Lauren Bateman teaches the four-chord progression for "Stand By Me": A, D, E, and F♯ minor. She shows a simplified F♯ minor fingering using an A-shape on the bottom three strings, then walks through a six-beat strumming pattern and sings the song to show how it all fits together.
Hey guitar enthusiasts, I have a great song here, uh, by Benny King called Stand By Me. Great song for beginners. It has 4 chords. We have an A chord, we have a D chord, we have an E chord, we also have an F sharp minor. But when I work with beginners who aren't great with bar chords, I tell them, just take your A-shaped chord and move it down to the bottom 3 strings, and you've got an easy F sharp minor. And in this song, we're going to be moving from A major to F sharp minor, so it's a way to play the song without using a bar chord. All right, now the strumming pattern we're going to be using is down, down, up, up, down, up. 1, 2, and, and 4, and down, down, up, up, down. Okay, so it's gonna sound like this. So darling, darling, stand by me. Oh, stand by me. Oh, stand, stand by me. Stand by me.
