If You Could Only See Guitar Lesson (Acoustic) - Tonic

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In this If You Could Only See guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all of the chords and solos to the acoustic version of this smash hit by Tonic.

Make sure you are listening to the acoustic version when referring this lesson, and not the original electric version.

The tuning is standard tuning with the addition of a capo at the 1st fret. Please note, this is not a simplified "capo version" lesson. They use a capo on this acoustic version since it makes some of the chord voicings used possible, which otherwise, they wouldn't be able to play without a capo in the proper key.

There are some great chord progressions that can also a bit unorthodox at times. It sounds great when you put it all together though.

I will go through each chord progression in the order that each appears on the original recording.

I will also cover the guitar fills and the great guitar solo note-for-note. #ifyoucouldonlyseeguitarlesson #tonic #faithguitars

Have fun with this great song everyone! Carl...

[ttm]

Who’s the idiot that didn’t like this or any of Carl’s videos?? Someone takes the time to show you something for free you should either like it or do nothing if you don’t like it. All his videos are done so well & explained so well!!

[josephdefreitas]

Carl has to be the best online teacher of guitar. He really takes the approach of teaching a song that makes even the most difficult or easy songs seem do able to such a wide variety of guitar players. Many great guitarist are not great teachers. In Carl you get both an amazing guitar player and an amazing tutor the price of one. And he even does this for

[trollingprophet]

I've played this song a bunch of times but never realized all the subtle changes in the chords until I saw this.

[Mac-wggq]

Loved this song for a long time. Never thought that I would see a lesson on it. Great job Carl. Thanks!

[RCSmiths]

This was always a well done and beautifully sound acoustic song to me, and this lesson was so complimenting to that. Always appreciate hearing from you!

[mrpotato]

Carl always delivers. Love how he includes the little nuances and makes it look easy

[usmcyounggun]

I remember somebody asking me in sixth grade what my favorite song was and I told them it was this song. I’m just glad looking back that my younger self still had pretty decent taste in music lol. This was also long before I ever played guitar and I’m pretty happy that this has some cool guitar stuff in it even though it’s basically a pop song.

[davidkessler]

Hello Mr Carl. Hope is a beautiful thing. I still have much hope that you will do a lesson on how to play Can't Stop Loving You by Van Halen. Thank you for your lessons.

[charliebaker]

Van Halen speaks to my soul! How about a song lesson from "For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege"???

[mopeymcjopey]

Hey Carl, please do the full lesson for Van Halen's Runaround?

[sammicurr]

Hey Carl! Give us the Van Halen smackdown. In otherwords smack us down with anything Van Halen!

[ToddLuvsGolf]

Seriously one of the best tutorials on this song I’ve seen. One of my all time favorite songs too. Thanks for the great video...I had most everything nailed, but you cleared up a couple of things I had slightly wrong.

[MrRabidchipmunk]

Carl you are the man. You put in so much work and deliver consistent amazing lessons. Best guitar teacher period.

[michaelemerson]

Super great lesson! Made me dust off my acoustic. Could you please do a Van Halen lesson on how to play Can't Stop Lovin' You or Judgement Day?

[tpxrp]

Everytime I look up a song to learn, theres Carl. Such a GREAT teacher

[scottfaudree]

Sir you are doing good for ppl that don’t know how to read or just tab. I’m so thankful. I want to get involved in your coarse. Thank you.

[bobbywiseman]

Hey there my man. Could you please fix us up with some more Van Halen lessons? I did your lesson for the intro to Runaround. Would be great to learn the whole tune.

[edwardglyons]

Thanks Carl. I’ve been getting so much more value out of these song lessons since joining your Academy. I wish I’d joined it sooner.

[Everyman.]

Carl, thank you. Thank you. Learned a ton. Basically I've come back to this song after trying to learn it as a beginner because your lesson has shown me how to do it the right way. Power chord slides, d/f, the hammer ons were instructive. My only change: instead of a 5 finger C at the end of the verse, I play an open C at the same fret position because I like the starker melodic shift it makes after the F power chord.

[wobbyworble]

Hello Maestro Carl. Thank you for another wonderful lesson. If I may I would like to request once again that you do a lesson covering Van Halen's Can't Stop Lovin' You. An amazing song that was the biggest single from the Balance album. It's not taught anywhere on Youtube. Peace out. W