Chords for How To Play "Stir It Up" by Bob Marley

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hi, welcome to 5-minute guitar lessons.
In today's lesson, we're going to learn Stir It Up by Bob Marley and that is on the
1972 album entitled Catch a Fire.
Before we get started take a moment to download our chord chart for this song.
There's a link to that in the description.
That'll help you follow along with this lesson and with the original recording.
Alright, here we go. _ _
_ _ _ The chords used in this song are A,
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ D [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ and [E] E. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Let's try those chords out over the verse using downstrokes.
We'll do four downstrokes per measure. _
1, 2, 3, 4.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[A] The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ strumming pattern goes down up, down up, down up, down up. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The best way to feel this strumming pattern is to count out loud.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
And then on all of the and's,
you'll do a down up.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4.
[Ab] Now let's try that strumming pattern on the chords from the verse. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ 1, 2, 3, 4.
[A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ This guitar part doesn't have a downbeat and that feels kind of strange.
Normally in reggae music the downbeat is provided by pretty much everybody but the guitar player.
The guitar player is always playing upstrokes.
They're always playing a syncopated beat.
Something like 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
They're always using the and.
In this example, we're going 1 and 2 and. _ _
[F] And since we're not getting that downbeat, we kind of have to find a way to feel it ourselves, feel it internally,
so that all the other beats related to that downbeat will line up properly.
So let's just try
an A chord and
to feel those downbeats, all I'm gonna do is just touch my hand to the strings.
I'm gonna mute the strings.
So [A] 1 and.
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It's not that [B] hard.
Just take your time with it.
The motion,
especially in this one since we're doing it down up and then have to mute it right away, might be a [A] bit tricky.
But if you just take your time with it and you just go down up mute.
Down up mute.
Or you could start on a mute to start on the beat.
1, 2. _ _
Mute down up mute down up. _ _
_ _ And that'll help you get through this tune and really feel the beat a lot better. _ _ _ _ _
_ The chorus goes. _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ Now we can try that [A] together.
_ _ _ _ _ 1, 2, _ 3, 4. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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