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How To Play “Eight Days A Week” By The Beatles | Watch This Easy to Follow Video
In this Guitar Control video, Instructor, John Maclennan, is going to show you Easy Acoustic Guitar Lesson on How to Play “Eight Days a Week” by The Beatles. This is a great song to get your strumming going, working on a little bit of a bass note strum pattern. We are going to take a closer look at this riff and really break it down in depth. And what better band to learn anything to do with chords and chord progressions than the Beatles.
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How to Play Eight Days A Week by The Beatles On Guitar
Step 1: The A Section
Let’s take a closer look at these Eight Days A Week guitar chords. The A section begins with an D chord. To play an open D chord, place your pointer finger on the 2nd fret 3rd string, your ring finger on the 3rd fret 2nd string, and your middle finger on the 2nd fret 1st string. For the open D chord you strum from the 4th string down since the open 4th string is a D note. After you play the open D chord, you then move to an open E major chord.
Whenever someone writes a capital letter for a chord name and nothing after it, that also means it is a major chord. So whether you write D or D major, they are both the same chord. Now back to the E. Place your middle finger on the 5th string on the 2nd fret, then place your ring finger right under it on the 4th string on the 2nd fret, and place your pointer finger down on the 3rd string 1st fret. Then strum all six strings down from the 6th string all through way through the 1st string. Then to a G chord.
The way that John is holding down this chord is actually very interesting, it’s not the normal way to hold it down, it’s the same notes but the fingering is different. More of a folk style way to play it. The folk style way to play this chord has you placing your third finger down on the 6th string 3rd fret, your third finger is arched over and just barely touches the 5th string to mute it. In this way of playing the G chord you actually do not want to hear that 5th string. Then place your pinky finger holds down the 3rd fret on the 1st string. Strum this chord from the 6th string down all the way through the 1st string as well, again you won’t hear that 5th string because you are muting so its still ok to strum it since it won’t ring out, it is indifferent. So for this G you only have two fingers on the fretboard, your ring finger and pinky finger. Then after that G go back to D.
The verse is basically just D, to E, to G, back to D and then repeat. It starts and ends with a D so when you repeat the D will feel doubled. If you are enjoying learning this song, be sure to check out our other lesson how to play Dear Prudence for another The Beatles classic to add to your repertoire.
Step 2: The Strum
The way they are strumming this verse is pretty interesting. It’s really cool and really makes this song have a lot of life and character to it. First he is picking the lowest string of the chord and then strumming down down up down up for each chord. Same strum on all of them. So again with his strumming hand he is hitting the bass note and then strumming before he strums the whole thing. This almost gives the effect of having a bass player playing with a guitarist. Sounds a little bit more two dimensional than if you were to just strum regularly.
Step 3: Section 2
Then you are going to go to a B minor, which this is a barre chord. So take your pointer finger and barre it on the 5th string 2nd fret all the way down through the 1st string. Then place your ring finger on the 4th string 4th fret, your pinky right under it on the 3rd string 4th fret, and your middle finger on the 2nd string 3rd fret. Strum from the 5th string all the way down through the 1st string. Do the same strum we did before.Then you are going to go to a G chord again.
We are going to play this G chord a little differently than we did before though. We play almost just like a stock G chord, where you would have your middle finger on the 6th string 3rd fret, your pointer on the 5th string 2nd fret, your ring finger on the 2nd string 3rd fret, and your pinky right under it, on the 1st string 3rd fret, strumming all the strings from the 6th string through the 1st string. But again John is leaving out that 5th string, so don’t worry about placing your pointer finger on the 5th string 2nd fret, and use your middle finger again to really arch and just lightly touch that 5th string muting it so you won’t hear it when you strum. So holding down the 6th string 3rd fret with your middle finger and also using it to mute the 5th string, just like you did earlier, but now the chord uses both your ring and pinky fingers on the 2nd and 1st strings, both on the 3rd fret and same strum on this chord, too.
So far for this part we play B minor, to G, back to B minor and then to an E major. The same E major we did earlier. Then go back to the original chord progression from section A. The next section is the chorus where he signs, “Eight days a week…” Where you would just strum an A chord. To play an A chord hold down the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd strings all inside the 2nd fret and strum from the 5th string down. He does this for two measures but for each measure he strum does one strum and holds it out the whole measure. A whole note rhythm. Then to B minor to E, and then a build in G to A. Then go back to the top of the song and that is all for today’s lesson!
Recap: How to Play Eight Days A Week by The Beatles On Guitar
I hope you enjoyed learning these Eight Days A Week guitar chords! This is such a beautiful song, it is simple yet there are a few really cool special qualities to it and things that make it a stand out song. For a song that is mostly just strumming open chords, that strum is so distinct and you know right away that it is this song. I think that would almost be harder to do with just chords. So remember dont only learn the song, but learn from the artist. Think about what they do to make there song’s just a little different and how they stick out among the rest. Bring these elements into your own playing and let them help spark your creativity, and of course, as always, have fun!
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How to Play California Dreamin by The Mamas and The Papas on Guitar – Made Easy on Video
Hey, this is Matias Rengel with Guitar Control, we’ll be learning this song called “California Dreaming” by The Mamas and Papas.
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The first thing we’re going to be learning is the arpeggio of the song so for that we’re going to use an A minor chord and we’re going to be altering it a little bit so for the A minor chord we have the open 5th and the open 1st and we have the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the 4th and 2nd fret of the 3rd string then we have the index finger on the 1st fret of the 2nd string just like that.
Now what we’re going to play the 4th string and the 3rd string and then we’re going to play the 2nd string but we’re going to play it open after removing the index finger so and then we’re going to play once again the 3rd string then we’re going to bring down the pinky to the 3rd fret of the 2nd string and then you remove the pinky and play the 1st fret of the 2nd string and open fret open 2nd string so we repeat that part.
Basically that’s like what the main guitar is doing and then repeats that three times and then at the end you bring down the middle finger to the 2nd fret of the 5th string in that’s your E7 suspended 4. Now the second guitar is actually coming in in the recording coming in like a little bit later and he’s a so right you got this one and then the chord starts, so I mean I guess you could potentially play both of them together if you can figure it out.
I mean original is they are playing it separately but from there we go into the chord part for the core part we have an A minor and then you’re going to a G for each each you place your middle finger on the 3rd fret of the six index finger on the 2nd fret of the 5th and ring on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string and pinky finger on the 3rd fret of the 1st string just like that.
Now from there you’re going to an F major you have the index finger on the 1st fret all the strings and then you got the ring finger on the 3rd fret of the 15 key finger on the 3rd fret of the fourth and middle finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd so then from there you’re going to repeat the G and you’re going to go into E7 suspended 4 that we learn at the beginning the one that had the middle finger on the 2nd fret of the 5th and ring finger on the 2nd fret of the third you can remove the ring finger and leave the index on the 1st fret of the 3rd turning it into an E7 instead of E7 suspended 4, so we are G, E7 suspended 4 from there we’re going to play an F so the F is going to be the final chord we’re going to say that that’s part of this group of chords that we just played.
Now for the next part were going into a C and then the feed you have a the ring finger on the 3rd fret of the 5th wheel pin on the 2nd fret of the 4th open third and index finger on the 1st fret of the 2nd and open first.
Going to E7 back to A minor going to 87 back to a minor then to an F7 suspended 4 and now is going to start repeating check what’s going to happen A minor, G, F, G, E7 suspended 4, E7 and repeat again. Basically you have three different that are happening you have A minor, G, F, G, E7sus4, E7 and F. Now the 2nd progression comes E7, A minor, F, E7sus4, E7. Now the 3rd progression comes and repeats three times A minor, G, F, G, E7sus4, E7 and you repeat that one time.
Now for the rhythm, what I like to play this rhythm for this song so we got down, down, up down, down, up down. so basically the only one that changes in the E7sus4 you go down you keep going down upon the ground so we could say one against the one it’s only down and then to see for his down, up, down, up, so run down three four. Now from there you went to E7 and you play down, down, up, in a F in the same with the next one, now the second time we do the next progression I’m the other ones if we’re not going to do since we don’t have the F anymore whenever we go into the E7 suspended 4 and then were going to repeat the same way progression the same rhythm.
That’s your “California Dreamin” by the Mamas and the Papas, a super easy song I mean I think it’s really cool once you like what I would recommend is that you write down write this, you can download and tell which has the probably has the progression on the chords and their page that are playing but I would recommend you the that you download the tab and that you analyze what I’m doing and that you divide this in three different progressions in that C however you want to see it in your brain in your mind and just like and see it visually don’t try to like be like oh there’s the name and see it as a combination of chords okay what I like to do I like to see the roots of the course electricity a dis an a G Ness G so that helps me visually to see what is the next core and like a drawing of the different progressions that are happening but remember that this song is originally play on the 4h fret with the capo so if you want to follow along do that and I believe that it’s not in exactly in 440 in the tuning it’s not accepting 440 I think it’s different so I am not sure what it is maybe 436 437 you could tune it to exactly play along with the song but I would recommend that you find the key that works best for your voice and just playing that key I think that would be the best actually they chose that and it’s not you’re not less of a player if you don’t play an original T just find the key that works for you for singing and that’s it hey but anyways that’s it for today.
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Hey, how’s it going this is Darrin Goodman with Guitar Control, I want to show you a little sequence from Yngwie Malmsteen song “I’ll see the light tonight”.
A little part that he like harmonizes with the keyboards right before the guitar solo and stuff but this is a really good exercise for alternate picking and for working out your fretting hand as well you know moving around through these positions and stuff and he plays this like really fast but you know I’m not even going to attempt to do that it doesn’t really matter you know I mean if you work it up and you play really fast that’s great but it doesn’t have to be played fast to be you beneficial and pretty cool sounding.
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Like I said this is all alternate picking so that means no two down strokes in a row no two up strokes in a row just down, up, down, up, down, up. For the first position most of this is on the first string by the way on the 10th fret of the 1st string with your first finger and then the other two notes from the 12th fret with your third finger and the 13th fret with your fourth finger now you could do this you know 1st, 2nd the 3rd or recommend if you’re a beginner you really get used to using your pinky it just really makes a big difference on a lot of stuff you know if I’m playing up really high above the 12th fret a lot of times I won’t use my pinky just because the frets are closer together and you know things can tend to get a little cramped but for you know anything below that it’s the opposite if you’re trying to go you know make these big stretches you know between your first and second and your third finger it’s that can be a little awkward too so I really recommend that you do it this way. We’ve got 10 and then we go to 13 and then 12 and then back to 13 so each one of these things if you think of it it’s three notes so 1, 2, 3, the pattern is 1, 3, 2, 3, so for this first section we’re going to shape and we’re going to play it twice.
Now we just move down into the next position so notes 1 and 2 become notes 2 & 3 so now we’re going to move our fourth finger from the 13th fret to the 12th and now our second finger on the 10th and our first finger on the 8th. Now this is how I like to do it some people like to do this they you know they like to make the stretch there that it’s just not comfortable for me to do that if you have longer fingers then this might be the way to go I’ve just kind of noticed that the players who are blessed with those you know awesome guitar player hands which I am NOT you know players like Paul Gilbert or Ebay or Steve Vai you know they all have you know really long fingers and I’ll notice that they tend to do those shapes that way so remember first shape now our second shape so now we’re going to be 8, 12 and we move down into the next position again so our first finger goes to seven fourth finger goes to ten and second finger is at 8 and then we move down again so now we’re 5, 7, and 8, so this whole first part.
Now for the next section which is like staff number two we go back up to the 1st shape and we only play it once though this time now we’re going to skip the 2nd shape and go to the 3rd one we go down we’re 7, 8, and 10 and then we go back up and get the one that we skipped a 12 and 12 and now again we’re going to skip and go down 5, 7, and 8 back up to 7, 10, and eight.
Now we’re going to come all the way down for 7 and 5 and then back to 5, 7, and 8 and we do that one twice so that whole sequence all right and then for the second half of that we go back to 4, 5, and 7 again and then all the way back up to the 1st shapes of 10, 1, and 13 and then down 1, 2, 8, 10, and 12, twice now we go to the very first one and now it’s now it’s where we change we’re going to move on to other strings so we do it once here 10, 12, and 13, on the 1st string and now we go to the 2nd string 9, 12, 10, to the 3rd string 7, 10, and 9, and now 4th string 6, 7, and 9 now to the 5th string 5, 7, and 8 but we are changing the sequence a little bit now we’re going to go instead of like 1, 3, 2, 3, and then back to the 4th string same frets but we’re also going to do that same thing so we’re going to go and then that last part just like that.
I hope you enjoyed that and you got something out of it if you liked the video give me a thumbs up leave a comment down below if there’s something you’d like to see either myself or one of the other instructors at guitarcontrol.com do in a future lesson so like I said aside from this just being you know kind of a cool sounding riff and stuff it’s a great workout for both of your hands one you’re working with alternate picking and it’s like an endurance thing just to keep going and then with your fretting hand it’s you’re basically getting exercise for all four fingers and you’re having to move through these positions and stuff so it just kind of helps you to like visualize places to go on the on the fret board all right so that’s all I’ve got for you today.
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