Johnny Marr was only 20 when he wrote this! Amazing

One question. When I’m learning this song….does the mind rule the body or does the body rule the mind?

Nowhere Fast would be a fun one. There's a lot of great riffs in it.

one of the most beautiful guitar lines of all time. only just getting into the smiths and this song stood out a few days ago while i was out on a walk. gotta learn to play it now

Thumbs up before I have even watched/listened cause I know it will be top notch!

This track is a powerhouse of classic SMITHS. How Marr blends with Joyce and Rourke, w Morrissey's floating melody over top. Synergy at its best. In my top 5 SMITHS songs for sure.

Adrian......if I had your skills, I would not be humble as you are....that said, it's why I prefer your lessons. You make us mortals feel like its ok to be normal. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this lesson and doing what you do! Also, your taste level is impeccable!

Always great to see you do another Smiths song! Cheers!

YEEEESSSS!!!! Now I shall spend a month of my life learning and playing this song. THANK YOUUUUU

Excellent! This is one of my very favorite Smiths tracks to play.

Thank you do much for doing these - I love your videos, so clear, so well thought out and easy to follow and you talk through your gear too - top notch - love it!

Are you kidding me? I just learnt this song the past week and I was wondering if you had a lesson of this amazing piece from Marr. You are the best as always!!

Absolutely wonderful. My band does this song and this has helped flesh out some of the bits I was doing wrong. Thanks again. Your videos are amazingly good and accurate.

Thanks Adrian. I really appreciate your lessons on The Smiths songs. And twice a year is better than only once. Great teacher!!! Thanks a lot for sharing

thank you as always!! your song choices are fantastic, wire, smiths, jonny kidd are much appreciated

Beautifully played; and illustrates the absolute genius of JM. Unreal.

This is one of my favorite smiths tunes and one of the first that I ever learned. I’m about to watch the video and I bet I’m gonna learn I’ve been doing it wrong for years. Thanks for making this!

A love attempting to play still ill sometimes when a get it right purist buzz happens 55 yrs old still adore this track.Great work Adrian .

Great lesson! And that tone is superb and inspiring

Thank you for this. Your channel has been an inspiration for me for a long time.

Thank you! Was so excited to open this and see another Smiths lesson

Beautifully played! One of my favourites.

One of my absolute faves by The Smiths! Thanks Adrian!

Awesome again! Thanks for doing this.

Always a pleasure, Adrian. Rock on!

What an excellent channel man superb delivery of teaching. 🤝

JFM is amazing. Great as always 👍

Wow, I am already in love! And it's not even Friday, lol! Well done! 😍❤️

Love it. Thanks for these lessons!

Hey you Are an amazing! Teacher, plus u got great taste in music, learned some of my favourite riffs from you, would never have been able to do this otherwise, never stop! Love from Oslo

Excellent lesson, you're a wonderful human being !

Keep 'em coming. Love it!

Jazzmaster + chorus + delay = best combination

It sounds good to me! I'm getting my Jazzmaster out tonight!

Thanks Adrian you should never apologise for doing another JM tutorial, I’ve waited 30 years for them and they are worth the wait! How about Aztec Camera Walk out to Winter? Another guitar genius worth exploring.

Damn. That is beautiful. Fantastic work.

My favourite Smiths tune. Thanks Adrian

Beautiful playing 💯🔥

Thanks that's great and thanks for the details on the Pedals at the end.

Love it, nice one Adrian 😎🎙🎸✅

Perfect. I just picked up the guitar again (sorry) and started learning this. Also, glad you’re feeling better…

you are so great at this. thank you

I really liked your teaching style in the Still Ill guitar lesson i.e. taking the time to explain how the chords relate to the notes in the picking parts and it never felt like It was out of reach for my abilities - exactly as it sounds on the Smiths album. Just Great! The song "Strange Bedfellows" by Sandie Shaw and guitarist Kevin Armstrong from the 1988 album Hello Angel would be an interesting track to learn (I have never found any online covers/lessons for this) although I think there are at least a couple of layers of fairly difficult guitar parts in there so it's probably beyond me- . Many thanks for your lesson.

Another excellent lesson Adrian! Compliments on the Dinosaur Jr. shirt.

Outstanding-can never get enough of Johnny Marr songs. Like others here, I did try to work this out years ago by listening to the CD over, and over….and over. I never got as close as this, though. Many thanks!

Awesome! Only problem: Why didn‘t you post that 30 years earlier when I first tried to learn that song 😃. Johnny Marr‘s guitar parts are a royal pain in the arse to figure out, especially when all you‘ve got is a CD player or a cassette deck. Fun times 😀.

Your are a legend!!!

Thank you so much!

Again, AWESOME!

Thanks, love this tune 👍

Excellent well done as always Thanks a lot.

This is fantastic Adrian, thank you so much! I’ve been a Smiths fan since Hatful of Hollow was released here in Canada (1984?). I’m so glad to be able to play this now. My only suggestion for an alternative is when playing that first arpeggio, I find it easier to play the F# by playing the open E string rather than fretting the B string before the slide up. Purely a matter of preference. Also, for extra JFM jangliness, it sounds awesome on a 12 string electric.

Brilliant as always! Marr is a genius

This song is great .. congrats

...It just wasn't like the old days anymore No, it wasn't like those days Am I still ill?... Awesomeness Adrian ...great work my brother!!!

My favorite Smiths track!

Brilliant!

This one is awesome. I actually managed to get this one down pretty quickly.

Thank you so much

That’s was a great as always, I only knew the first part of the song so I’m glad that I was able to learn the second part from you. As for a recommendation, I think “last night I dreamt that somebody loved me” is one of Johnny Marr’s favorites. I actually don’t see anyone teaching it either, so that would be a good song 😅 (sorry I like a lot of Marr’s songs)

I love it when the Jazzmaster comes out!

i learned this song yesterday and now you posted this

Lovely number!

This is brilliant

Great lesson ❤ Cool taste.

Love the Dino shirt

thumbs up!! my next Smiths song going to learn.. I've finished This Charming Man, Barbarism Begins at Home, Headmaster Ritual, Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, Suffer Little Children and Bigmouth Strikes Again!!

02:08 "Feels like I'm trying to crack some fiendish code when it comes to figuring out JM guitar parts" 😂 Nailed it a gain Adrian, thanks for another in depth well researched and well presented lesson, keep the Smiths coming 👍🏻

Well that just made the Bank Holiday. Awesome.

You take on Johnny Marr like a boss. Daunting.

Another wonderful lesson on the Smiths. Would love to see a video lesson on 'William it was really nothing' .

Magic!! Would love to see you do some MSP, Faster or anything from Holy Bible really would hit the spot!

Top job Adrian! Much appreciated as there were a couple of tweaks for me which sound a big improvement. Any chance of Nowhere Fast next from Mr Marr? 🙏

Can always count on you for a great Smiths tutorial! Stretch out and wait next?

YES MORE SMITHS!!!

Thanks so much for all you do, the lessons are outstanding and I'm also blown away but how clean and articulate your recordings are - Just because you ask - Please do an in-depth tutorial on the outro for " There is a light that never goes out " - I haven't been able to figure that out and all the videos I have found are pretty lousy !

So cool !

Waiting on XTC senses song or similar … you have the best channel on utube

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Great as usual, Adrian!!! Could you possibly do “I Wanna Be Adored” (live at Blackpool) by The Stone Roses? Cheers from the US!

I'd love to see you break down Nothing But Flowers by Talking Heads, although I'm not sure how you'd seperate Marr's parts from the others. Mind you, it wouldn't matter!

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Protect this man.

Great lesson. One thing missing in an open B sting at the end of part 1 of the main riff, right before you play part 2 of the main riff let then open B string ring out.

Would love to see Bigmouth Strikes Again! The thundering acoustic part and the cool lead guitar!

Interested to hear what you think of Killing Joke and their guitar player Geordie. He is another one of my non-shredder guitar heroes like Marr, McGeoch, etc

when online tabs fail, you succeed, thank you

I never at it with a capo, but this is a damn good version so will from now on.

You had me at the thumbnail

Awesome.

once I tried to learn Heaven knows I'm miserable now, even with tabs, but to no avail.. would love to see the lesson on this one:)

thumbs up for the lesson.. sadly, can't do another for the Dino shirt :)

Fucking Great,saw this live Spring 84 UK tour

Don't worry about the various interpretations of Johnny Marr riffs, it seems that usually somewhere on any Smiths track there are at least 12 different guitar parts to figure out!

More Johnny Marr would be great Adrian! Thanks...

Finally!

Brilliant playing n teachin- is it possible you could do Reel Around The Fountain at some point as its very difficult to interpret from the record.

Fantastic. If I had a suggestion for future songs I would say Leatherface or Bad Religion on the heavy side. Bill Nelson solo or Ryuichi Sakamoto on a purely instrumental level. And of course anything more by Durutti Column. :)

Fantastic job! Would love to see some Teenage Fanclub tracks on the channel. Sparkys Dream or Discolite maybe?

Could you please do Rowland S Howard - Sleep Alone! Would love to see you tackle that.