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500 Miles From Home

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By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - February 27, 2013

Here is an arrangement of " 500 Miles From Home" by Pete Huttlinger. Play along!

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Strumming Pattern

By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - April 10, 2013

Here's a great strumming pattern for Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. This pattern is in Four Four time. The count goes like this: one two and a three four and a The version of this song I use in class comes from the American Idiot broadway play. You can find it here:

Jeena Jeena - Bollywood

By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - June 24, 2016

Here are a couple of videos demonstarting various parts to the popular Bollywood song Jeena Jeena. First up, the intro. My strumming pattern goes down - up - hit - down - hit. The hits are down strums on beats two and four. Notice the chord change after the first hit. I liked the flute solo so much that I thought I would arrange it for the guitar. I hope I'm playing it slow enough for everyone to follow along. Finally, the guitar solo. Short and sweet!

Wish You Were Here - Lesson

By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - June 26, 2012

Here's a great "Campfire" strum for Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. D D U U D D U U D = Down U = Up Here is a video of the melody. You can play this for the intro to the song and you can play it as the interlude between the verses. I'll add another video soon with the chord strums between the melody notes. And here's a video adding one simple strum on beat two of each measure.

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