Redemption Song - Bob Marley and the Wailers [RSL Acoustic Grade 1]

Hello guitar students! This is the guitar part of the grade 1 song you might be learning - please practice along with the track and you can watch and learn how I am playing the song on the guitar.
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Redemption Song has a distinctive intro riff in G major that works on your rhythmical picking on those top three strings. Ensure you are precise with you right-hand to work with the frets you play - start by playing through those first 4 bars slowly, before speeding up to the song's tempo.
The strumming pattern that is in most of the verse and some of the chorus is a syncopated rhythm that is played 'Down.. Up. Up/Down'. The way you can achieve this is by thinking of your downstrokes landing on the on-beat and the upstrokes playing up on the off-beat. Remember when those chords become quarter note downstrokes during the progression also.
Fretting the chords should be easy shapes with a G, E minor, C, A minor and D, but are played only using strings 4 to 1 (D to E string), so ensure your right-hand doesn't strum the top two strings when those shapes are played. Although, there are two full chords with all of the strings in the broken chord section (E minor) and the last bar (G). When the broken chords come in (bars 26/27), each chord has two plucks followed by a strum and is the only change from the chords and how they're played (remember when these come in during the chorus).
Make sure you keep in time with the tempo and the ticking metronome is there to guide you. Practice along with the track until you can play all the way through.
[Taken from RSL Acoustic Grade 1]
[Written by Bob Marley]
[Arranged by Tommy Loose]
Link to the grade book:
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