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Old 03-28-2015, 03:48 AM
jdavid8891 jdavid8891 is offline
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Default Black Magic Woman - Santana (Chords and Video)

Hey!

I am a beginner in acoustic guitar. This song is awesome and I have found an easy cover on songtab.com.

I know the chords, but I don't understand the sequence she's playing. How many times does she play the chords down and up?
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Old 03-28-2015, 05:06 AM
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For each chord written in the chord chart she strums down and up eight times. She actually says at one point "Think eight" but it's easy to miss.

The strums are not equal. There is emphasis on 1, 4 and 7 like this

Code:
!     !     !
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

another way of counting this is

1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2
for each chord.
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Old 03-28-2015, 05:37 AM
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Ahhhh, thanks a lot stanron! Now some practice
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