The Eagles – Hotel California
Learn how to play The Eagles – Hotel California note-for-note on guitar.
There are two lessons available for Hotel California: the Acoustic part and the full lesson. Please note that the Acoustic part is included in the full lesson.
The Eagles – Hotel California Acoustic Part
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LESSON IS ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE FULL LESSON
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Barre Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed (chorus). Picked notes with a pick (intro & verse)
Tuning: Standard
The lesson covers the acoustic guitar parts for verse and chorus which will enable you to play a solo singer-guitarist performance of the song. As always, it’s taught as-played on the original record, although I teach it on a 6-string instead of the 12-string that’s played on the original. The lesson will work on both types of guitar.
The complete file contains a lesson video, 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 130 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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The Eagles – Hotel California Full Lesson
Difficulty Level: Intermediate and advanced (the electric solos are advanced)
Barre Chords: Yes (only in the electric rhythm part)
Thumb-Over Chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed or picked notes
Tuning: Standard
Separate Solo: Yes
This preview video contains excerpts from several of the video lessons that make up the full Hotel California lesson. The whole thing is a marathon lesson, covering:
- the acoustic guitar part
- the electric rhythm guitar part
- the lead guitar fills during the song
- the full solo at the end, including both parts as played by Don Felder and Joe Walsh
The complete file contains multiple lesson videos, breaking the song down into manageable chunks, performance play thru videos for each part, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 1.0 Gb containing all the lesson content. Please note this is a huge file that will take some time to download.
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Acoustic Part
Full Lesson
Tab Preview
Chords & Songsheet Preview
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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.
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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