The Weight Guitar Lesson by The Band

Hey, guitar enthusiast Lauren Bateman here in this video we're gonna go over the guitar lesson for a song called the Wait by the Band. So let's get into the guitar lesson.

So this is a super fun song. There's one bar chord in this. It's the B minor chord. But if you're a beginner and you need to use my easy B minor chord, I'll put a chord diagram up here for the easy B minor so that you can get around that if you are more of a beginner player. But other than that, we've got the chords for this song are going to be the G chord, the B minor chord, the C chord, and we have a D chord here in the chorus. And there's going to be a little bit of a walk down after the chorus that we'll go over at that point. So those are the chords for this song. Let's get into the intro of the song and how we're going to go about starting with our strumming. So. So the actual intro for this song is a little bit intricate. I mean, it's not too, too crazy. But we're not going to do that in this tutorial. We're just going to talk about the strumming. You can definitely go look tabs up for that and have fun with that. But all we're going to do for the intro is we're just going to do one measure of a G chord. All right. And I'm going to show you kind of two strumming patterns that you can use. So the easier strumming pattern would be 1, 2 and 3, 4.

And which would be down, down, up, down, down, up.

And that's all you would do for this intro. It's just one measure.

So four counts, 1, 2 and 3, 4.

And now if you want to get fancier, you can add in a 16th note, which is probably how I'm going to play most of this song.

So it's going to be 1, 2 and a 3, 4 and a 1, 2 and a and up. So that's going to be down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up, down, down, down, up.

Alright, so those are our two strumming patterns that we're going to use for this intro. And we're going to actually use those on the verse as well. But also show you something else you can do to spice it up a little bit more if you're interested. So let's get into how we're going to play the verses for this song. Hey guys. Real quick. Hope you're enjoying this lesson so far. Don't forget to subscribe. Subscribe to the channel so that you guys see more tutorials when they come out. So let's get into the verse. So the verse, what we're going to be using is basically the chords. G, B minor, C and G. Okay? And each of these chords is going to be splitting a measure. That means each chord is going to be two beats. So the chord progression for this, this verse is G and B minor in brackets. So G is going to be two beats, B minor is going to be two beats, and then we have C and G in brackets, which is our measure. So C is going to be two beats and G is going to be two beats. And it just keeps repeating that. It repeats that 1, 2, 3, 4 times in a row. So that is our chord progression that we're going to use for the verse. So that makes it nice and easy for us. It's four, four chords that repeat over and over. G, B minor, C, G. Okay, so how are we going to play this? So you can use those same strumming patterns that I showed you before. You can either do 1, 2, and.

3, 4, and 1, 2, and 3, four, and.

Or you could use the 16th note pattern. And I'm going to show you one more to spice it up a little bit more. So we've got the 16th note, which.

Is 1, 2, and a, 3, 4, and a 1, 2, and a and a 3, 4, and a.

Now what I like to do when I'm playing this song, if I'm jamming with friends or if I play it live, is sometimes I like to add a little bit of extra spice on that last G chord, which kind of gives a little bit more interest to the song and kind of gets you ready to go in back into the C. So it would sound like this starts on G.

So I keep going back to C. I don't know why I keep going back to C. But you can hear I did a couple extra strums here. So all I did on the end was I just added a 4, E andA so it'll be. If we start from the first G.

It'S going to be down, down, down, up. All right, B minor, 3, 4, and A 1, 2 and A, 3, 4, E and up. So it's down, up, down, up.

So just added a couple extra strums on the end. So if I play that again from.

The G. So it'll be 1, 2, and a 3, 4, and a 1, 2, and a 3, 4, E and A and then back into G. 1, 2 and A, 3, 4 and A. 1, 2 and A, three and three.

I think it adds like. You don't have to do it every time, but I think it adds like a nice little spice. So if I just sing a little.

Bit here be I pulled into Nazareth I was spinning half past day.

I.

Just need some place where I can lay my head.

So I think it just adds a little bit of a nice extra spice to get you back into that next G chord. So that's all we're going to do for the verses in this song. Let's talk about what we're going to do on the chorus. This is where our walk down comes into play. So let's talk about what we're going to do for that. If you guys like those strumming patterns, make sure to give this video a up.

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Let's get into our chorus and see what we're going to do there next. So this is the fun part of the song where we take a load off Fanny. So our chords are actually getting subdivided even more. So when we started with the intro, we had a full measure of G and then we worked our way into the verses and each chord got two beats. Well, on this chorus, the G chord is going to have one beat, the D chord is going to have one beat and. And the C chord is going to have two beats. So it's basically all four of these chords are going to be in one measure. So it's going to be G, D, C, G, D, C, G, D, C. And then we're going to hold the C on the end. But we're going to do something a little bit interesting on that counting wise. So let's just talk about the chorus first. So these split measures, so we've got.

G, D, C.

G, D, C.

G.

D, C.

So all I'm doing, I'm just doing down strums for G and D because they're only one beat. So we don't really have a lot of space to really make them fancy. So we're just gonna go G D. And then on the C I'm doing.

Down, down, down, up.

Because the C is gonna be two beats.

So we have G, D, C.

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

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

So that's how we're gonna do that part.

So it'll be take a load off Fanny. Take a load for free.

So you kind of get the feeling of what we're doing here in the course. So the very, very end of the course, there's a couple special things that happen. One, two. We're going to hold this C chord for a very, very long time. And this is where that really cool vocal harmony builds. And then we're going to do a walk down. So let's talk about that C chord because we're doing. It's a weird timing. It's basically a measure of 4, 4 and a measure of 3, 4. So basically we're going to count to 7. So instead of like two measures, we would usually go 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. This has a weird timing to it. For some reason, they decided, hey, we're going to count to seven, seven right now. So when we hold this C chord.

When we do take a load off, Fanny. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. And then we get walked down.

All right, so you heard. I'm going to hold this for seven beats. All right? So it's going to be 1, 2.

3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Then we've got a G chord. We've got G slash F, which basically all we're going to do is we're going to take this first finger and move it to this F sharp note on the top of our string. If you can mute the fifth string.

So it's going to be G, F.

And we're going to try not to strum the whole chord. Just get kind of the bass notes. So this is our walk down. So it's G to F sharp. So the first finger moves up to the second fret on the top string, we're going to play an E minor chord and then we got D. All of those are going to just be one strum, one beat each.

G, F sharp, E minor D. One.

More time for that walk down.

G. F sharp, E minor D.

All right, and then we've got another C on the end here. And this one we're going to do 1A, 2E. And it's going to be down, up.

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

All right, so we're just going to strum for half a measure, but we're going to let it ring out the whole measure. So one more time that's going to.

Be down, up, down, up, down, one up to the end.

Okay, so let me play through that whole chorus because there's a lot going on there. I want you guys to understand fully what's going on. So we're going to start with that G chord.

So we've got take a load of fanny.

Take a load for free.

Take a load of Fanny.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 G F sharp E minor D1, A2, E F and.

And then we're going to go right back into our next chorus and the outro for this song. So let's talk about what we're going to do to wrap up this song. So we got some more verses and choruses and we have our very final chorus into our outro, which our outro is just the repetition of the walk down. All right, so we have your final chorus and then we've got.

And then we do it again.

That's it. It's just that. Walk down twice.

And hold the sea.

I hope you guys enjoyed this lesson video. It's a super fun song, especially if you do it with friends. That vocal harmony part is really, really fun to sing in a group. I really hope you guys enjoyed the lesson. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up if you like the video. A reminder to subscribe to the channel so that you can see more videos just like this. YouTube's gonna pop up a couple more suggestions over here. Go check those out. Would love to see you guys in another lesson video.