Chords for Neil Young Heart Of Gold Guitar Lesson - Guitar Chords, Guitar Tutorial, Strumming Pattern

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All right, here's the guitar [B] lesson for
Neil Young's heart of gold from guitar made easy calm
Okay, first of all, this is a really easy song to play it revolves around those basic chords.
We've been talking about [Em] e minor
C
[D] _ [G] D and
G those are all the textbooks the textbook forms of those chords right there.
[B] That's actually the verse of the song right there
I'll get into that later
But [B] I'm gonna start off with the intro of the song the verse and then the chorus or pre-chorus and then the outro, okay
So really easy song
First off the song starts off like this.
It goes
[Bm] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ That's the intro of the song what he's [E] doing here is he's making an e minor 7
[B] Okay, you see that chord right there if you're a minor
[A] so I've got my pointer finger on the a
a string second fret [G]
my middle finger [E] on the second fret D string
And then my ring finger on [B] the third fret B string.
Okay, and what he's doing.
He was doing in the song is he's muting
He's muting the chord with his left hand
Okay, [Bm] so what he's doing is when he strums it he's taking the tension off his fingers and then making the [B] chord
So to make that sound to play that and so you can hear it.
I'm gonna play it really slow.
[Bm] Okay, try to listen _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay, so you hear that
_ _ So he's down strumming that chord.
I think it's one two
I [E] think it's six or seven [B] times you can hear it on the on the cover and then the next chord that he goes to is the [D] D _
Strum that down strum that [E] twice and then E minor and he adds a little fill [B] on that E minor which goes
[E] _ _ _ So he's [B] hammering on the second fret a string
[D] Plucking it the D string open then putting his ring finger on there.
I'm sorry his middle finger on the
[E] E-string second fret and then plucking the E string over [B] so
_ [E] _ _ This is what it should [Bm] sound like
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ That's the [B] intro of the song.
Okay, the next part the verse the easiest part of the song is this just like what I showed
You before you got to know your E minor your C [E] your D and your G.
Okay, [Em] this is how it goes
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Bm] _ Okay, [E] that's strumming pattern right there if you couldn't pick it up it's
_ [Gb] And I'm kind of emphasizing certain strums and taking the [B] emphasis off other strums, [E] so what I'm doing is I'm just kind of let's see _
So I'm strumming
_ Softly first and I'm only streaming about these four strings right here the E through the G
Okay, so I'm going on the third strum.
It's a full strum all the way through and then I go _
So
_ _ _ [C] Next chord _
[E] This is the C [D] now the D
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[B] Can you kind of hear that?
So that's the whole
[E] Verse of the song [B] until it gets to this next part.
We'll call this part the pre-chorus.
Okay, and what he's doing
It's a little bit
Tricky to see but I'll show you guys what he's doing is he has an E minor and a G
okay, and so from the
Verse into the chorus or pre [Em]-chorus, this is how it goes
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ [B] Okay, so he's going back to an E minor not any minor 7 just a basic E minor and he's muting with his right hand
This is kind of an interesting technique.
What he's doing is he's putting his
Right here this part of his hand right where his pinky basically meets his actual hand
he's muting the strings with that and he's basically kind of
Strumming or arpeggiating all those [Bb] strings and then making this chord [Em] ring when he takes his
[Bb] This part of his hand off the string.
So [Em] listen to it
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ It's gonna take you all to pick up.
I'll play really slow one more time.
So I think you might be able to get it so
[Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ the decks _
_ [G] _ [Bb] Okay, so he's going from E minor
_ [Em]
And it's still kind of the same way.
You're strumming that E minor 7 [Bm] that
[Bb] In the beginning part of the song, okay
And these mutes with his right and left hand kind of make [Bb] the song if not it would just [Bm] sound like this _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Okay, so
Anyways, make sure you're muting with your right hand at this part
[E] _
_ Playing it just like that E minor [G] 7 _ _
[Bb] Then back to strumming C open don't mute it at all
[Bbm] Except for right there.
You want to come down and make it so it doesn't ring.
Okay, so it's technically a [C] mute but
you
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [G] Bend G
_ [Bb] _ Okay.
Now the outro the song that's basically the whole song right there the outros
This same kind of pattern over and over again, but it's a little bit different.
Okay, and [Bbm] what changes is
_ He basically going back to the pre-course that I just showed you guys
What he does is he does this [Em] goes?
_ _ [D] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [Bb] So it's just like that pre-course in terms of the strumming, [Bbm] but he's going to D and then back to E
So it's E minor B back to E E minor D back to E minor
I'm sorry the whole time he might or not
I think I said he is E minor so E minor to D back to E minor E minor to D back to E minor
E minor to D that three or four times and then the last time he goes to G and
[Cm] Then he did a little
_ _ [Em] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ And [Bb] that's the whole song if you guys have any questions, let me know
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Let me know again.
[Bbm] I'll try to go into more depth on it
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Take care _ _