Octopus's Garden - The Beatles | Guitar Lesson

More ways to support the channel: Super Thanks (see below the video screen) Patreon:   / 12footchain   (tabs and chord charts on patreon) Learn how to play Octopus's Garden as performed by The Beatles from their 1969 Abbey Road album. A fun song, co-written and sung by Ringo Starr, nevertheless has some great country influenced guitar that is worth a deep dive into. John uses a travis-picking fingerstyle that he learned from Donovan during a trip to India the year prior, and George plays some great country-ish style lead guitar throughout and together creates a really fun guitar arrangement. If you have two guitars in your band this one is so much fun to do and nobody expects to hear it. This lesson covers both John and George's parts in entirety. Also, check out these two great demos/covers of the guitar parts in full by ‪@sampopkin‬ One covers the familiar version from the album:    • Octopus's Garden- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)   and another covers all of the noodling solo work from the final take, but didn't make the final mix:    • Octopus's Garden- The Beatles (Guitar Cove...   00:00 Introduction / What to Expect 01:56 Rhythm guitar - getting your tone 03:00 Lesson - John's Travis picking pattern 06:34 Lesson - Rhythm guitar Intro section 07:56 Lesson - Rhythm guitar verse section 08:32 Lesson - Rhythm guitar pre-chorus & Chorus 11:21 Lesson - Rhythm guitar during guitar solo 13:26 Lesson - Rhythm guitar outro section 14:04 Lead guitar - getting your tone and approach 15:50 Lesson - Lead guitar intro section 17:51 Lesson - Lead guitar during verses 18:41 Lesson - Guitar solo 21:46 Lesson - Lead guitar outro 23:49 Final Thoughts Gear used in this video (if you purchase via these links I will earn a small commission): Epiphone Casino https://imp.i114863.net/a1EZoW Fender Stratocaster https://imp.i114863.net/GjyyXm Boss Blues Driver: https://imp.i114863.net/rnPQLB (Gain 9 o'clock, tone 1 o'clock) Boss EQ: https://imp.i114863.net/AoOO0o (1 tik bump in 400, 1.6k, 3.2k) Boss Dimension C Chorus (for John's parts) setting 1 TC Elec. Hall of Fame Reverb: https://imp.i114863.net/5bdEX2 1963 Fender Bassman (V 3, T 7, B 5, P9) Also... WIN FREE GEAR: https://imp.i114863.net/9WoMd3 DEALS ON MUSIC GEAR: https://imp.i114863.net/a1dxGM USED GEAR: https://imp.i114863.net/3P19aB