Ship of Fools - Robert Plant | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play Ship of Fools on guitar as performed by Doug Boyle, guitarist for Robert Plant in the late 80's. Lesson covers lead and rhythm guitar parts.

By far, this is the most requested song I've heard from you to cover, so I'm excited to put this one out there. This was always on my list, but I've heard from so many of you to tackle this one after seeing my Big Log lesson, that I had to get this one done. In many ways I think this is kind of a "son of Big Log", with the sparkly treble-y clean tones and arpeggiated (is that a word?) guitar parts.

The guitar arrangement for this song in some ways is very sparse, with his playing focused on strings 1-4, allowing the bass and keyboards to handle most of the lower notes.

BIG THANK YOU to Dave Mackey and Gwonyu Chang who did a great job creating drum and bass tracks for me to play over on the intro to this video.

Got a suggestion for a piece of a song to cover on an upcoming episode? Leave it in the comments, would love to hear ideas.

00:00 Demo of intro and lead parts
00:50 Introduction, song history, I saw them live in 1988!
03:39 Getting your tone
05:27 Lesson - Intro riff
08:59 Lesson - Verse sections
15:00 Lesson - Guitar Solo
21:55 Lesson - Outro
24:53 Final thoughts

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