James Taylor – Your Smiling Face
Learn how to play James Taylor – Your Smiling Face note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Advanced
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
There is no acoustic guitar on the original so this lesson teaches an arrangement of the song for solo acoustic guitar and voice. The arrangement draws on the full band arrangement on the original and fingerpicking in the classic style of James Taylor.
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 285 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.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Zipeg 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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Mark Guynn says
My note referencing “ Your Smiling Face” was place below Neil Young .
Obviously, it’s JT I am talking about .