Best thing with this is you won't get someone coming on saying its not played like that.

Am I really getting to text David gray. I lost my son 3 years ago. And most of my best memories are of him singing in his room along to your songs and me standing outside his door listening. Thanks David for the music

WOW, When i looked up "sail away with me on guitar " I was never expecting David to be giving the lesson. Amazing. Such a beautiful song. I walked down the aisle to this song. Thank you David for your music.

Stunning piece of songwriting topped off by the artist giving us a personal lesson...respect and love for DG

What a treat to see the actual artist give the lesson. What a great song, to boot. Thank you, DG!

These videos are a pure gift. Doesn’t the guitar sound amazing ? I wonder what strings he’s using. Just brilliant. Comes across as an extremely humble guy.

Great to see the actual songwriter being kind enough to give his time to explain how to play it. Much respect David.

David thank you so very much. What a special performer to show us how you played your song. Wonderful.

I can't believe its been over 20 years. Fond memories of first hearing this great song. Thanks, David!

A truly magnificent album. helped me through some pretty tough times. Thank you David.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to listen to such a great musician. To be taught to play, by the man himself, truly awesome...

Massively! under-rated singer, song writer.

16 people can't handle the fact the guy who wrote it gave the lesson.

Oh sail away . My favourite love song ever. My late husband and I would listen to this together. Thank you 😍

Thank You David !! what a lovely surprise and a real privilege to get a really sound lesson from the man himself !! ... How can 27 folk NOT like this ????? They have zero taste !! .....

Would have killed for this video 20 years ago!

Love how it's actually him doing the lesson. White Ladder means so much to me it was a huge part of my teenage years. What a talented songwriter he is

This is so incredible. My mom when I was younger took me to one of your concerts. She loved you. I now realize how powerful your voice and songs are, not even 2 weeks ago i started to approach playing your songs on the guitar and then just found this. Amazing

How does anyone give a thumbs down to David Gray? Especially when he has taken the time out to teach us!! Classic song that never gets old!! Thank you for this.

David,as a fellow musician,I must commend you. Thank you for bringing your beautiful music free to KZfaq. Not only do you write such fantastic songs but now you come onto KZfaq with an acoustic guitar showing people how to play them. What a sound guy is David..God bless

The legend himself showing how it’s done brilliant ❤️❤️❤️

David I love you, My mum got the white ladder album for me when I was 14 and I still play it to this day (I'm 33 now) You're the reason why I play guitar! Thank you for everything :)

Oh, Man! These are the sweetest sounds from my childhood. Im so happy to hear it again! God bless you!

We are fortunate that someone who made the song taught us to play the way he played thankyou David🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊😊♥️

This song has been one of my favorites for many years now. It means a lot to me. I keep coming back to it, feeling and singing along with you. Thank you so much for creating it, David.

That was so cool... when he actually started singing just took me back God knows how many years.

BRILLIANT! Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

Very gracious of you to share this with us David - thanks very much for your kindness- all the best

Every artist should do this.

Saw you many years ago at V festival and I must admit, I was amazed at your stage presence and how you filled the souls of 80,000 people that day, nice to see you 👍

Amazing. Dude is a genius and artist and a gentleman. All at once. Love him.

Many thanks for your generosity in sharing this great song with us David, you prove that above all, music is a giving thing and what a gift!

A Lesson from a wonderful musician ,what a Christmas day gift. Thank you.

This is brilliant! Thank you for all these lessons, David! I wish more artists would do this

Thanks David! I fell in love with this album when it came out in ‘98 and still listen to it to this day. So many memories that these songs are tied to. Please keep the tutorials coming! Would love one for every song on the album. Especially Babylon. Cheers.

Wow. I remember sitting in a dirty factory office, after hours, working alone and far from home. Listened to ‘Lost Songs’ and cried wondering what the fuck I was doing with my life. That moment brought me closer to realising what was important. Thanks David for the music.

Quite apart from the usefulness of a very clear tutorial, I was quite moved by this video. I've been listening to your very poignant music for many years and play a few of your songs in an approximate fashion on guitar. This is the first time I've stumbled across you explaining how you play one. Sail Away takes me back to my 20s and the life and love I had then was very different. But your songs stay the course and travel along with us as faithful companions somehow. Great to see you in fine fettle and thanks for a great vid 👍

David Gray, one of the music industry's true gentlemen

I hope this is the start of more uploads............thanks David and all the gang.

To notch. Don’t know how many artists would show their tricks. Best way to get your tunes played. Respect. Now a classic.

I used my Yamahas FG-150 that I bought in 1972 which is a very good copy of your Martin, to play along with this video. Once I heard 'Babylon' and saw Mr Gray at Glastonbury, when I think he replaced someone who had withdrawn, my wife and I spent many happy Summer evenings (and others) listening to White Ladder. Never imagined that I would be able to be taught any of those songs by the man himself. Thank you so much

One of the first songs I ever learned to play. Good grief when I think of how long this song came out I feel old and David here hasn’t aged a day. Lucky sod.

A great memory one of my friends and I have, sat on the grass on a warm sunny day, beer in hand, enjoying a smoke, listening to you on the Other Stage at Glasto. We often reminisce about that moment in time where there is no place we would rather be, just absolute bliss!

Oh My This Is Amazing! I love this (White Ladder) whole album to it’s core....to see you teach these phenomenal songs is something so special. Thank You! 10000x

Thanks David this is one of my all time favourites, when I play this everyone knows the words and everyone sings along, great tune.

Thanks for posting these ‘tutorial’ videos. You’ve made at least one person very happy! 🙂 Can’t wait to see you in Bournemouth next year!

I love you David!! I can't wait to see you play in Wellington, NZ. X Thank you for White Ladder - an album that has spoken to me for many years.

I love this man, and I love his music, and I love how he explains his chord progression. Oh, and White Ladder is far and above, his BEST work

Thank you so much for sharing this David!

Thank you for sharing! I'm looking to get back into playing guitar, so please never delete this cause this is one of the first songs I want to learn!

This is truly wonderful. Thank you for taking them time to put these videos up. They have made me appreciate them even more!

Spent 3 hours with Mr. Gray at the Orpheum Theatre ( third row center ) a couple of weeks ago in Phoenix. Very fortunate to be the first ( my wife actually, I was photographer ) to greet him as he exited the stage door headed to his bus. He spent a few minutes talking with us and signing a copy of his Anniversary Edition White Ladder. Our fourth time we have seen him live. After a short break in the concert, he came out ( all in white ) and played Tainted Love - Soft Cell and brought the house down! The first time I had ever heard him cover a song ( except of course Say Hello Wave Goodbye ). Then followed 3 David Bowie songs ( my wife’s favorite in her youth )White Ladder is our favorite CD of all time and Sail Away is my favorite D.G. Song. What a night! What memories…. Thank you David Gray. Now I’m currently learning to play Sail Away and somehow I missed this video until now…. 8 years until 30th anniversary White Ladder tour?

thank you sharing all your gifts all these years!

Absoloutly bloody wonderful David. Always loved your music since the days of white ladder. But now I am 3 years into playing guitar and I have you teaching me one of your songs.... Well life is just solo fine.. Love it.

Always likes your hits, but when Wife took me to your show in Denver a couple of summer's ago, I was hooked, one of the best concerts ever...and those hardcore fans there that night, showed their love. What a tight band you have. Thanks...I'll learn a few of these songs for her.

great stuff david gray. so unselfish to do this.. and I love how david proves he is human by struggling at one stage to hit the high notes... hope for us all!!!

👀!!!!! I sure didn’t expect you to teach us! What an awesome gift!!! 🙏🙌🏻🙌🏻🥳

Just got back from White Ladder tour Bournmouth, headed as fast as I could to my guitar - this is amazing!

So very cool that you are doing this David. You are way bad ass for doing it. Saw you in Atlanta this summer. Thumbs way up!!!!!

I never knew how much I needed this. Legend 👏👏👏

This series of instructional videos on White Ladder is killing my productivity today. KILLING IT. I'm all day with this.

Marvelous. Wonderful. Superb. Thank you for this series of beautiful lessons. Possibly my best ever discovery on KZfaq.

Aww man this is awesome, I was hoping so bad you’d start singing and then you did ! Such a great song I think I’ll go play it now

Anybody else get to the end of the video and realise you didn’t take any of the instruction in because you were in shock and disbelief that it was the man himself! This has got to be the coolest guitar tutorial I’ve ever seen!! Top man for doing this 👍

Very generous doing this lesson David , I’ve been teaching your song to my guitar students for years and it’s so nice to see you do this . Hope you have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year . I’m a songwriter myself and your music has been a great inspiration to me . Many thanks .

Great man. LOVE your music. You show how to play your songs. You're GREAT. Allways.

Straight from the source! Love your songs and work! Thanks for being the inspiration that you are!

Legend! Thanks David, this song is magical, and thanks for sharing how it is played on the guitar.

I woke up with this song in my head after not hearing it for years. So I decided to look up the tab. Then I saw a video tutorial and thought that I'd much prefer that than ultimate guitar. After a couple of minutes I thought this guy even bobs his head like David Gray. It took me a while to realise that it was actually him. This is by far the coolest guitar tutorial I've ever stumbled across. Thank you so much David.

Great demo. The greatest songs are constructed like this and that was one of them!

My exploded when I saw this. I've been wanting to know how to play this eveer since the album came out.

Bloody brilliant man!! I'm onto it!!

Love your gift of music ... thank you for sharing this... be blesed🙏 ❤️from Arizona USA

Always loved this song but didn't have a Scooby about the chords, so cool to see you laying them out, I wish more artists would do this.

I don't even play guitar but it was flipping ace to get a lesson from the man himself...Cheers Dave..

Absolutely beautiful song, I need to learn now.

Great to hear that voice again!!! Part of so many peoples lives...awesome

I’ve gigged this song many of times along with a lot of other david G ‘s .. great artist

Fantastic! Amazing song. Thanks for sharing

If that’s not sharing the music I don’t know what is!!! What a gift for the artist of such an amazing hit to share this!!

I think this man is a fantastic artist. I'm not sure I can say underrated as such, but when you consider some of the other so called "artists" out there now with millions of subscribers, I guess he is. Brilliant, unique voice, excellent songwriting, strong guitar. I came across him by accident many years ago and still play his albums regularly. Decided I sound best when I'm in the shower...my poor neighbours.

Indeed after knowing how difficult the chord arrangement is, it’s much an appreciated song. Way better than the tripe you hear these days.

What a song! Thank you for sharing !

Wow. So awesome! I’ve lived your music when I first discovered you in 2001. Listened to this album over and over flying from Boston to San Francisco every other week! Also my favorite song. Thank you for this. Going bust out my guitar tomorrow.

Thank you for that. Definitely one of my favorite songs!

An artist who happens to be a popular person. That voice! Great guitar playing.

wow, can't wait to start playing alongside your live performance videos!

My favourite song. Incredible! Thank you for sharing David 🙏

A real joy to hear this again. Mad! I've got the album.

Great song and lesson David thank you.

Something so very special about a person like David , it shines out whenever they take the time and have the understanding that others will benefit so much from a personal tutorial. What an absolutely lovely thing to do, showing others exactly how you play this song will make a difference to a lot of people. Many thanks David , such a lovely thing to do. 🌌💕🌠

Been to your concert in Berlin this year, like last time; love Gold in a brass age, and of course Sail Away too and all the other songs I hear for about 20 years now. What a nice little early Christmas gift for me (and I hope a lot others), thank you very much! Keep on creating such great music and please return to Berlin soon, can't wait! Cheers and merry Christmas to you and your family, David.

Love it! I wish more artists did this.

You've heard it from the man... 👍 Only a handful of celeb guitarist song writers treat us bedroom guitarist's every now and then. Authentic original Christmas gift for us ☺ Merry Christmas

Fantastic. What better way to make sure your song is played correctly than to teach it yourself. Thank you sir.

I'm thrilled to discover you've done some tutorials for your songs. They're beautiful. I can't wait to try my hand at the way they're supposed to be played. Saw your show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley last Friday (7/29/22). Brilliant. I can still feel the good energy I took from it days later. Thank you!

Thanks david have so many memories of this song great tune and thanks from Ireland bro 🇮🇪

Thank you! This is also on the list of songs my daughter wanted to learn for open mic. I thought I had it, but this sounds much better. We're doing a few other songs of yours too.

Thank you David! I always love hearing this song!

I am a fan of your music, but this may be the coolest thing that I have seen. Thank you.