Have You Ever Seen The Rain Guitar Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. I've had requests for this song. So this. I have the chord chart. So here I am, I'm doing have you ever seen the rain? Great, Great song. So let's start with the intro. So the intro is a little bit different than the rest of the songs. We have an A minor, an F, a C and a G. And for these four chords, we're doing something different before we get into the strumming pattern for the song. So you heard me play the intro.

So here we're starting with one strumming pattern and we have to switch to a different one, which adds to the complexity and difficulty of this song. So the strumming pattern is 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2.

And 3 and 4. And 1, 2 and 3 and 4and 1, 2 and 3 and 4& 1 and. And 2 and. And 3 and up, down, up.

So first four chords, you're doing a very simple one, two and three and four and 1, 2 and 3 and four and. And then when we get into the verse or kind of like the intro part to the verse, we have two Cs in those Cs. The strumming pattern switches. We're actually switching on the up strums in the verses on these chords. And the great thing about the verse is that you mostly stay on C. Every once in a while you switch to G. So the strumming pattern, if you hear, is up, down, up. And we're just repeating up, down, up.

Up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up.

So that's what we're doing. We're repeating up, down, up, up, down.

Up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down.

So when we switch from C to G, we're switching on an up strum.

Up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up.

Switch.

Up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, Switch. Up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up.

So it's kind of. I think we switch on. Let me. When we go for the intro here. So if I go from the intro into that verse, it's going to sound like this. So we got.

Up, down, up.

So what you might want to practice is going from G to C doing.

And I know you're like, lauren, you're beating a dead horse. It's a very important transition, something you're going to want to practice because that's also going to happen in the chorus. So when we go through the verse, when I look at this, you've got four Cs followed by two GS and then back to C and then back to G, back to C. So basically our verses are a bunch of C's and a bunch of G's and. And it continues. So it's up, down, up, up, down.

Up, up, down, up.

And that's how you get the feel in the song for this song. Now, if this is really difficult and you can't do that, you can stick with the original strum. Just keep doing the 1, 2 and 3. Important.

Nothing wrong with that. You will be able to play the song and get by. When you listen to the actual recording, it'll sound a little different. And that's why, because we're doing our strums. We're doing. We're starting the chords on the up strums versus the down strums. So that basically takes care of our intro and our verse. Let's jump to the chorus. So we're going to change strumming patterns again. So you might want to practice transitioning between these strumming patterns. So, you know, we got shut.

So we're going to chorus.

We strum on the one. So we're getting the. And on that C chord. And 4 and 1. So we're going back to the downbeats on the chorus. And I like to use the down, down, up, up, down. So we're going to another kind of syncopated pattern. So it's.

I wanna know.

So that's F and G. So we have F.

I wanna know.

The strumming pattern is down, down, up.

Up, down, up, 1, 2, and. And 4. And.

And after that we have a walk down. Have you ever seen the Rain Bar?

Now, for purposes of this, sometimes I play that last chord.

On an up strum. But we'll keep it on the downbeat just to keep things simple for you guys. So we're starting with the C chord. And each one of these chords is going to be a down, down, up. So we have C, then we have this C, B chord. And really all you're going to do is you're going to get rid of your third finger on the C chord and you're gonna move this second finger up one string. Really just trying to get the B. I mean. Yes. Could you do this? This is another way you could do it. But I'm gonna keep it simple. We're really mostly interested in this B note because basically the guitar we keep playing, you know, Cs. And usually our bass player is gonna do the walk down. But we don't Have a bass player, so we kind of gotta do it ourselves. So we're going from C where we're moving our third finger and moving the. This finger up. Because this note here is B, we need a B in the bass. So we're going C, B, A G. So we have a C chord. This C, B chord, we have an A minor. And I know it's a C, G.

Which you could play this way. It's basically a C chord with your pinky on the third. This is a very popular chord. It's a C, G. So we have the third finger on the top string, pinky right below. And then the bottom two fingers are like. You're playing a C chord. If you don't want to do that, go right to a G. Keep it simple. I usually go right to the G when I play. So it'd be C, C, B, A minor, G, G. I like going right to the G. So it's C, C, B, A minor. If you want to play it the other way, you can. But I like going right to the G. So if we do the chorus in the beginning, we have F. Down, up, up, down, up.

G.

Up, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up.

And then we start again.

Down, down, up, up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up.

And now we're back to F.

Coming.

And at the end of this chorus, when we get back to those Cs, we're back into that verse strumming. Up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up. And that's the entirety of the song. We got another verse, we got another chorus. But that's the intricacies of this song. And now you can see why. It's a little bit more of an intermediate song. We've got three different strumming patterns and switching between those strumming patterns, if you're not used to doing that, can be a little bit difficult. We've got a bar chord, F. But you can always use the easy F bar chord. And we have this walk down, which is a little bit more intricate. So for me, I consider this more of, you know, a song that I would teach students a little bit later in their guitar playing. I mean, not like a full year later, but pretty later into their playing. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to play. Let me play introverse chorus just so you guys can hear it and show you the parts. Ready? So we go 1, 2, 3, 4.

So that I know.

It'S coming down for some time.

When it's all the song the same. It's a great sun and day and I know.

Turning down my water.

I.

And there you have it. You might have heard before I went into the chorus, I did a couple little extra downstroms as a build, so it'll rain.

Kind of let into the chorus a little bit. So that's another little option for you guys. So there you go. That is. Have you ever seen the rain? Super, super cool song. Feel free to go back to each section in part rewind, watch it as many times as you need to to get each part down. How I would go about practicing this song is I would practice it in sections. So I would take the verse, learn that, would take the chorus, learn that, would take the intro, learn that, take those three sections separately, learn them all by themselves. And then I would take the ends of the section so the points where the strumming changes and just take the last chord and the first chord and practice playing last chord into first chord and then you can weave your way through and connect all the parts together. So that's my recommendations on practicing for this song.

Leave me a thumbs up, a comment below, and I'll see you guys in the next lesson.