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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

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

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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll 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.

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Comments

  1. Nick says

    May 15, 2018 at 4:44 am

    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
    • Jerry says

      May 15, 2018 at 8:25 am

      Thanks Nick – from one “lift the needle” guy to another.

      Reply
  2. John Duquette says

    March 31, 2018 at 3:34 pm

    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
  3. David says

    March 10, 2018 at 4:03 am

    Thanks for the Sounds of Silence lesson, like your song choices. I plan to buy some!

    Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    February 27, 2018 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks SO SO much

    Reply
  5. Tony says

    June 10, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    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
  6. Axel Alvarez Gonzalez says

    May 22, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    Thank you so much!!! The best tutorial ever. Props to your work!

    Reply
  7. Julian Galluzzi says

    May 4, 2017 at 7:31 am

    Thank you SO much! And thanks for doing this.

    Reply
  8. Carlos Martino says

    April 24, 2017 at 1:02 am

    You are a great teacher . Learn a lot from you. Happy days my friend.

    Reply
  9. Amanda Casadio says

    April 22, 2017 at 12:07 am

    Man, you are the best! Thank you!!!

    Reply
  10. Jess says

    April 16, 2017 at 4:38 pm

    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. Arnold van de Poll says

    March 14, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    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. marc says

    January 26, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    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. Dieter says

    October 3, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    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
    • Garry Conley says

      November 6, 2016 at 3:39 pm

      I agree this tutorial video is easy to understand one of the best songs Paul Simon ever wrote. Thank you Jerry.

      Reply
      • Henry says

        January 21, 2017 at 3:35 am

        Great! Thanks a lot!

        Reply
  14. Anonymous says

    September 5, 2016 at 12:39 am

    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
    • Jerry says

      September 5, 2016 at 8:58 am

      Thank you Jackie. The Boxer is actually already available as a paid lesson.

      Reply
  15. dari victorio says

    August 29, 2016 at 4:05 pm

    tabs received,thank you!

    Reply
    • amirudin says

      January 10, 2017 at 8:15 pm

      thank’s a lot for your tabs

      Reply
  16. Anderson Rolim de Souza says

    August 22, 2016 at 1:43 am

    Thank you for posting the video and made available pdf files . You are special. God bless you.

    Reply
  17. Steve Nice says

    August 21, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    excellent lesson, clear – concise and free – what more could you ask for!

    Reply
  18. el says

    August 20, 2016 at 5:09 pm

    Wow, thank you so much! Amazing to have access for free!

    Reply
  19. Alain says

    August 14, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    I just downloaded it, and looked at all this, it’s a real amazing good work !
    Thank’s

    Reply
  20. Michael says

    August 10, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    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
    • Jerry says

      August 10, 2016 at 4:13 pm

      Wow that’s hard work Michael!

      Reply
  21. JimBo' says

    August 1, 2016 at 5:19 am

    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
    • Jerry says

      August 1, 2016 at 8:34 am

      Thanks JimBo ~:)

      Reply
  22. Earl says

    July 11, 2016 at 12:34 am

    Great easy to understand instruction. Great job. One of my many favorite song.

    Reply
  23. Pascale says

    June 25, 2016 at 5:16 am

    Thank you from an old beginner . Awesome voice ! Excellent teaching skills !

    Reply
  24. Anita says

    May 29, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    Grazie mille!!
    Thank you so much!! Great lesson.

    Reply
    • dave says

      June 2, 2016 at 8:30 pm

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

      Reply
  25. james shin says

    May 13, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    your voice is so beautiful, comfortable.

    Reply
  26. Anonymous says

    May 7, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Best Tutorial ever… Thank you

    Reply
  27. Richard says

    April 26, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    Thank you very much, awesome work.

    Reply
  28. Anonymous says

    April 5, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    Thank yo for inspiring me. What a gift.

    Reply
  29. kaz says

    December 8, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks for all!

    Reply
  30. David S. Kim says

    December 2, 2015 at 3:36 am

    Thanks a lot for your prompt reply with the great sheet.

    Reply
  31. Myeongsik Bae says

    November 17, 2015 at 6:16 am

    Thanks you very much!!

    Reply
  32. Son says

    November 10, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    Thanks from S. korea.

    Reply
  33. Doeke Oostra says

    October 18, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    Nice explanation. Thanks for the tabs.

    Reply
  34. Real says

    October 14, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    very good explications. Easy to practice. Thanks

    Reply
  35. ed says

    September 21, 2015 at 8:41 pm

    Great – many thanks!!!

    Reply
  36. Gino says

    September 1, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    Grazie,
    gradevole e ben fatta.

    Grazie

    Reply
  37. Luis says

    August 26, 2015 at 12:15 am

    A great lesson for an old time wonderful classic song! Thank you

    Reply
  38. amirudin says

    June 20, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    thank’s

    Reply
  39. Larry O'Brien says

    June 15, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Thanks for the excellent lesson on Cloudy! Great teaching!

    Reply

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