Keith Carradine – I’m Easy Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Keith Carradine – I’m Easy note-for-note on guitar with our Keith Carradine – I’m Easy Guitar Lesson.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Mostly Travis Picked)
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches the main acoustic guitar part from the original studio version.
The complete file contains a 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 246 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.
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Mark Halling says
Probably a silly question: I’ve gotten so comfortable travis picking with my thumb playing the bottom three strings that when I encounter a song like “I’m Easy” I have trouble adjusting to the expectation that my thumb should move up to the third string.
My inclination is to play the third string with my index finger (which is technically not travis picking, I guess). Another song like this is “In Spite of Ourselves” by John Prine.
How much does this matter?
Mark in Brooklyn
Jerry says
Hi Mark
You would lose the sense of the ‘bouncing bass’ of Travis picking by using the index finger.
Having said that, if it sounds OK and works for you then why not.
I naturally go root note to 4 as well, but I’ve taught myself to also be able to play root to 3 because there are several artists who do that a lot.
As well as the ones you mention, Paul Simon and Townes Van Zandt do (although not exclusively).
Go with what works for you, but if you can train your thumb to be able to go root 3 as well, it’s another arrow in your quiver.