Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Aaron. I’m back from the weekend. I got a little video I want to teach you guys. I’ve been getting a lot of requests for this one. It’s one that I probably should have done earlier in this but I didn’t, so I’m doing it now. But it’s actually by John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s called “Jack and Diane.”
So this is actually the first lesson I’m going to play my electric and acoustic in the same way to teach you the different parts. First of all, we’re on standard tuning so, E, A, D, G, B, E. I’ve got my guitar here amp with a little bit of distortion, and no real effects on, so just my overdrive is, let’s say three quarters away up. And I have some distortion so, the first little rift that you’re going to hear is, is it sounds something like this, like that, alright. You’re going to play that three times and it’s actually pretty simple thing to play.
You’re going to take your pointer finger, and you’re going to put it up here on the ninth fret. Alright, so the ninth fret should be one dot, probably below in your guitar right here. Alright, but you only want to bar across the bottom four strings. So don’t touch that fifth one. Actually you don’t touch the top two, the E or the A. So, ninth fret here. The first chord that you’re going to play is you’re going to strum the middle four strings.
So you’re going to strum your A, D, G and B. And you’re going to strum it first with your middle finger. You’re going to bar across the bottom four strings like I said in the ninth fret, and your middle finger goes on your B string on the tenth fret, and your ring finger goes on the D string, eleventh fret.
As far as the strings are playing, your top string is not playing at all. Your A string, you’re going to play it open. Your D string is played because that ring finger is on the eleventh fret. G string is played by the bar covering on the ninth fret. And then your B string has the middle finger on the tenth fret. And your high E, you don’t play.
So what you’re going to do is strum these middle four strings. It sounds like this then you’re going to take your middle and ring off, so you just have that bar across the ninth fret. So this is what you’re playing is the middle, four strings. Your A string is open and D, G and B are on the ninth fret. That’s your third, second chord.
Alright so your first one is with that one, off, that one again, on, off, then slide down to seven and then it goes into the D string open twice, like that. So pointer finger here, ninth fret, across the bottom four strings, middle finger on your B string. That’s your second string up from the bottom. On the tenth fret and eleventh fret, you want your ring finger to be on the D string. That’s one, two, three down from the top, on the eleventh fret. Play the middle four strings.
So when I say on, I mean these two fingers are on. That will be on the tenth fret, that ring is on the eleventh. So, on, play it middle four then off, so it’s just the bar, then on, off, seven, open on the D twice So it sounds like this, pause. I mean that’s the last, that’s just the D string open twice, like that.
The tabs are over here too so always make sure to check them. Click on more info, if you can’t see can’t see them, in the link they’ll be there. So, honestly as far as the electric goes, that’s all I’m going to do with this part of the song for electric. But now, I’m going to get the acoustic out, and show you the kind of acoustic there forth so hold on a second.
Alright, so this right here is really based out of the same bar because earlier, if you could remember, you are up here on the ninth fret with that bar. Your middle on the B string and your ring went on the D string. So you can play on the acoustic too if you want, same exact thing. Alright, so this is kind of the riff sounds like. Bear with me. You’re going to take your pointer finger up here and you’re going to bar on the second fret across the bottom four strings.
Basically this bar you had up here, you just slide that down to the second fret so there’s this up here which is, just take that from up here, slide it down here. So the riff sounds like this. Sorry I have to get adjusted back to the acoustic after the electric.
Alright, but I’m going to teach it you anyway, even if I can’t play it right now right. And you guys will be able to, alright. So the riff with your acoustic guitar, your pointer finger is going to bar across the bottom four strings, and then your middle finger is going to go on the B string third fret and your ring is going to go on your fourth fret of your D string. That’s the second chord.
The first one is an open A where you just bar across and you just kind of try to play the D, G and B. So you’re going to try and play from the bottom, the second, third and fourth strings up. From the top, the third, fourth, fifth string is down. Alright, so here’s how you play them, then you’re going to put your middle finger on the third fret of your B, and your ring on the fourth fret of your D string, and that’s sic chord.
So you play the A with those two fingers on, A again, then I play and slide up. When you slide up, you’re just going to slide your bar from the second fret to the fourth, so that moves your middle finger up here to the fifth, and your ring goes up now to the sixth. So it’s like this, this is A to this. So I’m just using one on the A, one with ring and middle down, A again and then ring and middle on, slide, and slide to the fourth.
After that, that’s kind of the first part of the riff. The second part is actually where you’re going to go, the same beginning and you go A but after you do that twice, you’re going to go down to then you’re going to go back down this chord here, and you’re going to play one, two, three, four and then back up to this one where your bar is on the fourth, middle’s on the fifth and ring is on the sixth, and three strums. Sorry my hands are not, you can’t see it but I have a scar where I cut the muscle on my hand open, and that one I was playing with the knife, and now I can’t hold bar chords for very long. But, alright, so it’s a little better, I guess. It still hurts.
Alright, so that bar, the A, you’re going to go A and I’m going to call this a B minor juts because this is the B minor where your middle’s on the third fret, and your ring is on the fourth fret D. So that would look like your B minor. We’re going to call this your C. It’s called a C sharp minor because that’s really what it’s the basis of, is this. You’re going to play this. So when you start you go A, B minor, A, and then B minor slide to the C sharp minor so A, B, A, C, then B minor twice. Actually it’s three strums to play, down, down, up, back to the C sharp minor for three strums, then A and then after you play that, you’re just going to play B to C sharp minor, back to A. That hurts.
So, I’m going to try and play this one more so you guys can hear it. Basically that’s what they play with the entire song. There’s one little variation after the drum solo where it plays something like this, instead of finishing on the [Demo], it just finishes on [Demo].
So instead of going B minor to C sharp minor to A, this is what you do at the beginning at first riff. After the drum solo, you go B minor to C sharp minor to C sharp minor, I believe. So I’ll try to play it one more time for you guys.
[Demonstration]
So, I hope that helps you guys. I’m sorry I can’t play really well. My hand’s really hurting but, I’m going to try to do some more stuff on the lecture. Thanks. See you.
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