How To Play "The Entertainer" (Chet Atkins / Richard Smith) - Fingerstyle Tutorial

How To Play "The Entertainer" (Chet Atkins / Richard Smith) / Fingerstyle guitar lesson Find the full lesson here: https://bit.ly/46IBHyt Clear your calendar and grab your guitar for this fingerstyle classic! Chet laid the foundation with his arrangement, but Richard Smith certainly pushed it to the next level with his version. Overall the arrangement is not THAT hard to play (but it’s still hard), but it is quite long and there are a few short but massive difficulty spikes. But I do try and provide you with alternative ways of playing these sections! "The Entertainer" is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. Chet Atkins made this into a fingerstyle arrangement, but he left out a few parts that he deemed unfit for the guitar. Richard Smith then proved it could be done with his arrangement, and he has been racking up millions of views with his classic Youtube version. 👉 Links: Website: timvanroy.com Patreon: patreon.com/timvanroy Thomann shop (affiliate link): https://thmn.to/thocf/acm1qkd0ex Tab/notation file: https://bit.ly/46IBHyt (click the Musicnotes icon while logged into your Musicnotes account and you'll see a 20% discount pop up at checkout!) 👉 Timestamps: 0:00 The usual stuff 0:35 Introduction 2:54 Pointers & Tuning 3:45 Intro 4:09 Intro (Bars 1 - 4) 6:32 Intro (Playthrough) 6:43 The Optional Harmonic 8:26 Section A 9:45 Section A (Chords) 11:11 Section A (Bars 5 - 8) 17:01 Section A (Bars 9 - 12) 20:34 Section A (Playthrough) 21:02 Section A (Bars 13 - 16) 22:43 Section A (Bars 17 - 20) 26:50 Section A (Playthrough) 28:31 Section A (Magnet Playthrough, Bar 21) 👉 Gear Guitar: Martin J-40, Drop D Tuning Mics: Neumann 184's (Guitar) & Rode NT4 (Voice) Interface: Apogee Quartet 👉 Lesson Content: Part 1: Intro & Section A Part 2: Section B Part 3: Section C Part 4: Section D 👉 Follow me on… Fingerstyle community platform: timvanroy.circle.so Facebook:   / timvanroy81   Instagram:   / tim_van_roy   TikTok:   / tim_van_roy   #tommyemmanuel #fingerstyle #lesson #fingerpicking #tutorial #fingerstyleguitar #guitar #guitarlesson #guitartutorial