playing guitar and singing at the same
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time is an extremely difficult process
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you could be playing along and as soon
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as you go to sing your strumming hand
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falls apart or vice-versa you’re
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strumming fine and you go to sing and
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words don’t even come out so in this
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video I’m gonna share with you the three
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step process to play in sing any song
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and at the end I’m gonna share with you
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a bonus tip that will help you take this
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even further now when I was first
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playing guitar I learned a Beatles tune
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I’ve just seen a face it was a song my
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dad played and I really wanted to learn
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it and I thought this is cool I knew the
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little run at the end it was just a
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great moment and then in my college days
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I went to a party and there was a guy
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singing and playing the guitar and it
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was like a magical experience everybody
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gravitated towards him and I thought
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well I can do that I know some chords I
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know how to strum so then in the privacy
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of my own room I want to go ahead and do
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it and realized how difficult it truly
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was and that’s what led me to develop
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this three-step process so let’s start
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with step number one I want you to pick
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a song that’s relatively easy and that
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you like I want you to print out the
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chord sheet for it with the lyrics you
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know you can look it up online Google
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any song and put the word chords next to
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it and you get the lyric sheet with the
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chords right above it and then I want
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you to sit down and listen to that song
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with the chord sheet in hand and what I
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want you to listen for is when the
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chords change go ahead and follow the
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lyrics on the sheet and then notice okay
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here comes a chord change and then
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listen for it in the song and identify
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that chord change with a word in the
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song okay that’s step number one we
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don’t even have our guitar yet step
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number two is to grab your guitar and
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just play the changes since the first
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song that I learned how to sing and play
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at the same time was I’ve just seen a
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face by the Beatles I’m gonna go ahead
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and use that as an example here and just
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for the sake of if you want to follow
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along here’s a quick rundown of the
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chords there’s actually not that many it
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starts on a G chord
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it moves to an E minor chord and then it
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goes to a C chord lastly a D chord and
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then it’s back to a G that’s just the
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verse portion of the song but it’ll
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it’ll give you that process enough to so
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you can take this to any song you want
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so just play the changes that’s step
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number two and that’s exactly what I’m
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going to demonstrate here with that
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chord sheet in front of you I want you
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to go ahead and sing along with the song
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and play the chord changes only when it
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changes here’s the example I’ll use that
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that I’ve just seen a face on I’ve just
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seen a face I can’t forget the time or
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place where we just met she’s just the
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girl for me now I want all the world to
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see we met dad and dad
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it was a little late on that last change
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but the idea here is to get your
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fretting hand comfortable changing
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chords while you’re singing okay it
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seems again this seems like an easy task
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but once you start putting all these
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things together it’s like whoa what’s
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going on it’s that classic pat your head
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and rub your tummy kind of conundrum
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so again just play the changes you’re
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looking at the chord sheet singing along
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and playing one strum when the chords
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change you’re probably thinking yourself
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well that’s not very interesting that
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certainly doesn’t sound like singing and
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playing well it’s one step it’s a baby
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step to getting you to that ultimate
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goal of playing and singing a song with
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absolute comfort step number three is to
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take what you know you know how to sing
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the song you know where the chord
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changes happen and you know when to play
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those chord changes and start to add a
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steady downbeat nothing intricate here
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this is just a steady downward strum in
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time literally it’s going to be it’s
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going to sound like a very boring strum
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but this is a necessary step this is a
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critical step a lot of people ignore
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this step and it’s what actually keeps
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them from playing and singing at the
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same time and what I mean by just a
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basic strum is a downward strum all six
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strings just like that
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here’s how it sounds with the song I’ve
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just seen a face I can’t forget the time
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or place where we just met she’s just
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good
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and I want all the world to see we men
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dead and
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and so on and so forth through the
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entire song what that’s doing is its
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allowing you to keep a steady rhythm
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while changing chords and singing and
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again you might be thinking yourself
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well I just don’t want to I just don’t
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want to just do that down strum well
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that brings me to my bonus tip and that
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is this once you have that basic steady
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beat down and singing and you have
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absolute comfort doing that you can take
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your strumming to a whole new level you
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can try different strum patterns and try
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different things and see how they mesh
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with the song itself knowing what you
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know already you can actually already
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diversify the strum pattern that we just
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did instead of just doing all six
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strings on the strum actually alternate
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do the bass note on the one and the
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three beat and a full strum on the two
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and the four beat also known as the boom
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chick strum and that sounds like this
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so if I was to play the song using that
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rhythm it would sound like this
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I’ve just seen fils I can
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please will
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just met she’s just the girl for me now
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on all the world see we met
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dad
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again I just want to repeat these are
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baby steps it’s it’s a great it’s a
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great goal to be able to play and sing
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any song but you have to take these baby
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steps starting with step 1
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grab the song make sure it’s simple and
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identify those changes step 2 just play
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the changes step 3
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use a basic basic steady downbeat to
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play through the song and sing it at the
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same time and the bonus step 4 go ahead
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and diversify your rhythm once you’ve
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gained that comfort now I surely hope
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that was a huge light bulb moment for
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you I know it broke open a whole new
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world of guitar for me when I learned to
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play and sing at the same time and I
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want to keep these light bulb moments
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rolling for you so I’ve created a 45
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minute online acoustic guitar workshop
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that’s absolutely free and it’s going to
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provide three more huge lightbulb
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moments we’re gonna start with basic
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fretboard navigation so you can find any
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note on the fretboard a huge technique
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upgrade so no longer is your fretting
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hand or your strumming hand going to be
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a limiting factor and the third thing
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the thing that nobody ever talks about
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is how to incorporate those very things
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into your daily play so you can live the
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best acoustic life possible and again
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it’s totally free all you have to do to
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participate in it is click the link here
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in the video or in the description below
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and I’ll see you over there thanks a lot
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you
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