Halloween Theme Song Guitar Lesson - No Chords Needed!!

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Hey, guitar enthusiasts. I'm gonna show you how to play the theme from Halloween. But there's a very special timing for this song that I want you to be aware of, and we're gonna go over how to accomplish that step by step. Let's get into it.

So this song essentially has four, four different themes that we're going to play through. They're very simple. The patterns are the same. It's just the notes are changing. But before we do that, I want to talk about the specific timing that I mentioned in the intro. So this song is in what we call five, four time. Now, if you're familiar with my channel, my name is Lauren Bateman. I make guitar make sense. We break things down step by step and make it easy so you guys can have fun playing your guitar. Now, all that means most of my songs that we do on this channel are either in four, four, or three, four, meaning we count to four, or we count to three. There's either four beats in a measure of music, or there's three beats in a measure of music. Well, this one is in five, four. So that means there's going to be five beats. One, two, three, four, five. And then we repeat a measure again. One, two, three, four, five. Now, this theme is broken up into eighth notes, which means two, two little notes times five beats. There's going to be ten notes we're playing before we start repeating things. Okay, now, the way I would count this, usually when I count 8th notes, we'd go 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and four and. And you could count this 1 and 2 and 3 and 4and 5 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, 5 and. And there's nothing wrong with this, but the way we're going to play this pattern, I would recommend Counting it as 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1st, 2, 3, 4. Okay, 10 notes. We're doing six notes as 1, 2, 3. One, two, three. That takes care of six notes. And then 1, 2, 3, 4. And this will make sense more as I get into the first pattern. And before we do that, you will see I have my electric guitar here because we are going to need 22 frets to play this song. And most acoustic guitars don't go that far. I think my crafter does have 22 frets. I believe my Taylor may only have 20 or 21 frets. My Ibanez has 22 frets. So I'll be able to play this song, no problem on the electric. So let's Talk about that first theme. This is going to be the intro. And what we're doing is we're using a power chord shape. So if you're familiar with power chords, usually you play them up here.

Usually play them on the thicker strings of the guitar. We're going to play it on the B and the E string. All right? We're going to be using our first finger and our third finger. So we're going to take our first finger, and we're going to put it on the 19th fret. Okay. This is why I'm using the electric, because we're way up here, 19th fret. And then the third finger is going to go on the high E string at the 21st fret. So we're on 19 and 21. Okay. That's where we are. And it's just a little power chord shape. Now, for those of you who have bigger fingers, you're like, lauren, can I use my first and second? Find whatever works comfortable for you.

Because that's what we're going to be doing. We're going to be using that shape, and then I'm going to use my pinky to add notes in. Okay. So we basically have this power chord shape, and every once in a while, the pinky's going to come down and grab the 22nd fret on this intro. Okay? And this is going to be used throughout the song. So once you get this down pat, you're going to be able to play through the whole thing, no problem. So let's start with that first pattern, which is just the intro. We're going to be repeating the same 10 notes over and over. So let's talk the pattern. So the pattern is going to start on the high E string, and then you're going to play two B strings. Okay? E, B, B, E, B, B. That's that first. One, two, three. Okay, and then we're going to repeat that one, two, three. So it's E, B, B, E, B, B. Okay.

That'S the first half. Now, the second half of the pattern is going to be high E, back to B. When we go back to the high E the second time, this pinky is going to come down on the 22nd fret and then back to B. So those last four notes are E, B. Pinky comes down E, B. So all together it is.

Okay, you hear that?

Okay, that's the whole pattern. So if you play it a little bit faster. So this S intro, I check my notes, is played seven times in a row. So you're going to do this pattern over and over again for seven times. It's going to be.

Over and over again until we get to the next theme of the song. Now, for picking, I'm using a little bit more of a Jazz 3 type pick. Because we're using single notes. This has a little bit more of a point to it, and I find it nicer when you're playing single notes like this. Now, my picking sometimes is alternating between. Alternating picking. But what I'm noticing I'm tending to do more here on the picking pattern is I'm keeping the pick in between the two strings, so I tend to pick more down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up. Okay.

So kind of just keeping this pick between the space of the E and the B string. Okay? So I just wanted to point that out as a tip for you guys. Let's move on to theme one. So theme one starts exactly the same way as the intro. We're on 19 and 21. And it's that same pattern you just learned. And you're going to play that twice. So it's going to be.

Now, very simply, all we're going to do is move those two fingers back one fret. All right, so now we are on frets 18 and 20, and the pinky is going to come down. Now on fret 21, it's the same pattern, same thing that you just learned.

All you've done is change frets.

Okay? And you're going to do that. You're going to play the first pattern, 19 and 21. You're going to play that twice. Then you come back to the second pattern. You're going to play that twice. Repeat the first one, repeat the second one, and that's it. That's theme number one. So from the beginning, we've got.

Okay, so that's what you do. And you repeat that again. And if you need to slow things down, if I'm playing through this and it's going a little bit too fast for you, you can always use the settings cog. But I'll play through one more time for you guys a little bit slower with those two patterns so that you can see my hand is just sliding down the frets. So it's.

Here's the slide.

So that is theme one. And don't worry at the end, I'm going to do a playthrough for you guys. All of these themes. So far. We've done the intro, we've done theme one. Now we're going to move on to theme two. So theme two is an entire whole step below theme one. So what does that mean for us on the guitar? Means we're just going to take exactly what we played and we're going to move it down two frets. So theme one started on 19 and 21. Theme two is going to start on 17 and 19. It's the same pattern. Okay? It's.

So on this, the pinky is coming down on the 20th fret. Okay? And you play that twice.

Now, just like in theme one, we're going to slide our fingers back one fret and we're going to end up on 18 and 20. Okay?

So if I were to play theme two, it's the same way as theme one. You would play through the first position twice, then you would play through the second position twice, and then you would repeat that. But I'm just going to play through it once here for you guys, here is what it's going to sound like. Play it a little bit slower for you.

Here's the slide.

And now a little bit more up to speed.

So you can see this song is peppy. There's a lot of picking. And that's why, for my picking, why I like to try and keep the pick just right, sitting right between those B and E strings. So theme three is our final part before we start repeating things. And it's just a little further down the fretboard. We're moving to frets 12 and 14. We're still keeping that power chord shape. Now, unlike theme one and two, we're not going to be moving to any other frets. You're just going to play this pattern seven times in a row. So it's just going to be.

Okay. You're just going to keep playing that. We're not sliding to any other frets. So it's played much like the intro.

I made a little mistake there. It happens. But I leave them in because, so you guys can see I'm not perfect. But that's all we're doing on that fourth part. And once we get there, everything's going to start repeating again. We're going to play an interlude, which is basically the intro we're going to for four measures. And then we're going to go through theme one, Theme two, Theme three all over again. So it just starts repeating at this point. So let's do a little bit of a playthrough here. I'm going to play through the intro. Theme one, Theme two, Theme three. Now, because this song is very fast, you saw me playing up to time, I'm just going to do this playthrough a little bit slower. If it's still too fast, you can always use the settings cog to slow it down. Or you can even speed me up if you want to. All right, so we're going to start with right from the intro. One, two, one, two. Ready? And.

So my biggest recommendation for you guys when practicing this is to learn each section one at a time, and then get those fingers moving as fast as possible. Work on the picking. The picking for this is very fast. So if you feel like your hands aren't moving fast enough to keep up with the picking for this song, that I highly recommend you go check out my speed exercise over there. For getting faster fingers in the next one to two weeks.