America A Horse With No Name Guitar Lesson [Rhythm Strum Solo]

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This 'A Horse With No Name' by America guitar lesson will show how to play the complete song, including the guitar solo. Along with guitar tabs, chords diagrams, and a 'A Horse With No Name' karaoke video, we'll cover it all with a step by step approach!
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America A Horse With No Name Guitar Lesson [Easy Strum with Solo]
00:00 Lesson Preview
00:14 Intro
05:01 Syncing Lyrics with Chords [Timing]
06:12 Guitar 2
09:33 Basic Arrangement
10:18 Bridge
15:12 Guitar Solo
21:21 Lesson Review

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America 'A Horse with No Name' Guitar Lesson
Several guitars are used on the original recording of ‘A Horse With No Name’ by America, including six and twelve-string acoustics. The following 'A Horse with No Name' by America guitar lesson will focus on the essential rhythm strum and lead solo guitar parts for a performance by one or two guitarists.

How to Strum 'A Horse with No Name' by America
For 'Em', the essential strum pattern for A Horse with No Name would be: 'down-up-down-up down-up-down-up', (1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4). Emphasize the middle strings on the '1-2' counts and the higher strings on the '3-4' counts. For F#m11#5, strum: 'down-up- (mute)-up... up-down-up'. Slight variations and mutes (‘x’) are occasionally added in, including no strum on the first '2' count for 'Em'.

How to Play Guitar Solo to 'A Horse with No Name' by America
The guitar solo to 'A Horse with No Name' by America is played on a twelve-string acoustic guitar. The 'A Horse with No Name' guitar solo follows the ‘E’ Dorian interval pattern on the first string (from open ‘E’: ‘W-H-W-W-W-H’). The ‘E’ Dorian scale produces a more serious or reflective tone for ‘A Horse with No Name’ especially when phrasing around the ‘E’ root note on the open and twelfth frets of the first string.

For the final two bars of the 'A Horse with No Name' guitar solo, a second lead guitar part is overdubbed, featuring a descending riff going down the first string. For a one-person acoustic guitar cover performance of 'A Horse with No Name' by America, this section can be substituted for the original lead part of the guitar solo.

America 'A Horse With No Name' Guitar Tabs
This 'A Horse With No Name' guitar lessons includes guitar tabs for how to strum rhythm chords for 'A Horse With No Name' and how to play the guitar solo to 'A Horse With No Name'.

America 'A Horse With No Name' Guitar Chords
This guitar lesson will show how to strum 'A Horse With No Name' guitar chords and how to play the guitar solo to 'A Horse with No Name' by America.

'A Horse With No Name' Guitar Tutorial
This America 'A Horse With No Name' guitar tutorial features guitar tabs, chord diagrams, and a 'A Horse with No Name' guitar karaoke practice video. Learn how to play 'A Horse with No Name' by America with this step by step approach guitar tutorial.

'A Horse with No Name' by America Songfacts
The music group America was formed in England by sons of US servicemen who were stationed there. Lead singer Dewey Bunnell wrote 'A Horse with No Name' when he was 19.

The original song title of A Horse with No Name by America was 'Desert Song.'
Dewey Bunnell played 6-string acoustic guitar on this track; his bandmate Gerry Beckley played 12-string acoustic, and the third member of the group America, Dan Peek, played bass.

Many thought A Horse with No Name was a Neil Young song when they heard it. In a strange twist, 'A Horse With No Name' by America replaced 'Heart of Gold' at #1 in the US.

Despite 'A Horse with No Name' being banned by some U.S. radio stations because of supposed drug references, 'A Horse with No Name' went to number one on the U.S., and the album quickly reached platinum status.

The resemblance of 'A Horse with No Name' to some of Neil Young's work aroused some controversy. "I know that virtually everyone, on first hearing, assumed it was Neil", Bunnell says. "I never fully shied away from the fact that I was inspired by him. I think it's in the structure of 'A Horse with No Name' as much as in the tone of his voice.

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