hey guitar enthusiasts welcome back i have a special treat for you we're going to be doing
can't help falling in love by elvis presley beautiful song let's get into the lesson
now this is a wonderful song i mean when i was listening to it i remembered how much
how beautiful this song actually is and what we're going to be doing is we're going to be doing some
finger picking in this lesson now this song is originally it sounds like it's played on piano
when i went and listened to the original but we're going to be mimicking what the piano is doing on
our guitar by playing what we call arpeggios now arpeggios are when you play individual notes of a
chord versus just like strumming straight through so if i were gonna strum a g chord versus arpeggio
that's the difference all right so we're going to be using lots of arpeggios and i
will go through those in this lesson so you can probably see i have a capo here
on the second fret to make some of these chords easier for you now if you need to pull up the
lyrics and the chords you can go to my website laurenbateman.com you can put that on one side
and keep this video open and you can follow along there so there's three sections to this song intro
verse chorus let's start off with the intro so the chords that are part of our intro are going
to be the c chord the g chord and an a minor chord all right this song is probably a little bit more
late beginner because there is an f chord that comes in later um we'll talk about that when we
get there so the intro is going to be a c chord full measure g a minor and then we have a c
and a g splitting a measure on the end so let's talk about the arpeggios we're going
to be doing so we're going to be doing five string and six string arpeggios
so essentially our thumb is going to be changing depending on what chord we're playing so a c
chord is a five string chord so the thumb would be playing the fifth string the bass note
and our first second and third fingers are always going to be on the bottom three strings okay so
we'll have fingers one two three so first finger on the g string second finger on the b string
third finger on the high e string now when we go to our sixth string chord the g chord the thumb
would be playing the sixth string as the bass note and again these fingers are still gonna be on the
third string second string and first string so the pattern we're going to play let me stay since
we're on the g chord the pattern is going to be six string third string second string first string
second string third string so it's going to be six three two one two three six three two
one two three okay and when we go to our c chord and our a minor chord it's gonna be fifth string
five three two one two three five three two one two three okay
so if i were to play this intro it would sound like this c
g a minor c g now for that because those are split measures i just did thumb one two i did thumb one
two thumb one two okay so it'd be the fifth string third string
second string sixth string third string second string okay so play through that intro again
okay so that's one way you can go about playing that intro so let's get into the verse so the
verse here we have a few different chords this is where the f chord comes into play so if you
can play a full bar chord which will be a little bit easier because we have the capo
on the second fret great play that f chord if you can't and you need to use an f major seven
you can do that if you use this three finger version your thumb would just play the fourth
string so it would be four three two one two three for your arpeggio if you use the four
string version which might sound nicer because you have a lower bass note you would play it like a c
chord five three two one two three okay it doesn't sound as nice as the full f chord but it will
work if you need an easier version um because i know sometimes those bar chords are hard until
you get them so let's go over the progression for the verse here so the verse the chords we have c
e minor a minor twice f c double g then we have f g a minor f c g double c and then it just repeats
that again for the second half of the verse so again the c chord five string arpeggio the e minor
six string arpeggio like a g chord that we did a minor we've already done f depending on what
you're going to play if you do the full bar chord it would be a six string arpeggio like our g chord
okay so let me go through i'm gonna play this verse so that you can see how it sounds we got
now i want to show you a little spice you can throw in with your finger picking if you want
to so some of these chords are doubles so and i would do it more maybe on these the double c
or the double g on the end so instead of doing the full arpeggio six three two one two three
you might wanna do that for the first arpeggio and then repeat the bottom half for the next chord
what do i mean by that so it'll sound like this and then i'll explain it to you so we have the f z
ah did you hear i didn't go back to the base note so what i did for the first
g was i played a full arpeggio six three two one two three and then
i just repeated the bottom three strings one two three one two three adds a little
spice so let's hear what it's going to sound like so if i did y is men
there it is on the a minor f c g but i
can
now you don't have to do it every time you have a double core but you can see it
adds a nice little flavor a little dynamic so that you're not always playing the same arpeggio over
and over um and i think when i was learning this song last night i think when you listen
to the piano they stay on some of those higher melodies and i think that's why i was doing that
um but again i just think it adds a nice little flavor so you're not just doing this straight
arpeggio all the time and it kind of peaks the interest of the listener if you were gonna perform
this song so just a few little tips on the verse there what we're gonna do next is move on to our
chorus section hey guys i hope you're enjoying this lesson so far if you haven't subscribed to
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more videos just like this one so the chorus brings in some new chords into the
mix we have an e minor chord which we played before but we have a b7 chord that comes in
as well as an a7 a d minor and a g so we're kind of like changing keys a bit here in this
chorus and what i'm going to do for this e minor chord i'm probably the first time i get into
it i'm probably going to play with my first and second finger but once i get into the b7
it's very easy to just use your second and third finger on that e minor chord to go between the b7
and the e minor okay they'll share you'll have a pivot finger that second finger won't have to move
at all okay so here's what our chorus would sound like the b7 is a five string chord
so that would be like our c chord five three two one two three the a7 is also a five string
and the d minor is a fourth string so you would play that four three two one two three okay so
let's hear how this chorus is gonna sound ready it's gonna be like one two three four five six
wrong d minor chord helps if you play your chords correctly all right so that is how
our chorus is gonna sound so let me go through this top to bottom introverse chorus this guy
you guys have a little bit of a play along i'm not going to sing hopefully i don't get hit with
copyright here but let's give it a try from the intro ready one two three four five six
okay repeat that again shall i
stay
do
okay here comes our chorus
like a river flows
and then you would go right back into the verse and i played the d minor correctly this time for
you guys so that's great so then we would have a verse a chorus another verse and at
the very end of the song you wouldn't play a double c you would just play that you know see
so you would just strum and hold on the very end of the song hope you guys enjoyed this lesson
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