I Only Want to Be with You Guitar Lesson - Strum Like A Pro!

Hey guitar enthusiasts we are jumping to the nineties today i have a really great song by hootie and the blowfish called i only want to be with youh has a lot of really really cool strumming that i'm gonna show you so let's jump into it the first thing let's talk about the chords we have four simple chords and there's a couple different variations so you choose which way works best for you we have a g chord okay we have a d chord we have an e e minor seven chord and we have this a seven sus four now if you've never played an a seven sus four before you can use the first finger on the d string second fret and the third finger on the b string that's the third fret okay a seven sus four so that's one way to do it now i want to make a note for this song to get it to sound like the song we're going to put the capo on the fourth fret of the guitar okay so fourth fret capo so it's going to have a much brighter sound when we play through these chords so we have g d e minor seven.

A seven sus four okay now if you're familiar with the stuck like glue chords you could also use these which is you keep the second sorry the third and fourth fingers glued on the high b and e string okay so we have g we have a dsus four okay e minor seven.

And a sus four okay so you can keep this down now the caveat with this is you get a brighter tone i particularly like the regular d chord for this song.

Okay the regular d and g but some people like the pivot point from this d chord into this g chord so if you would prefer to have that pivot point because i would say eighty to ninety percent of this song is going between a d chord and a g chord and doing it very quickly so if you would prefer to have this third finger in there as a pivot point go ahead and leave it in there.

I'M going to play the regular d and g chord because based on me listening and hearing the sound of it i think that's what they're doing.

Alright so you heard me play the strumming in this song it's very very quick so we're going to break it down step by step because that's what i try to do here on this channel i try to make things that sound very complicated we break them down and try to make them as simple as possible so that you can learn and my name is lauren bateman if you've never met me before so hello so we are going to learn a sixteenth note strumming pattern now sixteenth notes are counted like this one e and a two e and a three e and a four e anda so there's still four beats one two three four but we have the potential to strum up to sixteen times so that's where we're going to start we're going to do this by alternating down up and i'm just going to be playing that bright d chord with the capo at the fourth fret so all i want you to do is just.

Go one e and a two e and a three e and a four.

E and this is going to be alternating down up.

Now this might not.

Seem so bad right one e and a two e and a three e.

And a four e and okay so it's almost like doing any other strumming pattern except we're just counting it a little bit different now you're like lauren that's not so fast yes once we pick up the tempo it gets much faster and that's where this tends to fall apart for people especially if you're not used to doing sixteen sixteenth note patterns and doing a lot of strumming so we're going to do is a little exercise we're going to start slow and then we're going to speed up alright and you might want to stick with this and try this exercise to work on sixteenth notes if they're new for you but that's where we're going to start nice and slow one e and two e and get the feel for it and then we're going to pick up the speed then i'm going to show you how we're going to break down this strumming pattern and make it sound more like the song so we've got one e and a two e and a three e and a down up down up.

Okay we're just going to do this a few times.

And then i'm going to slowly start.

Picking up the speed and see if you can keep up with me okay here we go let's pick it up a little bit.

One e and a two e and a three and a four e and.

Pick it up again.

Ready one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a.

Okay again one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a.

One more time one e and a two and.

A three and a four and a.

Half alright now the last one's definitely faster than what hootie and the blowfish but if you were playing a song like mumford and sons mumford and sons do very very very fast sixteenth note patterns now you might have felt that get more difficult the faster we went and what happens is a lot of people they try to muscle your hand to do these really fast sixteenth note patterns your hand has to be relaxed.

See my hand it's like a.

Hand is just like a whip and it's relaxed i'm not trying to force myself to go faster i'm relaxing that's honestly how you get speed is by relaxing so that's a great exercise if this is new for you might want to pause the video and just try working on that going slow to fast slow to fast trying to push yourself out of your comfort zone to go faster and faster and if this feels comfortable let's hop into the next section where we're going to break down the strumming pattern so there's going to be a hop in this strumming pattern where we're going to be switching from a d chord to a g chord halfway in okay and the pattern starts off really the same it's all one e and a two e and a great and we're just going to stay on the d chord for now to learn the pattern so we've got one e and a two e and a we're not going to do a down strum on the three it's going to be another up strum so it's going to be e and so up down so it's.

One e and a two e and a e and one e and a.

Two e and a which will be.

Down up down up down up down.

Up up down all right now we're not going to do the up after that down strum we're skipping another strum and then it's going to be four e and a down up down up so if i count this and play along with it it's going to be.

One e and a two e and.

A e and four e and a.

D down up down up down up down up up down down up down.

Up now if this is difficult on the guitar what i tell students to do sometimes is just say the rhythm if you can sing it even better if you're not the greatest singer just speak it but if you can say a rhythm pattern the chances of you being able to play it on the guitar are much better so let's just say the pattern okay so it's down up down up down up down up up down down up down up down up down up down up down up up down down up down up down.

Up down up down up down up up down down up down up down up down up down up down up up down down up down up try.

That if you're not really getting the feel for a strumming pattern just try saying it and then bring it back to the guitar so now we're going to add a g chord in here somewhere and that g chord is going to come on the up strum before the three okay so it's going to.

Be one e and a two e and up one e and a two e and up.

So you might just want to practice that down up down.

Up down up down up down up down up down up down up again here we go down up down up down up down up one more time ready down up down up down up.

Down up all right you might just want to work on that hup and then you throw the rest of the pattern in.

Then speed it up.

So see again get it down slowly and then try and put the speed in to the guitar so let's take a look at this verse fortunately like i said the majority of the song is just going between a d chord and a g chord alright so the d chord is doing half a measure and the g chord's doing a half a measure just as i showed you in that strumming pattern we're going to do that eight times in a row eight times in a row and then towards the end of the verse where we've got well there's nothing i can do we're going to do e minor seven for one full measure so we're going to do that whole strumming pattern and then a g chord for one whole measure and then we do two more patterns of d and g splitting the measure so i'm going to take this from the top of the verse we'll do a couple d g back and forths just so you can get the strumming down i will strum this just a little bit slower so that you guys can get a feel for it one e and a two e and a three e and a four foreenda.

You and me.

We come from different worlds.

You like to laugh at me when i look at other girls.

Sometimes you're crazy.

And you won know why.

I'M such a baby cuz the dolphins make me cry well there's nothing i can do.

Only want to be with.

You.

Now you might have heard on that e minor seven i just held out the sixteenth notes i just did sixteenth notes all the way through one.

E and a two e and a three e and a four e and.

A so i changed it up a little bit and sometimes on patterns like this when you start singing and playing your hand's going to do its own thing so what i want to do is i want to go over the next section which is the bridge section where we have a little bit more change coming in so i lied it's the solo section so what i'm going to do is play a few dgs i'm not going to play all seven of them and then there's the e minor seven g part okay and then the second time through it's e minor seven it's a seven sus four okay i'm going to play through it a little bit faster up to speed with the song so that you have something full speed to also play and practice around with so we'll start off with some dgs ready so we got one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a.

Ready here yeah i'm tangled up.

In blue.

Only want to be with you.

You a.

Only want to be with.

This is a great song to work on your strumming and sound really really good as a guitar player if you had fun with this strumming definitely go check out my wonder wall lesson right over there another phenomenal song that has really really cool strumming pattern.