01:38 Lesson Intro
02:09 Chords Em D A C
03:16 Strumming Pattern
06:35 Strumming lightly
11:10 Learn expressive strumming!
12:09 Saxophone part to guitar
16:47 Make the Em sound cool...!
17:23 Easier strum for beginners...
18:30 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/INTERLUDE]
Em7 Em7 Em (verse)
|----3p2------------------|----------------------|----3p2------------------|------------------------|-------|
|----0--------------3-----|--0-------------------|----0--------------3-----|--0---------------------|-------|
|----0-----------------2--|----------------------|----0-----------------2--|------------2--0--------|-------|
|----x--------------------|----------------------|----x--------------------|------------------4--0--|--0h2--|
|----2----2----2----------|-------2----2----2----|----2----2----2----------|-------2----------------|--0h2--|
|----0----0----0----------|-------0----0----0----|----0----0----0----------|-------0----------------|--0----|
h = hammer on
p = pull off
[VERSE 1]
Em
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
D
You can listen to the engine moanin' out it's one note song
A Em
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before
Em
But your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do
D
When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do
A Em
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through
[CHORUS]
D Em
Say, here I am, on the road again
D Em
There I am, up on the stage
D A
Here I go, playing star again
C D Em
There I go, turn the page
[VERSE 2]
Em
Well, you walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road
D
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
A Em
You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode
Em
Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
D
All the same old clichés: "Is that a woman or a man?"
A Em
And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand
[CHORUS]
D Em
Here I am, on the road again
D Em
There I am, up on the stage
D A
Here I go, playing star again
C D Em
There I go, turn the page
[VERSE 3]
Em
Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away
D
Every ounce of energy you try to give away
A Em
As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play
Em
Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
D
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head
A Em
You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said
[CHORUS]
D Em
Ah, here I am, on the road again
D Em
There I am, up on the stage
D A
Here I go, playing star again
C D Em
There I go, turn the page
D Em
Ah, here I am, on the road again
D Em
There I am, up on the stage
D A
Here I go, playing star again
C D Em
There I go, there I go