today what we're gonna do is go over a very simple song called knocking on
heaven's door by Bob Dylan it's also redone by Guns & Roses so they did a
little bit more of a rockin version of the song I think they're in the same key though
so what we're gonna do is this song is very very repetitive that's
why it's one of my simple songs so it requires us to memorize only four
measures of music that repeats over and over and over and over again to get us
through the entire song so some of these chords are played for half a measure
mean I'm really gonna count two beats on them so we're gonna strum twice so those
chords are G and D the G and D chord always have two beats so the chord
progression for this song is G for two beats DD for two beats followed by a
minor for four beats then we go back to G for two beats D for two beats and then
we end on C major for the last chord so we have G two beats
d two beats a minor for full four beats then G 2 beats D two beats and then a C
for full measure of four beats so we're just gonna keep the simple strumming
four strums per chord unless it's a G or D we're gonna do two strums and let's
see how it goes we're gonna start from that first part of the chord progression
so I'll count us in 1 2 3 4 and G 2 a minor
that's the whole thing and then we just repeat it again
a minor
and that's the same pattern for the verses and the choruses so I'm gonna go
through and I'm gonna I'm gonna skip the intro but I'm gonna play the kind of
first verse of this song I'll do a verse and chorus just so that you can hear so
we got this bad for me
I
it's getting too dark see
feels like I'm nothing still
door
so
so there you go you have the entire song now if you want to spice this up a
little bit if you can do a little bit more than just down strums you can do a
down down up so that's basically one two and three four and so it'll sound like
this on the G it's gonna be down down and then it's gonna be down down and
then on em a good look a minor it's gonna be down
I can spice it up a little bit make it a little bit more intricate remember we're
trying to keep these songs simple so that you can learn them memorize them
and play them through from the beginning to end so that is Bob Dylan's knocking
on heaven's door practice it and hopefully you'll be able to pick it up
quickly
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