Cat Stevens 'Morning Has Broken' Complete Guitar Lesson

Hello friends,
and welcome to another by request song tutorial! In today's session I'll be breaking down a unique way of performing Cat Stevens 1972 classic "Morning Has Broken." I'll show you how to adapt the clasical style piano sections to fingerstyle guitar, and teach you the chord progressions and strumming patterns for the verse sections. Let's get started!
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[charliewest]

Four years later and this is the best tutorial I have ever seen on YouTube. Classic!

[davidburns]

This beautiful song takes me back to my childhood in the school hall assembly. The Rev would come in with an acoustic guitar and sing it every monday morning. Classic Cat Stevens. As usual your attention to detail is second to none. Great break down and tutorial from you. Thank's for the memory and song.

[Bhatmann]

Cat Stevens, guys like that don’t come around often enough.

[kimberlycampbell]

Greetings...thank you so much for the easy to follow lessons...I started playing guitar in the mid 70’s as a teenager... I stopped playing for many many years to devout my time to my 5 kiddie... now they are all over the age of 30 ...I got out the old Yamaha 360 dusted it off( original 35 year old strings...lol, tuned it up to the best of my tone deaf ability...and was surprised I remembered how to play lots of major and minor chords ( the easy one for easy Rock n Roll and Folky type music) I remembered how to play “ I WAS ONLY JOKING by Rod Stewart and Ballad of Dwight Fry ( simple style..not souls riffs)... I am now learning all the songs from your site...YOU ROCK...AGAIN THANK YOU FOR BRINGING GUITAR PLAYING BACK TO ME!

[dainmarriott]

Absolutely fantastic. We all used to sing this in assembly at school, so this is a proper winner to do at barbecues!

[rjjarvis]

Thanks so much for this. You are really a terrific guitar teacher, and the fact that you have a great voice helps tie the whole thing together. Many of the online teachers get so far down into the weeds that it just takes too long to watch them; and they never show you how it all sounds together. But the fact that you sing it all the way through and play it in the beginning, and then break it down section by section is just the perfect way of showing the student how to do it. I don't think I've ever had so much fun running through an online lesson. I wish I had nothing more to do in life but just go through your entire catalogue of lessons (which I see is very extensive!). Live long and prosper!

[davidgchan]

It is a very good tutorial indeed. Even a beginner like me can follow. Thanks very much.

[MostLikelyMortal]

Was just rehearsing this for my grandfather’s memorial service, will for sure glean from this lesson! The younger bro is playing TAPS on the trumpet so I guess I get all the work.. lol thank you!

[wyx]

OMG! I recently discovered the title of this song, and instantly fell in love to the point that I wanna learn how to play this on guitar. When you started singing, i had to double check if spotify is still playing!! You sound so goood!!

[robertjohnson]

Outstanding cover, your voice is excellent and sounds a lot Stevens. I'm sure glad he came back to us. He seems like such a good gentle person

[mikeflight]

Extremely good lesson Rob.Very detailed but made simple for the student. The mark of a great teacher.👍

[kithsirisenaratne]

Am from distant Sri Lanka. This is a beautifully constructed lesson. Thanks so much...!!!

[lamberthall]

You are an excellent singer and guitar player 👏 👌 😀 ❤️ 🙌 👍 👏

[gerardperreau]

Excellente pédagogie, tout est bien montré en détail en parlant tranquillement afin que ce soit compréhensible quand ce n’est pas notre langue.
Ça fait 50 ans que j’en rêve d’avoir une version la plus approchante du disque. Merci beaucoup.
Ronin

[salahuddinakbar]

What a useful perfect way of teaching this song that i learnt playing it since long ago. But I learned the perfection only from this tutorial - Piano Intro and interludes. His vocal sounds exactly like Cat !

[EggnogonthebogProductions]

You sound like Cat Stevens. Love your cover.

[akthomebusiness]

The intro played by the piano was difficult to catch the notes. Your guitar playing style makes things simple and easy to follow. Great job!

[StephenMarkTurner]

This is about right for my skills. Well organized lesson. I always got lost in this song before, now I understand the structure better, and I haven't really studied this in detail yet.

[TennesseeGock]

Thank you so much for sharing your talents! Your guitar playing, your voice, and singing are perfect (2 thumbs-up)! You really gave the best visual instructions: Superb clarity with your step-by-step instructions, as well as shots of both the fretboard and the soundboard! Your way of video instruction should be what other video instructors should model after! Thanks again for a magnificent video! Much appreciated! All the best to you! <3<3

[jeanlau]

this song is a masterpiece, thanks for showing us, Jean, Montreal