Chords for JR Richards - (How to Play) Until I Wake Up - Dishwalla

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_ _ _ Hola everybody, thank you for joining me.
I'm finally
[C] Finally actually gonna explain how I play until I wake up
which is something quite a few people have asked me over the years because it is
Really what it comes down to is a really unusual tuning and then a very specific picking pattern.
So
_ We'll [Eb] jump straight into it
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_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Gm] Cool so acoustic guitar
_ Is you can use an acoustic or electric?
I do recommend putting on a heavier gauge of string than you might normally
Especially the electrics I'd go at least 11 or 12
Just because some of the strings end up being so loose
That it's impossible to keep them in tune and that's a big part of it.
So I also suggest using
Elixirs, that's the nano web ones
They're the really thin ones just because there's so much sliding going on that the string noise gets really bad, but we start with a
Standard tuned guitar
_ In terms of a just you know, [Ab] e a D G B [Eb] E
However, this guitars tuned a half step down.
[E] So it's a flat a flat D flat
F sharp B flat and E flat.
Okay, so that is the key that I did it in acoustically
I think the album is up and standard tuning a 440 but
In terms of touring and things like that's a little easier on the guitar to be a half step down because some of the strings
Are pulled up pretty tight
Also makes it easier to sing
_ Okay, so cool.
So the big thing is is that I made it very simple to play _
Because I'm not an amazing guitar player.
So and I wanted to keep it simple especially too because I'm singing so
[F] this tuning right now, it's
Basically the only two strings we're going to [Gb] keep are that this this high E flat and this high B flat and
Everything all these other strings.
We're going to tune to an E.
Okay, so
_ This G flat string or F sharp string.
What we're going to do is we're going to turn tune this down to an E
Okay, this is very important because this is kind of key in terms of which direction you go
Otherwise, you're gonna break strings or have something too floppy that it's it won't work at all
So we're gonna bring [Ab] that down [G] to
_ [Fm] An [E] E
And actually a quick way to do it is you can use your high E string or your low E string as a reference
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So the the F sharp strings [F] the G string it's gonna go down to the E flat.
Okay
[Db] This is a D flat.
We're gonna bring this up to an E.
Okay now [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] this one gets really floppy
This this is going to be your a flat string
This is gonna go all the way [Ab] down to an to an E
We don't want to bring it up because you'll break a string.
So we want to bring this all the way down
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ So [G] these are basically the same pitch your [Eb] low E and
What would be this a a or a [E] flat string is now an E flat.
So the two [Eb] E flats
So what you get is E E E E
B E E
Or E flat tuning is based on a Crosby Stills and Nash and Young song.
I think is what my dad told me back in the day _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] That is but anyway, [Eb] so
_ _ The key on this one now is because we're only using the a and the B string
in terms of changing pitches, so [Ab] I'm
I'm just fretting just these notes and there's only there's four positions that you use in the song
So what's important is that?
In order to get it to be in tune
Especially because the strings can get a bit loose in spots is you have to fret them in order to tune them
So that's a little sharp _
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_ That sounds good
_ _ Those are a wee bit [Ab] off there.
This one's gonna get a bit sharp
_ So you're gonna have to drop that one a little flat even if [Eb] it's open
It might be a little flatter on the tuner [Ab] than when you're fretting it
So that's important too.
Otherwise, it's gonna be sharp if you have [Eb] the open string right on the money on [Abm] the tuner
It's gonna be funky when you you fret it
Especially like me when I tend to grip things a bit too hard
Okay.
So now we've tuned the guitar to the tuning which is all
E-flats except for the 1b up here.
So e flat e flat e flat e flat e flat e flat Okay
[Ab] That's the first position is at the fifth fret
[Eb] _ _ [Cm] ninth fret _ _
[Eb] fourth fret _ _ _ fifth fret
And then the chorus we're gonna jump up to [Bbm] the seventh fret [Eb] to _
[Cm] _ _ the ninth fret the fourth fret
And _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] that's basically it the the picking pattern again.
[F] Is that it's
The strings are one two, three, four five six
It's gonna be two five four six four five four three
[Ab] So two five [Eb] four six four five four three
Okay, that's [Ab] basically the pattern
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_ _ _ _ except for the places where I do use the I put the [Em] two at the end the two string and I hit it as
the very last note of the phrase in the beginning of the next phrase, so
When I'm coming around the top just see me do [Ab] it.
You'll hear a
Double of one of those
[Eb] _ _
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_ So you can hear it right there _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Anyways, [Gb] that's really the only tricky part of it.
I'll play through the phrase one more time.
So the verse goes like this _ _
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_ _ _ _ Okay, the course is gonna have the [Bb] additional [Eb] I start on this seventh fret _ _
Each every [Bb] other time
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_ _ Cool.
Okay
_ I've seen some people try it some really wild and weird ways to play this with you know, crazy jazz chords and everything
That's not what it is.
It's a very very [Cm] simple
Thing to [D] play once you know what the tuning [Eb] is, which is really the only real trick [Ab] to it
okay, there is a bit of a trick to it, so _
Hopefully that helps and and you'll be able to rock this song on your own.
[Eb] All right, cool.
Thanks for watching _ _ _
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