Jerry's Guitar Bar

Play Like Your Favourite Artist

You are here: Home / Guitar Video Lessons / Free Guitar Lessons, Songsheets and Tabs / Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence

Learn how to play Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence note-for-note on guitar.

Difficulty level: Easy leaning towards intermediate

Barre chords: No barre chords but the F can be barred if preferred

Thumb over chords: Yes

Playing Style: Strummed with thumb (first verse is fingerpicked)

Tuning: Standard

The complete file contains a lesson video, a  performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 178 Mb containing all the lesson content.

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
Intermediate - 178 Mb
Price: $0.00

Return to Individual Songs Page

Lesson Preview

Tab Preview

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Tab

Chords & Songsheet Preview

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence Chords & Songsheet

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
Intermediate - 178 Mb
Price: $0.00

Return to Individual Songs Page

You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll also receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.

The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.

They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Zipeg which you can get free, here.

If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone, please read here.

Comments

  1. Hey Jerry,
    Great lesson! I recently bought ‘The Grave’ by Don McLean from you. I have been a professional player and singer since 1973. I played and sang both these songs in a vocal harmony duo for many years – we performed on live TV shows many times. After all these years, it’s nice to finally find out how to play the songs correctly! I was close to the original but not this close! If only the Internet had been around when we were all learning! How much easier would it have been! I teach now and my students don’t know how good they have it, compared to us, who had to ‘lift the needle’ on the record player for hours to try to hear what they were doing! LOL! Thanks again,
    Nick

    Reply

  2. Hello,
    Thank you so much for the lesson. I recently decided to record this with my grandaughter and I have never sang in the harmony range before and coming across this post not only helped with the guitar line but also with the singing …. again thank you much.

    Reply

  5. Hi Jerry,

    Great tuition, just a quick question re Sound of Silence, should or could I download the full lesson and is it more extensive? e.g. I mean does it break it down barr by barr with chords? I am not great on tabs. I would love to play this fully. I am an intermediate player at present, Regards, Tony from Galway Ireland, P.S. if you ever get over this way please make contact

    Reply

  10. You are an absolute LEGEND!!! Thank you so much!!! You out of everyone are the best teacher through YouTube that we have come across

    Reply

  11. I can’t believe I didn’t stumble on your YouTube tutorials earlier. I was doing it a bit wrong and you just nailed it. Awesome. Thanks for sharing that with us. I most surely will see more from your tutorials. Cheers from Holland.

    Reply

  12. Hey Jerry,

    Thanks so much for making this a free lesson. Spot on as usual. What a joy to be able to play this as does
    Paul Simon. I’m sure even seasoned players will appreciate your attention to detail

    best wishes
    marc

    Reply

  13. I had a look at several tutorials for “Sound of Silence”. The one I found here is absolutely great. It is explained perfect and it is SO very near to the original ! Thanks a lot !

    Reply

  14. What a great choice of material you have chosen this song and I go back a long way and has revived some good memories of my younger days as a hippie and struggling to be a fine guitar player someday. Thanks for bringing back those forgotten memories and a great song. Maybe you could post the boxer one day.. thanks. And God bless you and your special talent…
    Jackie

    Reply

  20. I don’t have a capo at the moment so I’ve had to resort to barring the entire song. Hopefully the one I ordered will arrive soon.

    Reply

  21. As a self taught guitarist I have meny bad habits, lessons like this help me break those.
    Your voice is soothing to hear as well.
    Thank you very much for this lesson.
    God bless you.

    Reply

    • I have really been struggling with the classic phrase you have clarified that for me thanks very much

      Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Here’s what people are saying