How To Play BAD MOON RISING by CCR

Chords and Tabs for this video: bit.ly/3vPKTOF

[@GuitarPilgrim]

This song is so much more fun to play when using a tuned down guitar!

[@EclecticSoundBox]

What amp are you playing through for this video?

[@richardhumby8704]

Not sure whether to thank you or curse you! Been playing this wrong for years. Joking, it’s a relearning. Thanks.

[@scottsevertson1803]

it is also easier to sing, don't know why.

[@michaelmendillo7513]

Sounds so simple to play most CCR Songs, that is until you start playing them and you realize there isn't anything simple about it. !!!! John Fogerty was (is!). a very, very talented musician,,he not only played flawlessly but was a fantastic singer and song writer, just an amazing individual and one of my favorites!!!! Way up there!!! TY Pilgrim. You know how to pick them bro. !!! 😎✌✝💕

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

the lyrics of most of his songs make no sense

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

@@lordbuttingham61 I guess you like your songs with lyrics that you can easily understand I imagine Humpty Dumpty and Mary had a little lamb will be amongst your favourites.

[@moebetta4224]

No, they're incredibly simple. People just love to find complexity where there is none. It's a psychosis. That, or you have no natural feel whatsoever.

[@kutsbothways]

Your teaching method is as refreshing as your enthusiasm is infectious. Thank you for what you do.

[@dekerivers5798]

Sounds very much like I‘m Left, You’re Right, She‘s Gone - even down to the guitar solo.

[@WRR2011]

Awesome video!

[@dizzywilliams3557]

Thanks G.P now I know.

[@stefanstanca8410]

Esti cu un ton mai jos.

[@tonypurcell1049]

Too simple to bother? No, once again a very enlightening lesson. Entertaining and very informative.

[@tr5947]

Another great video about another great performer/songwriter. John Fogerty shows that feel and expression are the things that can make a great song, and great music can happen even if you're not the most proficient person at shredding and instrumental pyrotechnics. Fogerty's songs defy you to not feel something when you hear them. Thanks for another awesome video.

[@larryheller4620]

Just watched 3 or 4 lessons on this song- this one is by FAR the BEST! I especially like the way you explain how the ORIGINAL was played using whole tone down tuning and E B7 A chord shapes instead of D A G! EXCELLENT!

[@fabientissier1218]

Never heard better explanation about John’s part 👍👍👍👍

[@sapelesteve]

Terrific lesson of a great tune Thom! As you noted, it looks and sounds easy until you try it! Anyway, hope that you & your little one are doing well. 👍👍🎸🎸👏👏

[@joepalooka2145]

Great video. John Fogerty is a true songwriting genius like few other people. What seems "simple" is often extremely difficult to achieve. Writing a song like this is one thing----- recording it perfectly and delivering it to the whole world as a globally recognized hit for the rest of your life is another. Every Creedence Clearwater hit song was written by John Fogerty, except for "Suzie Q", which is astounding. And he's still playing live on tour to this very day.

[@magthompson1]

Going to see him on may 23rd..waiting for years..

[@freesk8]

There's a bathroom on the right! :)

[@anilgonsalves]

Another super lesson from the master teacher. Thom you bring so much life and music into the three chords, as nobody else can do. Thanks for this wonderful lesson.

[@ЕвгенийСкрипкин-х1д]

Парень ,сделай программу на РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКИ и тебя будут смотреть и слушать миллионы !

[@everythingpotatoversion1201]

Hey hey .. that John's part is a revelation to me.. Thanx😍👌

[@RVDL]

Thanks for your video's, I enjoy them a lot. Just gonna leave that here.

[@dirkderyckere6517]

Thank you very much Sir ! This is a really great guitar tutorial . So honest and really true . You re the best for me ! KEEP DOIN THE RIGHT STUFF ! THX

[@richard21995]

Wow, the only tutorial to really explain what's going on and the subtle way it's played that makes it such a great song. You are an amazing player with a natural gift of departing your knowledge to others.

[@iannicholls7476]

Brilliant! I thought I knew this song but there’s much more to it than I realised. Thanks.

[@jaredrodriguez3578]

please please please, can you do a tutorial on how to play Eric clapton's unplugged "circus" version

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci beaucoup for this. The 1960s were a chaotic confusing time, a time of upheaval, and Creedence was a music that touched the soul. Many of my friends had wildly divergent tastes in music, but everyone liked CCR. Great playing, great lesson.

[@chipsterb4946]

Nice! I learned this song a long time ago but never with the drop tuning. This sounds right!

[@CubaSocialClubNL-bj8mr]

Great tips n tricks! The downpitch is the killer! But you forgot the intro 'in between' strokes in the A and G chord! However anybody will find out themselves of course. Thanks anyways!

[@trinityflow]

Awesome detail! That is a proper lesson.

[@pablomf5816]

Maravilloso mi amigo...saludos desde argentina!!

[@JohnSmith-gy8rc]

That is the best lesson on youtube for this song - thank you!!

[@orbituary]

The Scotty Moore style lick isn’t quite right. More hybrid picking, hitting the bass note

[@JohnQuincy1776]

I don't know why I didn't hear the Scotty influence before.

[@564df6g5h4d6f5g4h6d5]

Wow dude you are incredible. I won’t ask how you do it but that is a phenomenal breakthrough. Awesome

[@goldenhusky7926]

at @06:50 , do i have to barre the 5G,C,F,A,D strings with the index?

[@mackvismusic8622]

69 through 72. That’s all you need to know!

[@RodriguezD69]

This is the best guitar tutorial for this song, thank you so much. Never realised how straight forward it is. :)

[@alan4sure]

Yep. I figured that out about 45 yrs ago.

[@adylp7818]

You sure pick great songs for your channel. Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@EARL65USA]

Great lesson, one of my favorite songs.

[@jarrasmith1]

Best tutorial I’ve seen. Great work my man

[@benito892]

Didnt know marco bandera played guitar

[@bigdaddy4294]

John Fogerty, underrated guitarist, had some great chops

[@moebetta4224]

Why does JF look like Elton John in the thumbnail?

[@aki3912]

良いと思います。道のりは長いで焦らず、やりましょう

[@borischum5733]

Thanks for the wonderful tuning tip...

[@joebush9756]

Tom the drummer no? Anyway good vid 👍

[@king_burnok]

Very imformative guitar playing

[@MartinBauerle-lz3yw]

45 jears i played in a wrong way.....

[@vernonsaayman9741]

De niro said,you gota gift my friend!

[@ericcork34]

But what is the other guitar playing?

[@FR33STyla72]

I would give anything to be able to play a guitar. I've tried but I'm obviously too dense because I just don't get it. I'm also not very dexterous ☹

[@GuitarPilgrim]

The only thing that matters is whether you enjoy it, brother. Go for it!

[@sergethiriet3740]

Which strat model is it ? Thanks

[@johnnytrangbkklausen5069]

John haircut is underrated!

[@bobbywarren6583]

Very good lesson, thanks !

[@daggettbeaver828]

There's a bathroom on the right.

[@stephengoh5456]

Great teaching! Thank you.

[@paulcooper5748]

What about out my back door by CCR.

[@stingaling]

You fret your A chord weird! 🙂

[@Cowboy-e1c]

Thanks for the lesson🙏

[@williemccoy259]

Geez and here I thought I was playing it correctly all this time! Well kinda was but this is a fantastic lesson. Now I have to relearn it! Thank you

[@TheLockdownKidNYC]

I really appreciate the attention to detail in this video. I'm getting kinda tired of "teachers" making easy content by doing short tutorials on popular songs like this with basic chords. I would like to believe if you were learning to play a song so you could actually teach it with some semblance of credibility, you would watch the original artists play it to see if there's something you're missing. That's how I came to this video cause I felt like the plain D A G chord progression wasn't quite what I was hearing.

[@dippupardomuanlumbangaol4325]

Teaching the technical David Gilmour sir. Terimaksih banyak from indonesia

[@GuitarNTabs]

Excellent tutorial, and it sounds great when the guitar's tuned down! It would be really great to see more CCR song tutorials like this, since some of those are tuned down as well! I hope you will consider this suggestion. Thanks again. Best regards.

[@HM-2011]

The genius and the 3 judas

[@chuckschillingvideos]

You don't discuss it here, but a key component to Fogerty's playing is immediately muting the strummed chords as he plays them.

[@vernonsaayman9741]

Very informative! Been playing it ,,wrong,, since1972.thanks pal.

[@bentoncushing8693]

Sweet,,,,,thank U.

[@davidkirkham6497]

Love your explanation of this great R&R song! Goes to show how really great John Fogerty is & was!😀🇨🇦

[@davidkirkham6497]

@@yinoveryang4246 mixed up?

[@erfanps4601]

Please Make video about one of these Jimi Hendrix songs👇 (Drifting) (Remember) (Wait until tomorrow) (May this be love) (one rainy wish)

[@damianwalker5804]

Beautiful sound, great skill exhibited and a pleasure to revisit CCR. I began in 1970 playing drums to Travelin Band. Love it.

[@cinquettitt6161]

CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" and also John Fogerty's "Big Train from Memphis" are very similar to Elvis'/Scotty Moore's "I'm left you're right she's gone"

[@TheMetalMag]

thx

[@pauliaxx1996]

Thanks a lot

[@buckzx12r]

GreaT JOB!

[@robsonag]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@youarewhatyouare]

Best tutor

[@standtallvets5386]

Great Job on the video. I played this song back in the 70's growing up with all the great music back then. This video is great for people just learning these days.

[@lawsonlawson9806]

Awesome!!!!👍😎

[@alvaroaugustowaldriguesdea4997]

Cool!

[@hojazo]

Thanks

[@egbun]

Can’t explain John Fogerty guitar without using the word "tasty"… which is a high honor. Thanks for this artfully clear dissection of a great song. Not once did you make us wince by saying "now place the third finger on the sixth fret, fourth string" the way most guitar teachers do. Very well done.

[@landroveraddict2457]

A love your tutorial. Thank you, I am pretty sure John is cutting the cords short (stops them from ringing too long) in the intro, they seem to come to an abrupt end. Am I hearing it correctly?

[@williamkoppos7039]

1969, Frankie Chretien's backyard. First heard this life-changer. Rock and roll! Fell in love with Creedence that day. My Mom still won't listen to it, since I played it over and over to her ad nauseam. Thanks for the cool lesson.

[@mikerichards6311]

👍😜

[@TheJukkaHenrik]

Thanks Thom! This was the first song I ever learned to play with the guitar. It was 1969, just after the song was released. I was 11 then🙂 I did it Tom's way. (And still doing...) Thanks to you, now I'm not wondering anymore...📻

[@fabiraffle422]

dude thats the best tutorial for any song i've seen so far. amazing ! thank you so much :)

[@2011littlejohn1]

I've been saying this for years - about the Scotty More/Elvis influence on this song. In fact I think the track off the Sun Album which is closest to these licks is You're Right I'm Left She's Gone. So I was really pleased to watch your analysis. Maybe this is where the 'revival' part of their name comes from? :)

[@mickh1402]

WOW thank you GP. Brilliant teaching and the fun you put into it. Great video. Thanks. 👍

[@maximodiaz7224]

X Dios!!!! Como sonaban los 4 juntos ...increible ...pueden tocar los mejores , pero ese sonido es único e irrepetible...

[@LetBBB6345789]

What do live performing bands do with songs for differently tuned guitar? Seems kind of inconvenient to retune your guitar twice in a set for every song out of tune

[@brucesaunders2120]

I saw CCR play in Melbourne Australia in Feb 72. He had two Les Pauls and swapped between them a few times. Didn't know why at the time but it is safe to say one had normal tune and the other had drop D tune.

[@TheAzmountaineer]

These days, John carries about 6 or 8 guitars with him!

[@mr.janhe_10]

This is exactly what I was looking for! I found those other tutorials but they only explained the basic cords, never mentioned anything about the tuning John used. Thanks so much! 👍🏼🍺

[@Deliquescentinsight]

As always it is the nuances which generate that classic CCR rhythm, some people think it is simplistic, but there are lots of details when you focus in

[@patrickgueguin792]

As soon as you talk about Elvis and Scotty,I feel happy Thanks for noticing that

[@ŁeChíí-Diné]

So much love the enthusiasm! Shows how much us rockers just want to jam out and leave the world behind! Keep rockin' On!!🤘🎸🤘

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Most songs on the _Green River_ album are in the DGCFAD tuning!

[@urbanoramos5229]

I recently came across a lot more songs from CCR and this one stopped being my favourite,compared to down in the corner and born in the Bayou,just brilliant songs

[@marktwain368]

You are very skilled and have an excellent sense of how guitars really work! Thanks! I've been playing since 1964 btw so I know a thing or two about it.

[@pvkoinch]

Love you GP. Very refreshing lesson. Thank u v v much.

[@montyrackley612]

Cool I learned it up the neck years ago. Gonna go back and okay it this way

[@montyrackley612]

To tune it down makes it higher and strings tighter right? I broke my high e string trying this? Not sure Im going right way.

[@brucesaunders2120]

If you reduce the tension in the strings one full tone called drop D tuning, playing a chord with the E fingering will produce the D chord as this "evens things up". It will have the same pitch but a different tone. This is because when you pluck a string there are higher frequency vibrations within the basic vibration. These are called overtones and they control the tone of the sound. When you pluck a string in the middle and then near the bridge you get a different tone because you get different overtones. The D cord played with normal tuning will have different overtones to the D chord when tuning is drop D and the cord played with E fingering. Hence the D chord played with E fingering and drop D tuning has the same pitch but has a different tone or timbre. He does the same trick in Proud Mary. The CCCA intro is played with DDDB fingering with drop D tuning. Another tick is he plays the E7 chord in Born on the Bayou not at the first fret but using C7 fingering at the 5th fret. This causes two strings to be playing an E note and creates the magical sound of the song that is not there if you play E7 at the first fret. He also picks out the intro from C7 fingering at the 5th fret. He also plays E7 at the first fret during the guitar solo.

[@TheAzmountaineer]

Wrong way. Tune it down = lower notes (looser stings).

[@stephenbrumlow931]

So awesome that you’re bringing some CCR tunes back into the limelight. How about a lesson on their Ramble Tamble?

[@digantaanthony27]

Brother, your voice is like professional singer.....❤