Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street note-for-note on guitar with our detailed step-by-step guitar lesson.
This lesson teaches Moon Over Bourbon Street as an acoustic guitar and voice arrangement based on Sting’s 1985 performance on Jools Holland’s ‘Walking To New Orleans’ documentary. You can check that out here.
The accompaniment is fingerpicked throughout, using a set of jazz-influenced chord shapes that give the song its distinctive, nocturnal feel. It’s an excellent piece for getting comfortable with extended chords and smooth voice leading, while still working within a clear, repeatable structure.
There are partial barre chords to manage, but no thumb-over shapes, and the focus is less on speed and more on control, tone, and accuracy. The real challenge is in keeping the picking steady while allowing the chords to ring and connect in a way that supports the vocal.
If you’re looking to develop your jazz chord vocabulary on acoustic guitar in a musical, song-based context, this is a very rewarding piece to work on. The download includes the full video lesson, a play-through performance, and detailed tab and chords so you can learn it exactly as demonstrated.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: Yes (Partial)
- Thumb over chords: No
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street 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 4 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson
- Part 2: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 3: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 4: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 320.8 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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