Do any of you guys have a good video that shows how to play the chords of John Mayers song Stop this train?

i just heard it for the first time tonight and want to learn how to play it. Its a good tune

You can prolly find the tab for it on Ultimatetabs.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCWWxsf7Hg

the chord progression is charted out at the end of the video. you can cross it with some others on u tube that teach the finger style. hope this helps

He's hard to understand but it's the clearest one I can find....good luck and keep jammin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzm4QVpbQto

thank everyone long live chordbook

here is a really easy way of playing the song with the tab http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/foru … p?t=100508

drewbarbes wrote:

here is a really easy way of playing the song with the tab http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/foru … p?t=100508

that does not look so easy unless one has a pretty extensive chord library

petey, I think that's why the song is getting a lot of press...and I could be wrong but I think it's also one of those songs that has somewhat unique chords, though not unknown. Kinda have to learn all the chords to get the overall sound right. I ran into that with 'Bridge Over Trouble Water...a piano song mostly but tabbed for guitar.

If you look at the chord list for Stop Ths Train, they're not really difficult or anything, but just 'uncommon'...is that the word I want? Jazz players will hopefully correct me !

Cheers,

GuitarZen

without being able to hear it.  This looks more on the classical side. I wouldnt worry about the 4000 different chord names, as they appear to be just variations of the root forms.  I would just play the tab as written and not worry about the names of every chord (since your chances of ever comming across them again are few,and far between).  Or just learn it from the vid, and use the main root chords as a reference.
Hope this makes some kind of sense..

Yeah, Mr. Zen not difficult at all as far as I can tell. There is just a lot of them. A lot of different chords for one tune.

It does make sense Jag. I often finger out tunes by using the "roots", then start moving some fingers around until I get the variations that sound right.