Hey Billy,
You can try moving this riff to a more comfortable place on the neck; a great exercise in building fretboard knowledge as well.
Cheers, Shane
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Love the additions to the website!
Itās good to see some older lessons now being revisited and updated 
This had brought me back to review and try to improve my simple version of this by incorporating the riff and the Dsus embellishments.
However, in looking at this again firstly I will say that even with my cutout getting to the top of that riff is a challenge (at least quickly anyway). The other thing is the tutorial sticks with the old faithful DDUUD, but I found that playing it I am using the DDUUDU, so I am adding a slight upstrum at the end almost a flick of the lower 2 or 3 strings mostly. This then happens almost on the chord change so the change needs to be a little quicker than normal.
Just wondering if others have ventured to this, or what you think of it, give it a whirl and let me know if it itās just making like hard for the sake of it 
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Well, this is a blast from the past in my guitar journey.
So many firsts,
- first song I learned.
- first song I memorised.
- first song I posted as an instrumental
- first song with vocals ā have a laugh at my efforts in performance tab of the lesson.
- first song in my song book.
Of all my memorised songs it is definitely one that I donāt need to have a quick look at the song sheet before I play, which says a lot perhaps because it was my first song I could play.
Back to the lesson, was a little surprised that the old version has disappeared even from this thread however, the lesson is still there on YouTube. It was not the case with another remake, which coexisted for a while.
A few new things in the lesson such as the use of some of stuck chords and embellishments on the D chord. Also, the build up to the chorus is different, the old lesson has all down eighth notes whilst the new lesson has DU eight notes.
Always a great beginnerās song.
Michael
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Craig @CD02
Interesting you mention the D-DU-UDU I think in the app this is called OF2 not that I have the app. Bear in mind that this is a basically a Grade 1 lesson so OF allows the up on the and after four to change chords. Great one to play, might try the embellishments next time I play.
Michael
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Thats a cool memory.
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any help playing the intro without a cut out?
Hi Mike, Welcome to the community! I feel your pain here. Iām working on a riff that goes to fret 15, and I often practice on a guitar w/o a cutout. Iām currently working through Grade 3. With that background, here is a suggestion: study Justinās hand positions in the video, then practice the hardest transitions using the One Minute Changes techniques, being mindful of how your hand is positioned. You definitely donāt want to learn bad practices! With that said, if you just canāt make it happen, put it aside for now. Iām working on the assumption that youāre relatively new to guitar, or at least to Justinās curriculum. As you progress, youāll develop dexterity and strength in your hands, and you may need that for this riff. And remember: not every guitar is suited for every type of music. This particular riff might have to wait until your guitar collection inevitably grows. 
If youāre up for it, maybe head over to the Introduce Yourself topic and tell us about your guitar journey! 
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Thank you:)
Hi @isrg, Judiās is good advice, but this intro requires going to fret 17, which is pretty much impossible without a cutaway, no matter how much effort you put in.
One possibility is to play the intro a full octave lower than Justin is playing it here. You can achieve this by playing the same shapes on strings 3 and 4. Basically, you take Justinās tab, move everything to strings 3 and 4 and subtract 3 from each fret number. It still goes up to fret 14, but thatās doable with a bit of practice.
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Oops. Well, that certainly would be difficult on an acoustic with no cutaway! Thanks for pointing that out, John. 
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Lee Mead-Batten just held a Beginners Club lesson (Beginners Club #17) for this song. He provided a simplified intro which uses single notes near the top of the neck.
I hope this is useful and that is ok to post it.
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Only on the 2 thinnest strings, so itās actually easy to do.
I tabbed it out on the bottom spaced left over from the lesson its not bad and it sounds cool. It is good that there is the alternative that is offered by lee for beginners. Most people in their very first few months might have a difficult time doing the double string notes in time up in the dusty end of the fret board. Its good to have levels that you can aim for and come to later as you advance in the quest also like playing these with hammer on sus cords and embelishments.
Here is the tab. I know my writing is not the greatest but you canāt read it all, it should be enough to āfingerā the rest out.
Hey Cliff, thanks for posting this intro.
Iām just learning to use a āSongbookā app, and your intro PDF was added easily to the TABs I found on line.
(Iām not yet up to Jasonās level of introāthanks too to @ontime for his contribution).
Iāve also printed it out to paper (via PDF) so itās in my manila folder of songs as well.
now to work on the hard/fun activity of leaning to play the song wellā¦
Youāre immortalized!
is that a good thing?
Cheers,
Bruce
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Without the accompanying tab these āfreeā lessons are now useless. Shame used to be a great site.