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Pink Houses - John Mellencamp

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In Mr. Mellencamp's heartland rock classic we start to combine all of our rhythmic skills with anticipated strum patterns, tricky chord changes within one measure, and sweet hammer on melodies. Skills Learned: Chord transitions between G F C D with a D DU U DU strum pattern and a challenging syncopated intro using G and C. Also some other anticipated strum measures.

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2 Comments
folkhero on 2020-09-27
Jeff, great one. Question, when transitioning from the chorus to the intro riff, do we hit the open A on what would otherwise be the last up-strum of the C measure? I think that’s what is going on... any other mellenkamp tunes planned? Good for the “campfire series”. Thanks! Rogers
Jeff Rady on 2020-09-27
Hi Folk hero, that's exactly right, you want to anticipate that open A string as part of the riff right after strumming the last measure of C. I haven't thought about Mellencamp in awhile, would love to do another though. Any suggestions?