Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt Talk Nimrods And Needle Drops

Learn the all-purpose passing chord – the get-out-of-jail-free hack used by everyone from Kurt Cobain to Billie Joe Armstrong

This lesson is about something that many players already do intuitively without even thinking about it or realizing they’re doing it, and that is using what I call the “all-purpose passing chord,” which is simply strumming one or more open strings when switching from one fretted chord shape to another.For example, in the laid-back intro and verses to Soundgarden’s Blow Up the Outside World, when changing from an open E chord to C every two beats…

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt Talk Nimrods And Needle Drops

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool explain how their new movie Nimrods mixes fact with fiction for a music-filled spectacular.