Dust in the Wind Kansas Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

Hey, what's up guys, Marty Schwartz here from my new project Marty Music? Thank you very much for coming here and finding me the new thing and supporting it. I really appreciate you subscribing to this new YouTube channel and also my new website Marty Music. Don't worry, when you sign up for the newsletter you get a free digital course and I really appreciate your continued support on this video. We're going to do Dust in the Wind Kansas, obviously an iconic song, but we're using what's called Travis Picking. you know this finger pattern called Travis picking, you know fingerstyle

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, whatever, so what we're going to do is just form a C chord with our left hand and that's it, we'll forget about it. . just what we're going to use as our little base for the right hand, so I want you to really pay attention to the right hand, so we got the C chord, we have the right hand, we're just going to use the index finger. and the middle finger and the first thing we're going to do is what's called pinching and it's the A string and the B string sounds pretty good, eh, so that's step one, a thousand times later, done, pause a thousand times, come back, okay?

Just kidding, next we're going to hit our thumb on the D string, so pinch the A and B. Thumb on the index D now on the G, put that together, do that, ma'am, I don't know at least 50 times. rest so that a and B pinch the thumb on the index D on the G, then we're going to hit AK on the a, so we have the thumb pinched on the index D on the G, we go back to the a, so when you play it at full speed it looks like we're going to do it very slow again you you so the next thing we're going to do is our middle finger on the rope if I enjoy doing it I don't know if it's fun for me it's the five year old in me I don't know , so all I added is the middle finger on that B string all the time, the left hand I'm just holding a C chord, so don't worry about that. here it is again super slow you you you you then we add our thumb to the D string that's what we've pinched so far D G to B D finally the final thing is the index finger on G and then it all starts again pinch D G to B D G starts ends , so every sequence that you beat, every sequence or pattern starts with the pinch, it always starts again with that pinch, the whole song does that, so the more you get used to that pattern, I remember you playing video games when I was little. that's my pantomime for video games and you know you would have little combos like left right left right up right or you know you're memorizing it first and all of a sudden you could know Street Fighter from left to right so that's what we have to do it's the same kind of thing it's a little pattern the more you do it with repetition the more it becomes second nature and what I would do when I'm learning something like this is "I'll work on it for about ten minutes, then I'll pick up an electric

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and play something." of blues or I'll do something totally different, different songs, something and then I'll come back and it always feels good to come back, you know I don't I want to burn you with it so here it is, the next thing we can do is play a minor chord, but the hand Right is the same, nothing is different, you change to see you and then you serve the introduction to the

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the only thing that happens is on the B string, so that's where this little melody plays and it will be the index on one or none finger on B and pinky on third, okay?

I know when you break it down like that it sounds a lot more elegant than it is compared to the way we're hopefully deconstructing it together, so there's a little pattern first thing, it's basically C 2 3 4, so C 4. 4 patterns a minor four for the C patterns 4 for the patterns a minor four for the patterns that's what's going on so let's do it without the melody 2 3 4 now a Meyer two three four behind it so that's it which will start to happen so look at four four patterns a minor four four patterns see four four patterns a minor four for patterns and then the song would start so now let's talk about the melody, let's look at the melody and then we'll put them together 1:03 one , so that's what happens with this first C 103 chord, so if you put it together, you have to memorize it because then we're just going to take a C chord, take it out, then add my pinky and then go back to the one, but this is just what we have .

I've been working on checking it so remember it was one zero three one and it's one pattern per note so that pattern and is zero so the index finger comes out of the same pattern then the pinky to the third same pattern and then it comes back. to one, so when you play a little bit a little bit faster now I'll play very slow for you just remember that the right hand has been doing the same thing all this time, let's go, period, now let's go to A minor and it's a similar melody , but the melody for A minor is o31, oh so. here it is again Oh three one oh and that would be if you start with a minor but it's the Oh so it looks like this and you would play Oh three one Oh exactly the same pattern here here it is again slow three one Oh, okay, now let's try it with the first two chords so 1 0 3 1 you and then the minor starts with o3 100 three-one here it is without me speaking now look again and the melody is 3:103 so 3:103 in a whole chord of C, remember it starts with the pinky down on the three for this right 103 again, this is the second C chord that starts with a pinky on the third and then the ending in minor is the same melody as the first chord. one zero three one, but now it's in minor, so one zero three one, so you can probably see how important it is to spend some time with your right hand memorizing it, so I'm going to play it from the upper type of normal velocity, so I'll play it slow and keep working on it now very slow, you, well, there was the introduction to Dust in the Wind with a nice Travis choosing a skill that we can add to our bag of tricks thanks again for supporting me on my new theme Marty music Marty music calm down too if you want to request the next part of this song or any other

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, anything, go ahead and leave it in the comments below and I have been Responding to all of you and I just want to thank you again for supporting me as a guitar teacher and It's been a great journey so I hope this is just the beginning and I can't wait to see you again very soon.