Chords for Jimmie Rodgers Style Country Strumming & Fill Riffs - Waiting for a Train - Easy Guitar Lesson

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_ _ How's it going?
Devin here again with CountryGuitarOnline.com, and in today's lesson, we're going to work
on some Jimmy Rogers-style rhythm guitar.
We'll start out taking a look at a strumming pattern that has a hint [N] of Texas swing to it.
It's got kind of a boom-chuck, boom-chuck, boom-chuck, boom-chuck type of feel.
Then I'll give y'all some really good tips on how to make that strumming pattern sound
right, and we'll practice this strumming pattern over some chord progressions in the
style of Jimmy Rogers.
At the same time, I'll show y'all some bassline walks that you can add to these chord progressions
to make them sound a little fancier.
Also going to show y'all a couple of guitar riffs in the style of Jimmy Rogers.
This is probably my favorite part of the lesson.
These guitar riffs, they'll bring in some of that sound of Jimmy Rogers yodeling.
You know, yodel-ay-hee-hoo type of stuff.
I'm not a very good yodeler, so I like to play this sound [G] on my acoustic guitar to capture
the overall [Bb] sound of Jimmy Rogers.
Let's go ahead and get to it, [Em] and we'll take a look at this strumming pattern first, [Ab] and
we'll go from there.
_ _ _ Like I mentioned earlier, the [F] main strumming pattern that we'll use today has kind [Ab] of a
Texas swing feel to it.
Here's a quick example of what we're [Bb] working towards.
It's [C]
all around the water [F] tank, waiting for a [C] train.
A thousand [C] miles away from home, [D] sleeping in the rain. _
[G] _ [C] I walked up to the break men's_
So you get the [F] idea here.
[C] Boom chuck, boom chuck, boom chuck, boom chuck.
[N] So let's practice this boom chuck, [B] Jimmy Rogers style strumming, and practice it over the
C7 chord [C] for starters. _ _
After we practice the strumming over the [Gb] C7 chord for a little bit, and after I give y'all
some good strumming [Ab] tips, then I'll show y'all a chord progression that you can use for practicing this strumming.
This chord [D] progression is going to be borrowed from Jimmy Rogers' famous [N] song, Waiting for a Train.
I'll also show y'all a nice little [Eb] intro riff and those guitar riffs that have [Db] the yodeling,
and then we'll piece everything together so you can practice along with [Bb] Waiting for a Train.
But for now, let's practice this [C] strumming over the C7 chord.
You're going to focus on that right hand right now, the [Bb] strumming hand.
We're doing all down strokes for [Ab] this, and a pretty simple pattern with the right hand.
It's pick, strum, pick, [Eb] strum, pick, strum, pick, strum.
[C] It's over and over.
Pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum,
pick, strum.
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[C] If you can tell there too, we're also using an alternating bass line for those bass line picks.
Pick, pick, pick, [E] pick.
Still holding the C7 chord.
And for the C7 [Eb] chord, we'll alternate between [C] the fifth [B] string, fourth string, fifth string,
fourth string.
Then you just add the down strums in between those bass line notes.
Pick, strum, [C] pick, strum, pick, strum, pick, strum.
_ _ [Db] The alternating bass line picks will [Bb] change a little bit depending on the chord we're
playing, [D] and I'll show you all the bass line notes a little bit here later once we start changing chords.
But for now, [C] let's just stick to the C7 chord.
And real quick, let's also talk [Gb] about where to position your [Ab] strumming hand over the strings
when you're doing this boom-chuck strumming.
So if you take a look at Jimmy Rogers when he's [C] doing this, there's some YouTube videos
out there, you can see him [Ab] doing this boom-chuck strumming.
[C] He does it way up here, almost over the fretboard even, as opposed to down here near the saddle.
Near the saddle, you get a little bit more of a twangy sound.
Up here where he's doing it, it's a little [B] smoother sound.
I don't like to do it quite as far up as he does.
I like to do my [C] boom-chuck [Ab] strumming right here, still over the sound hole, [C] but kind
of closer towards the fretboard.
So [B] experiment with the positioning here a little bit on your own.
See what you think [Bb] sounds good and find that sweet spot for your guitar.
[C] Down here near [F] the saddle, this is where [Eb] you get that twangy sound.
This is where I do most of my flat-picking lead guitar licks.
A _ _ [G] _ _ little twangier sound, that [Ab] sound cuts through a mix really well for lead [C] guitar.
But for this boom-chuck stuff right here, it sounds a [Db] lot smoother to do it closer to the fretboard.
So there's one little tip for how to get [Bb] this Texas swing, boom-chuck, boom [G]-chuck, get that
strumming sounding right.
And one other tip for this particular song, [N] I want to talk about is the left hand, or
whatever hand you're using to fret the chord.
[C]
So when we're doing this boom-chuck strumming, [N] there are some different ways to do it.
It all depends on the song that you're playing and how you want to do this.
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