Chords for How to Play Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp on Acoustic Guitar - Easy Songs Lesson

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[D] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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Hey, how's it going you guys?
[G] Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com.
I'm going to teach you this cool little ditty.
_ _ _ _ And I'm going to teach you a couple little _ variations because there's more than one guitar
part on the recording.
So, I'm going to just give you what I think is kind of, you know, some cool options.
Let's start with that intro.
We're going to play _
[A] this kind of portion of an A major bar chord.
[B] So ring finger on the 7th fret of the D [E] string, _ middle finger [G#m] on the 6th fret of the next
string, [A] the G string.
And then index finger is going to cover the 5th fret of the B and the E.
[B] So we're going
to let [A] that ring out. _ _
_ _ _ Okay?
First chord.
Ring finger I'm going to keep track of.
I'm going to slide it down a half step. _
_ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ But now what I have to do is kind of change what's going on with my index and my middle finger.
So, next thing we're going to do is going to have the index finger on the 4th fret of
the G [F#] string and [Em] then middle finger on the 5th fret of the B.
And [C#] this is actually an
inverted D major shape.
I have [B] a lesson on Guitar Jams about this very chord voicing.
[C] So if you've already seen that lesson and [F#] worked on that stuff, this is, you can see
it's going to come in handy again.
So we've got, [A] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ so that one.
_ Then [A] back up to A and [E] then that inversion again.
And it's actually, [F#] I mean you could call it like an E major triad actually.
But really it's just part of a riff.
[A] So we've got that one, _ [E] the next one, and [A] then both of them again but quicker.
[E] _ And then that inverted D major shape here just goes down a [D] whole step to where it would
be a D.
_ [G]
And then you can let the, you know, you can do the _ [D]
open D string. _ _ _ _ _
And I'm able to stop the note just with my right hand after I pick it. _ _
_ _ [B] Like that.
So [A] here's the whole thing. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ Alright, [B] I'm going to zoom in and show it to you up close so you can see it.
[A] Alright, here's the lick.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] Yeah. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[A] So that voicing, [F#] _ this voicing.
[E] _
And you could actually let this cover the high [A] E too if you want.
Or you can just play it as a little [E] triad.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ Just like that. _ _
Alright, while we're zoomed in, I'm going to just teach you the verse.
And that's really all there is to it.
So we're going to take an A major chord, but we're going to play with our index finger
covering all these so we can do that inverted D and E thing again.
So we're going to go like this. _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [N] So I'm barring that and then this hammers on and off on that kind of, I mean it's almost
like a B minor 7 looking thing too.
But so middle finger hammers on to the third fret of the B and ring finger hammers on the
fourth fret of the D while this is barred.
So [E] we've got that. _
_ _ _ And then I [A] slide it up a whole step.
So it's like.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ Then this [D] one again.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ Then the little riff [D] again.
_ [E] _ _ And then this [D] inverted D shape _ [A] _ back to a regular A.
Check it out.
_ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ _ So when I'm kind of doing the slide up, I'm not really emphasizing the low A in there.
[B] _
But that's going to be something that you're going to have to work out a little [C] bit.
It might be a little tricky for you at first.
[D] This [F#m] one, _ [B] that's all I've got the low A in there.
But _ [E] _ when I get up to that one, I kind of just, _ _ it can get in there.
Low A can be in there, but I don't know if it's the best.
So that's what you've got.
That's the verse.
But what you can do is you can mix and match.
Instead of the [F#m] A going.
_ [E] _
You could start with the first chord of the intro [Cm] and I'm hearing a little something like this.
Hit it.
Pinky on the seventh [F#m] fret of that.
You know like _ that.
So one guitar player could do this while the other one goes.
_ _ [A] _
Those work together.
So you can go everything else the same. _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ You know, it doesn't matter.
You can do or _ [G] they harmonize together.
They sound beautiful together.
_ So that's pretty much the whole song.
The only thing is when it does the chorus, it doesn't resolve to A.
It keeps [A] going up like this.
_ [E] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ Then only on this one, finally it [D] resolves back.
_ [A] _ _
So [G] basically just to recap, we've got [A] an intro. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ Then we've got a verse [G#] which is made up of all the same chords.
[E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _
With an alternate version.
_ [E] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ And then the chorus is just, it doesn't resolve to that A.
It keeps [B] going, the main part until
the last [A] time.
You know, finally when he says, you know, finally.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [A] _ _
_ [N] _ And then he does his really cool fake air drum fill in the video.
And as far as like multiple squares, I can do that with my editing but I'll spare you
the 80's goodness today.
So that's it.
But anyway, I have an easy song DVD, six different DVDs.
All awesome acoustic progressions.
You might dig it, check it out.
Otherwise, we'll see you in the next YouTube extravaganza.
Later! _ _ _
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