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In this acoustic guitar lesson I will show you how to play the finger-picked Fleetwood Mac classic “Landslide”.
Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has long been recognized for his incredible fingerstyle guitar technique and his work in “Landslide” is no exception.
In this Landslide guitar lesson, I will demonstrate how to play the main acoustic fingerstyle part to this Fleetwood Mac classic.
The tuning for “Landslide” will be standard tuning with a capo at the 3rd fret. Any fret numbers I mention in the video lesson will be referring to that number of frets above the capo. So essentially just treat the capo as the zero fret.
There are actually a few guitar layers going on during “Landslide”, but I am sticking with the essential parts in this lesson so it will sound great with just one guitar.
For the entire song Lindsey Buckingham employs the technique of Travis Picking. There are also many songs on GuitarLessons365 that use this picking technique.
After you get the fingerpicking pattern in your hands, you will basically need to just learn the different chord progressions in order to play the entire song.
The verse uses a short 4 chord progression but is broken up every once in a while with a short pause on the A minor 7th chord. Make sure you know the sound of the song very well and you shouldn’t have much trouble figuring out when these short pauses occur.
For the chorus we have a lot more going on both with the amount of chords in the progression and the extra embellishments that are thrown into the chords. These embellishments vary each time around, but in the lesson I will demonstrate a nice a relatively consistent way to approach them.
The main focus throughout all of these guitar parts for “Landslide” is in the consistent Travis Picking pattern. If you can keep this pattern going smoothly, and can play all the chords in time, you will sound great no matter what embellishments you may or may not add to the chords. 🙂
So I hope this song will give you a nice challenge and also a great song to play at the end of it!
Carl…
