Lauren Bateman teaches a simplified two-chord version of Eleanor Rigby using just C and E minor. She shows two strumming patterns, optional palm-muting, and plays through the song twice at different speeds while singing along.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
I All the lonely people.
Hey everybody, it's Lauren here. Welcome back. I'm so excited because it's not very often we get to do a tube chord song, but Eleanor Rigby is a great example of a two chord song. This is a simplified version. If you go and look at the actual version, there's some slightly different variations on the chords, but we're just gonna keep it to two chords, C and E minor. How easy is that? If you're using my two fingered chords, it's as easy as moving one finger to play this entire song. Awesome. So basically, as you saw in the intro, I was doing a little bit of palm muting, which is more of an intermediate technique. But in the first one we're just gonna keep it really simple. We're just gonna do all down strums, no palm muting, it's just gonna be all down.
You can do four strums per chord or you can do eighth notes, which is probably what I'm gonna do.
All right, so this is a play along video. If you guys haven't figured that out, it's in my play along section. If you want the actual lesson video, I'll put a link below here so that you can go and learn how to actually play this song, which is very super simple. Great beginner song if you're just starting to learn how to play the guitar. So the first time through, I'm going to play it a little bit simplified. I won't do the palm muting, I'll play it a little bit slower because this song is peppy. And then the next time through, what I'm going to do is I'll play it at a faster speed. I might throw in some embellishments just to give you guys an idea of what the song could sound like and not gonna play it exactly as the song is. So don't yell at me and put comments that you know this chord could be this chord. I know, I know. We're keeping it simple. We like to keep it simple. So go to my website, laurenbaten.com print out the sheet so that you have it with the lyrics and the chords like I do and then we can get started. If you need to pause the video, come on back. Alright, so keep it simple. If you just have to do one strum per chord, do that. But we're gonna do doing eighth note strumming and it's gonna be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 2 chords. How awesome. All right, here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Look at all the lonely people.
Four.
1, 2, 3, four. I look at all only people three, four. One, two, three, four. Elliot.
Picks up the rice and the G where her wedding has been.
Lives in a dream.
Wakes at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a job by the door.
Who is it for?
All the lonely people.
Where you let all come from.
All the lonely people.
Where do they all belong?
Father mackenzie writing the words of the sermon and no one no one will hear.
No one comes near look at him working darling the songs in the night when there's nobody there.
What does he care? All the lonely people.
Where do they all come from?
All.
Belong.
I.
El Lonie died in the church and was buried along with her name.
Nobody came Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave.
No one will save all the lonely people.
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Where do they all belong?
So there you go. That is the entire song. Two chords, E minor and C major. Fantastic. Alright, so I'm gonna pick up the speed a little bit. I might do some palm muting on these verses and open things up when we get to the lonely people part. But let's see what happens. Alright, so we got 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4.
All of it all the lonely people.
All it all the lone people.
Having a baby Picks up the rice in the judge every wedding as man lives in a dream.
Looks at the window Wearing the face that you keep to the job by the door.
There's a. For all the lonely people where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Do they all belong Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one believes no one can see Getting working, running his socks in the night when there's nobody there what does he care? All the lonely people where do they all come from?
All the lonely people.
Do they all belong?
All the little lonely people.
Died in a church and was buried with burning.
Nobody care Mackenzie wiping the dead from his hands as he walked to the grave no, I'm the same.
They all come from.
All lonely view.
Do they all belong.
And there you go. So you can see I was just alternating between where I was using palm muting where I wasn't. Even though it's only two chords, it makes it sound really, really cool. So I hope you guys enjoyed this play along lesson. And for the real video lesson, I'll put a link below the video. But also if you'd like to make a donation, lauriebaby.com donate really appreciate it. I'll see you guys in the next lesson. Practice.
