Free Bird Guitar Solo Lesson - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Solo Pt. 1
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In this guitar lesson series I will show you note-for-note how to play the chords and solos found in "Free Bird" by the great southern rock titans Lynyrd Skynyrd.
This Free Bird guitar lesson series is one of the most requested in the history of GuitarLessons365. So in order to do the song justice, it will require quite a few videos.
In the first video lesson I will show you how to play all the chords to this great song. The chord progression alone is instantly recognizable. Simply watching this lesson will enable you to play along with the whole song.
Starting in the second video lesson we will begin our look at the epic guitar solo. As great as this solo is, it is also very long so it will probably take some time to get the whole thing down. However, the entire solo is full of great guitar licks that are not only very musical, but also make great technique exercises when isolated and repeated.
Throughout the guitar solo lessons I will take you note-for-note through these licks and give you some tips on how to play them as well.
If you can finally make it through the whole solo you can definitely pat yourself on the back. It will be quite the accomplishment.
In the last video I will go back and check out those slide guitar parts that are heard throughout most of the first half of the song.
For these slide parts I will give you a good overview of what is going on but won't exactly go note-for-note through every slide lick. In reality, a lot of the slide parts are very similar and once you know the basic part, you can easily follow along with the rest of them. Oh and the guitar that you play the slide part on will need to be tuned to E A D G G E. All the other guitars are in standard tuning. Good Luck!
Carl.. - Hudba
I can play it very well on my air guitar.
DUN DUN DUN DO DO DO DO DUN DUN DUN DO DUN DUN DON DO DO DO DO DO DOO DO DO DOO
Lmaoo
And move your hair at the rhythm song
I think we’ve all nailed this solo on air guitar at some point in our lives 😂. Along with the drums in “in the air tonight”
Fr tho 🤣🤣🤣
my family is so gonna love me practicing this...
my fiance is not thrilled
My exact same thought hahaha
Same
Same goes for my neighbors
My father has already told me to take it somewhere else. I've been playing this song for five months straight
"He then repeats this pattern 5000 times"
I just lol'd
Yep
And that is how you make the best song known to man
"Free Bird Guitar Solo Lesson - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Solo Pt. 1 of a 43 Pt. series"
Yes!
Haha sounds about right
AFXAcid lol
yep sounds about right
AFXAcid i’m honestly shocked its not longer due to variants of versions. While there’s similarities in live versions, there’s still many variations.
Legend has it he is still recording the other parts... 🤣
Finally, my quest to learn guitar has reached the freebird solo. Never thought i’d be able to do it 5 years ago.
Bro I’ve only been playing a few months and it’s a piece of cake. In fact it’s the whole cake.
You got this bro. It's more menacing than it seems, it's long but it's mostly made up of repetitive common blues licks
@@cowsticks_516 no its not hahah, if its so easy upload a video of you playing it to youtube so we cam all see
@@icytea0nah only hard part is having the attention span to follow the video😂
Didn’t think I’d be here either lol
*casually plays freebird* “hey guys”
Carl brown here from guitarlessons365
Your embarrasing
@@SexySeddon you're
@SexySeddon you're* 🤓
Props to whoever even attempted to learn this song without breaking a finger and learning all the way.
I am now a complete master at this song, after 7 broken fingers, including 3 picking fingers
i am able to play it now
Me: *opens video thinking its easy*
Me after watching the first few minutes: *closes the video after realising it's harder than finding a lost pick*
If Ezio can't play it, nobody can
@@thrashmetal2729 ezio can play the lute just a few chords he said, in revelations
Realizing* lol
@@lupecarlos6093 realising is the british/australian/literally every English speaking country that isn't American spelling
It’s really not that hard bro, just pull offs and hammer ons, imma try it out, you can do it bro!
And don't forget Allen Collins played that lead over 200 times a year. Look at pictures of him in 75, 76, and 77 before the tragedy. He was very, very, over worked.
I thought it was Rossington who played the solo
@@kajunshaman Rossington played the slide guitar you hear throughout the song, Collins did the solo. Also, I think drugs might have been a contributing factor into his deteriorating state in the late 70s
That’s impossible because it takes 2 years to play the solo just one time
@@sadzacsesh3478 I have been trying to play it since '73 Pronounced LS was released!
To be fair, after trying to play it once I look like that
Me, an 11 year old: i have played guitar for a year, ill try free bird
Also me 3 seconds in: I’d rather have to find all the picks that I’ve lost in my acoustic than play this
You’ve played for a year? Nice man I’ve been playing for 2 months and I’m 12
Don’t worry it gets easier, I was in both of your shoes a few years back
Ive played for about 6 months and I'm 12. It's not that hard it's just a bunch of bends
started playing when i was 10, this solo will kill your fingers on an acoustic
I’m self taught I’m 13 and I learned to play this. It’s very fun to play and learn I recommend playing it and all. It’s awesome
This is a really hard solo to learn, but once you learn it it's so much fun!
@Bryce Jones …you can literally say that for any solo lmao. “it’s not hard at all, it’s just hard to play it right at the right speed for the entire length of time with the proper tone”, gtfo 😂. something is only as hard as its difficulty relative to your own personal skill level, and this solo is well above the average skill level of most guitar players.
@@jenso413 and?
@@jenso413why you mad? can't you appreciate some enthusiasm for once?
@@jenso413 that’s not what he said
@@jenso413 he literally said it is a hard solo to learn, he never said it was easy.
I play 13 gauge strings. This is hell. Thank you
Y tho
@@romankinakh2009I play on 13 too, just for the chug, the strings sound nice
@@romankinakh2009I guess it just comes down to preference
@@Numb00 do you even play the other 5 strings dude?
@@Numb00there is 0 justifiable reasons to use 13s whatsoever
After playing guitar for a year, I think it's time to learn this masterpeice
literally
I'm a beginner at guitar but have been in a slump at learning new stuff since I felt like the songs I had been playing taught me nothing new. Then I randomly decided to start learning this song after quitting guitar for four years. This song has taught me many new things and many nuances that I never really considered. I have been practicing part one of this song (as well as other songs) for about 2 weeks now and am starting to get some really nice sounds. Even though I am clearly not at the skill level where I should be trying this, I have been working through it, and I have improved so much in other areas because of the hard work I put into this song. I'm really loving playing guitar again and look forward to mastering this solo. Probably the hardest part for me right now is that riff where you do the pull off with the third finger on the B (18 to 15), followed by a bend with the middle finger on the 18th fret on the G. I have been working on pull-off Legato exercises and am quickly improving at it. Thanks for the help!
The hardest thing about the riff you mention is the strum orientation. In the lesson, he teaches it as downstroke on the g, downstroke on the b, then upstroke on the b for the pull-off ( D-D-U ).
I've seen other guitarists do it ( and prefer to do it like this myself ) with a downstroke on g, then an upstroke on b to stay within your hand's movement, then a downstroke on b's pull-off, then use the pull-off time to get your hand in position for the downstroke on g ( D-U-D ). A nice side effect here is that the accent falls automatically on the 18-to-15 pull-off where it belongs - as you play that with a downstroke.
The third method I know ( I'm sure there are many, many more ) is by using your fingers, either in a hybrid style with the pick, the 3rd and 4th finger, or completely finger-picked with the pick tucked away.
I myself do that for the ending of 'Sultans of Swing' which has basically the same musical idea as the lick here. But, I use 'pure fingers' only there as I feel its hard to get the pick back out and stay within timing in the middle or the beginning of a solo. I do, however, prefer the sound I get when doing these kind of licks purely with thumb and index finger, which is why I use that technique in Sultans in the first place.
You would rock your thumb back and forth to hit the g-string and the pull-off on b with your thumb, then bring your index finger in between them to play the first 15 on the b-string in this particular lick if you wanted to play it 'pure fingers'.
Either way, pick an approach of your choosing, but try all of them. Some become better than you might think after practicing them for an hour.
well you wrote this a year ago so hope you had a bit of luck in getting better 👍
Danggg son
how are you at the song now?
Bros mastered every solo on earth by now
My fingers hurt
"oh your fingers hurt you just earned landscaping duty"
Dude mine bled the skins peeling
The only finger hurting is the ring finger haha the rest are fine. It’s killing me man
Now your backs gonna hurt cuz u just pulled landscapin duty. Anybody else's fingers hurt? Didn't think so
Now your backs gonna hurt cuz u just pulled landscapin duty. Anybody else's fingers hurt? Didn't think so
I am at the level that I can learn this and should have it down in a day or two. Thanks to you Carl for helping me get here with videos like this. I am also a 365 online member, your lessons are great.
Stuck on 5:30. I'm just not fast enough, guess I've still got some practicing to do but damn it's so fast and difficult!
Same here man. Keep up the practice man 💪 you got this
Yeah I’m not good enough either but we’ll get there
i learned a way by tapping it instead of picking
Same bro. Try this it helped me czcams.com/video/8XPezIRYnpA/video.html
cant play stairway to heaven and sweet child o mine solo tryna learn free bird . what a man am i
Stoned Gamer sweet child o mine is way more difficult, I can play the free bird solo with relative ease and I've only been playing for about 7 months
fake news
Stairway to heaven solo is easy
Same honestly
@ really? I learned stairway to heaven and it wasnt THAT hard, but freebird... lets just say ive been trying for a while
the bends... so many bends......
bends
Make amends
This song does have a lot of decompression sickness, mostly because of the rapid changes in notes.
The bends are bending
The bends are bending the bends bending the bends
I saw Skynyrd many times with the first time in the mid 70s and then in the 80s and 90s. Loved them so much, I now play in a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band "Almost Skynard" , Great job on this.
Just started working on this solo with my guitar teacher right before quarantine, thank you for making it much easier for me to learn this solo with more than just tabs.
Great series, I’m not sure why it took all these years of playing to finally learn this solo. Hell, I know why, as a Rossington Collins fan I’ve felt a bit unworthy to to try to be on their level.
But, you broke it down just right, and made it doable. Thanks
Steve Vallance allen collins wrote this but yea
@@julianthompson145 I think he was referring to the Rossington Collins Band, which Allen Collins co-founded after the plane crash.
*Lynyrd Skynrd’s guitar tone has left the chat*
😂🤣🤣😂🤣
What does this mean? I'm sorry I'm tired
@@connorandrus1904 means the tone is way off
Its not that far off from the original tablature, and he did play this in standard tuning
This is a great tune, gives you a great start on a library of repetive licks, builds speed and hand endurance.
Thanks for the beginner guitar lesson, really easy and I could follow along well
Coming up to 2 years of playing. I play 2 - 3 hours average a day, and I have watched this video probably every couple of moths thinks it’s time. And I get scared away at the first 20 seconds. But now it’s time I’ll try again and I’ve made it about 11 mins through. New record
Miller Hearndrix I’ve learned that most guitarist hold them selves back cuz something is intimidating, and because you sound like trash trying it the first hour, but you’ll get better trust me
Daniel Saladbar I’m right now, thanks I reckon the solo is coming along well.
Love the free bird solo except when its on the radio and i've arrived at a destination. No one gets out of the car until the song is over. That's a rule.
Kingsman got me into playing guitar
When you watch people play this at full speed and think “ok this doesn’t look too bad” but soon realise that for the most part their fingers are moving so fast you can’t see them moving
So I play the drums and my guitarist just sold me his old guitar... I feel like it's a must to start with this song! I'll check back in with everyone in a few weeks! I have a song to learn 😎
Boo Fookin' Radley hows it coming?
Hows it coming man
Legend has it, he died from loss of blood from his finger tips.
2019 hows it going?
He never checked back in :/
If you’re struggling to hit the 18t fret high e during this bends, I recommend doing the bend with just your pointer and middle and hitting it with your ring, rather than bending with your ring too and hitting it with your pinky. You probably have better control over your ring finger, plus it makes it less cramped in that area of the fretboard
Amazing sir, you've surpassed yourself with this one.
"Your fingertips are gonna kill me"
Metal Maniac I was... uhhh... making sure no one else was gunna say that
@@markrosado5280 And knuckles LOL
My respect for Skynyrd grows every single time I listen to this (and a bunch of other masterpieces they wrote)
You're gonna need a guitar with 22 frets near the end of the solo
that statement makes me think you're using an acoustic guitar...
+The Diamond Hero no, during the guitar solo there's a part where you need to play on the 22nd fret. Any Gibson electric will do
I'm using a gorham... Aaaaaand I just realized the 22nd fret is the last fret on my guitar.
Or you can bend the 21st fret🤫
@@calenthomas4190 mega super duper bend the 4th fret. Ur welcome
You have excellent lessons as always Carl! I can remember starting my Guitar Journey learning how to play all sorts of iconic and easy riffs using your videos and also learning Music Theory. As I progressed, I moved on to learning alot of SRV songs from your lessons, alot of Jimi Hendrix, and some Eric Johnson. I also started to jam with others live using songs I learnt from you!
I've been wanting to learn Free Bird for a long time and finally am at a level to understand the concepts and ability to execute it. I have to thank you so much because without your videos I wouldn't have been able to get this far :) Keep rocking.
Fun fact: whenever they were recording, the lead singer was told he can rest because of how long the solo was
2021 : Really good lesson man
2022 : SPINNING RAT
Wow! Thanks for a definitive tutorial! I really/sincerely appreciate the help mastering the nuances of this lead. For others reading this... One of the things that helped (really, you can't go on without it; no lie...) me in my "journey to the next level" was mastering the full step bend with vibrato at the end. It's the first note of Billy Gibbons solo on LaGrange. "Straight" pentatonic scale notes "with feeling" so you don't even recognize the pentatonic scale almost every note comes from... I'm thinking about doing a free tutorial on how to do it if ya can't already do it. I had to learn it and I remember how I did it. If you can't do it you can't play leads like this. Rock on!
it’s been my dream to play this song’s solo, and now i can. Good shit to whoever made this tutorial
My brain and my hands can't physically and mentally function doing the blues lick at 7:05 I just can't be that fast. I now regret playing the video because I know I must do this until I can do it!
"my apologies YOUR finger tips will kill ME"
hahah im making that a song
Starting to learn this today, I’ll check back in with y’all when I make some progress
Chocolate Vanilla Swirl how’s the progress ?
@@kabir7158 bruh the guy dead press F
@Chocolate Vanilla Swirl you alive?
Solo claims another victim
How's it goin?
litaraly been playing guitar for like 6 months not even everyday but i only wanted this video for a bit of the solo and ended up getting the first part witch is fun so if i can learn a bit of this and play it at normal speed anybody could if you have decent practice ive only been learning stuff from youtube because its free and also i feel like lessons arent really usefull unless your actually gonna go to them were as if your just home you could watch a youtube short and the next time you pick your guitar up try what you remember from the video super thanks by the way i watch your videos all the time wiether im trying to learn a song or just a riff thanks for the vid helped a lot
What a gem Carl! Thanks for posting Freebird, your a champion.
Hey I'm actually getting the hang of this lesson!
Nice job mate ima attempt this tomorrow
I've just started learning guitar, I have picked this as my final boss.
I have no finger tips left, carpal tunnel from alternate picking and bending and this is part 1, great.
Thanks for all the great lessons, great player and awesome teacher
I love that bending the B string with your 3 fingers and then hitting the E with your pinkie. Crazy Little Thing Called Love uses it to in the solo
Carl, You are phenomenally good in my view! I started learning guitar about 15 months ago at age 60. I have learned a lot from you! I am crazy, but going to try to learn this solo (imperfectly as I can’t work at your speed!). Thank you for what you do to inspire guitarists!! I hope to help as able in the future!!
Great job. Very easy to follow what you're doing. Thanks for posting it!
The best thing about this solo is if you have a jam the bass and rythem guitar have a really easy to learn backing you could pretty much get them to play on the spot .
Creating a spontaneous thing nobody would forget lol
This song ignores whatever calluses you think you have
How such a simple solo sounds so damn good is beyond me
Great lesson, thanks man! Very nice that you also pay good attention to the pick stroke directions. Like at 6:40.
I love Lynyrd Skynyrd and I was wondering if you could possibly do a lesson on Gimme Three Steps or Tuesdays Gone. Both songs are awesome. Great lesson too.
I’ve never felt so blessed to play .08 gauges in my life
I'm 67 years old and this song and Stairway to Heaven I'm taking to my grave. After a couple weeks I'm only getting close to learning part one. Thank you. But how do you get the guitar tone? That is equally as important.
Listen man stairway ain't to hard, id say I have it 98% right and I'm not great so I know you can do that. As for Free Bird well... I don't know if anyone but Allen Collins ever got that 100% right
Im a little late, but boost the mids and the treble and keep the bass low
The only thing stopping me from learning the rest of the song is the blister on my ring finger.
I’ve got one on my index finger. But this song pays off
Blisters? This Allen Collins Guitar solo will rip the skin right off your fingers man. I call this the "never ending Guitar solo". Worth the pain.
great solo lesson! this a a great solo to screw around with and still have it sound good!
Awesome tutorial. Nice and easy to understand. Thank you
Pink Floyd - Sorrow please.
This is awesome
I think this tutoring is as good as it gets. Great stuff.
Awesome. Thanks man!
My man ! The time has come for me to play this solo thanks for the help !
"if you're at the level you can play this solo, you can probably just see me do it slowly and figure it out"
This video and its brothers have been good companions of mine for the last two years.
Mr Brown, or Carl if you so wish, is there a way to donate, a paypal adress or anything? ( I feel like I'm around 300 years too late in asking for this! )
I'm sure your course is great ( guessing the free videos serve as ads for it - thanks again! ), I profited from countless of your videos, using 'your way' to play multiple songs like Paradise City, Freebird or Sultans on a live stage, even dabbling in and subsequently butchering Cliffs of Dover.
Long story short, you came around at the perfect time I was good enough to learn those tunes and I shall be forever grateful for that. I sincerely hope you are doing well!
Best wishes and another big 'thank you' from germany - you made me a better player.
Thanks man I really appreciate the kind comment.. and if you ever do want to donate, even though it is cool if you don’t.... here is my PayPal link www.paypal.me/guitarlessons365
I’ve set out to learn this throughout the summer and so far I’ve gotten strange looks from neighbors passing by outside my window
I started learning this, then without thinking I put 13-50s on my electric. I’ll check back in ten years when my fingers are finally healed.
Making me want to switch down to 9’s or tune down half a step on my strat. Maybe I should be learning on my LP Studio for relief, but man what finger burner.
Awesome! Very well explained and very helpful
It's so helpful thank you very very much!!!
I’m just here see how many years it will be before I play this
After this, you will have rock solid fingertips
Haha jokes on you I already do from through the fire and the flames😂
Great lessons!
You know what, I’m gonna say it. This is easy. At least for me. I’m sure if I tried to play this when I first started playing, I would immediately give up. But thank you for the great video man, it really breaks it down!
I didn't have a damned blister since ten years I guess - now I got one.
So me (a bassist) is here during quarantine, sitting with a guitar trying to learn this beautiful song with almost no guitar playing experience ( I can play some nirvana and arctic monkeys) but wish me luck lol
Could you do a video on Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet?
Tyler Wilson Also "It's All Over Now" by Molly Hatchet would be another good song to cover too.
Dude, you are sinply the best! thanks!
This is the second solo I learned during lockdown straight after stairway
The fact this is a part 1 puts fear in my mind
such talent!
I promise I will learn to play this. it was my (really cool) grandpas favorite
*anyway here’s wonderwall*
Total awe!
Thanks so much for the lesson Carl! And for breaking my fingers...
I will be back when I’m ready to play this !
Very nice. This will be damned hard to remember or even print out as tab :p
THANK YOU
Makes me smile 😀 😊
Great lesson Carl
Thanks Carl u the man
❤😮Best guitar solo🤟🏻
been putting this one off too long but i gotta do it. as a guitarist you just have to do learn this at some point.
@3:49 is where to start following along if you're already pretty good at guitar.
Good video, just one suggestion, try playing a little slower at the beginning, should be really helpful to seeing where the bends happen, and when you need to switch, etc etc
Fr, I've tried playing along 20 times and get nothing from this, and I can play master of puppets at normal speed lmao
thanks for the great tutorials, could you possible do one for the solo to allman brothers soulshine?