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🎸 Beginner-Friendly Bob Dylan with "Mr. Tambourine Man"
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Happy Friday, my friends! I've received a bunch of Bob Dylan requests in the past few weeks, no doubt because of A Complete Unknown hitting theaters – and wanted to add another of his songs to my library. So today I'm excited to share this brand new lesson for his 1964 classic Mr Tambourine Man. At its core, this can be played as a 3-chord song that’s quite beginner friendly. But as per usual, I’ll also include a handful of ways you can level things up. This includes several ways you can add flourish to various chords, as well as utilized drop-d tuning as Dylan does himself. In addition to my main video lesson, I have several play-along covers you can use to practice – along with some print-friendly practice notes. You can access all these on my lesson page for this song – which you can find by clicking here. Looking for More Bob Dylan Tutorials? I've got lessons for a bunch of his songs – here's the full list! Links below will take you to my video lessons, along with any other materials I've made (e.g. licensed song sheets, bonus videos, etc). Here they are, with my more recent additions at the top of this list.
Premium members – if you want to buy song sheets for any of the lessons above, use the January code QKLSJXXWCU to save 50% at Musicnotes checkout. I also have these lessons, which are inspired by Dylan songs:
As always, I hope you all enjoy! Have a great weekend, and I'll see you in the next one ✌️ David
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Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
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