Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys _ Easy Guitar Lesson

The Art of Strumming and Picking Out Notes Individually

As we delve deeper into playing this tune, it's essential to understand the intricacies of strumming and picking out notes individually. When we're having to continue strumming while picking out individual notes, it requires a certain level of finesse and coordination. This is especially true when we need to accentuate specific notes, such as the D chord in this particular song.

To achieve this, I find myself focusing on accenting the notes a little more so that they stand out clearly. For example, when thinking about playing the sequence D-C-D-G, I make sure to emphasize the individual notes, ensuring that each one is distinct and clear. This requires a delicate balance between strumming and picking out individual notes, as we don't want to mute off any of the chords.

The key here is to maintain a consistent strumming motion while picking out individual notes. It's not necessary to strum all of the strings simultaneously; instead, we focus on picking out specific notes that fit within the chord progression. This allows us to create a smooth and cohesive sound that complements the music.

One of the challenges I face when playing this tune is the transition from the G chord to the C chord. The original run passes through C, which makes it slightly awkward to navigate. To overcome this, I've had to adjust my fingering for the C chord, changing from a standard G chord fingering to an alternate position that allows me to smoothly move into the C chord.

When playing the sequence D-A-B-C-D, I use an up-pick on the A string and a down-pick on the B string. As we reach the C chord, I change my fingering again, using a second finger and third finger to create the correct chord shape. This requires a bit of adjustment, but once I get into the groove, it becomes much more manageable.

I've found that practicing this section repeatedly helps solidify my technique and builds confidence in navigating the chords. It's essential to develop muscle memory and coordination when playing complex passages like this one.

The use of arpeggios is an excellent way to add texture and interest to a song. In this tune, I'm using individual notes of the chord to create a clean and sparkly sound. This is particularly effective on an acoustic guitar, where the strumming creates a natural, rhythmic pattern that complements the melody.

Jamming with another guitarist can be an incredible way to explore new sounds and techniques. By combining an acoustic guitar with an electric guitar, we can create a rich and dynamic sound that's perfect for various musical styles. I highly recommend experimenting with this setup if you have the opportunity – it's a classic combination that never goes out of style.

In conclusion, playing this tune requires attention to detail, coordination, and practice. By mastering the art of strumming and picking out individual notes, we can create a beautiful and engaging sound that brings the music to life. I hope this article has provided valuable insights into the process, and I'll see you in the next lesson for more free tutorials and lessons on various topics related to music.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshot down reputations changeable situations tolerable i'm so tired of being lonely i still have some love to give won't you show me that you really do everybody's got somebody next to my dream mom hey how you doing justin here today we are checking handle with care by the traveling wilburys of course one incredible probably one of the superest superbands of all time incredible bunch of musicians playing some amazing music and really interesting how you can hear the influence of the different guys i think in each of the tunes this one sounds a little bit roy or some for me except for the chorus which sounds a bit tom petty so but it's a lovely tune of play um sorry the throat's a little bit croaky trying to sing that low and that high this in the same tune especially i just finished doing the other uh um mary jane's last dance is also a little bit difficult on the old voice but anyway i'm sure you'll forgive me or bash me in the comments if you so desire anyway this one's a really really nice tune if you want to play a simple version of it but to get in all of the little kind of league guitar runs that i'm popping in there as well there at the beginning it's a little bit more tricky but i'll show you both versions on the original it's uh one guy playing the chord well there's a few different guitar layers but one's playing strictly chords and the other is playing a kind of a lead line i just think sounds cool to be able to combine them together if you're playing by yourself so that's kind of what i'm going to hope to show you through this lesson so let's have a look at the first chord progression first of all it seems like a logical place to start here um we've got this little d d with the c bass g with the b bass g that's the sequence now the d i'm not playing the thinnest string here okay you could play d sus two and leave the the thinnest string open if you wanted to but you don't want your second finger over there on the regular d because it makes it kind of an awkward jump getting to the c base which is the second chord so we want d d with a c bass okay so literally if you're just using your first and third fingers on the d muting the thinnest string not playing the thickest two strings either so just from the fourth string third string and second string now i should note as well i just accidentally strummed the a string there a string sounds fine if you accidentally strum the a string on a d chord it doesn't sound bad at all you don't want to strum the thickest string the e string that'll sound horrible but if you if you're aiming for strings four three and two and you accidentally hit string five the fifth string it says you know it's not going to sound bad at all in fact i'm sure i do it i'm sure it's there on the original recording as well quite a bit it's just a note of the chord so d with a c bass so now second finger is going down third fret of the fifth string d okay okay then we've got to g with the b bass so now first thing is moving from a spot on the d chord to the second fret of the fifth string so now we're just playing the middle strings the thicker string is still going to be muted probably by the tip of the first finger if you can so nothing second fret open open third fret the thinnest string will stay muted that's the the g slash b a g chord with a b bass note there's a b bass note and then we've got the g chord the g is called what we call push so it's a little an eighth note earlier uh than you might anticipate so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and let's change you on the up down down up down up one now there's this little walk up i'm going to take you through that sorry i didn't mean to do it this early in the lesson i'll show i will show you how to do that at the same time but i recommend that you start with just the d c g with a b bass to g d c g with a bass g now it does that around uh that little sequence twice through for the intro then another two times for the first verse that it goes to a c chord for a bar g to e minor with the e minor's pushed one and two and three and four and okay so it's just changing on the and after two instead of beat three i'm going to do this again in a second so don't worry and then we've got c d g okay one and two and three and four and got that another push there c for one and two and d four and we've got that g and a very specific strain factor which i'm going to talk about just in a sec let me just go through that verse sequence now so hopefully you're clear with the intro uh that was just that little two-bar sequence but the verse and that was g to e minor c to d g okay now talk a little bit about the strumming and that'll kind of run into that uh rhythm on that g chord at the end so i'm just playing even eighth notes putting a bit of an accent on beats two and four three that's a c chord g two a minor c d g and two three okay so just on the g chord it's very obvious it changes on the and after four from the d chord so c d and four and one and two three four okay it's strumming up on uh up on the and after four which is where it changes to the g four and one and two three four up up down down four up up down down okay very very specific just on that the ending there most of the bands need to pick up the same sort of groove so again from the c d to g which is the last two bars of the verse one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one more time all the way through the verse three four d with a c bass b bass g d with a c bass g with a b bass to g to c g to e minor c d g first two almost the same starts the same still the same c g to e minor but now it goes c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar okay so first two is the same as first one again if you listen to the original recording you're just gonna have to because it's quite a long song with a lot of sections in it um so just have a listen to the verse progressions to know if it's the same as verse one or verse two because they're just slightly different there at the end um and now we come to the bridge part bridge is really nice to me it sounds very very royal orbs and this particular second chord such a lovely chord it's a g augmented uh chord so you want to start with a g chord using just fingers three and four so third finger on the uh third fret of the thickest string it'll also mute the fifth string open open open the little finger on the third fret of the thinnest string now to get to a g augmented you need to put your first finger in the first fret of the fourth string so you end up with third fret nothing first fret open open third it's very mysterious that chord isn't it right very cool kind of chord it sounds a bit weird on its own but in context it's really really nice particularly on that string we get the that going to this which is in the c chord so you get that nice what we call a harmonic movement but g g augmented c to d chord g g augmented c to d g to g augmented c to d to g for two bars four into the chorus every c chord needs another bar a c to g on for two bars back to c chord for two bars and then it's d chord for two bars then you stay on d and then you're going around that same verse okay so the chorus very very simple two bars of c two bars of g two bars of c two bars of d not going to get any simpler than that right so the chorus it's really the easiest part again with these kind of tunes you the the the biggest part the thing that i think most people struggle with is getting the rhythm and the groove right so it's not just playing the chords right and playing the rhythm right it's making it feel right and i know i talk about this all the time i think it's a you know a fairly new thing in my teaching you might find in the older lessons but i think it's a really really uh good idea that i've i've had a lot of positive response from students is just this idea of muting the chords you know and then practicing doing the strumming without having any of that you know the the worry about the chords and just practicing getting in the groove and going like that one two three four one two three four one two three four you know that can really help you know really just trying to accent as well the beats two and four which is called the back beat which helps the groove along i guess it's one of those things that might not be on the original recording actually such a heavy uh hit on the backbeat but when you plan songs by yourself even if it's not on the original recording if you don't have a drummer and other people in the band to put that accent on it generally sounds better i think if you can add that in yourself so um let me just play it through now the intro verse one verse two uh bridge and then the chorus and just play it once through all of the way so you can see how it's uh how it all fits together so three four into the verse c base b bass g d the c base g with a b to g c g to e minor c d g d the c base b base g d with a c bass b bass g c g to e minor c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar now the g augmented c to d g g augmented c to d g the g augmented c to d chord back to g two bars need to see god needs a secret to go back to c chord for a two bars an entity okay let's talk now a little bit about um this lead line thing because for me it makes it sound really good in the verses i like the feeling of it but it's not that easy so um you want to make sure that you together with what i've just shown you well and truly before you even attempt having a go at this because what we're having to do is continue strumming while picking out notes individually so um if i'm thinking about that part i'm accenting the notes a little bit more so d c d g now when i do this g a b c d i'm trying to keep the strumming motion all the time um it's literally from the g chord i'm using the open a first finger second fret of the fifth string third finger third fret of the fifth string to get to the d it's just kind of like a little bit of scale connection really but the c bass b to g and i've got an up pick on the a down on the b i'll pick on the c and then we're back at the d one and two and three and four and one and two and three up down up down it's not that difficult but you're still remembering to try and keep strumming that strumming feeling okay while you're picking out those notes i don't think it works to kind of strum all of the strings so you are picking out notes individually but you don't want to mute off all of the chords either so that would be first step is just practicing that little section so that works great until you get to the c chord and and when you're going to the c chord because the original run was kind of passing through c it makes it a little bit uh awkward you have to change the fingering basically so uh when it comes to that in the in the verse you know you do that sequence twice around that i've just shown you and then we've got to go to the c chord when it's going to the c chord um all normal here okay i've had to change the fingering so i'm playing my g chord like this with the second finger on the third fret of the thickest string and uh second finger on the third fret of the second string that's my g chord but when i'm doing my i've got this open i'm using my second finger and third finger now the third finger is already in position for the c chord now so okay from the g like this open a string that's the point where we can get our whole hand off second finger second fret third finger down in the third fret then as we strum down we've got our c chord so first sequence fine now we've got to go into a c here change fingering c and that's it that's the only part that you have to watch out for and that's the it's kind of funny because i had to actually sit down go oh hang on i'm doing it wrong and what i just did i did a kind of little mistake when i started filming this is i did what happens if you don't change the fingering which should be this you end up with oh i'm on the c and my fingers are in completely the wrong place then you've got to do a big chord change so and it kind of interrupts the flow of the chords and the flow of the song so if you're gonna do that run up when it's gonna stay on the c chord okay when it's doing the here and you know the next chord is the c chord where it's staying on the c chord change that fingering to open second finger third finger then your c chord tree to go if you don't it just kind of leads a little it's going to be feel a little jumpy okay um i thought tried to think of a few ways around doing it because like i said it's originally a sec a separate guitar part um and you can you can change the line to get an open a in there before the club it's just much better i think to to change the finger here it seems to make a lot more sense uh to me if you get a chance to play this with another guitar player it's definitely worth separating out those parts as well it's a really nice thing to have one guitar just playing a kind of arpeggios i think the original is like something like that where it's just notes of the cord quite clean sparkly probably a telecaster a little bit you know a lot of reverb that kind of effect with an acoustic guitar strumming is really really nice so have a bit of an experiment again with that if you've got the opportunity to jam up with somebody else the the acoustic guitar with a clean electric guitar combo is really real it's a classic for a reason sounds really good it's great fun to explore if you've got somebody to jam with so uh look i really hope you enjoyed learning this tune and i'll see you over on the website for more than a thousand free lessons you've got to go and check it out if you haven't already and i'll see you for plenty more lessons very soon take care of yourselves bye-bye youshot down reputations changeable situations tolerable i'm so tired of being lonely i still have some love to give won't you show me that you really do everybody's got somebody next to my dream mom hey how you doing justin here today we are checking handle with care by the traveling wilburys of course one incredible probably one of the superest superbands of all time incredible bunch of musicians playing some amazing music and really interesting how you can hear the influence of the different guys i think in each of the tunes this one sounds a little bit roy or some for me except for the chorus which sounds a bit tom petty so but it's a lovely tune of play um sorry the throat's a little bit croaky trying to sing that low and that high this in the same tune especially i just finished doing the other uh um mary jane's last dance is also a little bit difficult on the old voice but anyway i'm sure you'll forgive me or bash me in the comments if you so desire anyway this one's a really really nice tune if you want to play a simple version of it but to get in all of the little kind of league guitar runs that i'm popping in there as well there at the beginning it's a little bit more tricky but i'll show you both versions on the original it's uh one guy playing the chord well there's a few different guitar layers but one's playing strictly chords and the other is playing a kind of a lead line i just think sounds cool to be able to combine them together if you're playing by yourself so that's kind of what i'm going to hope to show you through this lesson so let's have a look at the first chord progression first of all it seems like a logical place to start here um we've got this little d d with the c bass g with the b bass g that's the sequence now the d i'm not playing the thinnest string here okay you could play d sus two and leave the the thinnest string open if you wanted to but you don't want your second finger over there on the regular d because it makes it kind of an awkward jump getting to the c base which is the second chord so we want d d with a c bass okay so literally if you're just using your first and third fingers on the d muting the thinnest string not playing the thickest two strings either so just from the fourth string third string and second string now i should note as well i just accidentally strummed the a string there a string sounds fine if you accidentally strum the a string on a d chord it doesn't sound bad at all you don't want to strum the thickest string the e string that'll sound horrible but if you if you're aiming for strings four three and two and you accidentally hit string five the fifth string it says you know it's not going to sound bad at all in fact i'm sure i do it i'm sure it's there on the original recording as well quite a bit it's just a note of the chord so d with a c bass so now second finger is going down third fret of the fifth string d okay okay then we've got to g with the b bass so now first thing is moving from a spot on the d chord to the second fret of the fifth string so now we're just playing the middle strings the thicker string is still going to be muted probably by the tip of the first finger if you can so nothing second fret open open third fret the thinnest string will stay muted that's the the g slash b a g chord with a b bass note there's a b bass note and then we've got the g chord the g is called what we call push so it's a little an eighth note earlier uh than you might anticipate so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and let's change you on the up down down up down up one now there's this little walk up i'm going to take you through that sorry i didn't mean to do it this early in the lesson i'll show i will show you how to do that at the same time but i recommend that you start with just the d c g with a b bass to g d c g with a bass g now it does that around uh that little sequence twice through for the intro then another two times for the first verse that it goes to a c chord for a bar g to e minor with the e minor's pushed one and two and three and four and okay so it's just changing on the and after two instead of beat three i'm going to do this again in a second so don't worry and then we've got c d g okay one and two and three and four and got that another push there c for one and two and d four and we've got that g and a very specific strain factor which i'm going to talk about just in a sec let me just go through that verse sequence now so hopefully you're clear with the intro uh that was just that little two-bar sequence but the verse and that was g to e minor c to d g okay now talk a little bit about the strumming and that'll kind of run into that uh rhythm on that g chord at the end so i'm just playing even eighth notes putting a bit of an accent on beats two and four three that's a c chord g two a minor c d g and two three okay so just on the g chord it's very obvious it changes on the and after four from the d chord so c d and four and one and two three four okay it's strumming up on uh up on the and after four which is where it changes to the g four and one and two three four up up down down four up up down down okay very very specific just on that the ending there most of the bands need to pick up the same sort of groove so again from the c d to g which is the last two bars of the verse one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one more time all the way through the verse three four d with a c bass b bass g d with a c bass g with a b bass to g to c g to e minor c d g first two almost the same starts the same still the same c g to e minor but now it goes c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar okay so first two is the same as first one again if you listen to the original recording you're just gonna have to because it's quite a long song with a lot of sections in it um so just have a listen to the verse progressions to know if it's the same as verse one or verse two because they're just slightly different there at the end um and now we come to the bridge part bridge is really nice to me it sounds very very royal orbs and this particular second chord such a lovely chord it's a g augmented uh chord so you want to start with a g chord using just fingers three and four so third finger on the uh third fret of the thickest string it'll also mute the fifth string open open open the little finger on the third fret of the thinnest string now to get to a g augmented you need to put your first finger in the first fret of the fourth string so you end up with third fret nothing first fret open open third it's very mysterious that chord isn't it right very cool kind of chord it sounds a bit weird on its own but in context it's really really nice particularly on that string we get the that going to this which is in the c chord so you get that nice what we call a harmonic movement but g g augmented c to d chord g g augmented c to d g to g augmented c to d to g for two bars four into the chorus every c chord needs another bar a c to g on for two bars back to c chord for two bars and then it's d chord for two bars then you stay on d and then you're going around that same verse okay so the chorus very very simple two bars of c two bars of g two bars of c two bars of d not going to get any simpler than that right so the chorus it's really the easiest part again with these kind of tunes you the the the biggest part the thing that i think most people struggle with is getting the rhythm and the groove right so it's not just playing the chords right and playing the rhythm right it's making it feel right and i know i talk about this all the time i think it's a you know a fairly new thing in my teaching you might find in the older lessons but i think it's a really really uh good idea that i've i've had a lot of positive response from students is just this idea of muting the chords you know and then practicing doing the strumming without having any of that you know the the worry about the chords and just practicing getting in the groove and going like that one two three four one two three four one two three four you know that can really help you know really just trying to accent as well the beats two and four which is called the back beat which helps the groove along i guess it's one of those things that might not be on the original recording actually such a heavy uh hit on the backbeat but when you plan songs by yourself even if it's not on the original recording if you don't have a drummer and other people in the band to put that accent on it generally sounds better i think if you can add that in yourself so um let me just play it through now the intro verse one verse two uh bridge and then the chorus and just play it once through all of the way so you can see how it's uh how it all fits together so three four into the verse c base b bass g d the c base g with a b to g c g to e minor c d g d the c base b base g d with a c bass b bass g c g to e minor c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar now the g augmented c to d g g augmented c to d g the g augmented c to d chord back to g two bars need to see god needs a secret to go back to c chord for a two bars an entity okay let's talk now a little bit about um this lead line thing because for me it makes it sound really good in the verses i like the feeling of it but it's not that easy so um you want to make sure that you together with what i've just shown you well and truly before you even attempt having a go at this because what we're having to do is continue strumming while picking out notes individually so um if i'm thinking about that part i'm accenting the notes a little bit more so d c d g now when i do this g a b c d i'm trying to keep the strumming motion all the time um it's literally from the g chord i'm using the open a first finger second fret of the fifth string third finger third fret of the fifth string to get to the d it's just kind of like a little bit of scale connection really but the c bass b to g and i've got an up pick on the a down on the b i'll pick on the c and then we're back at the d one and two and three and four and one and two and three up down up down it's not that difficult but you're still remembering to try and keep strumming that strumming feeling okay while you're picking out those notes i don't think it works to kind of strum all of the strings so you are picking out notes individually but you don't want to mute off all of the chords either so that would be first step is just practicing that little section so that works great until you get to the c chord and and when you're going to the c chord because the original run was kind of passing through c it makes it a little bit uh awkward you have to change the fingering basically so uh when it comes to that in the in the verse you know you do that sequence twice around that i've just shown you and then we've got to go to the c chord when it's going to the c chord um all normal here okay i've had to change the fingering so i'm playing my g chord like this with the second finger on the third fret of the thickest string and uh second finger on the third fret of the second string that's my g chord but when i'm doing my i've got this open i'm using my second finger and third finger now the third finger is already in position for the c chord now so okay from the g like this open a string that's the point where we can get our whole hand off second finger second fret third finger down in the third fret then as we strum down we've got our c chord so first sequence fine now we've got to go into a c here change fingering c and that's it that's the only part that you have to watch out for and that's the it's kind of funny because i had to actually sit down go oh hang on i'm doing it wrong and what i just did i did a kind of little mistake when i started filming this is i did what happens if you don't change the fingering which should be this you end up with oh i'm on the c and my fingers are in completely the wrong place then you've got to do a big chord change so and it kind of interrupts the flow of the chords and the flow of the song so if you're gonna do that run up when it's gonna stay on the c chord okay when it's doing the here and you know the next chord is the c chord where it's staying on the c chord change that fingering to open second finger third finger then your c chord tree to go if you don't it just kind of leads a little it's going to be feel a little jumpy okay um i thought tried to think of a few ways around doing it because like i said it's originally a sec a separate guitar part um and you can you can change the line to get an open a in there before the club it's just much better i think to to change the finger here it seems to make a lot more sense uh to me if you get a chance to play this with another guitar player it's definitely worth separating out those parts as well it's a really nice thing to have one guitar just playing a kind of arpeggios i think the original is like something like that where it's just notes of the cord quite clean sparkly probably a telecaster a little bit you know a lot of reverb that kind of effect with an acoustic guitar strumming is really really nice so have a bit of an experiment again with that if you've got the opportunity to jam up with somebody else the the acoustic guitar with a clean electric guitar combo is really real it's a classic for a reason sounds really good it's great fun to explore if you've got somebody to jam with so uh look i really hope you enjoyed learning this tune and i'll see you over on the website for more than a thousand free lessons you've got to go and check it out if you haven't already and i'll see you for plenty more lessons very soon take care of yourselves bye-bye youshot down reputations changeable situations tolerable i'm so tired of being lonely i still have some love to give won't you show me that you really do everybody's got somebody next to my dream mom hey how you doing justin here today we are checking handle with care by the traveling wilburys of course one incredible probably one of the superest superbands of all time incredible bunch of musicians playing some amazing music and really interesting how you can hear the influence of the different guys i think in each of the tunes this one sounds a little bit roy or some for me except for the chorus which sounds a bit tom petty so but it's a lovely tune of play um sorry the throat's a little bit croaky trying to sing that low and that high this in the same tune especially i just finished doing the other uh um mary jane's last dance is also a little bit difficult on the old voice but anyway i'm sure you'll forgive me or bash me in the comments if you so desire anyway this one's a really really nice tune if you want to play a simple version of it but to get in all of the little kind of league guitar runs that i'm popping in there as well there at the beginning it's a little bit more tricky but i'll show you both versions on the original it's uh one guy playing the chord well there's a few different guitar layers but one's playing strictly chords and the other is playing a kind of a lead line i just think sounds cool to be able to combine them together if you're playing by yourself so that's kind of what i'm going to hope to show you through this lesson so let's have a look at the first chord progression first of all it seems like a logical place to start here um we've got this little d d with the c bass g with the b bass g that's the sequence now the d i'm not playing the thinnest string here okay you could play d sus two and leave the the thinnest string open if you wanted to but you don't want your second finger over there on the regular d because it makes it kind of an awkward jump getting to the c base which is the second chord so we want d d with a c bass okay so literally if you're just using your first and third fingers on the d muting the thinnest string not playing the thickest two strings either so just from the fourth string third string and second string now i should note as well i just accidentally strummed the a string there a string sounds fine if you accidentally strum the a string on a d chord it doesn't sound bad at all you don't want to strum the thickest string the e string that'll sound horrible but if you if you're aiming for strings four three and two and you accidentally hit string five the fifth string it says you know it's not going to sound bad at all in fact i'm sure i do it i'm sure it's there on the original recording as well quite a bit it's just a note of the chord so d with a c bass so now second finger is going down third fret of the fifth string d okay okay then we've got to g with the b bass so now first thing is moving from a spot on the d chord to the second fret of the fifth string so now we're just playing the middle strings the thicker string is still going to be muted probably by the tip of the first finger if you can so nothing second fret open open third fret the thinnest string will stay muted that's the the g slash b a g chord with a b bass note there's a b bass note and then we've got the g chord the g is called what we call push so it's a little an eighth note earlier uh than you might anticipate so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and let's change you on the up down down up down up one now there's this little walk up i'm going to take you through that sorry i didn't mean to do it this early in the lesson i'll show i will show you how to do that at the same time but i recommend that you start with just the d c g with a b bass to g d c g with a bass g now it does that around uh that little sequence twice through for the intro then another two times for the first verse that it goes to a c chord for a bar g to e minor with the e minor's pushed one and two and three and four and okay so it's just changing on the and after two instead of beat three i'm going to do this again in a second so don't worry and then we've got c d g okay one and two and three and four and got that another push there c for one and two and d four and we've got that g and a very specific strain factor which i'm going to talk about just in a sec let me just go through that verse sequence now so hopefully you're clear with the intro uh that was just that little two-bar sequence but the verse and that was g to e minor c to d g okay now talk a little bit about the strumming and that'll kind of run into that uh rhythm on that g chord at the end so i'm just playing even eighth notes putting a bit of an accent on beats two and four three that's a c chord g two a minor c d g and two three okay so just on the g chord it's very obvious it changes on the and after four from the d chord so c d and four and one and two three four okay it's strumming up on uh up on the and after four which is where it changes to the g four and one and two three four up up down down four up up down down okay very very specific just on that the ending there most of the bands need to pick up the same sort of groove so again from the c d to g which is the last two bars of the verse one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one and two and three and four and one and two three four okay one more time all the way through the verse three four d with a c bass b bass g d with a c bass g with a b bass to g to c g to e minor c d g first two almost the same starts the same still the same c g to e minor but now it goes c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar okay so first two is the same as first one again if you listen to the original recording you're just gonna have to because it's quite a long song with a lot of sections in it um so just have a listen to the verse progressions to know if it's the same as verse one or verse two because they're just slightly different there at the end um and now we come to the bridge part bridge is really nice to me it sounds very very royal orbs and this particular second chord such a lovely chord it's a g augmented uh chord so you want to start with a g chord using just fingers three and four so third finger on the uh third fret of the thickest string it'll also mute the fifth string open open open the little finger on the third fret of the thinnest string now to get to a g augmented you need to put your first finger in the first fret of the fourth string so you end up with third fret nothing first fret open open third it's very mysterious that chord isn't it right very cool kind of chord it sounds a bit weird on its own but in context it's really really nice particularly on that string we get the that going to this which is in the c chord so you get that nice what we call a harmonic movement but g g augmented c to d chord g g augmented c to d g to g augmented c to d to g for two bars four into the chorus every c chord needs another bar a c to g on for two bars back to c chord for two bars and then it's d chord for two bars then you stay on d and then you're going around that same verse okay so the chorus very very simple two bars of c two bars of g two bars of c two bars of d not going to get any simpler than that right so the chorus it's really the easiest part again with these kind of tunes you the the the biggest part the thing that i think most people struggle with is getting the rhythm and the groove right so it's not just playing the chords right and playing the rhythm right it's making it feel right and i know i talk about this all the time i think it's a you know a fairly new thing in my teaching you might find in the older lessons but i think it's a really really uh good idea that i've i've had a lot of positive response from students is just this idea of muting the chords you know and then practicing doing the strumming without having any of that you know the the worry about the chords and just practicing getting in the groove and going like that one two three four one two three four one two three four you know that can really help you know really just trying to accent as well the beats two and four which is called the back beat which helps the groove along i guess it's one of those things that might not be on the original recording actually such a heavy uh hit on the backbeat but when you plan songs by yourself even if it's not on the original recording if you don't have a drummer and other people in the band to put that accent on it generally sounds better i think if you can add that in yourself so um let me just play it through now the intro verse one verse two uh bridge and then the chorus and just play it once through all of the way so you can see how it's uh how it all fits together so three four into the verse c base b bass g d the c base g with a b to g c g to e minor c d g d the c base b base g d with a c bass b bass g c g to e minor c for a whole bar to d for a whole bar now the g augmented c to d g g augmented c to d g the g augmented c to d chord back to g two bars need to see god needs a secret to go back to c chord for a two bars an entity okay let's talk now a little bit about um this lead line thing because for me it makes it sound really good in the verses i like the feeling of it but it's not that easy so um you want to make sure that you together with what i've just shown you well and truly before you even attempt having a go at this because what we're having to do is continue strumming while picking out notes individually so um if i'm thinking about that part i'm accenting the notes a little bit more so d c d g now when i do this g a b c d i'm trying to keep the strumming motion all the time um it's literally from the g chord i'm using the open a first finger second fret of the fifth string third finger third fret of the fifth string to get to the d it's just kind of like a little bit of scale connection really but the c bass b to g and i've got an up pick on the a down on the b i'll pick on the c and then we're back at the d one and two and three and four and one and two and three up down up down it's not that difficult but you're still remembering to try and keep strumming that strumming feeling okay while you're picking out those notes i don't think it works to kind of strum all of the strings so you are picking out notes individually but you don't want to mute off all of the chords either so that would be first step is just practicing that little section so that works great until you get to the c chord and and when you're going to the c chord because the original run was kind of passing through c it makes it a little bit uh awkward you have to change the fingering basically so uh when it comes to that in the in the verse you know you do that sequence twice around that i've just shown you and then we've got to go to the c chord when it's going to the c chord um all normal here okay i've had to change the fingering so i'm playing my g chord like this with the second finger on the third fret of the thickest string and uh second finger on the third fret of the second string that's my g chord but when i'm doing my i've got this open i'm using my second finger and third finger now the third finger is already in position for the c chord now so okay from the g like this open a string that's the point where we can get our whole hand off second finger second fret third finger down in the third fret then as we strum down we've got our c chord so first sequence fine now we've got to go into a c here change fingering c and that's it that's the only part that you have to watch out for and that's the it's kind of funny because i had to actually sit down go oh hang on i'm doing it wrong and what i just did i did a kind of little mistake when i started filming this is i did what happens if you don't change the fingering which should be this you end up with oh i'm on the c and my fingers are in completely the wrong place then you've got to do a big chord change so and it kind of interrupts the flow of the chords and the flow of the song so if you're gonna do that run up when it's gonna stay on the c chord okay when it's doing the here and you know the next chord is the c chord where it's staying on the c chord change that fingering to open second finger third finger then your c chord tree to go if you don't it just kind of leads a little it's going to be feel a little jumpy okay um i thought tried to think of a few ways around doing it because like i said it's originally a sec a separate guitar part um and you can you can change the line to get an open a in there before the club it's just much better i think to to change the finger here it seems to make a lot more sense uh to me if you get a chance to play this with another guitar player it's definitely worth separating out those parts as well it's a really nice thing to have one guitar just playing a kind of arpeggios i think the original is like something like that where it's just notes of the cord quite clean sparkly probably a telecaster a little bit you know a lot of reverb that kind of effect with an acoustic guitar strumming is really really nice so have a bit of an experiment again with that if you've got the opportunity to jam up with somebody else the the acoustic guitar with a clean electric guitar combo is really real it's a classic for a reason sounds really good it's great fun to explore if you've got somebody to jam with so uh look i really hope you enjoyed learning this tune and i'll see you over on the website for more than a thousand free lessons you've got to go and check it out if you haven't already and i'll see you for plenty more lessons very soon take care of yourselves bye-bye you\n"