Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama Guitar Lesson

This lesson teaches the main riff to this classic rock song!

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate

Video Time: 5:53

The next video below button will take you to the first fast sixteenth note run video and breakdown.

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This song has so many fun parts to play and it is one of those riffs that everyone at almost any age will recognize.

Don't get discouraged by the harder runs. Take your time and learn the parts properly and before you know it you will be playing them and sounding just like the recording.

Example below is the actual tempo:

98 bpm

The riff is repeated 4 times in the mp3.

Example below is half speed

49 bpm

The riff is repeated 2 times in the mp3.

The mp3 to the right plays the easy way to play it that is explained briefly in the video.

Half speed (49 bpm)

Example below repeats 4 times

Full speed (98 bpm)

Example below repeats 4 times