Face Down by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Guitar Lesson
Hey, what’s up everybody, it’s Aaron. This lesson I will do right now a little song called Face Down, this is the acoustic version by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. You can tell, I’ve got my Braddy Bunch t-shirt’s in for American Idol, so Ricky got voted off the first week, but we’re still hoping for a wild card appearance. So, keep supporting him, but… alright. So the tuning is standard, alright, you’re gonna need four chords basically, an Em7, which is your pointer and middle finger going the 2nd frets of your five and four strings, 2nd fret, ring and pinky, gonna go in the high E on the 3rd fret. Okay, so you got the 3rd fret, bottom two strings, put your pinky and your ring. And for the first three chords, you’re gonna leave your ring and your pinky there, okay. So, I’m gonna eliminate, there’s like, like a C2, but we’re just gonna do Cadd9, okay. So you have your Em7 first, and then to go to your Cadd9, you leave these two fingers here, you put your middle finger on the 3rd fret of your five string, remember, one, two, three, four, five. So your middle finger is 3rd fret, in there, you want a five string and your pointer finger 2nd fret of your four string, so that’s your Cadd9. Alright, your third chord is a G chord, you just move these two fingers up the string, and the last chord is called the D/F#. A lot of people have been asking me what a D/F# means, it means that it’s a D chord but instead of having the bass note of the D note, okay, you have an F#. So, instead of bass note being here, that’s the bass note of a D, so your regular D chord is this… you add an F# bass note by playing the 2nd fret on the low E, coz you have E open, and it’s F, 1st fret, F#, 2nd. So by playing all six strings, this 2nd fret, if you really cover with your thumb, makes the D with an F# bass notes, so D/F#, that’s what this is, okay. Now, going from your G to your F…D/F#, one thing to look at is this ring finger, it’s a common finger, it’s kind of your anchor. It doesn’t move. It’s kinda one of the things you wanna, you wanna base that one. So, alright, the picking pattern I’m gonna teach you, I just pull out this tab a couple of minutes ago, so maybe a different version, but I played along with the song, and it sounds pretty good. So, this is base chords, it sounds like, a finish there, so it’s… like that. And then you go to the chords, okay. So, we’re gonna start in your Em7 chord, okay, and the picking pattern, I’ll play it like this, it’s for the Em7, looks like this… okay. So, for this Em7, I’m picking down, picking five string – four – three – two – three – four – three, so I’m starting with five string, and picking all the way down to the two string, coming back up to the three – four and then back down finishing on three. So… five – four – three – two – three – four – three, okay, you need that twice, so, five – four – three – two – three – four – three – five – four – three – two – three – four – three, okay. So, sped up, okay. So after you do that two times, you’re gonna go from this Em7 chord to your Cadd9 chord, alright. You really just move this pointer finger down to the 2nd fret with your four string and your middle finger is, 3rd fret of your five string. And you play the same picking pattern, five – four – three – two – three – four – three – five – four – three – two – three – four – three, okay. Play that dude twice, and then you drop this two fingers each up a string and you play the same picking pattern, except instead of starting on the five – four – three… five – four – three – two, you start out six – four – three – two. So it goes, six – four – three – two – three – four – three – six – four – three – two – three – four – three, okay it’s really flaw, six string, four string, three string, two string, three string, four string, finish on three, so it’s six – four – three – two – three – four – three, do it twice. So… okay, after you play this, you’re gonna keep that ring finger anchored, solid, okay. So you got that ring finger lock, it doesn’t move, put this two fingers right down there for your D, for your D, and then, add that thumb on the 2nd fret to play your F#, so it’s the D/F# chord. If you don’t have big hands or your thumb won’t fit there, do me a favor, okay. Take this thumb off, keep that ring finger there, 3rd fret of your two string, put your middle finger, leave the high E open, put your middle finger on the 2nd fret of your three string, and your pointer finger, 2nd fret, okay, you can do that too, okay. So there at the end on that, the D/F# chord, you’re gonna play six – four – three – two – three – four – two – three – four, strum the chord, alright. So, that last chord, the D/F#, okay, we’ll start at the G, which is the third chord, you go… switch your D/F#, play six – four – three – two – three – four – two – three – four, and strum the whole chord, and I like to mute it. It certainly you ring out you play it, one, and then you rush your hand down to meet the strings, alright. As far as that does, the rest of the song is only four chords, it’s Em7 to the C to the G to the D/F#. That is the whole entire song, there is, the chord progression in the bridge, and everything is the same. So, the whole I recommend you guys playing just Em7, just like I did – C – G… okay. So, the strum pattern, in the Em7, you’re gonna play, down – up – down – up – up – down – up, okay. Down – up – down – up – up – down – up – down – up – down – up – up – down – up, which you can play it two twice, then switch to C, Down – up – down – up – up – down – up – down – up – down – up – up – down – up, G, Down – up – down – up – up, let’s see… yeah, down – up – down – up – up – down – up – down – up – down – up – up – down – up, and then when you get into this D/F#, the last chord, I like to play, Down – up – down – up – up – down – up – up – down – up. Piece that together, it sounds like this… just like that. This song is really way too high for me to sing, the guy that sing the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, I don’t know how old he is, but he sounds, he has a great voice, I love his voice, but he just sings, he got a really high voice, so. Where gonna give it a shot, just in the verse, so you can kinda see it. Now, I warn you, I just started this song, so my strum pattern’s probably gonna be off, but, you bear with me, so. (singing) Hey, girl you know you drive me crazy. One look puts the rhythm in my hand. Still I’ll never understand why you hang around. I see what’s going down. Cover up with make up in the mirror. Tell yourself it’s never gonna happen again. You cry alone and then he swears he loves you. Do you feel like I a man, when you push her around. Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground? Well, I’ll tell you my friend, one day this world’s going to end. As your lies crumble down, a new life she has found. Alright guys, good luck, and hope the lesson helped, check out FreeandEasyGuitar.com, take care.