David Crosby – Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)
Learn how to play David Crosby – Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate. An unusual tuning and some unconventional (and occasionally awkward) chord shapes.
Bar Chords: No
Thumb-over Chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: EBDGAD
The version used for this lesson is the one from the BBC Live concert (available on Youtube) that features Crosby playing solo acoustic guitar with vocal harmonies by Graham Nash.
The song is broken down into multiple sections to help with learning it a bit at a time, but in fact there isn’t a great deal to learn.
The complete file contains several lesson videos, a performance play thru video and full tabs. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 206 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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