BS-306 • Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane

[Indigo]

Lesson Link: http://justinguitar.com/en/BS-306-SomebodyToLove-JeffersonAirplane.php

Questions...

[YamahaPacifica]

Great tune but I've struggled with links between verse and chorus parts in Justin's video. If somebody is finished with Justin's lesson and still have problems through whole song this video might be helpful





This video does not contain strumming pattern so it's good to learn that first from Justin's video.

[Lord_Gigabyte]

I'm guessing this question belongs in the Justing Guitar songbook section, but i can't start a new topic there. So if the admin would take a look at this, i'd be very grateful.

To the problem at hand. I recently bought the Beginners songbook and in stage 3 of the beginners course, i'm starting to learn Somebody to love, from The Jefferson Airplane.

In the chorus, the last line goes D A (EM). Up to D and A, i get the strumming pattern down, but what happens with the EM? Does the strummingpattern (DDUD|DUUD) start all over again and into link 1or is there something else?

[tobyjenner]

LG

Not played it for a long while but having a quick noodle through, I tend to play that Em on the last D strum of that 2nd bar and let it ring out. I'll have a mess around against the original and if anything sound s different I'll let you know.

Toby
 

[Lord_Gigabyte]

I can be such an idiot at times  .... I've worked out 2 things. First is the right location for this question to begin with and second is the strumming. I'm not quite sure if it's "right", but to me (and my family) it sounds good so i'll stick with it.

Another day, another thing learned....

[naturalmystic]

What are the chords for verses 2 and 4? and on verse 3 it says N.C and then eventually | D  A | but you can't just not play anything for that long? There is music playing on the record. I can't work it out.

[labince97]

Hi naturalmystic ! For verses 2 and 4 I use the exact same chords as in verse 1. except for the beginning due to the "N.C." as you mentionned it.

The last chord before the "N.C." is a Em that is played for 2 strums only, and then you'll have to count for a whole bar of 4, and a whole bar of 6 beats without playing, and finally play the [D-A] part.

I'm learning the song myself and therefore I'm not sure about what I'm saying but that's how I play it following Justin's advices from the book, and I guess it works, even though I find difficult the count those two blank bars that don't have the same amount of beats each !

I hope it helps, sorry if my English is not perfect, it's not my first language. Enjoy !