All Along the Watchtower
Lesson Goals:
♦ Review the Am, G and F barre chords
♦ Play "All Along the Watchtower"
In this lesson we will learn to play "All Along the Watchtower" written by Bob Dylan and later recorded by a number of artists including Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young.
This song consists of the Am, G and F chords and we will play them as barre chords.
The song is fairly easy to play so let's first take a look at the chord formations we will use.
As you can see, we are looking at another example of a three chord song that became famous. Below is a chart with the first couple of lines.
The song simply repeats those lines over and over.