Rambling Man Acoustic Guitar Lesson - Easier Guitar Lesson

Hey, guitar enthusiast Lauren Bateman here in this lesson video, we're going to be doing an awesome song by the Allman Brothers called Ramblin Man. So let's get into it.

Now, before I get into what chords we're going to be using in this song, I just want to mention, you might see here on the first fret of my guitar is what we call a capo. So this song is played, played with a capo placed on the first fret. If you don't have a capo, you can still learn the song, but your guitar might sound a little bit different than mine. So I would recommend getting a capo if you have one. So let's talk about the chords we're going to use for this song before we get into the actual song. So the chords are mostly open chords. We have G, E minor, C and D. Those are the four basic chords we're going to be using. And then sometimes what we have is an F bar chord that pops in. But if you're not familiar with bar chords, you can still play this song. What I would recommend is using an F major seven chord. And it's basically a three fingered version of an F chord that you can do that's more geared for beginners. This way you can still play along with the song if you want to, but don't know bar chords. So let's talk about the intro of this song very briefly. We've got three chords that we're going to play that take up a whole measure. And then on the very end there's two chords that are going to take up a measure together. So we have the G, D, C. And then we'll have a bracket and the first chord is still going to be C on the first beat. And then we're going to play G on the C, second B. All right, so if I go through that, it's going to sound like this. It's going to be G chord, strum and hold for four counts D chord, C chord and then C, G. So one more time it's going to be.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2.

So a little bit more up to speed. We got one.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, Four. One, two, three, 4. One, two, three,4. One, two, three, FOUR.

And that's how we're gonna handle the intro to this song. So let's talk about the chorus section of the song next, because this song actually starts on the chorus. Hey everyone, real quick before we finish up this video, if you're enjoying this. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel so that you know when you when I release new content. Let's keep going with the lesson. Okay, so let's talk about the chord progression for the chorus which is going to be G, F, G, G. Then it's going to be G, C, D, D, C, G, E minor, C, G, D, G, G. So there's really nothing repetitive about any of those lines in the chorus. And if you need the chord chart for this song you can go to my website, laurenbateman.com, look in the song section and and I have all my chord charts listed there for you guys. So you can go print that out, come back and follow along. So all we're going to do for this strumming pattern is like I said, we're going to do a down, down.

Up, up, down, up.

So the strumming pattern will be down.

Down, up, up, down, up.

It'll sound like this.

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

Alright, so that's the pattern we're going to use and we're going to do it once per chord. These are all one measure chords so it'll sound like this.

So you can hear that in there. Lord, I was born a rambling Lord.

I was born a rambling man.

And we were going to do that for the entire chorus. So that's the strumming pattern that we're going to use for the chorus. We will change things up a little bit in the verse. So let's talk about how we're going to do that. Hey guys, real quick, if you're enjoying this video, don't forget to give me a thumbs up below because it helps YouTube show my videos to more people just like you. So the verse we have basically the same chords. All right. There's no barre chord in the verse which is great. So for those of you who don't like bar chords, perfect. So we have a G chord, a C chord and a double G chord. G, C, D, D, C, G, E minor C, G, D, G, G. So it's basically the same thing as the chorus. So they made it easy for us. So that's where the repetition comes in. But it's still a lot of chords to remember. Now what we're going to do for this is we're going to switch up the strumming pattern. So we were doing that syncopated rhythm in the chorus.

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

And you could keep doing that if you don't want to switch rhythms. If you're not really good at switching between rhythms yet, you can just keep.

In mind the world's a gambler down in Georgia.

You could keep doing that. Usually what I would do is just go to straight up 8th notes.

And you hear I'm not strumming the entire chord. I'm not trying to get the entire chord. I'm just kind of hitting the top, you know, three or four notes of the chord.

He wound up on the wrong side of the gun.

So that's how I would kind of change up the verse a little bit. And if you want to spice it up even more, you could palm mute it.

My father was a gambler down in.

Georgia kind of has a really cool.

And he wound up on the wrong side of a gun.

So it sounds really cool. And then when you get to the chorus, it really opens up the chorus chorus. Because when you transition.

Now we've got chorus.

So you can hear how you go from something really small in the verses to something bigger in these choruses. So that is an option that you can play around with the verses. If you want to learn a little bit more about palm muting, you're not sure how to do that. Put a link up here to my palm muting video. You can go watch that and then come back and try that on this song. So one, there's a couple parts left to this song, and one of them is the solo, which there isn't a big change, but there's a little bit of a change on that chord. On the chorus before the solo, the final chord, we're actually going to let it ring. So we're going to play the D.

So it'll be I was born a rambling man.

Two, three, four.

Okay, we're gonna hold that D, let it ring out. And then the solo starts much like the. The intro did, where we're just gonna hold the chords for a four count.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, C. Two, three.

Four, G. Two, three, four. And then after that, you're just going to play through the progression of the verses in the chorus, straight through while the solo goes on. We're not going to be doing the solo in this lesson video. Maybe another lesson. I'll. I'll do the solo. But for this lesson video, we're just going to be talking about the strumming. But that's how you approach the solo. So let's talk about our outro next. So after the solo, we've got another verse that comes in and another chorus that comes in and then finally we have the outro where they just keep repeating Lord I was a rambling man. So all we're going to do on this is we're going to stick to one progression here and that's going to be G F and then double G.

Lord I was born a remnant man.

And you're just going to keep doing.

That F D F double G.

And you're gonna do that all the way out. I think this song fades out so if you want to just end on a G on the end, that should work perfectly fine for this song. I hope you guys enjoyed this lesson video. YouTube's gonna pop up a couple more videos over here. Make sure to go and check those out. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe to my videos and I hopefully we'll see you guys in another lesson video.