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Wind Of Change
Scorpions
OOBni5XPiZo
00:00 Song Demo
01:53 Lesson Intro
02:58 Chords
05:16 Main strumming pattern
10:44 Strum like a pro!
11:34 Intro / Intro Riff
18:35 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?

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[INTRO]

 

   F                       Dm                        F                       Dm

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

|----------0-1------------|----------0--1--3-1------|----------0-1----------|----------0--1--3-1------|

|-------2-----------------|-------2-----------------|-------2---------------|-------2-----------------|

|--3----------------------|--0----------------------|--3--------------------|--0----------------------|

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

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

 

   Am                        Dm            Am               G

|-------------0--1-0------|-----1-------------0----------|-------------|

|-------1--3-----------1--|--------3-------------1-------|-----3--0----|

|-------------------------|-----------(0)-----------(0)--|-------------|

|-------------------------|--0---------------------------|-------------|

|--0----------------------|----------------0-------------|-------------|

|-------------------------|------------------------------|--3----------|

 

or you can just strum: 

 

|F     |Dm   |F     |Dm    |

|Am    |Dm Am |G     |

 

 

[VERSE 1]

 

C                   Dm

 I follow the Moskva

               C

Down to Gorky Park

                  Dm       Am G 

Listening to the wind of change

 

C                   Dm

 An August summer night

                  C

Soldiers passing by

                  Dm       Am G 

Listening to the wind of change

 

 

[INTERLUDE]

 

|F     |Dm   |F     |Dm    |

|Am    |Dm Am |G     |

 

 

[VERSE 2]

 

C                      Dm

 The world is closing in

               C

Did you ever think

                      Dm          Am G 

That we could be so close, like brothers

 

C                     Dm

 The future's in the air

                     C

I can feel it everywhere

                  Dm       Am G 

Blowing with the wind of change

 

 

[CHORUS]

 

 C   G         Dm           G

Take me to the magic of the moment

       C   G

On a glory night

            Dm           G             Am F

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

                 G     C

In the wind of change

 

 

[VERSE 3]

 

C                     Dm

 Walking down the street

             C

Distant memories

                   Dm     Am G 

Are buried in the past fore  ver

 

C                   Dm

 I follow the Moskva

               C

Down to Gorky Park

                  Dm       Am G 

Listening to the wind of change

 

 

[CHORUS]

 

 C   G         Dm           G

Take me to the magic of the moment

       C   G

On a glory night

            Dm           G             Am F

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

                 G     

In the wind of change

 

 C   G         Dm           G

Take me to the magic of the moment

       C   G

On a glory night

            Dm           G             Am F

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

                 G     

In the wind of change

 

 

[BRIDGE]

 

Am                            G

 The wind of change blows straight

                  Am

Into the face of time

                            G

Like a stormwind that will ring

                               C

The freedom bell for peace of mind

                    Dm

Let your balalaika sing

                         E

What my guitar wants to say

 

 

[SOLO]

 

|F G  |E  Am |F G  |Am    |

|F G  |E  Am |Dm   |E     |

 

[CHORUS]

 

 C   G         Dm           G

Take me to the magic of the moment

       C   G

On a glory night

            Dm           G             Am F

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

                 G     

In the wind of change

 

 C   G         Dm           G

Take me to the magic of the moment

       C   G

On a glory night

            Dm           G             Am F

Where the children of tomorrow dream away

                 G     

In the wind of change

 

 

[OUTRO]

 

|F  |Dm  |F   |Dm  |

|Am |Dm  |