Welcome to my EASY GUITAR SONGS series where I will be teaching you super easy songs to play on the guitar. Songs are like mini guitar lessons, offering new challenges and helping to develop your technique.
These are great beginner guitar songs and not too difficult so you will be sounding great in no time! Join me as I talk about song key, time signature, and chord shapes of this Britt Rock Classic, “Bitter Sweet Symphony”, by The Verve.
Easy Guitar Songs Video Concepts
In this lesson you will learn:
1. Key of the song.
2. Time signature and where the chords change within the bar.
3. Proper chord shapes and a new minor chord voicing.
Video Chapters
1:34 Key Of Song
1:55 Time Signature
2:05 Chords
Action Steps
Be sure to watch the video again to make sure you caught all of the concepts I’m talking about. Taking notes is always a great idea too!
Step 1. Songs key’s are super important and let you know what your chord options are when learning songs. Keys are like families or grouping of chords that belong together. Once you know the key of the song, you know what other chords belong together in that particular family. Take note of the key of this song. Write down all the chords that belong in that key. Then write down what chords from that family or key are in this song.
Step 2. Time signature is really important when figuring out the “feel” of a song. Most popular songs are in 4/4 time or have a time signature of 4/4. The fist 4 is the number we are most concerned with here. That number tells us how many beats are in a measure, so in this case, 4. Go and listen to the song again. Try counting out the beats and group them in 4’s. Now listen for when the chords change. Notice that they change on beat 3 of each bar. So there are two chords in each bar.
Step 3. If you aren’t familiar with these chords, go through the video again and pause it when the chords come up. Work on these chords until you get the fingerings down and commit them to memory.
Now put on the song and play along, most importantly, have fun!
Be sure to check out my video, Beginner Guitar Bootcamp if you are new to the guitar and need help getting started.
See you in the next video!