Octopus's Garden - The Beatles | Guitar Lesson

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Learn how to play Octopus's Garden as performed by The Beatles from their 1969 Abbey Road album. A fun song, co-written and sung by Ringo Starr, nevertheless has some great country influenced guitar that is worth a deep dive into. John uses a travis-picking fingerstyle that he learned from Donovan during a trip to India the year prior, and George plays some great country-ish style lead guitar throughout and together creates a really fun guitar arrangement. If you have two guitars in your band this one is so much fun to do and nobody expects to hear it.

This lesson covers both John and George's parts in entirety.

Also, check out these two great demos/covers of the guitar parts in full by ‪@sampopkin‬
One covers the familiar version from the album:    • Octopus's Garden- The Beatles (Guitar...  

and another covers all of the noodling solo work from the final take, but didn't make the final mix:    • Octopus's Garden- The Beatles (Guitar...  

00:00 Introduction / What to Expect
01:56 Rhythm guitar - getting your tone
03:00 Lesson - John's Travis picking pattern
06:34 Lesson - Rhythm guitar Intro section
07:56 Lesson - Rhythm guitar verse section
08:32 Lesson - Rhythm guitar pre-chorus & Chorus
11:21 Lesson - Rhythm guitar during guitar solo
13:26 Lesson - Rhythm guitar outro section
14:04 Lead guitar - getting your tone and approach
15:50 Lesson - Lead guitar intro section
17:51 Lesson - Lead guitar during verses
18:41 Lesson - Guitar solo
21:46 Lesson - Lead guitar outro
23:49 Final Thoughts

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Boss Dimension C Chorus (for John's parts) setting 1
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1963 Fender Bassman (V 3, T 7, B 5, P9)


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