How to add WALK-DOWNS to your STRUMMING (Key of C)

Get my PDF chord sheet for this lesson @ songnotes.net/lessons/401
Hello friends! Today I want to answer a question about combining walkdowns & strumming, sent in by Patreon supporter Gary (thanks for your support!). Specifically, Gary wrote in asking about the Bob Seger song Still The Same, where during the pre-chorus and chorus sections, Seger is strumming G for two full measures -- and at the same time, he's playing a descending run of bass-notes that feels part of the strumming. Gary asked how Seger is doing this, and in this video I'll give an answer -- tabs included!
I'll also show 3 additional tabs (available in my Patreon PDF for this lesson), where I show how this exact same principle can be used in slightly different contexts. Taken together, I hope these examples will help you understand why this technique works so well -- and empower you to use it in your own playing.
Other lessons I've made that use this technique:
Wild World by Cat Stevens (Lesson #282)
songnotes.net/lessons/282
Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel (Lesson #51)
songnotes.net/lessons/51
I’ve Just Seen a Face by The Beatles (Lesson #298)
songnotes.net/lessons/298
Key of C Cheat Sheet (Lesson #388)
songnotes.net/lessons/388
Beautiful Fingerstyle Walkdown, Key of C (Lesson #264)
songnotes.net/lessons/264
Walk-ups, Walk-downs, and the Fretboard (Lesson #354)
songnotes.net/lessons/354
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[@petethompson292]

Great lesson! You have a knack for teaching guitar that really helps me accelerate my guitar learning curve.

[@demondom2]

Beginner to intermediate (sounds) almost overnight. Really nice job. Thank you.

[@dirtworshiper2800]

Great lesson. Bob Seger one of the greatest musicians ever. Thanks.

[@isaiahwilliams2577]

This is probably the best channel I have found for acoustic lessons. Wish I found out about you sooner

[@souffled]

WOW You are a very good teacher. Very very clearly explained !

[@chrisorourke]

Thanks David. Great lesson

[@Teeder]

Fantastic! Practical, musical, and extremely well presented so that plodders, like me, can follow along. Thank you for the excellent, applicable lesson that you hear in a lot of music. This will really help me to improve my playing with a pick and/or my thumb use, on bass notes, while strumming. This is a significant skill builder, in my opinion. Thanks again!

[@penprop01]

Thx Gary. Great question, Lv your videos.

[@1974xaviers]

super video and very informative....Thanks David

[@bobwoz100]

Thank you for the lesson - showing how to use correct struming.

[@t.dwhitaker8808]

How did you go so long without ever hearing that song he like one of the most awesomeness musicians ever the man is a genius😁

[@YEM_]

Killer lesson. Thank you!

[@richardb8104]

great lesson!

[@sylviewheeler6237]

Excellent vidéo ! Well done !!

[@diesi7777]

Great stuff!

[@brentgilbert4208]

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Mr Bo Jangles is another great song to “evaluate” the chords/walks, also.

[@genem9725]

Very cool. Thank you.

[@CoachDean101]

you are one of my favorites if not my favorite

[@LeMans512]

Jimmy Page does this at the beginning of Stairway to Heaven. The Dave Clark 5 use it in Because. And Les Paul uses this in the intro and ending of How High The Moon. Great video.

[@danluther1741]

Well how bout that. Something I can actually understand AND apply! New sub here!

[@MrPeter924]

Awesome great music song. Great guitar 🎸

[@LukeA1223]

Someday soon, gonna get this... someday soon.

[@Sutich]

Awesome lesson, and I always love how your PDFs look. What do you use to put them together?

[@cig2781]

Thank you!:)

[@freesk8]

Your made-up exercise at 11:30 does sound like "Blowin in the Wind," but it reminded me of "Dangling Conversations" by Simon and Garfunkel. Cool! :)

[@johnmacmillan627]

Thank you. Greatv

[@Nick-qg9mw]

Hi There! Is John Prines "In Spite Of Ourselves" still coming? learned the basic intro picking with one of your lessons a while ago. thx David!

[@kaipo7782]

Hey man I was wondering if you could do ballad of a law abiding sophisticate by Colter Wall? I love all your videos man and you have taught me a lot!

[@aanstadt]

This is great. Any way you can explain the theory behind this though, so I can apply it to other keys? Thanks! Happy thanksgiving

[@freesk8]

Great lesson! Thanks so much! :)

[@davidsheriff8989]

In Key C I play ending with G - G# - Bb- G - C

[@Daniel-eh1qp]

David - please.. for my 6 year old daughter: Maisy Stella - Riding Free! .. with the super correct strumming pattern. I would be so thankful!!

[@lloydosmond678]

just a little fast for me, thanks

[@erwmlw]

Great lesson but can't believe that you didn't know Still the Same by Bob Seger

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[@RobertViani]

This is awesome. Thank you. Love putting it all together w/ figure 4.

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