Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
Learn how to play Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate. Fairly easy
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked throughout in a consistent pattern
Tuning: Standard
The preview video contains the introduction taken from the complete lesson for If You Could Read My Mind. It’s very representative of the difficulty level of the whole song. The lesson covers Gord’s part. It doesn’t cover the lead guitar part.
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 205 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Alain archimbaud says
Hi Jerry,
About the song sheet
For the intro I think the right chords are : G / Gadd9 / G / Gadd9
For the interlude : G / Gadd9 / Dm6/F# / G / Gadd9 / Dm6/F#
For the outro : G / Gadd9 / Dm6/F# / G
Don’t you think so ?
Best regards
Alain
Jerry says
Hi Alain
Yes the intro is as you say. My copy of the songsheet says that too. Does yours say something different?
The interlude D minor chord is definitely Dm6/F – The F is an F natural, not an F sharp
The same is true in the outro
Hope that helps
Jerry
Alain Archimbaud says
Hi Jerry
May be I got an old version …It is written for the intro
G/ Dm6/F /G/ Dm6/F for
For the interlude of course it is Dm6/F !
Thanks
Alain
Jerry says
It sounds like I must have realised the error after you got your copy and corrected it.
Its been a while so I can’t remember now!
Gary says
Thanks for the clarification. I did what you replied and just ordered the lesson. Looks great!
Gary says
I would have bought this lesson except the only payment method was PayPal and I wanted to use a credit card. The icon on the sight shows Visa, etc, but the checkout process only offered PayPal.
Jerry says
Hi Gary
Paypal offers the option to select ‘Pay By Debit or Credit Card after you checkout from JGB. ‘. Click that and when you get to the next page change your country (if necessary) from the US. Then select your credit/debit card issuer from the drop down list and the next thing you see should be the boxes to type in your card number and expiry date.
This all happens within Paypal, not JGB, so if you’re not seeing this I’m afraid you’ll need to take it up with them but as far as JGB is concerned you should be able to pay with a Paypal account OR a credit/debit card.
Tom. says
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