Michael Mastro - Guitar Tutorial - Your Smiling Face

[@erniegarza368]

You killed it! Thanks for the ideas! I had to learn this song for a gig in a couple of days. This really helped me. Thank you!

[@gmmastro]

Glad I could help!

[@bcheeseful]

This is a great cover dude, great feel! always loved the guitar parts in this one.

[@gmmastro]

Hey thanks so much! I never really set out to do cover videos, I started doing videos of my hands on the neck playing through songs because I would learn tunes for cover gigs, play them for a month or so, and then not play them for 4 months. And of course I would have to go back and learn them again .... painful! So I started doing videos for myself so that I could go back and consult the video for chord positions at least. As a musician playing cover tunes I think you will agree, we have probably forgotten half the songs we've had to learn in out lifetime. But thank you for the compliment, and this is pretty much how Landau played this song live, and he is a bad ass rhythm player. Peace.

[@gmmastro]

Thank you!

[@1bassman9]

Danny "Kooch" Kortchmar would stand up and applaud your rendition ! Well done !!! I played bass along with you, it felt great !

[@gmmastro]

Totally kind compliment and thank you so much.

[@jhaivee10]

Thanks for sharing this, superb playing

[@gmmastro]

Thank you!

[@rodnolasco]

Love your style dude. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@gmmastro]

Thank you!

[@TheBowzwow]

Excellent.......you nailed that....what gear were you using...the sound is great

[@gmmastro]

Thank you so much! The gear I was using, pretty simple - Boss GT-8 floorboard right into the mixer. I did a lot of these videos for my own reference because I was always having to go back and relearn songs and asking, "where did I play this part or section on the neck?" So I made some reference videos to make the relearn experience a bit easier. And then one day just posted them for fun. Thank you again for the kind comment.

[@gibsonguy5240]

Thank you sooo much for this cover great job, on an all time great songs

[@gmmastro]

Thank you!

[@mariorossi1802]

Great job indeed! Did you hardly study Sweet Potato Pie also?

[@gmmastro]

I have not studied Sweet Potato Pie but thank you for watching!

[@say-cred]

Michael could you please explain how you play this? This is my favorite song and I love your guitar on this part. Right hand: are you strumming or picking individual notes?

[@gmmastro]

Hi say-cred. Thank you for your compliment! It's mostly strumming and a lot of muting with the right hand at the same time. There's a KZbin video of Michael Landau playing guitar with James Taylor live doing this song and I pretty much loved and stole his interpretation of it. Check it out - he's one of the best rhythm players alive. Here's a link to the performance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4XOYYWGj7t1mKs

[@say-cred]

@@gmmastro I checked it out, and it's a great performance but wonder how you learned that part without even seeing his hands. Guess I will have to work on my left hand muting because you're doing it with what looks like such little effort with such clean tones. Thanks for replying.

[@TheBrayman25]

Is there a way to get a tab for this?

[@gmmastro]

I don't have tab for this song but I'm sure something will pop up with a google search.

[@igorvelho5464]

Do you have a tab?

[@gmmastro]

These were just crappy videos I did for myself to remember hand position for cover songs (I was always learning songs for a band or show and then having to re-learn them months later after not playing them for too long) and this was easier for me to review then a chart or tab so, sorry I didn't chart anything!

[@skylermichael641]

Wow great job

[@gmmastro]

Thank you!

[@garrett5800]

Can you do tabs

[@gmmastro]

Sorry I didn't chart or tab anything, I just did these videos for hand position reference, but thanks for watching!

[@reyibesate3936]

This only cover not guitar lesson.

[@mikeherman7510]

This is not a tutorial ... good playing, but... not a lesson

[@gmmastro]

Absolutely!