A short guitar lesson video by Lauren Bateman teaching an easier strumming approach to "Angel from Montgomery," using the Bonnie Raitt arrangement. The lesson covers two sections (verse and chorus), two different strumming patterns, and a beginner-friendly option; chord vocabulary is limited to E, A, and D with a repeating verse progression.
Hello, guitar enthusiasts. Welcome back. My name is Lauren Bateman, and in this lesson video, we're gonna do angel from Montgomery. I'm gonna show you how to strum this song and have fun with it. So let's get started.
There's two sections to the song that we're gonna be going over. First is the verse and second is the chorus. And we're gonna be using two different strumming patterns, so make sure to stay tuned so that you can learn both of those. The version of this song that we're going to be doing, I know the song was written by John prime, but I'm going to be doing the Bonnie Raitt version because the chords are a little bit easier to play. We've got an E chord, an A chord, and a D chord, which makes it super, super simple to play. And that's the version we're going to be working off of. If you need the chord chart for this song, make sure to go to my website. I'll put a link in description below so that you can go print that out and come back here. The first thing we're going to do is talk about the verse. So the progression we have here is E, A, E, A, E, A, D, E. So eight chords. And then it repeats again. So that's going to be the chord progression for our verse section. Now, how are we going to go about strumming it? Now the strumming pattern we're going to be using is a little bit more of intermediate because we're going to be changing on up strums and we're also going to be pushing one of the chords. I'll explain what I mean. So when we have this verse strumming, we have an E chord followed by an A chord. Well, the A chord is going to change on the fourth beat. So instead of changing on the one, we're going to change on the four. So what will that sound like? It'll sound like this. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, four. 1, 2, 3, Four. 1, 2, 3, FOUR. So that a chord chord's going to feel like it's being hucked or pushed. And you might have done some of my other videos that have this push strumming pattern. So let's talk about how we're going to play the E chord. So the E chord is three beats of the measure. The E chord is going to be one, a three. And so it's going to be down. No, down on the two and three. And so down, up, down, up. That's our E chord. Down, up, down, up. Again. Down, up, down, up. Now, if you're a beginner and you want to put it down on the second beat just to keep time, that's perfectly fine too. The easiest way to play this verse part, if you're looking for super easy way, is just to do down strums on one and four. A gaming old woman.
Named after my mother. That's the simplest way to do it. If all the syncopated strumming patterns are way over your head. And then on that fourth beat, we're going to do it down and it's going to be an A chord. So it's going to sound like this one, A, three and four. All right? And then we're going to let that ring for a measure. So it's going to be.
So let's talk about the chord progression in the chorus because things are going to change up just a little bit here. So every chord is splitting a measure and we have edae, E, D, A, E, E. So it just basically just keeps repeating E, D, A, E. We do that one, two, three times. And then the last one we have the fourth time it's edae. And then we just stick on E, A, E, A, which takes us back into the verse. But first let's talk about how we're going to change up the strumming for this section. So the chorus is going to be a little bit more of a straight beat. We're not rushing any chords. Every chord is going to split and get two beats. And the strumming pattern we're going to be using is a 16th note pattern. It's going to be down, down, down, up. So one, two and up. That's. That's going to be the E chord. And then the next chord you just do the same thing. One or three, four and up, down, down, down, up. So if I do the first chord, it's going to be 1, 2 and a switch, 3, 4 and a 1, 2 and a 3, 4 and a super cool song with some unique strumming patterns. What I would do is practice going between the verse into the chorus and practicing the strumming patterns one right after another so that you can work on transitioning. If you like this video, make sure to like, comment and subscribe if you haven't already. I also have lots of other great song tutorials on my YouTube channel. You'll see some videos over here. Pick the one that you think would work best for you and I hope to see you guys in the next lesson video.
