• From: buxton
  • Registered: 2006-05-19
  • Posts: 19

Topic: scissor sis strumming

Hey all.back from my travels around the world and have picked up a hundred new ideas and inspirations from all them drunken campfires. one thing i am struggling with which i hope you can help me out with is the strumming pattern for scissor sisters/ take your mama. iv spent ages listenning and trying to pick it particulaly the razorlight cover on it on radio 1 cause thats one of the best acoustic versions of it iv heard but im admitting im getting nowhere and am after help. all the chords are sorted its just that bloody strumming pattern. i always struggle with these
any cheers all
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  • From: Orpington London
  • Registered: 2006-10-22
  • Posts: 390

Re: scissor sis strumming

The strum

Its a funky number so use barre chords with some left hand damping (x) . There is a 16th note rest on the 3rd beat {. Chord change is a fraction after the beat


....Bb......................................................Bb7

1...a...&...a...2...a...&...a...3...a...&...a...4...a...&...a...
v...n...x...x...v........x...n...{...n...x...n...v...n...v........


if you break it down into four beats - that will make it easier to learn 

you may find it useful to download "powertab".  Its free and it has a good transcription of the chords to this song

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