Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat
Learn how to play Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Easy but with barres
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Downtuned by a full step
This lesson teaches Leonard’s guitar part from the original studio version.
This preview video contains the first section taken from the complete lesson for the song Famous Blue Raincoat.
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 153 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.
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Justin says
Hi Jerry,
Great videos and sheets as usual. Should the second bar of the G be played as written in the tabs? I believe from the video you say that it should be played the same way both times, but I could easily be mistaken. Thank you for clarifying!
Jerry says
Hi Justin
Oops that’s a typo in the tab. It should be played the same way both times. I’ll get that corrected. Thanks for letting me know!
Anonymous says
First chord should be Bm7
Jerry says
Why do you think that?
Jerry says
That’s great Geoff. I love that song. One of my favourites by LC.
Geoff says
It’s so good to be able to play this and all of those other Cohen songs… Good work Jerry. Thanks!