Redemption Song is one of Bob Marley’s most beloved and most personal songs, and its gentle intro riff has become a rite of passage for a lot of guitar players. In this lesson we break that riff down slowly — learning the melody with clean fingering, working out the timing beat by beat, then dressing it up the way Bob does by holding chord shapes and picking two strings at once.
If you’ve ever struggled to make single-note melodies sound full and musical, this is a great place to start. Take it one small piece at a time and don’t rush — it really does all come together.
