Chords for ThreeChordGuitar.com: The Thunder Rolls Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Howdy!
[A] I always wanted to do that.
[Ab] Anyway, this is Mojo from 3chordguitar.com, [Db] being my usual goof.
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The object of today's video is a requested song by Garth Brooks called Thunder Rolls.
_ And it's not an easy song for me to either play or sing, so I hope this is going to go _ _ relatively well.
I didn't plan on doing this one, but as I said, it was requested, so I figured, well, maybe I should.
So here [Dbm] we are.
_ _ The chords [B] we're going to be using today are going to be E minor, _ [Em] _ _ _ which is the [A] same thing as [E] a regular E,
_ except that you lift [B] the index finger [Em] off.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] A [C] C _ and _ [A] _ _ [D] _
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_ _ [G] a G. _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] And that's it.
If other chords were to pop up, I would let you know as we go along.
_ Alright.
_ [Em] Three thirty in the morning.
That's your E minor.
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Not a cold inside.
Not a soul inside, even.
That's a C chord.
_ [D] _ City's looking like a ghost town.
Not a moon, it's a midnight.
[Em] _ _
_ We went [D] from a D [Em] back to the original E minor.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Rain drops on a windshield.
[C] There's a storm moving in.
_ [A] _ _ _ [Bb] One thing I like to do when I'm [C] in a C. _ _ _ _ _
Often times I'll drop the pinky on the third fret of the high E string.
_ _ _ Regular C with the pinky in. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] When you're doing a little rhythm work, it [C] sounds nice. _ _
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[B] _ _ Not too sure that it does, really, but I like it.
So there [Eb] you have it.
And by the way, it's pretty _ _ handy if you're doing the fingerpicking [Em] thing as well. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ There's my pinky.
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_ _ [G] Later on I'll show the fingerpick [Gb] version of that.
[C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Ab] Alright. _ _ _ _
Then we get to the part where the thunder actually rolls. _ _
[C] Thunder rolls in a C here.
D.
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And the [Em] lightning strikes.
When it strikes, you strike a E minor chord.
And then you're going to do an E minor, G, E minor pretty fast. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Slowly it goes like this.
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[Em] _ _ _ So, down, up, down, [G] up, down.
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All that between the E [G] minor and the G chord.
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_ _ [C] Thunder rolls.
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And the [Em] lightning strikes.
_ Now the love [D] grows cold.
Cold is a G.
I'll probably do a D.
_ _ _ On a [Em] moonless night.
Do the E minor, G thing again. _ _ _
_ Storm [C] goes on.
C. _
_ [D] D.
Out [Em] of control.
E minor, G, E minor.
_ _ Deep in [D] her heart.
G.
We'll write D. _ _
_ Thunder rolls.
[B] _ _ [Em] And you're back to E minor. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ So, if you [Bbm] want to fingerpick it, here's a closer [G] look at what my right [Bm] hand is doing. _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] So, thumb hits the bass note.
In this case, because it's an E minor chord, we're [G] going to be on the _ high, or the [B] thick E string.
And then it's going to _ [Em] be Johnny Cash on the fifth, _ index _ on the fourth string.
_ _ _ _ And then with the _ Johnny Cash again, I will pluck the high E.
So, thumb, _ _ _ Johnny Cash, _ index, Johnny Cash. _
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[Ab] And basically this pattern is repeated throughout the whole [B] song.
_ _ [Gb] You can do it from the start.
What I usually do when I play this [Bm] song is I do the verses [Bb] with the fingerpick.
And then when the thunder [Em] rolls for real, _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] I just go with the actual strumming because, well, [Gm] there's some thunder [Bm] going on, people.
All right.
_ [Em] _ _ _
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_ _ Three o'clock in the morning.
[C] _ Not a soul in sight.
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City's looking like a ghost town on a moonless summer [Em] night. _ _ _ _ _ _
Rain drops on the windshield.
[C] There's a storm moving on.
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_ _ [Gb] You may have noticed, by the way, now I'm in the E minor.
Usually I'll hit the [E] _ bass here _ with the E.
[Em] _ _ _ And then I come back.
[G] Because I'm still [B] in E minor, I'll go to the A string this time with the thumb.
_ So, [E] in other words, I'm doing this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Ab] Wish I'd come up with that, but [Db] Merle Travis did.
It's still a pretty handy little thing to do.
Also, if you like _ _ _ _ _ Orlando, [E] _
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[Ab] _ _ obviously what Chet Atkins used to do.
_ All right.
_ [C] _ _ [D] _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ This is it.
[B] This is all there is [A] to that song.
Not much, really.
Just those chords.
If you have any questions, email me, mojo [B] at 3chordguitar.com.
Hope this helps.
Take care, guys.
Bye. _ _ _ _ _ _
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