How To Play Against The Wind By Bob Seger

Below you'll find a free tutorial on how to play Against The Wind by Bob Seger. This song Against The Wind was written by Bob Seger and was a single from the album of the same name. Glen Frey of The Eagles sang background vocals on this track and Seger managed to take the song all the way to #5 on Billboard back in the summer of 1980.

Seger said the songs inspiration came as a result of being a high school cross country runner. The song was featured in two movies, "For the Love of the Game" and "Forrest Gump" and was also covered by The Highwaymen and Brooks And Dunn.

The Chords
A song with 6 chords including G, Bm, C, D, Em, Am and a partial B Chord using the B note on theA string and the B string 3rd fret.

Strumming Pattern For How To Play Against The Wind
The pattern I use involes a bit of a shuffle pattern. It starts as follows

Dn Dn Up Dn Up Dn
Quick Shuffle Dn Up Dn .. and repeat both of thes eparts.

I also use downstrokes walking down from the G, Gb, E note on the way down to the D Chord. I also use it on the C chord using the C, B, A sequence.

Intro Section For How To Play Against The Wind

The Intro section as shown in the video is simple a quick hammer-on from the G chord using a partial C Chord using the B string on the 1st fret and the G string on the 2nd fret. That is followed by an open D with a hammer on at the 2nd fret and a hammers on at the A string on the 2nd fret as well.

Main Picking Section For How To Play Against The Wind
The video below explains in detail the sequence of strings to pick in order to somewhat duplicate the piano section in this part of the song. If you have any problems seeing this clearly shoot me an email. Here are a few parts tabbed out.








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Full Tutorial - 6 min 52 sec

--- Start Of Against The Wind Lyrics ---

It seems like yesterday, but it was long ago
Janey was lovely she was the queen of my nights
There in the darkness with the radio playlng low and
The secrets that we shared, the mountains that we moved
Caught like a wildfire out of control
Til there was nothing left to burn and nothing left to prove
And I remember what she said to me
How she swore that it never would end
I remember how she held me oh so tight
Wish I didnt know now what I didn't know then
Against the wind, we were runnin against the wind
We were young and strong, we were runnin against the wind

And the years rolled slowly past, and I found myself alone
Surrounded bv strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home and I
Guess I lost my way, there were oh so many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searchin'
Searching for shelter again and again
Against the wind, a little something against the wind
I found myself seeking shelter against the wind

Break

Well those drifters days are past me now
I've got so much more to think about
Deadlines and commitments
What to leave in, what to leave out
Against the wind, I'm still runnin' against the wind
Well I'm older now and still runnin' against the wind
Well I'm older now and still runnin' against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind
Against the wind ... etc

--- End Of Lyrics For Against The Wind ---

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