Won't Back Down Guitar Lesson

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And I won't back down.

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. Lauren here. And in today's tutorial, we're going to be doing Won't Back down by the late Tom Petty.

Very, very cool song.

A little bit on the intermediate side. One, because we have this F bar chord. And two, also because our chord changes are very quick in some parts and we're needing to kind of hop our rhythm. So you probably heard a little bit in my intro, some of the chords sounded a little bit rushed. We.

So you can hear that first chord. That first section that I played was a little bit. A little bit fast. It had this, like, jump to it. So we're going to be hopping some rhythms in this song. Now, the good thing about this song is that the chord progression is repetitive, so that's awesome. So if we take a look at our verse, we have two chords in brackets. We have A minor in G followed by C again, A minor and G in brackets for followed by C. And then we have an A minor and G followed by F. And then the progression ends with A minor, G in brackets, followed by a C. So whenever we're going from A minor and G, whenever we're going from A minor and G into our C chord, there's going to be a hop on that G chord. And what are we doing? So when we're doing that, the A minor is essentially going to get three beats and the G chord is only going to get one beat. Now, the rhythm. Let's talk about the rhythm before we go into how to play. This is. I'm just doing all down strums, 8th notes. So if I get to my A.

Minor, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.

And that's all we're doing again.

1 and 2 and 3 and four.

And nothing fancy. Nothing fancy. The only fanciness comes from us hopping these chords around. So let's go back to the beginning. So we have A minor and G splitting a measure, and then we're gonna hop from the G to the C. So the A minor will get three.

Beats, which will be one and two and three and.

And then G is gonna get one beat, four and. And that's it. I'm going to tune my guitar real quick. I think it went out of two months. I put the capo on. All right, I'm back. So you'll notice. Yes, I have a capo on the fourth fret, so we should talk about that. Because if you play it without the capo, it's not going to sound right. But I have a Capo on the fourth fret. And you should check your tuning on your guitar, because sometimes the capo can put things out of tune, especially if the intonation is not so great on the guitar. So as I was explaining earlier, we're.

Going from a minor 1 and 2 and 3. I'm sorry, 1 and 2 and 3 and G. And so a minor 1 and 2 and 3 and G. And.

So the G is only getting one beat on the four N. And then we switch over to C. So it's.

1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.

And so that's how we go into our C. The C is a full measure. So if I play that a little bit quicker, you'll hear the hop more.

So you can see my G chord is not played very, very long. So whenever you see A minor G going into C, we're going to use that hup pattern. Now the A minor in G going into F, we're going to split the A minor in G. So they're each going to be two beats. So A minor is going to be.

One and two and.

And then the G is going to.

Be three and four and.

And then we're going to switch to F, which is a full measure, 1.

And 2 and 3 and 4.

And so by playing. Play that section again. A minor half a measure G half a measure, F for a full measure.

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

And then after that, we do another measure of a minor for three beats.

1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And that goes to C. 1, 1 and 2 and 3 and four.

And so there you have it. That's the verse. It's basically just those couple sections. It's A minor G into C or A minor G into F. It's really just that simple. And it repeats that for every verse. So now what we're going to do, we're going to jump into the chorus where our chord progression changes a little bit, but we're still going to be doing this hopping pattern on some of the chord progressions. Now, on this chorus section, we're pretty much going to be hopping all of the chord changes except for the one that's the second one, FC into G. So the chorus starts with F and C splitting a measure, and we're going to do that hopping pattern where the F chord gets three beats and the C chord gets one beat into a G chord. The second time through, we have F and C again, followed by the G chord. Except the second time through, we're going to keep it on an even measure. So it's going to be two beats per chord. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. And so let me go through the first part of that chorus. So it's going to be starting on an F chord.

1 and 2 and 3 and C and G and 2 and 3 and 4.

So that's the first one. Now the second one is going to be an even split of the measures. So we have F for two beats.

1 and 2 and C and 4, and then G and 2 and 3 and 4.

And then for the second half of the chorus, we have again F, C to G hopping.

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

And then after that we go back to our verse progression, which is A.

Minor to G and 2 and 3 and 4 and C and 2 and 3 and 4 and.

And then it repeats that again. A minor.

1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.

And so. So if I go and play this entire chorus, we have this.

Hey baby now here's the even part. Easy way out.

Hey baby I will stand my ground.

Now won't oop ended on F. It.

Ends on C. See, but you can hear the hopping that goes along in this video. So there you have it. So don't forget to like and comment on the video. And also don't forget to subscribe. If you enjoyed this lesson, you can go to laurenbateman.com donate make a donation. I always appreciate when you guys do that. And I'll see you guys in the next lesson video.