Danny Grady: Let's take a look at basic strum pattern with an alternative bass. I'll play a little bit of it for you. When I am playing it for it's definitely gotten a little bit of a country flavor here.
So you got a couple of chords down and you want to do something with other than just strum them by themselves, an alternating bass strum pattern is a great way to give a chord progression some motion.
So let's start out with the first chord that I am doing. It's D major, our first finger goes on the second fret of the third string, second finger is on the second fret of the first string, and our third finger is on the third fret of the second string. This is the D major we are doing.
On the first B, you are going to hit the fourth string and that's the D, the D major, the root and on this one as root we are going to be hitting the root. It's the very first note on the very first D. So hit the D, fourth string open, then strum the chord on the second B. Now we are going to go to the alternating bass note, the alternate bass note, which, in this case, is the fifth string open A. Strum that on the third B and then on the fourth B you are going to strum the chord again.
Let's move to G, G major. Our second finger is going go on the second -- the third fret of the sixth string, our first finger is going to go on the second fret of the fifth string, and our third finger is going to go on the third fret of the first string. That's G. So, let's hit the sixth string which is the note G here in G major. For the first B, strum the course for the second B then you are going to hit your fourth string open, and then strum the chord on the fourth B.
So one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four.
Male Speaker: So the intra starts with the baseline pick up starting on B two, one, two, three, four into an A chord. You are going to hear this type of strumming pattern that he uses throughout the song, where he plays a bass note on beat one, usually the root of the chord, the letter on the chord is A, so A on A chord and strum is the chord on B2.
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