Winter In Americaby Doug Ashdown

Doug Ashdown is an acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter, who is globally best known for his hit single Winter In America, which he wrote with his songwriting partner Jimmy Stewart.

The men left sunny Australia in the early 1970s to try their luck in Nashville, Tennessee. During a brutal, freezing winter they were intensely homesick and pining for the warmth back home. And so the song was born from combining two separate, unfinished songs by each of them into one.

The lesson teaches the song in both standard and dropped D-tuning (Capo IV). The latter is the one that Ashdown uses himself when performing it.

The progression might seem straightforward, but it's really not. There are a couple of time-signature changes, as well as key changes. 

We take a look at all the chords, the strumming, and break down the fingerpicking intro.  

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