01:28 Lesson Intro
02:08 Chords (capo 2)
04:05 Chords (no capo)
05:59 Intro Riff
15:55 Strumming Expression!
17:09 Strumming Pattern
20:23 Chorus dynamics
22:31 Lesson Outro
It's not WHAT you strum...
...But HOW you strum it!
Not sure what to strum for these songs?
How do you come up with strumming patterns?
Fed up strumming D DU UDU all the time?
You need to LEVEL UP YOUR STRUMMING!
CAPO 2
[INTRO]
G F C G
|--x--0--3--0--5--3--0-----|--0-----x------------|
|--3-----------6--------1--|--1-----3------------|
|--0-----------5-----------|--0-----0------------|
|--0-----------------------|--2-----0------------|
|--x-----------------------|--3-----x------------|
|--3-----------------------|--------3------------|
(you can play the above riff or strum the chords below)
|G F |C G |G |G |
// // / /// //// ////
[VERSE 1]
G Am
There's a light
C
A certain kind of light
G F
That never shone on me
G D
I want my life to be lived with you
C
Lived with you
G Am C
There's a way, everybody say
G F
To do each and every little thing
G
But what good does it bring?
D C
If I ain't got you, ain't got you, hey babe
[CHORUS]
G D
You don't know what it's like, baby
C G
You don't know what it's like
D
To love somebody
C
To love somebody
G
The way I love you
[INTERLUDE]
G F C G
|--x--0--3--0--5--3--0-----|--0-----x------------|
|--3-----------6--------1--|--1-----3------------|
|--0-----------5-----------|--0-----0------------|
|--0-----------------------|--2-----0------------|
|--x-----------------------|--3-----x------------|
|--3-----------------------|--------3------------|
(you can play the above riff or strum the chords below)
|G F |C G |G |G |
// // / /// //// ////
[VERSE 2]
G Am
In my brain,
C
I see your face again
G F
I know my frame of mind
G
You ain't got to be so blind
D C
And I'm blind, so very blind
G Am
I'm a man, can't you see
C
What I am?
G F
I live and breathe for you
G
But what good does it do
D C
If I ain't got you, ain't got?
[CHORUS]
G D
You don't know what its like, baby
C G
You don't know what it's like
D
To love somebody
C
To love somebody
G
The way I love you
D
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh no no
G D
You don't know what its like, baby
C G
You don't know what it's like
D
To love somebody
C
To love somebody
G
The way I love you
D
No no no no no no no
G D
You don't know what its like, baby
C G
You don't know what it's like
D
To love somebody
C
To love somebody