I Want To Come Over Guitar Lesson With FUN STRUMMING!

I am super excited to teach you this song today. It's Melissa Etheridge's. I Want to Come Over. It's got a lot of great chords, lots of cool strumming. You guys, if you know me, you know I love Melissa Etheridge. So let's go over the chords we're going to be using first. And don't worry about those bar chords. I'm going to show you some easy fixes for those if you need them. The majority of the song is going to be on an E major chord, an A major chord, and a D chord. Okay. We're going to sit on that E chord.

We're going to sit on that E chord a lot. Okay. The other chord that might be tricky or new for some of you is a B7 chord. Okay. So this one, mostly, a lot of the fingers are in the second fret. Okay. We have our second finger here, third finger, pinky, all in the second fret on the fifth, third, and first strings. And then our first finger is going to come to that first fret on the fourth string, B7 chord. So it's a very bluesy, twangy sound to it. Okay. And then we have couple bar chords we have to contend with. The first one is C sharp minor. Okay. Which is going to be the fourth fret off the A string. Okay. But you could always play, because we're going to be doing a lot of palm muting, different things here. You can always just play a C sharp or C sharp, five chord power chord, and that'll work as well. The other one is right above that. So just move everything up, one string each. And then you take away your second finger. You have A flat minor. Okay? Okay. So that's A flat minor. You could always just play an A5 power chord, though. Sorry, a flat 5. So it has to be A flat. Okay, I do like that. If you can get the full chords, awesome. They sound much better. But if you're not great with bar chords yet, you can always use those power chord options.

So let's start off with our intro, which is mostly hanging out on an E chord. But I want to show you a cool little spice you can add if you want to. But first, before we do that, let's just talk about the rhythm. So the rhythm of this is going to be 1 and a 2 and 3 and 4. And so there's just a little bit of that 16th note in there. So it's 1 and a 2 and.

3 and four and one and a 2 and 3 and four.

And so it's going to sound like this.

Okay, so let's slow it down and break up what we're doing. So you can see I'm mostly using down strums. You hear a lot of darkness to my guitar, which tells you it's a lot of down strums. So it's going to be one and up. So that, ah, that 16th notes, the only up.

So it's down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.

If you listen to the record, there's something else going on underneath this guitar. I hear.

O stuff like that going on underneath the guitar. Now my hand is not big enough to accomplish this, but I'm going to show you how to do it. You know, you might be someone who's. Who's bigger, has bigger hands than me, and you might be able to do this. So what's happening is you'll see the notes I'm playing. I'm playing the second fret on the high E string and the fourth fret on the high E string. If you play that E major chord and you put your pinky on the second fret, we've got.

So what am I doing? So on the 1 and a 2.

I have that note down. So the down, down, up, down. And then I release my pinky.

And three and four and one and a two and three and four and one and two and three and four.

And now this is the note I particularly have trouble with. It's reaching the pinky. You can see that can be quite a stretch for people to get that note, but I'm going to try it. So this is. That would be. So the first. Just to go through it slowly, it.

Would be 1 and a 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and a 2 and 3 and four and so.

This note is four. So it's 1 and a 2 and.

3 and Four and 1 and a 2 and 3, and four. Four and one and.

Okay, so do you hear that? Four and so that's where that note comes in. But you can see it's very hard for me to reach that. You know, someone with bigger hands might be able to do it. But you could just do the first part because that still sounds nice.

Got lucky. I actually got it to work a couple times there. But just want to show you that that is an option. All right. If you want to add a little bit of spice and embellishment to this intro, that's what you can do. Or you can just straight up strum an E. Okay.

One and a two and three and four. And one and two and three and four.

All right, so that's our intro. Let's talk about our verse next. So we get a little bit more chord movement in the verse. And when I played this live with my band, I like to do a lot of palm muting.

This is the low part of the song.

I know you're home.

You left your light on.

So it kind of gives a lot of depth, Especially if you're performing by yourself and you don't have a band behind you. Palm muting works great. It's a really chunky sound. Now, if you've seen my video on palm muting, you can watch that there. If you haven't, I'll give you a very quick tutorial. If you don't know how to palm mute. If you do, you can just fast forward ahead to the strumming pattern. But what we're going to do is we're taking the palm section of our strumming hand and we are putting it just in front of the bridge of our guitar to a point where it gives us this chunky sound. So I tell people the best way to find is to start your sound hole.

And find the point where the guitar opens up. So here, this very shallow, not a lot of depth.

There it is. Kind of opens up and you know you went too far because the strings open open up a lot. So now.

Really play with things a bit. Now if you can't do the palm muting, don't worry. You can just do the regular strumming pattern. But work on that palm muting because I think it's going to add a lot to this song. So the rhythm, we're doing just an eighth note rhythm.

One and two and three and four. And one and two and three.

Now it's the accents that make it.

One and two and three and four. And one and two and three and four dot and one and two and three and 4. And one and two and three and four and.

Okay, so what am I doing? I'm palm muting my notes.

One or one and two.

And look at this hand. I'm taking my hand away from the strings to let the string ring through. It's an accent.

Okay. So it really gives a lot of depth to this portion of the song. Okay, so if you want pause the video, practice that because I'm going to play through a verse here. So it's I know your home. E chord, D chords, and A chords. I'll put some notes up here. And also you can follow along with the notes on my website as well. I'll put a link in the description below. Here we go.

One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and 1.

Ready?

I know you're home.

You left your lad on.

You know I'm here.

Night.

Is then.

I know you're alone.

I.

Want the collie.

Your lover is gone.

Let me in.

So now we come to the pre chorus, which is the section that comes before the chorus. That's why it's called the pre chorus. And don't worry, I'm gonna do a full playthrough with a whole verse, chorus and everything for you guys too. But I want to talk about the pre chorus. We're going to change up the strumming just a little bit here. So at this point, the song opens up. All right, So I would get rid of the palm muting and play the exact same strum you were just doing, just opening it up. Same on the chorus. So it's going to sound like this.

Open your back door I just need to touch you once more.

Oh, I wanna come over.

So before we get into the chorus here, I want to talk about the crescendo that I added on the end here. So we're working on a lot of dynamics in this song. So the first two A chords you saw, it was totally fine. It was the same strumming pattern.

And then the third A chord when I get to the.

All right, I did a little crescendo, which is you start really quiet and then you get louder. And then we muted the fourth A chord on the one note. Let me just do that one more time for you. I'll take it from the B7.

So I just need to touch once more.

Oh, here it's.

Hear that?

Mute.

Okay. Strum and then mute with your fretting hand. Okay. And it'll cut the guitar off, which gets us ready for that impactful chorus. Now the chorus section is where we finally meet our bar chords. All right, so we're going to be using. Going from an E chord to a C sharp minor. Now a little trick here, a little tip. You have a little slide here that you can do. So this third finger is already in place to slide up to your C sharp minor. Okay. So from. Let me do that again. So here we have E major. That's what we're starting.

I wanna come out. Well.

To hell with The.

Look at that. I can just slide that third finger consequence.

You told me you love me.

That'S all I.

Wan.

Now this. A flat minor. We don't have a slot. We can't slide into that from the E because you do have to transition a little bit. So there is no easy way to get into that. A flat minor.

I need I can explain.

To see you again.

I want to come over.

So you can see again. I'm introducing some dynamics.

That's all I believe.

A crescendo.

Okay. So you can see there's a lot of up and down in this song. And then we come back into that verse.

Right back down to the palm muting section of the song. Now before I do a little bit of a playthrough for you guys, there is one more section of the song I want to mention. And. And that is our little interlude section where she's going O.

And that's just an A chord to a B7 chord.

So it'll be see you again.

I wanna go away.

That goes to a.

Back to.

Oh.

You can see why I love this song. I just love the up and down, the dynamics. It's so good. It's so much fun to perform. It's a great song. So let's take this from the top. We're going to do an intro, a verse, a pre chorus and a chorus so that you guys can hear what it sounds like to go through each of these sections. If you need to use the settings cog to slow me down, go right ahead. Let's get started. One, two, one, two. Here we go.

I know you're home.

You left your light on.

You know I'm here.

The.

Night is thin.

I know you're alone.

I watched you come near.

Your lover is gone.

Let me in.

Open your back.

I just need to touch you once more.

Oh.

Oh.

I wanna come out well.

Down with the consequence.

You told me you love me.

That'S all I've been.

Now if you guys are interested in seeing a full playthrough of this song, I have a performance over here from 2014 when I did a full set of Melissa Etheridge with my violin player. Go check out that video and you can see my full performance right now.