Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play Hard Days Night by The Beatles.
So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled on one sheet. It’s in PDF format so you can download it, you can print it off, you can put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you could have any chord you needed to glance and it’s a free download.
So be sure to click on the link in the description to the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.
Hard Days Night – The Beatles
All right, so first off there’s multiple things that are kind of going on in this song. This starts off we’ve got this first chord here, this is a really interesting sounding chord, it’s a G7 suspended four (Gsus4). So it’s a barre chord unfortunately, so if you’re a beginner this may be the hardest part of the song, but you could really omit this and it isn’t going to make that big of a difference. So I’m going to start off, we’re just going to barre all the way across the third fret across all of the strings. Then we’re going to take our third finger we’re going to put it here on the fifth fret of the A string. So right now it looks like we’re playing a G minor seven, but then we’re going to take our pinky and we’re going to put it down on the fifth fret of the G string. So now it’s three, five, three, five, three, three…
So we hit that one, two, three, and then we rest on four and then it just starts on G. So if you are a beginner and this is really tough to do that and like I said you could totally start off with… you don’t have to do that at the beginning of it. Okay so then from there it’s pretty simple for the most part. The song also has a really easy solo that we’re going to go over as well.
Okay, so for this first part here we’ve got the chords G and then C add nine (Cadd9). So if you just take your regular old G chord here and you move your first and your second finger up a string each so now my first finger is on the second fret of the D string and my second fingers on the third fret of the A string and we don’t play the low E string, that’s Cadd9. And then we’ve got an F over C (F/C) and this is just my kind of a preference. So you could play A full on F barre chord like this if that if that’s comfortable for you, or you can do the really basic F chord shape that you probably already know. How I like to do it is like F/C, so it’s the regular F, but I just have the C in the bass here. So that’s third fret of the A string, third fret of the D string, third finger, fourth finger and then my second finger is on the second fret of the G string and first finger is barring the first and second string…
Then we also have a regular C major chord, a D major chord and that’s all the chords for this first part of the song. All right, so we start off with the G major on here it it’s broke down pretty simple for the most part. It’s quarter notes and eighth notes, so this is like one, two and, and then on the downbeat of three it goes to Cadd9, but you don’t need to really break it up you know… you can kind of just feel it. Once you get to where you can just kind of feel it and wing your own rhythms it’s so much easier to play and sounds lots better too. All right, so that’s on G, down, down, up and we switch to a Cadd9, down, up, down and then to a G down and up. If you wanted to do it that way it’d be like one, two and, three and, four and, so it’s kind of weird that G is coming in on the and of four and then it’s tied to one on the next measure. So you have that eighth note plus a quarter note for beat number one and then two, three, four and… Okay then we switch to the F, whatever version of it you’re gonna do, up… Then to a G and it’s one and, two, three and, four and, and then that also is carries over on to the next measure, one, two and. So it’s a lot easier if you just kind of feel this… now we’re back to Cadd9 again, back to F, G and the next change we go to a C.
So this is where the strumming kind of changes and this is kind of weird to count because it’s quarter note then an eight then a quarter then three eighths; one, two and, three and, four and… So how I think of it is like down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up… Then we when we go to this D it’s the same thing, the same strum, and then we go to a G
one, two and, three, to a Cadd9 and four and then on the and of four back to G.
All right, so if you’re looking on your transcription we’re on the first staff of the second page. So if you look back at the very beginning starting on the second measure it has the beginning of the repeat, it’s the double barre with the colon. Now if we look here we’ve got the colon and a double barre so that’s the end of the repeat. So it means we’re going to go back to the second measure and play forward again, but the second time we do it where it has that bracket above that third measure with the number one. That means it’s the first ending. So the second time you play through it you’ll skip that measure and go right on to measure 14 because you can see above it has the bracket with the number two. The basic difference is when we get to this end… it goes right into another verse that second time around… it’s gonna be one and, two, three and, four. And then on the and of four we switch to a B minor (Bm) and this is what I’m going to call the bridge section.
This is the part that Paul McCartney sings and like a lot of Beatles fashion they completely change the feel of the song when he sings it versus when John Lennon sings. They’ll like switch your major chords to minor chords just to have that contrast which I think is really cool. So B minor barre chord unfortunately if you’re a beginner this might be kind of tough, but just do the best you can. So we’re gonna barre our first finger across the first five strings of the second fret and then my second finger is here on the third fret of the B string, my third finger is on the uh excuse me the fourth fret of the D string and my pinkies on the fourth fret of the G string. So we’re hitting that on the and of four and then it’s tied to all of beat one on that next measure; so it’s like and one, two, three and, four, and on the and of four we’re gonna switch to an E minor (Em)… So it goes into back into that same strum that we were doing uh on the C and D on the John Lennon part. So with the Bm to an Em and then on the and of four of that measure back to B minor again and now it’s going to go into that strum that we did on the D and C on the John Lennon part… so same strum still; down, up, up, down, up, to an Em. And then we’re gonna go to a C7; so if you just take your regular C major chord and you take your pinky and you put it down onto so it’s on the third fret of the G string that’s C7. So we got same strum to a D major one, two and, three and, four and, the whole bridge section… Then it just goes back into the same thing, it repeats those parts again. So it’s easy to put the song together when you have these two sections.
Solo Section
Alright, so now let’s take a look at the guitar solo. So this guitar solo is actually really easy. It’s just one little riff that’s repeated twice. So we’re going to start off here on the third fret of the low E string and you want to use your third finger. So we hit this, it’s a dotted quarter note so it means it’s going to get all of beat one plus the downbeat of two and then we hit it again on the and of two; so one, two and, and then on the downbeat of three we’re going to go to the first fret of the A string, three on the and of three to the third fret, down B to four back to the first fret and then on the four back to three and slide to the fifth fret… All right, so that’s the riff or lick or whatever you want to call it is two measures long and it’s repeated. So once we go through these two measures or excuse me these four measures here you just repeat the whole sequence. Now when we slide up to that five we’re doing it from the and of four and then it is tied to that whole measure. So it’s like one, two and, three and, four and, one, two, three, four… All right, so then the second half of this riff we’re going to keep our third finger here where we’ve got it on the fifth fret of the A string, We’re going to take our first finger we’re going to bring it back here and we’re going to barre so we’re picking up the third fret of the A string and the D string and then we’re going to pick the starting on the A string pick three and hammer to five and then we’re gonna follow that with the third fret on the D string. So how I’m doing this is I pick down pick and hammer and then an upstroke on the D string. So it just repeats you do that one, two, three, four, so you do it four times… Then you’re gonna with your third finger here on the fifth fret you’re gonna pick and slide to the third fret, but you’re going to want to do both of your fingers together. So your first finger is coming down here to the first fret and the reason is because we’re gonna pull that off so we’re gonna pick five, slide to three, pull to one and then end on the third fret of the low E string and that’s measure four and it’s a whole note…
Conclusion
Alright, so there you have it, not too difficult rendition of Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play Tesla’s rendition of Signs by Five Man Electric Band.
So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled on one sheet. It’s in PDF format so you can download it, you can print it off, you can put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you could have any chord you needed to glance and it’s a free download.
So be sure to click the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.
Signs – Tesla
All right, so we’re going to be for the most part just playing a bunch of just basic chords that you probably already know; hopefully you already know. All right, so we start with this D right on the downbeat of one and it’s a quarter note and then on the downbeat of two we strum it again. It’s an eighth note and then on the and of two it’s two sixteenth notes. So we’ve got a total of four strums; long, short, shorter. And then we’re gonna go to the D suspended four (Dsus4) and we hit that right on the downbeat of three, but then we immediately switch back to regular D for the remainder of the measure… right on the downbeat of one of the second measure we go back to the Dsus4, back to the D, so it’s kind of a pattern that just repeats… the very last one there right at the end of the second measure we’ve got just the A and the D string open and then to the second fret of the A string, but the D string is still open and these are like kind of pickup notes into the into the beginning of the verse and then we just drop into a regular C major chord…
All right, so now we’re on the verse… so the vocal start right there and we start with C and it’s just a regular regular open position C major chord; so I’m on the third fret of the A string, second fret of the D string, G string is open, first fret of the B string, high E string and we’re gonna play this starting on the downbeat of one with C. So how I’m doing is I’m just hitting the E, the A, the D and then the G and the B together; one and, two. Then we’re gonna go to a G over B (G/B) and this is really simple. All you have to do is take your middle finger and move it from the second fret of the D string to the second fret of the A string and take your other two fingers off so now you’re going to be playing the same thing, three and four… Then we’ve got a D over A (D/A). So if you just go back to the original D major chord, but now you’re just going to start off by hitting the open A and then the open D, one and two, and then to a G major chord, three and four…
So with that part it shows on the on the transcription you hit the E string and then the A, D and G strings and then the G, B and high E. So when you’re when you’re practicing that don’t put too much stress into like making sure that when you get to this top part that you don’t hit the D string. You know it it’s just not a big deal. All the notes are in the key they’re part of the chord. So over time you’ll refine it, but at first don’t put too much worry on that. All right, so far on the verse we’ve got… Now we’re going to switch to a D again, so this is like one, two… same thing like we did on the intro, it’s a quarter note, then an eighth note, then two 16th notes; so one, two e and, and then to an A major.
So when I do this I’m just using my first finger to barre because you don’t need to worry about hitting the high E string. So I’ve got the A string open and then I’m just barring the second fret of the D, G and B strings… and we hit that and then to a G, same thing… and
then two back to an A major and it’s the same as the timing at the second half of that previous measure with the A; so it’s two sixteenth notes, then an eighth, then four sixteenth notes…
Now as far as that strum and rhythm in there you can really kind of make it your own.
You just kind of want to feel it. I probably don’t play it consistently exactly the same way every time, there’s probably been slight variances. You just kind of want to feel it and you will always get a better performance if you kind of feel it then if you’re really trying to count it unless it’s some kind of a really syncopated rhythm that you need to be doing, especially on an acoustic song it just isn’t necessary to put that much stress. It will make this easy especially if you’re a beginner. Okay then we go to a B minor… so just barring the second fret my first finger the through the A string we don’t use the low E and then I’m on the second or excuse me the third fret of the B string on my second finger, fourth fret of the D string with my third finger, fourth fret of the G string with my fourth finger. Now when you play this you can get all of it or you could omit the high E string. So if you’re having problems with doing barre chords you can just get this shape here and then all you have to do is pick up the note on the A string and it’ll probably already be muting the high E string anyway just simply because of your finger laying down… So here we’re starting with B minor and we’ve got that similar kind of a rhythm thing going here. We’ve got one and, two… so we’ve got on beat number two the last 16th note is tied to the first 16th note of beat three, so it’s like treated like an eighth note. So if you thought of this as like three long, one short, one long, one short, one long, four short, as far as how they ring out, but again if you know the melody of the song like that we’ve talked about in lots of other videos about countertop drumming to get that for this B minor… Okay then we go to a G, so just regular old G major and whether you play it with the D note here on the third fret of the B string or you play it with the B string open. I personally like the way it sounds more with this D in there and I think that’s the way they’re playing it and Tesla’s playing in their version. So that’s the way I’ve got it in here, but if you don’t play G that way, it’s just not that big of a deal. For this with G here we got the same timing that we just had on the B minor then we’re gonna go back to a D and it’s back to this similar timing that we had earlier in the verse. So this is actually exactly the same as a measure five, so it’s back to the D, so long, one, two… and then to an A and on here it’s just… But again you don’t feel free to kind of like spice up that rhythm, especially if you’re playing this completely by yourself. They’re playing it as a whole group, but if you’re playing it by yourself you have a lot of freedom and you can really change up that rhythm and make it to sound more interesting and more fun for you to play as well.
All right, now that brings us to the chorus and for the chorus it’s going to be using the same G, D, A and C that we’ve been using except we have one more chord; we have a C add nine (Cadd9). So Cadd9 has a couple of different ways that you could play it. I’ll show you the way that I like to do it for this particular thing. I just think personally I think it makes it easier. So we’re gonna go from a D to the Cadd9; so if you just take your first finger and you move it down a string so it goes from the second fret of the G string the second fret of the D string and then your middle finger moves down so it’s on the third fret of the A string your ring finger stays where it is. So there’s a couple different ways you can play it, this is just the way they’re doing it. So you could also do it just by taking the regular C shape and putting your pinky down like this. The reason I do it the way that I do it is because after the Cadd9 we’re going to go to a G, so it just makes the transition really simple. So we’re going to go from this D to Cadd9 to G… So that’s the chorus and it starts off with the D; so we’re hitting this as a quarter note and then an eighth note to 16th to note. So the thing that’s different between this and what we’ve been doing is we’ve got the one, two e and, so that second sixteenth note of beat two is actually going to make the change to Cadd9. So it’s coming in kind of on in a weird place, especially if you’re doing it from trying to count it, but it just makes it a lot easier. So when we hit that it is on the last 16th note of beat two, but it’s tied to the first 16th note of beat three… So we hit that and then we hit it three more sixteenth notes and then we’re going to go to a G and that’s on the downbeat of four… Okay, then starting on the second measure we’re back to D. So we start with two 16th notes and then an eighth note… and then on the last 16th note of beat two we switched to a G… So we hitched that to G on the last 16th note of beat two and then we’ve just got four eighth notes; so three and four and… then we’re gonna go back to a D… then A same a we did earlier and now to our regular C chord. So the Cadd9 is basically the difference between those two chords is here we’re getting this C here we’re getting a D. So with all of these chord changes sometimes these different voicing’s are just so it carries a chordal melody, like a high melody within the chord or a low melody just depending upon what it is. So when we get to that C we have a whole measure of this; it’s one and, two e and, three e and a, four and. So again much easier if you just kind of feel it out and then it’s the end of a repeat so you play the intro, the verse, the chorus and then you go back and play the intro again, the second verse, the second chorus and then the end of the second chorus it has this little transition here that leads us into the bridge. So we’re at the end and this is kind of like the intro… Now we’ve got this little build up thing that is kind of weird, especially when you’re just playing this by yourself. It really makes it sound cool, at least for me. I find it maybe have of the time I do it sounds cool. So we’ve got the eighth notes, beat number one and beat two are eighth note, two sixteenth note, so one and, two e and, and then on the downbeat of three the first sixteenth note is the strum of that. And then we have an eighth note just a single G third fret of the low E string and we’re gonna hit that twice as eighth note and then a sixteenth note and then we have a sixteenth note rest. And then the next sixteenth note is the fourth fret, so we rest a sixteenth note and go to an A because that’s like… that was okay, it sounds really cool when they do it, but just by yourself it’s not a full sounding in my opinion.
Okay, so the very last thing we’re hitting is that that strumming in A and it’s the last 16th note of beat four and then that brings us into the bridge, which starts on A. So we’re already there. We’ve got one e and, so like an eighth and two sixteenth notes and then an eighth, two sixteenth and the very last 16th note of beat two is tied to the downbeat of beat three so it’s an eighth note. Again, don’t put too much thought into that. Just kind of feel it… We’re going to do this through the whole measure and then the last 16th note we switch to a G… starting on the downbeat of two it’s a G and it’s the same timing again. We’ve got one and, two and, and we go to a D major… The third measure starts off with 16th notes and the last 16th note of beat we switched to an A and then we have two beats, eight sixteenth notes for beats three and four… then back to a G, this is a two four barre so it’s just two beats; one, two, three, four, five… that’s one way you can simplify it, and now to a D… so it’s just like the intro. Okay so then you have the verse, “the sign says come in kneel down and pray”, the church one and it’s a lot softer and the acapella parts, but it’s all just more or less these same parts that we’ve gone over.
Conclusion
All right, there you have it, all the parts to be able to play Signs, Tesla’s version of Signs by Five Man Electric Band, I think it was called originally. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson. Today we’re going to do a little finger style with Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder.
So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled on one sheet. It’s in PDF format so you can download it, you can print it off, you can put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you could have any chord you needed to glance and it’s a free download.
So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.
Guaranteed Chords
Alright so first let’s go over the chords that we’ve got in this. So first we’ve got this G, so if you just take the F, first position F chord, you just move it up a whole step so my third finger is on the fifth fret of the D string, my second finger is on the fourth fret of the G string and my first finger is barring the third fret of the B string and the high E string…
And then we’ve got a B minor, but when we play this we’re not actually playing the A string. So when you all you do is you just slide down a half step and then move your middle finger from the G string to the B string, so it’d be on the third fret, so we’re just getting the top end of that chord. And then we’ve got a G7; so my third finger is on the third fret of the D string and my fourth finger is on the third fret of the B string the G string is open and I’m on the first fret of the high E string with my first finger… And then we’ve got a C over E (C/E). So basically what it is, is C, but we’re not going to play the low note there the C’s, we’re actually our bass note is actually here on the second fret of the D string and that’s why it’s C/E. Then we’ve just got a regular C; so you just put your third finger down for that. And then we’ve got a regular old G major chord and then a D major. D suspended two (Dsus2) so you just lift your middle finger off so the high E string is open. And then a D suspended four (Dsus4) we just take your D and you put down your pinky onto the third fret of the high E string and then we’ve got a D5. So D string is open, second fret of the G string my first finger, third fret of the B string of my second finger and fifth fret of the high E string with my fourth finger.
Guaranteed Picking Pattern
All right so as far as the picking pattern for this goes it’s pretty consistent throughout it. We’re going to start off we’re going to play the high E string and this will change varied on what chord you’re on, but for the first four measures anyway the first four chords and it’s the same. So we’re going to start off we’re going to pluck the D string and the high E string simultaneously on the downbeat of one, so it’s an eighth note, and then on the and of one we start into the 16th note thing; so it’s one and. And then on the and of two we start playing 16th notes so we start with the G string; so one and uh. So the G string then the B string and then to the D string for the downbeat of two one and two E, high E string to the G string and then the B string; so that’s the pattern… So that’s half of the measure and we do it twice, so you’ve got… Okay then we go to the B minor and we do the same thing, twice for the measure, so it’s picking the same strings and everything and the same timing. Then to that G7, same pattern still… and now we’re going to go to that C/E, so still same strings and that’s our first four measures… All right so then starting on measure five we’re just going to go to the regular C chord so we’re coming from the C/E so we’re just going to put our third finger down and now our picking is going to change a little bit. I mean it’s still the same timing, but now our bass note is moved to the A string. So I’m going to pluck the A string and the high E string together on the downbeat of one… B, A, E, G, B… so that’s our pattern here and we do that twice on the measure. And now we’re going to hit both E strings together and then the D and then the G back to the low E, back to the high E, D and G and we do that twice… Now one thing there on that G, the mistake that I personally make the most often is right here. So what will happen is and instead of going D, G, I might go G and B. Now either way you do it it’s going to sound good because those notes are in the chord, they’re in the key, it’s all going to sound good, but it might just sound slightly different if that happens. But anyway it’s just not the end of the world. I just don’t even if I make that mistake I just keep going. Then we go on to measure seven when we go to our regular D chord and now we go back to the original picking so my bass note is back to being on the D string. So this time what’s different is we do that, but we only do it once, so half of the measure. Then we go to Dsus2; so you just lift your middle finger off and do the same picking pattern and this is for beats three and four… And then here on the eighth measure the last measure the progression we start off with the Dsus2 and we do a hammer-on into D. So again I’m doing the D string and the high E string together and then the B and G just like before. Then we go to that Dsus4 and then the D5 and that’s basically the whole thing…
Conclusion
All right, so there you have it, Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play the main riff from She Talks To Angels by the Black Crowes. Now this song is actually in open E tuning, but I’m going to show you how to play it in standard tuning because this is the way that I learned how to play it by ear way back when it came out and I just figured it out my ear and didn’t realize that it was in open tuning. Anyhow since then I’ve learned how to play it on open tuning and it’s really not too terribly different and so to me it’s just not that difficult to play it this way.
Right now Guitar Control is giving away a free chord chart and there’s a link down in the description where you can download it. It’s in PDF format you can print it out and have every chord you could ever need on just one page very laid out well and a really great useful tool and it’s free; just click the link in the description.
All right so be sure to click the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.
She Talks To Angels – The Black Crowes
All right so starting off we’ve got this little intro lick melody, whatever you want to call it. So here on the fourth fret of the B string with my first finger and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer-on to the fifth fret and then the high E string open… Then we’re going to come to the fourth fret and we’re gonna slide down to the second fret on the B string and then a pull-off to the open string… and then the open high E string again and then we’re going to go to the G string, first fret first finger, and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer-on to the second fret follow that with the open B and open high E string and then back to the G string second fret, your second finger should still be there… All right so after you do the… back to that second fret, that’s the first measure and then on the second measure we’re going to pick that again and pull-off to the first fret and then follow that with the second fret of the of the D string and then good old E major; the low E string is open, I’m on the second fret of the A string with my second finger and the second fret of the D string with my third finger and the first fret of the G string with my first finger and the B and high E strings are both open… Okay so when we strum this it is on the downbeat of two and it’s a dotted half note so it’s going to be two, three, four and then starting on the third measure it’s almost the same thing as the first, actually it is the same thing as the first measure. So we come back up to the fourth fret of the B string again and pick and slide to fifth fret, open high E string, back to the B string, G string first hammer to second and then on the fourth measure it’s like the second measure was the G string picked the second fret pull-off the first to the second fret of the D string to an E… So after we hit that E and it rings out then we’ve got two strums at the very last two sixteenth notes of beat four and then starting on the next measure it’s one two and then when we go to beat three we have E suspended four (Esus4). We’re going to keep this e major shape but we’re going to take our pinky and we’re going to put it down so it’s on the second fret of the G string and then back off and then back on and then back off, so it’s like… All right so that’s like the first part of the whole thing. Then we’ve got some natural harmonics so just the12th fret of the E, A, D and G strings and then the D G and B strings and then the A, D and G strings… and then we’re going to go back to that same little E to Esus4 riff again. All right so now this is where it starts to get a little bit more difficult. So we’re going to start off here on the second fret of the D string and we’re going to pick that and slide to the fourth fret… so since you’re coming off of this E your third finger is on the second fret of the D string so we’re going to pick that and slide to the fourth fret and then you’re going to take your first finger and put it on to the first fret of the G string to the B string open back to the G string and then you’re going to set your second finger onto the second fret of the D string and your third finger finger onto the second fret of the B string and we’re gonna take your third finger off so the B string is open and then you’re going to have to put your first finger on the second fret of the D string and your third finger on the fourth fret of the D string and you’re going to pick and pull-off back to an E… then that same E to Esus4 riff. Then we’re going to come up here to the fifth fret on the B string we’re going to play the high E string first to this B string at the fifth fret and then we’re just going to move that note on the B string down; so we go from the fifth fret to the fourth fret to the second fret… Then we’re gonna come to the G string first finger on the first fret second and we’re going to pick the second fret pull to the first then our second finger is going to go to the second fret of the D string, back to the G string first fret… back to the second fret of the D string and then the B string open and then that riff again with the E to Esus4 riff… All right so that’s the entire thing, it’s 12 measures long, my recommendation would just be to take a chunk at a time and really try to get them down memorized; it helps a lot with being able to play it if you’re not trying to think of you know what’s coming next.
Conclusion
All right so there you have it, the intro opening riff to She Talks To Angels by The Black Crowes transposed so it can be played in standard tuning. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
]]>Learn to play these 3 easy acoustic guitar song intros with Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman. Be sure to get the free tabs to go along with this free killer guitar lesson.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you how to play three cool acoustic intros, famous intros from popular songs. Now so by the title and by what I just said and you can see I’m using an electric guitar because I am having a little bit of a technical difficulty on my acoustic guitar that I just discovered this morning so I cannot use it; so I’m going to be just doing it on the electric guitar with a clean tone, but it sounds good either way, but some of these were actually on an acoustic guitar. So be sure to click on the link in description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at 3 Easy Acoustic Guitar Song Intros.
Acoustic Intro-1 – More Than A Feeling
So the first Easy Acoustic Guitar Song Intro we’re going to look at is More Than A Feeling by Boston. So this is just three chords, well four if you technically count some of the changes have here. So we have D, so you just take your regular old D major chord here and we’re gonna pick the D string, the B string and then the G string. Now we’re gonna do D suspended four (Dsus4); so just put your pinky down so it’s on the third fret of the high E string and pick that so we have D, B, G, E and then you take that back off and play E, B and G except I forgot to mention that when you do that G string at the end you take your first finger off so that the G string is open and so that’s the first measure. Then we’re going to go to a C add 9 (Cadd9); so just leave your third finger where it is here on the third fret of the B string and move your second finger to the third fret of the A string and then we’re going to go A, G, B and then you’re just going to take your first finger move it to the second fret of the A string, A, G, B and then put your second finger up onto the third fret of the low E string and then it’s E, B and that’s the second measure. So both measures together…
Acoustic Intro-2 – End Of The Line
All right so the next Easy Acoustic Guitar Song Intro we’ve got is End Of The Line by The Traveling Willburys. So this is a tad bit more complicated than the last one we looked at. This is just a a real prime example of George Harrison’s guitar playing style. So the first chord we’ve got is a G over B (G/B); so you just take the D chord and we’re going to move it up so that your first and second finger are on the seventh fret and your third finger is on the eighth fret, so I’m on the seventh fret of the G string with my first finger, eighth fret of the B string with my third and the seventh fret of the high E string with my middle finger. So the strum is down, up, down, up, down and then we come down and that’s the first measure. Then we come back up to that G/D again and we do that same strum and then we’re going to move that shape up a whole step and that’s A over D (A/D). Okay and then from there we’re going to move your first finger up a half step so it’s on the 10th fret and you’re going to barre the first two strings and then your middle finger will go onto the 11th fret of the G string and with all these you’re playing the D string open by the way. So it’s the same timing between the two; so the first measure, second measure and then we come back to that starting chord to get the G/D. So this is the part is the probably the most complicated part of this. We start with the G/D and then we move that shape up a whole step and then the D back to this one… Now we’re gonna move that up and we’re gonna barre just the E, B and G strings at the 12th fret and then another D. So it’s like the regular D shape but it’s going to be all the way up here an octave higher; so my first and second fingers are on the 14th fret and my third finger is on the 15th fret. So the whole thing…
Acoustic Intro-3 – Stairway To Heaven
All right and then finally we have the forbidden song… Stairway To Heaven, so you know it’s become like a running joke that this is the forbidden song, but it’s a really great song and it’s a really good song for finger picking and it’s like a real workout for both of your hands and I really recommend learning the song. So we start off with an A minor chord. So what I’m doing is barring my first finger across the E, B and G strings at the fifth fret and then my third finger is going onto the seventh fret of the D string. So here I’m just going to go; D, G, B and E. Now if you’ve never done finger picking before this will probably be kind of challenging, but basically when you look at the tabs for it it’ll kind of really make sense since I’m playing just the first four strings that my thumb will be playing the D string, my first finger will be playing the G string, my second finger will play the B string and my third finger will be playing the high E string. So when you finger pick it you don’t want it where you’re pulling your hand away like that… you want it to be your hand just stays in place and you’re just moving your finger like you’re pulling a trigger… so that’s the first half of the first measure. Then we have C major seven over A flat (CM7/Ab). So we’re gonna keep our first finger where it is and we’re gonna put our middle finger onto the sixth fret of the D string and our fourth finger onto the seventh fret of the high E string and now we’re going to pick the high E and the D string simultaneously to the B string to the G string and back to the high E. So the first measure… Okay so starting on the second measure we have C over G (C/G); so what we’re going to do is we’re going to take our first finger and move it up so now we’re barring still at the fifth fret, but we’re going to catch the D string too. So we’ve got the first four strings and then we’re going to put our fourth finger onto the eighth fret of the high E string and that’s the last chord where we stay here and then we’re going to move down. So far we’ve got… All right now we have a D over F sharp (D/F#) and what we’re going to do basically is we’re going to take this regular D chord, but our bass note instead of being the D it’s going to be F# here. So the easiest way to do this is just barre your first finger across the E, B and G strings at the second fret and put your second finger onto the third fret of the B string and your third on to the fourth fret of the D string. So that transition might be something you have to practice separately just getting back and forth between those two chords. So after the D/F# we have FM7; so this one’s easy just going to take your third finger move it down a half step so now it’s on the third fret of the D string, my second finger is on the second fret of the G string, my first finger is on the first fret of the B string and the high E string is open. Now the picking pattern changes just a little bit, so again we’re playing D and E simultaneous to B, G, back to B and then E, B, G, so far… Now we’ve got a G over B (G/B) and basically there’s a couple ways you can do it. You can just take your first finger and just put it on the second fret of the A string and play the A string, the G string and the B string all together and the G and B strings are open and then your first finger to the first fret of the B string, second finger to the second fret of the G string and the A string is open. So it’s G/B and then A minor; so what I do when I get to there I just grab a G major chord because I already have a muscle memory for that, but just play the A, G and B strings and then to an A minor and again just those same A, G and B strings. Then we’re going to play the A string open and a slide from nowhere to the eighth fret to the seventh fret and then it just starts over again… just like that.
Conclusion
All right so there you have it. 3 Easy Acoustic Guitar Song Intros that I’m playing on an electric guitar because my acoustic guitar is jacked right now. So anyhow they’re not too terribly hard to play but they’re highly recognizable and stuff that people really dig. All right so if you enjoyed that lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching 3 Easy Acoustic Guitar Song Intros and have a great day.
Supper Easy Acoustic Lessons and Songs to Play
Guitar Control presents instructor Darrin Goodman with an acoustic arrangement of Take It On The Run by REO Speedwagon. Be sure to click the link to get the tabs so you can easily follow along with this classic song lesson.
Introduction
How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to teach you an acoustic arrangement for Take It On The Run by REO Speedwagon. So this is pretty simple to play, just a bunch of easy chords that you probably already know, but we will go over them real quick just in case you do not. So be sure to click the link in the description for the tabs so you can easily follow along and lets get close up and take a look.
Take It On The Run Chords
So first lets run through the chords that we will be using. So we’ve got G major; So my second finger is on the third fret of the low E string, my first finger is on the second fret of the A string, the D and G strings are open and I’m on the third fret of the B string with my third finger and the third fret of the high E string with my fourth finger… So next we have, these are not in order by the way. So we have C add 9 (Cadd9) and you basically go from your G major to Cadd9 by moving your first and second fingers up a set of strings so now my first finger is on the third fret of the A string and my first finger is on the second fret of the D string… Next we have C major; so third finger on the third fret of the A string, second finger on the second fret of the D string, G string is open, first fret of the B sting with my first finger and the high E string is open… Then we have A minor; so to make C into Am we simply move our third finger from the A string to the second fret of the G string… Then we have D major; so the D string is open, first finger on the second fret of the G string, third finger on the third fret of the B string and second finger on the second fret of the high E string… Then we have a D suspended four (Dsus4); so from D you simply put your fourth finger on the third fret of the high E string. And then finally we E minor; so the low E string is open and I’m on the second fret of the A string with my second finger and my third finger is on the second fret of the D string and the rest of the strings are open… and I believe that those are all of the chords that are in the song.
Intro
So the song basically has a couple of parts that we need to go over. So first we have this intro. So we start off with G and we have one quarter note, four sixteenth notes and then two more quarter notes; 1, 2 E & A, 3, 4, so down, down up down up, down, down and that’s the strum for most of the song. Feel free to experiment with that and make it fancier, this is just basic so you can pick it up quickly. So we have one measure of G on this intro… to C… to D… and then back to G… So here on this last G we have; 1, 2 E & A and then we switch to Dsus4 for beat three and then switch to D for three and then back to Dsus4 for the and of four, so… that’s the intro… and that leads us into the verse.
Verse
So the verse is similar to the intro, the first part of it anyway… no we go back to G and the strumming is a little different; 1, 2 &, 3 &, 4 and then we switch to Cadd9 and it’s a ¼ bar so it’s just one beat of 1 & and then its repeated. So the first half of the verse… and then it just repeats… So now going on to the second half of the verse starting on measure ten, starting the same way we have; G… C… D… and then that same G thing, but this time we have a 2/4 bar of G to D over F sharp (D/F#). D/F# is a chord I forgot to go over; so you just take the D chord we did and you pickup the second fret of the low E with your thumb and now you strum all six strings. So starting on measure 13 we have G; 1, 2, 3 &, 4 and then 1, 2 and that leads us into the chorus.
Chorus
So the chorus starts off with Em, same strum, to C, to D, to G, to D/F#, back to Em, C, Am and then D. So that last measure is like the last measure of the intro except its based around a D instead of a G. So we go to D; 1, 2 E & A, to Dsus4 for beat 3, and then back to D for beat 4 and Dsus4 for the and of 4… and then it goes back into another verse. So that whole chorus… So everything together…
Conclusion
Alright, so I hope that you enjoyed that and you got something out of it. If you like this lesson be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if you have any comments or questions about this or any other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. That is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
Acoustic Guitar Songs and Lessons
‘Wish You Were Here’ and the Key of G
These are all the notes in the musical alphabet:
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
The key of G shares many notes with the key of C but with
one exception and starting on a G:
G A B C D E F#
By changing ‘F’ to ‘F#’ we end up with these 6 chords:
So we’re actually adding a Bm and D chord to our pool of
chords, giving us 8 in total. You’ll need these chords to play ‘Wish You Were Here’:
This is an excerpt from Sean Daniel’s “Play Every Song Ever Written With Only 10 Chords” course, which you can download it for free HERE 
https://guitarcontrol.com/the-10-chords-free-course/
Check Sean Daniel’s Secrets of Hendrix: DECODED course HERE https://www.guitarcontrol.net/hendrixdecoded/
Acoustic Guitar Songs and Lessons
The Key of C Major and ‘Simple Man’ by Lynard Skynard
There are 7 notes in any Key. A key is just a group of notes that sound ‘good’ together. The key of C consists of the notes:
C D E F G A B
Each of these 7 notes can become its own chord. The main 6 chords are either ‘Major’ or ‘Minor’ and they always fall in the same place. The 1st, 4th and 5th notes become major chords (C major, F major and G major in this key) and the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th notes become minor (D minor, E minor and A minor in this key). The 7th note becomes a diminished chord, which we won’t be talking much about in this course as it isn’t one of the 10 chords we’ll need.
Here are the 6 main chords we’ll need from this key:
This is an excerpt from Sean Daniel’s “Play Every Song Ever Written With Only 10 Chords” course, which you can download it for free HERE https://guitarcontrol.com/the-10-chords-free-course/
Check Sean Daniel’s Secrets of Hendrix: DECODED course HERE https://www.guitarcontrol.net/hendrixdecoded/
Acoustic Guitar Songs and Lessons
Check out this free lesson from Guitar Control instructor Darrin Goodman on how to play the John Denver classic Annie’s Song. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs that go with this lesson.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going this is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you an arrangement I made for Annie’s Song by John Denver. This song traditionally is a fingerstyle song and how I ended up coming up with this is I was performing this song with an acoustic trio and it was just me and two female vocalists and we were playing at this small place and there wasn’t a PA system and when I was doing it finger style it just wasn’t loud enough. So what I ended up doing was just doing this strumming rendition of it and I think it’s a pretty cool arrangement and what’s cool about doing this is it is a massive workout for your fretting hand; lots of chords, lots of fast chord changes. So aside from it just being a cool song this is a really great workout for you so be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at How To Play Annie’s Song By John Denver.
The Chords
So the first thing I want to do is just run through all of these chords in Annie’s Song by John Denver. Now if you already know all these chords you can just skip to where the lesson starts and I’ll have a link in the description to where you can fast forward to where the lesson begins. So we have D major; so the D string is open, I’m on the second fret of the G string with my first finger, the third fret of the B string with my third finger and the second fret of the high E with my second finger. There’s also D suspended four (Dsus4) and D suspended two (Dsus2). So it’s really simple for Dsus2, you just remove your middle finger so that the high E string is open and for Dsus4 you’re just gonna take your pinky and put it down onto the third fret of the high E. Then we have G major; so I’m on the third fret of the low E with my second finger, second fret of the B string with my first finger, the D and G strings are open, third fret of the B string with my third finger and the third fret of the high E with my fourth finger. And we have A major; so the way I do it is I just bar my finger here so the A string is open and then we’re on the second fret of the D, G and B strings. We also have A suspended four (Asus4); so if you just take that A and put your second finger down onto the third fret of the B string you get Asus4. We have B minor; so I’m just barring my first finger across the first five strings at the second fret and then my second finger is going on to the third fret of the B string, my third finger is going onto the fourth fret of the D string and my fourth finger is going onto the fourth thread of the G string. Then we have F sharp minor (F#m); so now still at the second fret barring, but we’re going to bar across all six strings and I’m on the fourth fret of the A string with my third finger and the fourth fret of the D string with my fourth finger. Then we have E minor; low E is open, second fret of the A string with my second finger, second fret of the D string with my third finger and the rest of the strings are open. Now I believe that that is all of the chords, but if there ends up being one that I missed we’ll hit that later.
Annie’s Song Parts
All right so Annie’s Song by John Denver starts off with this little intro, I’m gonna start with D. Now the other thing with this too is that um it’s in three quarter time so the strum for this for the most of it is one two and three, so it’s like a quarter note and then four eighth notes, so like one two and three and down, down, up, down, up for each measure. So for that intro we start with the D; one, two, and three and then we go to Dsus4, same strum, back to D and then back to Dsus4… just like that. Okay and then that leads us into the verse. So the opening for the verse we have Dsus4 as a quarter note and then D, also a quarter note and then Dsus2 as a quarter note; so it’s like one, two, three and then that leads us into the main thing here. So we start off with G and it’s that same strum; so we have one, two, and three. I’m just going to call off the chords as we go through this and I’ll just kind of play it slow. So we have G, A, Bm, G, D, F#m, D, A, G, F#m, Em, G and then A, Asus4 and A and we’re going to do kind of a riff like we did with the D’s, and then just try to hit just the G and B strings open and this is that’s kind of a quick transition. And then we’re back to G, A, Bm, G, D, F#m and Bm… it just kind of repeats.
So there is an interlude section in the middle of Annie’s Song and what I did during that part is I just kind of arpeggiated the chords, but I didn’t really do anything super specific… just something like that. So what I’d encourage you to do on that part is just to kind of go through and just try doing just like we’ve talked in numerous lessons about how you really want to kind of get away from feeling dependent on having a set pattern and you can just kind of wing it and as long as you’re just hitting the notes that are within the chord it’s all going to sound good; or you could just do some one strums there or you could even do the same strum, but just lower your dynamic down and play it a little bit softer during that part and it just kind of picks up and goes through the same thing again.
Conclusion
All right so I hope you enjoyed How To Play Annie’s Song By John Denver and got something out of it. Like I said this is a great workout for your fretting hand because of all these chord changes and you know you can just start off just playing like really slow and increase your speed over time. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Anyway that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching How To Play Annie’s Song By John Denver and have a great day.
Easy Guitar Song lessons
Guitar Control presents instructor Darrin Goodman with a lesson on how to play the classic tune Before The Dawn by Judas Priest. Be sure to get the free tabs to go along with this video lesson.
Introduction
Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson. Today I want to show you how to play a real cool Judas Priest song called Before The Dawn. This is a really old school acoustic guitar song and I’ve kind of made just somewhat more of a simplistic version of this song and it’s really fun to play and not really complicated and pretty easy to pick up. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look How To Play Before The Dawn By Judas Priest.
Before The Dawn Chords
Alright so first let’s go over some of the Before The Dawn chords we’ve got. So we’ve got E minor; so I’m on the second fret of the A string with my second finger, second fret of the D string with my third finger and then all the rest of the strings are open. And we have A minor and we’re just simply going to take the shape we’re doing here for E minor we’re going to move it up from the A and D strings to the D and G strings and then drop our first finger on to the first fret of the B string and we don’t play the low E. Then we have D major; so the D string is open, I’m on the second fret of the G string with my first finger, third fret of the B string with my third finger and second fret of the high E with my second finger. Then B7; so I’m on the second fret of the A string with my second finger, the first fret of the D string with my first finger, the second fret of the G string with my third finger, the B string is open and I’m on the second fret of the high E with my fourth finger. Alright so those are all the chords that are in the intro and verse of Before The Dawn.
Verse
So for the Before The Dawn intro and the verse we start off with E minor and there’s a couple of ways that you can do this. You can play it arpeggiated the way I’ve got it written here on the tabs. So calling off strings here doing E minor I’m on’ 6, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 4, 3, all eighth notes, you can do it with the pick or you could do it fingerstyle too. Personally I feel that I play it more consistently if I’m playing with my fingers, but either way you’re playing it works. Now if you’re going for the third string and you accidentally hit the second by mistake or vice versa or something like that it’s not a big deal because all the notes are in the chord so it’s all going to sound good. Okay so you have one measure of E minor… and then we switch to A minor and the picking pattern is very similar; so now we’re 5, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2 and then we go to D; 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2. And then to B7; 5, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2 and back to E minor to A minor to B7 and back to E minor. So that’s like the intro and it is also the verse. It goes through it one time at the beginning just as the verse with no vocals and then I think it goes through twice for the verse. All right then from there we go into the chorus for Before The Dawn.
Chorus
So for the Before The Dawn chorus we have a couple of chords that we didn’t go over already. So we’ve got C major; so I’m on the third fret of the A string with my third finger, second fret of the D string with my second finger, G string is open, first fret of the B string with my first finger and the high E is open… And then G major; so I’m on the third fret of the low E with my second finger, second fret of the A string with my first finger, the D and G strings are open, I’m on the third fret of the B string with my third finger and the third fret of the high E with my fourth finger. And then it has this other part in here where we’re gonna do D and D suspended two (Dsus2) and D suspended four (Dsus4). So really quickly how that works is you have D and if you want to make it suspended four you just put your pinky down onto the third fret of the high E, but just leave your second finger where it is and then if you want to make a D suspended two you just remove your second and fourth finger so that way the high E is open… All right so for the chorus the picking pattern is very similar; so we’re starting with C… to G… to E minor… to A minor… and back to C again. Now this is the part where we’re going to add in the Dsus2 and Dsus4 chords. So if you look on your transcription on the chorus measures 15 and 16 have a bracket up above it, this was the number one, so this has a repeat, but it has two different endings, so if you’ve never seen this before this is what it means. So the chorus we start on measure nine and now we’re at the first ending, so it’s D, and then when we go to Dsus4 we put our pinky down… and then do the pull off from Dsus4 to regular D. Now we’re going to take our middle finger off so it’s Dsus2 and hammer-on your second finger back to the second fret… and then it just repeats… now we’re gonna go to the second ending. So we’re just gonna skip the two measures that we did that has the bracket and one and we go on to the next part where it has another bracket, but in its two measures but it has a number two, so it’s the second ending and that’s our B7… and then it would just go back into the main part of it again.
Alternative Rhythm
All right and alternatively instead of arpeggiating this Judas Priest classic you could just strum the whole song. So you could do the verses like this… or you could arpeggiate the verse and then just strum on the chorus… either way you want to do it. Sometimes if you’re just playing by yourself it’s kind of cool to do that on the verse just too kind of change things up a little bit. So like I said it’s an easy song to play with a bunch of basic chords, the B7 probably being the most difficult one especially if you’re a beginner.
Conclusion
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