Chords for Scotch And Soda - Guitar Lesson Preview
Tempo:
59.05 bpm
Chords used:
D
F
C
G
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Bb] [D]
[G] [F]
[Em] [D] [C] [A]
[D] [G] [E]
[N] This is a fascinating tune, Scotch and Soda, made famous in 1957, 58, on the first album
by the Kingston Trio.
The song actually goes back further than that, because Dave Gard, one of the members, happened
to hear it playing on his girlfriend's parents' record player, I guess, back in the day.
Girlfriend happened to be Tom Seaver's sister.
This is all Wikipedia.
Fascinating stuff.
Had to look this up when I was getting around to doing this song.
So, anyway, they never did track down who it originally was done by, but
So Dave Gard is credited with it.
And this and a few other things kind of led to him not being with the Kingston Trio for too long.
They kind of had a little falling out a couple years later, by about 1961, I think.
And replaced with another
Well, somebody that went on to have a great solo career as well, Jon Stewart.
And I don't think I've done any Jon Stewart songs yet.
California Bloodlines, though.
Pirates of Ah!
Stone County Road.
Okay, but I've got to break out my Jon Stewart albums and listen to them again.
Now that I'm on a Kingston Trio path, we might be getting to a few more of those things.
But the song can be done lots of different ways.
And we're going to take a look at a fairly easy way of playing it.
We need a couple of barre chords in here, but we're going to keep it fairly simple and
talk about the way that these guys did it originally.
Now the studio recording had a guitar and bass, and that changed some of the chords
a little bit, because if you listen to the final concert album, we have a few
The guitar is more prominent, and you can hear the
This was, of course, Nick, Bob, and Jon from that particular album.
But anyway, so we're going to talk about the unusual chords that happened in the beginning,
and just basic strumming.
There's nothing fancy going on here.
And it really is just kind of a cycle of secondary dominant chords.
So we will have a couple little theory tips coming up as we go through this.
So anyway, one way or another, this is going to be a [C] short lesson [F] on playing through Scotch
and Soda the way we heard the Kingston Trio do it.
[Ab] Well, that was the first part of the lesson I put together on Scotch and Soda.
I saw that on one hand it's very simple, but there's some really kind of cool things going
on with it.
We talk about the chords, [B] strumming.
It's real simple, just strumming in swing time.
And I'm particularly going to break down the little opening that is kind of unusual.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, it's available as part of the Target [Ab] program
at Totally Guitars, where we have hundreds and hundreds [A] of songs.
So I really encourage you to check that out, especially if you want to learn more of this.
Not too many other Kingston Trio songs just yet.
Most of them are pretty basic, but this one's really fun.
And then we have a lot of free lessons, too, to kind of get your roll on.
So if you're a beginner and want to try out some of those, there's a complete free course
to get you [N] started.
There's all kinds of stuff on strumming and 50 or 60 songs to sort of get you rolling
if you are at that stage.
But if you're a little more advanced, you definitely should check out our Target program.
Lots of songs are really well broken down and explained, I hope.
[C] So that's
Anyway, the [F] lesson is available now at Totally Guitars.
Come visit us when you can.
[G] [F]
[Em] [D] [C] [A]
[D] [G] [E]
[N] This is a fascinating tune, Scotch and Soda, made famous in 1957, 58, on the first album
by the Kingston Trio.
The song actually goes back further than that, because Dave Gard, one of the members, happened
to hear it playing on his girlfriend's parents' record player, I guess, back in the day.
Girlfriend happened to be Tom Seaver's sister.
This is all Wikipedia.
Fascinating stuff.
Had to look this up when I was getting around to doing this song.
So, anyway, they never did track down who it originally was done by, but
So Dave Gard is credited with it.
And this and a few other things kind of led to him not being with the Kingston Trio for too long.
They kind of had a little falling out a couple years later, by about 1961, I think.
And replaced with another
Well, somebody that went on to have a great solo career as well, Jon Stewart.
And I don't think I've done any Jon Stewart songs yet.
California Bloodlines, though.
Pirates of Ah!
Stone County Road.
Okay, but I've got to break out my Jon Stewart albums and listen to them again.
Now that I'm on a Kingston Trio path, we might be getting to a few more of those things.
But the song can be done lots of different ways.
And we're going to take a look at a fairly easy way of playing it.
We need a couple of barre chords in here, but we're going to keep it fairly simple and
talk about the way that these guys did it originally.
Now the studio recording had a guitar and bass, and that changed some of the chords
a little bit, because if you listen to the final concert album, we have a few
The guitar is more prominent, and you can hear the
This was, of course, Nick, Bob, and Jon from that particular album.
But anyway, so we're going to talk about the unusual chords that happened in the beginning,
and just basic strumming.
There's nothing fancy going on here.
And it really is just kind of a cycle of secondary dominant chords.
So we will have a couple little theory tips coming up as we go through this.
So anyway, one way or another, this is going to be a [C] short lesson [F] on playing through Scotch
and Soda the way we heard the Kingston Trio do it.
[Ab] Well, that was the first part of the lesson I put together on Scotch and Soda.
I saw that on one hand it's very simple, but there's some really kind of cool things going
on with it.
We talk about the chords, [B] strumming.
It's real simple, just strumming in swing time.
And I'm particularly going to break down the little opening that is kind of unusual.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, it's available as part of the Target [Ab] program
at Totally Guitars, where we have hundreds and hundreds [A] of songs.
So I really encourage you to check that out, especially if you want to learn more of this.
Not too many other Kingston Trio songs just yet.
Most of them are pretty basic, but this one's really fun.
And then we have a lot of free lessons, too, to kind of get your roll on.
So if you're a beginner and want to try out some of those, there's a complete free course
to get you [N] started.
There's all kinds of stuff on strumming and 50 or 60 songs to sort of get you rolling
if you are at that stage.
But if you're a little more advanced, you definitely should check out our Target program.
Lots of songs are really well broken down and explained, I hope.
[C] So that's
Anyway, the [F] lesson is available now at Totally Guitars.
Come visit us when you can.
Key:
D
F
C
G
A
D
F
C
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] This is a fascinating tune, Scotch and Soda, made famous in 1957, 58, on the first album
by the Kingston Trio.
The song actually goes back further than that, because Dave Gard, one of the members, happened
to hear it playing on his girlfriend's parents' record player, I guess, back in the day. _
Girlfriend happened to be Tom Seaver's sister.
This is all Wikipedia.
Fascinating stuff.
Had to look this up when I was getting around to doing this song.
So, anyway, they never did track down who it originally was done by, but_
So Dave Gard is credited with it.
And this and a few other things kind of led to him not being with the Kingston Trio for too long.
They kind of had a little falling out a couple years later, by about 1961, I think.
And replaced with another_
Well, somebody that went on to have a great solo career as well, Jon Stewart.
And I don't think I've done any Jon Stewart songs yet.
California Bloodlines, though.
Pirates of_ Ah!
Stone County Road.
Okay, but I've got to break out my Jon Stewart albums and listen to them again.
Now that I'm on a Kingston Trio path, we might be getting to a few more of those things.
But the song can be done lots of different ways.
And we're going to take a look at a fairly easy way of playing it.
We need a couple of barre chords in here, but we're going to keep it fairly simple and
talk about the way that these guys did it originally.
Now the studio recording had a guitar and bass, and that changed some of the chords
a little bit, because if you listen to the final concert album, we have a few_
The guitar is more prominent, and you can hear the_
This was, of course, Nick, Bob, and Jon from that particular album.
But anyway, so we're going to talk about the unusual chords that happened in the beginning,
and just basic strumming.
There's nothing fancy going on here.
And it really is just kind of a cycle of secondary dominant chords.
So we will have a couple little theory tips coming up as we go through this.
So anyway, one way or another, this is going to be a [C] short lesson [F] on playing through Scotch
and Soda the way we heard the Kingston Trio do it.
_ [Ab] Well, that was the first part of the lesson I put together on Scotch and Soda.
I saw that on one hand it's very simple, but there's some really kind of cool things going
on with it.
We talk about the chords, [B] strumming.
It's real simple, just strumming in swing time.
And I'm particularly going to break down the little opening that is kind of unusual.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, it's available as part of the Target [Ab] program
at Totally Guitars, where we have hundreds and hundreds [A] of songs.
So I really encourage you to check that out, especially if you want to learn more of this.
Not too many other Kingston Trio songs just yet.
Most of them are pretty basic, but this one's really fun.
And then we have a lot of free lessons, too, to kind of get your roll on.
So if you're a beginner and want to try out some of those, there's a complete free course
to get you [N] started.
There's all kinds of stuff on strumming and 50 or 60 songs to sort of get you rolling
if you are at that stage.
But if you're a little more advanced, you definitely should check out our Target program.
Lots of songs are really well broken down and explained, I hope.
[C] So that's_
Anyway, the [F] lesson is available now at Totally Guitars.
Come visit us when you can. _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] This is a fascinating tune, Scotch and Soda, made famous in 1957, 58, on the first album
by the Kingston Trio.
The song actually goes back further than that, because Dave Gard, one of the members, happened
to hear it playing on his girlfriend's parents' record player, I guess, back in the day. _
Girlfriend happened to be Tom Seaver's sister.
This is all Wikipedia.
Fascinating stuff.
Had to look this up when I was getting around to doing this song.
So, anyway, they never did track down who it originally was done by, but_
So Dave Gard is credited with it.
And this and a few other things kind of led to him not being with the Kingston Trio for too long.
They kind of had a little falling out a couple years later, by about 1961, I think.
And replaced with another_
Well, somebody that went on to have a great solo career as well, Jon Stewart.
And I don't think I've done any Jon Stewart songs yet.
California Bloodlines, though.
Pirates of_ Ah!
Stone County Road.
Okay, but I've got to break out my Jon Stewart albums and listen to them again.
Now that I'm on a Kingston Trio path, we might be getting to a few more of those things.
But the song can be done lots of different ways.
And we're going to take a look at a fairly easy way of playing it.
We need a couple of barre chords in here, but we're going to keep it fairly simple and
talk about the way that these guys did it originally.
Now the studio recording had a guitar and bass, and that changed some of the chords
a little bit, because if you listen to the final concert album, we have a few_
The guitar is more prominent, and you can hear the_
This was, of course, Nick, Bob, and Jon from that particular album.
But anyway, so we're going to talk about the unusual chords that happened in the beginning,
and just basic strumming.
There's nothing fancy going on here.
And it really is just kind of a cycle of secondary dominant chords.
So we will have a couple little theory tips coming up as we go through this.
So anyway, one way or another, this is going to be a [C] short lesson [F] on playing through Scotch
and Soda the way we heard the Kingston Trio do it.
_ [Ab] Well, that was the first part of the lesson I put together on Scotch and Soda.
I saw that on one hand it's very simple, but there's some really kind of cool things going
on with it.
We talk about the chords, [B] strumming.
It's real simple, just strumming in swing time.
And I'm particularly going to break down the little opening that is kind of unusual.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, it's available as part of the Target [Ab] program
at Totally Guitars, where we have hundreds and hundreds [A] of songs.
So I really encourage you to check that out, especially if you want to learn more of this.
Not too many other Kingston Trio songs just yet.
Most of them are pretty basic, but this one's really fun.
And then we have a lot of free lessons, too, to kind of get your roll on.
So if you're a beginner and want to try out some of those, there's a complete free course
to get you [N] started.
There's all kinds of stuff on strumming and 50 or 60 songs to sort of get you rolling
if you are at that stage.
But if you're a little more advanced, you definitely should check out our Target program.
Lots of songs are really well broken down and explained, I hope.
[C] So that's_
Anyway, the [F] lesson is available now at Totally Guitars.
Come visit us when you can. _