What is up everybody? This next song that I got from a request a while back but I want to dedicate this song to my previous roommate that is actually is with the -- in the White Sox organization here. But the song is Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie. The -- I am telling you guys this. But this is one of my favorite songs even though he is a professional baseball player, so I try to embarrass him a little bit. I might have to send the link of this eventually.
But, the standard tuning, it is really simple to play it. This is what it sounds like, the beginning. [Demonstration].
You can play it with two, I play it with three fingers. All right, so for the intro you can do that twice and for the verse you do that 8 times for the whole verse. And then you have the one thing that I will show you, where that ring before the chorus, and the chorus is strumming. So, the chorus is kind of a light strumming. All right. Intro, take your ring finger, put it on your 5th string down from the top, 2nd string up from the bottom, it is B string, put your ring finger on the third fret then take your pinky, put it on the 1st as well on the high E string, the very bottom string. The way this progression works is you are going to finger pick it and you are going to take your thumb and your thumb is going to be playing on the A string, your 2nd string down. Then your pointer finger and middle, that is how I do it. You can do it however you want. You can use middle and ring, though I use pointer finger, my pointer finger picks the B string, 5th string down from the top. In the high E, I use my middle finger to pick. So, what I do as I go to play all this at the same time, you go [Demonstration].
Do not pick this high E string, I just had my ring and the middle and the pinky finger there because I will make the chord. So, your thumb is going to be playing the A string, 2nd string down, pointer finger is going to be playing the G string, the 1, 2, 3, 4 string down, and then your middle finger is going to be playing the B string, which is where your ring finger is holding on. So, it is actually the G string that you are playing, your pointer finger is open. By the way, it sounds like this. [Demonstration]
All you do is playing the same three strings, start from the top, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, you are playing 2, 4, 5. [Demonstration] Only finger -- is you are walking this pointer finger up, the first time you play this, A strings is open. Second time, it is on the 2nd fret. And the third time your middle finger goes on the 3rd fret. So, this one, you just play open A. So that intro, you are actually going to do, start with your pointer finger, the 2nd fret in the A string and you would go [Demonstration]
Play 2, 4, 5, then put your middle finger down on the 3rd fret of the A string. Play that, take your middle finger also the A is open, you play that. Then, I like to tab them, so here we go. [Demonstration]
And after you meet that again, what you are going to do is put your pointer finger here on the 2nd fret, the A string, you are going to play it by itself. Then, so play it with your thumb, then pick those two strings, your G and B strings. And then you are going to go 3 with your middle finger then open again.
These two fingers should stay, they are here the whole time, the only thing that is changing between this is you are going to either have your pointer finger on the second fret, your ring finger on the 3rd, it is going to be open. So I when I go trough the same 2, 3, you are open. That is a 2, meet your pointer finger on the 2nd fret, 3 the middle finger should be on the third fret, open means, just open. So, you start out, you go to 2, 3, open. You can tap them between those if you want. [Demonstration]
Then you go to 2 by itself in this two down here then open, 2, 3, open. When I play it, I do that. For some reason I get kind of bored I guess because the song, it has only have a whole lot of -- to go. [Demonstration]
If you are getting bored you go, [Demonstration]. I just do that. And it kind of resounds what you have heard about that song.
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