Pinegrove - 'The Alarmist' (Guitar Lesson / Tutorial)

[@m.d.1916]

also best tutorial ever thank you so much!!!!!

[@eastofthesun]

Thankyou!!

[@carsonpetty2909]

The G chord is the same one that he uses in "Phase" too. It was hard for me at first, but a lot of fun once I figured it out. Great Vid!

[@eastofthesun]

Thankyou! It doesn't surprise me, when you find something that works and sounds well you can't be blamed for using it multiple times.

[@Chad-gg9kh]

This is immensely helpful-thank you so much! I struggled putting together what was on their website and what was in that video so this is really a good resource for me

[@eastofthesun]

Ah im very glad to hear it! Its such a beautiful song to learn and not many resources to learn it so glad to make it more accessible.

[@elliotmccluskey]

Thanks for doing this!! ❤

[@elliotmccluskey]

Only thing that was slightly confusing is you got the strings the wrong way round so rather than going from 654321 from the top (thickest string) you were doing 123456

[@eastofthesun]

My pleasure! And good point, the order of the strings always caught me out because it feels counter intuitive. Ill remember for any future tutorials.

[@agressapenguin6289]

this is a really helpful video man! any more pinegrove you would like to make a vid on?

[@eastofthesun]

Thankyou! Glad to have been some help with it. At this stage no plans to do any more tutorials, I only did this one because I couldn't find any clear tutorials when I tried to learn it myself.

[@agressapenguin6289]

@@eastofthesun I see, relative to alot of guitar tutorials you do a good job at explaining things.

[@m.d.1916]

pls. what is the strumming pattern. my eyeballs cannot figure it out!!!

[@eastofthesun]

A good question but tough to answer haha. I didnt talk about strumming because its kind of go with the flow when I play this and the pattern changes as the dynamics change and the vibes change. But to a large degree: The first half of the song is strummed in either a D U u D d U d u, or D U u D u d U d u (the former being in the quieter sections and the latter in the louder sections). The loud section of the bridge is a D u d U d u D u d U d u. For clarity sake, the 'd's are down strums, and 'u's are up strums. The capitol strums are accented compared to the lower case strums (generally the patterns run off a three strums per beat, and the first strum of each four beats in the bar is the one that gets accented). Did that make sense? Wasn't sure how best to convey my meanings there haha.

[@PS2Damon]

its impossible for me to play that G chord with my ring finger too

[@eastofthesun]

It's a pretty impressive move by Even that's for sure. But I'm happy to take the second best, still sounds ok.

[@PS2Damon]

​@@eastofthesun after messing around with it, I noticed that my middle finger is double jointed so if I spread out I can get it actually so it looks kinda cool