A complete guitar to learning this must-know standard.
Improvisation
You Ain’t Goin Nowhere by The Byrds
In this video I’m soloing over the Byrds/Dylan country-rock classic. I’m attempting to play some of the pedal steel licks you can hear on the recording, and also throwing in some ideas of my own, with lots of country soloing licks and tips along the way.
In the comments for his video there was quite a bit of debate about exactly who played on this recording. It seems hard to get any definite information. I’m sticking with Lloyd Green on pedal steel, but some are certain it’s Clarence White on B-bender Tele.
Update – this controversy seems to have been resolved thanks to this brilliant comment underneath the video on YouTube:
Tab and Backing Track
Head over to my Patreon page for a detailed tab of my solo as well as my backing track to download and play along to.
A Forest by The Cure
This is the first time I’ve gotten around to properly looking at a Cure track. Here’s my take on A Forest, from the 1980 album Seventeen Seconds.
Check out this live version of the song. Some good shots of Robert Smith’s playing, and very helpful to verify some of the fingerings and techniques used in this song. On more recent live versions of the song RS plays it slightly differently or doesn’t play guitar at all.
Music/tab
Can be found on my Patreon page.
Feel The Pain by Dinosaur Jr
Music & Tab
I’ve written out the riffs for this song below. Tab for the solo can be found on my Patreon page.
Venus by Television
The original recording:
Here’s a more recent live video. Good view of Lloyd if you want to see just how he fingers certain licks. These days they play tuned down a semi-tone.
And here’s my transcription. Lloyd is the upper part, Verlaine below. I’ve made a tiny fingering adjustment to how I do it in the video on one of the chorus licks, just to bring it in line with Lloyd’s fingering in the above video. Such is the level of nerdy commitment I bring to these lessons for you! If you want a high-quality PDF of the tab/music, click here.
