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About This Lesson
In today’s lesson I’ll walk you through I’m a Little Crazy by Morgan Wallen, showing you a handful of ways to approach the song using fingerstyle. This is a song you can fingerpicking a few different ways, depending on your skill level. After teaching you to strum things, I’ll then show a step-by-step approach to playing it with Travis-style fingerpicking (using alternating bass notes with your right thumb).
I’ll build up to the arrangement that Morgan Wallen’s guitar player is using, which I actually don’t recommend for most guitar players given the difficulty. At the end of my video you can see my personal approach to putting it all together, where I embrace a simpler approach during the sections where I sing — and then using my preferred melodic instrumental arrangement as a break after each chorus. This one goes out to Song Notes member Chuck, who requested it… I hope you enjoy!
- 0:00 Overview
- 2:28 Strumming Basics
- 5:29 Strumming with Melody
- 7:33 Travis Picking: Bass Notes
- 9:23 Travis Picking: Filler Notes
- 12:44 Travis Picking: Melody
- 16:26 Travis Picking: How Morgan’s Guitarist Plays It
- 22:23 Playthrough with Lyrics
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Lesson Discussion
Play-Along Practice Videos
Here’s a few extra videos, made in thanks to those supporting me with Premium membership here on my Song Notes website. To those showing your support, you have my true thanks and appreciation — and I hope you find these additional videos helpful!
Each video below counts in for two measures, then plays through (1) the verse and (2) chorus progression once. I keep the camera zoomed in, without talking or singing, with tabs shown on screen for you to follow along.
Zoomed Playthrough #1: Strumming
Zoomed Playthrough #2: Melody Notes
Zoomed Playthrough #3: Travis Picking with Filler Notes
Zoomed Playthrough #4: Travis Picking with Melody
Zoomed Playthrough #5: How Morgan Wallen’s Guitarist Plays It
Note, Tony Eichele (Wallen’s guitar player) actually plays this using Drop D tuning. I’m not doing that, as it doesn’t impact any of the fingerstyle on the thinnest 5 strings.
Full Song Performances
Morgan Wallen and his band, from The Shop Sessions
Bella Emry’s cover, from American Idol
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