I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say…you can never do too many Smith songs…fantastic work my man😎

Can’t overdo Johnny Marr, dude. Keep at it. We love it.

And J.M was born....on Halloween! Ah the magic of Mr Marr and The Smiths!

One of my favourite albums. Bought the cassette in 86 wrongly thinking Panic was on it. Didn't like the album at first but it cost me like ten bucks so i forced myself to keep it. Now I dont know what I'd do without it.

I love u man, I learned Girl afraid from u, and headmasters ritual, ur the best! Just picked up the guitar a year ago and I wouldn’t be as good without you so I really appreciate it. Keep being the goat my guy!

My favorite vocal moment of this song is Morrissey's "SHHH" at the end of the last chorus. I love that.

Hi Adrian. As reluctant to play Marr as you are it’s a fantastic reminder of great songwriting. Melody and composition over flashy solos. I was playing this recently and really appreciate the electric guitar part. Passions previously and now the Smiths, really fantastic work I’m very grateful. Best KZfaq channel by far

Your content is absolutely amazing, Adrian! Clear explanations, and a very didactic approach. You nail it! Congrats! Cheers!

A fantastic tutorial of one of the best Smiths tunes. Thank you.

The Smiths is always small armies of beautiful layers of guitar. This is incredible. Beautiful. Thank you

Possibly my favourite Smiths song! Beautiful playing

A great tune, one of Johnny’s best. Many thanks Adrian , your a star

Man, think of all the hours of work this video has created for so many of us -- inspiring us to learn to play well enough to hopefully experience the same joy we imagine Adrian must be having when he plays this! Big thanks from so many of us for your consistently clear tutorials and your terrific playing (and the hours and years of work and play it took for you to get so good!) Time to get to work on this! (Friendly reminder -- we'll learn this faster and play it better if we're practicing with some time keeping device like a metronome or the recording. And it's fun! It's just easy to forget to do it sometimes so, ya know, friendly reminder.)

Thanks for this. Attempted to learn this 2 years ago when starting out as i loved the song but didn’t have a clue. Watching this video with more experience im gonna give it another go

What a cheery little tune for a darkly-titled song! But that’s the Smiths in a nutshell I suppose. Thanks for the lesson.

i've only really got into the smiths' music these past couple months but it's been obvious to me since the very first minute that johnny marr is an absolute genius and utterly creative and unique. it's so nice. very thankful for this video as well, being able to see what's actually played is such a game changer. i wouldn't want to learn smiths songs from stupid tabs and chord sheets.

thank you AGAIN sir!! you have made me a very happy man 😁 you are the master of deciphering johnny mar 🙏

Outstanding young man, I’ve always avoided weird tunings as the guitar is hard enough to master in normal tuning but this song deserves the effort, we’ll done on doing a great job of teaching this out so well done, bloody good show sir😊

There is always room for Johnny Marr/Smiths tutorials! Thanks!!!

This song is beautiful, i’m learning the guitar right now and my goal is to be able to play this song like you

Dude this I wild, I just got really into the Smiths a couple weeks ago

Love it! I remember when Johnny played a bit of this online, but it was just the acoustic and not the electric track.

SO BEAUTIFUL !!!

oh wow this is wonderful some of my happiest youtube moments when you post a smiths video :-)

Been trying to play this since JM played it on his instagram during lockdown, my attempts never sounded quite right. Thanks Adrian, looks like you’ve done a great job once again. btw Can never have too much JM!

This also reminds me so much of the sound of the group the Sundays. I now love open G.

love It Mate Sounds Fantastic!💥🎸🎹🎵🎧🖤

Thank you! I would be "that guy" if I could...every video you do of his brings me one step closer. Thank you!

This will go down well. nicely done and good to hear the guitar parts like this

Sounds phenomenal, Dude.

Nursing a damaged left index finger, (dog bite) not able to play for 6 weeks, I notice you barely use said digit in the acoustic part, so open G tuning and this song could be my salvation and road to recovery... Just the acoustic alone sounded brilliant. Perfect timing! Thanks Adrian.

Yes! Thank you! I’m teaching right now, but will work on this song over the weekend.

Well done! I like The Smiths too.

Certainly in the spirit Adrian well done again always great thanks for the banshees in depth much appreciated sir!

I was very fortunate to stumble upon Johnny in this breakdown a few years back, very nice to be reminded of it. Top job Adrian, 👏👏 Like deployed 👍 😎🎙🏎✅️ Edit:- get well 👌

This man is a blessing

Thanks!

I suppose the titular track would've been too on the nose...

Brilliant, as always! And there’s no such thing as too many Smiths/Johnny Marr songs.

Great lesson Adrian, love all ur tutorials!

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, DANKE!!

My favorite Smiths song!

Thanks a lot. One of my favs. I didn’t know how to play ir. So thanks again. You could probably do Smiths songs twice a year instead of once. Haha. Thanks Adrian. Always loo forward to Your Friday lessons

Excellent work as always. Top marks Adrian !

My fave smiths song i think

So funny you posted this, I’ve fallen into a Smiths rabbit hole today. Haven’t really done much else, besides just trying to feel some genuine emotion

Brilliant! Well done ! Keats and Yeats are on your side!

Thank you *so* much. My favorite Smiths song.

What a great choice adrian!

Funny the vid of marr playing this just popped up in my feed yesterday

Brilliant, thank you so much - love it!

Great lesson. Keep em coming 👍

Great tutorial man. Thank you!!

Adrian you’re a legend, my patreon money are well spent

Thank you

THANK YOU, MAN!

Brilliant. I don't know how you manage to untangle those layers. Would be great if you got to hear the masters sometime - I feel your dedication to the cause merits it. Johnny are you listening? :)

Adrian that's some smart stuff . Thanks

I was thinking you were gonna shred some dimebag

Everytime u post a smiths song I celebrate

Thank you very much for this great lesson Adrian :)

Well, holy hell, this was unexpected. Thank you so much!

Another great Clip. Thank you for that. 😁👍

Please become that guy that always does Smith stuff

Adrian, I'm sure you're old enough to remember the desert that was guitar magazines in the '80s, '90s, and '00s that endlessly recycled Classic Rock, Hair Metal, and Post Grunge Millennium Rock without the slightest hint of Post Punk. In all of this issues, only once did they do a Smiths song ("Bigmouth Strikes Again"). Reading those, you'd be totally unaware of the best guitar player of the '80s, or McGeoch, or Coxon, or anybody that didn't shred or play blooze. This is to say thank you for remedying this gross oversight with style and substance. If guitar music makes a mainstream comeback, it will be from your viewers.

Please do a lesson on barbarism begins at home . I’ve learnt cemetery gates now from your tutorial ! 👍 much appreciated man thanks your great !

FINALLY SOME MORE JOHNNY GOODNESS

Thanks so much for posting another song that has inspired me to learn a new one and get out of my current rut!! What an absolutely lovely tune! Interesting that the electric tracks seem to be in standard tuning.

Great job Adrian. I've heard on some bootlegs where JM does some staccato like stops and starts on the outro section, sounds brilliant.

In adrian we trust. Cheers again👍👍

This is just amazing. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want which is for you to post lessons for as many Smiths songs as possible. I am going to be subscribing to your Patreon ASAP. Thanks so much!

brilliant what a talent you are, and Johnny obvz❤

Smiffs woz a ying n yang miracle.

Good stuff!

Tremendous - and thank you.

What a treat!!

Johnny Marr rules

Cool lesson, thanks. Just realized the acoustic chord voicings are similar to Led Zep's "Thats The Way". Wonder was Marr a closet fan.

Great playing. You should figure out a tutorial on The Sign of Fire by The Fixx. Great example of new wave guitar playing and no tutorials online anywhere

The Smiths have always been an extremely underrated band and I find it pretty interesting that they appear to be more popular lately than they were back in the late 80s. I first started listening to them shortly before The Queen is Dead and have been a huge fan since. Aside from the lyrical content, Marr’s chord voicings are pretty amazing, great video!

Nick Drake was also known to use old, dead strings on his acoustics so you’re in excellent company!

If you were that guy who did Smiths stuff every other week, then there would be no complaints from me! Mind, I still haven't got round to trying Girl afraid yet!

This great, thanks you!

Heart Song by Gordon Giltrap. It was the theme of the BBCs Holiday Programme. Now we know what Marr watched as a kid.

Superb!👏👏

This couldn't have come at a better time as I just finished up your previous lessons on Still Ill and What Difference Does It Make? Looking forward to learning this one. Thank you!

I would love to see the Peel session version of what difference does it make. The rawness is great and it would be a short video as you have previously covered most of it. Just a thought, and why worry about being that guy. 😛

During the 1986 tour he played it in standard though. not sure which is more accurate.

Clever!

You can always be that guy.

Be that guy!

Great. I love this Song and just couldn’t find a good tutorial. Is there a chance you could do an Built To Spill song in the future?

Yes!!!!!!

Thanks. Looking for lessons. I'll check out your website.

Damn. I thought you're doing Pantera lesson.

Yessssssssss

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

FUCK YES THANK YOU FOR THIS

For some reason the hardest part for me is that extended bit 13:07 where it slides up and back before Am7 shape ending. Such an off beat pattern

Weird timing. I literally learned to play this song last week. This was still helpful for adding some more colour though.