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Learn Daniel Caesar's "Do You Like Me?" from the ground up. The song uses extended jazz chords like Emaj9 and Db7 over a slow down-down-up strumming pattern, with an eight-bar structure that repeats across intro, verses, and choruses.
Learn Daniel Caesar's "Do You Like Me?" from the ground up. The song uses extended jazz chords like Emaj9 and Db7 over a slow down-down-up strumming pattern, with an eight-bar structure that repeats across intro, verses, and choruses.
Hello, Good morning. Good whatever. My beautiful people. Today I have got. Do you like me by Daniel Caesar. Yes. The song came out less than like 13 hours ago, but I've got it for you today. Yeah, this is one of those songs. I heard it and I just. I had to know it. I mean, there was a guitar and now I'm here to share it with all of you. So I'm going to try a little bit of a different format. This video. I'm going to go through the whole song in its entirety right now. And then afterwards I'll go through and show you how to play it. If you just want more detail, you can skip forward or if you want to go fast, you can just learn with me now. All right, let's get started. Sa. Something like that. So basically now you can watch the rest of the video or just learn from that and then you can come back to that as a reference point. I'll go through the form later. Let's get into it. Alright. So the structure of this song, even though the chords can be kind of complex, is actually really simple. It's composed of three basic progressions. You have the intro, which is the same as the verse, and then you have the chorus and then you have the outro and there's a little bit of variation in between, but it's not too difficult. So the verse is going to go like this, E major 9 followed by an E flat major 9, the exact same shape, 1 fret down, followed by an A flat minor 7 or minor 9. Followed by A D flat 7. Got it. And then it's going to repeat. Except for instead of that D flat chord, the second time around, we're going to go to a B flat 7, the exact same shape, but now we're going to do it on fratta six. So basically the verse and the intro, it's a. It's an eight bar phrase. So. So there's like the four chords with the ending with the D flat and then there's the second four chords with the ending with the B flat. Does that make sense? So the intro is going to be through that whole sequence once. So it's going to be eight bars, you know, first ending and second ending you could call it. And then the verses are also going to be the same length as the intro. It's going to be one full time through. So with the eight bars and then. Yeah, like eight bars in total. And then the strumming pattern for this part and basically for the entire song is going to be. Like, slow down down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Basically, I'm just kind of keeping my hand in the swinging up and down motion and then just catching the ups and the downs when it's time. Cool. So after you play the intro, which is one time through the whole sequence, and then the verse, which is another time through the whole sequence, we're going to get to the chorus, which is going to go like this. B major 7 to A G flat major 7, back to A B major 7, back to A G, G flat major 7. It's just going to alternate between those two chords and then we're going to go back to. It's going to look very similar to the verse where we're going to go back to that E major 9. But then the next chord, instead of being. Instead of being e flat major 9, it's going to be an E flat major 7. So it's going to go, you know, B, E flat, B key flat, E major 9 like we played in the verse, followed by e flat major 7. And then after that we're going to go to. Yeah, we're going to repeat those two chords. And that's the first chorus. So it's basically just alternating between these two sets of chords. So the first. The first four bars of the chorus, I mean, is going to be B major 7, G flat major 7, B major 7, D flat major 7. And then the second four bars is going to be E major 9, E flat major 9, E major 9, E flat major nine. Got that? So the structure is going to be intro, and then you do your verse and then you get to that chorus, that part that we just looked at, and then you're going to do the verse. It's going to happen twice. So you're going to play the intro progression, you're going to go through all eight bars two times, and then you're going to get to the second chorus. And the second chorus is slightly different from the first. It's almost the same, but there's a slight difference at the end. So the first four bars are the exact same B. And then Even the bars 5 and 6 are going to be the same. It's going to be E major 9 to E flat major 7. But then at the end of the second chorus, we're not going to repeat that E major 9 to E flat major seven. We're going to go as if we're ending the first half of the verse. We're going to go to a flat minor 9 to D flat 7. And then you would go into the next verse. Let me. I'm going to play the whole first chorus or the whole second chorus. Or. Sorry, now I'm going to play the whole second chorus. To G flat, E minor, E major 7, mid 9, E flat major 7. And I'm not going to repeat that. I'm going to go to AB minor 9, B flat 7. And then you're going to go back to your verse. So just to review the form up until then, you got intro, which is one time through the whole progression verse, another time through the whole progression, chorus one time through the chorus progression in the first chorus. Remember, the second four bars is just going to be a repeat. And then you do the verse again, but you're going to do it twice. So it's kind of the same length as like the intro plus the verse. Now it's just two verses in a row. After that we have our second chorus, which, remember the ending is slightly different. And then you're going to go to the third verse, which is just one time, one time through the eight. And then we're going to get to our outro, which is going to sound like this starts with our regular old E major 9, which I'm sure you're very well acquainted with with now. And then we're going to go to a 7. And there's a couple different ways you can play this, but this sounds like the voicing that they're using. At least this is the right top note. And then you're going to go to a B major 9, where this is kind of a uncommon voicing. B major nine for a bar and then B major seven for a bar. So the outro is going to sound like this. And then it just repeats four times. And that is literally the whole song. So just to call out the form one more time. Intro verse, first chorus, two verses, second chorus with a different ending, third verse, outro boom. I hope this is simple. I hope this is clear for you guys. Let me know if you have any other questions or have any other requests. I know Lokes by Steve Lazy has been very requested. I got you guys. I got you guys. But I just had to do this one in the moment. So, yeah, please let me know if this is helpful and have a nice day. Bye, guys. Leave more requests in the comments.
