How to play the song Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) by Don McLean from his 1971 album American Pie. This guitar lesson includes guitar TAB and notation. The free PDF Guitar TAB Transcription can be downloaded here.
This song is a great to learn if you want to develop your fingerpicking technique on the acoustic guitar. For the majority of the song use your thumb to pluck the E A and D bass notes and the index, middle and right to pluck the other 3 strings. For more details on this techniqie watch the in-depth guitar lesson below.
A guitar and vocal backing track for this song has also been created which includes the notation and guitar tab so you can play along. Check out the guitar/vocal backing track for Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) below.
