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today we're gonna learn a song in five
four and the song we're going to learn
is overcast by me you're probably like
what kind of ego trip are you on man
teaching us a song that you wrote well
I'm on the best kind of ego trip of
Shaun Daniel you go trip but we are
learning this for a couple different
reasons one of which it's got some cool
chord voicings that you may not have
used before it's just kind of fun to
play and also because I'll probably
forget how to play this song so it's
nice to have a reference to reteach
myself how to do it so anyways let's
talk a little bit about 5/4 timing I
would say it is the most common of the
odd meter timing that you'll see now
time signature what that is like usually
most songs are in 4/4 what that means is
that you just count before over and over
again and if you're to notate it every
quarter note there before in a bar the
next most common is 3/4 otherwise known
as a waltz in that case there's three
counts in a bar and five is probably the
most common odd one which you still
don't hear a whole lot but it's really
valuable to help your counting right so
for whatever reason it's really hard to
count to five over and over again as a
musician while you're playing something
so we're going to talk a little bit
about how to break that up right so
first of all let's get to the first
chord it starts with an a major six
right and I guess I if you haven't heard
it the whole thing kind of goes like
this
so this is the verse and again so a
major six right here we're going to
start with your middle finger on the a
and I'll put the chord voicing up here
but your next your pointer finger is
gonna be on 4d your pinky is on six G
and your ring finger is on five on the B
string right so it's kind of if you've
never played this chord voicing before
it is kind of like a weird shape that
you won't see it in a lot of different
songs but it's really good one to learn
right and just to kind of show you I'm
playing with I'm playing it with pick
you could easily do this with your
fingers but what we're going to do is
I'm going to strike the root note of the
chord so in this case it's the e string
with the pick play the chord by itself
dynamically yeah and then alter the root
note so I want to kind of knock mahom
altering the root note what I'm doing is
we're going from the root note to its
fifth right so a if a is one ABCDE E is
its fifth then you'll notice this as
like a pattern throughout the song right
so if I were to take the fifth of an a I
could just open it up and hit the E
string right now the strumming I think
is the most important thing and this is
where the whole lesson of 5/4 comes in
counting to five I think before some
people encounter five really easily I
had a hard time and I first started
doing it to me it was better to count to
three and two alternatively which adds
up to five right so the way I'm playing
is one and two and three one two
easily count it just like one and two
and three four five one and two and
three four five what I'm doing is I'm
getting on the one the root note on and
I'm kind of up stroking the chord one
and two I'm muting the two so you can
either omit it like one two and three
four five or you can just kind of mute
it like it dead into you I'm like taking
the pressure off my left hand I'm not
leaving the chord
cuz I don't have to reform that weird
chord anyways I'm just kind of taking
the pressure off it cheated
sound let me hit it with my pick so 1 &
2 & 3 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 so if you notice it
I'm going 1 & 2 & 3 so on the three on
the down stroke I'm getting at the chord
again 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 on the fours when I
open up to the 5th right the the 5th of
the root note which is e 1 & 2 & 3 4 5
then I'm getting that chord again right
1 & 2 & 3 4 5 1 ng M 3 4 5 so that's 2
times I did it now I'm gonna switch to a
strange voicing of a B minor right most
you probably know B minor is this right
here
but we're gonna take this part where
your pointer finger isn't but we're
gonna throw it down to make an inversion
where the root note is actually the D
right so now I'm thinking of the D is
kind of my root note even though it's
like a B minor inversion same thing
applies 1 & 2 & 3
once I get to the 4th I'm going to open
it up take the fifth of what a D is d e
f g a right so I'm on the a string so I
can just open up that string 1 & 2 & 3 4
5 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 ok so we have a major 6
1 & 2 & 3 4 5 & 3 4 5 B minor 1 2 & 3 4
5 1 2 & 3 4 5 next one we're going to a
C major 7 right I'm really pretty
voicing it's kind of like a power chord
on a see it starts out that way 3 a 2 5
D now your middle finger is going to
grab that 7th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and your
pinky is going to be on 5b 1 n 2 n 3 now
this is interesting I still want to go
to the fifth of C cdefg
I need to find a G I can't just open it
up right I have to find is you somewhere
else so I'm just going to go straight
huh now this works anytime you want to
find where the
fiz of any note on lower strings you
just hop up a string if you're in
standard tuning right so I've got a C
major seven one and two and three four
five
I'll ask you is just hop up to find
where the fifth is it I don't even have
to know this is a Jesus and C it
whatever whatever this note is if you
want to find the fifth you just go up a
string right so we're on the C major
seventh one two and three four five one
two three four five next chord voicing F
major seven alright if you've never used
this major 7 voicing before it's kind of
like a minor chord but you're holding
the first fret down to it some people
actually use their thumb to play this
I'm not a big thumb player on the E
string so I just kind of go like this
pointer finger one E and then I make a
minor chord below it with my ring finger
on to D pinky and to gene little finger
on one B now what I got to do here I
want to find the fifth of his app I can
open up the string F G a B C I need to
find a C and right to kind of keep that
pattern going I can't go up a string
because I'm out of strings I'm on the
low E string so I have to find that C
I'm using like a power chord in my mind
right so in a fantasy you gives you
wanted a 5 so to do that one sum3 4 5
and have my pinkie swing up and grab
that they're on an 2 and 3 4 5 now
instead of playing this twice I'm going
to switch to an e7 they probably are
know this voicing it's just like a
emajor
with your ring finger open
all right and the root node cilia one
and two and three four five another grab
the five of an e and e F G a B this is
the second note I'm a string one and two
and three four five so those are the
five chords for most of the song right
I'll play them all again a major 6 1 & 2
& 3 4 5 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 B minor 5 C major
7 4 5 F major 7 and it splits this bar
with the e 7 back to the a now this
actual way to play there's a lot of
different songs a lot of different ways
to play a 5 4 this is kind of like like
if you ever heard this song take 5 by
Dave Brubeck he actually stole this
rhythm for me like 80 years ago it's
kind of like that 1 & 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2
there's a lot of really cool songs in 5
I think like go to sleep by Radiohead
River man by Nick Drake awesome song
kind of come to - there's a lot of
different ways to play 5 there's
different ways to think about it so this
is just one way to think about right so
look those are all the verse chords
we're going to get into the chorus now
and it's pretty easy because just going
to add one chord and it's chord you may
already know right so it's a g7 right
but I'm going to play the bar chord
version of a g7 right here I don't put
the board table right exact same thing
we're gonna do
the same strumming pattern but I'm going
to grab the 1 and the 5 5 of g g a b c d
is a d and there right so 4 5 C major 7
just like the first time hat now we're
going to change something a little bit
different on the effort here right so we
did one time each on G and C 1 2 3 4 5 1
2 3 4 5 1 2 4 5 1 2 4 5 so I played a
full bar 5 on the F just like we did it
in the verse then I played a 3 more 1 2
3 4 5 and I kind of use those last two
beats of that 5 to bring us back into
position to play
so singing and playing five four is a
whole other challenge that's why you
need to get some kind of counting
whether it's counting to five where
there's counting to three and two you
kind of have to get that engrained but
yeah if you wanted to kind of like see
how the structure of this song goes it's
just the same verse scores twice around
so be like oh great club it just passed
up I just missed us bit far away now so
that happens again right and then we go
into the chorus with the G so therefore
five don't go gotta have to sway back
and forth
the sky's not okay then you go back to
the e7 then back to the beginning with
the a6 there you have it hopefully it
this will help you to count in five four
and also definitely if you haven't
checked out the music video you got to
do that because it's kind of an amazing
journey and adventure based on a real
story of my life so anyways that is how
you count one way to count in five four
four and the song we're going to learn
is overcast by me you're probably like
what kind of ego trip are you on man
teaching us a song that you wrote well
I'm on the best kind of ego trip of
Shaun Daniel you go trip but we are
learning this for a couple different
reasons one of which it's got some cool
chord voicings that you may not have
used before it's just kind of fun to
play and also because I'll probably
forget how to play this song so it's
nice to have a reference to reteach
myself how to do it so anyways let's
talk a little bit about 5/4 timing I
would say it is the most common of the
odd meter timing that you'll see now
time signature what that is like usually
most songs are in 4/4 what that means is
that you just count before over and over
again and if you're to notate it every
quarter note there before in a bar the
next most common is 3/4 otherwise known
as a waltz in that case there's three
counts in a bar and five is probably the
most common odd one which you still
don't hear a whole lot but it's really
valuable to help your counting right so
for whatever reason it's really hard to
count to five over and over again as a
musician while you're playing something
so we're going to talk a little bit
about how to break that up right so
first of all let's get to the first
chord it starts with an a major six
right and I guess I if you haven't heard
it the whole thing kind of goes like
this
so this is the verse and again so a
major six right here we're going to
start with your middle finger on the a
and I'll put the chord voicing up here
but your next your pointer finger is
gonna be on 4d your pinky is on six G
and your ring finger is on five on the B
string right so it's kind of if you've
never played this chord voicing before
it is kind of like a weird shape that
you won't see it in a lot of different
songs but it's really good one to learn
right and just to kind of show you I'm
playing with I'm playing it with pick
you could easily do this with your
fingers but what we're going to do is
I'm going to strike the root note of the
chord so in this case it's the e string
with the pick play the chord by itself
dynamically yeah and then alter the root
note so I want to kind of knock mahom
altering the root note what I'm doing is
we're going from the root note to its
fifth right so a if a is one ABCDE E is
its fifth then you'll notice this as
like a pattern throughout the song right
so if I were to take the fifth of an a I
could just open it up and hit the E
string right now the strumming I think
is the most important thing and this is
where the whole lesson of 5/4 comes in
counting to five I think before some
people encounter five really easily I
had a hard time and I first started
doing it to me it was better to count to
three and two alternatively which adds
up to five right so the way I'm playing
is one and two and three one two
easily count it just like one and two
and three four five one and two and
three four five what I'm doing is I'm
getting on the one the root note on and
I'm kind of up stroking the chord one
and two I'm muting the two so you can
either omit it like one two and three
four five or you can just kind of mute
it like it dead into you I'm like taking
the pressure off my left hand I'm not
leaving the chord
cuz I don't have to reform that weird
chord anyways I'm just kind of taking
the pressure off it cheated
sound let me hit it with my pick so 1 &
2 & 3 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 so if you notice it
I'm going 1 & 2 & 3 so on the three on
the down stroke I'm getting at the chord
again 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 on the fours when I
open up to the 5th right the the 5th of
the root note which is e 1 & 2 & 3 4 5
then I'm getting that chord again right
1 & 2 & 3 4 5 1 ng M 3 4 5 so that's 2
times I did it now I'm gonna switch to a
strange voicing of a B minor right most
you probably know B minor is this right
here
but we're gonna take this part where
your pointer finger isn't but we're
gonna throw it down to make an inversion
where the root note is actually the D
right so now I'm thinking of the D is
kind of my root note even though it's
like a B minor inversion same thing
applies 1 & 2 & 3
once I get to the 4th I'm going to open
it up take the fifth of what a D is d e
f g a right so I'm on the a string so I
can just open up that string 1 & 2 & 3 4
5 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 ok so we have a major 6
1 & 2 & 3 4 5 & 3 4 5 B minor 1 2 & 3 4
5 1 2 & 3 4 5 next one we're going to a
C major 7 right I'm really pretty
voicing it's kind of like a power chord
on a see it starts out that way 3 a 2 5
D now your middle finger is going to
grab that 7th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and your
pinky is going to be on 5b 1 n 2 n 3 now
this is interesting I still want to go
to the fifth of C cdefg
I need to find a G I can't just open it
up right I have to find is you somewhere
else so I'm just going to go straight
huh now this works anytime you want to
find where the
fiz of any note on lower strings you
just hop up a string if you're in
standard tuning right so I've got a C
major seven one and two and three four
five
I'll ask you is just hop up to find
where the fifth is it I don't even have
to know this is a Jesus and C it
whatever whatever this note is if you
want to find the fifth you just go up a
string right so we're on the C major
seventh one two and three four five one
two three four five next chord voicing F
major seven alright if you've never used
this major 7 voicing before it's kind of
like a minor chord but you're holding
the first fret down to it some people
actually use their thumb to play this
I'm not a big thumb player on the E
string so I just kind of go like this
pointer finger one E and then I make a
minor chord below it with my ring finger
on to D pinky and to gene little finger
on one B now what I got to do here I
want to find the fifth of his app I can
open up the string F G a B C I need to
find a C and right to kind of keep that
pattern going I can't go up a string
because I'm out of strings I'm on the
low E string so I have to find that C
I'm using like a power chord in my mind
right so in a fantasy you gives you
wanted a 5 so to do that one sum3 4 5
and have my pinkie swing up and grab
that they're on an 2 and 3 4 5 now
instead of playing this twice I'm going
to switch to an e7 they probably are
know this voicing it's just like a
emajor
with your ring finger open
all right and the root node cilia one
and two and three four five another grab
the five of an e and e F G a B this is
the second note I'm a string one and two
and three four five so those are the
five chords for most of the song right
I'll play them all again a major 6 1 & 2
& 3 4 5 1 & 2 & 3 4 5 B minor 5 C major
7 4 5 F major 7 and it splits this bar
with the e 7 back to the a now this
actual way to play there's a lot of
different songs a lot of different ways
to play a 5 4 this is kind of like like
if you ever heard this song take 5 by
Dave Brubeck he actually stole this
rhythm for me like 80 years ago it's
kind of like that 1 & 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2
there's a lot of really cool songs in 5
I think like go to sleep by Radiohead
River man by Nick Drake awesome song
kind of come to - there's a lot of
different ways to play 5 there's
different ways to think about it so this
is just one way to think about right so
look those are all the verse chords
we're going to get into the chorus now
and it's pretty easy because just going
to add one chord and it's chord you may
already know right so it's a g7 right
but I'm going to play the bar chord
version of a g7 right here I don't put
the board table right exact same thing
we're gonna do
the same strumming pattern but I'm going
to grab the 1 and the 5 5 of g g a b c d
is a d and there right so 4 5 C major 7
just like the first time hat now we're
going to change something a little bit
different on the effort here right so we
did one time each on G and C 1 2 3 4 5 1
2 3 4 5 1 2 4 5 1 2 4 5 so I played a
full bar 5 on the F just like we did it
in the verse then I played a 3 more 1 2
3 4 5 and I kind of use those last two
beats of that 5 to bring us back into
position to play
so singing and playing five four is a
whole other challenge that's why you
need to get some kind of counting
whether it's counting to five where
there's counting to three and two you
kind of have to get that engrained but
yeah if you wanted to kind of like see
how the structure of this song goes it's
just the same verse scores twice around
so be like oh great club it just passed
up I just missed us bit far away now so
that happens again right and then we go
into the chorus with the G so therefore
five don't go gotta have to sway back
and forth
the sky's not okay then you go back to
the e7 then back to the beginning with
the a6 there you have it hopefully it
this will help you to count in five four
and also definitely if you haven't
checked out the music video you got to
do that because it's kind of an amazing
journey and adventure based on a real
story of my life so anyways that is how
you count one way to count in five four
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