How To Play: Colin Hay - Waiting for my real life to begin

[@Buceadorable]

Perfect tutorial. At first I was screaming “tell me what finger goes where” but soon enough it all fell into place. This is one of my favorite songs of all time and I thought it would be beyond reach because of the idiosyncratic strumming and the picked bits running under it, but you made it all come together. I will be playing this to the end of my days, or at least until my real life begins.

[@myturningpoint]

@@Buceadorable wow thank you, so happy you found it helpful 👍

[@telunx]

The best tutorial in the. whole internet man. Congrats 👌🏾👌🏾

[@myturningpoint]

@@telunx not sure I would go that far 😂 but thank you 👍 😊

[@colesheive7649]

Love playing this song. I agree with what you say about the tabs being frustrating sometimes. This is a definitely a song where, after learning the chords, you really just need to listen to the song and play with it to have better understanding

[@martijnvandewalle7246]

Love the song and love the lesson, thx!

[@myturningpoint]

you are very welcome 👍😊

[@NathanKLS97]

Oh wow, great lesson! I've been looking to learn this song forever now and all the lessons on KZbin don't quite get it right how I want it and you nailed it! Thank you so much😁

[@myturningpoint]

you are very welcome! I'm glad I got it right for you 😊👍

[@Ross-Rubz]

This is perfect and the only tutorial to do this justice. Thank you!

[@myturningpoint]

@@Ross-Rubz that's so kind of you, thanks 👍

[@stormnavy1]

Everything changes, but nothing changes. Funny how I find myself in these present days sitting here, playing and rewind your video over and over again. Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I appreciate your time and efford. Now, back to the video! 😂 Greetings from Holland.

[@myturningpoint]

@@stormnavy1 you are most welcome 👍❤️ really glad it's helpful

[@williamduggan9986]

Been waiting a long time for this thank you brilliant

[@myturningpoint]

you're very welcome, I hope you find it helpful

[@khogg3581]

This is fantastic! Thank you. Cheers from Asheville, USA!👏😀

[@khogg3581]

Because of the picked bits, I’ve found this song intimidating to learn. You’ve demystified those bits for me.😀

[@myturningpoint]

Hope you find it helpful and useful 👍😊

[@myturningpoint]

Yeah, they require some consistent work but mainly for you to find your own style with them. So glad you found it helpful 😊👍

[@NoisePlank]

I’m a very well versed and capable player. 12-15 hour days for many year and this song has constantly been something I claim to be a beautiful and difficult piece. Now I have a video for anyone asking me how to wrap their head around it ! Brilliant video well done

[@myturningpoint]

thank you so much! I am so pleased I have somehow been able to distil this songs techniques into easy to understand 'forms' for so many people.

[@alexl3907]

Great! Thank you very much! All the best from Berlin/Germany

[@myturningpoint]

You're very welcome, hope you found it helpful 👍 greetings from Cardiff, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@alexl3907]

@@myturningpoint It's really very helpful. I've been struggling with this great song for a while! And now I'm going to master it. Thank you very much for this great tutorial! Very well explained!

[@acoustickelly550]

Awesome, please say "picked bits" more often. Great tutorial!

[@myturningpoint]

ha! did I say that a bit too much 😂

[@acoustickelly550]

@myturningpoint no, you gotta hammer it home! Thanks for the great work.

[@billewart2738]

Thanks so much. That has finally made this song clear to me. I’ve struggled with it for some reason the last year or so and never quite nailed. Excellent tutorial.

[@myturningpoint]

@@billewart2738 hey there, thanks 👍 glad you found it helpful

[@gjhomes]

Thanks mate! Good tutorial!!!! Great song from Australian singer songwriter Colin Haye (formerly from Men at Work of "I come from a land down under " fame).

[@myturningpoint]

@@gjhomes thanks 👍

[@thephatalien]

This is the best tutorial I’ve found on KZbin for this song. Nice job 👍🏻

[@myturningpoint]

hey thank you so much, hope you find it helpful 👍😊

[@bernardbenecke6979]

Such a great tutorial. Thanks so much

[@myturningpoint]

you're very welcome 👍😊

[@scottlabbemusic4310]

Brilliant!

[@myturningpoint]

@@scottlabbemusic4310 thank you 😊

[@adrienmugul7428]

merci beaucoup 😄

[@tomskithompson7499]

Hello, you metioned thanks to ultimate guitar because this website makes finding chords so easy. In that sense I also thank you very much, because with film-instructions like this, it makes it so much easier to lern songs. So thank you very much for your effort of making this film.

[@offcrcartman]

Thank you so much for this!

[@myturningpoint]

you're very welcome 👍

[@martynroach182]

WOW! been wanting/needing the correct fingering and chords for my fav song from another composer, my main being Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. This was a great tutorial and many thanks for posting

[@myturningpoint]

@@martynroach182 hi, you're very welcome, hope you find it helpful 👍

[@shonuDhamey]

Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@myturningpoint]

@@shonuDhamey you're welcome 👍

[@stevemcnamara7108]

Back to guitar after many years… the alternate G… ahhhhhhhhhhh! I’ll keep practicing ; ) Steve Mc

[@nigelwilson928]

What a fabulous tutorial. So thorough. Thank you. Hope you smacked the Covid.

[@myturningpoint]

@@nigelwilson928 thanks 👍 hope you find it helpful. The #covid is long gone now thanks 😊

[@Rachelhickman-u4j]

Thank you so much. It’s a joy to be able to work on this piece now.

[@myturningpoint]

Hi there, glad I could help in some way! 👍

[@Mabemessage]

This has helped a ton for sure, but the picked bits are giving me trouble. I am having a hard time making them sound right, and making them fit where they need to go. Could you show us which fingers are picking which strings and their order? Thank you, and I hope you got over COVID quickly.

[@myturningpoint]

Hi this will entirely depend on 'how' you play the song. But if you play pick and fingers or entirely with fingers like I do, I use pretty strict fingering myself, of 3rd finger on the high E string, middle finger on B string and 1st finger on G string. I just picked the guitar up (not played the song in months) and it pretty much always the high E is picked first and the descend down to the B string etc. But again, this is an idiosyncratic song that is unique really to each player. As I've stated before, I think its a mistake to approach this as trying to play 'exactly' what's on the record as you're not Colin Hay and you don't have his muscle memory and picking/strumming idiosyncrasies. Yes you can get close, but I don't even attempt to try and play it like Colin does as for a start he plays hybrid style with pick and fingers whereas I play with just fingers. Other than that, I would strongly recommend a program called 'Transcribe' - www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html amazing piece of software that allows you to play an audio file and slow it down by any amount you want. You can also change pitch as well as slow it down. I use it all the time and used it to learn and practice this song (as well as many other songs!) I don't think doing additional little video's to this would be helpful in the long run as it would be difficult to link them and I do not have the ability to modify existing uploads. I hope that helps, use your ears, slow the original version down if you can and practice it sloooooow and then bring the speed up and remember that a 100% perfect copy isn't necessarily the right approach with this song.

[@danwheeler8489]

Love the tuition Thanku so much I am having trouble with the last verse and fitting in the words of "it's just that times are lean" ? Is there an alternative xtra note /chord there ?

[@myturningpoint]

Hi Dan, no the 3 verses are exactly the same with regards to the guitar part. What you'll find is that the first and second verse there is a vocal 'gap' on that last G chord that hammers on the Am7 shape with fingers 1 & 2. Whereas in the 3rd verse he sings through it with the line you mention. I would strongly advise you focus on the guitar part and ensure you can play along to the original song as just the guitar part and then once you've got the guitar down, start adding in the vocal. If you are trying to do both at the same time you might be throwing yourself off as your not ensuring you have each 'instrument' down and correct (hence you asking if there are extra chords/notes which suggests to me you have not focused on the guitar part and played along to the song with just the guitar) I hope that helps? Enjoy the journey! 👍😊

[@danwheeler8489]

@@myturningpoint Thanku so much for that feed back ..I will try that approach

[@pinkfloydfan90]

hello sir nice playing, is there a tab from you personally available? i looked on the tabs on ultimate guitar and they are kinda wrong and very hard to read.. would love to get a tab thats right just like you play it :) thanks

[@myturningpoint]

@@pinkfloydfan90 hi (love the user name! Also a lifelong Floyd fan ❤️), for the very reasons you described, I have not even bothered to do a tab for this song. For a song like this I think tab overly complicates and convolutes learning the song as you have to find your own hybrid pick/strum that's suited to your own biomechanics and how you 'feel' what I'm trying to demonstrate in this video. I hope that makes sense,and I hope that kind of explains why I won't be doing any tab for this 👍☺️

[@myturningpoint]

The other thing with tab for this is that people will try to play EXACTLY what I put in the tab and will loose what is most important which is that hybrid pick/strum. Example would be that it doesn't matter how many strings you strum, where if I tab it out, people will assume you have to strum exactly what I tabbed out which defeats the entire feel of the song 😕

[@pinkfloydfan90]

@@myturningpoint ok thanks anyways :) i will try to just listen and listen, normally i learn with tabs and adjust the feeling afterwards i find that alot faster for me but i will try without, already making some progress cheers :)