Chords for Stuck In The Middle With You - Guitar Lesson Preview
Tempo:
128.35 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
Am
Bb
Gm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I put together a lesson recently at Totally Guitars on Stuck in the Middle with You, Steelers
Wheel, Jerry Rafferty and Joe Egan.
And the lesson is something I like to do pretty, once in a while, which is put together as
an ear training lesson.
So I play through it with my hand, you know, blocked up and stuff so you can listen to
what's going on.
And interesting things about this song are there are a couple of different guitar parts
and there are some kind of unusual things that make them go together even though they
seem like they shouldn't.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, here are a couple of excerpts from it, but
this is the kind of stuff we do at Totally Guitars as part of our Target program, which
is our monthly subscription program.
And there are hundreds and hundreds of songs up there now like this.
There are also a lot of songs in our free section, 60 or so, 60 or 70, that are a little
simpler, although this song is really easy.
It's just a simple strumming song.
Anyway, here are a couple of clips from the lesson on Stuck in the Middle with You.
[D]
[Am] [D]
Hey, we're [N] going to take a look at a really fun and really easy song.
This is, of course, Stealer's Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You.
And I'm going to play through it first and just let you try to listen to it and see what's
happening and talk about a couple of different guitar parts.
Now Stealer's Wheel was a short-lived band in the early 70s.
Their first album, Stealer's Wheel, came out in 1972 and it was basically the duo of Jerry
Rafferty and Joe Egan, school buddies from Scotland.
And they went through a lot of different lineup changes.
By the time the song became a hit, Jerry had left the band and was persuaded to come back.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into the whole history of Stealer's Wheel, but then we lost
Jerry a few years ago.
Of course, he had some other pretty cool hits later on, right down the line in Baker Street.
But this tune is just a fun, goofy tune.
I mean, it's almost a Dylan parody of slightly off-kilter singing, very simple chord progression.
But there were a couple of different guitars doing different [Bb] things that really contributed
[Gm] to the overall sound.
And so that's what I'm going to talk about as far as the lesson goes.
That short little intro you maybe have totally forgotten.
You probably have to listen to the song again [Bb] and say, oh yeah, now I remember.
It opened up with this cool little thing.
And we'll talk about that as well, too.
[N] But coming up in the next segment, I will just play through the two different guitar
parts and you can hear what's
see if you can decipher what's happening.
Taking a look at Stuck in the Middle with You.
Well, here's what we have one guitar [D] doing.
First,
[G]
[D]
[A]
[C] [G] [D] finding that chord, find the bass note.
And then we had a chord
there were a couple of chords outside the key.
Now, this is mostly following a 12-bar blues progression.
[Am]
[G] Okay, there we have the other chord.
Now, we have another guitar playing it slightly differently.
[D]
Okay, the one chord that was [Am] odd at the end, there it was again.
[G] Now this all [N] works out to be
to really be the same thing happening in a couple of different ways.
So we'll break that down in a second, or in the next segment, we'll talk about what you
just heard right there.
But hopefully you got a little grip on what one guitar was doing and what the other guitar
was [G] doing and how those possibly worked out together.
Wheel, Jerry Rafferty and Joe Egan.
And the lesson is something I like to do pretty, once in a while, which is put together as
an ear training lesson.
So I play through it with my hand, you know, blocked up and stuff so you can listen to
what's going on.
And interesting things about this song are there are a couple of different guitar parts
and there are some kind of unusual things that make them go together even though they
seem like they shouldn't.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, here are a couple of excerpts from it, but
this is the kind of stuff we do at Totally Guitars as part of our Target program, which
is our monthly subscription program.
And there are hundreds and hundreds of songs up there now like this.
There are also a lot of songs in our free section, 60 or so, 60 or 70, that are a little
simpler, although this song is really easy.
It's just a simple strumming song.
Anyway, here are a couple of clips from the lesson on Stuck in the Middle with You.
[D]
[Am] [D]
Hey, we're [N] going to take a look at a really fun and really easy song.
This is, of course, Stealer's Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You.
And I'm going to play through it first and just let you try to listen to it and see what's
happening and talk about a couple of different guitar parts.
Now Stealer's Wheel was a short-lived band in the early 70s.
Their first album, Stealer's Wheel, came out in 1972 and it was basically the duo of Jerry
Rafferty and Joe Egan, school buddies from Scotland.
And they went through a lot of different lineup changes.
By the time the song became a hit, Jerry had left the band and was persuaded to come back.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into the whole history of Stealer's Wheel, but then we lost
Jerry a few years ago.
Of course, he had some other pretty cool hits later on, right down the line in Baker Street.
But this tune is just a fun, goofy tune.
I mean, it's almost a Dylan parody of slightly off-kilter singing, very simple chord progression.
But there were a couple of different guitars doing different [Bb] things that really contributed
[Gm] to the overall sound.
And so that's what I'm going to talk about as far as the lesson goes.
That short little intro you maybe have totally forgotten.
You probably have to listen to the song again [Bb] and say, oh yeah, now I remember.
It opened up with this cool little thing.
And we'll talk about that as well, too.
[N] But coming up in the next segment, I will just play through the two different guitar
parts and you can hear what's
see if you can decipher what's happening.
Taking a look at Stuck in the Middle with You.
Well, here's what we have one guitar [D] doing.
First,
[G]
[D]
[A]
[C] [G] [D] finding that chord, find the bass note.
And then we had a chord
there were a couple of chords outside the key.
Now, this is mostly following a 12-bar blues progression.
[Am]
[G] Okay, there we have the other chord.
Now, we have another guitar playing it slightly differently.
[D]
Okay, the one chord that was [Am] odd at the end, there it was again.
[G] Now this all [N] works out to be
to really be the same thing happening in a couple of different ways.
So we'll break that down in a second, or in the next segment, we'll talk about what you
just heard right there.
But hopefully you got a little grip on what one guitar was doing and what the other guitar
was [G] doing and how those possibly worked out together.
Key:
D
G
Am
Bb
Gm
D
G
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I put together a lesson recently at Totally Guitars on Stuck in the Middle with You, Steelers
Wheel, Jerry Rafferty and Joe Egan.
And the lesson is something I like to do pretty, once in a while, which is put together as
an ear training lesson.
So I play through it with my hand, you know, blocked up and stuff so you can listen to
what's going on.
And interesting things about this song are there are a couple of different guitar parts
and there are some kind of unusual things that make them go together even though they
seem like they shouldn't.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, here are a couple of excerpts from it, but
this is the kind of stuff we do at Totally Guitars as part of our Target program, which
is our monthly subscription program.
And there are hundreds and hundreds of songs up there now like this.
There are also a lot of songs in our free section, 60 or so, 60 or 70, that are a little
simpler, although this song is really easy.
It's just a simple strumming song.
Anyway, here are a couple of clips from the lesson on Stuck in the Middle with You. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hey, we're [N] going to take a look at a really fun and really easy song.
This is, of course, Stealer's Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You.
And I'm going to play through it first and just let you try to listen to it and see what's
happening and talk about a couple of different guitar parts.
Now Stealer's Wheel was a short-lived band in the early 70s.
Their first album, Stealer's Wheel, came out in 1972 and it was basically the duo of Jerry
Rafferty and Joe Egan, school _ buddies from Scotland.
And they went through a lot of different lineup changes.
By the time the song became a hit, Jerry had left the band and was persuaded to come back.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into the whole history of Stealer's Wheel, but then we lost
Jerry a few years ago. _
Of course, he had some other pretty cool hits later on, right down the line in Baker Street.
_ _ But _ this tune is just a fun, goofy tune.
I mean, it's almost a Dylan parody of _ _ slightly off-kilter singing, very simple chord progression.
But there were a couple of different guitars doing different [Bb] things that really contributed
[Gm] to the overall sound.
And so that's what I'm going to talk about as far as the lesson goes.
That short little intro you maybe have totally forgotten.
You probably have to listen to the song again [Bb] and say, oh yeah, now I remember.
It opened up with this cool little thing.
And we'll talk about that as well, too.
[N] But coming up in the next segment, I will just play through the two different guitar
parts and you can hear what's_
see if you can decipher what's happening.
Taking a look at Stuck in the Middle with You. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, here's what we have one guitar [D] doing. _ _ _
_ _ _ First, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] finding that chord, _ find the bass note.
And then we had a chord_
there were a couple of chords outside the key.
Now, this is mostly following a 12-bar blues progression.
[Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Okay, there we have the other chord.
Now, we have another guitar _ _ playing it slightly differently.
_ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, the one chord that was [Am] odd at the end, there it was again. _
_ [G] Now this all [N] works out to be_
to really be the same thing happening in _ a couple of different ways.
So we'll break that down in a second, or in the next segment, we'll talk about what you
just heard right there.
But hopefully you got a little grip on what one guitar was doing and what the other guitar
was [G] doing and how those possibly worked out together. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I put together a lesson recently at Totally Guitars on Stuck in the Middle with You, Steelers
Wheel, Jerry Rafferty and Joe Egan.
And the lesson is something I like to do pretty, once in a while, which is put together as
an ear training lesson.
So I play through it with my hand, you know, blocked up and stuff so you can listen to
what's going on.
And interesting things about this song are there are a couple of different guitar parts
and there are some kind of unusual things that make them go together even though they
seem like they shouldn't.
So if you'd like to check out the lesson, here are a couple of excerpts from it, but
this is the kind of stuff we do at Totally Guitars as part of our Target program, which
is our monthly subscription program.
And there are hundreds and hundreds of songs up there now like this.
There are also a lot of songs in our free section, 60 or so, 60 or 70, that are a little
simpler, although this song is really easy.
It's just a simple strumming song.
Anyway, here are a couple of clips from the lesson on Stuck in the Middle with You. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hey, we're [N] going to take a look at a really fun and really easy song.
This is, of course, Stealer's Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You.
And I'm going to play through it first and just let you try to listen to it and see what's
happening and talk about a couple of different guitar parts.
Now Stealer's Wheel was a short-lived band in the early 70s.
Their first album, Stealer's Wheel, came out in 1972 and it was basically the duo of Jerry
Rafferty and Joe Egan, school _ buddies from Scotland.
And they went through a lot of different lineup changes.
By the time the song became a hit, Jerry had left the band and was persuaded to come back.
Anyway, I'm not going to go into the whole history of Stealer's Wheel, but then we lost
Jerry a few years ago. _
Of course, he had some other pretty cool hits later on, right down the line in Baker Street.
_ _ But _ this tune is just a fun, goofy tune.
I mean, it's almost a Dylan parody of _ _ slightly off-kilter singing, very simple chord progression.
But there were a couple of different guitars doing different [Bb] things that really contributed
[Gm] to the overall sound.
And so that's what I'm going to talk about as far as the lesson goes.
That short little intro you maybe have totally forgotten.
You probably have to listen to the song again [Bb] and say, oh yeah, now I remember.
It opened up with this cool little thing.
And we'll talk about that as well, too.
[N] But coming up in the next segment, I will just play through the two different guitar
parts and you can hear what's_
see if you can decipher what's happening.
Taking a look at Stuck in the Middle with You. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, here's what we have one guitar [D] doing. _ _ _
_ _ _ First, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] finding that chord, _ find the bass note.
And then we had a chord_
there were a couple of chords outside the key.
Now, this is mostly following a 12-bar blues progression.
[Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Okay, there we have the other chord.
Now, we have another guitar _ _ playing it slightly differently.
_ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay, the one chord that was [Am] odd at the end, there it was again. _
_ [G] Now this all [N] works out to be_
to really be the same thing happening in _ a couple of different ways.
So we'll break that down in a second, or in the next segment, we'll talk about what you
just heard right there.
But hopefully you got a little grip on what one guitar was doing and what the other guitar
was [G] doing and how those possibly worked out together. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _