One Of These Things Firstby Nick Drake

One Of These Things First is another classic example of Nick Drake's guitar mastery and songwriting prowess. It was part of his second album, Bryter Layter, released in 1970. It is done in Open E Tuning, which is done in Open D with a capo at the second fret.

Like many of his tunes, the left hand is pretty basic but the right hand requires very fast arpeggio-type picking using the thumb and three fingers (p-i-m-a). It is a very repetitive pattern but the is an instrumental interlude that raises the level of difficulty significantly. The lesson goes over all of these but offers a suggestion of simplifying the interlude a bit.