When I played guitar for Macklemore | "Intentions" guitar tutorial

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A few years ago I wrote and recorded guitar parts in a songwriting session with Macklemore. Intentions is the name of the song that I played on. In this video I teach the guitar parts to it.

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Weekly Lesson #86

Lesson Content Outline With Timestamp Links:

0:00 - Guitar playing intro
0:11 - About the lesson & channel
1:42 - How I got the opportunity
3:46 - The recording session
4:07 - What they initially made
7:11 - What they used in the final output
7:36 - Three different things I did that they used
7:59 - First part: Melodic Arpeggio
12:45 - Second part: Chord progression strummed with different voicings
15:18 - Third part: Just strumming the open voicings instead of arpeggiating
16:49 - Conclusion, Free PDF, Outro

Links & Lessons Mentioned In This Video:

Lesson Description:

A few years ago I wrote and recorded guitar parts in a songwriting session with Macklemore. Intentions is the name of the song that I played on.

In this week's lesson about the process of guitar songwriting in a professional studio setting I share about:

How I got the opportunity to play with Macklemore on “Intentions”
What the experience was like working with Macklemore
And then—to show you what kind of guitar songwriting knowledge was needed in a professional studio session like that—I teach the actual guitar parts for the song “Intentions” and how I came up with them.

With the clear sheet music, tabs, and chord diagrams in this video, you'll see that it's really pretty simple guitar songwriting theory stuff.

This is a great example of how much of what I teach in my weekly lessons can be used during real music making opportunities.