Chords for The Wedding Song - Guitar Lesson Preview

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[Em] _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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The Wedding Song.
Very, kind of mysterious.
[N] That sounded a little bit like it, huh?
Well,
it's a very simple song to play.
And we're going to talk about what Paul Stuckey was
doing in this, through the course of this lesson.
Now, I want to tell you a little bit
about the song.
First, I'm going to show you the secret to what it [Eb] takes to make this song
sound like a record. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ This was done on a 12-string.
[N] This is not a 12-string.
This is an 8-string.
Baritone, as a matter of fact, that belongs to our TG family man, Bart.
And I really want
to thank Bart for loaning me his 8-string when he was here for camp just recently, so
that I could at least get something that would sound close to what happened in this lesson.
Now, what Paul was doing, let me tell you a little bit about the song first, because
Paul was, of course, part of Peter, Paul, and Mary, and they had a string of just, they
were phenomenal in the 60s.
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ [C] And you hear something like this.
_ [F] _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] So, one of the keys to this [N] song
is the finger positions of the chords are really important.
For what key you play it
in, and then he now sings it now, by being up here in the key of C, it really ends up
being a little lower than, well, significantly lower than in E, where he sang it when he
was younger.
Okay, I think that's enough of the background and some of the technical
issues with playing the wedding song.
We will, so I'm mostly going to walk through this in
the 6-string in standard tuning and just talk about the picking pattern and the chord shapes.
There aren't that many, there are a couple different parts of the song.
We have an attachment
that has the chords and the lyrics, a chart, and then I just have the introduction tabbed
out, 12 measures or so, because that picking pattern is very regular throughout the whole
song.
So, very similar to the picking you hear in Landslide, where not too many pinches,
as a matter of fact, almost none, and the 12-string covers a lot of notes.
So, some
of the notes, sometimes we change what we're doing on the 6-string to try to get a note
that was maybe played as one of the doubled octave notes, or an octave note that he played
with his thumb on the 12.
So, that's where we're heading with this.
We'll talk about
the chord, the picking first, the chords, and all the usual stuff in this lesson on
Paul Stuckey's The Wedding Song. _ _
_ _ Let's take a look at the tab first and work our way through the [Gm] intro, and then we're
just going to apply that to the chord progression [Bb] coming up.
So, we're starting with our G,
with the D up on the top, which really ends up being a G5, because we never hear the B
in the melody.
So, all we're hearing [G] is this droning, and we have four measures of
just the basic pattern. _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
Well, we'll end this with playing it the way it sounded in
the key of E-flat, by being tuned way down and capoed up back up to get to E-flat, [Eb] and
as close as I can get with an 8-string. _
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_ _ [Cm] _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
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_ _ Now, _ _ [N] one other thing that I did mean to bring up, and that is, _ if we go this route, capoing
the 6-string to the 5th fret to put us in [C] C, _ _ _ _ [Fm] when he goes to the [F] C chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
we hear [C] a
little bit of a melody.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] [Am] We hear the [C] walk up, the E and the F-sharp, and [D] then when we get
[N] to the C and the bass, the bass becomes the 5th and 3rd [F] strings, _ _
[G] [F] and [C] the melody alternates
back and forth between a high G and an F-sharp at the 3rd and 2nd frets, really the 8th and
[F] 7th.
_ [C] _
So, you'll hear that [N] in the one video that I found of him capoed up the 5th, playing
it again more into the 80s, maybe even later.
Oh, no, it might even be, no, no, it's even
later than that.
So, if you doubt, oh, I should have done this research, but hang with [C] me.
If you're confused about that little part, put a little comment in here, and I will see
what I can do about tabbing it out, but it's just something you just kind of randomly threw
in in the variations of the lapped version.
So, okay, that's it.
Enough of these, too
[G] many guitars, too many capos, and [Gbm] I hope you enjoyed this lesson on the Wedding Song. _ _ _ _ _