Chords for Three Girl Rhumba by Wire | Guitar Lesson

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Hello I'm Adrian and I'm back with some more wire and today I'm going to be looking at the song
Three Girl Rumba which I suppose is one of wire's best known tracks and for people of my generation
it's probably better known as Connection by Elastica but that was all apparently settled
so I'm going to say no more about that.
It's a great song, great riff, nice and easy to play.
Let me show you how.
Three Girl Rumba then.
It's a great song all over in one minute 23 seconds.
I think it's a pretty easy song to play.
It's beginner friendly if you know your basic bar
chord shapes.
If you're not so sure on your basic bar chord shapes I have done a couple of
detailed videos and you might like to check out those before attempting to play this song.
Let's start with the [B] main riff.
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[A] _ [B] _ _ Absolutely classic riff this one and it's just made up of two bar
chords.
In fact all of the chords in this song are E form bar chords and there's a bit of open E
in there as well.
So we're starting off with this B major bar chord sixth string root up at the
seventh fret _ _ _ and then we're [A] going down to an A major bar chord two [B] frets lower and we're playing
the riff like this.
We've basically got B [A] [B] A B B B [A] [B] A B E _
[A] _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ [B] _ _ _
and you're going to want to focus your pick
attack on the lower strings in those chords.
You're not really hearing _ the higher jangly notes in this
riff so I'm focusing on the lowest three or four strings in those chords [A] _ [B] and _ the other thing to try
and do here is to mute some of those chords so that B chords in particular are played quite short
and staccato.
So a couple of ways you can achieve that.
One of them is to just release pressure with
your left hand once you've played the chord _ and the other is just to touch the strings with your
picking hand to damp them a little bit and I'm probably doing a combination of those two things.
So you play the B mute [Am] and you've got [B] A B mute B mute and that's what's going to make this riff
sound really good.
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_ So [E] I'm forever saying this to people but it's harder than you might think
sometimes to do the easy stuff and it's important to try and do the easy stuff really well and
sometimes the easy stuff is harder than the hard stuff if that makes any sense.
I guess what I'm
trying to say is just make sure this riff is sounding as good as you can possibly make it so
good rhythm get the muting right get the pick attack right and it should sound really good.
That's the main riff we've just got a couple of other sections in the song about halfway through
the song we go down to an open E chord and _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[E] then up to an F sharp bar chord at the second fret and
a little tip here if you're playing an open E chord and the rest of the song consists of E form
bar chords then you might like to fret your open E chord like this so with your third fourth and
second fingers leaving your first finger free because that may then makes the [F#] transition
_ [A] _ _ [E] into the bar chords that bit easier so I recommend you play the E chord like this we've got a bar's
worth of E _ _ _ and you're really just letting that chord ring for most of the bar I've got one two
_ three four up to the second fret an F [F#] sharp _ again playing that chord quite long one two three [G#m] four
then we've got A chord at the fifth [A] fret and _ we've got a little bit of an eighth note build on that
chord one and two and three and four _ [B] back to the main riff just briefly _
[A] [B] then _ [E] we're back down to E
long E _ [F#] F sharp again and this time we go to the [E] fourth fret and it's [G#] a G sharp major chord
_ _ _ _ _ we're just counting one and two and three and four and stop the impossible [B] then we're back to
the main riff again [A] _ [B] _ _ _
[A] _ [B] _ _ all of this song I think played with down strokes you can just really dig
in with those down strokes for this song one more bit to the song and that's at the very end of the
song again it's all made up of these bar chord shapes we're starting with an open [E] E
_ a bar's worth of [F#] that F sharp at the second fret _ [G] _
G at the third fret [A] _ A at the fifth fret
and [B] finally B _ _ _ _ stop that's it for today enjoy learning three girl rumba tab will be up on my
patreon page or on my website if I'm feeling generous thank you for watching I'll see you
again next time bye
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