Chords for We Used To Know Guitar Lesson Preview - Jethro Tull

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[B] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [N] This is a fascinating chord progression.
This is, of course, we used to know from the early
Jethro Tull album, second album, Stand Up, and it's a very simple eight measure chord
progression done in 6-8 time _ with all kinds of variations that you can add to it.
And
it's, in case it sounds familiar, _ it's nearly identical to the chord progression [Bm] that turned
into, _ _ _
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[N] of course, Hotel California.
_ But this came out a solid 10, _ almost 15 years earlier.
And _ _ what we have in this lesson is a lot of discussion about playing in 6-8 time and the
difference between it and _ 4-4 time and 3-4 time, the two more common times, and then
also how all of these chords are related to the key of E minor and how there can be so
many chords in the key of E minor.
So we talk about the melodic minor scale.
So if
you want to know some of the theory of the stuff, that's all in there.
But if you don't
and you just want to know how to play the song, all you've got to do is print up the
tab and look at it.
Very simple.
You have E [Em] minor, _ _ _ _ _ [B] B7, _ _ _ _ [D] D, _ _
_ _ [A] A, _ _ _ _
[C] _ C, _ _ [G] G, _ _ F sharp [F#] 7, _ _ _ [B] and B7.
_ _ [N] And just keep up a steady 6-8 strumming pattern.
1, 2, and 3, and 4, 5, and 6, and down, down,
up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up.
Two groups of three. _ _ _ _
_ And _ _ real quickly, what makes this
[D#] different than 3-4 time or 3-8 time is that we have only one big [F#] accent among those six beats
and then a smaller one halfway through.
So I talk about all that stuff in the lesson.
The other
thing that happens in the full lesson, which is over at Totally Guitars _ as part of the Target
program there, _ is ways of playing the [Em] chords up the neck as barre chords and [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ turning them
[D#m] into three-string reductions.
[Em] _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ So we talk about how to add a second guitar part to a fairly
standard, well, kind of complicated, but to a long chord progression.
So that's all part of
the lesson there too.
We also have a lot of lessons available, of course hundreds at the
site, but a lot of free lessons too.
And we have our channel here, TG Free Lessons, that shows you
all of the free stuff that's there.
So there's a wealth of information and the love to keep many
people busy for lifetimes with guitar playing.
But if you're interested in some of the really
in [G#]-depth stuff, you've got to come check out the Target [F#] program at totallyguitars.com. But in the
[N] meantime, be sure to check out the free lessons here at YouTube and the links that send you over
to Totally Guitars where we have plenty of free lessons as well.
So hope you get a chance to check
us out soon, and if you're really interested in We Used to Know, it's there now. _ _ _ _
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