Learn To Play 70's And 80's Rock Season 9 Episode 10 How to Play Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin
- TV-G
- January 16, 2008
- 15 min
"Me and Bobby McGee" is the acoustic classic written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, and made famous by Janis Joplin on her 1971 album, "Pearl." In this iVideosongs guitar lesson from Songmaster, instructor Steve Rieck shows how to play the chords and strumming patterns that make up this memorable tune. A great song for beginning-level players looking to develop proficiency with chord transitions and timing, "Me and Bobby McGee" is a medium-tempo song that can be played on a single steel string acoustic guitar in standard tuning. Tablature and chord grids are embedded in the video for all song segments along with a full song performance in sync with the backing track.