Guitar lesson 🎸 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash (w/ chords & tabs)

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Learn how to play "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash! Chords, strumming pattern, tabs for the intro, and even how to strum with alternating bass notes. I'll show it all. Note, this song will need a capo on the 1st fret *if* you want to play along w/ the Cash album version. Otherwise, you can leave the capo behind and play it in the key of E. Best of luck, let me know what questions you have in the comments!

Lesson timestamps:

0:00 Playthrough
0:44 Chords needed
1:41 Verse structure w/ simple strum
2:50 Intro riff
3:40 Strumming w/ alternating bass notes
5:43 Farewell

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Lesson timestamps:
- 0:00 Playthrough
- 0:44 Chords needed
- 1:41 Verse structure w/ simple strum
- 2:50 Intro riff
- 3:40 Strumming w/ alternating bass notes
- 5:43 Farewell

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[Weeeasy]

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[corpa]

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[LucMackowiak]

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[jaygreen]

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