hey guitar enthusiast Lauren Bateman here welcome back in this video we're
gonna be going over an easy way to play the song Amazing Grace
now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give me two versions of this song we're gonna
show you how to strum it first and then I'm gonna show you how to do some
picking to make it sound really really cool so let's get into the lesson so
Amazing Grace is a really simple song in that it uses three chords a D and E and
if you can play all of those then you're good if not check out my links in the
descriptions and you can go find how to play those chords so first before we get
into the actual chord progression let's talk about the strumming so the
strumming for this this song is in what we call 6/8 time so we're gonna be
counting to 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 1 more strumming we're gonna be
doing all down strums so if I play an a major chord it's gonna sound like this
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 and what we can do when we're
playing is we can accent the fourth count so it will be 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4
5 6 three four five six I'm giving a little
more oomph on that fourth beat and you'll hear that I'm just strumming very
lightly on the other strums one two three five six two three four five six
so we're working on a little bit of dynamics and if you can't do that yet
don't worry about it just do six down strums so let's talk about our chord
progression the core progression for this song is great and that once you get
one through kind of verse it just starts repeating itself again so the chord
progression for this song is a a DA a a e e a a da and then the last one is a a
a so all you have to do now is go apply the strumming pattern to that chord
progression so the first four chords of the chord progression are a a da so
let's just play through that really quick and show you how that's going to
sound before we jump into the picking pattern so it's going to be 1 2 3 4 5 6
a 2 3 4 5 6 a 2 3 4 5 6 D 3 5 6 egg
and there you go that's basically all we're doing for the strumming pattern so
let's talk about how we can spice this up a little bit with some picking you
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subscribe to the channel and leave me a cool comment so let's jump into that
picking section so I've just got my pick here in my picking hand and we're gonna
have to talk about what we're gonna do for each of these chords now each chord
is played differently so let's start with our D chord our D chord is a four
string chord so we're playing strings D G B and E and I'm gonna say these string
numbers we're gonna start on the fourth string which is the D string and we're
gonna play four three two one two three so we're going down down down down up up
that's our progression and it's time to over six beats
one two three four five six so that's how we get that progression or that
picking pattern so once again it's gonna be the fourth string to the third string
to the second string to the first string and then back up second string third
string that's how we do the D chord four three two one two three so now let's
talk about the a chord which is a five string chord so the a chord we're gonna
start on the a string and we're gonna play the same kind of pattern it's gonna
be five four three two three four so starting on the fifth the a string we're
gonna go down down down up up so 5 4 3 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 3 4
and that time we're gonna play our a chord so let's jump to the final chord
which is the E major now the E major chord you would think we
would just go 6 5 4 3 4 5 but we're not quite doing that so we're gonna have to
skip over the 5th string to the 4th string we're actually gonna play this as
6 5 6 4 3 2 3 4 6 4 3 2 3 4 so down down down down up same pattern and for those
of you that this string skipping is difficult what you might want to do is
play your chord first and then watch your picking hand and do that a bunch of
times watching you're picking him and then close your eyes and see if you can
do it without you should be able to do all these chords without needing to look
at either of your hands and if you can't do that right now that's ok but that's
the goal eventually so let me just play through a little bit so that you guys
can hear how it's gonna sound so here we go
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound so you can hear how the picking ads
makes this song sound really sweet and really beautiful and that's what it is
it's an absolutely beautiful song so I hope you enjoyed the lesson don't forget
to like the video and I'll see you guys in the next lesson video