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🎸 Learn to Fingerpick "If I Needed You" Step-by-Step
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LESSON #608 Click to watch free video lesson After many many requests for this song, the time has come! Happy to share this new lesson, where I break down this Townes Van Zandt classic and teach it in the style of Emmylou Harris & Don Williams, as played in their their 1981 duet. I include a few strumming tips, should you want to play a campfire version — but otherwise I dive into the Travis-style fingerpicking, showing four levels that slowly build up to the “full” version.
See my lesson webpage for all my additional materials for this song. This includes step-by-step practice guide, a link to the lyric sheet, and zoomed playthroughs (with tabs on screen) for each level of the fingerstyle I teach.
More from Emmylou & Townes Van Zandt Return of the Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons — Emmylou's voice makes this one shine! One of my all-time favorite songs. Travis Picking Fun with Rex's Blues — another song written by Townes Van Zandt, but I teach the version played by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott featuring Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith. Townes Van Zandt Fingerstyle, Simplified (feat. Pancho and Lefty) – a few helpful ways to simplify difficult Travis-picking fingerstyle. I demonstrate with Pancho & Lefty, Graceland, and Don't Stop Believing. Thanks and Enjoy! To the many of you who requested If I Needed You — enjoy the lesson! Feels great to finally have this one added to my library. Next up... an all-time classic Christmas song! Until then... have a good one my friends ✌️ David Browse all my lessons at songnotes.net |
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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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