I was listening to "Sometimes It Be That Way" by Jewel. The chords are simple, but I can't make out the strumming pattern she's using. I understand the importance of not being obsessed with one pattern, but I can't figure out anything that's even close. It sounds like it's in 6/8, and the intro sounds slightly different from the rest of the song. Somehow everything I try sounds hopelessly robotic. Can anyone please offer me some insight into what she's doing?
Here are the chords: http://www.guitaretab.com/j/jewel/9342.html
Thanks a million!
Have you watched her play it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTyiUq2u4hY
Sometimes that helps.
I wrapped a newspaper ’round my head
So I looked like I was deep
Just for reference, House of the Rising Sun, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall are all 6/8, or 3/4 depending on the chords in the measure, among a whole lot of other songs. A 6/8 pattern is most easily described as a "waltz" pattern... 1 23 1 23. The 1 beat gets the accent, with whatever pattern of down/up strokes you desire. It could be d ud d ud or d dd d dd, etc.
It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question.
if you play an oom pah pah pattern with straight downstrokes, and then keep that going but play the upstrokes between the beats, there it is.
