Alright guys what is up?
It is a song I want to give little tutorial on. It is really going to be a pretty short video. It is a pretty easy song to learn. I really like the sound and feel of it. One of my friends introduced me to it. So, I just kind of give you a real short overview on this. It has does not have a lot of airtime yet but I think it is going to pick up here in the future. It is called “Sweet and Low” by Augustana.
And the intro, your capo on the 4th fret, standard tuning. The intro, you are going to take pointer finger and bar across on the 7th fret, across these bottom three strings. The middle finger goes on the G string on the 8th fret and then it is going to sound like this [Demonstration]. That was awful.
Like I said, you have your pointer across the first three, you got your middle finger on the 8th fret, and then when you play that first note, you hammer on the 9th fret on that same string. so you do that [Demonstration] three times, and the forth time is [Demonstration] pull off from the fifth [Demonstration]. So like this [Demonstration] three times [Demonstration] so you play that to the fifth, go up to the three [Demonstration] and then back up. So that is the intro.
I do that once in the beginning and then I do that later on kind of in the little riff in the middle of the song. The verses is pretty easy, it goes, it is G [Demonstration] D minor 7 [Demonstration] it is one B to end [Demonstration] it is called G1, just this two fingers to sit on here and you put your pointer finger, second fret relative to the capo so, the first—I will just play through I guess what the verse will be, I mean I am not going to sing because I can not sing but it like this [Demonstration]. It is G to E minor 7, G to E minor 7, G to E minor 7 the last time is C at 9 to D. For the chorus it is actually has made of a four chords, the lines kind of switch just in the last two so the first one is the E minor 7 to C at 9 to G to D the second line of the chorus is E minor 7 to C at 9 to D to G and then E minor 7 to C at 9 to G, D the third time so the first and third line are the same,, the second one just has the D and the G switched at the end. I am going to have the chords over on the information box which would be over there I believe so do not worry about to trying to write that down when I am, I just blabbing.
The last line of the chords is E minor 7 [Demonstration] C at 9 [Demonstration] D and you set three B, set D that you can bring out or you can mute it. I think that they might mute it in the song but it is your call, what ever you want to do and you play that intro again, so it is [Demonstration]. Then that is the verse you play that verse again it is the same strum pattern, the chorus again, the bridge is really kind of a quick, you strung it really quick, it goes E minor to G2 to A/E to G2 which those…the easiest way I think to fingering for that is just start on E minor with your pointer finger and your middle finger on the A and the D string, second fret, just the regular E minor [Demonstration] and then E minor [Demonstration] to the G2 is just this, right here [Demonstration] where your middle finger is 3rd fret, low E string and your pinky finger is on the A string 3rd fret [Demonstration]. So you are going to go, to these fingers and then just put these down here [Demonstration] and then the A/E keep this pointer finger here still and put your middle finger right here see I have that one open string between them—so your pointing finger would be on the A string and the G string second fret will be your middle finger so it is kind of movement like this, it helps a bit [Demonstration] because E minor [Demonstration] G2 [Demonstration] A/E [Demonstration] back to G2 [Demonstration]. So that whole sequence there your pointer finger never moves on the 2nd fret. They are maybe other ways of playing it but I think that is definitely the easiest way and so you can do what you want but maybe that will help. So the bridge, I think and let me see, let me just try and give it a shot I think this is the way they play on
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