While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - Acoustic Lesson

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Guitar School Northampton owns no rights to the original recording of this music whatsoever. This video is intended as a free learning aid for guitarists.

This is a great song for rhythm playing on acoustic or electric guitar for anyone between the beginner and intermediate stages. Whilst the verses are largely made up of open chords, there are plenty of simple major and minor barre chords.

The strumming pattern that George Harrison played on the "White Album" version varies very slightly throughout, which I have included in my version; however for anyone who struggles to follow it exactly as noted, just follow the simple strumming pattern from bar one. Any rhythm following an eight note feel will work just fine.

This song is a great example of a parallel key change, with verses using a hybrid of A natural minor (aeolian mode) and the A dorian mode (2nd mode of G major) and the chorus/bridge sections changing to A major. See the link below to learn more about parallel key changes.

To learn the lead guitar and bass parts, follow the links below.

Lead Guitar
https://youtu.be/VZMjAU8DWzc

Bass Guitar
https://youtu.be/rrc7yeDJD0w

To hear the original tracks isolated, follow the link below.

https://youtu.be/dhVzMOp2zik

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