Pink Floyd Friday - Fearless | Breakdown + Guitar Lesson

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In today's guitar lesson and edition of Pink Floyd Friday we learn how to play "Fearless" from their album Meddle. We also do a brief breakdown of the song as well as look at the open tuning and music theory therein. This song is beginner-friendly as it features only a handful of chords and easy lead riffs.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Demo
02:10 Lesson Introduction
02:43 Tuning
03:41 Pink Floyd History
05:05 Music Theory
08:11 Intro - Strumming + Fills
12:19 Main Riff | Hook
15:51 Verse
19:53 Interlude

[@MTGuitar]

Happy Pink Floyd Friday all! Have a great weekend and some merry music-making :)

[@danielndoan]

This is Pink Floyd’s best song. There I said it

[@12string-Randy]

i have to agree

[@abhishak2000]

Nope Poles Apart is better than Fearless.

[@joshuahoover6841]

Yup ♥️

[@resjr.2235]

Correct

[@gradygordon453]

It came at a real interesting time in the floyds catalogue

[@uberjam-sam8512]

Meddle has evolved into my favorite PF album and this tune is among my favorites. Great lesson. Thank you!

[@williamhermann6635]

Just now discovering the splendors of Open G and I discover this song (my favorite song of all times) is played in Open G. Today was a good day.

[@drorhovav392]

MT is master guitar player and a talented teacher, highly regarded by those who know him, but those who don't are really missing out. Pink Floyd Friday has become a tradition and for that I thank you. Just keep guiding us on that journey. Hope to see more of your tutorials.

[@mollyp.sasser223]

Would 100% have to agree!!

[@fuggle1969]

Hands down the best Fearless tutorial I've seen. Thank you for this!

[@glennwoods2462]

I used to start my busking set with this tune....I did it all in standard tuning... I love the harmonic structure and the lyrics...the musical interlude is mystical... Meddle was my introduction to the Floyd... Thanks so much for this...🎸🤙🎼🎵🎶

[@StevieZero]

"Floyd"not "The"

[@Claire_in_the_air]

Self-taught guitar player here... Thank you for the simplicity for a beginner/raw intermediate like me. I'm learning this for my friend in whom I will not see for a very long time. It's our song, so it'll be a great, climatic reunion. Such a simple, beautiful song that you can toy around with and make into a challenge! Love your attitude, thanks a ton.

[@MTGuitar]

This is great to hear, happy that it can be of good use, this sounds like a wonderful song to play for the reunion with your friend. Thanks for sharing. I agree it's such a simple yet beautiful song. Thank you!

[@Claire_in_the_air]

​@@MTGuitarGot an update for you... Still one of the easiest and funnest songs to play! It's nice having the freedom to get creative with the fills. My friend enjoyed it; it was a very bittersweet moment... In short: thanks, you're awesome, and you made my year just that much better.

[@anthonyangelis1094]

Oh my God I cannot say thank you enough for this incredible Pink Floyd tune. I love it. This is a great one. Seeing the tribute band BRIT FLOYD play it live was absolutely amazing. Thank you thank you. Thank you.❤❤👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🙏🙏🎸🎸

[@maxbrowne392]

I cant wait to see them! Going to see them next June. Heard some great stuff about them! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@anthonyangelis1094]

They are astonishing ! check out some of their videos on KZbin. Brit Floyd and the light show they put on are absolutely jaw-dropping. It’s a full body experience. It’s not just a concert. It is an experience.

[@PugetSound10]

You pick great songs. Thank you!

[@veronicalondrigan5298]

Love Fearless! Thanks Mitchell!

[@TheAndyFosterPhoto]

One of the greatest songs and lessons ever. Ty.

[@paulbattipagliasr8591]

Recently rediscovered this song and playing it daily thanks for the lessons✌️

[@Zaydu123]

Wonderful tutorial, loved the history of the song as well!

[@JohnVanderMyde]

This is my absolute favorite song - no idea I'd actually be able to play it. Looking forward to hours of watching this while practicing! Thank you so much!

[@williamhermann6635]

I had been listening to PF for years before I ever heard this song. When I was in high school, the local rock station used to have an hour long segment every monday night at 10 pm called "Think Pink" where they played all kinds of PF deep cuts. They played Fearless one night and I was hooked. This was before the days of youtube or spotify so it took me quite some time to figure out the song title and what album it was from.

[@jbeazy412]

Well done sir. Great song with a great lesson.

[@RobertViani]

What a beautiful song. Great vid MT!

[@Dstyles751]

Thank You Mitch!

[@mjn55128]

I’ve been soaking up all your PFF series vids…they are all excellent. You are so fun to watch and listen to…I love the history and music theory lessons (fascinating stuff!!) as well as the song lesson. This one is surprisingly easy to play!! Thanks

[@MTGuitar]

Thanks so much! Great to hear. It's a dream come true to do this PFF series and I'm glad it's being enjoyed. Thanks.

[@scottbettencourt6658]

I appreciate all your videos, thanks brother 🎸

[@gorgeousninja7213]

One of my favourite Floyd tracks, way too underated. Great job!

[@memelord1241]

This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much!

[@baxtersvidz]

Great intro. needed this on a few levels. Thx.

[@scottcannon5341]

Thank you so much, well explained. Love this song

[@nickgetchman4885]

Fantastic job, nailed it!

[@jamesgoldsbury]

Great lesson for a great tune. Subscribed 😊

[@capt.sparrow34]

Awesome lesson, thank you.

[@mjn55128]

At 19:35 we build up a momentum…..to go to the riff!!! 😂 …that part pleases me so much 😍 ❤️ 12:00

[@thenostra-ramos9384]

Awesome. Thanks!

[@TheGravygun]

Your attack is always on point. Great touch

[@georgetebbens3524]

Tuning the Low E up to a G is scary. I sussed this song out over 45 years ago, decades before there was an Internet. I first learned it in standard tuning. Then it dawned on me to tune to Open G.

[@faheyfan1]

First video I've seen from you and I really like it. Subscribed. Perfect formatting, and the timestamps for each section is so helpful. You clearly have a great ear and you spend time talking about the theory/structure instead of just dictating what fingers go on what frets like so many others do. I've been working out a version of this in standard tuning, with the capo on the third fret, based around an E shape. Your lesson helped me confirm that I was hearing the riff correctly and helped me figure out how to play the bit at the end with the C sliding to Dadd4. Thanks!

[@MTGuitar]

That's great to hear thank you! Very encouraging. Ah nice, that sounds like a good idea regarding the standard tuning and capo, always a fan of making an open tuning song your own in standard. Thanks

[@captainmcewan1]

Great lesson an explanation. Thanks!

[@camilolym]

super good tutorial man thank you

[@spencerquayle2488]

thank you for the video. keep doing you!

[@DavePhuck-zq9wj]

I honestly love your versions, they should be on a reel to reel.

[@thefunexaminedlife1145]

Great job weaving music theory into this tutorial. Thank you

[@BraD_N]

Big Thanks for these tutorials and the fun facts as well😀 !

[@TheGlato]

Very nice man, love it, especially singing is on point

[@DennisAnthonis]

You’re a wonderful teacher.

[@MTGuitar]

Thanks!

[@brianfindlay2925]

Absolutely fantastic ❤

[@MTGuitar]

Thank you :)

[@hemingwaysbeards]

Appreciate all the explanation on technique and chord theory :)

[@MTGuitar]

My pleasure thank you !

[@paulevans9036]

Brilliant. Will learn this one soon. All that is missing from your excellent tutorial is" You'll Never Walk Alone " in the background. 👏 👏

[@gabemeans2891]

i liked this video at 777 i actually love this guy hes a great teacher. open G is fun . opens all kinds of doors, hallways, windows

[@arispecchia4782]

Thank you!

[@camfrancisco]

Niiiiice! Going to practice this one

[@johnmauer6079]

Very informative great video

[@Yourengineeringstandpt]

Your awesome man wow, I love pink floyed

[@KevintheRhea]

Wow, just wow! When i learnt this song 5 years ago there were no tutorials and it was very hard to get it right. Still couldnt to this day. Im glad to say thanks to your tutotial I can play my favorite song near perfectly!!!

[@MTGuitar]

That’s amazing to hear, thanks!!

[@gururajchadaga]

Oh my god!! Thank you! Summer 68 next please!!

[@faanross]

brilliant thank you!

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

Walk on , walk on , with hope in your heart

[@pinogori]

Grazie grazie grazie! Era tanto tempo che volevo provare a suonare questo pazzo favoloso! Avevo abbandonato la chitarra da oltre 15 anni ed ora con tanto "sudore" e affaticando le orecchie dei miei familiari voglio ricominciare a divertirmi.

[@DavePhuck-zq9wj]

deserves more likes, awesome.

[@PinkFloydTraduzido]

Just to say thank you, always wanted to play this song. :)

[@richdaigle3353]

Awesome!! Thank you.

[@MTGuitar]

Thanks!

[@TheSteveBoyd]

No wonder I couldn't figure this out! Alternative tuning. Roger, you magnificent bast...

[@AkbarHussain-nc8ws]

Thank you so so much friend , for sharing your gift , you play Awesome, I also love Meddle, What an Album , thanks again friend :)

[@ozgeguzel7359]

Thank you

[@fxl72]

i haven't started playing guitar, but i have been saving up for it, i'll have one soon💥💥💥

[@GuitarJoLa]

Fantastic lesson, I can't wait to dive into it! Love the way you break it down theory-wise, Mitch! 🙏💕

[@hapax87]

Probably my favorite Pink Floyd song on acoustic guitar. That open G tuning fits it perfectly. I actually replaced my low E sting with a lighter gauge string to accommodate that Sid Barrett G tuning.

[@MTGuitar]

Nice!

[@benioren6120]

yo dude your awesome thank you for your content. Great weaving in history and theory and stuff

[@MTGuitar]

Thank you!

[@richbrodeur2261]

That performance was just as good as the original! And meddle is my favorite Floyd album 🙏💪🏼

[@MTGuitar]

Wow thanks! Meddle is legendary

[@duncan9089]

Merci !!!

[@thesaltnation5570]

this an underrated song fr

[@12string-Randy]

finally , someone gets the lyrics right. Oh! so close, just heard treetops instead of tree lines but overall real good playthrough and lesson. thank you.

[@MTGuitar]

Whoops! Thanks!

[@mikechappell8235]

Thanks for breaking down the open tuning. I have a gretsch jim dandy that I think might get tuned to G very soon. Might use an A for the lowest string and tune it down. I forced myself to learn this in standard tuning. I can get the point across but it's not the same. I'm going to try open tuning. Great lesson!!

[@Oseanacoceanblue]

Classic 🎉

[@tamashorvath4883]

Flipping awesome buddy! If not better than the original....

[@orses4corses]

Pink Floyd dedicated this song to its famous DJ Friend John Peel who was an avid Liverpool fan. He pioneered Pink Floyd and many happening bands and artists in the 60's and 70's.

[@martialmartial8816]

Thank you a lot, I ve played this beautiful song with a normal tuning before... it s really better that way👍 I ve played and busking in Europe between 1998 and 2010... I ve made a break for 12 years and forget many things... I play again now from 1 year and I discover lot of songs with internet... before the net, I cross other guitarists on my path and we share some chords of classic rock pieces... now I choose a song and go on the net and often to learn better way to play.... story of life 😂

[@neumichel]

The hardest thing about the song is the timing of the riff. (I've played this song in a jam and everyone is all over the place.) To most people, it feels/sounds like it comes in late.....so teaching people the chords and blocks might not help with the timing. The song eventually "catches up" to the downbeat on the 1 on C to D part before the singing starts. Perhaps many of us are "hearing it wrong" but it is what it is.

[@pauloernesto88459]

You are huge!

[@johnmclaughlin1946]

You said the hills to steep to cliiiimb

[@ignacioduplan8422]

thanks, i knew my low E wasn't sounding right, it is definetly tuned up to a g

[@TheLingrush]

Pretty sure the D add4 is correct, because you can play around with that High D in both the D and C chord.

[@patrickkelly5004]

Great choice of Fearless for a tutorial video, Mitchell. It's been one of my Floyd favorites since I purchased my copy of Meddle in 1972. Wasn't the Liverpool anthem adopted after the team heard the version by Gerry & the Pacemakers, who happened to be from Liverpool?

[@MTGuitar]

Thank you Patrick I think you’re right on on that. Very nice Mersey history knowledge! That’s cool you purchased it all the way back then. What a gem!

[@jonnasalves2433]

Faz um fingertyle da música ' Magic'- Coldplay. Thank you!

[@leomiranda3528]

Aweson amazing uuuuuuuuuuu

[@brandnewearth]

What about tuning the low E down to G instead of up to G?

[@Yourengineeringstandpt]

I don't get the tuning but i play, by ear so watching you play it is easy for me np but the tuning going to be a problem with me , so can I just use normal tuning or know I fig it out

[@daveelson213]

you gotta give us a lesson on pillow of winds cuz the internet doesnt have clue about that one. great video

[@MTGuitar]

I agree!

[@12string-Randy]

I have to agree Dave, I would love a pillow of winds lesson.

[@MTGuitar]

@@12string-Randy I'll get to it guys, thanks!

[@gururajchadaga]

12:02

[@kevtd23]

What was in the Pink Floyd news a year ago?

[@samsara5217]

Drop pillow of winds too

[@jamiejennings7361]

I’m going to have a to buy another guitar just play this song.

[@12string-Randy]

tuning is GGDGBB

[@MTGuitar]

Yes that’s one of the guitars specifically Rogers recorded guitar part with this tuning you mentioned that he learned from Syd. You can clearly hear from the recording that Gilmour‘s tuning is what I played on which is GGDGBD

[@12string-Randy]

ahhhh, gotcha

[@soliv27]

Please, I try to understand, english is not my language and I don't really get it. Is GGDGBB the tuning Roger Waters used to compose, using one Syd Barrett tuning) while David Gilmour used GGDGBD to record the song ? Also could you tell what other songs in that style either Pink Floyd or Barrett, or any good songwriter can be played with that tuning, in order to keep the tuning for a while, or maybe think about using a dedicated guitar when I can (with best strings and setting) ?

[@k1llj0y87]

You never explain what the fingering of the "c" chord is that you're using at 17:38 ish

[@MTGuitar]

Okay, it's 4th string 2nd fret, 3rd stromg open. 2nd string 1st fret, 1st string 2nd fret,

[@brucejennings7470]

He's in GGDGBD, not ggdgbb

[@georgetebbens3524]

Damn, you lost my interest when you started with the "down, up" strumming pattern. That's a groove killer. Let beginners find the strumming pattern by themselves. Just show the chord voicings. Hold the phone. You quickly got beyond it.

[@JacksonCharvelRULE]

Safest thing to do for your guitar's sake is buy an extra set of strings and double up the A and B strings

[@drphilgee6430]

Is that a 710CE...?

[@MTGuitar]

Very good guess! 714ce

[@redmosq4197]

Thank you