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Ventura Highway
America
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00:00 Song Demo
01:22 Lesson Intro
01:53 Chords
03:37 Strumming Pattern
08:57 Improve Your Strumming!
09:30 The riff!
15:06 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!

[RIFF]

 

|--5h7p5---------------------------|------|--5h7p5---------------------------|------|

|---------7----5h7p5------------7--|------|---------7----5h7p5------------7--|------|

|---------------------6----6/7-----|--7---|---------------------6----6/7-----|--6---|

|----------------------------------|------|----------------------------------|------|

|----------------------------------|------|----------------------------------|------|

|----------------------------------|------|----------------------------------|------|

 

[VARIATION]

|--5h7p5---------------------------|----------------------|

|-----------7--5h7p5------------7--|-------5--7-----------|

|-----------------------6--6/7-----|--7-------------------|

|----------------------------------|----------------------|

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[INTRO]

G6 Dmaj7

 

[VERSE]

G6

 Chewing on a piece of grass

                  Dmaj7

 Walking down the road

G6                             Dmaj7

 Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, Joe?

G6                                   Dmaj7

 Some people say this town don't look good in snow

G6                   Dmaj7

 You don't care, I know

 

[CHORUS]

G6                     Dmaj7

 Ventura Highway in the sunshine

           G6

Where the days are longer

                              Dmaj7

The nights are stronger than moonshine

G6                    Dmaj7 F#m11

  You're gonna go I know

          Em                    F#m11

Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

        Em                 F#m11

And the days surround your daylight there

Em                   F#m11

   Seasons crying no despair

    Em          F#m11           G6

Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Dmaj7  G6 Dmaj7  G6

Did di di di dit ...

 

[VERSE]

G6

 Wishin' on a falling star

             Dmaj7

Waitin' for the early train

G6                             Dmaj7

  Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain

G6                            Dmaj7

 Aw, come on, Joe, you can always

 

Change your name

G6                            Dmaj7

 Thanks a lot, son, just the same

 

[CHORUS]

G6                     Dmaj7

 Ventura Highway in the sunshine

           G6

Where the days are longer

                              Dmaj7

The nights are stronger than moonshine

G6                    Dmaj7 F#m11

  You're gonna go I know

          Em                    F#m11

cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair

        Em                 F#m11

And the days surround your daylight there

Em                   F#m11

   Seasons crying no despair

    Em          F#m11           G6

Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Dmaj7  G6 Dmaj7  G6

Did di di di dit ...