Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful
Learn how to play Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Easy leaning towards intermediate
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
The preview video contains the introduction taken from the complete lesson Beautiful.
The complete file contains a lesson video, 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 154 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.
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Jerryfan says
Hi Jerry,
Do you have any foot-tapping tips for this song? You describe it as Calypso 3-3-2 rhythm. Foot-tapping seems to be incompatible for this?
For clarity, I have the rhythm down but the vocals over the top need some foot-tapping surety!
Jerry says
Try these two ways of tapping your foot and see which one feels more natural to you.
1. Tap on the standard 1 2 3 4 beats
2. Tap on the 1’s of the 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2 calypso feel
I tend to do the fiest one, but both work for me
Gil says
Hi Jerry,
I really appreciate your Gordon Lightfoot collection. This song in particular is one of my favourites. I’m learning it so I can play it for my wife.
marc says
A real joy to play this one, Jerry!
Thanks so much for introducing me to
the wonderful songs of Gordon Lightfoot