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Ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ukulele Tutorial with Tabs

New Ukulele tutorials every Wednesday and Saturday Today we are going to learn how to play "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" by the great Lynyrd Skynyrd. This song was on the second vinyl album I ever spun. I found my parents record collection when I sixteen and the first record I put on was Led Zeppelin, the self titled album, and the second record was "Second Helping" by Lynyrd Skynyrd and the B side opened up with this song. I loved it from the first time I heard but it was a song that the more I listened to the lyrics, the more I understood the story, the more I understood life in the south at that time, the more I grew up and learned about life and the advantages some people have at birth, and some people don't the more the song spoke to me. The line "he spent a life time singing the black man's blues, and on the day he lost his life that's all he had to lose" really hit me hard and it still does to this day. The blues were his life's curse but they were also his life's musical blessing, his musical inspiration, his hard life was the same inspiration for his amazing music. The song is the style were it isn't a 4 bar loop but rather a collection of 4 bar circles. The intro verse is different than the rest of the verses in the song, the verse is an 8 bar loop that is a four bar loop with variations and the chorus also has a ton of movement with two different interludes after the chorus, both unique fun an energetic. The core of the song is on a high G ukulele, so no matter what Ukulele you have, no matter what size, you can play along (if you can play an E chord) but the intro riff sounds amazing with a low G so I will shred it with a low G on a solid body electric ukulele from Flight with a slide, of course, to really give it some bite like the recording. Again, you can follow along with any type of ukulele, you don't a solid body electric one, all shapes and sizes are welcome. Tabs - https://www.patreon.com/TenThumbsPro Facebook - https://web.facebook.com/tenthumbsproductions?_rdc=1&_rdr 1-1 Lessons - tenthumbsproductions@gmail.com Ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ukulele Tutorial with Tabs