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captian.rebeccalee, welcome to chordie. With your permission I will e-mail you the lyrics to CCR's "Who'll Stop The Rain" with chords. The chords will be written above the words were the chord changes occur. The song has a strum pattern of 1 - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 -& 1.

1= downstrum
& = upstrum.

If you read the lyrics and count the strums (beats) as you listen to the song you will better understand where it shows you to change chords.
This is a easy song to play. The key is in G which is the same as CCR's recording.

Nela

I hear ya, TD. The company I'm with now has 3 different jobs that are in liquidated damages. One of them since January. They have lost the bond, are being sued by the owners on 2 different projects. They are not bidding any more work and as they cannot get a bond for another project. The CEO has resigned, the Human Resources Director has resigned, Accounts Payable Director has resigned, two Project Managers have quit, the General Project Superintendent has quit, but everythings fine. I gotta get away from this train wrect before it's too late.

Nela

Since I got me a twin brother we both got us a pair of those X-Ray glasses. All they did was kinda made a shadow around what you was looking at. Made everything a little fuzzy.
Them was the good ole days.

Nela

I like coffee every morning about 4:30am. I like coffee after a good supper. If I had it I could drink coffee most anytime. And Bluejeep, next time you are hot and dry from the summer heat, try about a half cup of hot coffee.

Nela

What we are trying to say is to listen to the bass notes of the song. If what you are hearing is - Dum - dum - DUM - dum - DUM - dum - DUM - dum - repeat it would be
                    1        &        2        &        3       &        4         &         1
With a DUM (1) being a down strum
and a dum (&) being a up strum
This would be a basic down and up strum pattern. This pattern will change according to the tempo of the song. You have to listen and train yourself to hear the beat of the song and that will give you the strum pattern. This takes awhile to learn but is not difficult to do. In a 4/4 timing there are several strum patters that can be uses. Listen for the bass as that will give you the down strums. The strum patterns could be per the example above or;
D - D - u - D - u - D - u - repeat or
D - D - u - u - D - u - D - repeat or whatever your are hearing. You can even make up something as long as you are keeping rhythem with the song.

Nela

Start slow, real slow. Most people get theirselves in trouble by trying to advance too quickly. Spend the time to learn your guitar, learn to tune it, learn how to take care of it, how to change strings, get it set up correctly as it will be easier to play. Learn what a tuner is, what a fret is, where's the nut, where's the bridge. Then start with the open chords. Learn the open chords - G, A, C, D, E 1st as they will be your foundation - keep it slow. Once you have this then move on to the next step.

One other thing - decide what type of music you want to play prior to your leaaon and make the instructor aware of that. But keep it slow.

Nela

Be sure to give her my best.

Nela

Glad ya'll like how things are done here on Chordie. I try to run a tight ship and keep things running smoothly so everybody can have a healthy experience when they check out the Chordie World Headquarters. I got a good staff of people from Admin, to all the Moderators, and most of the Membership (gotta delete all the Spammers) who really pull together to make this site what is is - THE BEST.

Everybody - STAND UP AND GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK FOR A JOB WELL DONE.

'Nuff Said.
Nela

Zurf, remember your diet - don't eat what's in the package!

Nela

Ya'll keep everything you got crossed for me. Just got a call from the construction company I interviewed with last Friday (by phone) and I've made the "SHORT LIST". I have a "face to face" interview scheduled for next Monday morning @ 9:00am with the President, Senior Vice President and their General Superintendent. I was told today by their Human Resources Director that they had over 400 appliants for this position so I'm feeling good about meeting with the group I'm scheduled with. The HR Director said that they are very interested. Show me the MONEY.

Nela

Been wearing tri-focal glasses for several years, now. Went the contact route for a while which helped me with distance but not worth caca upclose. No lines, progressive lenses works well. Give um a try.

nela

Well I'm 6'1" and float between 225 aqnd 230 pounds. Thats down from the 265 pounds I weighed in 2009. I quit drinking about 10 years ago when I finally figured out that my bar tab was equal to my Bass Boat payment on a per monthly basis. Thats way too much money spent to rent beer for such a little while. When I started loosing weight I wanted to get down to about 190 pounds. That was too hard to do. If I maintain anywhere between 220 and 230 I feel good and have excellant stamina. I have what is considered a large frame with wide shoulders so I can carry my weight without any problems. When it comes to eating - I can put it down. As for a diet (and I know its not a good one) I do without breakfast - just somewhere between 4 and 6 cups of coffee, have 1 sandwich for lunch and a decent supper. Still have to have that cookie n milk snack before bed, though. For a 60 year old fart I think I'm doing well.

Nela