Learn to play Ian Tyson's Four Strong Winds on Guitar and Harmonica

Difficulty: Nice and Easy

Lesson Length: 12:25

Instructor: George Goodman

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Download the Chords, Lyrics, Guitar and Harmonica Tabs here: Four Strong Winds - for educational purposes only.

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This is a Takamine G Series EG541SC bought in North Carolina when I was playing in a band called Double Take.
Specs:
Top - Solid Spruce
Back - Nato
Sides - Nato
Finger Board - Rosewood
Electronics - TK40
Finish - Gloss Black
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A C harmonica is the first one you need to follow along with the lessons on the site on works great for Four Strong Winds. I often play a Hohner Special 20 Harmonica in the key of C through a Shure Green Bullet microphone Model 5200 and Fender Super Champ amplifier

Hohner Harmonica Holder

The Hohner Harmonica Neck Holder fits harmonicas up to 7-1/2" long.

With a long-lasting nickel-plated finish, this harmonica rack is adjustable and fits any neck shape.

The harmonica does not require single notes or bending.
There is one tricky guitar chord but other than that it is an easy rhythm guitar part.
The challenge will be playing both instruments together.

The Guitar Essentials, Harmonica Essentials, and Rhythm Guitar and Strumming courses can help with any difficulties you're having.

• Guitar Essentials Course
• Harmonica Essentials Course
• Rhythm Guitar and Strumming Course

Hey George here for harpnguitar.com, the website that helps you sound great on guitar and harmonica.

Today we're going to look at that old folk classic by Ian Tyson; Neil Young covered it and I had a subscriber say ‘hey can you show me how to play Neil Young's version of “Four Strong Winds”’ so that's what we're going to go through.

We'll go through the guitar chords and the strumming and there's a neat little kind of syncopated pattern that happens on the chord G which we'll go through.

Then we'll pick out a harmonica and demonstrate what we do on certain chords.

You know? If we're playing C, what do we do on the harmonica? What's the predominant thing? What do we normally, mostly do on these chords? Are we blowing or drawing? Whereabouts? So we'll go through that. We'll pick out the harmonica and go through that and also tab through the chorus.

Guitar Chords

Strumming Pattern

1 2 & (3) & 4 &

Down Down Up Up Down Up

Harmonica Tabs for Chords

C Major (I Major): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

D Minor (ii minor): 4 -4 -5 -6 7 -8 -9 -10 10

G Major (V Major): -1 -2 -3 -4 6 -7 -8 9

F Major (IV Major): 4 -5 -6 7 -9 -10 10

Things To Note

This was recorded in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia in January 2021.

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Right on. See you in the next one.

Peace,

George