Hey guitar enthusiasts, Lauren Bateman here. We're gonna do a super cool song by the
Gin Blossoms called Hey Jealousy. Let's get into the guitar lesson.
This is a super fun song. I used to love playing this live with my band. It's definitely high
energy and you can jump around a lot and I love doing that. But first let's talk about the chords
that we're going to use for this song. We have an a major chord a d major chord an
e major chord and an f sharp minor bar chord. If you don't know an f sharp minor bar chord,
the easiest thing to do is take your a chord play the bottom three strings. It won't sound the best
but it will work. Or you could just bar it with just your first finger. Whichever way works for
you but that is an easy way to play the f sharp minor chord. So what we're going to do is we're
going to talk about the different sections of the song. I'll tell you what strumming patterns
you can use and the first thing we're going to start off is with our intro so the chord
progression for the intro is going to be d e f minor e d e f sharp minor e and this travels
through into the verses so it's the same chord progression for the intro as the verses so let's
talk about a few strumming patterns you might want to use the easiest strumming pattern i'm going to
give you right out of the bag is just a straight strumming pattern one two three and four and down
down down up down up if i play it over that chord progression this is what it's going to sound like
already kind of starts sounding like the song right and there's
lots of other lead guitar parts in this really just going to focus on the rhythm
guitar for this on my acoustic but sounds really cool right there's an interesting
thing that happens in this hey jealousy song so i'm going to give you that same strumming
pattern but we're going to take it up a notch because it's going to sound more like the song
and it's a hopping rhythm now what is a hopping rhythm instead of always changing the chords on
the down strum we're going to change them on the up strum so before i tell you the difference here
i just want you to hear the difference because i think it's important to hear these things to
understand so just listen i'm going to play it without the hop here it is without the hop
now
i don't know if you guys heard that if you caught it you may want to go back and rewind
it and listen to it a little bit slower but what i'm doing is instead of changing the
chords on the downbeat of the one i'm actually changing them on the upbeat after the four
so what do i mean so this first one will start on the downbeat because we got to start the song
one two three and four now this up strum is going to be the e chord and one two three
hear that so it's one two three
do you hear that that sounds pretty cool and this song is a very very peppy song if you want to play
along with me to a slower version once i get my play along version up i'll put the link up there
and you guys can play along with me and see how it sounds so if you want to keep things simple
i would just stick with that strumming pattern but if you want to know the way i used to play it when
i would play this song live well that's the final strumming pattern that i'm going to show you here
for this verse section so this strumming pattern actually takes place over two measures so you're
going to play two different chords before you get through the entire strumming pattern this
is a little bit more intermediate type stuff i go over strumming patterns like this in my
expressive rhythm course if you guys are looking to improve your rhythm playing
go check that out i'll put a link in the description below it's a really great course i
love it so what we're going to do here is the down we're going to stick with the down down down up
down up the one i already showed you except once we change to our e chord so the d chord would be
one two three and four and then we're gonna go to the e chord and it's gonna be up
up up up down up so we're gonna play four up strums in a row which can be really awkward for
people if you've never played a lot of up strums so it's gonna be one two three and four and and
four and and then we would go to our f sharp minor one
all right so let me play it slowly for you guys
okay so you might have heard the f sharp minor i'm playing the down on the one i'm
not doing the hup rhythm for every chord change listen again here's the d one two three four
down
think this gives this song a really really cool feel and re i this is how i would strum
the song when i played it live um it's a really cool strumming pattern so give it a try now one
final thing before we jump into the chorus section of this song this song has a lot of dynamics so
when i would play this with my band i would play that rhythm i just showed you we do our intro
and then we would come to the verse and i would get really i probably wouldn't
even play the guitar at this point my bass player in the band would take it but the
song comes way down dynamically so i might switch to a little bit of palm muted eighth notes
can you hear how that brings the dynamics down or you could just do a single strum
tell me do you think it'd be all right if i could crash here tonight
so these are things you can do dynamically and when you're playing with the band you can do
different stuff but these first two parts of the verse are played very lightly and you know
it might not be that bad that's when you can come back and with the strumming and you know
so this verse builds so we don't want to start the verse here we want to start the verse low
just keep that in mind go listen to the song there is a lot of dynamics here and maybe i'll
do a little bit of play through at the end for you guys all right so now we're at the chorus
section and you know you really can do whatever you want rhythmically here you could use the one i
showed you another pattern that you might want to think about for this chorus is a down down up
up down up i don't think this chorus really hops as much so tomorrow we can jump around this time
all right and the chord progression is a little funky for this is going to be a d a d
f sharp minor e d d okay that's the first half and then it's d e
f sharp minor e d e f sharp minor e when we get to the hey jealousy part so if you wanted to i would
just use the down down up up down up down down up up down up one two and four and one two and
four or you can stick with if you're more of a beginner player stick with the
okay it'll work either way and if you go watch that play along i'll play it in a
simplified way but then i will play it in the full-blown way so really remember this
this chorus just has a lot of energy and when we get to the hey jealous hey jesus
let's go back to that hop rhythm all right so what i'm going to do now just so you guys i
know i threw a lot of information at you i'm going to run through introverse chorus just
so you guys can hear the different dynamics here of what's going on and then we'll talk
about what's happening on the guitar solo hey guys hope you're enjoying this lesson so far
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you know when i release more videos just like this one alright so i'm going to play this as
if i was playing with my band i might not sing because i got hit with copyright um but if you
want me to sing just go watch that play along like i said so we got one two one two three four
the best
horus
so there you go and you can hear i'd probably you know when i sing i do a lot of improvisation in my
playing so i may not have stuck to those strumming patterns but i don't know if you could hear here
on that course i went to that down down up up down up down down up up down up and then when i got
back to hey jealousy i seamlessly went back into that first strumming pattern i did at the intro
so that might be something you need to work on practicing going from one strumming pattern right
into the next drumming pattern without thinking about it or making any hiccups alright so after
we go through you know the first couple verses the first couple courses we have this guitar solo
that comes in followed by another course a very quiet very quiet third verse and then the chorus
so the guitar solo i just want to show you some different things you might want to do dynamically
when i would play with my band these were different things and this is why this lesson's in
the intermediate songs because we're doing a lot of intermediate skills here i would maybe do some
percussive strumming so the strumming pattern i would start with would be that hopped rhythm
that i showed you on the intro and then i'm gonna do some things i might mute some of my
strumming to have it sound a little bit more interesting because there's a solo there's a
lot of energy let me play through for you guys first so that you can hear what i'm talking
about and then we'll discuss it one two one two three four so this is that regular strumming
now i'm gonna change it this next time
okay so what did i do you probably heard on that third progression through
i did some muting and i actually changed the strumming pattern entirely too i went back to
that one two three and four in and what i did was i muted my chords after i played them so i kind of
i kind of release the pressure on this hand
just on the first two i'm really accenting that one two one two
and then i kind of went back to the normal strumming pattern uh kind of towards the end
of that e chord on the second um that third chord progression through so i did two times
through the chord progression regular strumming pattern and then i did this kind of cool dynamic
so you can hear i'm changing up i'm trying to keep the listeners interested in what i'm doing
instead of just playing the same strumming pattern all the time so i really hope you
guys enjoyed this lesson make sure to give me a like i really really do appreciate it
youtube is going to throw a couple more videos up over there
go check those out i hope you guys have fun with this one because it really is a super fun song