Heya All,
Never thought I'd see the day I'd be interested in Country, but may God help me I have a yearning
to play "Country Roads" and "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (I'd never say this to anyone who knows
me in person, LOL!) I found tabs for each on the net, but I'm at a loss for the strum and fingerpicking patterns.
Anyone out there know either? A Google search just lead me to for sale songbooks--I'd rather try before I buy. :P
Cheers,
Arf.
Namaste.
Try the Easy Songs forum, they have 'Country Roads' covered
to start try a bass and strum approach: i.e. if you play an A chord pick the bass note, then strum the rest of the chord, then pick the bass note and athen strum again...
Matteo
Thanks guys...I'll explore that forum.
Matteo, I noticed you had posted Country Roads and made the following comments:
"Strummin pattern: I guess that the real pattern is something like B D du du for each half measure (sounding tun_ta_, tata, tata), but I played with different patterns too and it also works fine with the classic bb ddu (half measure). The simplest version could also be played with B D B D for every measure (of course better alternating the bass notes each time).
"
I assume B means play the base note like you mentioned, but what is "du"?
Cheers,
Arf.
Namaste.
I assume B means play the base note like you mentioned, but what is "du"?
Cheers,
Arf.
Down Up.
--vink
"Life is either an adventure or nothing" -- Helen Keller
Hey Vink,
Guess I read too much into it--thought the caps indicated strum direction and the lower case du without a space inbetween
meant something special. :wink:
-Arf.
Namaste.
hi arf,
when I post a pattern i usually write it in term of beats, sometimes dividing each beat from another with a slash. so if a write something like
d/du/u/du
it means
beat 1: play a single downstroke
beat 2: play a downstroke followed by an upstroke
beat 3: play just an upstroke (so you have to miss the downstroke)
beat 4: play a downstroke followed by an upstroke
as you correctly said B or b means to play a bass note instead of a full chord, while if you say something like dudu it means to play four sixteen notes for that beat
Cheers
Matteo
Matteo,
Thanks for clearing that up. It should keep me out of deep "dudu". Get it?
LOL, sometimes I just slay myself!
Cheers,
Arf.
Namaste.
