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How to Play Drunken Sailor for Fingerstyle Guitar with TAB

Traditional

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DIFFICULTY:

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In this lesson we’re going to learn how to play Drunken Sailor.

This is probably the best known sea shanty in the world, dating all the way back to the 1800s. I don’t think it’s a huge jump to imagine that it’ll still be being sung by people all over the world for many more years to come!

It makes for a really fun fingerstyle arrangement and this particular one is aimed towards the beginner level fingerpicker.

OK, let’s pick up our guitars and learn how to play Drunken Sailor.

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Drunken Sailor Guitar Lesson

In the lesson I show you how to play the fingerstyle version in full. At the end of the video, I also show you what you can play if you wanted to accompany your own, or anyone else’s, vocals.

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