The Beatles - Julia Acoustic Guitar Lesson Pt.1 - Verse & Chorus
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Published 2012-02-08
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"Julia" was written by John Lennon (yet attributed to Lennon/McCartney) in 1968 while the group were studying meditation in Northern India.
John Lennon was taught how to play in the fingerpicking style known as "Travis Picking" by another famous guest at their India retreat, the singer Donovan.
Lennon took this simple fingerpicking pattern and turned it into gold with this absolutely beautiful and haunting acoustic ballad written for his deceased mother.
"Julia" contains lots of full and rich chord voicings and also employs a capo to great effect. This is one of my favorite Beatles tunes so I hope you enjoy it as well. Cheers! Carl..
Lesson Taught by: Carl Brown
All Comments (21)
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Anyone who dismisses John’s playing as a simple rhythm guy, you got another thing coming. Thanks for the lesson
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Same picking pattern as Dear Prudence and Happiness is a Warm Gun. It's great cause for me, that picking pattern was so hard to get. But now that I've got it, I can play all those songs.
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Another one masterpiece by Lennon.
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I practised this picking pattern for a whole day. Now I am browsing the internet on the phone one hand while playing this pattern with my right hand. I will still practice it for couple of days because I love this pattern. Julia first then Dear Prudence next. 😊 Thanks Carl
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thank you so much, this picking pattern has been killing me but the way you broke it down was immensely helpful and allowed me to understand it instead of just trying to do it, i really do thank you 🙏🏻
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The thing is not the playing itself, but to come up with those sick progressions.
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this song kills my pinky finger...
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One of my best from guitarlessons365
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Thanks, I've been searching for this pattern as it's the exact same basic pattern that John plays almost each and every single acoustic song in later years he ever wrote and performed, including all the ones on Plastic Ono Band. ;)
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I love this song and am learning this slowly and I believe I am getting it down well. Thanks for the great tutorial
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Excellent stuff. You give some awesome lessons. I appreciate it very much. Thank you.
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Outstanding lesson. You make things very clear. Thank you.
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So beautiful and hardest song god...is a concept that wich we measure our pain
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Donovan taught him how to do fingerpicking on acoustic guitar when they were in India in 1968 at the Maharishi's retreat.
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There's one song I play where I had to stretch my fingers to 4th and 7th fret. That was very hard, but with stretching and practice, it's super easy now. Though now that it's 2 months later, I'm sure if you kept up, your fingers are able to do it better
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Thank you so much or doing this it made the song so easy to understand. You rock! Very good job.
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Thanks great Job!
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The best vedio on youtube to teach how to play this spectacular song
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Great tutorial! Thank you
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Thx so much! Gonna learn part 2 now:)
