Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway note-for-note on guitar with our Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway Guitar Lesson.
Guy Clark’s L.A. Freeway is one of those songs where the storytelling and the guitar work fit together perfectly. The accompaniment is simple on the surface, but it has that loose, conversational feel that Clark was so good at. The guitar quietly supports the lyric while adding just enough movement to keep the song flowing along.In this lesson we’re playing a a fingerpicked accompaniment, which suits the reflective feel of the verses, while the chorus and middle verses switch to a light strum with thumb and fingers to lift the dynamics as the story unfolds. It returns to gentle fingerpicking for the last verse and outro. That creates a nice contrast between the more intimate narrative moments and the bigger, sing-along sections.
The song is played in standard tuning with a capo at the 2nd fret, using comfortable open-chord shapes with a few rhythmic touches that give the accompaniment its character. Nothing here is especially fast or flashy, but the coordination between the picking and the rhythmic strumming places it at an intermediate level.
As always, the lesson walks through the arrangement step-by-step, and the download includes the full video lesson, broken into sections, a play-through performance, and detailed tab and chords so you can learn it exactly as demonstrated.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: No
- Thumb over chords: Yes
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked (with some finger strumming)
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Guy Clark – L.A. Freeway 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 8 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson – Intro
- Part 2: Guitar Video Lesson – Verse 1
- Part 3: Guitar Video Lesson – Chorus
- Part 4: Guitar Video Lesson – Verses 2 & 3
- Part 5: Guitar Video Lesson – Verse 4 & Outro
- Part 6: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 7: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 8: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 385.6 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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