Thursday, May 6, 2010

How to play "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd on acoustic guitar

Today's lesson will show you how to play Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic tune Freebird on acoustic guitar. This is a great rock song, usually played with Skynyrd's three electric guitar attack, but sounds great using a solo acoustic arrangement, IMHO. Here are the chords you need: G, D, Em, F, C, and back to D. Just loop through that chord progression and you are good to go. The video below shows how it sounds when I play it. Just one note, for those of you who want to play along: I have my guitar tuned down a full step to match my vocal range (DGCFAD vs. EADGBE). Enjoy!