Big Love by Fleetwood Mac

CAPO – Fourth Fret

Ok. You are going to have some fun with this one! You might want to set your metronome to 144 bpm (beats per minute). We are going to loosely show you how to play this song. Now, the important thing to remember is that Lindsay is notorious for his fingerpicking ability, as he doesn’t use a pick at all in any of his songs. He claims that he is better with his fingers.

There will probably be times that you get lost. We did too. We are going to play this straight through the tablature so you can get the idea. What I would recommend is downloading the PTB file and listening to it while you are playing. We are going to try to get all the fingerpicking correctly so that you can hear it more effortlessly, but notice that the notes are very sporadic. As a matter of fact, watching him play this on “Fleetwood Mac: The Dance,” I have found that he really just attacks the guitar, trying to hit all the notes in between. Some of the notes are dead on while others he lets slide on by. That is what we are going to do. We are going to get the concept of this by focusing more on the strumming. Try a very rigid straight up and down motion the whole time to get the feel for it. Don’t worry SO much about the notes hiding in the measures. They are mostly just filler for the lack of other instruments in the song. You will want to create some strumming in between.

If you feel like you are getting confused or lost, try just focusing on the chords at the top of each measure. They will help you find your pickup point.

I tried to help a little by playing the strumming once through the whole song. What I did was play along with the PTB file. I followed it through the whole song, so this audio won’t sound like the lessons. This is the full version, just playing chords. It will REALLY build your strumming hand if you try this. (It’s really hard to keep up with the PTB, but try it. It will help you play the notes easier when you pick them out.)