How is it going guys, it is Aaron. I will do a little video. I am actually inside the -- of my older brother’s house. Everyone is asleep so I am outside trying to be quiet.
What I want to do right now is a song called Crying Shame by Jack Johnson. Pretty simple, it is another request. I think you guys are going to like this one. It is pretty easy to play. It is kind of a long tab but not necessarily a long song but there are really four parts. The first part is a part where you can just kind of sing the verse. It is something kind of arranged differently a lot but it is kind of a verse and basically all you use is F#m, G#m, F#m, G#m. Just back and forth.
Basically, that part is really simple. What you are going to do is you are going to put your finger barred across the 2nd fret then on the 2nd string down, your A string, you are going to put your ring finger down here on the 4th fret and put your pinky finger down here on the 4th fret as well with the 3rd string down, the D string.
And basically where it says, “It’s such a tired game” strum that once then you slide the whole thing up two frets. So, you are going to barre across the 4th and these two are on the 6th fret, on the 2nd, 3rd string down.
And then with the lyrics “Will it ever stop,” one strum. “How will this all play out,” one strum down the bar across 2nd slide up, barre across the 4th. “Upside out of my mouth.”
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Then it says, “By now we should know how to communicate instead of coming to blows.” On these two lines, you just strum with Gm.
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Play it once. It is all up to you. Then it goes to the second part where it is “We're on a roll and there ain't no stopping us now.” It is kind of a quicker part. That is another two chords. Those are actually C#m. C#m is really easy to get to from the D#m.
I will kind of recap that real quick, the F#m.
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G#m
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Are the intro two chords where you are just talking? So, you get to the C#m. all you do is you barre across the 4th and then you have 2nd string down at the 6th fret and 6th fret is your ring on the 2nd string down, and on the 3rd string down pinky.
What you do is put these two fingers above that one string. So now, you are barring across the 4th fret on the E, A, D string, 3rd string down. Your ring finger is on the 6th fret and your pinky is on the 6th fret on the G string.
Then you are going to take your middle finger. Put it on your B string, which is your next to the last string. So, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and that is on the 5th fret. And all this does is it is just going to roll and actually this is just want to roll and slides down to a B.
The B is barre across the 2nd fret with your pointer and out here on the 4th fret, you just kind of put your ring finger and you want to try and get this three.
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Those three strings, there on the 4th fret. So, that part sounds like you just sound like this “We’re on a role”.
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Do that three times and then after the last beat, he comes up to this F#, C he comes up with a D#m.
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Then he strums the G#m for the next two lines, “By now we say it’s a war for peace. It’s the same old game.” And it goes right back into this again.
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C#m, B.
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This time it goes to this, F#m.
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So, before when you ended it, you went to D#m, this time you go to F#m. Once you go to the F#m, you play like one beat and then it goes back into the first part we learned. We try to put it out, D#m. We are going to go and play F#m. “Using fear as fuel burning down our name.” “Cause the words are burning,” at C. “And it won’t take too long. Cause the words are burning the same and who we gonna blame now?”
And then it goes into the third part which is “It’s such a crying, crying, crying shame” part.
That is four chords. It starts out with you C#m which is the barre across the 4th fret, bottom 5 strings. Ring finger goes on the 3rd string down to your E string, 6th fret. Pinky goes on the 4th string down, the A, D, G string, 6th fret. And your ring finger goes on the 5th fret of the next string down, your B string at the top of that.
And that
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