How to Play - Before the beginning - By fleetwood mac - Acoustic guitar tutorial

HI Youtube Friends, Today I'm going to teach you how to play the song "Before the Beginning" from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. It 's a song from their "Then Play On" album. I think it dates back to 1969. There's also a "Shrine" version that you can find on Youtube which in my opinion is even better than the recorded track on the "Then Play On" album. It has a more... it was recorded live and it has a rawer energy. The sound is totally different, it's not as clean, polished, not as produced and therefore I feel it's a better version. There are also some awkward differences: the original version starts in B flat minor (the live version too) but the final riff on the original track is played in G minor, and on the live version they go up half a step to B minor. I'll explain this later. Also, the guitar solo on the Live "Shrine" version is much, much better than the recorded version for the original track. But then, you can figure out yourself... You can listen to both versions that can be found on Youtube and decide for yourself which one is best. I'm going to explain the basics of this song, a bit of the solo and the intro and the outro. Euhm, Peter Green.. normally he played this one on his trusty Gibson 1959 Les Paul. It's a beautiful guitar, which has been in the hands of Gary Moore... and now Kirk Hammett from Metallica purchased it for a mere 2 million dollars. It's still being played..you can still see it on stage during the Metallica concerts. This one is played in standard tuning.. you don't have to detune anything. You just have to make sure your guitar is in tune. For this tutorial, I'm using my CG Winner D45 copy. It's a made in Japan seventies guitar. It still has it's sticker inside. It's a model W-777. it's a beautiful guitar..I did some modifications to it though: I installed a bone nut, bone saddle, ebony bridge pins, new Grover Tuners. Actually the bone (nut!) was not installed by me but by a German luthier but I had to modify it a bit to have a better nut string spacing. So, "Before The Beginning"...This is how Peter Green played the intro. It's in the key of B flat minor. So on the original track the second part is played in the higher register notes, and on the "Shrine" version the second part is played on the lower registry notes...and into the B flat minor chord. So you play your 6th fret of the e string, your 8th fret of the B string and you have to raise your 8th fret of the b string half a step to make it sound like the 9th fret note on the b string. Bend and release...you play both strings at the same time. So I'm starting on the 9th fret note and I'm releasing it until I'm on the 8th fret note. Then you play both 6th frets together (e & b string). So six and nine, release to 8, both six on the G and the B string and you hammer-on (with your ring finger) on the 8th fret of the G string. And again...you hammer-on... So from 6 to the 8th fret of the G string, and then again, and then you slide to the 5th fret. Then you play the 8th fret of the D string. And then you go into the second part: the 9th fret to the 11th fret, to the 8th fret, to the 11th fret of the B string, to the 10th fret of the G string. So this was the intro... And remember... this will come back at the ending where on the original version, you play the G minor chord so 3 half steps down from you B flat minor. And on the "Shrine" version, you'll play it in B minor so half a step up from B flat minor. Okay, so now we got the intro and the outro...you can choose which outro to play. Now for the chords (for the verse): very simple, three chords. I've seen another tutorial where someone said the third chord was a B7 but that is not true. It's a B chord. So, B flat minor, E flat minor or D sharp minor (that's the same name) to a B and back to a B flat minor. This is the riff they play in between...So it's in the B flat minor or pentatonic shape. So... I play it on the 6th fret of the A string and hammer-on the 8th fret. So 6-8 on the A string, 6-8 on the D string to the 4th fret of the A string, and then you slide from the 6th to the 8th fret on the A string and you end on the 6th fret of the E string. In fact, here I notice I slide back from the 8th fret to the 6th fret on the D string. So there are a lot of slides and hammer-ons...you can choose which technique you want to use. I think maybe it's sounds better when you only use slides. And then you play your B flat minor chord. If you want to play this song on the acoustic guitar and you want to play and sing it the same time...you can, like I used to do in the early days, barre you B flat minor chord and you can almost emulate the whole riff. The only thing is, you'll not be playing your C sharp note on the A string (4th fret). But no one will hear this... So that's for the verse...you can choose to play like this or the correct way with the correct riff each and every time when you finish a lyrics. And then you go into the bridge part.