how to play 'Shape Of My Heart' on guitar by Sting | guitar lesson tutorial

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An acoustic guitar lesson on how to play "Shape Of My Heart" by Sting, co-written by Dominic Miller who also plays the great guitar parts. It's from the "Ten Summoner's Tales" album released on March 9th, 1993. My version is a mix of the live and studio versions.

Thanks for watching. Cheers

[christopherbates]

The Shape of My Hand is destroyed after learning this.

[DUKEisALIVE]

My fingers havent stopped hurting since i first watched this

[Rodri-gvuf]

This move is what I call "Learning a song way out of my league"

[AStrangerInTheAlps]

Man, I didn't think my fingers could stretch that way, but after a few days I'm getting it. Feels great to play out of my element.

[johnmccommas]

I've been on this for about 10 days. An hour a day mostly. Some notes throughout don't ring out like I want yet. I am determined to be patient and build muscle memory. I know it takes time after time of revisiting it. It's a beast! Playing it slowly as I can stand, then trying full tempo too much like we all do. Thank you for the great lesson. Making my guitar playing better for sure. MY HAND HURTS in a good way!

[awszr]

Wasn’t too easy, wasn’t impossible. It was just perfect to learn and practice something new!

[rayvonnesr]

Damn! I’m 59 and you have brought me back into playing and have not stoped for going on 2years! You have inspired me and can not thank you enough! Even purchased a new Taylor 214 ce and lookin at a 324ce or 524ce once I’m able! You are, in my opinion the best player/instructor on YouTube! Thank you!!

[gpm]

You know what you did? You inspired me to start playing again after about 20 years of abstinence. The guy who wrote this piece is a genius, and so are you, breaking this down in an understandable way. I probably won't master this but as you said it is a fantastic workout. Thank you so much!

[RBL]

So creepy weird and coincidental that he posted the lesson for this song when I literally was just listening to it yesterday and wanted to learn how to play it. 😳

[jratt]

Acceptable reasons to be here:

1. Sting
2. Leon the Professional

[bizme]

so far this is the BEST guitar lesson of this song.

[mcguitarable]

You blow me away, you never cease to amaze me, fantastic job.

[aaronjwoolley]

EXCELLENT -
why would anyone put a thumbs down - beats me - obviously take offence at someone playing really well ? - I've played over 50 years professionally - this guy never deserves a thumbs down

[tasdau]

One of my favorite Sting tunes! He's got so many, it's hard to pick. 'Fill Her Up' is also a great deep cut.

[dannyjonze]

it's an amazing guitar part. you can see the stevie ray vaughan influence, strangely. The Lenny chord is in there and all those stretches and unresolved chords, especially at the end, are like Riviera Paradise. Always loved this song, it's on another level.

[yurkellis]

Just note that Dominic Miller usually plays it on his 3/4 size guitar. It makes his life much easier.

[garym]

One of my all time favorites. This song makes me weep.

[exlibrisross]

Thank you so much for your tremendous work, blessings ever from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[romantaylor]

I find it awesome that Dominic Miller actually wrote this piece for the purpose of practice and when Sting heard it he insisted they make it into an actual song.

[lawnboy]

First of all, and this is my first comment on one of your videos and long overdue, I want to say your videos are amazing and you are amazing. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re playing is terrific but the talk track including some history on the song/guitarist and insights is equally excellent. I’ve been learning this great song and want to say i discovered another option on how to play the “want to make you give up chord”. As im playing in that chord shape, i start off just like you but then I slide my pointer finger up a fret to get that hard to reach note on the high E string without moving anything else and then play the last note on the B string.