Playing One by U2 is WAY More Fun Than I Thought!

[@PeterK75000]

Thanks!

[@RyanLendt]

kindness :)

[@nelsonw2096]

I bet there are 5 videos teaching this song on KZbin and this one is already the best one. Nice job Ryan. 👍🏼

[@RyanLendt]

kindness

[@eagles_s]

Yea he always adds the doodly bits and dosent spend half the video repeating how to finger basic chords.

[@5lowburner]

The perfect teaching video to play the song a bit closer to the record than I previously could, thank you!

[@RyanLendt]

You're very welcome!

[@MrKeefelm]

There’s more going on in that chorus too, the bass note walks down from the C to the Am with the hammer ons and pull offs on the B string there as well. Then once you get into verse 2&3 the guitars are layered up massively with lovely little note bend riff and the chords get more percussive. It’s actually a very interesting song to play from start to finish once you delve into it.

[@brad361]

One of my all time faves, Ryan. Been rocking those open chords for years but looking forward to trying this approach over the weekend. Sounds great.

[@RyanLendt]

have fun brad :)

[@cinemascope53]

The hammer-on guitar part was originated by producer Daniel Lanois. Per Wikipedia: "While working with Lanois in the studio on a vocal overdub, Bono suggested Lanois "play a little guitar part to try and juice [him] up". Lanois subsequently took Bono's green Gretsch guitar and played a hammer-on part that was included in the final version of the song."

[@RyanLendt]

nice

[@raaxaa]

Loved how you explained it in such a simple yet fun way!

[@RyanLendt]

Glad you liked it!

[@747Durango]

First time caller. Those were the best voicings I've seen. They sound accurate. I used to play/sing this in a band and I worked out the outro guitar part w/ echo. Super cool triads and I think it is behind the beat which is a little more tricky. Edge is truly a musical scientist. That's what Bono calls him.

[@RyanLendt]

thank you sir

[@zackmano]

Great video man 🤘🏼💙 I'm learning this for a party band I joined recently and this is the best breakdown of the guitar parts I've seen 🙏🏼 Thanks so much!

[@Ping-Gibson]

What a great version of a beautiful song so cool

[@RyanLendt]

thanks!

[@neilhenderson181]

Another great lesson.Thank you

[@RyanLendt]

Glad you liked it!

[@franciscoamaya3692]

"Even one of those songs, where Bono holds a guitar" 😂

[@jraelien5798]

Well done. Much appreciated.

[@RyanLendt]

Glad it helped

[@jaysun_michael]

This was "one" of the first songs I learned on guitar but was a dumbed down version. This lesson has me wanting to re learn it in a lot cooler way. I love the pick guard on your strat!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks! custom made for me by a student of mine some years ago. really adds to the banana motif.

[@kane29842]

Saw U2 in concert 3 times in 5 days (quite) a few years ago. Good times. Angel of Harlem was my surprise favourite. (The surprise being it got played).

[@RyanLendt]

I did that with pearl jam once, but they didn't play angel of harlem

[@RaptorV1USA]

HA.!!. MEE TOO.. well 3x in 4 days lol Wed. in LA then Friday & Sat. in Vegas back in 2006. After 30 years of U2 fandom, and literally telling my self EVERY damn show thru the years.. " One day,.. i'll be RIGHT UP FRONT dammit,.....who I gotta blow...? ..I FINALLY got vip access for Sat, and was able to be right up front in the pit...coulda grabbed The Edge's leg when he was soloing on the catwalk... Keep the faith.

[@nickcds3419]

Two u2 videos recently? Wow. About time

[@RyanLendt]

yeah i don't know what happened.

[@Megarobotsquadron]

I believe I read an article years ago that said daniel Lanois basically wrote and played these guitar parts in the album. which kinda makes sense. if tone is in the fingers, this part never felt like the edges fingers. it always stood out to me as a wierd pary

[@RyanLendt]

neat info

[@myrskylintu1]

I play that riff using A, D and G strings only, climbing to higher frets all the time. Start from the seventh fret, drop to a fifth fret on a second chord, climb to seventh on a third and then climb to a ninth fret on the fourth chord. Sounds good.

[@cjguido2]

I'm loving the U2 recently. Stay (far away, so close) live from the elevation tour is fun. Would love to learn the acoustic sessions Cedarwood Road

[@RyanLendt]

thanks for the idea m'dude

[@DufraneFit]

As always, funny and great lesson!

[@RyanLendt]

Thanks! 😃

[@markclearwater6592]

Hey Ryan! Didn't know you had a KZbin channel! I remember your studio in Lafayette! You're a really good teacher!

[@RyanLendt]

ten nine eight seven six five four three two one blast off rocket ship! greetings Mark :)!!

[@Frank-pe9pk]

I don’t know why I clicked on this but glad I did. Been playing this song one & off for years.👍

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@ThrashRoC]

Nice The Edge was always one of my Favs when it comes to Rhytm playing , Hiss Complex Delay sound is so Awesome

[@RyanLendt]

yeah!

[@jebas1322]

I think this may actually be Daniel Lanois' line originally

[@gintautaskorinth5862]

Great lesson.

[@RyanLendt]

thank you

[@emhezmfe]

nice, thanks for the video lesson!

[@geirjerstad6333]

Thanks for a great video - It made me smile 🙂

[@RyanLendt]

cheers Geir :)

[@garyt123]

Thanks Ryan, that was really useful 👍

[@RyanLendt]

Glad to hear it!

[@cubo68]

Thanx!

[@RyanLendt]

You're welcome!

[@DilsonDuran]

Amazing simple song chords !

[@RyanLendt]

ja!

[@patprime7320]

Ive learned and forgotten this song at least half a dozen times. Currently its in the forgotten column

[@Dreyno]

Are you me?😕 I have a theory on this. Stuff that’s really hard to play takes longer to learn and gets ingrained into your brain. I can pick up a guitar and play the intro from “Little Wing” after 6 months without playing it and remember every bit. Because it took me ages to learn to play it. But stuff that is easy, you run through so quick that it doesn’t stick. Play it a few times, move onto something else, realise a few weeks later that you haven’t played it since and now you’ve forgotten it completely.

[@RyanLendt]

every time you forget a song a kermit gets a cramp and has to get out of the pond for fifteen minutes.

[@Dreyno]

@@RyanLendt I feel bad now. Muppets are life.

[@BarristerBarnes]

Excellent! 2 U2 tunes in a week! Very cool video!!

[@RyanLendt]

ruthie was not pleased with this choice, citing i'd just done U2. but it was the thing that was on my mind so it had to be done. and she'd already cut my hair the night before so she had nothing on me.

[@maggieo]

OK, now this is nuts. I've got "One" going on as an earworm, right? I pop open YT's main page, because I don't wanna work, but!!! Here's your vid, top row, right in the middle!!! You sir, have slaked my thirst for "One!" Time to break out my black Strat...

[@RyanLendt]

black strats matter :)

[@jarozemjar379]

Good job Ryan 👌👏🎸

[@siegfriedhuber2966]

Haha, great and very funny at the end... Thanks!

[@skystriker721]

Ryan u at the Nashville show right now? I am

[@skystriker721]

I’m also going to st Lois on sunday

[@RyanLendt]

I was!

[@DL0R]

i love this guy

[@RyanLendt]

much love Dakota

[@franzjosef3183]

That´s the real sound. Great!!!

[@dean9498]

Have you seen Chris Cornell playing U2's One while singing the lyrics to Metallica's One? Just another example of his brilliance.

[@RyanLendt]

i have even made a video on it

[@jbels41]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks!

[@scottspx]

Have you done overfloater by soundgarden? 😀

[@scottspx]

Really cool lesson too by the way thank you

[@RyanLendt]

good grief no i haven't!!

[@scottspx]

I think I will have a go at learning it

[@michaelavarice]

Great flipping song!!!🖤❤️🤘

[@RyanLendt]

sung my miscreants 'round the globe!

[@lloydstuart7862]

Hello and thank you for this excellent tutorial I'll give it my best shot great video

[@RyanLendt]

hit it with your best shot doo doo doo doo

[@lloydstuart7862]

@@RyanLendt 🤟❤

[@TheeVande]

Well today I learned that I've unintentionally been playing Fmaj7 as my go to baby F

[@RyanLendt]

it's a fine replacement 9 times out of 10

[@ron4urlife]

Dude.. Please do another lesson "Stay (faraway so close)" thanks.

[@beardedsquid9994]

Love Cornells cover of this track with Metallica's One lyrics. Works so so well. Awesome lesson Boss

[@RyanLendt]

thanks squid

[@beardedsquid9994]

@@RyanLendt no no no no no no no no no no no no no.. .no No! Thankyou O blessed guitar teacher who teaches in a human and fun way. As an intermediate level guitar player your videos do really help me immensely and give little sparks of motivation. By Far the No.1 guitar teacher on KZbin. Plus your obvious love for Pearl Jam and grunge shines through and thats my era.

[@chrismarle959]

Nice lesson and nice shirt! Would you mind adding Cold Fame by Band of Skulls to the list please? Was listening to it the other day thinking I’d love to play along to it.

[@RyanLendt]

thanks chris!

[@hfuhruhurr]

Dude, I love how you unearth songs that I would never think to play but then immediately realize, "I need to play this NOW!"

[@AudioVoxBand]

Dude, thank for tips on this one, sounds 10x better than I’m been playing it! I sing this one w my band. Hopefully, I won’t go back to my old style! What do you think about a campfire version of Acrobat (U2?)

[@RyanLendt]

hey i know that guy

[@coreyborne3115]

Hey Ryan...love your lessons. Was wondering if you'd cover the lesson How do you know you by Days of the New? Great song. Thanks in advance!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks for the idea corey

[@达美-j5r]

the best function！easy to learn ！

[@RyanLendt]

woo!

[@fivefingerfullprice3403]

I appreciate your primary color game, bro.

[@RyanLendt]

best comment of the decade :)

[@backlom]

That’s One nice haircut!! Great lesson too!!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks Brian!

[@superfly0ne]

Is that the fender anniversary strat?

[@RyanLendt]

that is the mexican strat my mother bought me in 1994 in castle shannon PA

[@mattcarboni4002]

Would you consider doing an odds are tutorial? 🙏 i have so much fun learning from watching your videos brother

[@RyanLendt]

:) thanks brother

[@DMCie]

This sounds much nicer than the open chords version, but its tough to sing along with

[@RyanLendt]

yeah i'd intro it and then just play the chords if i was by myself

[@Psychoanalytix]

"Go and sing it to your ex..." - priceless! 😁

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@happysfunhouse4388]

Another really fun song to play is Sober To Death by Car Seat Headrest!! (I don't actually know if it's fun I just want you to do a video on it)

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@DAWSOOON]

Can you do a lesson on Trains by porcupine tree?

[@mobeefus]

Do you take requests for obscure bands? Any way you could do Strange Fruit by a band called Catherine Wheel?

[@sniffableandirresistble]

You gotta do the "doo aloo doot doota doot" fil

[@common9]

❤❤ very nice!

[@nigelhicks6457]

Sounded like bloodhound gang when speaking the lyrics 😂

[@tylerparker3024]

This fella seems so generally happy. Im jealous haha

[@RyanLendt]

it's the jagged little pill

[@tylerparker3024]

Shoot gotta send me some of those :)

[@pc5173]

@@RyanLendt nah...you're probably canadian ... thanks for the good stuff

[@zoranroth9599]

Thanks Ryan, I like the way Chris Cornell did this song top stuff cheers mate!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks pal!

[@arottie4097]

Cool song, Excellent lesson & I gotta say, that hair cut of yours looks might fine! Are you by chance a Dapper Dan Man? Ha! Grrr!!

[@RyanLendt]

hehe. i love that movie.

[@COWBOYBARNMAN]

Holy crap man, I can't play it. I mean I can't play it and make it sound like when you play it. I'm not giving up though because you make it look so simple.

[@RyanLendt]

time, practice, patience and you'll get there friend

[@gooderjack.276]

can you show us how to playThe art of letting go by stone temple pilots?!

[@RyanLendt]

good thinking

[@cornett0]

One of my faves to play.... might add in your alternate chord positions to add some spice.... thanks once again for a great tutorial

[@RyanLendt]

my great pleasure Dave

[@joffalab]

U r great

[@RyanLendt]

hey thanks

[@masonarwood9902]

Do you think you could play dirt by Alice In Chains

[@RyanLendt]

can't believe i haven't done that yet

[@JonatanSHOW1]

Mazal tov for the new haircut

[@RyanLendt]

why thank you

[@shinaniganz4453]

I'm here for the chris cornell's version

[@RyanLendt]

i've done that video

[@shinaniganz4453]

@@RyanLendt yeah i just saw it lol

[@eagles_s]

I thought it was the Circle of Life. By the way the Circle of Fourths is wayy underrated.

[@RyanLendt]

it rules us all

[@thortz]

Sh!t this 1 the best!🎯

[@RyanLendt]

thanks!

[@eagles_s]

Well hurt each other and well do it again

[@RyanLendt]

it's the circle of fifths. or something.

[@alexstuart1586]

Hey Ryan, am I right that you haven't done any Jeff Buckley videos, that could be fun, maybe grace, mojo pin or last goodbye.

[@RyanLendt]

true facts

[@richardbladehartstewart8675]

Awesome awesome lesson dude. Your hair seems to be getting shorter!!!!

[@RyanLendt]

it's un-growing!!!

[@kinglyon4022]

Ryan my good friend, 👍 can you please do me the honor of finding out how Tom Petty finger picks Angel Dream, now I use Travis picking for it, which works pretty well, and he plays it as we all know with the Capo on the 5th, but the sequencing for his finger picking the actual song, on all parts appears to be done with just two fingers, and three at the most, and in a weird pattern, but ofcourse not too dissimilar to the Travis one, but enough of a difference for me to keep going out of time whilst playing along to it with the standard Travis pattern?? Please please please please please please pleeeeease, help. And could you give me a massive shout out, and send me some of your love!! It would make my day, my week and my year!! Thanks pal, much love!!

[@davidbaise5137]

Yet playing “Ten” by Pearl Jam is 10x more fun.

[@RyanLendt]

and playing Sum 41 is 1/41st as fun :P

[@beyondborders9159]

I want a lesson by you or Maria by Mateus Asato

[@alq2868]

Sounds like Cake performing One

[@kvstrickland]

New hair new hair

[@RyanLendt]

it's the sequel to no rain

[@eagles_s]

Comment number ONE…but were not the same

[@dlm425]

That’s really good

[@RyanLendt]

ok but i'm not carrying you

[@rockstarjazzcat]

👍🏼

[@philldag]

Also Edge finger picks the intro.

[@brinkybrinkz]

Cool! Perfect lesson for me. Thanks Ryan! Great song! Sing this to your ex😄

[@RyanLendt]

:)

[@2true359]

Hey teach us how to play Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

[@2true359]

Nice Haircut!

[@RyanLendt]

thanks!

[@mollymaggieandmemollymaggi5189]

9/14/22. 10:04am. Pearl Jam plays at 7:30pm tonight in Camden, NJ. Ticket prices have dropped. NO WAY would I go under current circumstances. A stupid rock concert is not worth catching anything, or being harassed about masks or taking the you-know-what, if you have to. I don’t know what the current rules are.Has Stone Gossard been wearing a black face mask while playing at these concerts? Why? Take care, Ryan.

[@zwastiunburzy3688]

See, this is what I love about U2. And blegghh, er, Coldplay. Once you learn one song, you know them all!🤮😂👍😎

[@RyanLendt]

hahaha

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Or you can finally see the decrypted acoustic and muffled intro properly kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJO9mZdupsytZpo as far as I know no one has ever showed this.

[@simondbarnes]

Hey, you've stolen that from my channel and played it better 😅🤣

[@jamesha175]

you got a very good tone out of your guitar for this video. but it isn't any kind of Beethoven so maybe just leave it at that.

[@allanaxe6781]

Baby F :)

[@sandersson2813]

God I hate U2.

[@Thomasringpetersen]

Play it wrong. By quite a bit actually. You videos are normally better. Redo it please.

[@TheCadman069]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@RyanLendt]

Glad you liked it!