My 12 most popular guitar lessons of 2019
Jan 4, 2020
Video rundown of my top 12 lessons
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Editor’s notes
Hey there my friends! Out of the 74 lessons I posted last year (2019), here’s a quick rundown of the 12 most popular based on YouTube likes. Be sure to check out my website playsongnotes.com to find all these full videos and the matching PDF chord sheets to accompany each video.
You’re now able to search by lesson number on my website, which is a helpful way to quickly track down any of these videos. Links to each song are below. Enjoy, and thanks so much for all the support you all continue to provide!
Top 12 lessons, by name
Counting down from 12 to 1 (the most popular), here’s the lessons. These are based on YouTube Likes. Likes correlate fairly closely with the view count, if you’re curious.
12:
- Colter Wall’s Sleeping on the Blacktop intro riff
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/237/
11:
- Adding fills to the Wild Horses intro
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/209/
10:
- Fingerstyle Walkdown Exercise (Key of C)
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/264/
9:
- California Dreamin’ by Jose Feliciano (from “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/250/
8:
- D-Cadd9-G riffin’ on “Thank You” and “Can’t You See”
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/259
7:
- Cowboy chords & walking bass lines
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/219
6:
- Acoustic triad exercises using A, D, & E
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/228
5:
- Adding flair to the C, G, Am & F chords
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/223
4:
- St. James Infirmary Blues
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/216
3:
- “I Walk The Line” (intro riff) by Johnny Cash
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/262
2:
- “Surf Rider” by The Lively Ones
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/248
1:
- “Heart of Gold” by Neil Young
- http://playsongnotes.com/lessons/204
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