Pretty Woman • Guitar lesson with intro tab, chords, and strumming (Roy Orbison)

👉 View all my notes & resources for this lesson - including a slow playthrough and a play-along backing track @ songnotes.net/lessons/441
🎼 Buy my 3-page song sheet, including lyrics and chords for Pretty Woman @ www.musicnotes.com/l/tKxMm
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Instructional lessons I've made that will help with this song:
🎸 4 ways to play the Pretty Woman Riff • songnotes.net/lessons/183
🎸 Playing A-major with "triangle" finger placement
songnotes.net/lessons/194
🎸 Playing A-major with a barred index finger
songnotes.net/lessons/46
🎸 How to play F sharp minor
songnotes.net/lessons/192
🎸 Playing F sharp minor without barring (for fingerstyle)
songnotes.net/lessons/241
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Hey, friends! New lesson today for Roy Orbison’s 1964 classic Oh, Pretty Woman. This song is tremendously fun to play, featuring an all-timer guitar riff that’s integrated quite seamlessly with the intro, verse, and chorus of the song. With a solo acoustic guitar, I’ll teach you to play it all: the riff, the strumming, and everything in between. It took me a few days of serious practice before I could sing + strum + play the riff all without missing a step, but I finally able to get there - and I’m excited to show you the way. Let’s check it out!
0:00 Playthrough
1:55 Main Riff (Easy & Advanced)
6:52 Verse
11:06 Chorus
12:26 Ending
14:22 Strumming

[@stevematthews7813]

Thank you for another great lesson David! You do a great job explaining and your tab printouts are super. Just wish I could sing like Roy!

[@user-ps1br4kv2g]

Thank you for the comprehensive demonstration of this iconic number which is as old as myself. You’ve done a great job in reviving this great sound track thus making it more renowned to the new generation of guitar players out there.

[@dr123hall]

Clean delivery and very well articulated! Love that onscreen overlay! Just a great version!

[@doncharlesworth4748]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@IAMAGUDNYANO]

What a great lesson

[@aspenx1304]

This is AWESOME!!!!

[@redelk2974]

Excellent lesson. Very well explained. Much appreciated.

[@StoicTrader-]

Thanks brother

[@anthonyvelasco1134]

Thanks a lot brother.

[@secretdaisy6484]

Great demo. I totally learned it. I think I would have liked a final play through of the entire song from beginning to end. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵🩵

[@SteadmanShorts]

First!

[@mammouth2727]

Congrats.

[@tenlittleindians]

I question your key change to C major. I hear it more as a key change to A minor. With the notes in both keys being the same it's an apples or oranges choice with the fruit being in the same basket. Your hungry for C major while I'm favoring an A minor.