hey guitar enthusiasts Lauren Bateman here welcome back in this video we're going
to talk about a great classic by Johnny Cash called walk the line uses three
chords A, D and E I'm going to show you briefly how it should sound when we play
it and then we're gonna get into how to go through this song
so the strumming pattern we're going to be using in this lesson is what we call
a boom chuck guitar strumming pattern used a lot in old kind of country songs
and in sons of this time period and what we're gonna be doing is alternating
between a bass note and a Down strum so like I said earlier we have three chords
we're working with in this song we have an E major chord and a major chord and a
D major chord most of the song is on e na and what we're going to be doing is
we're gonna be playing the lowest bass note of each chord so for an E major
chord that would be the low E string for an a major chord that would be the a
string fifth string and for the D chord that would be our D string okay
now for doing boom chuck pattern for a lot of people they ask me hey Lauren you
know how do I know how many strings I'm hitting in this I would recommend focus
on your chord changes first and once you've got those down pat then we can
focus on just the picking hand so we're going to do is I'm going to go in for a
close-up real quick on this picking hand to show you what I'm doing with this
boom chuck pattern alright so right now I'm on an E major chord and I'm going to
be picking this top string E and then strumming down E strong E
strong boom Chuck shucks food shucks that's why it's
called Boone shucks now when I go to an a major chord I'm gonna be hitting the
fifth string
and then the D chord I'm going to be hitting the D string
now another cool little alternative you can do to this is doing instead of just
doing base down base down we can do base down a place down a face down up face
down up face down a face down up face down a face down up or D base down up
so again that's just a base with a down up base down up base down up base down
now if you want to keep things super simple you don't want to want to have to
worry about what strings you're hitting just hit the low strings and then the
high strings makes it super simple but that is the essentials of boom Chuck so
let's go over our chord progression and how we're gonna use this strumming
pattern in the actual song so a great thing about Johnny Cash songs and a lot
of songs from these era is that the record progressions are very repetitive
so if I look at my chord chart here which you can go to my website learn
baby calm to grab the chord chart I'll put a link below the video as well if
you go and look at the chord chart here we have e EI e a so we're gonna do that
twice a major a major a then we're gonna follow that by major a and then back to
e a and not it's the entire progression for the Sun so it's EA EA EA EA and then
you repeat that go to the next verse ea EA da da so let's talk about this
strumming pattern and how we can put it over this chord progression here so
we're gonna start with the E major chord and we've got boom Chuck
and when we count this when we count this it's 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 M Chuck Chuck
Chuck Chuck a so you're doing four boom Chuck's per cord so if we go to the a
cord a 2 3 4 and E 2 3 4 and a and D all the times the by you because you're my
blood and that is the boom truck pattern that we can use on this song now if you
want to use the down up
that's what it will sound like
add a little bit more spice to it makes it cool so use a lot and kind of like
the these older country type songs that boom Chuck pattern I hope you enjoyed
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