Radio Free Europe guitar lesson R.E.M.

A how to play guitar lesson for R.E.M.'s Radio Free Europe.
Recorded with a Rickenbacker 360, Fender Twin Reverb ’65 Reissue amp, Shure 57 mic and a Sennheiser e609 SilverDynamic Guitar Microphone.
To see and hear a cover of this song with the backing audio track check out my Radio Free Europe cover video here:
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[@martinbicket3925]

Peter buck was such an economical guitarist. Less is more. Legend 💚

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1000%

[@gerardsss1]

Yes...like Mike Campbell

[@johnnydelmar]

Mike Mills came up with the chords, Peter Buck was able to play a picking pattern on the chords with the high E string drone.

[@jc-mel]

LOVE the song! It's a BLAST to play. Thanks for the lesson!!

[@shanedingz]

Thank you SO much for doing these tutorials! I’ve recently fallen in love with all these early R.E.M. albums. They’re fantastic! Your lessons are very clear and I’m able to pick these songs up very quickly. Sweet Rickenbacker :)

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Glad you like them!

[@billmiller9145]

There's a vid on here of their TV debut on The Letterman show and they're killin it! Mike is jumping around like Pete Townsend up there.

[@BM-vi5hk]

Mike Mills wrote that beautiful riff

[@scottpatrick8645]

nice tutorial, this is pretty much spot on.

[@scorp4165]

great tutorial,thank you

[@kcd2120]

Thanks so much for all of your videos and giving me plenty of ‘new songs to play’ material!

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Glad to be of service.

[@thiscorrosion900]

This was enormously helpful. I'm glad Pete uses deconstructed barre chords cause I suck at some barre chords and always have. Find them difficult to play since I first took lessons formally years ago. Really this song chord-wise isn't that complex, but it's the picking and technique, and switching positions for those simplified chord shapes that Pete is so fond of. I could swear also there's 12-string acoustic guitar laid over the studio version but I'm not 100 per cent sure.

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thanks for checking these out

[@petercontarino646]

Well done!

[@HighToneRanger]

You give great instructions.

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thank you

[@jayjohnson947]

Great job, thanks

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🙏

[@ARichardP]

Excellent tutorial and style.

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agreed

[@annikaluke9923]

Thanks for this!

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you're welcome

[@annikaluke9923]

You make it look so easy...

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agreed

[@vectortonto1]

Another easy one. I'm glad you are taking time on these. I bought a Marshall dsl 40c(Sweetwater.com with Creamback Speaker) which has a pretty good clean. Getting good tones with the Crunch on especially some of the chimey appegiations. Lots of fun. Thanks Fast Ocular great job. --Pat

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Thanks Pat! I haven't tried that amp...sounds like a fun one!

[@jbels41]

thanks much!

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[@alanidron2133]

An interesting side note like you said certain songs like driver 8 gardening at night welcome to the occupation fall on me Etc Peters chords pretty much Define the harmony and Mike's Bass does beautiful counter Melody- but on Radio free Europe the B section the really cool guitar section was written backwards I believe meaning Mike Mills had the bass part for that the complex Baseline that goes all over the place and Peter wrote his guitar part around that- bi lberry had the cords for the verse- Peter then completed the song with the cords for the chorus and the chords for the bridge which Mike again added a lot to on that particular song it's a very bass melodic song

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so true

[@tommyrector3553]

Try what’s the frequency Kenneth?

[@johnnydelmar]

Peter Buck did not come up with this progression. The bass player Mike Mills did.

[@tommyrector3553]

Or departure

[@glennc100]

In prechorus isn't it open E to Esus4 instead of A?

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Maybe? What are the lyrics where you are thinking it's an Esus4?

[@glennc100]

In prechorus after the open A it goes to open E to Esus4. A he says "Radio station..."

[@andrewgalloway7344]

hilarious

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fun