How to play Selfless by The Strokes on your own! Guitar tutorial.

[@eelkemusic]

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[@quincyroyce3226]

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[@allanquinton7329]

@Quincy Royce yea, I've been using InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

[@juliuswiegand6737]

I’m learning this so I can play it for my girlfriend, she loves this song it’s one of her favorites and I want to try to sing it also. Wish me luck boys

[@eelkemusic]

How's it going Julius? Making progress? Good luck!

[@codenamehoneytattoos]

Beautiful tutorial, one of my favorite songs. thank you!

[@eelkemusic]

😊thanks!

[@baptistecampeas6645]

I recently discovered this song and I’m beginning to learn guitar. It’s an amazing tutorial, you adapted it beautifully, thank you !

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks, glad it's helping you, good luck learning!

[@deez6416]

I’m going to try to learn this in a month, wish me luck! Amazed on how you were able to figure out how to play this song acoustic style, the strokes would be impressed watching this

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks! How did it go, were you able to learn the song?

[@camilochaves4771]

This is great, you're a great teacher and should have way more views. Keep it up!

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks Camilo, glad to hear you liked it :)

[@tirt904]

I've never barred with my pinky before. Skill come-up!

[@eelkemusic]

Good luck!

[@Wozniak_15]

Ur English is totally great

[@eelkemusic]

:) thank you!

[@chrissargent8311]

Have you got any more lessons? This was brilliant

[@eelkemusic]

No I don't.. but it's nice to hear people like this one. I might start doing some more in the future. Thanks!

[@chrissargent8311]

@@eelkemusic mate I have been following guitar KZbin tutorials for years, it’s how I learn everything, and honestly this was so good I assumed you had a channel with hundreds of videos somewhere. Thanks for the lesson

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks! I'm mainly a musician releasing my own music, but during the lockdowns I did some covers and this one in particular was pretty popular. That's why I decided to make a tutorial for it :) I'll definitely consider doing some more of this type of stuff though as it's nice to hear it's helping people out.

[@Domitruk]

Amazing tutorial. Best one on KZbin. So happy I found this!

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks, glad you like it! :)

[@ruoyuxu6918]

Thank you so much dude.

[@eelkemusic]

No worries! Enjoy :)

[@frozemoments7873]

Awsome dude...glad I found ya. From: The Smoky Mountains Tennessee. This album...The New Abnormal...I think is in a groove of it’s own.

[@eelkemusic]

Thank you! Cool to know where you're watching, I love that I get to reach people from everywhere in the world. It's definitely a cool album, lots of musical references and stuff that make it even more interesting.

[@ieatcrayons3322]

Thank you!

[@eelkemusic]

No worries! :)

[@Shabao601]

¡Wow! ¡Te quedó asombroso! ¡Muchas gracias por la explicación tan detallada! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

[@eelkemusic]

¡Gracias!

[@arkaseth]

Fantastic tutorial! I'm learning guitar by myself. Love from India!

[@eelkemusic]

Thank you! I did too, and I'm still learning :) Good luck, and love back from The Netherlands

[@blayzitmichael2925]

Hope you get insane popular one day👍

[@eelkemusic]

😊

[@luisnavarro6567]

Great video. You make it look easy hahaha. I'm still struggling with the pinky finger chords, but getting better! I wanna have your fingers!

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks! You will, just keep going! 😊

[@julia-nf9kt]

thank you so much

[@eelkemusic]

No worries! :)

[@Vivien2487]

Great video! Also the parts that were a bit more difficult you explained really clearly.

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks Vivien, that's nice to hear :)

[@bernardoamorim9495]

thank you for the arrangement and the lesson, theyre both great! Cheers from Brazil

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks! Glad you liked them :) Yesterday I did a cover of Someday, check that out if you like :) Cheers!

[@bk3678]

thank you man. it was a great tutorial

[@eelkemusic]

Happy to hear it! Thanks :)

[@iloveunchartedsaga]

Really amazing job! I'm amazed, looking forward for more videos, subbed.

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks Víctor! Glad you liked it

[@regimesoftruth]

Love it buddy! thanks

[@eelkemusic]

Cool!! No problem :)

[@bernardocueva5838]

Great cover, great tutorial! cheers man!

[@eelkemusic]

Glad you enjoyed both :) Nice to hear! Cheers

[@freezedriedzombi8242]

I still yet to know how to bar my pinkie like that for the B. I think my hands are too small lol, well I’ll learn somehow :)

[@eelkemusic]

It's tricky right.. I think most people use their ring finger for that chord shape instead of the pinkie. You could try that as well and then either adding the pinkie for the second bass note, or sliding up your index finger-bar two frets so you got all notes with just your index finger.

[@maverick8recordz]

Amaaazin covva brotha 🤙🤠🎸🎶🎶🥰

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks! :)

[@flhor5743]

this is great, sending you love from argentina!

[@eelkemusic]

Thank you! Happy that you like it :)

[@ThePerfectBalls]

Wow your singing voice is amazing

[@eelkemusic]

That's very nice, thank you

[@ThePerfectBalls]

Eelke thanks for the reply eelke. Did you take singing lessons to master your falsetto? Any chance you’d do a singing tutorial in the future?

[@eelkemusic]

@@ThePerfectBalls I do teach singing so it's not impossible I'll do singing videos at some point. Having said that, it's so difficult to teach someone to use falsetto in my experience.. I remember learning it myself because I heard people like Jeff Buckley growing up and having a really hard time getting any sound at all in that register. I wish I could more clearly remember how I found the sound eventually, but I guess it really comes down to 'keep trying' until you've got something and then try to remember how your throat felt when you got the sound to work. Once you're getting sound I would say try regularly doing siren-sounds (you can use them as a warm up as well) starting on a comfortable note and going slowly (and softly) up and down, keep going higher and lower until you reach your limit but try to keep the tone clean (not to much air on it) and see if you can sing past your vocal-crack without hearing it. Do this on all vowels. It's easy to dry out your vocal chords with falsetto so maybe don't practice for too long.

[@eelkemusic]

@@ThePerfectBalls Also, keep in mind that on a lot of recordings (mine as well) theres compression being used on the vocals to make up the volume difference between regular voice and falsetto. And also I also change the distance to the microphone. So don't expect it to be as loud as your regular voice, certainly at the start. Just use the sirens to stretch your range and find songs to put it to practice. Selfless wasn't easy :) Let me know how you get on!

[@gregorydetroyat6905]

nice Alvarez guitar !

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks, I really like that little guitar :)

[@gregorydetroyat6905]

Parlor shape ?

[@eelkemusic]

I think so yeah, the smallest type I think. Neck join at the 12th fret.

[@atulgyadi1719]

Thnks eelke 👏

[@eelkemusic]

You're welcome! :)

[@danycinkhope]

Merci :)

[@eelkemusic]

Enjoy!

[@kevinarce4862]

nice video bro

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks man! :)

[@jackb2809]

Hi Eelke pls do an acoustic cover like this of Glass by Julian Casablancas

[@eelkemusic]

Hi! I just listened to the song for the first time, I gotta say I'm not really familiar with his solo work but it sounds great. I'll definitely check out some more.

[@jackb2809]

@@eelkemusic he has some great songs and some of the acoustic versions are up on youtube if you look

[@jackb2809]

@@eelkemusic hi I persisted with it and I have managed to play the chorus with the pinky 🙂

[@eelkemusic]

@@jackb2809 Good work man :)

[@Pop-2870]

This is great...now if only you could teach the vocal control in 20 minutes! ;)

[@eelkemusic]

Thanks Tom :) That would take a little longer probably but it's mainly just practicing!

[@davicho5236]

Thank you so much dude, that´s a perfect job and lesson, just one thing, the next time try to teach the other ways to do the chords pls Your pinky it's fuc**** flexible haha

[@eelkemusic]

Haha I'm sorry ;)

[@jackb2809]

The chorus is pretty much impossible on my acoustic with the strings I have I mean how are u meant to bar with your pinky

[@eelkemusic]

It's pretty hard on your pinky.. You could try using your ring-finger instead, that's usually the way people grab that chord-shape. But that does make it harder to change the bass-notes on the chord because it's a bigger stretch.

[@jackb2809]

@@eelkemusic I'll probs keep at it maybe I'll.get it

[@mithra1771]

NICE HAIR MAN U GOOD LOOKING

[@eelkemusic]

☺

[@Karibeauti]

why you dont ad tabs?

[@eelkemusic]

I think I explain where to put your fingers pretty clearly :) Feel free to use that information to write your own tabs!

[@marcosagustin1202]

No se ve una mierda, mostra bien los acordes

[@eelkemusic]

¿que?