Learn that CLASSIC BOOM CHUCK Rhythm // Teach Your Children Guitar Lesson

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Teach your children well is a fantastic guitar song that features boomchuck style rhythm. But if you're not familiar with this, don't worry. We're going to go over it still step by step in this lesson.

So the first thing we'll talk about is going to be the chords we're going to be using. It's mostly open chords in this song. There's going to be an A chord, there's going to be a D chord, and there's going to be a G chord. Now, every once in a while, this B minor bar chord does come up. Now, if you can't play a full bar chord yet, that's okay. You can always use the bottom three strings with fingers 1, 2, and 3. All right, frets 2, 3 and 4 on strings 1, 2, 3. So fortunately for you guys, this B minor chord is only gonna pop up once in the bridge section. But in all the verses and choruses, it's all open chords. So we can keep this one fairly simple. So speaking of keeping it simple, because that's what we do here on this channel. My name is Lauren Bateman. If you don't know me and I help you guys make guitar, my is name makes sense. And we're going to start with the foundation of this Boom Chuck rhythm. And you know, if you're a little bit more late beginner towards the end of this video, I will show you how to spice it up a little bit more if you're interested. So let's talk about Boom Chuck. Okay, what is it? Boom and Chuck. So the boom comes from the low end or the base of the guitar, while the chuck comes from the high end or the treble. So the lower strings of the guitar, it'll sound like this.

So there's your Boom Chuck.

Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck.

Kind of like a very, very common old school style, like country type rhythm. But that's what they're using here in this song here. So what we're going to be doing is we're just playing the low bass note, okay? So on the G chord, it's going to be the top six string. And then you're kind of strumming the bottom three or four strings of the chord. We're not strumming the whole chord again. We're letting the bass note R. Boom Chuck.

Boom Chuck.

Now, on the D chord, we would be hitting the fourth string.

Okay.

Boom Chuck.

And then on the A String. We're going to be hitting the fifth string as our boom. So that's our bass note that open a string and then chuck, boom, chuck.

Boom, chuck, boom, chuck, boom, chuck.

Now that B minor chord is also a five string chord. So you would be playing the fifth string. Boom and then chuck on the rest. If you're using the easier B minor, it's not going to sound the greatest, but you can still kind of do a little bit of a boom check. Or you can just forget the boom and just do all down strums on that B minor chord. Now the good thing about this song is that the verses and choruses are very repetitive. But we're going to be doing something slightly different in the bridge and we'll talk about that in the second. The chord progression that's going to repeat for most of this song is going to be 2D chords, 2G chords, 2D chords, and 2A chords. So it would sound like this if we start with the D chord.

1, 2, 3. Now to G. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Back to D.

Now a.

1, 2, 3, 4. And that's what you're going to be playing over both the verses and choruses of this song. But like I said, the bridge is going to be a little different. There's a bit of a change that comes in on this bridge section. It starts off the same. We have those two Ds, the two GS, the two Ds. But then we're going to play this B minor chord for two measures and we're going to hold that over the word psi. So just look at them in sigh.

Cause they love you. So you can see there we're playing two B minors, okay? Two measures of B minor, only one measure of the G chord this time. And then we have this A chord that comes in and we're going to strum that and mute it very quickly. So all that together would be B1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and G and 2 and 3 and 4 and one. And then you can see with my right hand very quickly, once I play that A chord, I'm muting it with my strumming hand. Okay? So if I played that bridge section for you a little bit more up to speed, it would sound like this. Don't you ever ask them why if they told you you would cry Just look at them ins.

Know they love you.

Now if you're looking for a way to take this kind of the next level and have it sound a little bit More like, you know, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. We would use what's called a boom chukka pattern. So we had boom Chuck. Now what's boom chukka? So we're gonna throw in an up strum. And when you listen to the record on this, I think it's very important to note that the band improvises so they're not using the same same pattern every single time. It varies. So what is boom Chucka first? So it would be the same boom, the bass note boom. And then we're going to do down up.

So it's going to be Boom Chucka. Boom Chuck.

Now they don't do this every time. Sometimes I'm hearing them go Boom Chuck.

Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck up Boom Chuck.

Okay, I hear that sometimes. Or sometimes I hear Boom Chucka.

Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck.

All right, so you can intermingle these boom chucks with the boom Chuck. I don't think they're consistently doing one or other. I think there is some improvisation. So for example, this is a two measure pattern that I heard in the intro of the song when I was listening to the recording. So it was Boom Chuck.

Boom Chuck a Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck a Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck. Boom Chuck a Boom Chuck.

So it'd sound like this.

One more time. Ready?

Boom chuck. Boom chuck a boom chuck. Boom chuck a boom chuck. Boom chuck. Boom chuck a boom chucka.

You can freely alternate between Boom Chuck and Boom Chucka. But that is definitely a way to take the strumming for, for this song to the next level and make it sound a little bit more like the recording. Now if you guys really enjoyed learning about this Boom Chuck and Boom Chuck a pattern, you can go check out the Johnny Cash video right over there where explore this just a little bit more.