Stuck in the Middle with You - Guitar Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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This is a sample video from the Secret Guitar Teacher website (see link above). It’s included bothe in the Complete Beginners Acoustic Guitar Course and Broaden Out with the Blues. So I think we could describe it as falling somewhere between the Beginners and Intermediate level.
This is the abridged transcript of the lesson:
Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan wrote this song - in 1972 allegedly as a sort of parody of Bob Dylan’s vocal style. The song was a top ten hit in the States and in British charts and featured infamously on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s Debut movie Reservoir Dogs.
Let’s start with the intro: Took me a while to work this one out as it sounded a bit like some sort of open tuning was being used, but actually it is a really neat idea using just the top four strings and leaving the first and 4th string ringing open right the way through.
On the fretting hand start with your third and fourth finger holding down the 2nd and 3rd strings at fret 7…Then move the same shape down to fret 5…Then, without changing your hand position, shift the shape onto your first two fingers - 1st finger on 3rd fret on the 2nd string…and 2nd finger on 4th fret on the 3rd string…then take this shape on down to the 1st and 2nd frets.
Take a minute or two to get that sorted out - don’t be tempted to compromise the fingering - if you try and avoid using your pinky, you will almost certainly find the change too fast to execute!
Here it is at slow speed, but with the timing in place:
And the strumming hand view
This timing is the toughest part of this. Here are a few tips: Firstly, try to keep your right hand swinging eight to the bar...like this. Secondly have a go at just copying the rhythm by ear - many people find this approach works best.
Finally, if that doesn’t work for you, use the printout which you can access from the toolbox to the right of the screen to work through the strumming sequence.
The intro goes through the open string sequence that we have just looked at twice then into four bars of D with a strong rhythm that’s used for most of the rest of the song. Then the vocals kick in and we work through the first nine bars much as we are expecting a 12-bar blues pattern to unfold.. Four bars of D…two of G7…back to two of D…Then one bar of A…before we take a slight departure from the standard 12-bar and insert a C for half a bar before the expected G for the second half.
Notice a slight change in the rhythm here as well - Down up down (Change) down up down..Before returning to finish the 12-bar with two bars of D
The verse sequence is then repeated for verse two after which we go to the middle eight (which should be called a middle ten in this case!).
This kicks off with the G7 chord as the rhythm flattens out to a straight eight…
Back to D for two bars…And then two more of G7...Leading us to the song’s very effective hook…for this we hot the D and hold it while hopefully someone plays a cowbell for us!
Be sure to keep counting a full two bars...Then A7 the same treatment - hit and count…Then it’s back to the four bars of D with the main strum pattern which we used in the second part of the intro. This time there’s a bit of slide guitar played over it on the record.
That’s effectively covered all the parts of the song - if you want to perform it as recorded here is the full sequence - it’ll help for you to listen to the recording as you play along following this as it is quite a long song!
Okay, have some fun with that and see you in the next lesson
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Great teacher love the lesson!!!!!
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Excellent lesson, love this song, always played it without the intro but the way you explained it I can do the intro now too, Thank you.
Great lesson, your one of the best, thanks for your time and effort. Best regards Pete
Just great. Many thanks for the intro!!!!!!!!
Thanks man just loved this lesson great song and well taught.
Nick,at last we've got something in common...neither of us could hold a tune in a bucket...keep up the good work ..much appreciated
Good lesson. Thx :)
Great tutorial Nick! I am such a massive fan of these guys and their influence on 70's/80's music and have just published my own modern cover of this song paying homage to them. I would love everyone to check it out. Thanks very much and please give Nick a thumbs up for a great lesson - it's because of people like him I was able to learn how to play this cover!
Thank you! Great Lesson.
Very very good lesson sir - better than the rest thank you
Thanks simple song great lesson.
You said it sounds like open tuning DFE? Which open tuning are you playing? Are you playing standard tuning? You’re not clearly saying.
It is in standard tuning
Are you doing standard tuning or what?
Nice lessons here!
So what’s the tuning?
Hiya, do you know the Thin Lizzy song My Sarah? Is that a hard song to learn?
Absolutely
Really helpful. Thank you. Try out the Am7, instead of the A7 at the 'pleeeeese...'
Nope! It's A7(sus4), due to the D pedal played on the bass - check the recording :)
everyone is strumming
C for A
Down tune your high e to a d...come on man do it right.