hi guys and welcome to day 10 of this 10
day guitar starter course with me andy
crowley now this is the last day in this
10-day course but don't panic we've got
loads more structured lessons for you on
the youtube channel and on my website so
check those out if you want more of this
sort of content but in this lesson we're
checking out how to do a blues strumming
pattern a blue shuffle riff which is
going to sound really cool and we're
going to be using the song that'll be
the day by buddy holly as an example of
all of these things basically the chords
are really simple we just have a d major
chord
played in a standard way
an a major chord which i'm playing in my
beginner's course fashion
though if you do prefer three in a line
like this
will also work totally fine
we have an e major
nice and standard
and then we also have this new b7 chord
which is a little bit trickier
but we'll cover that it only happens for
one bar and we'll cover that when we get
to it the main focus is the rhythm and
this riff so the rhythm pattern that we
need with our right hand is a shuffle
which we're gonna do down up down up
down up down up
now you need to be careful here because
this needs to sound like a bounce or as
we say a shuffle so we need a one and
two
needs to be to that rhythm and you could
do that with all downs one and two and
three and four and and to get this sound
to hear our strumming i'm just touching
the strings really lightly with my
fingers not pressing down to the frets
otherwise you get noise just like this
but it's way more economical to do it a
bit faster than just to be really
comfortable if we do down and then pause
up down
up down up down up down
one and two and three and four and
now there's a bit of a rule certainly
for beginner level songs where we need
to keep the down strums on the beat so
it needs to be down pause up down up
down up down if you're doing down up
down up if you were kind of tapping your
foot to it and nodding your head your
hand would be going the opposite way to
your head and it's really it's incorrect
for it from a rhythm point of view so we
need
down up down up down up down up down and
two and three and four and
and for the chorus we have two bars of
the d chord which would sound like one
and two and three and four and one and
two and three and four and then two bars
of the air cord if i just give a really
quick demo with a little bit of singing
but i don't want to put anyone off with
my singing so uh go gentle on me
that'll be the day
when you say goodbye yes that'll be the
day
when you make me cry you say you're
gonna leave
you know it's a lie cause that'll be the
day
when
so what did we do there two bars of d
two bows of a
two bars of d again and then we pause on
the air
let's have a little play through of that
together most people should be able to
keep up with this one nice easy chords
in
from a d chord in one two three four one
and two three
you say goodbye a chord that will be the
day
when you make me cry decourt
d and two and three and four one strum
of an a
cause that will be the day
eh and we can pause there that'll be the
d
so i mute it
like this
and then
up
down on the e chord up down
down
when
let's run through that chorus one more
time and i'll do a bit more of a pause
on the chords to allow everyone to keep
up in two and three and four
that will be the day
when you say change court
that'll be the
up down down
and then we have the verse which is
almost the same we just have a slightly
different ending pretty straightforward
though
well you give me all your loving
you know you love me baby until you tell
me maybe that someday
so what was that same strumming pattern
and one bar of each chord this time so a
two three
if you need more help with this a to d
change because it's virtually the whole
song lesson two in this 10 day course
focused exactly on this and it also gave
a an easier song example with these two
chords here changing less but if you
just play on the b if you're struggling
with the strumming
that's totally fine too
so we have that three times a bar of d
and a bar of a and then if we play a in
this fashion so one two three
first finger in the middle
all we do to change to the b7 chord is
move this shape up a string
put your first finger on the first fret
and little finger on the second fret so
let's have a look at this big seven
chord on its own
one
first fret
and the fourth string
middle finger where it is on an e chord
second fret fifth string
second fret third string for the third
finger
and then little finger on the thinnest
string so that's where those three
fingers are two three and four first
finger there and we try not to strum the
thickest string
and it's only for one bar well that's
something
well and then it's just a bar of e
i'll be blue yes
structure wise we start with the chorus
go for reverse chorus verse and that's
basically the whole song okay we just
alternate between those two sections and
then there is a little guitar solo
instrumental section it sounds so cool
that bit where we go for a more standard
12 bar blues which we'll be covering in
a second but if you can follow the chord
sheet that's on the screen now or on my
website if you follow the link in the
description you can play through this
whole song exactly like that and we will
have a play through in a couple of
minutes but with these basic chords we
can replace them with a little shuffle
riff which is the blues shuffle really
recognizable and it goes like this
i'm sure every one of you watching this
will have heard that at some point and
it's very clear in this song now this is
a little bit of a fast song to go for
for this one but it's great to be aware
of it where it's called so that you can
practice it and maybe master it at a
later date so let's have a close up on
this blue shuffle pattern now and we
start with our first finger where it is
on the d chord when we're playing this
shuffle riff on the d
and we only strum string four and three
and we strum them as one
together okay
and we keep that shuffle strumming or
rhythm on a down strum but we just play
those two strings
notice how little i'm moving that right
hand a very small amount just from the
wrist and the forearm is in contact with
the guitar
now after two of those one and
we put our third finger down on the
fourth fret so it's gone from
first finger second fret to third finger
fourth fret nothing that happens on the
d
that's always ringing out so one and two
and three
and four and
or fret numbers wise
two
and then it changes to the air
you
say you're gonna leave
you know it's a lie cause that'll be the
day
when i die
so if you wish you can play this whole
song and substitute the d and the air
chord for this blue shuffle riff now as
i say this is just the starter course if
uh if you want more detail on this blue
shuffle riff click the link in the
description or i think it should be up
in the top corner now free lesson a free
full video lesson of from my beginners
course which talks you through exactly
this and gives a little bit more time a
little bit more methodical here we're
trying to learn this song really so
let's go back and do the open chords
version so when you know the strumming
and the chord sequence you can then
substitute this riff in at a later stage
so let's have a quick play through now
just to finish up full play through from
the chorus starting with the d chord and
using a full down up down up down up
down
from the top
nice and slow in two and three and four
one and two
three four again
two two and eight
that'll be the day
when you make me cry today you say
you're gonna leave
you know it's a lie a chord one strum
that'll be the day
oh down down on that part hook down down
and then we have the verse in two three
and four you give me all your loving and
your a chord two and three d
b7 new chord here it is like this well
you know
someday
e chord 2 3 to chorus
well that'll be the date
when you say to a chord
that'll be the day
when you make me cry
you'll say you're gonna leave
you know it's one stream of name
that'll be the
up day
down
then we have the guitar solo section
sounds so cool now here we play
different chord sequence it's on the
screen now it's called a 12 bar blues if
you need more info on this 12 bar blues
that blues lesson down below is the
place to go but essentially for the the
guitar solo the chord sequence is as
follows so we have four bars of an a
to the strumming pattern one two three
four
so we have in two three four a one two
three four two
and three
and then we take off our first finger
and play an a7 chord keep the other two
down
and two and three and four and
sounds really bluesy that seventh chord
uh to a d major chord
or you could do the
the little shuffle groove and then we go
back to an a chord
and then a bar of e
a
d
so a little bit of a longer sequence for
you there as i say the chord full chord
sheet for this whole song is in the link
down below but i think any beginner
should be able to give that a really
good go even if it's just strumming on
the beat all those chords are very
doable and that is the end of this
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