It’s summertime and the start of the festival season here in the UK. And to celebrate, this lesson is a song by one of the stars of the 2009 festival season.
Neil Young has already headlined the Isle of Wight Festival, and this weekend he’ll headline Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday, and Glastonbury on Sunday.
There are dozens and dozens of Neil Young tracks I could have chosen for this lesson, but I went for one which isn’t just one of my favourite Neil Young songs, but also features some great guitar playing.
Young is almost as well-known for his unique style on his Gibson Les Paul, nicknamed Black Beauty, as he is for his songwriting. And Like a Hurricane features both.
In the lesson below, Steve Levine does a great job of not just taking you through the chord changes, but explaining that all-important lead intro too. And he even does it on a 1957 triple-humbucker black Les Paul Custom, which is a little reminiscent of Young’s own ‘Old Black’ — a 1953 Les Paul Goldtop which, by the time Young acquired it, had received a black paint job and to which he added a mini-humbicker from a Gibson Firebird in the bridge position, and a Bigsby tailpiece.
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