Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust

Learn how to play Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches Joan’s guitar part from a live 1978 concert where she plays it accompanied by just an acoustic guitar. It’s essentially identical to the studio version but without the 1st fret capo that that version uses.
The complete file contains 3 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 386 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.
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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Theresa says
I have paid for Diamonds and Rust and Forever Young but I have not received the link to the music. And i didn’t finde anything in Spam. Can you please resend it to my email address below please? Thank you.
Jerry says
Hi Theresa.
We did send the links to this address.
I’ll send them again.
Yvonne Adkin says
I have paid for Diamonds and Rust a couple of days ago but I have not received the link to the music. Can you please resend it to my email address below please? Thank you.
Jerry says
Hi Yvonne
I sent an email after responding to your Facebook message. Are you not receiving any of my messages?
Please check the spam folder in case they’re going in there.