Bob Dylan – It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Learn how to play Bob Dylan – It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Bar Chords: No
Thumb-over Chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed
Tuning: Drop D
The lesson covers Dylan’s guitar part from the original album version. The songsheet covers all the lyrics with their corresponding chords and is the best tool for learning the song (together with the lesson video).
The original recording is a sequence of verses played with minor changes each time, and a chorus. The lesson teaches the intro, a standard verse sequence and a standard chorus sequence. The changes from one verse and one chorus to another aren’t significant enough to merit a detailed breakdown of each one.
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 199 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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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.
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.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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