A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube guitar-lesson video by Lauren Bateman teaching how to play Tracy Chapman’s "Talking about a Revolution." The instructor names four simple chords (G, C, E minor, D), suggests adding a 9th on C, and demonstrates a down/up strumming pattern with a longer example sequence; brief lyric lines from the song are also sung.
Today I'm going to teach you.
Tracy Chapman's Talking about a Revolution uses four simple chords. We're going to be using our bright.
G chord, easy switch to C.
Add nine.
I have an E minor chord and a D major chord.
And our strumming pattern is going to be down.
Down, up.
Up, down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down.
Up, up, down? Don't you know? Talking about a revolution? Sou.
Don'T you know I'm talking about a revolution? Sound like a whisper? While they're descending in wealthy lands?
Crying to Joseph on those armies of salvation? Wasting time in the unemployment line? Sit around waiting for up in motion? Don't you know?
