How to Play Stupid Boy by Keith Urban
Alright guys. My name is Aaron. I’m going to try and give you a little kind of lesson on Stupid Boy by Keith Urban. I actually learned it from a guy that I’ve subscription to right in Cajun. So you can check out his subscription on my page. He’s got a lot of good instructional stuff. I learned a lot of stuff from his page. So I just want to kind of help out people to do the same thing he did. Stupid Boy by Keith Urban, I’m in drop D, capo is on the first fret. Start out with my pointer finger on the D string, oh G string I’m sorry. I’m just going to play these first three, the, now I gets to your numbering. Some people don’t know the names of a B, so starting from the bottom of B, three, four, five, but as far as the names go, I need to play with the D. The G is what we have here found on the second fret, and then sometimes the B, so let’s kind of play these middle strings there and slide up to four… a strum or two back down so… and when I come back down, I always put my ring finger there on the third fret of the B string, kind of like D. It’s kind of a D chord… go a couple more strums… and this ring finger, I’m bringing over to the D string which is, starting from the top, the third one down. And the kind of picking pattern I do there is I’m going to play the D string… next I’m going to play the G string first. So I’m just going to play the G, juts this one right here, and pull off… and then I’m going to play this one and pull off… so it’s… straight into an A chord that I bar… and you kind of end that little riff there by pulling off on your D string. I want you to have the bar so… and then the intro to the second part of the riff is exactly the same… and it kind of hammer as it pulls off a little different. Your finger is in the same position. There’s one note that Keith Urban plays when I listen to the song that I don’t quite hit it. But you know, you could tell, you can recognize the song without it. So I like to play the same, picking the same strings, picking the G string but instead of starting with your pointer on the second fret, and just pulling off like the first time… instead I want to leave it open and hammer on and off, so it kind of gives it a you know, a little twist… back into the A…so here we go… the second part… so that kind of little adjustment there. You have to get the A chord. This really is something you can’t just slide or hammer on. I actually prefer to slide so it sounds like this… you know after I did the slide, I was given a kind of hammer on to the four there at the end, just sounds like his album version... S you kind of give it a hammer on the fourth, off and then pull on the two. So it’s in the second part, just the second part of that riff… and then you go right into the couple of chords which are G, which on the G the ring finger is on the fifth fret of this because you’re in drop D. And then pointer finger bars these two strings on the third fret. So… the D… an A… so that’s kind of little, it’s the same chords as the riff, it’s just you know you’re planning the chord instead of the chord, the picking pattern at the beginning that you base on so I’ll kind of play it slowly one more time, put all together, and hopefully this will help some people… oh… so there’s a B minor in there once you get on the bridge, a part of the verse, but hope it helps some people. And get on to me if you’re still confused, also check out Raging Cajun, I’m subscribed to him so you can go on my page but check out his stiff. He’s got a lot of good stuff and he will probably help you learn this song better than I can, but maybe there’s some people out there that this version has helped a little bit. So if you have any requests, line up. If I haven’t learned it, I’ll try to. I got a couple of juts interesting stuff that I’ve just learned recently. It’s not really country like you know, I learn to play a lot, but it’s kind of different stuff so just keep checking it out and hope it helps you people, thanks.