Chords for WATERMELON LEO KOTTKE - lesson #1.MOD

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Welcome to Leo Kaki Watermelon lesson 1.
_ [N] We're in an open detuning.
I'm going to go over
the two basic picking [B] patterns that I believe he uses for this song.
_ _ _ Picking pattern number 1.
_ [A] _ It's _ the 5th string, thumb, _ _ _ then you're going to play your 3rd
_ string with [F#m] your index, _ _ then you're going to drop down with your [B] thumb and play the
4th string, _ _ and then you're going to use your middle finger for the 1st string.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ Up [F#m] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ here _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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I've got the chord for the 1st song, [Am] which again we're in open [Em] D, but I'm pressing
down the 5th [B] string, [N] 3rd fret, and the 3rd string, 3rd fret, with my middle finger on
top and my ring finger down here.
Hard to see, I'm sorry about that.
_ That's the chord
I've got. _
This is the pattern [B] I'm doing.
_ [A] _ [F#m] 5, 3, [B] 4, [F#m] 1, 5, [B] 3, 4, 1, 5, 3, 4.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
What I did was
change chords, not patterns. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ Now I did change to all open strings, I'm not chording anything,
I'm just playing an open D chord, and I changed my pattern. _ _ _
So instead of that, instead of
doing the 5, 3, 4, 1, I'm going up to the 6th string with the thumb, _ _ _ then I'm hitting
my 3rd string again with the index, _ and then I'm doing my 4 _ with the thumb, _ and then the
1st string with the middle finger. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So all I did was I dropped down a string.
Same picking
pattern, but I went from the 5th string to the 6th string.
So here I am [F#m] with my original.
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm going 6, _ 4, _ _ _ actually I'm doing 6, _ _ index on the 3rd, _ 4th string, thumb, _ and then the
1st string middle. _ _ _ _ _
So I'm going to do these two patterns, I'll do them open, [N] we'll put
this little piece of paper in here and maybe you'll be able to visualize that a little
bit better. _
_ So [F#] _ [B] I'm _ doing the 5, 3, 4, 1.
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_ _ Then the other pattern, I'm doing just the
6, _ _ 3, 4, 1. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Let's see if I can keep this here. _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
So I'm going 6, 3, 4, 1.
So I'm going 6, 3,
_ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _