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wtfbbq

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are there any guitar players here who could possibly please help me with the rhythm/strum pattern for a song I'm trying to learn? I have a video and chords, but I suck at music ( I'm new) but my friend's bday is coming up, and it'd be great if I could play this for them

thanks, please pm me
 
haha sorry, I didn't want to dedicate a whole thread to it, but w/e it IS OT...

the song is Hot In Herre covered by Jenny Owen Youngs. my friend is a big fan of "stuff white people like" and hence the acoustic cover of a rap song would be especially hilarious as it fits so many categories

the tune is close to (or is?) to wonderwall. it sounds slightly different to me though? and I don't know how the chorus for wonderwall is strummed either 🙁 (but I did find the verse part and am practicing that)

here's the official song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...B1&playnext=1&index=22

here's the chords
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com...s/hot_in_herre_crd.htm

here's jenny owen youngs playing it live with only one guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWu9P-n8tL0

and here's random people playing it (ignore the first and last 30 seconds .....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0g8hGJdbag

thanks for the help 😛 I'm pretty useless at guitar and have been just taking those simple guitar lessons online (at about.com and whatnot) and hopefully will eventually learn real music, but would like to get this one down for the lulz first
 
This is pretty much straight quarter notes - watch her hands if you're visual but seriously, if you can't get the strumming pattern to this, you might as well go back in time and kill your own fetus because you just don't have it.
 
I got pretty close with this strum pattern:

Em - down down mute mute
G - down up down mute mute
Am - down down mute mute
C - down up down mute mute
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
I got pretty close with this strum pattern:

Em - down down mute mute
G - down up down mute mute
Am - down down mute mute
C - down up down mute mute
Click to expand...

thanks, mind posting which notes are quick/slow?

I've been trying the real wonderwall which is pretty close but I feel like they have too many notes:

d-d-d-DU
DUD-d-DU
d-d-d-D
U-u-UDUDU

with lowercase being quarter notes, capitalized being quick (eighth? sixteenth?) notes

edit: I was also thinking it was something closer to

d-d-D
UDUd-d-U
d-d-U
DUDU
 
Originally posted by: wtfbbq
Originally posted by: Fritzo
I got pretty close with this strum pattern:

Em - down down mute mute
G - down up down mute mute
Am - down down mute mute
C - down up down mute mute
Click to expand...

thanks, mind posting which notes are quick/slow?

I've been trying the real wonderwall which is pretty close but I feel like they have too many notes:

d-d-d-DU
DUD-d-DU
d-d-d-D
U-u-UDUDU

with lowercase being quarter notes, capitalized being quick (eighth? sixteenth?) notes

edit: I was also thinking it was something closer to

d-d-D
UDUd-d-U
d-d-U
DUDU
Click to expand...

You need to add some mutes in there for pauses, else it's going to sound too full. It's a steady beat, there's no quick/slow (well, I guess the mutes would be faster, but you have to get to chucks into one beat).
 
ahhh, I see what you mean. when I meant a longer note vs. a quick note, I was referring to whether there was a mute after it (quick = no mute), but I see what your way is saying with a pause in between the down and then a long pause with "mute." stupid me didn't get that the first time.
 
Originally posted by: wtfbbq
ahhh, I see what you mean. when I meant a longer note vs. a quick note, I was referring to whether there was a mute after it (quick = no mute), but I see what your way is saying with a pause in between the down and then a long pause with "mute." stupid me didn't get that the first time.
Click to expand...

You want to "mute" the strings there. Make a "cachuk" sound 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: wtfbbq
ahhh, I see what you mean. when I meant a longer note vs. a quick note, I was referring to whether there was a mute after it (quick = no mute), but I see what your way is saying with a pause in between the down and then a long pause with "mute." stupid me didn't get that the first time.
Click to expand...

You want to "mute" the strings there. Make a "cachuk" sound 🙂
Click to expand...

I see... :music:

anyone else have advice (or hints for the chorus?)

thanks
 
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