say goodbye

topgun17 · Unread post by **topgun17** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:13 pm

can someone help me with the strum pattern for this song, i can play it easy but it catches me up on the 11 and 9 part of the verse if that makes sense.

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-----------9-
-----------9-
-----------9-
-/11-----11-
------------- thats the part where i get messed up on strumming.

dmbguitar718 · Unread post by **dmbguitar718** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:20 pm

Here, if I gave you something like "DUDDDUUDUUUDUDUDUD" would you honestly be like "Oh! OK!"? It's just something you feel. Practice on feeling the song more, and just go with the flow. Don't pay attention to set strumming patterns.

Sort Of A Protest Song · Unread post by **Sort Of A Protest Song** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:20 pm

Pat has an excellent video of it:

http://www.dmbtabs.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=12809

topgun17 · Unread post by **topgun17** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:21 pm

yeh i keep trying to gte the vid but it switches to some other website and it never plays it

ballmeblazer · Unread post by **ballmeblazer** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:37 pm

just try and play along with live at luther college. or just listen to it a bunch of times, and pretty soon you'll just pick up your guitar and have it. and like pat said, you've got to feel it.

topgun17 · Unread post by **topgun17** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:18 pm

oh ok, thanks

ballmeblazer · Unread post by **ballmeblazer** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:34 pm

if that version dosen't help, listen to teh one on the lost acousics. and if you don't have lost acousics, pm me and i'll send you the version of say goodbye from it.

Nitro1515 · Unread post by **Nitro1515** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:37 pm

topgun17 wrote:yeh i keep trying to gte the vid but it switches to some other website and it never plays it

Download the zip file at the top of the thread.

czech · Unread post by **czech** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:53 pm

my only advice is to stop trying to play it. I have the worst rhythm in the world. I found out I got a lot better at strumming patterns by listening to the music over and over through some good headphones and NOT tryign to play it.

after you listen to it through headphones a bunch you should have the strumming engraved in your head, picture how you would play it whle listening to it, play it in your head, then pick up your guitar and try..

i dunno, thats all that works for me.

ballmeblazer · Unread post by **ballmeblazer** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:17 pm

checkii wrote:my only advice is to stop trying to play it. I have the worst rhythm in the world. I found out I got a lot better at strumming patterns by listening to the music over and over through some good headphones and NOT tryign to play it.

after you listen to it through headphones a bunch you should have the strumming engraved in your head, picture how you would play it whle listening to it, play it in your head, then pick up your guitar and try..

i dunno, thats all that works for me.

that is great advice. the more you listen to it the more you can pick up on the intracicies of the music, the mutings, the upstrokes, downstrokes, slaps. if you listen to it enough you'll hear all that, and it won't be hard at all to replicate when you play it.

czech · Unread post by **czech** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:39 pm

ballmeblazer wrote:
checkii wrote:my only advice is to stop trying to play it. I have the worst rhythm in the world. I found out I got a lot better at strumming patterns by listening to the music over and over through some good headphones and NOT tryign to play it.

after you listen to it through headphones a bunch you should have the strumming engraved in your head, picture how you would play it whle listening to it, play it in your head, then pick up your guitar and try..

i dunno, thats all that works for me.

that is great advice. the more you listen to it the more you can pick up on the intracicies of the music, the mutings, the upstrokes, downstrokes, slaps. if you listen to it enough you'll hear all that, and it won't be hard at all to replicate when you play it.

I started doing this cause I was in europe on trains for 3 months straight for hours and sometimes days at a time and all i had was my ipod.
I could play maybe 1 or 2 dave songs when i left for the trip, when I got back i was coming off of 3 months+ of not touching a guitar and was able to play stuff right away that I never could come close to playing.

Sciaracastro · Unread post by **Sciaracastro** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:41 pm

just 1 advice:
it seems like dave plays a lil earlier the 11999 (E ?) chord when he isnt singing...the whole rhythm is a bit different...at least it's what a i figured out...

topgun17 · Unread post by **topgun17** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:26 pm

thanks everyone

ballmeblazer · Unread post by **ballmeblazer** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:44 pm

edit:this is referencing checkii's quote about europe. i'm just a moron and forgot to quote.

yea, that's how i was at school. i listened to music 24/7, didn't really play a lot(if at all) so when i finally decided to learn dave stuff there was a week when his style was new, but once i had the basics, i knew the music so well from listening to so much of it that i could get it pretty fast.

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