![]() ![]() If you need some help getting to grips with this rhythm – check out my post on the most important strumming pattern you’ll ever learn.Īs I always say though, just use it as a guide. I’ve set the video to play from the point that Josh starts playing but the whole video is worth a watch if you’re interested in learning.įor the record, it looks like Josh is play the good old-fashioned D DU UDU which looks like this… As most of the songs that Axis Of Awesome play are backed by a piano there’s no exact strumming pattern but if you really want some help on this, you could watch this rather brilliant TED video where Josh Kaufman has a crack at the 4 chord song on a uke… No doubt some of you reading this will want a definitive strumming pattern for this one. It’s a chord combination that crosses genres too as you’ll see from the list of songs above. The thing that amazes me about it though is that songs can sound so different despite being based on the same formula. There’s just something that is pleasing to our ears about those chords and that keeps musicians coming back time and time again. Ultimately it’s pretty simple, this combination of chords works incredibly well together. It’s the relationship between those chords that’s the important bit. Axis of Awesome simply transposed all of the songs so they could play them using the same 4 chords and they’re completely recogniseable. They use the same relationship between chords. Technically all of the songs listed above don’t use the same chords. Why do so many songs use the same chords? Even just noodling around with those chords for a while you’re likely to find a few new ones. The truth is there are loads more to go at. Ok that might be only 47 and I did say hundreds but Axis Of Awesome had to stop somewhere otherwise their video would have gone on for hours. The Gregory Brothers – “Double Rainbow”. ![]()
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