Hi all, here’s a video of my playthrough of Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.
If you don’t know the original artists but the tune kind of sounds familiar to you, then you probably recognise it from one of the movies it’s been in. I heard it in La Bamba for the very first time and always associate this song with the very last scene of that movie - no I’m not crying… you’re crying
This playthrough doesn’t really showcase chord or strumming techniques, just mainly hitting basic notes for the most part - so it’s simple enough for any beginner to play along to a backing track if they want to have a go.
I believe the original was done using a pedal steel guitar, and the song is probably more suited to some type of steel or Electric guitar for covers of it.
Nevertheless I thought I’d give it a try on my Classical guitar with a backing track to see if it came out ok, because I really like this old laid back tune.
Since I don’t have to worry about root notes (and such) whenever I pick single notes like in this song or in any solo section, I usually break away from the traditional fingerstyle placements of the thumb and fingers. In these cases, I tend to use my thumb on the thinnest strings quite often when it feels comfortable for me to do so.
Below are the links to the video that I did yesterday, as well as an old audio file which was done without a backing track. Cheers
