Stuck in the Middle with You - Guitar Lesson

For more information from the source site of this video please visit: http://secretguitarteacher.com/youtube/beginner/acoustic/8zdUW-iJu5w/83602774-stuck-in-the-middle.php 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