Chord progression and extensions! Today, we start looking at a new song in The Verve’s monster hit The Drugs Don’t Work. The chords are all from the key of...
Playlist - The Drugs Don't Work
The strumming pattern! Let’s take a look at the strumming pattern for this song. We are dealing with 16th note patterns at a slow pace again. The rhythms in the...
Intro & Verse! Today we start playing the actual song. As it is so incredibly complicated, we only have two examples to practice. Ensure you get every single strum...
Chorus & Bridge! Today, we learn the chorus and bridge sections. Let’s start with the first chorus, here called example 1. To learn it, use the TAB loop...
Complete song! Let’s play the complete song with a singer. Simply play along with me as you read the chart below. I’m not gonna lie, this is not easy! Far...
2nd guitar part, picked! Let’s work out what that 2nd guitar is doing on the recording. In my opinion, this is pure genius part writing, I love it! Let’s get...
2nd guitar part, strummed! Last time, we learned exactly what was happening on the record, today we develop a part using the shaker and snare drum as our inspiration. We...
2nd guitar play along! Today we play the song together. I’ll play that super complicated 1st strummed guitar, you play that beautiful, perfectly written 2nd guitar...
