The Hardest Strum I Ever Taught? Night Moves Bob Seger

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

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[@Salzbuckel]

You NAILED it; no other teacher told me, how to fit in those percussive strums, and i never figured it out until you came along with the genius explanation. Its the movement shift from elbow to wrist. Took me 10 minutes of practice to successfully do it on time with the rhythm GREAT THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Awesome thank you! Yeah it's a hard to thing to teach that technique and I've been figuring out those steps for years -- a lot of guitar players do it without knowing what we're doing. Glad it helped you :)

[@reneguzman2853]

Genius?? haha come on let's not over react now,

[@johnoliverio8729]

You have the best strumming explanation for this song hands down! Thank you

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[@trusarmor4957]

Please, pleas, please... More Strumming Lessons 👏👏👏

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks again! I could definitely do more on strumming and rhythm guitar in general.

[@timcrespin3030]

Such clear explanations of mechanics behind this ol' song that sounds so relaxed and simple on the radio but in reality is a study in nuanced movement 😄🤣Great job and thank you!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Glad to hear it! Great to hear thank you! Lots more lessons on this channel.

[@steveavant9727]

In one of my many starts and stops on guitar, I enlisted the help of a friend and accomplished guitarist to teach me how to play. I had little ability and a hard to play guitar and one of the first things I asked for was Night Moves. Even he struggled a bit having never played it before. It’s a little tough for a beginner.

[@rafa_guitar]

Love Mr Bob Seger songs, I know how to play many of his songs, now I have one more, thanks Mr Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Cool thanks Rafa! Yeah, he's got a lot of great ones for sure!

[@silverbulletfury2660]

Thank God for this video, ive struggled with this for weeks thinking it was supposed to be easy but now i know my pain was not in vain.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Glad you found it. That's one difficult strum pattern for sure!

[@DenjaCol]

Great technical breakdown of a very cool song. I am going to be working on this one for sure.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Awesome thank you!

[@steveavant9727]

The original recording is played with a capo on the first fret, which makes the F a little easier.

[@allan9045]

A whole lot easier if you start with a G barre chord. The transition to the F is just a 2-fret move down the neck

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Yeah that's a good idea, thank you. We've talking about that on Patreon too. Definitely works well that way too 😀

[@joeblough261]

To your point, you can also go Richie Havens style and play those chords with the thumb over the top for the bass, makes it even easier.

[@johnoliverio8729]

Open chords sound better for this song

[@tjthompson4728]

G over the c chord also is much better

[@QBRX]

Yeah, that's the way I do it G barre to F barre. Much easier.

[@jmoorecareers]

Another weekend, another excellent lesson. Thanks!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks again!!!

[@colindayo]

Another great lesson, thanks Blue. I’m off to join your Patreon group. ❤

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Awesome, see you there!

[@steveavant9727]

Glad to see you doing the full F barre chord. That’s the way I learned it and I’ve tried to change to some of the easier F chords but I can’t now, too many times using full barre. It comes quickly and I’m not always accurate with it but it’s not bad.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Lots more lessons on the channel!

[@timb.8230]

Good lesson. Thank you! Gets the sound right where a few other lessons I've seen sound good but not quite right. As with others, I suggest not using an F Barre chord. I also find the 3 finger G easier for the quick switches in this one than the 4 finger. Thanks again... Glad I found your lesson/channel!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful!

[@artisticglow7486]

Good lesson. Nice breakdown. Thanks.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joesampson8594]

Great timing on this lesson, with autumn closin' in😂

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching

[@jeffro.]

Blue, I never thought of that strum pattern as difficult. I just did it! But, now that you've pointed it out, I'll have to see if I can STILL do it! Lol

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Haha if you can do it, awesome!

[@raymondegan]

Ok so a few things 1. your the only person to say this is hard….and it is, it really is. 2. You broke it down so I now get it and understand if. 3. You made it easy 4. You the man 👍👍

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! It is indeed a challenging strum pattern.

[@capearkona1989]

Yeah, that scratch technique is very cool, once you´ve got it right. It sounds great, even on electric guitar. Thanks Blue!👍

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! For sure it works great on electric too!

[@fish-n-riffs]

This one was tough for me too until I got the palm “scratch” down. But just playing along to the track is the fastest way to pick it up. Into the Mystic was the strum that took me the longest…

[@jimkolberg9500]

Well done... Nice job young man.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you kindly

[@QBRX]

Love it, thanks!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you QBRX!!

[@Sirius5465]

Awesome, thank you.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! New lessons here almost every Saturday!

[@Swoop180]

I found Night Moves easy, the song that gives me issues is "Listen To The Music" by The Doobie Brothers.

[@georgep6694]

I would like to see more acoustic lessons from you. Fantastic.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! Seems like my videos with electric guitar do a lot better in terms of views, but I'll keep doing some acoustic lessons now and then.

[@tomcat613]

Awesome lesson thanks !

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@celestial-fusion-band]

Absolutely a great great lesson, thank you!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@greatkingrat]

If you watch Bob play it, he doesn’t use a bar chord. He uses an F with a C on the third fret of A. His C has a G root (third fret on the E) so those two transitions are easy, it’s just move the last three fingers up (lower) a string. If you play the G chord with Middle, Ring, and Pinky that is easy too.

[@jeffreyholt2103]

Capo first fret and the song begins on an "ah" (first 3 strings upstoke). Then 1...other than that spot on and you pointed out a small glitch I had developed in my playing this song... TY

[@munkeyinspace5331]

Also not the variation of F and C that Seger plays in this song on the album although they are a pita if you haven’t practiced them

[@danrobinson1563]

Im working on this song now. This is awesome! I was going right from a down strum to UDU UDU UDU. I see you are doing a down strum then DUD DUD DUD. I'll have to adjust there. And im working on that slap, percussive strum. I believe in the chorus the strum pattern changes. Is it D D DU DU? Or straight 1/8th note strums DU DU DU DU? Thanks. Great lesson!

[@DavidLaFerney]

This song taught me to play bar chords. That said you only sing over the G and C - like Bob does in the Bridge (woke last night…). Consider start out doing that.

[@blakeanderson7906]

Cool lesson.🤘

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! 😃

[@Denmirden]

Very interesting. Thanks

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching!

[@richardsmusiclessonwarehou3402]

If you use thumb fretting on the F chord you’re left hand and thumb doesn’t have to move as much. Merle Travis and Chet Atkins did this lots. That switch to the F you are doing is a wrist buster. Play a F/C and a C/G and keep the guitar sounding full.

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

F chord change up strum on one beat is food for thought. Strumming is the hardest to learn sometimes because of the mind boggling strum patterns. Imagine you were told to play a combination of beats down / up / miss within the right rhythmic time.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

It is a tricky one for sure. Thanks for watching 👍

[@DHY2K25]

40 years ago in my teen years I tackled this on acoustic first, right off the bat. Everything else came easy after.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Cool! Tough song to start with.

[@lucasolari3756]

slowing down the intro a lot I hear notes resonating during the 'muted strums'. They seem to be played like this (E to e): G chord [xx00xx] C chord [xxx0xx] the 3rd string (G#) is not muted during the muted strums of G and C!

[@Stephen-zx4uf]

Great video! Nice explanation of the scratch palm technique.. though been baffled for 40 years why folks don’t use the much simpler approach of muting the strings with the left hand.?..? Accidentally learned this alternate approach and used it convincingly for decades.. after learning the palm technique 20 years ago, still not seeing an advantage when doing a basic scratch strum.. the left hand approach seems much faster and is easier to apply on selected strings. Though learning the palm mute technique enables playing half muted bass lines for a cool effect. Expect I’m missing something more valuable .. and welcome enlightenment! Thanks again for the great video and reminder to revisit night moves!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks! If you can make it sound the same then sure mute with the left hand. It means you have to keep letting go of the chord to cover the strings though, and with open chords you really have to make sure you cover those open strings. Bar chords are easier to mute with the left hand.

[@stevetrivago]

Thanks … well worth stopping in..

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@davevivlamore459]

For the life of me, I can't get how you're counting the up strums and down strums to what you have on the screen it doesn't look like 4/4 time. How many measures is that supposed to be? I play it by ear and it seems right, but when I try to count your arrows written I get all messed up. Thanks, I'm old and slow.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

It is in 4/4 time but the chords switch before the end of the bar. That might be what is confusing your ear. The image at @3:19 shows one full measure if we consider those 16th notes. Or think of it as two full measures of 8th notes if you prefer.

[@davevivlamore459]

@@GuitarLessonsVancouver thank you!

[@DougSmith-y4o]

Keep hand moving and hit on ups on chord changes and work on feel through repetition. Capo at 1st Fret… that will match to the original Album version.

[@scoobydoo4087]

Great lesson. Can you start teaching songs or is that a copyright issue?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you! We can teach some songs on KZbin, but they will be demonetized and sometimes you will get a copyright strike. So I may do it at times, but it probably won't be my focus.

[@98939893]

It's the same rhythm or very close to an earlier song - check out the beginning of Let it Bleed... maybe Bob pinched it from Keith.

[@tlares5589]

Where are the chorus chords?

[@ChadHarland-o2g]

Bud it took me close to a year or more to get it right. But it was worth all the effort.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Well done!

[@trusarmor4957]

10:26 bye the way, those are Toms ... sorry, i had too, beside some was gonna 'say' it. 😇

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

True 😄 but that was the only drumkit animation my software had 😄

[@jaycarpenter5474]

Simplify the Barre chord. Play the F Maj 7. I think this is the way Bob actually played it live.

[@cajunqueen5125]

👍👍👍

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching 😎

[@michaelsymons7975]

My guy, where's your capo on 1?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

I don't see a capo on any live footage of Bob Seger

[@michaelsymons7975]

@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Original recording is capo on 1, live he often played with no capo (probably to save his voice), later years he played a guitar tuned to D standard.

[@BillyKeough]

I thought I was the only dumbass who could not get this down , thanks 👍 for the lesson and the truth about it not being so eazy, BK

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching! It is indeed a difficult one

[@Skwid-Lives]

I substitute that bar chord for an easier F

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

That would certainly work. I've seen some live footage of him ... more recent concerts ... in which he is doing that too.

[@SuzyQpip]

I play it with a full F and full C. Barely a chord change at all.

[@Requiredfields2]

Thanks for laying out the complexities that make this sound special. If you're not going to play it right there's no point in playing it. imo

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Glad it helped.

[@shawn576]

wtf? ok yeah that looks kinda complicated. Thanks for explaining!

[@jimmy5634]

If you think it’s hard to strum, try singing it at the same time your strum. The key Bob sings it in makes this song prohibitive for most to perform. I change it to the key of “E” …so it’s E-D-A .

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

True, singing along to that strum is yet another level :)

[@robertferrell2679]

They say if U cant play it slow U can't play it fast 😊

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

True indeed!

[@WorldsOkayestSorcerer]

The only way I ever made that work was by barring the “G”

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

That works 😀

[@sofarsogut]

:)

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching

[@rossdawson5575]

I hate Fs they sound terrible whichever way I play it

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

They are tough. Make sure your bar is right up to the fret, thumb at back of the neck, squeeze with your right arm to get counter pressure. After that, it's building up the strength

[@Hugh_Manitee]

Been playing that strum just like that for 40 years. Not hard.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Good for you! It is hard for most students. That's awesome you can do it no sweat :)

[@karldettling5981]

the real fact is that this song can be strumded many diiferent ways and can be made even better then seger does it. Because improvement is really sort of endless. So don't ever give up. Dudes and dudests?

[@TrennyLopez-j6y]

Only song I was able to play

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Interesting... it's not an easy song.