Bars & Beats! Today, we start working on a new song in Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through The Grapevine. In Money (That’s What I Want), we heard Barrett Strong perform...
Playlist - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Verse! During the verse, the Ebm feels like the I chord of a blues. Sure, the order and length of the chords are different to a standard blues, but the overall feel is...
Bridge! Today, we continue our study of the Motown classic that is I Heard It Through The Grapevine. We do so by looking at the bridge. As always, I’m giving you a bunch...
Chorus! You already played Ebm – Ab during the bridge. During the chorus, each of these chords gets a bar each. This movement of a minor chord, a dom7 a 4th up is...
Intro, Chorus Tag, Instrumental & Outro! Today, we take a look at four sections that all use the same chord. I like to keep this section improvised so in...
Improvise! Last time, you got six examples you could play over the intro, outro, and chorus tag. In this step I want you to improvise. Keep the loop on for half an hour...
Complete song! It’s that time again – time to play the full song! You know this song by now, all that is left for me to do is give you the TAB. Use it as you play...
Live band backing track! It’s your turn, don’t just play what I did, take it somewhere else, keep improvising to this backing track on a loop for half an hour. Don’t...
