How to play "When Your Mind's Made Up" on guitar - how Glen Hansard does

[Musiikki93]

thanks dude thanks a lot ! ! ! :) awesome :) hugs from Argentina <3

[Fiedlerfreiburg]

This helps, but the clue to the song is to know that there are 5/4 in a bar, like in "take five".

it is kind of: 1 - 3 4 5 1 - 3 4 5 with accents on 1 and 4.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

[Fiedlerfreiburg]

 Hey, kootenaylad wrote that before me. At least now I know I am right.

[sierraaawrr]

AH You're awesome!!!!

[tallie7487]

@sierraaawrr you're too kind! :) so happy you like the vid!

[goodwil100]

thanks man,helped alot ! :)

[steinseba]

buddy it's good, but you must to be careful with the tempo and song's metric (5/4) 5/4 is hard to play, so is need to try so hard to get better. Anyway, congratulation, the chords are so good, you have a good "musical ear"

[kootenaylad]

It really helps to know this song is in 5/4 time. Count that out as go and it will make a lot more sense. 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5 and so on.

[juliannevillecorrea]

thank u a lot ... its a very dear song...

[motocikletca]

Do you sing?

[upyoursorelse]

Hey is it just me or does this guy sound like seth rogan

[carccaro]

You're awesome dude, this has been very useful for my, thanx a lot ^^

[tallie7487]

@carccaro Well thanks! :) glad to help and you're very welcome!

[riseup20twelve]

thank you mate :) love this song.

[Lexisjj]

thank you!! that was verry helpfull for me!! please do this with all the songs og glen hansard!!! i really would like to play them all, and i think you are the perfect teatcher for it.



[tallie7487]

@Lexisjj that's really so kind of you to say. and you're very welcome! I'm happy to make these videos and haven't in quite a while, but I feel a couple days of grinding out a bunch of videos coming soon :)

[CraterMuffin]

is this in a completely different tune?! D:

[tallie7487]

@CraterMuffin Nope. Just standard :)

[CraterMuffin]

@tallie7487 I had just realized I left it in Drop C XD oops.

[ebosatta1]

Fantastic

[boundary33]

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[boolun]

THANK YOU!

u saved me :D

[21guitarrocks]

is it UUDUUD and then fast DU between chord changes? somebody any idea?

[tallie7487]

@21guitarrocks its DDUUDDU. The hardest thing about it to get down is that it's in 5/4

[21guitarrocks]

Hey tallie thanks a lot for your tutorial pls pls im begging write down the strumming pattern you are using from 3:20 ( Am)!!! thanks a lot

[haziqoops]

thanks, great help

[Talkaer]

Thank you man ...Great tutorial

[Ccojluna]

what key is this in?

[bronxxmetal]

Did you write this?

It was nice.

[StephanSeanMusic]

I'm having a hard time getting down the strum pattern...can anyone help me? ex: up up up up down up down up....lol Thank you so much!

[bigblink]

Thank you for making this video.

[darkerentropy]

Im very gratefull for your efforts in figuring out Glens chords and strumming patterns!It means i don't have to :D

I hope you'll be doing the same with Strict Joy and you should work on some of The Frames aswell! Thanks for all your vids.

[bigbadbob143]

Great man!! I appreciate it. I love Glens songs, but there hard to figure out.

[derekwaddell510]

hey thanks a lot Ryan Howard. haha

[tallie7487]

Happy to help, Michael.

[yankee15]

@derekwaddell510 LOL!! I was gonna say he looks like a cross between Ryan Howard from The Office and Ben Affleck.

[tallie7487]

@yankee15 It's crazy how many people give me this only on YouTube, haha

[BerthaBigWater]

this is awesome! thank you soo much! :]

[floydalbin]

THANX MAN; you are the best

[rohaihuparaguay]

Thanks a lot man. Was having trouble sleeping, lots on my mind lately, and saw this. Its 2:30 in the morning, and just got to get my guitar to play this now!!

[adamscrumble]

Thank you so much, you are a great teacher.

Un bonjour de la France

[XxXBlackInkXxX]

i REALLY cant figure out the strumming pattern

can someone help me out???...please?

[jag90]

The song is in 5/4 so there will be ten beats per chord, which makes for a relatively unusual strum pattern. In the verse play the notes in the video, and you play 1 2 & & 4 5 &. In the chorus and the bridge he uses DDUUDDU which is counted 1 2 & & 4 5 & again. Hope that makes a little bit of sense. It's difficult to type out, so cut me a little slack.

[XxXBlackInkXxX]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

:)

[waddlesgee3]

THANKS SO MUCH!

[Guitarpro576]

if Bj Novak is the guy on the office then you really look like him haha

[eleni14122]

Hi, thank you, you helped me very much, thanks

[1465225568]

Man, I hope someone has told you by now that you look like BJ Novak. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

[tallie7487]

You are the first and only person to tell me that. I can see it a little though

[damaband41]

wow I see it too

[sarahginny89]

Hey you :-)!!

This is really awesome, thaaank you :-)!! I just got a new guitar and I'm not too good a player, but I'll work on this song and maybe post it :-))!

How are you?

[franklystrange]

I saw Glen Hansard in Boulder, Colorado. They were live on KBCO, and he was with his band 'The Frames'. They we're amazing.

[mjd9208]

I met Glen once, pardon the pun.Thats my claim to fame.

[tallie7487]

Where did you meet him? Isn't he the greatest?

[mjd9208]

A couple of years ago after a concert. I live in Dublin so I regularly go to all of the places that were shot in the film. Have you ever been over here?

[tallie7487]

I haven't yet, but I really want to.

[nataliesilva07]

thanks for making the video... (helped me learn the odd time)

for the f and g, i think it may be played just a bit differently. by putting another finger on the 'A 'string on the same fret as the d string....(so 3rd fret for f, and 5th for g) then deaden the E....or use your thumb for the bass note. .... i couldn't tell for sure, but it's all in the way an individual chooses. but yeah, good video

[tallie7487]

glad you found it helpful :)

[csungirls]

your cute :)

thanks for the help, ive been searching for this song.

[donggua007]

so beautuful ,i love your songs ,i am from china,thanks for your video

[sksfh]

can you tell me the strum pattern?

[teodortenchev]

What guitar are you using?

[tallie7487]

Takamine EAN10c. It's the closest available model to Glen's NP15, which was 100% the reason I got it.

[teodortenchev]

Wow, I bet it was hard to find.

[teodortenchev]

It's an expensive guitar too. $1000 o_O

[ostrich1126]

Thanks for your video!!! I really love this song and want to play it well....It's really good thanks alot :)

[tallie7487]

I'm glad I was able to help out :) Let me know if there's anything else I can do for ya.

[4thDimensionFilms]

is this open E tuning or standard?

[tallie7487]

standard

[4thDimensionFilms]

alright thanks!

[Xupii]

mi thumb is not large enough to play the 3x543x :(

[Xupii]

thanks from chile :)

[tallie7487]

haha, all the way from Chile. Sweet :) glad to help

[darkerentropy]

play it as a bar chord if your thumb cant reach around

[Arisuky]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I definitely love this song and I want to start playing as soon as possible, so... I'm follow your instructions! and, do you realice you look quite alike Glen? XD Anyway, thanks, thanks, thanks.

[tallie7487]

I take that as quite a compliment! haha :) thx a lot. I'm glad I was able to help

[squtternutbosh77]

Thanx for the video man. Though I had already known the chords, until I was unsure of the order of playing the strings in the verses.

Since you like Glen & Mara along with the The Frames, I suggest having a listen to David Gray. His music is great and for the most part, very simple to play.

[itslateagain]

Thanks man! That was really useful!

[whobyfire]

The song is in 5/4. That is my biggest problem. I keep adding an extra note.

PS - Thanks, I was watching the movie trying to get it, this is much better.

[tallie7487]

Getting down the 5/4 part was definitely one of the hardest parts of this song. Just practice tapping your foot to it and counting "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1...." Once you've got that, I just practiced strumming while driving with the CD in and this helped a ton. Getting down that fast "ba da bum" strum between chords in the chorus gets easier that way. I still air strum even now when I listen to it, haha. I LOVE this song. Lemme know if there's anything I can do for ya.

[simonbu91]

joy, why can't all lessons be like this. Thanks simon

[ledzeppelinzoso]

also ive nopticed that say it to me now from the movie is in Eb

[tallie7487]

Did you mean to type another song, because Say It To Me Now is 100% in open E tuning, no doubt about it. I thought you might have meant When Your Mind's Made Up since you posted on it's page, but I tried it and it made me cringe, haha. Lemme know :)

[ledzeppelinzoso]

hey im so excited for you you've made me jealous lol ive been playing the guitar that glen plays everyday at the music store and im going to buy it and sell my current acoustic and danelectro i can'T wait PS nice beard ;) the frames sent me a msg on myspace they wont be in toronto until next fall :( im saving my money lol cant wait to meet glen there is def a trip to ireland in my near future

[marcowavrdol]

thanx!

[fitzcarraldo1004]

The beard!

[Alterego193]

can you put the chords in the "Info"?

[tallie7487]

I would have to repost the video if I did. Is there a question I can answer about a part of the song or something?

[Alterego193]

sorry, i get the chords xD

Thank, i never can do the intro rythm but now i can do (sorry for my bad english)