Hi there, how are you doing? Today I'm going to show you an easy but really good
sounding version of Leaving on a Jet plane. Now at the end I'm going to give
you a play along track so you can practice right away well you've learned.
Let's do this.
I'm Tomas Michaud from Real Guitar Success you know that. Look at these
chords, three cords - the D chord,
a Cadd9
and the G chord. Now let's finger them together. These are the only three chords
we need and it's really easy to go from one to the other. Go ahead and figure
your D chord.fFirst finger on the second fret, second finger on the second fret
and the third finger on the third fret. I'm using the third string. The third
finger is on the second string and the second finger is on the first string
okay. Now keep it there for a second, we're gonna move to the Cadd9. This is
a great progression that just playing lots of uses for. Take your first
finger and move it over to the fourth string second fret and the second finger
over to the fifth string third fret. Place your pinky down on the first
string third fret. Nice sounding chord. Now I know John Denver at least is playing a
regular C chord but this sounds better. try it at least. So what do you think? It's also
easy an easy switch. Now let's go to the G chord from here. You're gonna move the
first finger over to the fifth string and second finger over to the 6th string.
Leave the pinky and the third finger where they are, four finger G. Check it out.
Let's try that again. D chord
Cadd9
to the G
and for fun go back to D. So here's what we're gonna end up doing. All my bags are packed
and it repeats that chord progression over and over. Listen to the first part
of the course. Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go
Did you noticed with the exact same chords and chord progression as the
verse that makes the song both easy but it's a great sounding
song. So let's go through the basic chord progression. We're going to start with
the fourth finger G, right? We already practiced that. For right now, let's just
strum straight down. Don't worry about the strum we're just kinda mapping out
where the chords go - doo-doo-doo-doo to C doo-doo-doo-doo
The chorus starts at G
back to G, C again
and you go to D. Then we do two measures of D.
That exact pattern repeats over and over so it's four beats. I'm using each strum
to mean one beat of each chord until we get to the D and then there's eight
beats you might say two measures four beats each. So let's do it with the words
just for a second and just follow along with me and you'll see where this is going.
All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
and then four more - and it starts over
and so on. Now right now I'm not gonna go through the whole song because I want
you to go to the link in the description and download the lyrics with the chords
and then what we're gonna do is play through the entire song. You'll see my
fingers and you can follow along with the chords and the words. So let's do the
strum before we get there. I'm using what I call a pop rock strum. It's four beats
This would be 4 beats without the strum two three four straight down. So now with
with the strum its 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and
that's a missed. Did you catch that and missed the strings right there once. One two and skip on
three and four and so try it with me really slow just follow my hands. Ready, hit it 1
2 and skip and 3 and
so one there was no end. I just went one and then got