HOW TO PLAY S.O.S. by ABBA

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Enjoy this lesson with PDF study guide: tinyurl.com/4kb5p5nr

[@jonicena1419]

Great guide 1:52 intro, 4:16 verse, 5:55 verse buildup 7:25 chorus, 9:25 build up chorus ,10:55 solo

[@Samscoinsandheavymetal]

Super crisp - one of the best tutorial formats I’ve seen ... watching people spending 45 seconds telling people how to fret basic chords or 2nd fret 5th string .... makes me want to light my eyelashes on fire... Even if people would just say the notes .. like if people don’t know where all the B are all over the neck they shouldn’t be learning a song like this they should be watching CAGED videos or other more foundational instructional ... IMHO Your playing is on point .. it’s the subtle dynamics that separate good from excellent, amateur from pro

[@quando3411]

Guitar Pilgrim, another genius tutor on KZbin , great thanks.

[@ChrisEbbrsen]

Best cover of sos ive ever heard. Excellant! Please keep posted. Will refer back to multiple times! Thank you!

[@gianpieromilanetti6213]

God Bless You for all This guitar beauty

[@prf76]

Fantastic lesson, thank very much. I like how you explain how to do the tricky chord shapes clearly, it really helps. Please keep the guitar lessons coming, the more ABBA the better I say!

[@MakeAllThingsBeautiful]

Saying 'I have liked ABBA all my life' is like standing up at your first AA / Gamblers Anonymous meeting all at the same time, sat round a table with fellow miserable guys who have been secretly denying any love of life, fun, innocence and Abba, breaking out of the repression, jumping up from the table and screaming ... I love fun, I love ABBA, maybe most important 'i want to love and be loved?' .. i have been miserable all my life hating fun and anyone having fun, thank you Benny Bjorn Anna and Agnetha ... thank you for the music!

[@richardattemborg2823]

The song popped into my head at Christmas time in 2021 after so many years. How great are the vocals and composition.

[@rocktoday6532]

I absolutely loved this! Great song, great format and hugely inspiring! Thank you so much!

[@left0verture]

Nice work! Abba is one of my guilty pleasures and S.O.S. is one of my favorites.

[@jaco.7623]

brilliant tutorial man thank you... I'm going to play this song at a gig using your arrangement!!!

[@markmckenna8131]

I love the way you teach.Awsome brother. Cheers

[@AmongSuspectsProjectASP]

Man, I really dig your tutorials. I just learned (after 20 years) how to play Wild World correctly. Keep up the good work.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

thx man! Glad you enjoy it :)

[@barrybentley8918]

I have played on and off and learned the basic chords in my twenties. Now I am retired and learning every day. Guitar Pilgrim your teaching style and demonstrations are exceptional. I am 64 years old and trying to learn how to play Abba's S.O.S. for past week not thinking I would accomplish it unless I really dug in. I listened to your lesson an in one week I almost have about 80% of it down.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Hey Barry, that's great to hear! Abba's S.O.S. is not an easy song to do, if you can play 80% then you're almost there!! Keep it up!

[@guitaristic6759]

Great playing and editing!

[@tybaltyrant1]

WOW this is excellent - your tutorials are next level clarity and you choose some superb songs.

[@grazzy61]

Absolutely excellent , perfect lesson ! You are trasmitting in Your videos the love for the music and the deep knowledge that You have for , and Your great personality ( I knew Abba , but untill I have discover Your videos I never realized that were so much in those ligth rock songs ) TY !!! ( sorry for my English )

[@willfischer6054]

Can’t thank you enough for this lesson !!!!!!

[@renaykung3542]

GREAT CLIP. S.O.S IS PROBABLY MY MOST FAVORITE ABBA SONG. I REMEMBER MY MUM AND DAD LISTENING TO IT ON THE RADIO AND THEY LOOKED SO HAPPY. GREAT MEMORIES.

[@stephanienightingale5165]

In a word... magnificent. Amazing job brother!

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you Stephanie, what a great way to start my day seeing your comment, much appreciated!

[@MrNangoo]

Wow this is incredible !!!!

[@theo.g.b_striesand-_-5505]

This is so helpful thank you so much! I think I've found the first song I'm going to learn!!

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you Babs, great to hear that! Hope you have a ton of fun with it! Best to you!

[@theo.g.b_striesand-_-5505]

Guitar Pilgrim Thank you, I love ABBA so I hope this will keep me motivated to learn and keep going!

[@GuitarPilgrim]

I love ABBA to! Brilliant arrangements, superb composition! Always remember when you practice a song, the most important thing is to have fun with it. It's ok to make mistakes! I always liked Jimi Hendrix'remark, he once said: I've been imitated so well, I've heard people copy my mistakes :)

[@divaldopedrao9608]

Abba is great. Your tutorial too. Thanks a lot.

[@tybaltyrant1]

and yes... Aussies love ABBA! I indeed do love their songs...

[@marklee2672]

Great song, great lesson. It sounds so good on an acoustic, thanks. Subscribed.

[@Fremulshmat]

Brilliant. So well explained…..however I prefer to play it in first position but it’s great to get the two bars before the chorus explained (where there are 4 changes per bar…how cool is that) as a couple of the chords where eluding me. Thanks for posting.

[@mickduff8224]

Fantastic lesson thank you !

[@GuitarPilgrim]

You're welcome! :)

[@magg93]

Genius! Sounds just like the record

[@ChrisEbbrsen]

I love abba and bless you!❤

[@terrywitzu7874]

Thank you so much. I always wanted to cover this, but got rid of my 12-string before I could. Not too much of an ear for capo placement. Absolutely brilliant, and more fun, and easier than the top of the neck 12-string version! Thank you, again, and subbed! :D

[@GuitarPilgrim]

You're welcome terry, I am glad you liked the video, best to you!

[@Supersup.campos]

If I like ABBA? I just love them. Great Tutorial my friends. For me it was perfect!!!

[@Supersup.campos]

Greetings from Brazil and I almost foget keep please up this amazing work.

[@dmbarry86]

Great tuortial and great editing

[@THFCLeo]

Really nice job on this - thanks for sharing it

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you Leo, I am glad you like it, I will definitely do more videos on Abba in the future! Best to you!

[@alinsonfer77]

Damn, excellent video and explanation!

[@josepinheiro9308]

Very good! Congratulations!

[@michaelmackenzie2569]

And that, my friend, was awesome!

[@musicislife5360]

Thank you this lesson was brilliant

[@rjackylau]

教得非常清楚，好導師👍👏🎸

[@andrewmcp7563]

Mamma Mia 2 seems to be entertaining a lot of the folk at my mother's dementia group, so I was wandering around KZbin thinking about learning some Abba to play for them. Which is how I stumbled into your excellent tutorial. You really captured the essence of the song in your version! 36 hours later I'm having /way/ more fun than I expected playing along with Abba, while Mum taps her foot along with the music. So thanks for cheering us both up. Whether Mum's group will be cheered up by my Agnetha impersonation is a different matter. Maybe if I get some glittery boots it'll help distract them from my lousy singing? Who knows, perhaps I'll sing better with a broken ankle. :-) The strange thing about this is that in the mid-70s Mum bought me a mono tape recorder for Christmas, with my first ever music cassette... an Abba album. I was heartbroken at the time; I wanted Tubular Bells! But 40 years later I'm realising my Mum was wiser than I thought. It just took me a while to realise it. Of course now it's too late to tell her. "You seem so far away, though you are standing near" has never been so appropriate than when dealing with dementia. Ok, enough rambling. I think I should have stopped at thanks! :->

[@andrewmcp7563]

Oh, and as someone else points out... great editing. I've done some video editing in my time, and I know how long it takes to put something like this together.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you Andrew, I appreciate the feedback, I am glad you find the video useful! Mama mia is a good suggestion, I'll look into that, One thing is for sure; I will definitely do more Abba songs! What a great thing that people who suffer from dementia very often still react so strong when they hear music, it's the power of music, a beautiful thing

[@quando3411]

Guitar Pilgrim is genius tutorial, very easy to learn from you Sir, great thanks. Could you cover the ABBA song. Lay on your love on me. Thanks again.

[@TMaddison]

I play it Frusciantes way, but this is really awesome!

[@stringman509]

Just love this ABBA song I'll give it a go 😊

[@boykanta]

very clear tutorial kudos👏👏👏

[@akinoelmejor]

Friend, you are an orchestra yourself!! Congrats and thanks

[@juancastor2452]

¡Great great great! ¡Thank you friend! Greetings from México city.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thanks Juan, I appreciate your feedback! best to you!

[@andrewkolopi1774]

I really like the way you handled this one, I used to think it was impossible to play it like you did on guitar - well done. I wonder if you might try "Mexican girl" (Smokie) especially the guitar solo sometime in the future. Thanks

[@Сергей-ь4п7ч]

amazing wonderful best teacher

[@ashinraheem]

Could you please do a lesson on Thank You For The Music?

[@kimbeerguitar]

Absolute fantastic

[@ChrisEbbrsen]

Your the best man!

[@prf76]

Do you have tips for making the change from Dm to the F barre chord please? I’m really struggling with this particular change. You probably tell what level I’m at. This one lesson really has inspired to start learning the guitar again, thank you so much 🎸

[@GuitarPilgrim]

You're welcome mate! Dm to F in the chorus, you'll want to do four strums on the dm: up up down up, make you sure on the last up-strum you're only pressing the 3rd string and hold your 2nd finger on to the F chord. Also you can try to play the F a bit more simple, for instance instead of playing the F, try Fmaj7 with just three fingers (003210)

[@chalkbunt81]

how did you isolate those vocals? it's like you're playing with Abba!!

[@willfischer6054]

You are the man !

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Hi Will, I'm glad you like the video, isn't ABBA a great band? I love their music!

[@antonyguitar4066]

great lesson, could u plz make a video on winner takes it all

[@CB-ei6ez]

You did a great job breaking the song down, have u thought about doing more ABBA tutorials, like dancing queen or chiquitita

[@stephanegenilloud1139]

Picking, weird chords, fast changes, strumming variations... it looks like the perfect song to practice ! (but where do I find the patience to put all that together?)

[@john-ob7bv]

Just bought myself a lovely 12 string guitar this would sound good on it.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Hi John, a 12 string! that's awesome, Abba on a 12 string, it doesn't get any better than that!

[@john-ob7bv]

@@GuitarPilgrim oh it does sound amazing on a 12 string. Do you have a link to the backing track you played too? Great video btw very helpful thanks.

[@diegogamba2601]

Wonderful!

[@jamppa-87-1]

Perfect! 👌

[@bubbabubba2013]

I'm impressed

[@dandykhune6921]

Nice!

[@chrishedlund3196]

Crazy good picking.

[@huigsnellenburg6144]

the late bloomer as I am ... nonetheless a great and perfect tutorial of this great song. Well done and thanks a bunch.

[@petertowneya]

Awesome!

[@ryszardminkiewicz]

fantastic...!!!

[@theWARMJET]

Fab tutoria for an amazing song

[@modbonan6935]

Could you do one on hasta manana or I've been waiting for you? Thanks.

[@cmgutmann9556]

Handsome and Talented what’s not to like Great teacher

[@phoutharackratsamyvong3616]

Phoutharack I really like this song thank you for sharing, could you play the song mamma Mia please thank you very much God bless you.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you Phoutharack, I´ll see what I can do!

[@lindahiggins1250]

Fantastic guitar player I am very talented on the guitar I am partially deaf I love music I still have two guitars one is acoustic guitar and classical guitar and I will practice SOS tab practice make perfect

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Hi Linda, Thanks so much for supporting the channel, I appreciate it so much! Let me know how it goes with SOS! If you need any technical help with the song, message me on patreon! Best to you!

[@indi6450]

Is there a tab for this song? Great tutorial :)

[@jamescross4917]

Can you do it starting in em or fm for a man sing. i sing it that key but just needs to come up a tone

[@johnmaer]

GP, you are one awesome player, instructor, and on-screen performer.....but have to ask, did the real Pete Townshend actually make the statement in your caption? Was that comment sincere or was he just putting the listener on? Not that I discount the observation, but coming from rock song writer whose compositions bordered on pop ......that's quite an attestation to Abba's accomplishment. Never heard that attributed to Townshend.

[@castroyhigh9168]

Nice the way you play can you do Chiquitita ABBA if will be extremely nice

[@liviosilva3655]

thanks

[@redjinseyer9802]

Using a pick is a struggle for me, especially on the plucking part.

[@teresianaigulevu5623]

You are the best 💝💝

11:25

[@franciscodaschagas2952]

Muito bom.👏👏👏

[@crittersintheyard3993]

Love it. I don't have a musical bone in my body, I wish I did.

[@PSmith1827]

The original had no flesh, but close!

[@pashaip4684]

Ты лучший!!

[@jajajaner]

4:41

[@johndavies4666]

🙌🙌🙌👊♥

[@billysummo69]

mate you are super

[@GuitarPilgrim]

My pleasure Phil, I appreciate you taking the time to comment and I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@willfischer6054]

I have a request if your up fir the challenge ?

[@GuitarPilgrim]

And what challenge would that be?

[@willfischer6054]

Guitar Pilgrim kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5bahHd5qLljpKc It is a remake .... The original is shower curtain scene from the 1st karate kid movie The original band ... I believe called broken edge .... was on the stage in the movie playing it for that scene There are slot of pple trying to get the original with the guy singing to put it out Since it does not appear on the soundtrack

[@willfischer6054]

If u KZbin that scene ull see / hear the original version with the guy singing A lot of people would love to learn this It’s like a classic / modern.. maybe fir its day love some ... I guess My opinion It’s like slow but deep

[@willfischer6054]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJKqk4Nnlqengbs Beautiful song

[@GuitarPilgrim]

ha, the karate kid, yes the 80's , those where the day's! The song is great but it's probably a little bit to obscure to do a whole tutorial on. But who knows, maybe when I have a bit of free time, I'll have a look at it :)

[@АлександрКовалевский-и4щ]

Ого!! Гоу!!

[@maxiringo2802]

It's pretty difficult chords apparently 😅

[@wouter-2643]

do Hey dude but nice vid

[@GuitarPilgrim]

you mean hey jude by the beatles?

[@wouter-2643]

Guitar Pilgrim Yes sorry spelling mistake but that would be great

[@GuitarPilgrim]

All right, I will do a video on hey jude! you can expect to see it on the channel this month!

[@kimikowang5942]

Too many unusual chords used. its difficult for me to memorize those .. 😆

[@andynicholls3906]

Nice lesson but man way too fast for a beginner. Slowing it down would help.

[@TMaddison]

this is not a beginners lesson my friend

[@linusfotograf]

You can change the speed yourself

[@lifeisacoustics]

This music reminds me watchig. TV and seeing Iraq war unfold. Abba was popular for me while I was young in those times. I always associate the 2nd Iraq war sith the songs

[@gtxjhcrbq]

этот парень прекрасен.

[@wayneholmes6656]

Stop with the capo... Teach the guitar!