Waltz #2 (XO) by Elliott Smith | Guitar Lesson

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[@xdamogussus2535]

Elliot Smith should never be forgotten. Beautiful cover

[@swampo100]

Well said dude, 100% agree.

[@olivierdube8110]

You can't even spell his first name right

[@xdamogussus2535]

@@olivierdube8110 Well, to be fair that wasn't even his real name lol

[@TheCurtainLift]

His music lives on through us

[@ketchup5382]

Will* never be forgotten

[@jeffva9255]

Justin every so often in your videos you make a self-deprecating comment about your voice. But your voice is great and always a pleasure to hear alongside your awesome lessons.

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

That is very kind :) cheers mate

[@zacinamespocitacem]

Your singing improved tremendously over the years. Great job with this one! Thank you so much.

[@darrenaitcheson1675]

It has improved. Pretty good job… but that bridge isn’t easy :))

[@svartsjokolade]

Many years ago, as I was learning to play the guitar (through your beginner's course actually - thank you!) I wanted to play something that sounded waltzy so I looked up "waltz guitar" and found this song. That's how I discovered ES and was completely entranced by his music. I recall only listening to his stuff for about 4 months straight and him becoming my favourite songwriter. A very happy accident indeed!

[@hewkey]

Still favourite?

[@TheMimil07]

Thank you so much for the Eliott Smith lessons, we need more of these in 2024! :)

[@ericmills9839]

25 years I’ve been listening to and playing Elliott Smith, never gets old. Cheers Justin, great lesson.

[@johndogwater]

Love your lessons. Thankyou for this. Elliott Smith is one of those artists you discover and he just refuses to leave your soul from that moment onward. I'm so grateful he managed to leave us as much music as he did, given the troubles he had it must have taken a lot to get it out.

[@dylankanski9882]

Hey dogwater, just wanna say i agree whole-heartedly with this sentiment. Elliott was a true musical genius- & i dont use that word lightly. Geniuses are rare and undeniably special. If i was forced to make a list of my all-time favorite songwriters, which would be such a laborious project given the fact that im so passionate about all kinds of different music genres, all i can say for sure is that Elliott would be somewhere in the top 5. He sings straight from his soul. There is no artifice in his songs. It gives me hope that there are many others who love Elliott and who get his soft yet confrontational energy. And as a guitarist, its always a fascinating challenge to learn an Elliott tune. Even his songs that sound easy are never so. He was an AMAZING guitarist.. I cover a few of his tunes but i will never do them justice.

[@C-Llama]

Little correction for anyone who sees this. The last chord in the verse ("who he takes around town") should have pinky on the third fret of the B string to make it an E7 and not a regular E major. Listen to the recording or live performance and you'll hear it.

[@berendmichielsen9110]

Are you kidding me? Here I am stuck at home with covid, on a bit of an Elliott Smith binge because how else am I going to fill the time. Literally hours after I'm done with Angeles you upload my favourite Elliott Smith tune. Thanks, a lot.

[@haywoodjblome4768]

Justin teaching Elliott Smith, love it!

[@pavanguitars101]

My favourite Elliot smith song. Learned it from tabs like 8 years ago. Can’t wait to polish it with your lesson!! Also thanks Justin for introducing to Elliot First song I heard by him was when I watched your say yes lesson, and then I listened to his entire discography

[@megacluckcluck2302]

Beautiful voice, beautiful cover, and 2 beautiful musicians

[@timlock]

More Elliot Smith please kind sir. He was a treasure.

[@seanthomas9398]

YESSSSS, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TUT FROM JUSTIN

[@Rob1964b]

This is just what i need. Re-learning the song as I stopped playing it for about 15 yrs. (It was the first Elliott Smith song I learnt) Yeah defo not the most difficult ES song but not his easiest either. Thankyou for taking the time to do this for us - and keeping the songs alive - He was such a genius.

[@Messihaz]

19:32 I love Justin for saying this

[@judcitizen706]

Tears... It must've been hard for Elliott to play this song so much since it's a really sad tune. Life is sad... I became crippled 4 yrs ago, and when I hear something this beautiful, I wish I could grab my guitar and have a go, but I prob couldn't hit those vocal notes the way you do, anyway. Great video, Justin!

[@PaulRieth-kb3qf]

Love the fact that you’re doing an Elliott Smith song. Thanks for showing this.

[@khalilkhalil786]

Love this song and couldn’t figure it out by ear to save my life. Bless you, Justin

[@ozanas60]

I love you as much as I love Elliott Smith and that's a lot. Thank you for the lesson. 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@LukeMcLaughlin]

Thanks for doing these Elliott Smith videos. These are your best videos and are useful even to someone who has been playing for 20+ years and pretty much already knows the songs.

[@kevwalter5466]

Thank you Justin for all your fantastic lessons, but especially for your Elliott Smith lessons. He is such a fantastic songwriter, and there is so much to be learned from him. If you ever do any more, could I suggest memory lane. I think you'd have a lot of fun playing that. Thanks again Justin.

[@reidhowland]

Your singing sounds great, Justin. Man I love this song.

[@jboyle453519]

thank you so much for this tutorial, i love elliot smith and i am grateful to you for doing such a good tutorial and for all of your personalized tips and such like when you said "thats not something alliot would do" and " always keep your hands moving with elliot songs" and "take it really slowly, thinking about the fingering choices" and also to save the little runs elliot makes. really i appreciate this youre the best dude!

[@yeah4391]

thank you justin for your elliott smith lessons i’m very thankful 😊😊

[@ruffryder13]

Cant wait to try this out. Especially love Smith's waltzes

[@damianmcevoy1888]

Wow just wow, what a moving cover.

[@kobe5938]

Was waiting for this one thank you so much for doing so many Elliott smith songs

[@dhruvjainsmusiccorner6444]

Beautiful cover

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

Cheers :)

[@branalobeee3867]

Awesome thank you! Melancholic song but still makes me smile.

[@rosetta-stxned]

Asked for this 4 years ago, awesome to see it!

[@mattb.1782]

thank you for this one, big elliott's fan here ! Could you put your talent into "Bottle up and Explode" please? Love it !

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

Request it here! www.justinguitar.com/songs#requests-board cheers :)

[@michellemitiqbranchaud2668]

Wow, really suits your voice. Gorgeous

[@devil_pls]

This is my favorite or atleast one of my favorite Elliot Smith songs

[@RandomBananaSalad]

appreciate the singing with the guitar :)

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

I appreciate that you appreciate it :)

[@teoman2495]

I have been waiting for this one for ever, you just made my day :)

[@backbeat44]

Really enjoyed this lesson and subscribed. Would love to hear more Elliott like ‘Happiness’ or ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow‘ or ‘Needle in the Hay’ or,or,or….I’m an Elliott addict.

[@TheRocketN00b]

I love this. Thanks for doing these.

[@eamonno9]

Don't worry Justin there's Elliot Smit fans here too we appreciate your labour of love (Granted this is beyond me but some day)

[@HankyBeagle]

lovin the elliot smith tutorials! what a legend. gone way too soon

[@timmm85]

Thanks for introducing me this song and this artist Justin.

[@danielashdown23]

Great lesson! We need more Elliott Smith!!!!

[@samm5625]

Thank you so much for your lessons and guidance, you have helped me be better particularly with finger picking styles. I just adore artists like elliott smith and jeff buckley and to play any of their work remotely brings alot of joy. 🙏 thank you

[@undefeat2000]

Thank you a lot for making Elliott Smith tutorials! Massively appreciate!

[@brentrobinson2662]

Keep doing the passion songs man ive watched your videos off and on through the years and these videos are higher quality like you talking about, how elliott would play it live and showing all the variation on how the music made sense to him, keep nerding out

[@anthonypieper3157]

You finally did it. I waited impatiently. Thanks a lot

[@Artie_Fufkin]

This is so great. I decided I wanted to try this song and didn't realize just how complicated it is. So huge to find this kind of tutorial on it. The song's a step up for my skill level. I've almost got it now that I've watched this whole video.

[@francescodelucia8956]

thanks justin

[@jimroberts6176]

Great job. Appreciate the detailed explanation.

[@nicholastomic7131]

Been waiting for this for so long! Thank you!

[@stephennewton7644]

I really enjoyed your cover of the song top marks .

[@darrenaitcheson1675]

I never knew about that F6.. nice. And always just played regular B7

[@martoneill]

Very grateful for this work - thanks Justin

[@ConnorJW96]

I'd love it if you could do a tutorial for 'Son of Sam' by Elliott Smith. Been trying to figure out the fingerpicking intro but can never get it to sound quite right.

[@Mike-wn5ru]

Thanks for your hard and loving work on these Elliott Smith songs, you have a great approach to teaching them and I'm grateful ❤

[@Blinknone]

Holy crap... I never would have expected this. Nice job!

[@yavivanov6650]

Beautifully sung and played! Elliott was A Genius!

[@joshmill9221]

Holy crap your voice man it’s very different than Elliot’s but you hit every note and inflection perfectly

[@frmacleod]

I doubt there's a guitar teacher on the planet with the performance chops of Justin.

[@vladartov2817]

Thank you! Excellent!

[@trilobitalbino]

I watched this lesson like 10 times already without even having a guitar nor knowing how to play it. What does it make me of Justin if just watching this until the end makes one his friend?

[@aperson4869]

Exquisitely beautiful and exquisitely painful song. Thanks for the lesson.

[@al1976-v7m]

Thanks for choosing an Elliott Smith cover, i've worked on this song myself before but hadn't figured it out that well!

[@davidnunnery7339]

Beautiful

[@dashmagic6211]

:) that bridge ain’t easy to sing… even in D Awesome song

[@pw8548]

Thanks Justin !

[@rendelven]

Sounds great, Justin!

[@talisman964]

Great lesson Justin and vocals sounding amazing!

[@TheJimMackenzie]

Thank you so much for this. One of my all time favorite songs. So beautiful. And you cover it so well

[@fistingendakenny8781]

R.i.p elliott

[@OINKSKATE]

thank you Justin!

[@StevenThompson65]

A little above my level in your course, but its in my practice routine none the less.

[@OIP_1]

thanks for the lesson and wow fantastic cover justin! some slight beatles inflections in there as well which works amazing with elliot's beatles influence

[@edgarsantacruz1171]

It’s crazy that I learned how to play Between the Bars because of you. And then I decide that I want to learn Waltz #2, and you just uploaded a video for that lesson!

[@dwightkoirala9602]

Lesson for still got the blues please..

[@DaddyGandhi]

Wow I had just requested this on the website the other day, wish come true! Awesome cover and rest in peace to the brilliant Elliott Smith ♥️

[@seank9823]

Thank you Justin. Best Elliott Smith lessons on KZbin 🙏. Just wondering, what's your favourite song by Elliott ?

[@alessandrobisco5523]

Needle in the hay

[@mjn55128]

This one…what is yours?

[@elenadansky9029]

Love your videos and a big fan of Elliot Smith as well. Would love to see an Alameda lesson!

[@variancleald]

great sounds！

[@scottstevens2215]

Wow, great video as always but amazing vocals.

[@darrenaitcheson1675]

What a song

[@aedmic]

Yessss finally thank you!

[@flava157]

THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@Lonely_tree2000]

Wtf I literally just searched this and it came out 3 mins ago

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

It's meant to be! Enjoy learning :)

[@neonian3075]

Awesome video, thanks

[@samm5625]

Please can we have in future a jeff buckley lesson? Elliott and jeff inspire so much and I'd love to see that..perhaps his version of I know it's over or lover you should've come over ❤🙏🤞

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Thanks for the suggestion. There are song requests to vote on, a form to request new song lessons plus 700+ song lessons here: www.justinguitar.com/songs Also, if you are able, have you considered donating as every donation enables Justin to make more lessons and content free to all. www.justinguitar.com/donate Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher

[@bolche97]

Please, play Taking a Fall

[@EuphoniaPooch]

We're always gonna love this amazing song. So glad to see you back with this brother, and you invested a great deal into this as always. My Angeles needs dusting off but I learned it from you and I'll thank you for this as well

[@BeggarsOutpost4]

dude... very nice..

[@お豆腐-u7x]

エリオット、スミス、大好き❤

[@dashmusic9454]

About time :))

[@carapacita]

Yeah man, nice one! Please keep doing Elliott Smith stuff. Did he played with a pick ? Thanks

[@humjija2086]

Didn't know this song is so much fun to play. There's lots of variations that could work. Thanks for your effort. May I put half right on your list? I've watched a few videos but still feel impossible to get it even half right

[@stevencrear3495]

Awesome thanks for filling in some gaps for me but I’m 99% it’s D7/F#

[@johnnyguitwithit2614]

That guitar sings!

[@santoshk2334]

One of my favourite songs, thanks for covering it!

[@JustinGuitarSongs]

It's a wonderful tune! My pleasure :)

[@0000song0000]

thanks. precisely the kind of song i wonder "why on Earth I havent learnt to play it?"

[@jakeyahnke884]

this is definitely your best cover it was amazing and the singing was seriously really good

[@Skurtz901]

Justins going through it 😢