The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
Learn how to play The Pogues – Fairytale of New York note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: Yes (optional)
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Strummed (main part). Hybrid picked (Slow intro)
Tuning: Standard
This lesson teaches an arrangement of the song designed to capture the feel of the band on the original in a solo acoustic guitar part. It incorporates a mixture of strumming and hybrid picking. The lesson is broken down into five separate lesson videos (plus one play thru), to cover each section in detail.
The complete file contains 5 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 534 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.
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