Lyin Eyes Acoustic Guitar Lesson

Hey, guitar enthusiasts, have a great song. Lion Eyes by the Eagles. Wonderful, wonderful song here with some cool chords. Let's go over what those chords are. First. We have a G major chord, a C major chord, an A minor chord, a D7 chord. We also have a regular E minor chord, an A7 chord, and we have one bar chord, B minor. Now, if you're in my seven level guitar system, and you're probably around level five or six, you know, I have the easy fix for the B minor. Okay, so if you wanted to play this a little bit more at the beginner level, you could do it. And how you would do that is you play your first finger on the second fret of the E string. Your second finger would be on the third fret of the B string, and then your third finger would be on the fourth fret of the G string. Okay. We call that a chord triad. Playing three notes also sounds a bit like Hotel California. California, huh? So we have that B minor chord. If you need to make an easier B minor, it only shows up in the choruses. All right, so the majority of the song you're going to be able to play at somewhat of a beginner level. Even the strumming pattern I'm going to show you shortly is more of a beginner level strumming pattern. So let's get into that.

So the strumming pattern I'm going to show you is an eighth note strumming pattern. All right, Again, if you were in my seven level guitar system, this would be one of the strumming patterns I would teach you at level three. Three. Okay, so we've got our G chord here. And again, you can make your G chord with your third finger, your pinky, whichever is more comfortable for you. I like making my G chord with my third finger. I just feel like I have a lot more control that way. So we have the G chord, and we're going to do 1, 2, and 3 and 4. And. Okay, that's our strumming pattern. And it's going to be played 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4. And 1, 2 and 3 and four and one.

Now, the Eagles, this strumming pattern, the song's actually a little bit peppier than that. So let's try picking up the speed just a little bit. And I think the song really goes 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4and 1, 2. Ready? M.

Now, students always ask me. I see your comments below. I do read them. I try to Read almost all of them and respond as best as possible. And a question I get very often is, Lauren, when you're strumming, what strings do you hit? So usually on that first strum, I might only be catching the top three or four strings. I'm not always strumming fully through the chord, but typically on a down strum, you're gonna get most or all of the strings. And then on the upstroke drums, you may only be getting the bottom three or four strings. So keep that in mind when you're strumming. On the up strum, it's not so important to get those. Those bassy notes. And that's how you can tell when. When your ear gets more developed to hearing guitar in music. That's how you know the difference between a down strum and an up strum. The down strum is a lot more bass to it versus an up strum, which has a lot more treble and tinniness to it. So let's talk about the intro that we're going to be doing here. So the chord progression for this is two G chords, two C chords, the A minor chord. Okay. The D7, and then A double G. Now, with Eagle songs, there's usually many different guitar parts, so there's going to be other notes and stuff you're going to hear coming in on the recording. There's another guitar that's picking single notes. We're just going to be sticking with the strumming. So let's just give that strumming pattern a try over this intro. Ready? So we got 1, 2, and 3 and 4. And.

So there you go. You can hear the song coming through, so don't yell at me. Lauren, that doesn't sound exactly like the song. I understand, I understand. There's lots of guitar parts. We're doing this at more of a beginner level. We're not. We're not the Eagles. Okay. At least I'm not the Eagles. So we're going to take this into the verse now. And if you need to follow along with the notes on my website, feel free to go over there and do that. And we're going to take this strumming pattern. Now there's two things I got to mention here. The endings change on these verses, so you have to listen. There's three different endings. Okay. That we're going to go over for these verses. The first ending is we just play a double G chord.

That's pretty simple. But on the second, second verse, we actually play one G chord. And then we split a C chord and a D chord together. So we have a split measure on the second verse. Okay. So how that's going to sound is it's going to be 1, 2, and 3 and 4. And 1, 2 and 3, 4. And so on those split measures, we're changing the strumming to down, down, up, down, down, up. All right, so from the G chord, it's going to be.

Let's do it one more time. And.

Okay, and then on the third verse, there's one more variation. We have a G chord. And then we're just going to strum and hold the G chord. And that's when we jump into our chorus. So that's going to sound like this.

Okay, so those are our three ending variations. We have a double G chord where we'll just keep strumming. We have a single G chord with a split measure of C and D. And we're going to change the strumming pattern over those two chords. And then we just have one G chord and then a strum and hold, which is going to take us into the chorus. So let's go through the first three verses before we jump into that chorus section. So let's take it from that intro. Okay. This way we get our strumming pattern in line, and then we'll jump right into these verses. Okay, ready? One, two, and three, and four.

Silly girls seem to find out early.

How to open doors with just a smile.

A rich old man she won't have to worry.

She'Ll dress up all in lace and go in style.

Late at night a big old house gets lonely.

I guess every form of refuge has its price.

And it breaks her heart to think her love is lonely.

Given to a man with hands as cold as I.

So she tells him he must go out thee.

To comfort an old friend who's feeling down.

But.

He knows where she's going as she sleeps.

Headed for the.

Can H so this is where we.

Jump into that chorus. So we've hit that G with the strum and hold, which tells the listener, something's going to change here. And that change is the chorus section of the song. So this is where our B minor chord get introduced. And it's only introduced once, fortunately, in the entire chorus. And it's coming from an E minor chord. So if you were going to use the bar chord, your first finger is kind of already in place for where that bar would be, which is nice about the E minor. Okay. I would probably release the chord a little bit to get into that B Minor, I wouldn't pivot into it. It's kind of hard to pivot into a bar chord. Now if you were going to go for the easy B minor, my recommendation would be to move that first finger first all the way down to the bottom and get to the easy B minor. So from E minor, shoot that first finger down, second, third finger, get them in place. And then you can play the easier B minor chord. And then to transition to A minor, it's pretty easy transition there. If you're playing the B minor chord, you could just slide the shape of that bar chord up. Okay. And you have A minor. Or you can just play it the traditional way with the first, second and third fingers. So let's take this chorus now. So we've got 4G chords, an E minor and B chord. Then we have A minor, D. Okay, so those are the first eight chords. And then we have G, double C, A seven, and then A minor, D, G, G. And again, please don't yell at me. I get so many people yell at me like, that's not the right chord. It's like this C major, seven, add nine plus four minus three divided by two. I get it. I'm just simplifying this on so that we can play and have fun with it. That's what we do here on this channel. We make songs like this fun to play. So let's take it from the chorus. Okay.

You can't hide.

So we've just strummed our G and it's waiting for us to get into. You can't hide so let's. We'll take it from. She's headed for the cheatin side of town. A minor CG ready? So she's headed for the cheatin side of town.

You can't hide.

Your lion eyes.

And.

Your smile comes in disguise.

Bye bye. Now.

You realize.

There ain't no way to hide your dying eyes.

Then we have the intro, which is just the intro again.

You probably saw in that intro, I accidentally played the D chord instead of the D7. The song actually uses the D7 chord. I played a D chord, but guess what? It still sounded good. Right? So it just goes to show you, if you don't know those seven chords that well and you're having trouble getting into that D7 chord because you haven't practiced it enough yet, you can easily just play the regular D chord and it's going to sound perfectly fine. You don't have to be a purist. Okay? It'll work. And the song will sound great if you're interested in learning more fun Eagles tunes, then go check out my Eagles playlist right over there.