John Martyn – Solid Air

Learn how to play John Martyn – Solid Air note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes. 1-finger barres.
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: C G Eb F Bb D
This lesson teaches John’s guitar part from the original studio version. Because he never plays this song the same way twice, the lesson shows the main accompaniment sequence and then a sequence of typical variations that he makes to that pattern,
This preview video contains the tuning and the chord shapes taken from the complete lesson for the song Solid Air.
The complete song lesson contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, full tabs and chords and lyrics sheet. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 257 Mb containing all the lesson content.
Note that you’ll need to re-tune your guitar to an open tuning for this song.
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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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