Guitar Sessions 13: Play the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” on acoustic guitar

Learn an acoustic arrangement of the Kinks’ classic “You Really Got Me” in Episode 13 of Guitar Sessions.

While the original was played with speedy, sliding power chords on electric guitar, this arrangement creates that movement using dropped-D tuning and a different set of shapes—an approach that translates the song’s raw power onto acoustic guitar. This setup also facilitates adding an instrumental break.

The Guitar Sessions video lesson covers all the above, and the complete notation/tab is available on Patreon.

Here is the song by itself.

Chord/lyric charts and guitar tab for every episode are available on Patreon.

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