Chords for Night Train Tutorial Part 1

_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [G#m] _ Night [B] Train, _ _ _ a _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ very basic _ chord progression, it's just a G. _
Well I've been working on the night train, drinking coffee, [E] taking C, cocaine.
I'm [F#] out here on my night train, _ trying to get us quickly [B] home.
_ _ That's it, that's your song [E] basically.
_ At some point it'll go_ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G#m] _ But that's just a C, [E] G, [F#] C, D. _ _ _ _ _
[C#] And a little walk down_ _ _ _
So just try and [F#] follow it.
[Em] _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
Right, _ _ _ so, the intro I guess.
The intro is a D. _ _ _ _
_ But the way that I finger the D looks very bizarre.
[G#m] It's not really.
I'm just keeping my middle finger as a G on the [B] bass,
which doesn't actually come into play until you fall in for the G.
The entire intro is played in D.
_ [G#m] _ [B] So the intro, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ the reason I keep my finger there is just so I'm ready for it,
I'm ready as soon as I want to fall in.
[F#] _ _
_ [C#] So, I made some notes here, I can't remember the names of [G] strings.
_ _ _ [F#] But the intro_
_ _ [F#m] Your G shape, _ [B] _
with your middle [F#] finger on the bass, is going to [G] be [F#] an open D. _ _ _ _ _
[N] After the open D, you hammer on, second fret D.
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ And then it's an [F#] open G. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] Oh yeah, just, unless anyone's not [D] used to fingerpicking, I don't know [B] how other people do it. _
_ But I [F#] tend to use my thumb [B] for all of my bass strings.
[G#] _ _ _ _ And then [G#m] I use my index finger _ for the G.
[C#] _ _ My middle finger for the [F#] V.
_ And my ring finger for the E.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I don't know, other people just use two [Em] fingers, I use three.
It's, I guess, whatever comes naturally to [E] _ yourself when you do it.
[F#] _ _ _
[C#] So, that intro.
[B] _ _ We've got open D, hammer [G#m] on, open G. _
_ [E] From there, we're going to then hammer on a G on the second.
[F#] _ _ _ We're [Em] not actually hammering on. _
_ _ _ _ [G#] Open, hammer. _
_ [F#] _ _ Open, [B] hammer, open. _
_ [G#] Second fret.
_ [F#] And then this, at this point, we're actually going to play on the next one. _ _
_ _ _ The G and the B [Bm] together.
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ As we hammer on to the fourth fret on the G string with [B] our little finger.
It doesn't work every time, your little finger's pretty shit, really, as a digit.
So, [N] sometimes it works, sometimes it'll mute the strings around it, sometimes you miss it [G#m] completely.
You just got to hope for the best, really, when you go.
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ So, open, hammer. _ _
Open.
_ _ [C#] Second fret.
And [B] then the G and the B together, for the hammer on. _ _
_ _ And then, just the second and third fret again, the same shape.
_ Basically take your little finger off.
_ _ _ Index finger off.
_ _ Still plucking the G. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then, second fret [F#] on the G.
_ [B] _ _
_ And that ends it.
So, all together, it should _ sound_
[F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _straight
into your song.
Just in case anyone's thinking, that doesn't [E] sound like Amos Lee's version.
Yeah, because [Bm] I don't know how Amos Lee does his version.
[G#] I don't [B] know.
His is more_
_ _ _ It's really, really_
[F#] I don't know how he does it.
It's very fast, it's very smooth, it seems [G#] effortless.
_ _ [B] My fingers_
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ Yeah, I don't know how Amos_
_ That's why I do mine, is you want to follow that one.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ Right, we'll pull in a bit [C#] closer for [B] this, because there's no point_
[F#] _ _ There's no point you watching [F] a left-handed [G#] _ _ interesting throughout this video, so_
I'll pull [E] the chair in. _
[G] _ _ _ I'll have a look and see. _
_ [G#] My hand is doing_
[B] _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] _ _ [G#] Right, the main thing with_
[B] _
_kind
of [G#] country blues picking_
[F#] _ _is
your pulse.
If you don't have this down already_
_ I've been playing guitar [E]
for_
_like
two years now.
_ [N] I've only just figured out how to do the pulse.
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ Which, that's all it is.
_ _ _ _ _ Sounds really [E] easy.
_ Into the [F#] C_ _
_ D_
Back to [B] G. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] Looks really easy.
If you [E] haven't done that before_
If you do a bit of [F#] fingerpicking, _ _ but_
You're just [G] used to