Hey how are you doing? Justin here.
Today, we're gonna check out the songs that I'd recommended you check out
for lesson 8.
I hope this video finds you safe and well.
We're in the middle of the coronavirus as I'm filming this and while that one
hasn't gotten me yet, the hay fever certainly has. Anyways.
For this lesson I'd recommend that you break your song practice up
into two sections. So 5 minutes of revision,
just practicing songs that you've done before making sure that you keep hip
with all your regular chord grips, that you're working on the changes
and keeping a repertoire on the cooker all the time,
so there's songs that you can play all the way through,
and that you're continuing to develop those songs as you progress.
The other 10 minutes, another 10 minutes,
so 15 minutes total working on songs,
I'd recommend that you work on some songs using these new stuck 3 & 4 chords,
for a whole heap of reasons. It's gonna be really good for your hand,
they sound really good, there are some classic songs that use these grips.
There's lots of good reasons to be working on some songs
So, what are you gonna work on?
Wonderwall is the obvious one
but if you're gonna practice Wonderwall using these chords,
you wanna make sure it's simplified, trying to work on the strumming pattern
which is one of the key things in that song.
It's really difficult,
even when I'm doing my left-handed practice,
I can't get that rhythm together with those chords while I'm doing this.
I find it too difficult and I'm fairly good at dealing with the rhythms
even left-handed because I really,
you know, I'm very aware of what the rhythms are.
So...
you probably gonna find that
you know, a little bit complicated to do the rhythm and the chords at the same time,
but there's definitely no harm in simplifying that rhythm right down
and just doing very, very simple strumming,
like 1 or 2 strums per bar,
even a couple of strums on each chord if you're doing it slow enough,
that kind a thing. You'll still be able to play the song.
It'll sound like it, it's really good practice.
So Wonderwall's definitely one that I would consider.
I really like "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Poison.
It's a bit of a cheesy old tune, isn't it? From the 90's,
but it's really good for practicing these particular chord grips,
stays on the chords just long enough for most of it
and then there's a few more faster changes there.
When it comes to the bridge and it goes to the E minor,
you can either continue using the stuck 3 & 4 chords
or you can move to using regular chords at that point,
you know, it really doesn't matter whichever one you prefer the sound of.
"Brown Eyed Girl" is another great one that you might like to have a go at,
the Van Morrison classic, mainly because of the way the chords go in the chorus.
It's nice to be able to use those grips:
the G, the C and the G and the D.
They're fairly fast changes and using the stuck 3 & 4,
with a regular D chord, I think in that song sounds really good.
But there are some more.
"Free Falling" Tom Petty. All-time, amazing classic tune.
Uses a regular D,
a stuck 3 & 4 G chord,
and then an Asus4
which is like the A stuck 3 & 4, but with your little finger taken off.
Really beautiful song.
It still kinda adheres to the same principals using the stuck 3 & 4 G chord.
That's, I mean it's just a fantastic song
so definitely nice one to check out.
"Shallow" the Lady Gaga Song,
beautiful one ballad
from "A Star is Born" the film.
It's using kinda variations
on those chords a little bit but, again, it's such a beautiful song
it's definitely one that you might wanna give a go to.
It's using the stuck 3 & 4 for the E minor and the G.
"Patience" by Guns N' Roses. Another one using the G chord
with some other chords mixed in there as well.
Beautiful song.
"Good Riddance"
the Green Day, "Time of your Life" by Green Day.
That uses the stuck 3 & 4 for the majority of the song.
It's got a little bit more fancy picking things so
there's some other elements that you might wanna be spending some time on as well,
but that's a fantastic song.
And if you're into more electric guitar rock 'n' roll,
the great song that uses these stuck 3 & 4 chords is
"[You] Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC
which is really difficult to play without using these.
'Course it's quite possible, in fact I think Malcom's part
uses the regular chords rather than the stuck 3 & 4 chords.
But that's a whole 'nother debate, but that's another all-time classic song
that you might like to check out if you wanna work on your stuck 3 & 4 chords.
As I've mentioned before
I recommend that you break your song practice
for this lesson into 2 parts, 5 minutes song revision
and 10 minutes working on some of these new songs
or some other songs.
If you've got suggestions
please leave them in the comments over on the website
and I'll check them out and I can add them into the lesson text.
So do check the lesson text as well
'cause I'll probably add some more songs in there,
and links to related lessons for you as well
for these songs specifically.
So I hope you enjoy all this
and I'll see you for more very soon. Bye.