I have seen many incorrect tabs and chords for this song on the Internet and I've had requests for it from some of my students. The chords are easy enough, it's mostly the picking pattern that is a little tricky. But once you get the hang of it, the fingers should just roll through it.
If you like classical notation, the right hand fingering on the patterns below should be: m p a m p i
"The Weary Kind" - Ryan Bingham
From the movie "Crazy Heart" with Jeff Bridges
Chords and Tab
Figure 1
Picking pattern: This is a two-beat pattern so play each pattern twice to fill one whole bar.
D A
|--------2-----------| |--------0-----------|
|---3-------3--------| |---2-------2--------|
|.---------------2--.| |.---------------2--.|
|.----0-------0-----.| |.----2-------2-----.|
|--------------------| |--------------------|
|--------------------| |--------------------|
In the chorus, the chord A7 has this common variation. Use the same picking as figure 1, but each of these chords gets only half a bar, so the whole sequence of four chords fills two bars.
The only difference between people who can play guitar and those who cannot is this: the people who can play guitar DO IT.
You can too.
I often wonder how many guitars are purchased each year only to be abandoned in the closet shortly thereafter. A guitar was meant to be played. A guitar wants to be played. Your guitar wants you to pick it up and play something... anything. When left alone for long periods of time, guitars get lonely. They feel neglected. Please don't let your guitar feel neglected.
Think you don't have enough time?
If you want to do something inspiring in your life but feel that you don't have enough time, take a close look at the things that you do each week that are not fulfilling and stop doing them so you have more time to do what matters to you.
There's a new study out that demonstrates how musical experience can change people's taste in music. This is good news to me because I've often wondered why I like so much music that other people couldn't care less about.
It can be quite amusing when journalists who are not musicians are assigned to write stories about music. It's often clear they don't quite get the story. Writing for Canwest News Service, the journalist gets this story mostly right, but not quite.
Most people, especially non-musicians, prefer the sound of harmony over dissonance. Harmony is when two notes ring together and sound similar--alike but different. For example, notes at frequencies of 200, 300, 400 hertz, tend to sound good together because they are all multiples of 100.
But notes that are somewhat dissonant tend to have a wobbling sound. This is called "beat." We listen for this beat when we're tuning our guitars -- if the notes are not in perfect unison, you can hear a fluttering underneath the tones. As the notes get closer in pitch, the fluttering dissipates. When the notes are exactly the same, it disappears.
But there are many musical genres that intentionally use dissonance to create dramatic tension. For example, blues musicians use the tritone interval, and that's as dissonant as it gets. They called it "the blue note." It's exactly half-way to the octave, and if you play it against the root, it is pure dissonance! (For example, play G and C# together)
Here are what I believe to be the six most important things to consider when buying your first guitar.
Most beginning guitar students start with a steel-string acoustic guitar since it's so versatile. You can use it to play rock, blues, folk, country, jazz, and everything in between. Plus, you don't have to buy an amplifier and cables as you would if you purchased an electric guitar.
So the advice below is geared mostly to people who are considering purchasing this type of guitar. And I am assuming you are buying a new guitar. If you want to buy a used guitar, there are additional considerations you will want to be aware of to ensure the guitar is in good condition (see bottom of this article).
1. Brands
I find that most guitars these days are quite well made, even at the $300-$400 range. The two brands I recommend most often are Seagull, and Simon & Patrick, partly because they make quality guitars at decent prices, but also because they are Canadian companies, which is nice.
But there are many other brands that make quality guitars at reasonable prices. I have seen some very nice Yamaha guitars in that price range.
I had the privilege to perform with Andrea Superstein recently at the River Rock Casino and we managed to get some video from the performance. Two of these videos have guitar solos by your truly.
