Chord progression & Initial transcriptions! Today we start working on a new song in Al Green’s legendary composition Take Me To The River. Before we get into...
Playlist - Take Me To The River
Verse! Let’s start working on the various parts that make up this one acoustic guitar arrangement. As always, the best way to learn these parts is to play along...
Bridge! Today we play the bridge, it ventures outside the key of E which is a great combination with the verse and chorus which is blues language in E. Here’s the...
Chorus! Let’s learn a bunch of variations of the chorus. In the first example, that horn section part has been included with its 6 and b7 movement. On the first...
Intro, M8 & Outro! We’re almost there! Just the missing bits left here to complete the arrangement. If you hadn’t practiced the verse, bridge and chorus...
1st half! We’re now starting to put this arrangement together, one page at a time. In total there are four pages, in today’s lesson we play the first twp...
2nd half! The complete arrangement is almost achieved, all you have to do is play along to the final two TAB loops. Here’s page 3 as TAB. And finally, the last...
Complete song! This is the final step, time to play Take Me To The River with a singer. Here’s all the TAB, good luck! Next time, we start working on a new song...
