Avalanche - by Leonard Cohen

I play a different accompaniment every third verse to add a bit of variety. It seemed a good idea at the time.

It is a great song though. It comes from Cohen's album "Songs of Love and Hate" which was released in 1971.

Wikipedia makes this comment: "The lyrics are based on a poem he had previously written. The music is notoriously difficult to play on the guitar. Cohen went on record saying "Every guitarist has one chop, and I used mine on Avalanche". He acknowledged in a 1992 interview with Paul Zollo that his "chop", his unique pattern of playing, is behind many of his early songs."

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[q28s1]

I love this song! It evolves and grows as we do for each and every person. The meaning in their life changes. For Cohen himself the actual song changes throughout his life! It is so beautiful because it is so simple and we all can relate to it generally and then grow off it! Just beautiful. I love your cover.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Thanks very much for the comment.

[gobacktorussia]

@EllyMcCormack this is leonard cohens way of playing exactly, there are some good tabs about, the person below said hold dm... i use Am but not with standard tuning

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

All the notes are separate.

[EllyMcCormack]

@KenMiddletonUkulele Awesome! Do you mean groups of 3, as in, play three at the same time?

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Hold down a chord of Dm. Play these strings in groups of 3 (triplets) as fast as you can: 4 2 1 3 2 1 4 2 1 3 2 1 etc.

[EllyMcCormack]

@KenMiddletonUkulele How do you play the beginning of this?

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Don't understand, sorry. What do you mean?

[EllyMcCormack]

@KenMiddletonUkulele Why won't you tell us how you did it?

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Only one tip: don't stick rigidly to strumming patterns. I never think about them Oh, and don't do chunks.