A Song Is a Loop That Changes Clothes

Day 10 of 10 · Make it a song

Hey Tomasz,

In a lot of four-chord songs, the verse and the chorus use the same chords. What changes is your strumming.

Animated: a soft verse of down-up eighths over G, D, Em and C, then a loud chorus of Old Faithful over the same four chords

Same chords, same speed. Verse: small down-ups, mostly the thin strings. Chorus: Old Faithful with the full arm through the whole chord. D and C still skip the fat strings.

Song map: verse soft, chorus loud, bridge with the chuck, last chorus with everything, twice round the loop each, then one big G

Play the whole map once, top to bottom, without stopping. Then play it for someone. You've earned it.

And here's every strum from these ten days on one card. Save it, print it, keep it by your guitar:

The four strums on one card: All Downstrokes, Down-Up Eighths, Old Faithful and The Chuck, with the loop G, D, Em, C

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