hey guitar enthusiasts lauren bateman here in this lesson video we're going
to be going over all my loving by the beatles let's get into it
now we will be using a capo on the second fret for this song so grab your capo clamp it around
the second fret and we're gonna be playing all the chords relative to our capo so to start off
this lesson what chords are we going to be using well we're going to be using an a major chord
an e minor chord a g major chord a d major chord we're also going to be playing a seven chord an a7
and a b minor chord now i know a b minor chord is a bar chord so for those of you that aren't
good with barre chords yet or playing them that's okay you can use your first second and third
fingers i'll put my easy b minor up here so it's the first second and third fingers on the first
string second frame third string at the second third and fourth frets right just follow that
diagram up there that will get you through the song if you don't know your b minor chord that
well yet the other chord good to know a if you don't know a7 just lift up your middle finger
it is your a7 chord i tell students it's the only chord where you're allowed to flick me off so
if you want to do that please be nice but a to a7 just lift up that middle finger if you use
the three fingered a chord so let's talk about the chord progression for this verse we're going
to talk about the verse first i'll give you some strumming patterns then we'll talk about
the chorus and the guitar solo what the chord progressions are what we're going to do for each
of those sections so the chord progression for the verse is e minor a7 d b minor then g e minor c a7
and then we repeat most of that except for the ending it's going to be e minor a7 db minor
nothing changes there then we have g a major d and d and we're going to be doing something special on
that last d that we're going to talk about in a little bit but first let's talk about a strumming
pattern that we can use on this verse so the easiest way to strum this song is just to keep it
on a straight beat i think it's better played more like a shuffle triplet feel we'll talk about that
in a little bit but let's start with the easiest version first so what i recommend let's start with
our e minor chord okay and i would just do one two and three four one two and three four one two and
three four and that's gonna be strummed down down up down down like this one two three four
so if i played those first four chords it would sound like this
okay that's the simplest way i know it doesn't sound exactly like the song
but remember when you're just getting started simple strumming patterns will help you play
the songs and have more fun than trying to match it exactly with the song so that's one
way we can strum this on the other way and this one will probably sound a little bit better to
some of you is going to be a syncopated pattern it's going to be down down up
up down up down down up up down up okay so we're missing a downbeat
on the third beat so it's going to be one two and and four ends let's take our e minor down down
okay so if i play those first four chords it would sound like this one two three four
how's that sound pretty good huh but you can hear with that strumming pattern
it probably sounds a lot more like the song and i think i swung it a little bit so a swung is more
of a triplet feel one and a two and a three and a four so if i played this very straight
so that sounds fine it works right but now here it is if it's swung a little bit
can you hear the difference if you're not used to playing a more swung rhythm don't worry about
it keep it on the straight rhythm it'll be perfectly fine it'll work for this song now
before i go into the fourth and most difficult strumming pattern but the one that's probably
used on the record is we're going to talk about what we're going to do on that final
d chord of these verses so we've got you know
so that last d we're just gonna strum one down on the one beat and then we're gonna
mute the chord with our fretting hand so if i just play that last four chords let's be
one two three four and then you would go into either the chorus
this song goes verse verse and then a chorus so if we were gonna go into
the chorus that would be the b minor would be after that to be
so we get into our our chorus so before we get into the different strumming that we're going
to use on the chorus i want to show you one final strumming pattern that you should know about this
song for this verse it is definitely the hardest one to play so you may want to stick with some of
these easier ones i've already shown you hey guys real quick hope you're enjoying the lesson so far
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when i release more videos just like this one all right so the strumming pattern on this
is using that triplet but it's it's strumming every single triplet if you really listen to the
song you'll hear the electric guitar and they're probably just playing the bottom three strings or
so but this takes some practice so basically the pattern's gonna be one and uh two and uh three
and a four so we end up on an up strum on that four one and a two and a three and a four
one and a two and a three and a four plate down up down up down up down
now if you listen to this on the record they're playing
it very fast let me see if i can do it without practicing it's kind of tricky
so you can hear that's probably the tempo of the song so it's a really tricky little strumming
pattern if you've never done this before playing triplets that fast it hustles count it let's see
now there were multiple guitar players in this band if i were going to play
this song and sing it myself i would probably stick with the shuffle pattern
though
and that's exactly what i'm going to do in the play-along version of this song
i'll put a link up here if you guys want to go play along with me when that's ready
the link will pop up and you can follow along with me so the chorus section of the
song we get into using our b minor chord and our d chord here and when i listen to
the recording all i hear is the guitar really doing this he's going one two three and four or
now you can hear what i'm doing with the strumming and kind of muting the strumming
in between i really believe that there is just bar chords here so there's probably this b minor chord
as a bar chord and then there's going to be a d major bar chord here why do i think they're
doing that because of the strumming so here's the chords without the muting so here's the
b minor with the muting here first one two so you hear that now here it is without the muting
will it work either way it will and can you do the muting on the d chords the open chords yes
you have to do it with your palm instead of your fretting hand so all i'm doing is i'm strumming
the chord and then i'm releasing the pressure on the fretting hand that's why bar chords are
great you can do these percussive rhythms okay hear that i'm strumming and releasing
strumming and releasing if you don't know bar chords don't worry just do the open chords
and don't worry just strum on two of four so it's down up down
okay so that's all you're going to be doing on that chorus section it's double b minor double
d and it just repeats all that you have to do is choose what strumming pattern you're going to use
you don't have to do this strumming pattern you can stick with the ones you've already been using
but if you want to try and spice it up and make it sound a little bit more like the record
that's what you can do so the final section and final change of this song is going to
be the solo section the chord progression for this is double g double d e minor a double d
all right now what strumming pattern can we use here i'm hearing the strumming pattern over the
chorus so that two a four to a four but you could also as easily use the down down up up
or again whatever if you're just doing forced downs
just do that keep it simple
so you can do whatever works best for you guys to your skill level
and then once you're out of the solo we do another verse and another chorus and
that's the song hope you guys enjoyed this lesson practice all those different strumming variations
youtube's gonna throw a couple more lessons up here hope to see you guys in another lesson video