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James Taylor – Fire and Rain

James Taylor – Fire and Rain

James Taylor - Fire and Rain
James Taylor – Fire and Rain

Learn how to play James Taylor – Fire and Rain note-for-note on guitar.

Difficulty level: Intermediate

Barre chords: No

Thumb over chords: No

Playing Style: Fingerpicked

Tuning: Standard

This preview video contains the introduction taken from  the complete lesson for the song Fire and Rain.

The complete song lesson contains 3 lesson videos – one per section of the song, 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 185 Mb containing all the lesson content.

James Taylor  -  Fire and Rain
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Intermediate - 185 Mb
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James Taylor - Fire and Rain Chords & Songsheet
James Taylor  -  Fire and Rain
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Intermediate - 185 Mb
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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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Comments

  1. Frank says

    March 1, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    Hey Jerry- I have one very minor comment/suggestion: When you play through a few bars slowly, I think it would help me if you counted in. It’s coming up on Fire and Rain because I’m having a heck of a time getting the timing down and I play along with you. (Note: I hesitated to mention this on a free lesson so I looked at another lesson with the same issue, the instrumental verse of St. James Infirmary. I suspect Steamroller Blues is the same but I didn’t go back to check.) Just a thought. Another thing that would help is if there could be a way to loop portions of the video. Is that possible? I haven’t figured it out if there is.
    Anyway, I hesitate to bring this stuff up because your lessons are pretty close to perfect. Thanks for your efforts!

    Reply
    • Jerry says

      March 1, 2020 at 3:58 pm

      Thanks for the feedback Frank. All the songs you mention start on the 1 beat. On any songs that don’t I do give a count in to show that it begins on an irregular beat.
      I’ll give your suggestion some thought. Thanks!

      Reply
      • Frank says

        March 1, 2020 at 4:20 pm

        I understand. Thanks for the quick reply! This is frustrating- I’m hitting the notes but I’m not getting the sound. What can I do? Wait, I know- practice.

        Reply
  2. Remy says

    June 4, 2018 at 10:19 am

    Just one word THANK !!!!!

    Reply
  3. Kelly Stauffer says

    January 24, 2018 at 9:08 am

    You know, I signed up for James Taylor’s lessons, thinkiing ,fantastic, I’ll finally be able to figure out how to play one of my favorite songs. Wrong! There is no way I could do this even in slow motion. Maybe I eventually would have done it but man it’s complicated and full of notes. I love it but I couldn’t even tell for sure abt some of the chord fingerings and bc he gives no instruction its a bit frustrating and painfully slow. I still havnt figured out how to get YOUR lessons bc all i have is asmart phone, but I came across your site and I’m all in. It sounds like you’re a talented and effective inspiring teacher and for those who dont have the means to hire a private teacher it sure helps things along when someone like uou is added to the equation. I’m 58 y.o and played the oboe from 3rd to 11th grade and I was inspired to try teaching myself this beautiful instrument. I’m hoping my chord changes will get faster and smoother with enough practice. It helps tremendously to not have to try deciphering what’s happening in favor of being told in a fraction of the time for sure what an artist was doing. A million thanks for your time.

    Reply
    • Isabel says

      January 24, 2018 at 10:35 am

      Hi Kelly.
      To download the lesson on your smartphone you need to be able to unzip the file. You probably need an app to do that. Also be aware that these are large files and you’ll need enough space on your phone to store the files.
      Hope it helps.

      Reply
  4. Claudia Lenoir says

    February 19, 2017 at 3:14 am

    I have tried for years,on and off, to grasp counting time; you have helped me immeasurably. Very, very grateful. Thank you.

    Reply
  5. Joe Choong says

    August 2, 2016 at 6:26 pm

    Many thanks, Jerry. You have been an enormous help to my endeavor to learn the guitar at my late age.

    Reply
  6. Gary Barnes says

    June 27, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    Jerry, Your work and dedication is keeping a lot of great acoustic guitar music alive and well. I especially enjoy your breakdown of Dylan and your excellent teaching style. Thanks to you I can play some of the tunes I have always loved. All the best.

    Reply
    • Jerry says

      June 27, 2016 at 2:55 pm

      Thanks Gary. That’s great to hear!

      Reply
  7. Mel Scobie says

    September 29, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    Thanks.

    Reply
  8. Paul Stewart says

    March 11, 2015 at 12:41 am

    Great lessons Jerry,,,,,,,, the best in my opinion.

    Reply
  9. Ed Berry says

    December 9, 2014 at 4:40 am

    Like others I have played for many years and find your tutorial very easy to understand. Love to spend my spare time working on technical songs that bring back such great memories. Thank you very much for your time spent breaking these songs down for us to enjoy.

    Ed

    Reply
  10. david smith says

    November 28, 2014 at 1:34 am

    Thank you Lowell. I have been a James Taylor fan since I was seven. I started playing guitar fourteen years ago. I have taken classical fingerstyle lessons since then once a week. I still haven’t played in front of an audience. Your voice is great and so are your lessons.
    Thank you,
    David

    Reply
  11. Lowell Davis says

    November 26, 2014 at 2:37 pm

    Thank you for your contributions the worlds guitar players. I am 59 and have been playing since age 8. Nothing ever comes easy from my guitar but you definitely help. I really enjoyed “Too Many Angels” by Jackson Browne. Now I just need to learn to sing!

    Reply

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