Peaceful Easy Feeling Guitar Lesson for LATE BEGINNERS!

We have a great song here by the Eagles featuring five different chord shapes. I'm going to go through it step by step, starting with our E major chord. So three chords that you guys hopefully know as open chords would be the A major chord, the E major chord, and then I'm going to give you one more that if you don't know it, it's pretty easy to learn. It's this ESUS 4 chord. And you create that by going from E major here and you just put your pinky right below. Okay. You don't even have to lift up your first finger. So we had E major and get to ESUS 4. You just put that pinky down. All right? And this is going to be featured in the intro and throughout the song. So you might just want to practice going back and forth between E esus 4, E esus 4. Right? So those are the three easy chords for the song. So we have A major, E major, and this E sus 4 chord. So the next 2 chord, little trickier, maybe ones you might not be familiar with, probably about like level six. In my seven level guitar system, we have a B7 chord, right. Looks and sound like this very twangy sound because of that seven that's in there. And the easiest way to practice getting in and out of this might be from that E chord. All right, so we're gonna. If you have E major, your second finger can act as a pivot point to get the other fingers in place. All right? So if you go back to E major, second finger stays in place, first finger moves up one, second finger comes down a string, and then the pinky. That's gonna be the tricky one, getting that pinky on the bottom string. Second fret. So we have three fingers in the second fret and then one finger on the first fret. So you could practice going From E to B7. But the real chord transition you're gonna have to practice is going from A into B7. But it's good just to get the muscle memory at first using that E major chord going into the B7. And then you would just practice A to B7, A to B7 back and forth as many times as possible. And our last chord is a bar chord, and there is an easier option for this. So if you know your A chord, you could always play that A chord on the bottom three strings. There's a very tinny sound to it because we're only playing three notes of A chord. But if you don't know the full bar chord, that will work. Out. Great. If you do know the full bar chord or you're working on barre chords, this is a great song to do it too. So there's a couple transitions into this F sharp minor. The way I would like you to practice to start is from E major. I like moving my third finger up and then sliding down to the fourth fret kind of gives me a slide into the chord.

That's a great way to start practicing, getting in and out of an F sharp minor bar chord.

So I'm going to give you two strumming patterns. One's a little bit easier, the other is a little bit more syncopated. Now, syncopated means you're going to be missing one of our down strums, but let's start with the easier one and work on our timing first. And if you guys need to follow along with the strumming patterns, you can always go to my website, laurenbateman.com and follow along there. Now, this first strumming pattern is going to be an eighth note strumming pattern. It's going to be 1, 2 and 3 and 4. And so we have downs on 1, 2 and 4. And then we have up strums on the ands. Let's do an E major chord here. And it's going to be 1, 2.

And 3 and 4. And 1, 2 and 3 and 4.

And.

Down, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, up.

Okay, and this, that works perfectly fine for the entire song.

But what I'm going to be using for the rest of this tutorial is the down, down, up, up, down, up pattern. Very, very common strumming pattern, but it's called the syncopated pattern. Because we are now losing one of our down strums, there's not going to be any down strum on the third, third beat. Now, the trick to this is, even though we're not hearing a strum, your hand is still strumming down on that third beat. So it's going to sound like this.

It's going to be 1, 2 and 3 and 4.

And so see, I'm still doing a down strum on the three, just not hitting the string.

So it's 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and. Or it's called down, down, up, up, down, up. Okay, down.

Up, down, up.

Okay, and watch my hand again on that three, I'm still going downstrom.

So we got 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4.

And.

Now let's just pick up the timing a little bit.

One, two, Ready?

And.

So let's talk about the different parts and we'll do a little bit of a playthrough here for you guys to play through this song. So the intro starts with that e in that ESUS 4. And you're going to do one strumming pattern for each chord. So we've got down, down, up, up.

Down, up, down, down, up.

And you can hear those suspended chords, they have this really nice open tone to them. So if you had like a D sus 2 or a D sus, where those suspended chords have very, very nice sounds to them. So going from E major.

To ESA score.

Just a very slight change in tone, a very slight change in the voicing of the chord, but it adds a lot to the song. So that's going to be our intro. We're just going to be going back and forth between e and e sus 4. And then we're going to jump into the verses and we're going to just play that same strumming pattern over the verse. There are no bar chords in the verses. It's just going to be the E chord, the A chord, and the B7 chord. And then when we get to the chorus, that's when our F sharp minor chord is going to jump in. So I'm going to do a quick playthrough of the intro, a verse and a chorus for you. Now, if you need to slow me down, just use the settings cog right over there. And if you are a member of my private community, I will make sure to share the unlisted link for the full playthrough so that you guys can practice and play along with me. One, two, intro.

Esau.

Back to esus four two more times. Esau four last time.

E.

Here we go.

I like the way your sparkling earrings lay.

Against your skin so brown.

And I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight.

With a billion stars all around.

Chorus.

Cause I got a peaceful.

Easy feeling.

You know you won't let me down.

Because I'm already.

Standing.

On the ground.

Now if you are a huge fan of the Eagles, then I highly recommend you go check out my Eagles song playlist right over there, where I show you simple ways to play lots of fun Eagles tunes.