How to play Long Way Home by Tom Waits - Acoustic Guitar Lesson

An in-depth video guitar lesson on how to play 'Long Way Home' by Tom Waits. Guitar teacher Ry Naylor takes you through all the chords, chord progressions and strumming patterns with on-screen chord boxes, rhythm slashes and tab.

How to play 'Long Way Home' by Tom Waits - Acoustic Guitar Lesson

The original recording upon which my transcription is based:

The tab is available to download in .pdf format by clicking on the image below:

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That’s all from me for a little while. I’m off to see family and friends in the U.K. and taking a much-needed break. ⁣
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I’m always locked away in my work room so it’s very rare that I get to share my playing with my children. I had a very special moment with my little one, Emi today that reminded me that I really should do it more often.

It’s another Chord of the Day for you. This one came from a filming session this week on the ol’ sus2 vs. add9 issue. It’s the subject of a YouTube lesson I’ve got coming up soon. Been working like a crazy this last few days getting some videos done to release whilst I’m away on holiday. More on that later. Enjoy! 👍🏻🙏🏻

A mini-lesson on the minor blues scale, used in this week’s lick video. If this is new to you, its a great first step to adding some more colour to your minor pentatonic scale and licks. The ‘blue’ or ‘blues’ note is a b5 (diminished 5th). Check out my latest video lesson on my YouTube channel for a great example. Link in bio @rynaylorguitar

Get your FREE ‘Fretboard Mastery’ eBook when you join my mailing list (link in bio). Here is your eleventh essential fretboard pattern. Our 5-2 octave from the previous post can immediately become a 4-1 octave shape if we move the notes down a string towards the floor. Nothing changes here are we don’t have any note moving from string 3(G) to 2(B) 👊🏻👍🏻

Many of you have ask for a printable of the finger independence chart, so I’ve updated it with tabs and added it to my Patreon page. Link in bio @rynaylorguitar 👍🏻🙏🏻⁣
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#TBT to STILL my most popular post EVER. This is still something I do every practice session. This is a great warmup exercise to work your finger independence. This grid is all the possible fingering combinations for playing a basic 1-2-3-4 pattern. Choose a combination and play it up and down the string sets. Use that metronome to keep good time! Credit to the master Guthrie Govan who was the first that I saw lay things out this way 👍🏻🙏🏻 This might be available soon on my Patreon page…just sayin’ 😉⠀⁣
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