How To Play Blowing In The Wind
By Bob Dylan

Below you'll find a detailed explanation on how to play Blowing In The Wind by Bob Dylan on the acoustic. There is a demo and a free tab also on this page.

Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics to "Blowing In The Wind" in 1962 in about 10 minutes. The melody of the song however he did not write. He admitted that the melody comes from an old spritual song called "No More Auction Block."

This was a former slave song that apparently originated in Canada and was sung after slavery was abolished in 1833 by the British.



Originally Dylan only had two verses to this song but added a third verse later on. They have been changed around over the years by various performers. It was played a plenty during the 1960's because it became known as the civil rights protest song.

Blowing In The Wind was first recorded by The Chad Mitchell Trio, who were a folk trio that played no instruments and made satrical fun of the events of the day during the 1960's. But because the word "death" was in the song, the record release was delayed.

And then along comes Peter, Paul and Mary and sold one million copies with their version. Talk about great timing.



Now Dylan plays this song in G but Im playing it in C. Here are the chords you'll need for this one ... C, F, G, Am and a Dm. I have a quick intro and middle of the song picking break consisting maily of hammer-ons which I fully explain in the full version tutorial from the link below.

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If you start off and play this slowly you'll catch the rhythm Im using here which is note-dn-up-note-up-dn-up ... note-dn-up-note-up-dn-up because Im using bass note strumming.

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