Maggie May - Rod Stewart / Martin Quittenton | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play the guitar pieces for Maggie May as recorded by Rod Stewart, from the 1971 Every picture tells a story album. I'll cover the classical intro (written by Martin Quittenton), the acoustic 12 string rhythm parts, the electric leads, and throw in a little mandolin for good measure.
Thanks again to my neighbor Mike Orr for the mandolin loan!
Got a suggestion for a piece of a song to cover on an upcoming episode? Leave it in the comments, would love to hear ideas.
00:00 Solo demo
01:06 Introduction, what to expect
02:47 Classical Guitar "Henry" Intro
11:30 12 string acoustic intro & rhythm parts
16:47 Electric lead parts
20:32 Mandolin outro part
17:47 Harmonized crazy scale solo
21:35 Final Thoughts
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[@BeatlesCentricUniverse]

I've never seen anyone nail the acoustic intro before! Wow!

[@Marsbonfire007]

That was played by Ron Wood btw

[@Testing-123]

@@Marsbonfire007 It was written and played by Martin Quittenton who was almost hired for FACES but didn't like the idea of being on the road.

[@Marsbonfire007]

​@Testing-123 According to Google, Wood played electric guitar, bass, and 12 string on the track. Ian McClagan played organ. That's not to say there weren't others.

[@Testing-123]

@@Marsbonfire007 We must have different Googles

[@Marsbonfire007]

Google 'did Ron Wood play on Maggie Mae'.

[@soapy3204]

Finally after all these years someone who nails it 🎶✨👌

[@richardgillette5759]

No one on KZbin can wizard a tone as good as this guy.

[@12footchain]

thank you!

[@rogerdaly6326]

The guy from Shut Up and Play is really good at it as well.

[@TheDonzim]

One of the best guitar teachers on YT. The way he teaches and the accuracy. Thanks for the lessons!

[@lonetreug8]

It's about time a video starts with someone playing the tune THEN talking. Well done

[@desmay8882]

Never seen this song covered so well in a lesson. Thank you sir.

[@johnross5722]

I absolutely went nope , and then you roped me back in. Thanks for a great lesson

[@lyntaylor7155]

Best tutorial I've seen on Maggie may excellent

[@lyndamcardle4123]

Actually, the tune is titled "Henry" - one presumes after (King) Henry VIII, who is reputed to be the composer of the tune "Greensleeves" on which "Henry" is based. Quittenton's widow said he was such a marvellous guitar player but, completely not interested in notoriety and I'd have to agree with her. He was shy and retiring.

[@jimhenkel6681]

Thank you! I will work on this feverently. One of my favorites from ‘71 when I was a Freshman in HS.😂

[@mikeorr7567]

Very nice! Cool to see my mandolin in action on your channel! Glad to help out!

[@pauldbrown1010]

Thanks for letting him pop across to borrow it! Nice neighbourhood 😀

[@coreymihailiuk5189]

Great lesson! Thanks for digging deep with all the fine details.

[@thecarweewoodworker8629]

Thank you, fantastic to finally see how it's put together

[@richardnieto1423]

Great 👍👍 rock and roll video it's awesome what a beautiful sounding 12 string thanks so much Rich

[@wildaboutnature7006]

I cant thank you enough for showing me how to play the entire song!!!! im so Happy to have found your channel!!!!

[@steveturner6770]

Excellent. Great demo of the intro.

[@pddaniel8033]

oh my god, I love this song and you have provided an amazing tutorial - thank you so much!

[@tazanddo]

God bless you 12 Foot Chain. This was awesome!

[@markdavis5970]

You are one super great teacher.You stay calm whike teaching..In my opinion this is very Important and I plan on playing Henry within this year of 2024..Thank you so very much.

[@d5u2ke]

Wow. Great lesson and great song. I am learning it tonight! THX!!!

[@nigelogston131]

No question: You have nailed this. Thank you !

[@ziblot1235]

I think you are doing an excellent job of breaking it down. Thanks so much brother.

[@fju1107]

Fantastic lesson! Nice touch to add the intro "Henry" piece too. And for the record, I bought my Mandolin for "Losing My Religion". I bought my 12-string for "Maggie May"!

[@northsongs]

Great tune! Thanks @12 foot chain!

[@jimkelehan1366]

Thank you for the video. My first time here. It has been a song I’ve wanted to learn since 1971!!

[@you727tube]

I haven't waited that long. lol Thanks!

[@billdowney1487]

Good explanation on how your just climbing the riff at a higher level at each phase & great point about using this to learn that D scale.

[@johnm3333]

well done, best guitar lesson ever, thank you!!!

[@drutgat2]

Great stuff, and I love The Beatles logo on your 12-string. You are clearly a man of taste. Thanks very much for the lesson.

[@anapaulacosta793]

Thanks for The lesson, I was looking for it. Totally perfect!

[@perlowmfm]

What an amazing guitar lesson on a classic song that is simply timeless! I only wish I knew more music theory to understand better, but I am making it a goal to learn this by the end of the year with respect to the fundamentals; I am inspired!! hope to see more lessons from you in the future!!

[@rayberczik7251]

I've been wanting to learn that intro for a long time! Great video!

[@mattys4312]

absolutely fantastic tutorial - thank you so much for that awesome video

[@Phil21519]

Thank you Martin. Very inspiring, not least because you seem to have so much fun playing this epic tune.

[@12footchain]

thanks - I'm not Martin though :-) he's the one who wrote that piece, was just giving credit to him in the title. thanks for watching - glad you enjoyed

[@Phil21519]

My apologies! I've done the research now into a forgotten composer that you are honouring. Back in the early 1970s, I loved listening to my sister's Rod Stewart record, "Every Picture Tells a Story". But until your tutorial yesterday I had absolutely no recollection of the glorious 'Henry' tune. Mandolin outtro no problem. Thank you again.

[@peterjohnbarker9791]

THANKS from Perth Western Australia, very good job.

[@jamesmcskeane3684]

Cracking lesson mate, thank you 👍

[@Roscoe1279]

Great job! Really liked the Intro.

[@bobtomlin6813]

Man .... that was a great breakdown and demo of a song I have wanted to play for 50 years - Maggie I nailed many a decade ago but 'HENRY' ...... you have made me a very happy old plinker !!! Thanks so much for that, man, great lesson 12 😎👍

[@robbiemontgomery581]

Rod nailed her too.

[@maineiacts]

😏👍😁🙋🏻‍♀️🎶

[@listairgin]

Brilliant! Just Brilliant! Thank you so very much for sharing this with us all. Subscribed 🌠🌅🌌👌

[@FilmFlam]

Great lesson! Glad I found your channel. Now subscribed. Been wanting to learn this great tune for decades.

[@tommyhunter9641]

Excellent video. Great enjoyment!

[@The-End-Of-The-Line]

Superb lesson! Thank you!

[@thierrybouchy]

Thank you for this great lesson.

[@shawnkilmer3079]

From the time I turned 16 through age 21, I practiced what I would learn slowly of Stairway To Heaven; just the rhythm 8-mins. long ! So, I'm taking another try at learning{ Maggie May( + Henry )- FACES } a valuable tune from 1971.

[@sunpinma4028]

Thank you .that’s just what I’ve been looking for.

[@specialkalberta]

Kind of blown away by the first minute of this video but I haven't watched the rest of it yet.

[@plaidman67]

This is absolutely excellent! Couldn't have been done better. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers!

[@12footchain]

thank you!

[@plaidman67]

@@12footchain You're welcome.

[@johnmasonivquakerhippie9534]

Keep up the great work, man! Excellent and admirable, I adore your style!

[@jimmiphaze5785]

You are the best dude I'm sorry I couldn't say more but you are the best you did Maggie Mae 10 most songs I've wanted to learn and you did it and I don't care what anybody says

[@markdebiase47]

Nice work! Thank you

[@trebledog]

I've been trying to nail this intro for years (really) and this video helped a lot on the 12-string section, and I finally nailed it, THEN, I took a 10-min break and clicked on a random post showing on YT. A music post popped up about how Maggie Mae was the B side on Rod Steward's Reason to Believe and how a Dj in Cleveland first played it and launched it into stratosphere fame. Before I started going off on a tangent about hidden forces, I tried to pick this apart, coincidence (dont believe in them) or what? Conclusion, the web is now so advanced that data mining and direction vectors are closing in on any topic you choose to watch, metrics are probably time, topic, tree position, tone, plus+++. Anyhow, I'm thoroughly engrossed practicing MM intro.

[@paulwhite9173]

Really nice job. I appreciate your being accurate.

[@peterrocha9474]

This is great. Thank you!

[@kaintuffin8678]

thanks brother! got it down nice. good song.

[@safrey3824]

Thanks for this lesson!

[@kristofferbattisti633]

This is great! Thanks 🙏 a completely different sound comparing to playing only basic chords

[@kristofferbattisti633]

If there’s a tab for the intro part ( 12-string ) it would be great 👌

[@wooferdevlin3571]

For " out of comfy zone" , nylon string sounds spot on. As do all parts. Of course, Ronnie's "lead" bass part is a bear to learn, but if you can isolate the track, I bet you can do it. Great ear, great chops- keeep awnn!! Cheers! Ü♫

[@MrBmcfly]

Beautiful!

[@The1967Beatles]

Freakin fantastic brother!

[@ralph0808z]

Subscribed. Nice to see someone actually teach a song step by step rather than zip through playing it for 5 minutes and saying " and there you go!". Btw, you deserve a lot more credit for the 5 fret stretch. It was perfect.😉

[@12footchain]

Awesome, thank you!

[@JojoJojo-hd3xp]

So glad to have found your channel ! Thank you. I'm in !

[@12footchain]

Welcome! Tell your guitar player friends!

[@robinhood480]

@@12footchain We Are !

[@richprincipe749]

Awesome lesson thanks

[@JKFlaker]

Perfect. Came across this video mostly by chance and coincidentally I’ve been noodling around with that solo for the last couple of days. Couldn’t quite get it all but this should help 👍🏼 You’ve got a great catalog of song instructions by the way. Great taste in music 😎

[@timothyslaughter476]

My older brother went to a rod Stewart show back in 75... he caught one of those soccer balls rod used to kick into the crowd.... brought it home.....coolest thing ever.. great song....but you turned into a lover and mother what a lover you wore me out....maybe the best lyrics ever... nasa....

[@stevemitchell5389]

Love your lessons

[@patricknunez8884]

Dirty old town, is one I’d like to see.👍

[@williamnewkirk127]

Fantastic!!

[@stephengoh5456]

Awesome! Love it! 💥👋👋🏆🥂

[@rogerpeacock1431]

Very much appreciated this - excellent work thanks! Incidentally, Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne was credited "some bloke from Lindisfarne" on the album cover and paid a flat fee £15 for the mandolin outro. He was very bitter and it appeared in a court action. John Peel was just miming on the TOTP video while Rod and the lads kicked a football around.

[@pauldbrown1010]

Thank you Martin! Loved learning how this classic from my youth is done, from soup to nuts. And kudos to you for extending your own 12 foot chain - by learning the classical intro!🙏. Love your teaching style and explanations too, BTW. Not overly technical, but giving us the theory underpinnings when relevant. Cheers from Australia!

[@12footchain]

Thanks! I'm not Martin though, that's who wrote it 😀

[@pauldbrown1010]

@@12footchain Bummer! Stuffed it 🤪. Can I now say though, can you do a post telling us about yourself? Is this part if your day job? A hobby? Are you part of a band? Etc. I'd love to know, and I think others would too. Inevitably, you'll now point to an earlier posting😝🤗. For me, after 30 years of off and on bedroom guitaring, I'm now doing my first open mic nights, and the expectation is that I can actually play. Which I of course can't, 😝 hence why your lessons are so fantastic as they're pitched at my level. 🙏🙏🙏

[@a.c.4732]

Well , I had no idea that intro was called "Henry" ... Strangely enough, whenever I've heard it , it always makes me think of Lords & Ladies in all their finery dancing in the court of King Henry ViIII ( 8th) . Way back when . Before even I was born ! Great job matey , thank you very much .

[@markdesod561]

Wher Have I Been whilst this guy has been 'burning the midnight lamp'? Awesome playing!!

[@12footchain]

Thank you! Tell your friends :-)

[@markdesod561]

@@12footchain I am Too Old to have any!! They've all bit the dirt!! LOL!

[@jeffreyogden7996]

Great lesson

[@lyndamcardle4123]

The late Martin Quittenton was such a marvellous classical guitar player and so under-rated. I'd ask subscribers to listen to tracks like "Dirty Old Town", "Lady Day", "Cut Across Shorty", "Mandolin Wind", "Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time", and "Italian Girls" (where he really plays some 'rock 'n'' roll classical guitar riffs - hidden in the mix).....

[@mbontekoe3358]

He was also the lead guitarist in Steamhammer whose stuff is not so easy to find - saw them in the day and still have the vinyl

[@lyndamcardle4123]

He certainly was along with Martin Pugh....I have two of their albums !

[@sixfix79]

It just took me two seconds to subscribe,now please excuse me I’m going to enjoy this wonderful new channel I just found

[@12footchain]

thank you - welcome!

[@frankmazzie4855]

Nice work!!

[@conrado8403]

Hello Man!!! 🙋🏾‍♂️ Here os from Brasil.

[@mrmartinez4188]

Nice work.

[@Tom-db7bx]

I've heard so many people say that you can't play that intro on guitar! Sounds good to me!

[@johnmasonivquakerhippie9534]

You've got a new fan over in San Diego, Doug! I really dig thy method and clarity. I'll get onto the Patreon 12-foot chain bus here real soon! Well done, "dude!"

[@12footchain]

Thanks, welcome!

[@johnmasonivquakerhippie9534]

@@12footchain As a relatable brother - b. in '55, music all my life, now a fellow guitar instructor - I'd like to pay thee, Doug, for your incredible tutorial on Martin Quittenton's intro to "Maggie May." A subscription to Patreon isn't happening for me so, though not much, how can I make a One-Time $25 payment for thy efforts and skill directly to you? Thanks, man! Oh, 'n I'd go Duane Allman > Jimmy Page > Jeff Beck, R.I.P. Luvya!

[@marcusphelan57]

So good, best lesson yet! The solo is one of my very favourites, fits the song as perfectly as, for example, Harrison's in "Something", or Dave Davies beautiful work on "Waterloo Sunset" (a big influence for this solo I reckon.) Shows that you don't need to play a lot of notes to do a classic solo. The song intro even looks playable to a non-classically-competent guitarist like myself. Thanks!

[@robertshirley3422]

I concur. Best lesson yet. Unbelieveable job. Always thought that the section after the nylon-stringed acoustic was 2 guitars!! It's exviting to learn something new.

[@jimhenderson2308]

I have heard the lift off but to lower notes stretch execution on the high e string performed be jimmy page on the whole lot of love solo at the 12th fret in rapid succession and Hendrix would perform a stretch when he performed the bugle taps in star spangle banner at Woodstock and he also used it on axis bold as love in the end solo section to voice the chords. The intro you show on the 12 string seems to nail it. Great job.

[@johnmasonivquakerhippie9534]

Thank YOU!

[@gzackerman]

Thanks for the great lesson! I just subscribed to your channel!!!

[@12footchain]

Thank you!!!

[@forresthouser5807]

Altough most people call it "Henry", - I have seen an original pressing of the vinyl upon which it was called - "Link Music - Henry's' Time"

[@hopebeck8167]

Good Job

[@TheJackie2007]

Oh my word!!!

[@user-nn5qc2le6t]

I've watched hundreds of so called guitar teachers but you are the best. only problem Is I can't seem to hear your voice to good at all but It could be due to my loss of hearing from working In a cotton mill and listening to rock and roll cranked up during my wilder days. LoL. So please talk louder for a old man. Thanks

[@myvalium1]

Just found your channel… great job - thnx!!

[@12footchain]

Welcome! Tell your friends :-)

[@Tavoman86]

Amazing playing and tutorial! Thank you so much... it would awesome too if you can make a tutorial for hard luck woman by kiss!

[@tonysloggett106]

very nice.....

[@dchanson55]

12 string sounds great.

[@The73275]

Thanks!

[@adamthirdbourne324]

Great lesson. Great "Pop tune" New subscriber.

[@12footchain]

Thank you, welcome!

[@baynesstreetblues]

Part 2 main song from around 11:34 after Henry intro. 16:52 tasty lead guitar parts. 20:35 mando part

[@ColinStuart]

I was lucky, in that Woody taught me to play Maggie May. He taught me to use many cheats, playing the organ and the bass parts to tie the whole thing together. All in Rod's "beloved" key of D!

[@flexwinggpipi]

Thanks Martin ,An absolutely brilliant lesson and yes ive leant the henry part. The best thing is and whats really impressive is if you keep the 12s close ,thers time to grab it for the main song shortly after doing the Henry part on the classic nylon. Ive never played Mandolin though so thats missing When i get it tight ill post it up to youtube

[@12footchain]

thank you. who's Martin? :-)

[@flexwinggpipi]

@@12footchain My apologies , i read Martin Quittenton thinking of yourself. Sorry should have read the foot notes

[@12footchain]

@@flexwinggpipi all good, was just playin'

[@jbear4662]

Thanks great job. Request title track every picture tells a story also mandolin wind great album

[@AK-tv6bo]

マギIMAGEは名作ですね、私は50年前にALBUMを買いました。

[@edzappia2892]

Nice

[@mrcurtis73]

Just watched this video today. Cool stuff! You should do a video on “Stay With Me.” That’s a fun jam.

[@12footchain]

Definitely will do that

[@marxtruck]

I love what you did with this! I am going to figure it out and your lesson is the best by far! I only wish that you didn't add the extra when you went to the 12 string, it confuses me a bit. Thanks for all the hard work! Happy Trailz!