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Time of Your Life - Green Day

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By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - October 10, 2012

Finally getting around to a demonstration of the intro to Time of Your Life.
Watch the down and up strokes closely.

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Finger Style Exercise ONE

By The Guitarist - Rich Hawthorne - June 21, 2016

Here is what I hope will be a fairly simple exercise that you can play, finger style. The melody is in the bass and should be played with the thumb. Follow the thumb with index, middle and ring fingers playing strings three, two and one respectively. Be sure to emphasize the melody!

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.

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:

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