Lauren Bateman teaches the acoustic guitar chords and strumming pattern for Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." The song uses C, G, E minor, and F, with chord changes that land on the "and" after beat 2 to create a rushed feel. An all-down-stroke 8th-note pattern with subtle syncopation keeps it simple.
Hey guitar enthusiasts, I'm going to be doing a song by Cyndi Lauper called Time After Time. It's going to be all down 8th note strumming, but there is a little bit of a syncopation. I'll show you here. The chords we're going to be using are a C chord, a G chord, an E minor chord, and there is an F chord. But since we're going to be doing all down strums for the strumming pattern, you can use the F major 7, which makes for a really nice and easy transition on the C chord in the verse. Okay. So if I show you the strumming pattern, it's gonna be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna change chords on the and after 2. So it's gonna sound like this: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3. It's gonna feel like you're rushing that second chord almost. Okay, so if we put this over this song, it's gonna sound like this. 2, here we go.
