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Hello, how are you doing?
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It is Justin here for
another guitar lesson.
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This time we're checking out
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possibly the easiest song of all time,
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which is "Feelin' Alright"
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We're doing the Joe Cocker version,
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but there are lots of different
versions of this tune.
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If you're going to play
along with his version,
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you're going to need a capo.
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In fact, most of the versions
that I listened to this morning,
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require the use of a capo.
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Really, all you need is a capo,
and your chords A and D.
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It's pretty straightforward.
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If you're doing a Joe Cocker version,
you need the capo on the third fret,
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which is what I'm going to
teach you today.
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If you want to do the Lulu version,
you need the capo at the 8th fret,
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which would be good for a girl singer.
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If you're going to do the
Dave Mason version,
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you want the capo on the 2nd fret.
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And if you're going to do the
Grand Funk Railroad version,
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like play along with their track,
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you need the capo on the 5th fret,
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but the chords and the sequence
all stay the same all the time
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for this simple version.
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You can do all sorts of fancy stuff
with this tune, if you wanted to.
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So, the most super-duper
easy version of this,
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it's one bar of A and one bar of D.
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Repeat, over and over again,
for the whole song.
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So, if we just do four strums
in each bar on the A chord,
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♪ We've got to have a change of scene... ♪
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Change the D back to the A:
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♪ Cause every night I have
the strangest dreams... ♪
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♪ Imprisoned by the way
things used to be... ♪
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♪ I left here on my
own or, so it seems... ♪
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And that's it. I mean,
the chorus is the same:
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♪ Feelin' alright, oh-ohhh... ♪
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♪ I ain't feelin' too good
myself, oh-ohhh... ♪
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You can imagine doing this
for a whole song, though,
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probably might get a little bit
[simulates snoring].
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You want to practice it so
you can do that first,
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but you probably want to make
it a little more fancy if you can.
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So, a really good way of
making it a little more fancy
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is to change the chords a little bit,
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and to make them into
an A7 and a D7 chord.
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If you haven't learned those
chords, don't worry about it.
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Just stick to doing your A and the D.
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But once you've learned
your A7 and D7,
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you might want to incorporate those.
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Make the chords a little bit fancy.
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Or maybe use A and D for the verses,
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and A7 and D7 for
the choruses or something.
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That might be an interesting
way of doing it. Up to you.
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But if we look at those chords now,
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we just have A7 [strums chord]
to D7 [changes chord].
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♪ I ain't feelin' too
good myself, oh-ohhh... ♪
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♪ Feelin' alright, oh-ohhh... ♪
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♪ I ain't feelin' too good myself,
oh-ohhh... ♪
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Still not quite there, is it?
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That little thing, that little magic
ingredient that we need is the rhythm.
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Now, because it's kind of an
uptempo, funky kind of tune,
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generally, we'd use 16th note strumming,
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which isn't covered in my
beginners' course.
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It'll be touched on in the
intermediate course,
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and it's also explained in my DVD called,
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"Really Useful Strumming
Techniques, Volume 2,"
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but you don't really need
to go through that
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if you just want to get
this tune down now.
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What you need to know is the real
basic thing about 16th notes,
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is that you're going to strum
four movements for each beat.
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So, in a bar, we've got 1-2-3-4 beats,
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and each one of those are
going to be divided by 4,
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which would be down-up-down-up.
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So we'd have, 1-2-3-4 / 1-2-3-4 /
1-2-3-4 / 1-2-3-4
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Now, if you just strummed
continuously like that,
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it might sound a bit more interesting,
but it's probably not exactly right.
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But that would be:
♪ I'm feelin' alright, oh-ohhh... ♪
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♪ I ain't feelin' too good
myself, oh-ohhh... ♪
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Slightly more
advanced again, if you want.
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If you're capable of it, is to
get some accents going,
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and/or not have accents and
just strum these chords,
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but keep your hand moving.
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And if you're going to do that,
if you want a suggested one,
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you could muck around with it,
by all means, and improvise a bit,
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but if you want me to suggest
one, then you might want to try:
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[strumming] down-down-up-up-up-down /
down-down-up-up-up-down
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[strumming & speaking] See the way
my hand keeps moving, all the time.
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down-down-up-up-up-down /
down-down-up-up-up-down, etc.
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♪ ...alright, oh-ohhhh. I ain't
feelin' too good myself, oh-ohhh... ♪
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♪ Feelin' alright, oh-ohhh...
You're feelin' too good yourself, oh-ohhh ♪
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And with these two cords,
the cool thing about this tune
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is that you can really... you can have
a really good muck around with it.
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There's not really any set strumming,
you can really play about with the rhythm
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Now the actual chords themselves,
for those more advanced players
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C7
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and F7
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So of course, if you
wanted to, you could
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definitely play up here: C
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F7
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And any variations of that
if you want to get all clever
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and start putting in funky chords
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And it is actually a really
good tune for playing about with
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C dominant and F dominant chords.
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For those more advanced players
that have probably got this far
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which I guess is probably not too many,
most of you would have left,
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when I started going A and D,
but you can have a bit of a play around
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with experimenting with all your
dominant chords, you want to
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check out my "Funk Guitar Rhythm" lessons
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and that'll explain all of that.
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Have some fun with it,
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I'll see you again for another lesson
sometime real soon.
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Take care!
Bye-bye!