Steve Earle – My Old Friend The Blues Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Steve Earle – My Old Friend The Blues note-for-note on guitar with our Steve Earle – My Old Friend The Blues Guitar Lesson.
A beautiful, bittersweet song from Steve Earle’s Guitar Town album — My Old Friend The Blues is a masterclass in simple songwriting with emotional depth.In this lesson, we’ll look at Steve’s acoustic guitar part just as he played it on the original recording. It’s a lovely, rhythm part, with a touch of that unmistakable Earle grit.
It’s full of satisfying guitar techniques — especially double-stops in 6ths, slides, and melodic phrasing — yet it stays comfortably within the intermediate level.
The lead solo on the record is played on electric guitar, but in this arrangement it’s been adapted for solo acoustic performance. You’ll play the melody yourself, worked naturally into the accompaniment.
A perfect song for anyone who loves heartfelt Americana with a touch of country flavour — and a great addition to your solo acoustic repertoire.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: No
- Thumb over chords: Yes, but easily avoided if you prefer
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Steve Earle – My Old Friend The Blues Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 6 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson – Intro
- Part 2: Guitar Video Lesson – Verse & Bridge
- Part 3: Guitar Video Lesson – Guitar Break
- Part 4: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 5: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 6: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 421.1 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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