Lesson 2: Working Class Hero

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Description: I finally kept it short! All done in one video. There are only a few new ideas here. I also have a video where I sing the whole song, which might be necessary to get how it fits together in the end.
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Atreides27 ::: Favorites This is one of my favorite songs ever. Thank you so much for helping me out with the strumming and picking. You are amazing. 07-09-03 01:31:23 __________________________________________________
hjorgan67 ::: Favorites James - it's cool you take the time to do these videos. I've been playing for about 3 years now. I took this song up for the very reason you say early on - it's good bass strum practice. I thought this song was going to be easy - and it IS easy to make it sound good, but to make it sound like John Lennon does... very hard. Good catch on the 7/8 time - 4/4 is hard enough for me though : ) -- Cheers. 07-08-21 14:47:29 __________________________________________________
scanz2k ::: Favorites thanx for the video man, i think its like you said, do it til it sounds right to you. everything will fall into place, its all about the person who is playing it and how they like it....thanx again, this is a great song, actually i never heard it til green day redid it. 07-08-12 00:29:24 __________________________________________________
jamesblackburnlynch ::: Favorites And now one more thing! I just looked it up and according to wikipedia, "Working Class Hero" is in 7/8 time!! It's two bars of 2 and one of 3. Hmm...I'm glad I didn't try to talk about that in the lesson! 07-08-07 21:04:01 __________________________________________________
jamesblackburnlynch ::: Favorites Basically, I think whatever works for you is the way you should count it. If the way I'm doing it in this video is not helping, then playing it in 3/4 time might work for others too. Interesting... 07-08-07 20:58:45 __________________________________________________
jamesblackburnlynch ::: Favorites You are the second person to think this, so I think it must work for some better than counting in two's. I keep counting it naturally in 1 2 3 4 with the bass notes on the 1 and 3. But since it's clear that it's naturally in 3/4 time to others, it may be that this song is in 6/8 and I'm just hearing the 1 and the 4 (which are stressed). 07-08-07 20:57:19 __________________________________________________
feileung ::: Favorites Thanks for the lesson James. I'm curious though, are you sure this song isn't in 3/4 timing? Listening to the original I count it as: 1 2 and 3 and 1 2 and 3 and.....like a waltz. I was having a really hard time singing while I played it until I realized that. You mentioned a dotted count though, I'm new to guitar (and to playing music) maybe there's something going on here that I just don't understand yet? What do you think? 07-08-07 16:47:00 __________________________________________________
jamesblackburnlynch ::: Favorites Sorry, gotta sing it to teach it. 07-08-04 20:42:50 __________________________________________________
jonny08p ::: Favorites thank you this helped me a real lot!! but not to be rude or anything, stick to guitar not vocals! 07-08-04 15:22:17 __________________________________________________
rhcp4lf ::: Favorites probablyy heyyy 07-08-03 22:02:10 __________________________________________________