Learn to play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen on guitar.
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You can listen to the song here on Spotify while you play along!
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Brian May
Over 2.7 million people have viewed this lesson online.
In this video, Brian discusses his equipment and techniques, and demonstrates a number of his guitar solos. He covers both famous and lesser known Queen songs, including Brighton Rock, Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love, It’s Late, Dead On Time, Put Out The Fire, It’s A Hard Life, Keep Yourself Alive, Jesus, Father To Son and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
The programme was produced and directed by Mark Freed and Robert Decker, and recorded at Sarm West, London, England. The video was originally released in 1983 and later reissued in 1993/4.
Note from Brian :
Mark initially came to me with an idea for making audio cassettes of guitarists explaining their techniques. It seemed a good one and we arranged to meet and make it happen. But I said … if we’re going to the trouble of recording this stuff, why not film it as well, and make it into a Video Cassette ?! So we made a ‘pilot’ video, and people liked it, and this became the template for a whole collection of videos which, I think, stand up very well to this day.
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Marty Music
This lesson has been viewed over 1.6 million times!
Here’s the first “song” section to “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. I have worked out the piano parts for guitar and it’s quite fun to play.
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GuitarZero2Hero
This lesson has been viewed over 1 million times.
Welcome to this Bohemian Rhapsody Acoustic Guitar Tutorial by Queen! This video will show you how to play the acoustic chords for the first half of the song which is great for singers or beginners who want to strum and sing along. The strum patterns are fairly basic in this rendition, the most difficult part will be some of the tricky chord shapes. If you were looking for an electric solo or fingerstyle version of playing Bohemian Rhapsody then I also have lessons for those version below!
00:00 INTRODUCTION
01:05 INTRO CHORDS
05:42 BREAK CHORDS
06:10 BREAK RIFF
07:13 VERSE 1 CHORDS
13:18 VERSE RIFF
19:11 SONG DEMONSTRATION PLAYTHROUGH