The Sound Of Silence is the song that started it all for Simon and Garfunkel. It’s been covered many times and its beautiful simplicity is often hard to capture. You need to play with complete control and delicacy. Homeward Bound is a stunning folk song about missing home while being away on the road.
Both songs bring Simon’s classic finger style technique to the fore and we’ll be capturing the essence of both in this lesson.
Both of these songs are often hailed in the top ten Simon & Garfunkel songs and there is a clear reason why. They are as beautiful lyrically as they are musically.
The Sound Of Silence has a simple part that is almost classical in its approach. It gradually develops from basic finger picking to strumming, but no matter what Simon plays it just feels so perfect as an accompaniment to one of the greatest songs ever written. There is a sutlety to the delivery that is truly important. If you get it wrong the audience feels it. You need to play it just right so that the lyrics flow over the top.
Homeward Bound utilises the travis technique and basic chords to create a weaving chord sequence that wraps perfectly around the vocal melodies. It has more movement than The Sound Of Silence but is no less impressive.
We’ll be looking at the main body of each song, showing you how to achieve the best tone and technique to master your performances.
This online course is aimed at Low Intermediate and up players.
It’s really for acoustic guitars but electric guitars are fine.
This online course includes:
Lesson 1 – Mrs Robinson & Cecilia
Lesson 2 – See above
Lesson 3 – The Boxer
Lesson 4 – Bridge Over Troubled Water solo guitar arrangement
By default, you’ll start every session with complete anonymity i.e. with your mic muted and your camera switched off. You have total control of these at your end.
You can ask questions at any time:
It’s all very friendly and there isn’t such a thing as a daft question – they usually lead to deep, interesting streams of very relevant stuff!
If you want to come along but can’t make the sessions just book in and you’ll receive the full materials and lesson video.
BUT this shouldn’t put you off booking in as you’ll receive the full materials including the video of the complete live session.
Start slowly – if you decide to book just one session but then become interested in other sessions just buy them on the website.