How to Play Crash by Dave Matthews Band

Alright, it’s Aaron. This lesson is going to be on crash with Dave Mathews on them. I’m sorry I haven’t thought it yet. I’m doing you this service by having not thought of it yet but I want to give it to you guys and kind of give you a shot at playing it. So, we're on standard tuning once again. This song, if you have small hands, it is a stretch up. I’ve got pretty big hands and it even hurts my hands a little bit to scratch for somebody’s nose, but well, my hand do this show how to play it and how Dave Mathews plays it. This kind of sound something like this, just bear with me. [Music Playing] Something like that, though I started learning it in a way that I want you to learn it. It’s the first song that you learn the baseline. Okay, because if you notice, basically, these three fingers here, they strum this. [Music Playing] I’m saying base. That’s just baseline. [Music Playing] So, that’s how you do. I want to start out by tuning in the baseline, and I want you to play it with just your middle finger and just your pointer because when you’re playing this song, those are your lightest fingers. This finger is going to play these notes and your pointer finger is going to play this note. So, just for it now, take your middle finger from the fourth fret with your A string. We're on a standard tuning so it should sound like this. That’s your first note, okay. So, the baseline on this base, we’re going to get all four, open, two, and pointer. So, fourth in the middle, open A, two, pointer then open E for the middle and the E and open A, second fret A and low E. So the first three notes are on the A string. Four, open, two, that’s the first three notes. Four, open, two and make sure you use the middle on the four, open, pointer on the two. So, four, open, two then you go back here and you play open, four, on low E and open, and middle finger and back to the A. You’re going to play open, two, the pointer and low E, open, again. It’s uplift, we’re okay, just sound like this. [Music Playing] The cool thing too is if you’re not exactly up to the task of playing this all by yourself, and you have someone with a guitar, have some fun with that. Just one person playing the baseline and you can get used to that, and then someone else can do the strumming. So, what I want you to do is if you’re not having an easy time with this, right now, pause the video and don’t start the next part, unless you want. I mean it’s up to you. It’s your call but I recommend getting at baseline down first. The reason I said that is because the next part of the lesson which is going to start right now is you're going to start the whole strumming with this kind of stretch on these fingers. So, you're going to take only seven strums at the bottom of your B string and you take your pinky finger from the fifth fret, it’s that note. Then, on the string above the D string, which is the one, two, three strings, you put your ring finger here on the fourth fret. That’s the note you get. Then this pointer finger, you’re going to be up here on the second fret of your one, two, three, four string which is your D. That note, and then that’s where those three fingers are going to be. So, if someone else is playing the baseline then you can base go and play this so, every first base note, down-up, down-up, second base note. [Music Playing] Now, one thing you may have noticed is whenever you are strumming, you're pointer finger has to be on the second fret of your D string. Now, when you play this base note here, on the second fret of your A string, you have to move that pointer finger over from the D string up to the second further A to play the base note. It seems that base note rings out you got to move right back down the strum because if you don’t, then your strumming will sound awful or something like this, if you play that base note, it will sound like this. [Music Playing] That’s wrong because you don’t want this note, you want this note. So I’ll play it slow again. Please make sure, this is the baseline remember. Okay, here is where you put these two fingers because these two will get here all the time, so, alright. [Music Playing] And one thing too if you noticed, when I was playing this note here on the first base note on the fourth fret, the A string, my pointer finger is actually up because you want to have that pointer finger down second fret, D string unless you’re strumming. So, if you need to stretch to do this, or here, you can lift that pointer finger up and just put it right back down. [Music Playing] The tab is over here. If it makes your hands cramp, that’s natural. Mine is cramping right now. So, I’m going to go ahead. There’s also part in the course, at the end of the first chords it’s like it’s a crash, and to me that part, you're going to play, let’s see. [Music Playing] Yeah, you're going to play fourth fret and your low E, open on A, then second fret on the A and strum an E chord. [Music Playing] Then there's also another chord you're going to strum after that and this chord, pointer finger on second fret, E, then your ring and pinky are basically way up on the B and D chord. [Music Playing] So, that’s the next that you’ll see on the tab. I think there's one other chord in between--my computer is done. So, my tab is gone. All the other part that you’ll probably recognize from listening to the song is there's a second guitar that comes in the second verse maybe you can hear it but sounds like this. [Music Playing] That part is really easy to do, okay. Take your ring finger and put it on the fifth fret of your B string, take your middle finger and put it on the fourth fret of your G string. Once you’re on the third string up, your ring finger is on the fifth fret or your second string up, your B. Now, you're going to play, down, up, and at last up before your last then down, up, down, up, down, it’s a strum pattern, down up, down up down, alright? That little note. The first two tabs is on the pointer finger on the second fret of the high E. So, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up, down and the next two times, third and fourth times, its pointer finger on the fourth fret. That is still down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down. [Music Playing] And it’s a whole song. So good luck, guys, freeandeasyguitar.com, check it out. We got some really cool stuff that we're working on right now and I’m not going to give you any hints because things can be probably want to get cool, simply like what we respect the site yet. 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