Cat Stevens – Lady d’Arbanville
Learn how to play Cat Stevens – Lady d’Arbanville note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
This lesson teaches an arrangement of the song designed for the solo singer-guitarist. It uses a hybrid of both Cat’s and Alun Davies’ part to create the best sense of the overall sound of the song on one guitar.
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 262 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.
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Leonard McCoy says
I have got to be honest: the arrangement is disappointing. And while you touch upon the Alun Davies intro magic somewhat (a merger between Steve’s and Alun’s part which is satisfying for a solo guitar), the guitar tab in general misses the point of the song by foregoing Steve’s rhythm guitar, the main driving force behind the song, and the quick EmaddG-D-Em shifts among others. It also completely misses the transitions to G (G-D-G) that Steve sprinkled in in some of the verses. If I’m being nitpicky, I also can’t quite agree with the intro riff, but it’s close enough I guess.
Dave Brown says
Heard this for the first time last year when it was used on ITV’s Prime Suspect 73, thought it was superb. Then I read about it and found it was basically Cat Stevens dumping his then girlfriend, the first she knew was when she heard it on the radio. Still an excellent song though.