Lauren Bateman teaches the Hootie & the Blowfish classic with a capo on the 4th fret and three chords: G, D, and Em7. She breaks down the 16th-note strumming pattern and shows exactly when to switch from D to G on the "and" of beat 2.
Hey guitar enthusiasts, I'm going to show you a fun little song by Hootie and the Blowfish. We're gonna have a capo on the 4th fret here, and we're just gonna need 3 chords. We're gonna need a G chord, a D chord, and an E minor 7. All right, I'm gonna use the brighter Stuck Like Glue chord, so it's the 4-finger G chord shoving down to a D chord, which creates a nice pivot point on this 3rd finger going from that bright G to the D. And then there's an E minor 7, which I'm going to use the 4-finger E minor 7. Okay, it's gonna be a little bit brighter but makes it easier to transition. We're going to use a 16th note strumming pattern. The strumming pattern for this is much more complicated, and you can watch my full lesson for that. But to keep things simple here, we're just going to go 1-e-and-a, 2-e-and-a, 3-e-and-a, 4-e-and-a. They're just all alternating down, up, down, up, down, up, down. 1-e-and-a, 2-e-and-a, 3-e-and-a, 4-e-and-a. Now the key is we're going to switch to the G chord. We're going to start on D, and we're going to switch the G chord on the and of 2. So it's going to be 1
