Before You Accuse Me Guitar Lesson

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Before you kiss me Take a good look at yourself.

Spend on money a little and you've been taking money from someone else.

Hey guys. Welcome back, Lauren. Here I am here to do a video on before youe Accuse Me by Eric Clapton. So this is gonna be a really cool blues song. For those of you that like the blues, we're gonna be using a swung strumming pattern here which hear in a lot of bluesongs. The great thing about this song is that it's really easy in terms of it's at 12 Bar Blues in E major. So the chords you're going to be using is a lot of E, a lot of as, and every once in a while a B7 comes into the mix. So if you don't know that B7 chord, I'd recommend go ahead and learning that before you jump into the song. But that's it. It's just those three chords over and over and over again. And that's what makes this song so great. If you need the chord chart, just go to my website, laurenbateman.com you can download the chord chart there and print it out. This way you can play along. I line up all of the chords over the lyrics perfectly for you. This way it makes it a lot easier to read and play along with. So let's start off with the actual chord progression pattern. Because this is a 12 bar blues, we're going to be playing the same 12 bars over and over again. So the pattern repeats for the entire song. So the chord progression is going to be.

12 measures long. So in the beginning, what we're going to be doing is playing an E chord for one measure. Then we go to an A major chord for one measure. Then we go to E major. Again, we're going to play it for two measures. So the first four measures are E, A, E and E. When we go to the next four bars or four measures, we're going to play two A's followed by two E's. That's pretty simple. And then the last four measures is where we jump to our B7. We're going to have a B7 chord followed by an A chord followed by an E chord and back to B7. And once we get to that stage, second B7 chord, we go all the way back to the beginning. So just to go over that chord progression in its entirety, we got an E chord, an A chord followed by two more E chords. Then we have two A chords, we have two E chords, we have a B7 chord, an A chord, an E chord, and finally ending on a B7 chord. So that is the entire progression for this song. So now let's talk about that strumming pattern that I was using in the beginning. So it's really. It's like a shuffle and I was kind of using a down up strumming pattern. You could use all downs if you want.

Or you can do the down up like I was doing. I think it goes really well with this song using the down ups. So let's talk about this. This is more of like what we call shuffle feel. It's kind of like a triplet. So if you think of it as 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a 1 and a 2 and a 3 & a 4 and a. What we're doing is we're doing our down strums on the one beat and we're doing our up strums on that, ah, that very last triplet. So you kind of get a very quick strum between the up and the down. So instead of normal eighth notes, where we have. If I play on an e major normal 8th notes, we have 1.

1 and 2 and 3 and.

4. And a shuffle is more 1.

A 2, a 3, a 4, a 1, a 2, a three, a.

Four. So it's just a little bit quicker between that up strum and that down strum. And that is going to be our shuffle feel. So for some people, it's really hard for them to get that shuffle down. So we're going to work a little bit on that in this video. Let's start with the down up. I'll also show you how to play it as all downs too, if you feel you want to do that. So let's start with the shuffle pattern. So we'll just do E major. So have a nice E major chord here. And it's going to be one.

A two, a three, a four. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down. One, a two, a three, a.

Four. And what I do doing in the song you've probably heard I'm accenting two and.

Four. One, a two, a three, a four, a one, a two, a three, a four. So it's down, up, down, up, down, up, down.

Up, down, up, down, up, down. A1, A2, A3, A4, A1, A2, A 3.

4A. Check my own strumming here. So that's the basic shuffle again. So if we do 1, a.

2, a 3, a.

4.

And sometimes people have a hard time strumming that on the guitar. So sometimes I'll tell them, put the pick down and try clapping it or tapping it on your.

Guitar. 1, a 2, a 3, a 4 a 1 a 2 a 3, a 4 a 1, a 2 a 3 a 4 a 1 a 2 a three, a.

Four. Now whether you do down up or all downs, the strumming is still the same. So if you do all.

Downs. One, a two, a three, a four, a one, a two, a three, A4 a1 a, a two a3 a4 a1, a two, a3.

A4. Whether you do it as all downs or down up, it doesn't really matter. You'll get it. You get more of an attack by using all downs. I like the down up for this song, but either way it's that shuffle pattern. Now if you're like Lauren, I can't do a shuffle pattern. That's fine. You can just play straight up eighth notes. It's not going to sound as bluesy, but it'll still.

Work. Before you use me.

Take a one, use me.

Take a look at.

Yourself.

So you can use pure eighth notes. It doesn't matter. So let's go back. I'm going to do. I'm going to do kind of the refrain or the chorus part of this song which is the before you accuse me. So I'm going to start that E. I'll go a little bit slower than the songs played at. So we got one, a two, a three, a.

Four.

Before you kill.

Take a good look at.

Yourself.

A one, a two, a.

Three. I'm spending my money on other women and you've been taking money from.

Yourself.

And there you go. That's the entire song for before youe Cues Me. Nothing too, too crazy in terms of playing and strumming. If you don't have that shuffle down, just practice, keep listening. Try tapping it on your guitar.

Even try singing it. I'm a singer by trade, so I like to sing a lot of things. It really helps me with figuring out rhythms and even melodies. So even if even you know, you're not really singing. But if you go.

Sometimes if you can sing things, it makes playing the rhythm much easier. So there you go. That is before youe Accuse Me by Eric Clark Clapton. Don't forget to leave a comment below. Say hello. I try to respond to all the comments I get on the videos. So thank you so much and I will see you guys in the next video. If you need more help with your strumming or you feel like maybe your strumming isn't quite up to par yet. You can always go to my website laurenbateman.com check out my guitar course. I have a whole section in there on strumming and I'll see you guys in the next.

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