Skinny Love Guitar Lesson - Bon Iver

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In this Skinny Love guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play this beautiful acoustic song from Bon Iver in it's entirety.

The first thing you will need to know, is that guitarist/vocalist Justin Vernon uses a pretty strange tuning in this one. The tuning is open C tuning and the notes, starting from the 6th string are C G E G C C. I will also go through the tuning in the video lesson.

The original track is performed on a vintage resonator, but I will be using a normal acoustic for the lesson. It still sounds great!

"Skinny Love" is one of those songs that sounds great even without any vocals on it. The unique tuning creates a great vehicle for really cool sounding guitar parts that sound great as an instrumental.

Throughout "Skinny Love", you will basically play two separate chord progressions with slight variations and melodic licks thrown in there. I will take each section and it's variations in the order that they appear in the song.

I will also go over the strumming patterns which stay pretty consistent throughout the song.

I hope you guys enjoy learning this great acoustic song from Bon Iver! #skinnyloveguitarlesson #boniver #guitarcovers

Carl...

[itsallgood]

You have to be kidding me. I’ve had this song in repeat for days. I love the intro. And now you’re teaching how to play it? What a life.

[noggy]

Intro - 3:08
Verse - 8:45 Verse 2 - 11:00
Chorus - 12:15
Verse(Again) - 14:00
Chorus (the same) - 15:29
Outro - 16:25

[jacobwilkinson]

Still THE ONLY correct tutorial for this amazing song on youtube. Thank you man

[jacobjohnson]

I played this at my school and one girl that I like asked me out now it's been a few months we been together

[michaelharacopos]

Possibly one of the saddest sounding guitar songs ever

[Montanh_]

i just loved this tunning, it's simply amazing

[magicalbeer]

I've watched this video probably 20 times. Good lesson. I keep going back to it to solidify parts. Thanks. Well done.

[Alex-lmcx]

If you're worried about breaking strings, tune to A# F D F A# A# and stick a cappo on 2nd. The low string will be pretty flappy, but it works for the .11s I've got on my acoustic.

[jintymcginty]

I love when your playing guitar for years so you can pick something like this up faster as its not too difficult!! You can master new sounds much faster the longer longer you play

[Nat.c]

as I was tuning my guitar, my high e string snapped. I so sad

[purpledog]

Hey buddy thanks a mil for teaching me how to play this song . I still have a good bit of practice to do but I got the gist. You ledge !

[adivovevo]

RIP my high E string. Guess it was time for a replacement

[Blarbs]

Down C(wh), Down G(wh), Up E(wh), G, up C(hs), down C (wh)

[LorenzoTatoni]

Great tutorial! Sounds so close tonthe original thankss🙏🏼🙏🏼

[twentyoneHz]

Could you please teach the guitar parts to 29 #Stratford APTS by Bon Iver

[marktaiman]

Just tuned my electromatic hollow body single cut to this. G5227. Sounds so good

[funkyliani]

I just wanna say this is the only tutorial that's actually corresponding to the Skinny Love song... there are buch of tutorials and I don't know what they've listened to but it's not Skinny Love by Bon Iver. I'm glad this exists, I've started learning guitar with this song and guide. Thank you!

[wesjohnston]

Thanks again Carl! It seems like whenever I’m wanting to pick up a song (and I’m too slack to pick it up myself), you’ve done it already and done it better and more accurately than I could have. You’ve taught me a lot. Gratitude to you! Thanks!

[Nuclearsoandso]

Sounds great. Some more Bon Iver lessons or Band of Horses would be awesome. No One's Gonna Love Your More Than I Do would be an awesome finger picking lesson.

[albertfobian]

A lot of peolpe is too lazy to tune it differently than standard, and i wad too, but please try it. Its amazing! Thanks for the tutorial👍