Eva Cassidy – You Take My Breath Away Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Eva Cassidy – You Take My Breath Away note-for-note on guitar with our detailed step-by-step guitar lesson.
Eva Cassidy apparently learned this song from the Tuck & Patti version, although it was originally written and recorded by Claire Hamill. The arrangement is fingerpicked throughout, using flowing arpeggios that perfectly complement the song’s gentle, intimate feel.The guitar part is quite straightforward in many ways, relying more on smooth chord changes and an even picking pattern than on technical fireworks. The one chord that tends to cause a little anxiety among guitarists is the B major chord, which appears several times in the arrangement. In the lesson I demonstrate three different ways of playing it, allowing you to choose the option that best suits your hand and playing style.
There are barre chords but no thumb-over chords, and once the shapes are under your fingers, the song settles into a relaxed and highly enjoyable fingerpicking pattern. The challenge lies less in the mechanics and more in maintaining the flowing, expressive feel that gives the accompaniment its beauty.
This is a wonderful song for players who enjoy melodic arpeggio-based accompaniments and want to explore how a relatively simple guitar part can create a rich and emotional backdrop for the vocal.
The download includes the full video lesson, a play-through performance, and detailed tab and chords so you can learn the arrangement exactly as demonstrated.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate because of the B chord. Easy apart from that.
- Barre chords: Yes
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Eva Cassidy – You Take My Breath Away 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: 278.6 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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