Chords for John Mellencamp Pink Houses Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

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_ _ Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here with Marty Music and we're gonna learn this John Mellencamp Post Cougar
Mellencamp tune, Little Pink Houses.
It's got a cool little riff but easy chords.
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Let's do it!
Alright, all easy chords, easy strumming.
The opening lick is not too difficult but it's a cool little like signature lick of the song.
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_ _ I'm using a G major chord with the ring, middle, and pinky voicing or grip _ _ _ because
we're gonna do a suspended fourth.
So you're holding that third fret low E, high E, but then you move the middle finger over
to the second fret D and the index over to the first fret of the B like [C] this.
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_ _ _ _ You can hammer those two right there _ _ _ and back to that [C] G.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ Classic folk-y acoustic _ technique.
_ But we do this little country slide and we're gonna pick that root, the third fret E, _ _ and
then pick it a second time and slide it up to the seventh fret which is also the second
fret on that A string which is the B note, the major [B] third of the chord.
_ So you get [G] the slick.
_ _ _ _ _ _ And _ then hop over to the open G and that gives you a split second to get your hand back to
that G chord. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Now the verse, _ _ _ _ _ _ very just steady easy strumming.
You could do down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up.
You know there's variations but just that basic _ _ pulse on the down beat. _ _
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_ _ _ [F#] And the first change is F, C, G, real [F] quick [C] _ _
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to another verse.
[F] So I'm playing an F.
If you could play a full bar chord, great.
A great _ _ open [C] version is the third fret A, third fret D, [F] _
second fret G, first fret B.
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Because then you can just switch, pinky comes off, middle finger moves over and now you
have a C chord.
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And then [G] real easy voicing of moving those up _ to [F] the G.
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_ _ [F] So [C] F, C, [G] G, more strumming.
_ Another verse.
_ _ _ _ And _ _ _ _ _ now this time, _ [F]
F, _ [C] _ C, _ _ [G]
G.
_ _ _ [F] So the first change, [C] F, C, G, _ holds on G, G, G, G, G.
And then the second time, [F] right before the chorus, F, 3, [C] 4, C, 2, 3, [G] 4, G, 2, 3, 4.
So that's the change.
I mean that's what's different.
And then the chorus is real _ _ _ easy C chord.
_ Ain't that a [C] C chord?
_ _ [G] G, _ then the [C] C _ [G] to the G.
A third repeat, [C] C, _ [D] then the D, _ _ hold on D, then [G] [C] C. _
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_ _ _ _ So check it out.
G, G, G, G, G, _ _ _ it holds on G, G, _ _ [F] _ [C]
F, C, [G] G.
_ _ _ I went quicker there, but you get the idea.
G, G, holds on G for a long time.
G, G, G, G, but this [F] time it's F, 2, 3, [C] 4, C, 2, 3, [G] 4, G, 2.
_ _ And then the [C] chorus is C, _ _ [G] G, _ and [C] C, _ _ [G] G.
A third time, [C] C, then [D] up to D, hold on D, _ D, D, [C] D, C, _ _ _ and [G] a little riffy-poo. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ One other thing, that longer F, C, G becomes [F] a little instrumental.
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[D] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ And that'll get you through it.
[E] All right, hope you guys enjoyed the lesson.
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[E] All right, take care. _ _ _