How to Play: Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event (Acoustic Lesson)

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Kind of a long video, but as requested by Gabe41690, here's my instructional How-To video

Category:

Music

Tags:

• How To Play
• Sometime Around Midnight
• The Airborne Toxic Event
• Alex Bond
• Acoustic
• Lesson

[Lankylee123]

Hey... this video was really helpful but im struggerling to get the strumming pattern that comes in after it says 'it looks like youve seen a ghost', any help?

[gtrLegend23]

@Lankylee123 so what i did for that (and you can see this on the original video) is basically going mad on all of the strings. at "friends" and "look" you hit them once, and then just go into it hitting the strings UDUDUDUDUD. nothing too special, because that's the part of the song where everything in the story falls apart so i just play it powerfully like that, and you can mostly hear that in my performance video.

[Lankylee123]

@gtrLegend23 Thanks mate, i see in the performance you do you get it spot on. Alot of people on here just play it at flat all the way through which is what the song is not about as you can even tell from reading the lyrics this song was never meant to be played flat. Thank you for the tip and not killing the song

[gtrLegend23]

@Lankylee123 thanks, i appreciate it! good luck and have fun with it, it's still one of my favorite songs to play

[TGTF55]

hey man....can you do a lesson on how to play Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional?

[gtrLegend23]

@TGTF55 absolutely! i love that song!

[TGTF55]

haha...alright thanks man! i appreciate it

[gtrLegend23]

@TGTF55 yep, standard tuning

[TGTF55]

hey man...is it on standard tuning or what?

[clotho23]

Hey thanks. Awesome inst vid. I'm gonna try to learn it. They are one of my fav bands. Just saw them. They kick ass!! I'm just learning guitar, 3mos. Already saw someone ask for the strumming pattern so that helps. Thanks again. Awesome!!