Chords for Helplessly Hoping Guitar Lesson Preview - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Tempo:
133.75 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
Am
D
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Em] [C]
[G] [C]
[G] [A]
[Am] [C]
[G]
[D] [G]
[D] [N] Stephen Stills has some great finger picking songs.
This is of course
Helplessly Hopin' and I was just messing around there with some of the things
that I go into in the lesson on this because this is not a song that I like
to have students learn note for note the way he played it on any particular album
or any particular live show or whatever because it's different every time.
So
what I really like to have people do with this song is learn the chord
progression first.
It's very simple.
We walk through the A minor 7s and the Cs
and the Ds and the Gs and the [F] [G] Fsus4s and [F] all that stuff and of course
explain all of those chords and why they're called that and what he's really
doing there and how [Gm] why he's using his thumb when he [C] plays this chord so we can
[N] get to that one a little bit easier.
But so the lesson on this that I have at
Totally Guitars now starts with just playing the chord progression, just
strumming through it, what I might call a campfire version of a song so that you
have that down first.
You've got to understand the chord progression.
Then we talk about
the picking and a lot of different options that you have on each chord.
On
this chord you can throw in a hammer on there.
You can put in a passing bass note
between this one and that one.
On this one you need a double hammer on.
You need
maybe a pull off here and all that.
So what I like to have people do with
Helplessly Hoping is really learn to create their own arrangement every time
they play it with just however they're feeling.
You might play the [Am] first verse
very small and tight with just clean picking and by the time you get in the third
verse you can be rocking out [C] maybe.
So [N] anyway if you're interested in learning
a fairly difficult intermediate
well it's pretty easy on one hand
but it's again a song you can take anywhere you want.
The lesson on
Helplessly Hoping is up now at TotallyGuitars.com along with hundreds of
other lessons but we have a nice really you know very detailed lesson on this so
if you're interested in this song come check us out here at TotallyGuitars.com
[G] [C]
[G] [A]
[Am] [C]
[G]
[D] [G]
[D] [N] Stephen Stills has some great finger picking songs.
This is of course
Helplessly Hopin' and I was just messing around there with some of the things
that I go into in the lesson on this because this is not a song that I like
to have students learn note for note the way he played it on any particular album
or any particular live show or whatever because it's different every time.
So
what I really like to have people do with this song is learn the chord
progression first.
It's very simple.
We walk through the A minor 7s and the Cs
and the Ds and the Gs and the [F] [G] Fsus4s and [F] all that stuff and of course
explain all of those chords and why they're called that and what he's really
doing there and how [Gm] why he's using his thumb when he [C] plays this chord so we can
[N] get to that one a little bit easier.
But so the lesson on this that I have at
Totally Guitars now starts with just playing the chord progression, just
strumming through it, what I might call a campfire version of a song so that you
have that down first.
You've got to understand the chord progression.
Then we talk about
the picking and a lot of different options that you have on each chord.
On
this chord you can throw in a hammer on there.
You can put in a passing bass note
between this one and that one.
On this one you need a double hammer on.
You need
maybe a pull off here and all that.
So what I like to have people do with
Helplessly Hoping is really learn to create their own arrangement every time
they play it with just however they're feeling.
You might play the [Am] first verse
very small and tight with just clean picking and by the time you get in the third
verse you can be rocking out [C] maybe.
So [N] anyway if you're interested in learning
a fairly difficult intermediate
well it's pretty easy on one hand
but it's again a song you can take anywhere you want.
The lesson on
Helplessly Hoping is up now at TotallyGuitars.com along with hundreds of
other lessons but we have a nice really you know very detailed lesson on this so
if you're interested in this song come check us out here at TotallyGuitars.com
Key:
C
G
Am
D
F
C
G
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [N] Stephen Stills has some great finger picking songs.
This is of course
Helplessly Hopin' and I was just messing around there with some of the things
that I go into in the lesson on this because this is not a song that I like
to have students learn note for note the way he played it on any particular album
or any particular live show or whatever because it's different every time.
So
what I really like to have people do with this song is learn the chord
progression first.
It's very simple.
We walk through the A minor 7s and the Cs
and the Ds and the Gs and the [F] _ [G] Fsus4s and [F] _ all that stuff and of course
explain all of those chords and why they're called that and what he's really
doing there and how [Gm] why he's using his thumb when he [C] plays this chord so we can
[N] get to that one a little bit easier.
_ But so the lesson on this that I have at
Totally Guitars now starts with just playing the chord progression, just
strumming through it, what I might call a campfire version of a song so that you
have that down first.
You've got to understand the chord progression.
Then we talk about
the picking and a lot of different options that you have on each chord.
On
this chord you can throw in a hammer on there.
You can put in a passing bass note
between this one and that one.
On this one you need a double hammer on.
You need
maybe a pull off here and all that.
So what I like to have people do with
Helplessly Hoping is really learn to create their own arrangement every time
they play it with just however they're feeling.
You might play the [Am] first verse
very small and tight with just clean picking and by the time you get in the third
verse you can be rocking out [C] maybe. _
So [N] anyway if you're interested in learning
a fairly _ difficult intermediate_
well it's pretty easy on one hand
but it's again a song you can take anywhere you want.
The lesson on _
Helplessly Hoping is up now at TotallyGuitars.com along with hundreds of
other lessons but we have a nice really _ you know very detailed lesson on this so
if you're interested in this song come check us out here at TotallyGuitars.com _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [N] Stephen Stills has some great finger picking songs.
This is of course
Helplessly Hopin' and I was just messing around there with some of the things
that I go into in the lesson on this because this is not a song that I like
to have students learn note for note the way he played it on any particular album
or any particular live show or whatever because it's different every time.
So
what I really like to have people do with this song is learn the chord
progression first.
It's very simple.
We walk through the A minor 7s and the Cs
and the Ds and the Gs and the [F] _ [G] Fsus4s and [F] _ all that stuff and of course
explain all of those chords and why they're called that and what he's really
doing there and how [Gm] why he's using his thumb when he [C] plays this chord so we can
[N] get to that one a little bit easier.
_ But so the lesson on this that I have at
Totally Guitars now starts with just playing the chord progression, just
strumming through it, what I might call a campfire version of a song so that you
have that down first.
You've got to understand the chord progression.
Then we talk about
the picking and a lot of different options that you have on each chord.
On
this chord you can throw in a hammer on there.
You can put in a passing bass note
between this one and that one.
On this one you need a double hammer on.
You need
maybe a pull off here and all that.
So what I like to have people do with
Helplessly Hoping is really learn to create their own arrangement every time
they play it with just however they're feeling.
You might play the [Am] first verse
very small and tight with just clean picking and by the time you get in the third
verse you can be rocking out [C] maybe. _
So [N] anyway if you're interested in learning
a fairly _ difficult intermediate_
well it's pretty easy on one hand
but it's again a song you can take anywhere you want.
The lesson on _
Helplessly Hoping is up now at TotallyGuitars.com along with hundreds of
other lessons but we have a nice really _ you know very detailed lesson on this so
if you're interested in this song come check us out here at TotallyGuitars.com _ _ _
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