Old Faithful is massively useful and can be applied to thousands of songs.
But it is not a catch-all.
When you have a chord change on the beat of 3 do not use Old Faithful.
Old Faithful is built around the missed 3rd beat.
It is a redundant pattern for any progression where changing chord on the 3rd beat is an intrinsic part of the song.
All that said, as @LeeMB has advised, strum every chord with Old Faithful if you’re comfortable with that pattern by now.
There are no bars with two chords in them in Good Riddance.
Not sure if anyone has suggested IRIS by the GOO GOO DOLLS. Nice regular progression - either GACC or EmDCC. Steady strumming, albeit waltz time and capo on 7 for the original key.
Brown-eyed Girl: I’ve been working on brown-eyed girl using old faithful strumming pattern. I thought my guitar sounded tinny so I recorded myself on my phone. Sure enough it sounds really tinny. I don’t know if I’m strumming the first 2 strings too much, but even the other strings sound as though I’m hearing the pick sound scraping. It’s distracting. Has anyone else had this and can you advise me? Also might the quality of a phone recoding be emphasizing that sound more than the lower sounds?
So erm, just how long would one typically work on these before becoming reasonably comfortable with them?
I’ve been stuck on this version of Wonderwall for what feels like forever now, maybe a month?
And that’s playing 30min to 1h per day. And I don’t even really like the song
I don’t get what’s not settling in ; there are days where I feel I do an okay-ish job, but even at the best of times it sounds awful and sloppy, like a mockery of the original song. I’ve tried decomposing it but, there’s really not much here.
Simultaneously I think I’m doing fine with things like the “Wish you were here for beginners” for instance, or songs from previous modules.
At this point I feel like I can’t really advance beyond module 9 as I havent wrapped up 8 correctly, but also I’m not seeing any clear progress on what I’m banging my head on.
So what should I do? Try my hands at other songs and skip right past it? What are songs of a similar levels that I should try?
There’s nothing remarkably difficult about Module 8’s wonderwall, so I’m starting to think it’s more that I still haven’t gotten comfortable with even the very basics of chord transitions, and that I would be shooting myself in the foot by trying to rush past it.
Hello Eledwhen and welcome to the community. On the songs page you can filter songs by grade, currently 232 songs for grade 1 and 2. Leave wonderwall, it’s causing you more frustration than good at this point. Sometimes you have to rotate between songs to keep things fresh, when you come back to a song a few months later you will find it easier as you have progressed in the meantime.
I wouldn’t worry about it. I’m still working on memorizing my 5 Grade 1 songs. I was getting a little bored so I started Module 8. I say keep working on the song, but also do some stuff from the next module like chord changes. etc. Oh, and I dropped a song in Grade 1 I didn’t care for. I was practicing it a lot and just bleh. My replacement is more fun.
Pierre, if it is the strumming that is giving you problems, then I would definitely chose another song. Wonderwall is listed for this module because of the chords. The strumming pattern is at least a grade 4 level (16 note strum pattern). You are not expected to master the song Wonderwall with the recorded strumming pattern for the grade 2 level.
Hi All. Apologies if this has already been asked, but would The Cranberries’ “Zombie” be a good song to use the Stuck 3/4 chords with? I’ve been trying it and it doesn’t sound bad, but maybe not as good as it ought to.
There is only one rule in music, if it sounds good then it is good. You can always try stuck 3/4 chords and then it’s a matter of individual taste as to what you like.
In the case of Zombie an all time classic song. I feel that the emotion of the song lends itself to more discordant sounds which you don’t generally get from the stuck 3/4 chords. As you have probably seen in Justin’s lesson for this song there are many variations on how to approach it. Feel free to experiment and see what you can do with it.
