how to play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police - electric guitar lesson

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An electric guitar lesson on how to play "Every Breath You Take "on guitar by The Police from their 1983 album "Synchronicity."
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[@randypotter9170]

Excellent job on the song. This is the first time i watch a full tutorial and my ears aren't falling off. Very good teaching skills.

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[@57fullnelson]

I really appreciate your teaching. This is one of my favorite songs by an incredible guitarist. Even with my years of playing,this song has never been easy because of the stretch involved. Thanks to your method of teaching I've finally overcome this hurdle!! Keep up the great work

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I also loved the lesson and I always love the tips about how to get the right sound. I'd like to add that it's nice to see a comment section without butt holes spewing ignorance and hate. It's nice to see.

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I used to write with a lot of 9ths love the sound!

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Perfect .. i love the opening part a lot.

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[@pamstanfield2889]

Andy made that song with the 9th chord if you think about it it is just a A maj F#min E maj Dmaj 9th chord made that song

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Hey Javortgon, Gracias por el comentario bonito bro, y gracias por ver.

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I always liked that the slides were so pronounced and added another textural element to these licks... Thanks again! 8)

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Great stuff, appreciate all your work you do for us. Hope I dont get RSI on these stretches, especially the F#m.

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jonesr227 Hey bro, thanks for watching. Glad they're helping. cheers

[@m2orourke]

I was struggling quite a bit with the F#m but found a much easier shape for myself with small hands. Instead of playing 246 and reaching back for 2 on the G string, fretting 2 with my middle finger 4 with my pinkie skipping the D string and fretting 1 on the G string reaching back with my middle finger to for the 2 to be much easier. Thanks!

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I remember when I sat down to figure this out a few years ago...I thought I was doing something wrong and thinking "He's not really playing it like THAT is he?!", started looking for alternate tunings, etc. lol Thanks for the great videos!

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Great lesson and you're right about the stretching!!!

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Ralph Mercuro Thanks for watching Ralph.

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Thanks so much for the fingering tip, I was killing myself on the stretch and thought I had some kind of anatomical problem!

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[@fais6964]

I heard Andy summer say he’d use this as a warm up to stretch the left hand ... you’re right it can be really hard - I’ll try that finger switch as I ddnt notice that

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Mark Love Thanks again Mark.

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...great job ....and it also shows you how great Andy Summers was ...or is....

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Great lesson! I love your channel! With a bmp of 117 I get a tap tempo of around 525 ms. Cheers!

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[@ChrisRCT34]

Great job ! Do you have the same in finger style such as Sting does it in acoustic vidéos ? Thank's

[@Bopper2010]

In order to play along with the album version I used ReaPitch plugin (free) in Reaper DAW and found increasing the shift in Cents by 46.58 to be close to the record in pitch and saves you having to retune your guitar. Im sure other pitch software/plugins can achieve this so I figured you could try with that number and play around. The original is in 452hz as far as I can tell so this will allow you in 440hz to play along nicely.

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Ever thought about a video for 'Edge of Desire' by John Mayer? This is so much like that song

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Just discovered your channel. Very good. On the F and G chord, there is two harmonics done by Summers, don't you?

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Good lessons. Try all downstrokes on the opening section :)

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Dušan Oravec You're welcome Dusan.

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The melody has a feeling of reality, which suits the honesty and nakedness of the lyrics.

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Please, are you in standard tuning, or down to Eb, please explain. thanks, Don B.

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Hey Andy, any chance an alternate tuning would help. Maybe starting drop E to D, or D#. Might tighten the pattern. Just a thought

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John Zalus Thanks John, yeah a JB tune might be good. I'll have to look at doing one soon. Thanks for watching bro.

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Having trouble lifting my pinky and is muting the G string what you recommend

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Dustoff85 Cool info bud! I appreciate the kind words too. I'm actually in Canada! Thanks for watching bro!

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The Police's most interesting work is definitely their second album ... songs like Bring On the Night, Deathwish, Regatta De Blanc ...

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The stretches are less with the shorter scale length on LP style guitars.

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I have large hands but I can't reach on the F#m, so far! I need to get looser fingers to play this.

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Why the tunning is in between Ab and A on the song?