Steve Earle – Goodbye

Learn how to play Steve Earle – Goodbye note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis picked)
Tuning: Standard
Steve never plays exactly the same guitar part twice on this song, so this lesson teaches a version that uses a number of the ideas he plays, put together to create the most effective version for the solo singer-guitarist.
The complete file contains 4 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 602 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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Loren Brown says
Hi Jerry – I loved your rendition of this song! Another great one by Steve Earle is “Me and the Eagle.” If you could do a lesson on that one I would appreciate it (and my dad would too :))
–Loren
Jerry says
I’ll add it to the list Loren
Geoff rex says
Thanks for the great tuition you give and your great choice of music,would love you to maybe give some lessons on Ryan Adams,Josh Ritter if at all possible keep up the good work and thanks