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I keep a close watch on this heart of mine

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I keep my eyes

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wide open all the time

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I keep the ends out for

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the tie that binds

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because you're mine

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I walk the line

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I find very very easy to be true

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I find myself alone when each day's through

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Yes, I'll admit that

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I'm a fool for you

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Because you're mine

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I walk the line

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Okay, this is a very very simplified

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version of "I walk the line" by Johnny Cash.

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I'm Justin, in case you didn't know already.

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Apologies to big Johnny Cash fans,

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because I'm trying to get stick

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it's just hard song to sing

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So we're gonna look at few different versions

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there's the actual one has bunch of other stuff going on

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a lot more chords in the intro

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single line things, key changes

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But it's such a wonderful song to play for beginners

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I've kinda simplified it down a little bit so that

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you can play it just with an E, A and D chord

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And even the strumming can be kept simple

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or you can make it a little bit more fancier

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Simple one first

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We've got whole bar of E

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followed by whole bar of A

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meaning 4 strums

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Back to E again

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for 4 strums and back to A again

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for 4 strums

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and 4 on D

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and back to A

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because you're E

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I walk the A

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And that again

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I keep an E watch

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on this heart of A

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I keep my E chord open all the A

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I keep the D out

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for the tie that A

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Because you're E

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I walk the A

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So, that's it

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You can play the tune like that

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why it's such a great one

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for beginner guitar players to play

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nice simple chords

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4 down strums per bar - job done!

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But you can also take it a little bit further

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So, as you progress a litte bit on the guitar

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you might wanna try out

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the "boom-chicka" strumming pattern

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which is a classic kinda Johnny Cash thing going on.

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And to do that you kinda hit

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the first downstrum on the bass strings of the chord

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and then down up on the thinnest strings

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So bass down-up

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Boom-chicka

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So that one..... (counting)

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As soon as you apply that to this pattern

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I keep close watch on this heart of mine

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I keep my eyes wide open all the time

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I keep the ends out for the tie that binds

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Because you're mine

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I walk the line

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So you can see straightaway it has

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more of that kind of flavour if you want

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Definitely not something that beginner guitar players

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should be trying

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so if you're on my Beginners Course

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and you're doing the stage 1 still

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just stick with that easy strumming

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Worry about trying adding those

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fancier strumming patterns later

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that you don't tryna

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approach those things too earlier

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Because it'll make your

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it'll kinda mock up your strumming

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because you'll be stopping for your chord changes

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You're teaching yourself that it's OK

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to stop strumming and it's not

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Once you started strumming

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you gotta tryna keep that pattern going all the time

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So that's there's such a strong emphasis on the course

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on keeping the strumming real simple

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on those early songs

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until you kinda confident enough and fast enough

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with your chord changes

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that you can do a strumming pattern

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and keep going.

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So that's important.

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And if you wanna..

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If you're beyond that

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you can do regular 4 bar strumming

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you can do boom chicka thing

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the other that you can do

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is start alternating the bass part

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the bass note that you play

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so on the E

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you play the 6th string

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So you end up with that walking bass thing

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If I just play without speaking

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So you can hear it's suddenly a lot more complicated

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going on when you get that alternating bass thing

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but again that's kind of the end of the beginners course kind stuff

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that you shouldn't...

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Again, can't emphasize enoung

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if you are beginner guitar player

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just be really stoked with being

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to get through the tune

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and keep the strumming real simple

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Make sure that you can get those

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chord changes without having to stop your strumming

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That should be the aim for the stage-1,2,3 guitar players

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You know that's where you should be at

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But it's such a great song

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Apologies again to the Cash fans

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for simplifying it it and trying to sing like him

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but you know I'm tryna keep

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Johnny Cash's music alive with the young generation

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You should all go on and checkout his music

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because it's the best

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I'll see for another lesson

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very soon, take care of yourselves!

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Bye-bye!