Englishman in New York - Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Lesson Tutorial

In this video we look at how to play Englishman in New York by Sting. We'll be learning to play this with fingerstyle accurate to a video of Sting playing this song live, which we will then jam along to!

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Intro, verse & chorus chords
01:11 Finger picking pattern
02:47 Slow play through
05:34 Bridge chords & picking
08:35 Playing along ft. Sting!
11:15 Where to go from here

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[andycrowley]

Reupload with corrected on screen graphics. Sorry for the wait, hope you guys have fun playing this one!
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[nomad]

This new format that you’re doing in your videos is absolutely amazing. Keep it up more songs at this at this level please.

[TheWild_Living_Nature]

You are amazing and will always be my teacher in my heart! 6 years now! You taught me how to play guitar!

[thiccolo]

Funny how life tends to come full circle. 5 years ago I picked up a guitar for the first time and watched and practiced with all of the YouTube greats like you, Marty and Justin. Somewhere along the way I committed to lessons in real life, and stopped looking online for tips - I just practiced, hard.

Now I’m combing through all these tutorials to beautiful songs that once seemed so impossible, and absolutely crushing them.

There is a point in everyone’s guitar journey where things stop feeling impossible; it becomes, “I can learn this, if I want to, ” rather than “I’ll never be able to do that.”

So on the off chance some random learner out there is struggling and reads this, know that you will be able to play any song you want. Any chord you want. Any solo you want. Any riff. You will eventually know what scales are, what keys are, what intervals are, triads, etc. One step at a time.

On the off chance Andy reads this, I’m sorry for not subscribing 5 years ago! But I’m subbed now 😂

[gilashroot]

Super amazing song. Way out of my league at the moment. Thank you for sharing part of your guitar journey. It also motivated me to try learn at least the chorus at a slower pace, but you made it sound achievable.

Update:

My friend: "It sounds like the song, except slow" 😂
Played it again.
My friend: "Yes, now I hear it, it sounds like the warm up before he starts playing" 😂

My thoughts: I will take that considering I have only attempted this song a handful of times 😊

Andy, thank you for bringing this beautiful classic within my reach ❤️. I guess I just need to record it and play it double speed 😂. Otherwise I am going to just have to practice (going with both 😂😂😂). ❤

Update: finally getting this down. I did not think I could do this, so thank you, Andy. It is incredibly satisfying to play and very enjoyable. I cannot believe how much progress I have made nor what an amazing teacher you are. Thank you 😊❤️

[geraldbrown]

I clicked the thumbs up 👍 not only for the wonderful guitar lesson and song choice but for looking after Apollo! Thank you! 🎸 🐕 🇨🇦

[LoveLife-jqqu]

I love you ❤️ ur great!!! From France 🇫🇷

[blutey]

Great tutorial. Thanks for posting
It seems the B on the 5th string is never actually played in the E7 chord despite the 1st finger being placed on it?

[TheWild_Living_Nature]

I just learned your fingerstyle “something from nothing “ glad you did this because I thought maybe I should always rest my palm on the board!

[markusknapp]

Is there a reason for holding down 2nd fret 5th string for the Em chord when you dont play that string at all during the picking pattern?

[bjm]

Great video Andy. Just couldn't stop playing this song until I'd cracked it, which for me came within an hour. Now part of my song list. 👍

[James-nq]

Can’t quite understand why the em7 is fingered when it isn’t actually played. Is it just somewhere to rest your finger until the A is played, or if you want to strum the chord?

[nikolajpetrovic]

how come you put your index finger on the second fret A string of the Em7 chord when your not hitting that string? thanks!

[BenHayesDesigner]

Nice tutorial. Minor point about the mutes, in his video Sting leaves the bass notes to ring out (so doesn't mute that string) which mirrors what we get on the album track, so I think he's doing all his muting with his fingers rather than with his palm?

[KiranRai-sw]

Heyy im earlyy pls keep on uploading ur vids they are the best and im still on day 6 i just wanted to give u a view and like😅

[rubenwiedemann]

I have a question about the Em7, it may be my fault but i dont get why it is used. Is it just me, because i play the open strings with the thumb and pinch and the one i am putting my left finger on isnt even played ?

[payalagarwal]

Hello Sir, I am from India and recently came across your wonderful tutorial on ukulele. Could you please suggest a brand that serves the fabulous ukulele in the market? Looking forward to your response Sir. Thank you for helping out millions of people all across the world on their way to becoming an amazing artist.

[bobd]

Great lesson, thank you for taking the time and posting. Cheers!

[Ravenstorm]

I recently saw Slash doing civil war on acoustic
Can you please make a lesson on that and can you please do the solos in the song

[bjm]

Andy. Why hold the low B in the Em7 if you don't pluck the string?