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David Rawlings Style Lead Guitar Lesson – EP068

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In this guitar lesson, learn how to play a David Rawlings style lead on acoustic guitar (this could also be played on electric). Learn how David plays using a lot of open strings and dissonance. If you aren’t familiar with his work, check out the Dave Rawlings Machine (his band) or his work with Gillian Welch. He’s one of the best!

Part 1 - David Rawlings Guitar Lesson

Part 2 - David Rawlings Guitar Lesson

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Slow Walk-Through - David Rawlings Guitar Lesson

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  3. I really love David Rawlings and of course Gillian is the best!!!!
    My wife and
    I are going to see the machine in Santa Barbara on Oct. 05 at a 900 seat theatre and I am very excited because I have never seen them before…….thank you soooooo much Brian

  4. Good choice for an artist. Armed with what i’ve learned from your lesson I’m going to dig out my Gillian Welch records and see if i can copy him. What would you call that chord in measure 4?  The one with a F G(open) C E(open)?  It’d be a F9 i guess if the E was flat…..i know you dont like to get hung up on the theory but i might want to use it up the neck/in other keys.

  5. love your lessons Brian. Can you please do a lesson in the style of the song, Life without you by Stevie Ray Vaughn. Love the ideas you give for when playing by yourself Awesome work!

  7. excellent lesson as usual.  I would like to join ‘Sam Mercer’ in his request for a lesson in the style of the song Life without you by SRV.  Would be awesome.  greetz from Belgium.

  17. Hi Brian. What a lovely little tune. Must get started on this one! As Silverado mentioned it does sound very hawaiian. How about a slack key lesson? We don’t get much of that in scotland! Thanks again for great lessons. Keith

  19. I came across this video on youtube and loved it so much that I signed up for active melody! Do you think you could post an M. Ward style video? Dave Rawlings & M Ward on two of my absolute favorites! Thanks!

  20. Brian, new subscriber writing to say how much I enjoyed this lesson, my first on ActiveMelody. Good topic (Dave Rawlings), and great teaching style on your part. Exactly what I was looking for. Looking forward to working my way through the lesson catalogue. Thanks again.

  21. Hi Brian, I am a new member to active melody and am loving your lessons. Thank you so much as you have given me a fresh new start after a 20 year hiatus of playing guitar and I’m having so much fun! I love David Rawlings and I want to learn this lesson but feel my first step should be to learn the jam track. I’m wondering if you might be willing to, at some point, put together a video of the rhythm for this lesson?

    • Hey Dennis, the chords are C, F, and G – I realized that I didn’t have the chords on the tab, so I just added them – if you refresh the page and redownload the tab, the chords will be there.

  22. Hi Brian,
    Just a quick update. I have learned both the jam track and the slow version of the lead. I cannot seem to get fast enough to do the lead at the pace of the jam track. I don’t suppose you would be willing to put the lead in a separate downloadable file? When its downloadable I can set my iTunes to automatically repeat the given song. I know you are super busy so if this is not an option I understand and will keep replaying the free lesson until I can match it. Thank you again for your lessons and this one is just so sweet sounding. I would love to see more of these super silky playing lessons.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Dennis

  25. Greetings Brian; This is the tune/style that prompted me to become a premium member only yesterday. I have been getting your weekly emails with the new lesson for quite some time, but never had the time or inspiration to follow up and learn any of it. This EP068 did it for me. I learned it in about an hour and was having fun with it right away. I think I will get into more of your lessons now. It takes me a lot of repetitive practice to get the muscle memory down solid, and that takes time. Guess I better get into it.

  26. Hey Brian, I upgraded to premium today and this was one of the many reasons. Love that there is stuff that stands alone, and that you have lots of stuff for those of us who prefer to play with a pick. One idea I have for a future lesson which is a little in this style is if you could take a run at your interpretation of South of the Border ( Chris Issak version ).

      • Great to hear from you Brian. I am so excited to join this community. I would be thrilled if you could help with this as I have been wanting to be able to do a credible version of this ever since I heard him playing this on the radio several years ago on Cinco de Mayo.

  27. Hey Brian,

    Just become a full member…great lessons! Like Silverado08 said in 2014 on this thread, this tune is reminiscent of Hawaiian music such as in the George Clooney film The Descendants…beautiful sounds…

  28. Dave,

    Will you post the on-screen tabs and video that enables us to slow tracks down like you have with all other the video lessons? If not, why so? That feature is an exceedingly helpful resource for me, particularly when trying to nail licks that I had a difficult following in the two-part lessons.

    thx

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