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Old Man
Neil Young
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00:00 Song Demo
01:25 Lesson Intro
02:01 Chords
04:25 Intro - simple version
08:56 Intro - variation
11:33 Verse strum
14:53 Strumming Expression...!
16:08 Chorus strum
18:42 Lesson Outro

It's not WHAT you strum...

...But HOW you strum it!

Not sure what to strum for these songs?

How do you come up with strumming patterns?

Fed up strumming D DU UDU all the time?

You need to LEVEL UP YOUR STRUMMING!

[INTRO]

  Dm9

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  D    D  U D  U  D U     D  U D  U    U D  U

 

 

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  D    D  U D  U  D  U

 

 

  Dadd9

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  D    D  U D  U  D U     D  U D  U    U D  U 

 

 

Dm9

Old man look at my life

                Dadd9   

I'm a lot like you were

Dm9

Old man look at my life

                |D   |F  |C   |G    |

I'm a lot like you were

 

 

[VERSE 1]

 

|D  |F   |C   |G   |

 

D        F

Old man look at my life

C                        G

Twenty four and there's so much more

D               F

Live alone in a paradise

 C                      F

That makes me think of two

 

D              F

Love lost, such a cost

C                    G

Give me things that don't get lost

D                 C

Like a coin that won't get tossed

 F              G

Rolling home to you

 

[CHORUS]

 

|D       |Am Em  G |

 

Old man take a look at my life

       Am      Em   G

I'm a lot like you

I need someone to love me

     Am         Em   G

the whole day through

Ah, one look in my eyes

             Am           Em  G

and you can tell that's true

 

 

[VERSE 2]

 

|D  |F   |C   |G   |

|D  |F   |C   |F   |

 

D          F

Lullabies look in your eyes

C                         G

Run around the same old town

D                 F

Doesn't mean that much to me

  C                   F

To mean that much to you

 

D                     F

I've been first and last

C               G

Look at how the time goes past

D             C

But I'm all alone at last

 F              G

Rolling home to you

 

[CHORUS]

 

|D       |Am Em  G |

 

Old man take a look at my life

       Am      Em   G

I'm a lot like you

I need someone to love me

     Am         Em   G

the whole day through

Ah, one look in my eyes

             Am           Em  G

and you can tell that's true

 

 

[OUTRO]

(similar to intro but shorter)

 

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Dm9

Old man look at my life

                Dadd9   

I'm a lot like you were

Dm9

Old man look at my life

                |D   |F  |C   |C    |D   |

I'm a lot like you were