- To wrap things up, I wanna sing ya another song
that you can work on using all of the things
we've been working on.
Strumming, playing chords, chord changes,
timing, all of those things.
And it's the song "Stand By Me" by Ben E King.
This is a staple, everybody loves to sing along
with it and it only requires four chords
and one strumming pattern.
The chords you need to get through this song
are an A major,
an F sharp minor,
so for this F sharp minor you can either make
the full E minor bar chord shape
with your bar on the second fret,
or you can just play the top three strings,
or the top four strings.
You can even play just the F sharp power chord
just to make it easy for yourself.
Then a D major chord,
and an E major chord.
It's the last one, just those four chords.
And your in luck because I didn't trick you,
but I prepared you very well for this song
because the only strumming pattern
were using during this whole thing
is down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
And it's really cool because each chord gets
the strumming pattern for two bars,
two times through the strumming pattern,
and that's when you know
you're supposed to change chords.
So all you have to do is make sure have
those individual chord shapes down to where
you can go right them,
and them maybe even work on switching between
just the chords as they come in order.
So, switch between the A and F sharp minor.
Just get that change down.
(gentle guitar srumming)
5 minutes of practice on that a day.
And then from F sharp minor to a D,
(gentle guitar strumming)
and then from a D to an E.
So you definitely want to spend some time making sure
you have those individual chord shapes
and then the changes just between each two chords down.
I'm gonna make this a lot easier
and throw the strumming pattern in.
And at first, don't even worry about a metronome
or a jam track, just take it as slow as you need to.
Just put an A on and play down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
And your gonna switch to an F sharp minor,
do the same thing.
Down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
Switch to a D, down, down, up, up, down, up,
and the D only gets one strumming pattern, or one measure.
So just be aware of that.
And then, what's next, an E for one measure,
Down, down, up, up, down, up.
And then back to an A for two measures,
down, down, up, up, down, up,
down, down, up, up, down, up.
That's the entire song,
believe it or not,
you just repeat that over and over and over again
for the entire thing and if you're a singer,
you can sing along or if someone else is really,
they can do the singing for you.
But, work on that very slowly,
make sure to get the chord changes down,
and then you can put a metronome on it
or slower tempo than the original song.
(gentle guitar strumming)
Work on there for a little while
then push yourself,
keep moving forward,
and progressing with, you know,
getting your chord changes quick and clean
then be up to speed.
(gentle guitar strumming)
Now, to just kind of reinforce what we were talking about,
wow that bird is loud,
now, to reinforce what we were talking about with a capo,
if you want to move this up to the key of B,
all you have to do is put your capo on your second fret
and play the exact same chord shapes.
(gentle guitar strumming)
Okay, I know that a lot to work on,
but, take it one little step at a time.
So your assignments for this video
are to get the individual chords down,
that we went over, A, F sharp minor, D and E.
And then work on switching between
just the chords by themselves.
Then get the strumming pattern down by itself,
down, down, up, up, down, up, if you need too.
Then put them together with no metronome, no jam track,
and then you can use the metronome,
oh sorry, the jam track that's available
for ya in the next video as your little guide
to play along with.
Then you can even pull up the original one
and give that a try too.
So, my question for you, kind of towards the end
of these lessons is what is the next song
that you want to play everything
you've learned here too?
If you haven't picked one out,
pick out two or three songs and set a time,
I'd say I wanna learn these two or three songs
by the end of this coming month,
or something like that and work towards.
(soothing acoustic instrumental)