Mickey Newbury – American Trilogy
Learn how to play Mickey Newbury – American Trilogy note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Easy to intermediate
Barre chords: Yes. Two barre chords
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked
Tuning: Drop D
This preview video contains part two taken from the video lesson on American Trilogy, taught the way Mickey played it on the original studio recording. If you want to try it, tune your low E string down to D.
The complete song lesson contains three lesson videos, three performance play thru videos, full tabs and chords and lyrics sheet. You’ll receive a link to download the lessons which will download as a zip file of 343 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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Nicolas Carlier says
Hello, I am a french man (39 years old) and I love this song. I’m a newbie with my guitar but I want to play this song for me, and for my dad. I can’t find another parts from you for this song and your lesson is very nice ! Could you give me links to another parts if you have ? It should be great ! I hope you read me and thanks to share your time with us…
Mike Cee says
Concur with David’s comment, I know the Elvis version, but just youtubed Mickey Newbury version, wow, really nice,
david hill says
A lovely peice and as always so well explained your the best teacher on the internet thanks david