Diamonds & Gasoline
by Turnpike Troubadours • Lesson #290 • Mar 15, 2020
Practice Notes 4 pages
About this lesson
In today’s lesson I want to show you a fun strumming sequence which focuses on walk-downs between C, F, Am, and G chords. This one is inspired by the song Diamonds and Gasoline by the Turnpike Troubadours. While they play the song using fingerstyle, my strummed approach will still work should you want to practice the intro to this song.
- 0:00 Exercise at a glance
- 2:03 Riff 1 & 2, simple versions
- 8:06 Riff 1 & 2, with add’l strumming
- 11:38 Farewell
Update: in April 2025, I reformatted my practice notes (PDF) and also addded fingerstyle variations of each section of the chord progression. Note, I have not (yet) created a video lesson for the fingerstyle! If you’d like me to make this sooner than later, let me know.
Related Lessons
If the technique of bass note strumming or walk-downs is new to you, check out the lessons below! They tackle the core techniques used in my main lesson (above).
The song that inspired this lesson
Here’s a video of the actual Turnpike Troubadours song that inspired this exercise. While I’m not teaching this song (or its fingerstyle riff) spot on, you can surely use what I’ve taught and get going with this tune, if that’s your goal.
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