Learn to Play Free Fallin by Tom Petty on Guitar

One of my favorite songs to play right now. Thought you all would enjoy it. Should have some more Mayer stuff up soon. Good luck and take care. Tab I based my version off of is this. http://ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/j/john_mayer/free_fallin_tab.htm

Hey guys what is up, I am Darren, I am actually sorry, I have not been playing my videos in a long time. I was busy from moving from North Carolina and actually now I have moved in and everything, I actually have some videos that are recorded over the break but I could not figure out how to upload it with this computer. I just have a new Apple, so if you have any idea how to get some of my visual camera onto my Apple then message me in the house, I put some up. Today, I want to cover, I want to teach you guys how to play a little bit of what is called as free falling, it is actually John Meyer’s version, it is Tom Phase originally, it sounds something like this. That is a little bit, there is some kind of variations I am going to teach you, the first thing you need to do for this song is your standard tuning of the kapo on the third fret, so that raises that up. All right, the pre chord formations, it kind of looks complicated but really this up here is pretty simple, it is just three chords. You have your D and then you go to a G sort of and then G, D to A. That is it for finger picking, this is going to be a little bit different, I want to relate you to a tab that I kind of use but for this, I want you to start out at a D. All right, here in the pick, your thumb is going to try to wrap around like I am on the sixth fret all right. Now John Meyer’s hands are really big, so when he plays he goes up to the next one, he goes this way. He actually just does it off his thumb when he goes. I can do that but I do not like to because it is tough, so what I want you guys to do is I want you to play the first one. I want you to wrap your thumb around the second fret of low E, point your fingers on the second fret over the G string, ring finger third fret B string, pinky finger second fret high E string and you are going to pick with your thumb. You are going to pick the low E, pointer finger is going to pick the G, the middle is going to pick the B and your ring is going to pick the high E so you are going to go. And after you have played the first E, I was kind of amused just laying your hand down. All right, so and then the next chord, again you are going to put your pinky finger down. So these goes originally here and second fret middle, put your pinky finger on the third fret on the second chord, take this second finger and just move it up here, if you have big enough hands you can just slide your thumb down, that is fine but I am just going to make it easier. I want you to take your middle and reach your middle finger across here to the third fret, so the D if you are here and whenever you go up to the next one you are going to put your pinky here on this third fret and then your middle finger is going to go all the way up here. Stay right here, all right and you are going to play the same sets of string, mute it again and you are going to play back to that second chord, back to the first chord and then you are going to an A. Where you leave that pointer finger there as a common finger on the second fret of your G string, put your middle finger on the D string second fret and your ring finger on the second fret of the B string. Some people play with the bar, some people play like this, it is up to you but you just want to have this on the D, G and B strings, you want to have some on the second fret and once you are going to play there you are going to pick. I pick with my thumb, I picked the A string, signature on the top, this one right here and then with my pointer finger I pick the G string and the middle will take the B, so it sounds like this. All right if you watch and play on the internet whatever, he actually plays with two other guitar and some of the guitars kind of just add a little wrist and when I learned it myself I tried to put as much of that into one guitar as I could. So I do not have a tab for this, I am going to try and tab it out but I am just going to at least give you some basics on how I do it. All right, when I start the song out, I go and I am going to teach you the intro here at the end but I go. All ri