A beginner-friendly guitar lesson by Lauren Bateman teaching Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” using a three-chord progression (C, G, D) with a capo at the 7th fret. The instructor demonstrates two strumming options—a basic down/down/down-up/down-up pattern and a variant that emphasizes the bass note on beat one—then leads a play-along with on-screen chords and tempo-adjust options.
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Hey, guitar enthusiast. I'm so excited. I have a really great beginner three chord song by Bob Dylan called Blowing in the Wind. We're gonna go through the strumming pattern step by step and play along together. Let's get into the lesson. So the first thing you guys might notice is I got a capo here at the seventh fret of my guitar. It's going to make the guitar sound very, very bright. Okay. And you're going to have to play all your chords relative to the capo. So the capo is acting like the nut up here at the top of the guitar. Now, you may have heard in the intro, we're only using three chords. We're going to be using a C chord, a G chord, and a D chord. But we're not going to be using the traditional ones. Over here, you can do that. I'm actually going to be using my style stuck like glue chords. The ones with the pinky in the third finger stuck at the bottom. The reason is because when I was listening to the recording, I heard a lot of really, really bright tones coming through. So I thought it would be better to use these chords. And I think some of you might find it's easier to transition between this G, C and D chord. But whatever chords you decide to use, the strumming pattern I'm going to show you next won't matter. All right, so I'm going to show you two different breakdowns of this pattern. So the first one's gonna be 1, 2, 3, and 4. And so it's gonna be down, down, down, up, down, up. And it'll sound like this. I'm gonna start on the G chord. So we've got 1, 2, 3, and 4. And.
Okay. Down, down, down, up, down, up.
Now, this song is a little peppier, so it's probably gonna be a little bit faster. It's probably more like.
That's strumming option one. Very, very basic and simple strumming pattern for beginners. But if you're looking for a little bit of a challenge and make the song sound a little bit better, you can add this extra spice in and you probably heard me do it in the intro. I let the bass note of the chord ring. Let me show you first and then I'm going to explain it.
So it's the same rhythm. We're still doing 1, 2, 3, and 4. And same rhythm except on that first beat. Instead of doing a full down, strum we're just hitting down on the bass note of the chord and we're letting that ring out. So for the G chord, that would be the sixth string. For the C chord, that would be the fifth string. And for that D chord it's going to be the fourth string. So it'll be.
So one more time it's bass down, down, up, down, up. Bass down, down, up, down, up. Bass down, down.
Alright, so what I'm gonna do with you guys now is we're gonna just do a quick play along and we'll put the chords and stuff up on screen with you with the strumming pattern. But if you want to follow along with my notes, you can always go over to my lesson notes on my website. Alright, so I'm gonna count this in and if it's still a little bit too fast for you, don't forget you can change the settings. Cog down there. Slow it down just a little bit. This way you can play along with me. Alright, ready? We've got 1, 2, 1, 2. Ready? And.
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Yes, and how many times must the cannon bars fly before they're forever banned? Will the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind.
If you guys loved this three chord Bob Dylan song, then you're gonna absolutely love my three chord Bad Moon Rising lesson over there. I go over a different strumming pattern that I know you guys are gonna enjoy. I'll see you in that lesson video.
