Don McLean – American Pie
Learn how to play Don McLean – American Pie note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Barre Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: Yes (one – optional)
Playing Style: Strummed with some picked notes using hybrid picking
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches Don McLean’s guitar part as played on the Solo live album. This version was chosen because Don plays the whole song accompanied by just his acoustic guitar.
Because there is so much material in this song, the lesson is divided into 3 parts. You’ll get a play thru and a lesson video for each part.
The complete file contains 3 lesson videos, 3 performance play thru videos, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as three zip files of 448 Mb (total) 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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