Jackson Browne – In The Shape of a Heart

Learn how to play Jackson Browne – In The Shape of a Heart note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes. Index finger barre chords and ring finger partial barres.
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed with individual notes picked with the pick. Flat picked throughout. Techniques include normal strumming, palm-muted bass string strums, picked single string licks and the usual hammer ons, pull offs and slides.
Tuning: Open E flat
This lesson teaches Jackson’s part from the live solo concerts.
This lesson teaches the live solo version performed by Jackson on acoustic guitar and voice.
The complete file contains two lesson videos, 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 288 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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Calvin Heuer says
Hi Jerry- awesome song. I cant purchase this off your website without going through PayPal. As soon as I change the billing details to country: Qatar- the only checkout option os to create a new paypal account. Please advise?
P.S- please do Barricades of Heaven! The best song in the world!