Chords for Johnny Cash - Hurt - Easy Beginner Guitar Lesson - Easy Acoustic Song

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Hey, what's up?
Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com.
This [N] is Johnny Cash, Hurt, _ written by Trent Reznor and done masterfully by the man in black.
It's a great beginner tune.
It's pretty moody.
It's kind of dark, but another cool tune with some easy chords.
Let's get to it.
Here's the first chord we need is A minor. _
[Am] Next _ _ _ chord is C.
[C] _ _ _ Then we [D] need D. _
_ Those are the chords of the verse.
Let's see here, what else do we need?
[G] We're going to need a G that's going to be in the chorus.
Here's what it looks like.
You can play it this way with those fingers.
_ Also, you can play it with your ring finger starting there, middle finger there, and pinky right there.
You can do it that way.
We're going to [C] need the dreaded F chord.
There's a bunch of different ways to play it, but I typically [F] play it like this.
_ The X's mean that those [N] are notes that you don't want to play.
A lot of people ask, how can I avoid those notes?
It's really hard.
What I think you should do is just fight through it.
If it sounds a little crappy at first, the more you play, the more I find that that stuff works out.
Don't get too meticulous when you're learning the chord.
[F] Just get in there.
[C#] Get some ugly stuff in there.
Just keep doing [C] it and it'll get better.
I think [A] that's the best way is to just keep plugging away.
Even if it doesn't sound perfect, just repetitions and it will get better.
Let's talk [C#m] about the verse first.
When I take this A minor chord, [A]
I think the coolest way to do it, you could go [E] _ pick those
[G] first two notes, the A string [Am] and the D string, and go.
_ Then strum the chord. _
_ _ _ Then when we go to the [C] C chord, same thing.
_ Then when we go to the D chord, you can do the same thing, but you have to start [D] the
pick on the D string.
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_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] You can also just go.
_ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ Eventually, it goes to a G for four counts.
You could go, _ _ _ which is just one, two, three, four.
I could subdivide that and go one and two and three and four and, or one and two, three and four.
It's up to you, but it's for four counts.
Let's go one, two, three, four.
[A#] From the A minor part right [Am] before it.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Here's the chorus.
I'm going to just count along.
From that G chord for four counts, _ _ we're going to go [B] to A minor for four [Am] counts, _ _ _ and then
F for four [F] counts, _ _
_ [C] C, _ _ _ [G] and G.
_ _ _ Now we go back to A minor, [Am] _ _
_ _ [F] F for four counts, _ [C] C for four counts, _ [G] G for four counts. _ _
_ Now it changes it up a little bit.
It goes back to A minor and [Am] F again. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ Now it skips the C [G] and just goes G for eight counts. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It goes back to [Am] A minor again, _ _ [F] F, and now G just for [G] four.
One, two, three, [Am] four, into the verse.
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ [C] I'm going to go to the chorus right after this [G] one.
[D] _ [G] _
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[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ Again, [Am] same thing. _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Am] Now it changes a little bit.
A minor to F.
[F] _ _ Now G for [G] eight counts.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
[Am] A minor again. _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
[B] While I was listening to something cool you could try that adds some of the flavor I heard
in the song _ was on that chorus.
A minor.
When he does the F and the C, I'm hearing that note there.
It might be from the piano or a second guitar, but you could actually put your pinky there
while you play the F chord and while you play the C chord.
Then you could use these fingers for the G chord.
Now you have a little [Am] droning sound right there.
It sounds like this. _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
There's a nice little extra flavor that you [Am] can add. _ _
_ Nice little easy tune for you.
Hope you dug it. _