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Lauren Bateman teaches the verse of The Band's "The Weight" using four chords: G, B minor, C, and G. She breaks down the strumming pattern as down-down-down-up for each two-beat chord, then shows how it sounds with the melody.
Lauren Bateman teaches the verse of The Band's "The Weight" using four chords: G, B minor, C, and G. She breaks down the strumming pattern as down-down-down-up for each two-beat chord, then shows how it sounds with the melody.
Hey guitar enthusiasts, very quickly I'm going to show you how to play The Weight by The Band. We're going to go through the verse. There is a G chord, a B minor chord, and a C chord, and the chord progression stays the same. It's going to be G, B minor, C, and G. Now the strumming pattern we're going to use for this is 1, 2 and a 3, 4 and are played as down, down, down, down. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Okay, and we're gonna do that. Each chord is 2 beats, so it's gonna be down, down, down, up for each chord. It'll sound something like this.
So it's gonna be pulled into Nazareth, was feeling half past dead, just need some place where I can lay my head. Hey mister, can you tell me Where a man might find a bed. He just grinned and shook my hand, and no was all he said.
