Hey there I'm Tomas. In this video I'm gonna show you how to play Blowing In
The Wind originally written by Bob Dylan,
performed by Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary and many others. This is a fairly
easy song and I'm going to show you at the end how to spice it up. Let's do this.
Let's start off with the chords. We're gonna use three cords. The basic G chord.
I'm using a four finger G chord and I'd like to ask you to just trust me for now
you'll see why I want to use this version. So that's a second finger on the
6th string third fret, first finger on the second fret fifth string and I've
got my third finger and pinky here together on the 2nd and 1st strings,
four finger G. Now we're going to A chord and we're just going to move the
second finger, first finger over one string. Like that. It's a fairly easy
transition. This is technically called a C add 9 but it really works well in this
song. So go ahead and just try that transition with me. The G chord
and then move to the C chord.
What do you think? Not too hard, huh. Now to D, we're going to shift. Watch my fingers
how I shift to the D chord. I move my first and second finger over to the
third string and the first string on the second fret. Now I've got my third finger
right where I want it and I'm gonna remove the pinky
so three chords. It's good to practice these three chords just a little bit
before you start depending on where you're at. So what I would do is start
with the G, one strum. Try this with me right quick - four finger G to the C chord. By
the way it doesn't matter if you take the pinky off or not on the C chord.
Either way it makes the same chord. Then to the D chord, try that transition. Take
the pinky off and try and reverse right quick. Pinky down and the first and
second finger over to the C chord that's the fourth and fifth strips and then to
the G chord,
You can play a lot of songs with these three chords and it sounds good.
Now let's go through the basic form of Blowin In The Wind. The main chord
pattern for Blowing In The Wind is one bar of G, one bar of C and then two bars
of G. It placed that same pattern over and over. We're gonna add a simple strum
to that. It sounds like this and you can try along with me. Down down up down up down.
Okay, do it again a couple of times with me. I'll count it this time. One two and
three and four that was one bar or measure. Again one two and three and four.
Down, down, up, down, up, down.
So here's what that pattern sounds like with a strum. One bar G C and then to D.
Now it's a good idea to just practice that pattern. There is a change and I'll
show you where it comes when it goes to the D chord. Now I'm gonna go through the
basic verse of the song into the refrain. We'll call that part Blowin In The Wind
part a refrain because it keeps coming at the end of every verse. Start with the G
chord. I'm gonna go ahead and ______ the words with the chords on the bottom of
the screen so you can see how this fits together. Try it along with me and don't
worry if you don't get it first time around, it's practice. Here we go, one two
ready start
two bars that's one line, second line
second line - two bars of G. Start over, third line G.
Now for the fourth line, there's a change here. Here we go, G.
One bar C and two bars of D.
Took my pinky off.
Now start over G
and back to G two bars. Now we're gonna do the one with D again to D two bars.
And here comes that refrain. On the refrain we're gonna go from D to
C and again this just repeats over and over in the song. So form the D chord and
we're gonna go from here to the C. I'll start off with the word so you'll see
where we're at. And the answer
to G is blowin to G again to C to D in the wind.
Now sure you goes back into the verse, same pattern.. and so on
repeats over and over and over so not too hard huh. I'd recommend that you practice that
much so far but then I wanna show you a couple little tricks that spice it up
a little bit. First of all, we're going to add something to the strum. And this is
something by the way you can use in a lot of strums to give it a little more
motion. Now this to me is just a little step. It's not bad but we could make it
better. One way to do that is as you strum start off with hitting a low
string and then go to the higher string. It doesn't have to be one string so
you hit a couple strings but that motion of going low high as a rolling effect to
the strum. Listen, bass higher
and that's exaggerated I can even do cut in the middle.
But you hear how I'm aiming for that low string when I start off and that gives
it a little more groove.
Think so? Try it with me just slowly and I'll go ahead and just hum the melody.
Here we go. One two ready start G
C back to G, down base note.
and again G to C
back to G.
Okay and one more little spicy addition to this. Every now and then you could
open first finger and G. Listen
where it comes.
So all I'm doing is making the G chord but opening up to the low E second fret
first finger and G so it sounds like this.
Try that with me. Strum first now strum, base, open, second fret, third fret. I'm using my
my first finger and second finger.
Open, first finger second finger. One more time
hahaha! That was fun. Okay so I put this in the key that you can play along with Bob
Dylan on YouTube if you want so when you're ready go ahead and look up Bob
Dylan Blowin In The Wind and will work. Also I'll put a link in the
description so you can download the words and the chords and have that in
front of you instead of having to just watch the video all the time. Thanks for
joining me. It's been a pleasure. I look forward to seeing you in the next video
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