Lauren BatemanGuitar Teacher; Founder of the 7 Level Guitar System

Summer Of 69 By Bryan Adams

21 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short instructional YouTube video by Lauren Bateman teaching how to play Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69." The instructor explains that the verse uses two chords (A and D), the chorus adds B minor and G, and demonstrates a simple strumming pattern consisting of all downstrokes on eighth-note subdivisions (counted as "1 and 2 and 3 and 4"). The clip includes brief sung lyric fragments to illustrate the progression.

Questions this video answers

A and D.

B minor and G.

All downstrokes on eighth notes (counted "1 and 2 and 3 and 4").

Chapters

I've got a super fun and exciting song by Bryan Adams called Summer of 69. The verse only uses two chords, an A chord and a D chord. In the chorus, we do bring in a B minor chord and.
A G chord. And the strumming for.
This is very simple. It's just all downs, 8th notes. So it's gonna sound like this 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And 1 and 2 and 3 and four. Except it's a little bit faster. It's more like 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And ready? Here we go.
I got my first.
Running at the 5 and 9? Wait until my fingers bled? This is summer of 69? Me and some guys from school had a bed and we tried real hard? Jimmy Quinn Knowing I'm married?
I should have.
Known we never gave up? Oh, when I look back now.