Bob Seger – Night Moves Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Bob Seger – Night Moves note-for-note on guitar with our Bob Seger – Night Moves Guitar Lesson.
Bob Seger’s Night Moves is built on a deceptively simple acoustic guitar part — steady, grounded, and absolutely central to the feel of the song. In this lesson, you’ll learn the full strummed accompaniment as Bob plays it, along with the small melodic licks that he throws in in the slower sequence towards the end of the song. The heart of the part is the strumming pattern. It’s not difficult, but it does include a percussive slap on the backbeat, which gives the song its laid-back, driving pulse. I take time to teach that technique carefully, breaking it down so it feels natural rather than forced. Once it’s in place, the whole song locks together beautifully.
The lesson is taught in standard tuning using familiar chord shapes, making it accessible while still feeling satisfying to play. It’s a great example of how groove and feel matter far more than complexity.
You’ll receive:
-A clear, step-by-step video lesson
-A full performance play-through video
-Accurate tab, chords, and lyrics sheets
By the end, you’ll be able to play Night Moves with the same relaxed confidence and rhythmic drive that Bob Seger brings to the song — a timeless acoustic accompaniment that everyone recognises from the very start.
- Difficulty level: Easy (once you get the percussive slap down)
- Barre chords: No
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Strummed. The small licks late in the song are picked individual notes.
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Bob Seger – Night Moves Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 4 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson
- Part 2: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 3: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 4: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 242.9 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
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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