Emerson Lake & Palmer – C’est La Vie
Learn how to plaly Emerson Lake & Palmer – C’est La Vie note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate leaning towards advanced
Bar Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
The lesson covers the full acoustic guitar part to the song, breaking it down into Intro, Verse, Chorus and interlude segments. Greg Lake plays it with a pick but the lesson uses thumb and fingers. He also plays it on a 12-string guitar, but here we use a 6-string.
The complete file contains 2 lesson videos, 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 210 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. I use Zipeg 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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Photes 'Tha Guitaa Ambassadaa' says
Well done, mate! Only, I trhink you’ve taken some of the sounds of the 12-strings as real notes of the original. E.g., in the C chord variation you suggest, it is the plain C chord without its ‘add2’ (with a D note on the 2nd string) variation. If you watch Greg’s fingerings you can see that some of the fingerings are just plain. His Chorus part though is quite tricky while it could be played much more simple and effective. But I should NOT argue on Greg’s views – his was a great man! Pity all of them go, at least THEY should live 1000 years!
Alex Banakis says
I’d like to buy ELP C’est La Vie directly with my master card. I have some trouble with creating Pay Pal acount. But I see that it is the only way to buy. Any suggestion?
Jerry says
Hi Alex – answered by email.