lendt! (Since we are calling each other by our last names here lol)

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Thanks for the tutorial! Oh and Merry Christmas! :)

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merry christmas Hannah!

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First of all i realy enjoy your lessons man. There a lot of fun to watch and it's so great to have these short video's where you explain everything once and do it right with a lot of room for me to make my own verson of the songs. Keep up the good work. There is another way to play the d chord in the chorus wich i realy like the sound of and fals nicely under your fingers. in tab it's 0-5-4-7-X-X. You can leave your pinky down on the 7th fret, use middle and index finger for the 5 and 4 and then mute the rest with your index finger. This way you can also do the slide back to 11 on the end with your pinky wich is wat Dave is also doing on his solo live performances of this song.

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thanks for taking the time Wim, cheers :)

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thanks....freaking could never get the "blueberry" strum until your tutorial. Thanks, dude!

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Plus this just super fun to play!

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Thanks ryan. I love this song but was always confused on the intro

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I hope it is now as clear as mud :)

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This is my favorite lesson so far dude. Except for when you showed me how to play Yellow. Base base cord. Base cord cord. Base cord. I NEED that level of explanation. 😊. Your teaching style resonates with me big time. I am grateful for you. I struggle with rhythm. I am super happy that you give me the timing and tell me all the music theory stuff. Because I’m “hungry” for it. It used to be that I couldn’t hear the notes right to figure out a cover. Now, because of you, I am working on rhythm. I am grateful for you dude. And singing at the same time is so super hard. I can sing ok if it’s the only thing I’m focused on. But singing right and playing right simultaneously?! Super hard. You have improved my skills immensely. I hope you are making enough at this channel to keep it going indefinitely. You’ve changed my life. How about that. That is how strongly I feel about what you’ve done for me. I suppose you can’t imagine. But you have.

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I appreciate that more than anything Mark :) thank you endlessly for the kindness, and FYI I'll be doing this indefinitely because I don't have any other ideas ;P

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Great explanation

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Great. Thank you

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I love this guy! That blueberry, blueberry, blueberry is sticky. I’ll definitely remember it!

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NICE Thanks makes more since now

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yay

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You just want Dave Grohl's phone number 😂. Other blokes have taught this, but your blueberries are definitely going to stick in my mind for that signature line (and it was hugely more fun!!)

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I won't deny that statement. He's gonna be there on the 16th maybe he and I will hit it off :P I'm glad you enjoyed that Chris!

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Thank you new Marty

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There is a couple of ways to do a quieter coffeehouse version of it without putting it in drop D one way is with a capo, but nothing beats that bassy droning rhythm of that tuning! So great

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indeed, nothing beats it :)

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Thanks!!!

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Welcome!

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Mr. spaghetti sounds like Tim Meadows on SNL as the ladies man. “Just sitting here me and my Courvoisier”. 😂. Love it!

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hehe, while not intentional, he is based loosely on that :)

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Plus you do music theory a lot. I really like it dude.

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thanks dude :)

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Woohoo nice!

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[@acid123ist]

You're my favorite foo fighters teacher. Nobody teaches it better

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cheers to you arnab :)

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@@RyanLendt cheers my man! Thanks for making my day!

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I am on a Foo Fighters kick right now. Love the "blueberries" reference that Dave uses so often in his songs. Still hoping for the day 29 Palms hits your site.

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not a bad kick to be on shawn :)

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I’ve watched a lot of guides for this song but yours was the easiest and most comprehensive. Thankyou 👏😭

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I appreciate that very much Mr. Yeti :) Cheers!

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We meet again my good sir. Now let’s get busy with learning this song! X

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Solid.

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liquid...

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Ready For It? I've never learned it. I always meant to but never got around to it. Today I took the plunge. Thanks for the shaming to get me going. ☺

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oh awesome! I knew SOMEBODY out there was waiting for me!

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@@RyanLendt it's been super busy lately so it felt really great to grab the guitar and learn sonething new. That led to an hour long acoustic set to myself in my living room. What a great pick me up.

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Appreciate you Ryan, thank you for putting yourself in the world man.

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thanks for that Danny

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Thanks for teaching me how to play this in like 20 minutes 👏

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Happy to help!

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Well that gets a huge thumbs up!

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I'm happy you're happy PH :)

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nah ryan watched many on this, your no bullshit approach is much simpler and easy to follow . thank mate from oz p.s im actually a marty subscriber but i liked yours :-P

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hey thanks Dave! I appreciate that very much :)

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Hey Ryan I don’t know if you read old KZbin comments but if you see this @andywoodmusic did an amazing version of this song with Ben Eller as a tribute to TH. 👍🏼

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noice

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Gee... you make it so simple.. .tks

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welcome!

[@RaffLagatta]

Great. I'm now going to sing 'blueberry blueberry blueberry' now when I sing along to this....

[@RyanLendt]

and sing everlong when you eat pie

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teach us times like these by foo fighters!! greeting from brazil!!

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YES I've been hoping someone would request that one! you saved the day :)

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super easy d ,, am ,c , em ... then c , em d chorus youll get it 1st try

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Your awesome

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so are you Will

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Can you do an electric version of Everlong, please? Do the one from the album The Colour and The Shape, ok? Also, use your dark red Telecaster, alright?

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Never thought I'd be learning guitar from Chef PP

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Blueberry ahahahah! But it is so amazingly logical! It made my day!

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aw thanks pal

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Mr. Spaghetti killed it. Ryan was OK. ^^

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a rivalry is brewing...

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Ryan v. Mr.spaghetti (I’d pay) 😂 🥊

[@lemonsweet.1722]

Quick question, when you say chord for The strumming do you mean the D,A and other D or just the A and 4th string D?

[@markwulff655]

I loved how you showed 2 ways to play dm7.

[@RyanLendt]

DM7 - careful with your capitalization you just said D minor 7 :)

[@markwulff655]

@@RyanLendt DM7 indeed! Thank you for the correction!

[@markwulff655]

I can’t figure out how to vote properly (or better said, I don’t want to spend the energy on that right now, I want to keep playing). But I vote for “Building a Mystery”. I’m thinking you have the version she did on Sirus about 10 years ago.

[@RyanLendt]

you crack me up