Hey there, Neil Young fans! If you recognize that little lick, it's from "Old Man," one of his earlier tunes. Today, I want to show you how I play it on acoustic guitar. It's in the key of D, and one interesting thing is that F he hits, which is really like a D chord moved up to the fifth fret. Then, you open up that E string to get this sound. You can lead off with the D string.
I'm hitting a pattern that goes back to G with a second finger hammer-on on the second fret of the high E string, a James Taylor move.
With iconic tunes like this, playing it exactly as the record is fine, but I always say learn it first and then improvise to make it your own. I tend to do whatever works for me, whether it's the key or arrangement.
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