How to Play the Second Half of "House of the Rising Sun" on the Guitar

Video Transcript

"JOE WILES: This is segment two of "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals. I hope you got your chords down 'cause we're going to start playing right here. Now a quick review. We'll be using the A minor chord, the C chord, a D major chord, an F chord, an A minor chord, an E major chord, an A minor chord again, then the E major chord to fill in the gap. Now, watch my right hand as I cycle through that chord progression, okay? I'm going to hit the root note, the first note of each chord. Then, I'm going to strum through to all with the highest of the notes in each chord and then I'm going to go a three count from the highest down--one, two, three. Each chord is going to get that same treatment. Bass strum except the highest, okay? So the first chord will sound like this. Next chord, okay? Then the D chord. Then the F. Then the A minor again. Then the E major chord. Then the A minor chord. Then the E major chord. Let's listen to that put altogether, slowly okay? And to speed that whole chord progression, it sounds like this. Now, that's when the verse starts in. It's basically the same chord progression, if you need the specifics, I'd recommend you go to ultimate-guitar.com or one of the other tablature sites I've mentioned and download the actual chord progression for this song. It's a really neat song. I encourage you to take a look. In our next video segment, we're going to take a look at number 37 on the top 80 most downloaded guitar tabs of all time and it's "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes. I'll see you there."