E4 · Brown Eyed Girl

Cola-brown sunburst jumbo

The brown-eyed guitar

A round-shouldered 1960s jumbo with a top that burns from honey at the centre to cola brown at the rim, over flamed maple. Its tuner buttons are amber, the brown eyes of the title.

The inlay

The song is a summer-day memory, so the board grows wildflowers: brown-eyed Susans, gold petals around a dark centre.

• Fret 3a brown-eyed Susan
• Fret 5a brown-eyed Susan
• Fret 7a brown-eyed Susan
• Fret 9a brown-eyed Susan
• Fret 12a bouquet of them

The rosette is an iris of hazel and amber abalone, ringed like the colour of an eye.

What the episode teaches

Three chords carry a hit: I, IV and V.

The instrument

Body

Round-shouldered 1960s jumbo

Woods

Adirondack spruce top in a cola-brown sunburst, flamed maple back and sides, ebony board

Hardware

Amber tuner buttons, gold tuners

Song

Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison, 1967

Key

G

Chords

G C G D, Em

Numbers

I IV I V, vi

Where to watch

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