St James Infirmary - Full Tutorial with TAB - [EASY Fingerstyle Guitar]

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In this video, you learn how to play St James Infirmary on guitar.
I am going to walk you through a simple arrangement that is easy to play and sounds great!
This tune is an 8 bar blues and has been covered by many people in many different ways. It is fun to play and is a great song to showcase your skills when someone asks you to play something for them on guitar.
In this lesson, you learn 2 choruses of St James Infirmary.
The first chorus is a very simple arrangement that puts the chords with the melody so you can play both parts at the same time. This might sound tricky, however, the arrangement you learn here is simple.
The second chorus simplifies things even further for a slightly different approach to the tune.
Both choruses complement each other nicely and go together to create a very cool arrangement of St James Infirmary you can pull out anytime you want to impress someone with your guitar playing!
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Tablature for the arrangements in this video can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/st-james-infirmary-guitar-lesson-beginner

[@garybryansongs]

Thank you so much for taking the time to put this on CZcams!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@garybryansongs, you are very welcome! :)

[@manttheusurper]

This arrangement is so cool! Great lesson thank you!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@manttheusurper, you are very welcome! Glad you like the arrangement :)

[@mikedempsey1797]

Wow this is incredible. I’ve been going back to this song for years and could never figure it out. This is by far the best way I’ve found it explained. Thank you!!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@mikedempsey1797, you are very welcome! Gald you like the tutorial and that it looks like it will help you with the St James Infirmary. It's a great tune :)

[@xx-ev2sq]

fantastic, deserves more love

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@xx-ev2sq, glad you liked the video :)

[@waynecaswell5727]

A really great lesson. Thank you for teaching so many good lessons.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@waynecaswell5727 you are very welcome! :)

[@danielparker1102]

Really enjoy your relaxed teaching approach. I’d love to see how you approach arranging a finger style piece-like Red River Valley or something simple like that.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Thanks! I’m glad you liked the lesson. I will have to check out Red River Valley :)

[@Chimp_No_1]

Great lesson ! Thanks !

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@bulwul1, you are very welcome! :)

[@beckyjohnson1008]

Great lesson - as you said it is easy to play and it sounds nice. Would like to see what you could do with the Christmas carol Silent Night.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@beckyjohnson1008, thank you! Yes, could definitely do a nice version of Silent Night :)

[@annemariekaczorowski1863]

Thank you

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome! :)

[@tuna22lm]

I really enjoyed this. I have a question for you. Do you have something like this for playing happy birthday? I really want to learn to play it using chords, melody instead of just hitting one string at a time, I have 10 days to try and learn to play it differently, I just saw a guy plays it the way I am talking about but he wasn't teaching it and there was no cheat sheet, so I could only watch I even slowed it down but that was awful, so just thought I would ask and hope that you did thank you.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@tuna22lm glad you liked the lesson :) I don't have a video on Happy Birthday as a Chord/Melody Arrangement. This video will help in learning how to create your own chord/melody arrangements, perhaps not in 10 days, but it is worth the investment of time: czcams.com/video/kdD7kEHYWSU/video.html

[@tuna22lm]

@@acousticguitarlessons oh that's to bad I think that ,, that is one song that a lot of people would like to learn as there are birthdays happening every day. Thank you anyway, oh and that link that you gave me I already had been watching, but at my age I would find it difficult to try and do it on my own, if I see one that I know like the red river valley one the guy asked about, and you showed how you would play it with the tabs shown that would make it a lot easier for me to learn. I was just using that one as an example because I know that song. I have great difficulty learning by books I always have, I am the type that needs some kind of guidance if I watch someone do something then I can usually learn it that way but if I can't I find it very difficult for me that is how I have learned things all my life. But I will preserve if I have to play it one string at a time then I will and the guy that I seen on CZcams that was playing it the way I wanted to learn how to play it well he was filming from an angle so you couldn't tell what the chord shapes looked like and he was playing up and down the neck. He is the only one that I have seen play happy birthday that way everyone else and I have seen a lot are teaching how to play it either one string at a time or just strumming the chords, I didn't really want to play it that way if I could have learned how to play it like that one guy did, oh well such is life, thank you anyway take care.