Tomas: Hi, there.
This is Tomas Michaud and welcome to Guitar Songs to Learn for
Beginners.
This is song is Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising.
Now, most of Creedence's songs are not very difficult,
but this one is particularly easy; it's three cords.
What I really like about it for learning is it uses a quick change
over and over, so by the time you get the song down you will have the change
from D, G, and A down cold.
Let's do it.
The three chords are D, A, A major, and G. Let's start off with the three chords in
the song.
Make your D chord.
Now, go to A and to G, back to D. Those are the
three chords.
I see the bad moon rising.
That's the verse of the song.
You see it's kind of a quick change to A to G to D.
That makes it a great exercise to practice your guitar.
Just try it with a straight down strum for now.
D. Play along.
A, two.
G, two, and back to D. Do it again.
Here we go.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Again.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Let's add a strum to that.
A simple strum down, down, up, down, up, down, up.
Four beats, one, two, three, and four.
When you first learn this strum, it usually sounds like this.
Down, down, up, down, up, down, up, everything is even.
We're actually going to, as you get into the song, add some feeling to it.
Don't worry about it.
It will come as you practice it.
Let's try adding that simple strum to that chord change.
On the A we're just going to still stay with two downs and G is
two downs.
The strum will be on the D. Ready, go.
Down, down, down, down, down, down.
Again on D, here we go.
D and G. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
I'm using a pick.
You can use your thumb; the same.
I just wanted you to see you could do it with a pick.
Now, to the chorus, G down tonight to D dah, dah, dah, dah, then to A, G, to D,
and then back into a verse.
Let's just try that with the strum.
G, nah, nah, nah, nah.
The D, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
Going A, two down, nah, nah, and then G. You actually have time for a full strum on
A and a full strum on D there.
I didn't realize until I played it.
That's a full strum and a full strum, unlike the verse.
Let's do that one more time.
We're going to go start on G. Dah, dah, dah, dah.
Back to D, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
Full strum on A, dah, dah, D, dah, dah, dah, dah.
[Inaudible 00:03:46] verse again, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Let's go into chorus now.
G, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
A, A, G, and D. That's Bad Moon Rising by Creedence.
You can check down below this video and you'll find a link where I'll give you the
chords and the words to these songs that we're going through as well as some more tips.
Thank you for joining me.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now