Your Smiling Face guitar lesson

Here's how to play James Taylor's Your Smiling Face.
You can grab my transcription (PDF, Sibelius, & musicXML files) and audio (Logic, Ableton, Studio One, & mp3s) for free here: joshfrets.gumroad.com/l/yours...

[@parkerkenney6113]

Great lesson. I like how you add music theory to the lesson in a non overwhelming way and you make it easy to understand while teaching the guitar parts.

[@joshuaskaja7873]

thank you!

[@chaselanier265]

this guy is literally the "playing thousands of chords for 5 people vs playing 5 chords for thousands of people"

[@nobody_gtk]

crylaughing at this

[@MikelRChannel]

You make it so look easy! Great tutz!

[@mikestampede77]

That trick with the diminished chord blew my mind

[@joshuaskaja7873]

ha, isn't so much easier to think of that way!?

[@mikestampede77]

@@joshuaskaja7873 Yeah!

[@gorgemusic]

Wow! great work and your enthusiasm is contagious. Thanks so much. Keep it up.

[@joshuaskaja7873]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! :)

[@annad2186]

dude this is phenomenal, thank you!

[@joshuaskaja7873]

thank you Anna!

[@raymondfranklin6478]

Such an excellent video. Thanks for breaking this down man. Easy subscribe for me.

[@joshuaskaja7873]

Thanks! Such a fun song to play.

[@skipodap1]

great video!

[@kevinwaynant1126]

Nice job 👍 always had a tough time with it

[@patgallo5659]

You rock!!

[@tristandelatorre5310]

great tutorial! can i have a copy of your music sheet please! =)

[@joshuaskaja7873]

sure thing! www.dropbox.com/s/7kpkrxj2w5lg1nw/Your%20Smiling%20Face.pdf?dl=0

[@AndoInAus]

Hey Joshua, really amazing tutorial, thank you! Are you please able to provide these stems at all? If not, where did you get them from?

[@joshuaskaja7873]

sorry for the delay-stems, charts, & DAW files here: joshfrets.gumroad.com/l/yoursmilingface/free

[@AndoInAus]

@@joshuaskaja7873 Thank you, Josh! Having issues though - after clicking "I want this", entering email & clicking "Get", nothing happens.

[@joshuaskaja7873]

@@AndoInAus oops-just fixed it! should work now.

[@AndoInAus]

@@joshuaskaja7873 Ahhh that's got it! Thank you so much! Legend!

[@patgallo5659]

I want to know how you got the separate Logic tracks and could edit the notation!

[@joshuaskaja7873]

for notation I use Sibelius & transcribe by ear. if it's super tricky I'll use Logic's Varispeed to slow it down. the separate tracks are often called "stems" and I usually buy them-making them from scratch takes forever. Karaoke Version is probably the most user-friendly and cost-effective company selling stems online.

[@patgallo5659]

@@joshuaskaja7873 Wow! Thank you very much. I'll look into that.