"Good Riddance" Guitar Tutorial - Easy Version + Intermediate Picking/Strumming (Like The Recording)

Welcome to my "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" Guitar Lesson + Tutorial, by Green Day. This easy 4 chord guitar song is perfect for beginners. It uses the "2-finger trick" to help you make faster chord switches. I've also included the picking, intermediate strumming pattern and a few upgrades from those looking to improve and challenge themselves! "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" CHORDS: G, Cadd9, Dsus4, Em7, D "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" STRUMMING PATTERN: D-Du-uDu | R-D--uDu-uD-DuDu ► "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" FULL SONG PLAY-THROUGH (play along with me, from start-to-finish) available on my Patreon page:   / 66105398   ► Grab your copy of my FREE E-BOOK! https://goodguitarist.com/learn-rhyth... ► Need help with the basic chords and strumming? My BEGINNER GUITAR COURSE will help you build a solid foundation one step at a time: https://goodguitarist.com/beginner-gu... ► Ready to take strumming to the next level? STRUMMING MADE SIMPLE (from Beginner To Advanced) will teach you how to play + sing at the same time, make your own patterns and more: https://goodguitarist.com/strumming-m... "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:00 - INTRO 2:10 - CHORDS + SWITCHING TIPS 3:52 - SWITCHING PRACTICE 4:38 - STRUMMING PATTERN 6:30 - VERSE PLAY-ALONG 7:07 - THE PRE CHORUS 8:36 - CHORUS PLAY-ALONG 9:30 - ARPPEGIATION PATTERN 12:10 - LONG STRUM PATTERN 17:00 - SONG FORM 18:38 - TIPS + RESOURCES I just rewatched all of Seinfeld and it reminded me of this tune. I never really appreciated it at the time (Green Day's slow song just didn't do it for angsty teenage James... I was more into their punk rock stuff). Aaaanyways.. The lesson begins with the four easy chords needed to play the tune. We practice the shapes and we practice switching between them and then we learn the strumming pattern. We can use the most common strumming pattern ever and pair that up with those four simple chord shapes and play this song in a very easy way! It just consists of three sections: a verse, pre chorus and chorus - and all of them are incredibly simple. After learning the easy acoustic version of this tune, we can try some intermediate upgrades. First we'll learn to arpeggiate the chord pattern. That means to add some picking to the strumming pattern. We work through it bit by bit and add it to our chord progression. Then we learn the other strumming pattern that he uses throughout the tune. This one is two measures long and it changes throughout the song but this is a good guideline for how Billy Joe Armstrong would strum this tune. We also add the D chord instead of Dsus4 - a very simple upgrade needed to play it like the original recording. If you'd like to practice the entire song with me, there's a full playthrough available on my Patreon page, where I play through the entire song, start to finish. More information on that here:   / 66105398   --- http://goodguitarist.com/good-riddanc...   / goodguitarist   #goodriddance #greenday #GuitarTutorial