Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Aaron. This lesson was email Through The Glass by Stone Sour, it's an E flat tuning. If you don’t have the E flat tuning, take your little tuner, okay. There’s a little button on there, it says flat. Press the flat button. Once you press the flat button, a little flat would be appearing to the screen. It says E flat. The flat symbol is a lowercase B. If your tuner says E and there’s little lower case B up there, and when you tune the string, it's going to say E, a little flat up there and you want to tune it in the middle. Okay, you have to tune it to the flat symbol since you already have an E flat there. E flat tuner are down the middle, A flat, it's right in the middle and all that, just make sure you press the flat button.
All right, so this song—this song here, E flat tuning it's really extremely simple. You’ve got to know how to follow this one. Take your pointer finger and put it on your start string which is you’re A string, okay. Then take your pinky and put it on your D string on the fifth fret. So this pointer finger is on your A string, the third fret. The pinky is on the fifth fret onto your D string, okay. And the picking pattern you’re going to play is A string, D string, open B, okay that’s the first three notes. Then you’re going to slide both these up two frets, so this one from third to five and this one was on five goes to seven, same picking pattern. A string, E string, hold the B, okay. And then, you’re going to come all the way up, two more frets to these fingers. This is on the seventh. This is down the ninth, both in the E and D strings and you’re going to play lowly open, A, D, G, D, A and you’re going to play it again, E, A, D, G, A D, okay. It’s very simple. This is what it sounds like.
[Demonstration]
These notes up here on the top, you can get to use—this are pretty self-explanatory. But this string up here, you need to make sure you get the rhythm right it gets. So E, A, D, G, D, A, E, A, D, G, E, A. So this [demonstration] then you count fast, E, A, D, G pretend that coming back up to A, D. It's kind of a little pause. So [demonstration] just like that. That’s the intro.
The verse is basically this, [demonstration] very simple. There is in this three-chord formation that we did for the intro. It's already done for the strumming. You saw this middle finger over here, it's not playing this low, it's just resting like barely touching it so that mutes it because you don’t want that to ring out. If you have a big hands, you can actually wrap your thumb around in either that way or you can use your ring finger. You’re not pressing down, you are just barely touching it to get away with the strings you don’t want to play.
So, I’m using this. I start in here for one measure. Now the strum I’m using is, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down. Okay, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down up. Switch, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. Up here, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, up. Then you slide back up to this five and seven just for like, down, down, down, down, up and it starts all over.
The second time through so you’re going like this [demonstration]. Sing it top through. You’ll get it at three, five, seven, stay at the center. You’re not doing the [demonstration] anything like that. So you go three, the first time through for the verse is, that’s one measure, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. One measure, we’ve got the same strum pattern here, one measure of that strum pattern here then back down here for like the last four notes, okay.
The second time through the verse, you’re going to do one measure down here, one measure here and two measures to that strum pattern up here, okay. The chorus is a C chord [demonstration] through the D, Em, and you have couple notes there to end on that D. So the strum pattern I use is in the C through the chorus [demonstration], down, down, down, down, up, up down, up, down, down, up, just like in the intro. So, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. A little bit slower, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. Remember, you don’t have to use the same strum patterns with me. It’s just there for kind of a help. If you don’t like them and you want to use your own, be my guest. Just make sure the rhythm is on. It's all that matters to the rhythm. The strum pattern doesn’t matter.
So, I guess that’s C, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. Switch to the D, same strum pattern, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. And you go to your Em and you’re going to play [demonstration]. Okay, so it's the first measure is the same strum pattern I just taught you for the C and the D, down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. And they’re going to play, down, down, down, down, switch to your D and play up, up, down, up, down, down, up and then you’re going to go back to your C and put the same strum pattern that I gave you in the beginning. The D, the same strum pattern I gave you at the beginning of the chorus and then Em, one strum. So the chorus just sounds like this [demonstration]. That’s in C, finish off with the Em.
Okay. Now, the second time through the verse is the same as the first, okay. The only thing you have to watch in the second chorus is really your preference. You can play the second chorus just like you play the first or you can kind of intermix some of the chords. You can take a look at the tab and see what chord they want you to supplicate. Basically, instead of playing [demonstration]—instead of playing like a C this way, you can put it this way. So instead of [demonstration] D, turn to Em. They’re saying you can play it like this [demonstration]. So that’s your call, you know. You can play the chorus, like I said, this is a C chord, this is also the C chord in the song. Okay, just a little bit different variation. You can play D chord that way or you can play it this way. Different variation, you can play your Em minor chord here and of course where you can play up here, just a different variation. Okay, that’s really the entirety of the song, guys. Really, you can get it by the whole song just playing the chorus like this [demonstration]. I already told you the strum patterns. So please don’t call me nasty unless you’re just right here taping it. Okay, that’s how you play the chorus or the verses and the chords are just [demonstration] sorry [demonstration] and start back.
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