How To Play: Half Right, by Elliott Smith

[@dannodanno]

Hey Dan DeMarco That thoughful July afternoon you chose to spend some of your day sharing the magic interworkings of this song with the world changed my life. Thank you for your kindness. danno

[@leighrichardson8795]

elliot made some of the most beautiful chord melodies :)

[@davesalk]

IMPORTANT: It's a *whole step down* tuned at *432hz* that's why it's not sounding right to most people.

[@32snowbound60]

davesalk exactly.. I was like eh that’s not half step

[@ДимаОглы-ш7п]

Thank you! Didn't know about 432 hz

[@Expacee]

ahh so thats why it sounds *half right*

[@marcos_derozzi]

​@@Expaceeshit i was 2 months too late to make that joke

[@agneebags]

dude I know im 9 years late but you are such a good teacher! u have a kind energy and im so happy u made this video. hope ur doin well nowadays

[@sharp5flat9]

The best tutorial I can find… I’m gonna learn it from you. Thanks!! Ps - you have a great voice 💙

[@rashams1605]

Having a walk through of the exact fingering of that riff part would move mountains for me. At this point. I know all the frets. And the notes. But following the thumb strum and finger pattern is quite difficult. I’ve been watching this tutorial for days now

[@Pax_Mayn3]

Feel it brother, it has to click in your head. It doeant matter how detailed the tab is.

[@sro2457]

Thank you for the tutorial. Now that I can play the intro and verse pretty fine it turns out this song ain't that difficult to play. And I'm so happy to say that my voice suits this song perfectly (or at least that's what I think about me singing it :D).

[@iankorean1]

Thanks for this. I love singing this song but never bothered to learn it....until now!

[@ДимаОглы-ш7п]

This is my fav song thank you very much!

[@TheDoobiesnatcher]

great lesson mate will have to watch it a few times, I was looking at the tab on the sweet adeline site and it didn't make much sense until I saw this video.

[@larmoran4885]

Great video dude great song choice too

[@SamuelBrown-o8u]

Thank you Dan DeMarco! :)

[@charleshumbles6285]

D is a whole step from E

[@toneohm]

Tuning it to D would be a whole step though? E flat would be half... I kno he often does both

[@robcole6785]

First step… …be sweating due to drugs

[@Daneh97]

Hey! I'm listening to your music from the description rn and I was disappointed to see your last release was 2015. Then, realized you had another artist name linked. When I clicked it, I only got the option to follow, and I haven't been able to find it any other way. Do you know what's up with that?

[@AdmiralFox]

Oh wow, I didn’t think anyone cared about this video anymore! This is Dan, I make music in a band called Admiral Fox now, you can check out our music videos on this channel if you so desire!

[@Daneh97]

@@AdmiralFox sick! Thank you! There’ll always be people looking to learn Elliotts songs 🤙 did you ever release anything under only the cat?

[@Daneh97]

Inky *

[@AdmiralFox]

@@Daneh97 I released one album as Inky the Cat, called Don’t Be Scared. It’s no longer on Bandcamp but might be on KZbin somewhere? But the Inky the Cat songs that were any good became Admiral Fox songs!

[@Daneh97]

@@AdmiralFox Sick! I'll check em out! Thanks dude!

[@wingfoot48]

good lesson

[@oannarose5407]

I agree with WolfEyesGreen. The tuning doesn't right all the time. Can you help?

[@chippchipp1]

He meant to say "whole step down", not half

[@SBRReview]

Elliot plays a full step down, not a half step. Whole guitar tuned to D-Standard, not a half-step which would be Eb-Standard

[@JohnAulabaughMusic]

And that last little bridge goes down to an F before the reprise into the intro. But a really nice tutorial - good job man!

[@charleshumbles6285]

Also it’s in C# standard tuning and you gave incorrect chords for the bridge

[@maisiehogg8189]

can you do a tutorial for elliott smith Twilight x

[@DrawtheCurtains]

ultimateguitar has a good tab for this one. and if you want to get into the nuiance, watch his live performance from 2003. you can see his fingers on the fretboard. that's how i perfected it :)

[@charleshumbles6285]

Though it’s a few cents off

[@wolfeyesgreen1187]

What's the tuning for this? Standard and a half step down are not sounding right

[@cmswrD]

The New Moon version is a whole step down, the original Heatmiser is in standard

[@SupremeIntentionCrew]

spoiler alert * lmao