Chords for Is the Johnny Cash Strum TOO hard for beginners? (HECK NO!)

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_ Okay, so I've got a picking pattern that uses single notes again
And it's kind of in the style or in the vein of Johnny Cash, so we're gonna play an E major chord
_ And the rhythm is [E] down down up down down up down down up down down up down [A#] down up down down up down
Down up down down up down down up down down up down down up [D] down down _ _ up
And we're gonna add a little bass note is a little bit of a challenge, but it's a good thing to practice super slow _
And here's what we're gonna do so remember what that rhythm was down down up down down up down down up down
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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
So we take this E major chord and we're gonna hit the open E string as that first down and
Then a down up with the strum _ _
_ _ And that's the pattern but the second time we're gonna hit the a string as the down and then an down up pattern so watch _
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_ _ _ _ And I am planting my pinky again
But the cool thing about a chord like E is if you don't accurately go
_ _ If you hit one of the other notes by accident when you're going pick down up pick down up pick down up any of the
Notes are gonna be good _ _
_ _ _ _ You know what I mean, so it's okay, but ideally you want to go _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ And then we can go to an a major [A] chord and what's fun about an a major chord and a C major chord with this pattern
Is that we then go?
_ _ _ [Em] so this time we hit the root the [A] down and
Then down up, but then now the string above it
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] So throughout all the series I haven't introduced that little turnaround chord
It's in my blue series because what I basically just did there was played the three chords of the e blues
[B] But it's called a b7 chord, and I'm gonna show it to you right now just for fun
middle finger on the second fret of
_ The a string index on the first of the D string
[A#] _ ring [E] finger on the second of the [B] G and _ _ then pinky on the second fret of the high e and
_ _ What's fun about this set of chords that we just did is this is kind of called the turnaround chord
It's not kind of it is the turnaround chord, but for the bass line
It's the same thing we were doing with a major, but we want to go like this we hit the a string down
_ Then [A] middle finger is gonna [F#] move up
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [B] _
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_ _ _ Screwing up a little bit there. _ _
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_ _ _ Did you hear that? _ _
_ _ Wait wait [E] oh
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Wait [E] wait [B] so one two three
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_ _ _ _ comes [A] that p7 [B] again
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[F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Start over from the beginning here we go e chord _ _ _
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_ We're good a
[A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ back to [E] e
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now that b7
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Classic country b7 _ _
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He _ _ _ needs [B] that B
_ _ Same time
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Yeah
_ Okay, no singing here.
We go p7 [Em] again
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So a nice little country
Country ish country blues kind of a picking pattern
I know it might be a little bit challenging to you as a beginner, but even if you practice it super slow.
It's gonna _
_ _ Through osmosis add to all your other skills so keep that in mind, okay?
_ Doing well doing well doing well doing well got another one coming your way.
We'll see you there _ _ _ _