George Harrison – Apple Scruffs Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play George Harrison – Apple Scruffs note-for-note on guitar with our detailed step-by-step guitar lesson.
This lesson teaches the acoustic guitar part to Apple Scruffs by George Harrison, focusing on the loose, driving rhythm that gives the song its distinctive feel.The arrangement is strummed throughout, but this is not simply a matter of playing the chords in time. Much of the character comes from the accenting and rhythmic placement, and the lesson goes into detail on how Harrison pushes certain chords slightly ahead of the beat to create the song’s relaxed but energetic groove. It’s an excellent study in pushed chords and rhythmic feel.
The guitar part is played with a capo at the 2nd fret using G chord shapes, and the lesson covers the main acoustic accompaniment heard on the recording. The slide guitar part is not included, but the rhythm guitar stands very well on its own and captures the spirit of the track effectively.
There are no barre chords and no thumb-over chords, making the left-hand side of the song very approachable. The challenge lies more in getting the rhythm and dynamics feeling natural and flowing.
The original recording also features a very prominent harmonica part. If you’d like to add harmonica while playing along, you’ll need an A harmonica (key of A harp) to match the recording.
The download includes the full video lesson, a play-through performance, and detailed chords and tab so you can learn the arrangement exactly as demonstrated.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Barre chords: No
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Strummed
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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George Harrison – Apple Scruffs 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: 224.4 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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