How to Combine TWO GUITARS into ONE // Turn Turn Turn on Acoustic Guitar

To everything.

There's a season turn.

Hey, guitar enthusiasts, I have something really special here for you today. We have Turn, Turn, Turn. Alright. Seasons Change by the Birds. Okay, and what we're going to be doing in this song, we're going to be something really unique. We're going to be kind of combining a couple of guitar parts on one guitar and. And I'm going to show you how to do it step by step. So let's get into the lesson.

Now. I know there's a lot of music purists out there who want the song to sound note for note like the song. And I'm one of those people that really likes just getting the essence of the song. So I'm going to show you in this lesson how we're going to combine the bass and the two guitar parts to create one complete rendition of this song. First, let's talk about the chords we're going to be using. So. So we have an A major chord, a D major chord, an E minor chord, a G chord, and I would maybe use the slightly brighter chord. Okay. Because we're going to be using this third finger on the B string a lot for this song. And then we're going to have an F sharp minor. Now, I know that's a bar chord. And if you can't play the full F sharp minor, you can always play the easy F sharp minor, which looks like an A major chord on the bottom three strings, which. But when I show you the picking we're going to do for this song, you might find it interesting that you don't even have to play the bar chord at all. And I'm going to show you that in a little bit. Let's talk about this intro real fast because we have a cool little.

So what are we doing here? We're playing a D suspended chord. All right. We're playing a dsus 2. So the open E string is ringing through, but it looks like a D chord. Looks like a D major ch chord. You're just lifting up your third finger which allows that E string to ring through. And all we're doing is down, down, up. Okay. Again, it's going to be down, down, up, again, down, down, up. All we're doing.

And then we're going to grab two partial kind of power chords. I'm going to use my third and fourth finger because that's just what's most comfortable for me. We're going to play the middle two strings at the fourth fret. So you're going to play those. Then we're going to slide to the second fret, okay? And same thing, third and fourth finger. And we're going to play that together. So it's.

Okay, fourth fret, slide up to second fret. And that's played on three, four.

So it's 1, 2, and bump, bump, 1, 2, and 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2,. And 3, 4. 1, two, three, four.

Now, the great thing about this song is if you don't just hit those two strings, say you catch one of those open strings. That's great. Those strings can drone through. It won't matter so much with this song because we're using a lot of those open strings. So you can use that as the intro by itself. Or if you want to, you can play through that twice and then do the picking pattern that I'm going to show you right now. So the picking patterns going to start with just our third finger on the third fret of the second string, that B string. And what we're going to be doing is we're going to be picking the fourth string. So this picking pattern is always going to be 4, 2, 1 on the strings. Okay? 4, 2, 1. 4, 2, 1. 4th, 2, 1. It does that four times in a row, that pattern. We're going to be switching the chords, but that's the picking pattern. Four, two, one. Okay? And that is our first chord. That's the open D string. Third fret on the B string, open E string on the bottom. Now what we're going to do is we're going to remove the third finger from the fretboard. And now what we're going to do is we're going to bring the first finger up to the second fret. Okay? The second fret here on the fourth string, and we're going to go 4, 2, 1. So those bottom two strings are ringing open. Use the third finger on the fourth fret, and it's going to go fourth fret. Bottom two strings also ringing open. Okay? Then we're gonna have no fingers on the guitar. Okay? So it's just gonna be all open strings. Four, two, one. Okay? And then this is where the pattern changed. But let's go over this one more time from the beginning. It's gonna be open string.

Okay? With the third finger on that B string, third fret up to the second fret.

Now, fourth fret.

Open string.

Now what we're going to do, the pattern changes a little bit. We're going back to the fourth fret on the fourth string. So we're picking that fourth string. Then the second string open. Now, second fret back, and then open B string. So at the very end, it's just going.

Okay, so we've got.

Then it does it again.

So from the beginning with the strumming and the picking, you would do this section twice.

And then you would transition right over to the picking section twice.

This now leads us into the verse section. But there's something I really want you to pay attention to is because not all of the measures in the music are going to be four beats, all right? There's going to be a few measures where we're only playing for two beats, and that is the last chord of the line. So if I look at this verse, we have split measures, okay? We have D and G splitting a measure, F sharp minor, and A splitting a measure. And then at the very end, we have. We have one measure of A where it's only two beats. So I'm going to show you what we're going to do for the picking pattern here. Now, at this point in the song, the part that really gets me is really the bass line. The bass line rings out to me.

Because that bass line follows the vocal melody so well. So that's what I want to highlight. Now, there's going to be a couple of guitar parts here. One of them's playing chords, one of them's doing picking. So we're going to combine a little bit of that. But don't get mad at me. Don't comment below that this is not 100% exactly how they do it on the record. That's okay. We're just doing this to have fun with it today. So I'm going to show you how to do the picking for this. So we're going to start highlighting the bass notes, right? Just like I said, focus on the bass notes because that's really what sticks out to me in this part. So we're going to play the lowest note of the chord, which would be the D string on the D chord, okay? Now, and then we're going to go strings two. One, two. Okay? So that first chord will be.

Simple enough. Now what we're going to do is we're going to leave this third finger, okay? We're going to pivot away from the chord, but we're going to leave this third finger down. Okay? Now we're going to pivot up to our G chord. So remember, I said you could use this kind of G chord. I'm not playing the pinky because I want this open E string to ring out. So I'm kind of playing this G chord like this. And I'm getting the top bass note, so I technically don't even need this finger. We're getting the top bass note, and then we're going to go second string, first string, second string. Okay? Then we're going to walk down. This is where the F sharp comes in. But we don't need the F sharp, minor bar chord because we're just really grabbing the bass note here. The F sharp, okay? Second fret on that top string, second string, first string, second string. So then we're gonna come to the A chord. So we're gonna move all of our fingers, okay? We're gonna go A string as the bass note. Second string, first string, second string.

Okay? So all that together, we start off with a D chord.

To a G chord.

To the F sharp bass note.

And then the A major chord.

Now, for that ending, where we have the half measure of A. You could just play that A one more time like that.

Or if you want to add a little spice, you could put your pinky down if you're able to do this. If not, don't worry about it. Just wanted to show you guys, if you're able to put your pinky down at the third fret on the B string, this is a suspended chord. So we could go the first, A.

Second A.

Okay. If you want to do that, you can. You don't have to. You want to keep it simple. Just play the A chord twice in a row. It won't matter. So for this very last line, we got this cool walk down that's going to come in. And we're going to start on a G chord. And I would play the full G chord here with either your third finger or your pinky on the bottom string, whichever is more comfortable for you. And we're going to go six two, one, two. So we're sticking to that two one, two theme here. Then we're going to the F sharp again on the top string. 2, 1, 2. Now, for e minor, we're just going to remove and play the open top string. So that's your E note on the bass.

Okay? Then we're moving two back to A. The A note the same way. Now this is where the big change is. It comes on this D chord. So we're going to play a D chord. Fourth string, second string, first string, second string. Now I'm going to put my pinky down. I'm playing a D sus 4 chord. Now we're going to go back down to the first String, second string Lift up my pinky first string, second string. Let's do that. Just that D chord again. So we got the D chord, we're going fourth string, second string, first string, second string, Pinky down, first string, second string, Pinky up, first string, second string. And then strum the D chord. Alright, so that last line is gonna sound like this.

So I'm gonna run through this verse real quick for you guys so you can hear how it all comes together.

To everything.

There's a season.

And a time to every purpose under heaven.

Now this next section is where the strumming comes to life. It's going to be the chorus section. And the strumming pattern we're going to be using is a down, down, up, up, down, up strumming pattern. So down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up.

Now the chord progression is very simple. It's just a D ad a D. And then we have the walk down that I showed you. The same walk down for the verse gets plugged in on the end of the chorus. So let's just see how this is going to sound real quick. It's going to be so.

A time to be born, a time to die, A time to plant, a time to reap, a time to kill, a time to heal, a time to lap, a time to eat.

Now if you guys enjoyed this lesson and you want to work on more cool intro picking patterns, then check out Mr. Tambourine man in this lesson right over there.