Lesson a Week 1: Skullcrusher Mountain

Here's a breakdown of Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton.

I'm aware of the error I made around the 8:00 mark, I should have played the A chord followed by an E, NOT B7.

Here are the chords for your reference

E 022100
Esus4 022200
E7 022130
A 577655
A x02220
Am x02210
Bm x24432
B7 x21202
D7 xx0212
G#m 466444
C#7 x43404
F#m 244222

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[Leotraiu]

I'm sorry to sound like a complete utter newb here, But what do you mean by "Heres my A"

Is the tuning just standard?

[suuuupaadave]

I play my A string so you can check to make sure you're in tune with my guitar when I filmed it.

[thesuperjill]

Hi! I'm learning this on my ukulele, thanks to your great video. I've got all the chords down, but I'm confused on the strum patterns. I'm a beginner and can't hear them. Do you happen to have them written out anywhere to see?

[suuuupaadave]

Hey, sorry it took so long to respond. One of my weaknesses is transcribing rhythm as I play by ear frequently. Strums can be transcribed but I feel like certain things just need to be heard to understand them. Sorry I can't be more help and thanks for watching.

[xKronisLegacyx]

Sorry, whats the note at 2:18 right before the A major?

[suuuupaadave]

It's a D. Third fret of the B string, it makes it an E7 chord.

[sheik530]

@TheBananaCactus I know... My best friends favourite music artist is Jonathan Coulton, and I ntroduced hiim. All my other friends are listening to LMFAO or other dubstep stuff. How old are you?

[TheBananaCactus]

@sheik530 You have good taste, unlike most of the other people your age who will only listen to dubstep and techno stuff, completely dismissing all other styles of music.

[sheik530]

I am learning this and I am 13

[drivec]

Thank you so much for making this video! I recently started playing the guitar again and this helped immensely in learning this song. Thanks Dave!

[wowdanalise]

These videos pretty much taught me how to play guitar. I started these off only being able to pick slowly string by string and now I can play every song without error.

Thanks Dave, you really are suuuupaa.

[TheSchoobydoobydoo]

I wonder if it's worth mentioning how you get all those sounds out of the E chord in the intro and verses. I'm assuming it's muting the top two strings, but some clarification on that would be pretty cool

P.S: I was too lazy to go through all the comments to see if this had already been brought up, sorry if I am a repeat offender

[DashCat9]

@Artaimus In my opinion, the strum pattern is the most difficult part of this song to get down. (The intro/verse is particularly weird). I practiced it a whole bunch and eventually got it down. Once I got the chords down, I actually just watched some live JoCo videos to help get it the way he plays it while singing.

[DashCat9]

Thanks much for the lessons...you've personally taught me how to play all sorts of Jonathan Coulton and I really appreciate it. Fantastic videos.

[killking72]

so you strum down on a, d, and g. then strum up on the be and high e?

[MightyEagle0]

@Artaimus

Me neither mate...