John Prine – That’s The Way That The World Goes Round
Learn how to play John Prine – That’s The Way That The World Goes Round note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate. If you’re experienced at Travis picking you’ll find it easy.
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes. No barre chords. A thumb-over F chord.
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis Picked)
Tuning: Standard
This lesson uses as a template the version played by John Prine live in 1978 with just his voice and guitar.
The complete file contains a lesson video, a performance play thru video, and full tabs. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 170 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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Shawn Davis says
I am DYING to buy the John Prine artists collection!!!!! Hope it’s getting close :)
Jerry says
All The Best and The Great Compromise are on the Coming Up Next page. After those two I’ll make all the JP’s up into a collection.