'Have You Ever Seen The Rain' Easy Guitar Lesson + Tutorial | CCR John Fogerty

Learn how to play (I Wanna Know) "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This song uses some easy, basic chord shapes and a simple strumming pattern. What makes it interesting is all the melodic bassline parts which are clearly displayed in the chord chart/TAB at the top of the screen to make learning guitar easy!

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As far as the tutorial is concerned, this one is pretty simple for how cool it sounds once you get it all together. The verse is just 2 chords (C, G) and uses a simple, percussive strumming pattern. We teach you how to put that together, and then we tackle the chorus, which requires a couple more chords (Am, F, and some "slash" chords).

My favourite part of the tune, the bit that always gets me, is the descending bassline during the chorus when he sings "have you ever seen the rain." We spend some time looking at that and figuring out how to get nice, smooth chord changes.

Finally, we take a look at the intro, learn how to play the iconic bassline bit (that you can see me playing at the very beginning of this video) and that's about it.

I hope you enjoy the lesson and if you need any extra help don't hesitate to leave any questions in the comments section!
-James

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[phailinamilakong]

You are the best guitarist teacher on the net

[wphb]

I love the presentation, especially the timing chart scrolling at the top with the lyrics. Thank you for this!

[benbush]

Excellent Lessons, from strumming progressions to playing riffs, you have created a format that will make a lot of guitarist, and educate already players. Very Exciting Channel,

[geralynpalacol]

🎸🎸🎸Thank you James for your Free Ebook!🥰🙏🙏🙏. Appreciate it✅

[zozikfreeman]

Thank you, James, always a real pleasure watching you teaching, thank you Great guitarist.

[Edekje]

What an excellent clean presentation of this song! I must say it's not for true beginners though! If you can nail this you are already pretty experienced! Great practice.

[neilcooper]

Another grate lesson James my guitar playing has come very very well since I discovered you on utube thats James Neil England

[johngarrity]

Really nice job! Just solid and straight forward. 👍

[dinahvizcarra]

Thank you James for your time and effort! You really are a great teacher! Loved it because you teach us step by step to play the pattern and strings. Again, you are a awesome excellent teacher!!

[daviator]

Hey you did a great lesson! Your teaching style and pace PERFECT !

[torsteinuriah]

You are good. The best guitar teacher. Thank you:-)

[greenriverz]

Leave the chord chart up for each during the play-alongs not just the Letters, to show finger placement

[Tcyberdynesystems]

This is awesome, took me a while to get the changes of chord smooth and the strumming pattern but it's starting to sound good. Thanks

[sandilandi]

Love this but would of been awesome if you did it all the way through after adding all the parts PLEASE maybe a link with a full play through with intro and bass line 💯❤️🎸🎶👍🎯

[stefanolobiancobenitez]

Thanks so much, you make ir very easy to play God bless you

[klausluttgen]

sehr gut erklärt - dankeschön...and greetings from germany!

[mite]

It sounded like the song and all, but i prefer the one marty music teaches, but watching this video helped me with muting the strings, so thanks for that, you seem like a great teacher btw, you made everything quite simple to understand. Anyways, take care, peace.

[jillburkett]

Could you record with the chords the whole song at the normal tempo?

[laneywine]

the only problem i have is playing g because it is hard to remember where the fingerings are for the note, and it’s hard to stretch out that far in just a second.

[nataliya]

Do you have tutorial for song " Why not let bygone be bygone"?
Thank you.