Gives You Hell - All American Rejects Guitar Lesson

Hi, I’m back. Hey, what’s up guys? It's Aaron. This lesson we’re going to do right now is on the New All American Rejects song. It’s called Gives You Hell. It's a pretty cool song I think and it has got some simple chord progressions. At first, you may have a little bit trouble but you will get used to them pretty quick. But it actually uses four chords—yeah well, clear thought. It only uses four chords and the first one, the chord progression goes E to C#m to A. Now generally, you think, “Oh wow! There’s only three chords, that’s weird,” but the A is for two measures, okay. So it's going to sound something like this, an E [demonstration] or you can play [demonstration]. Okay, this is your E chord, standard thing, that’s your E chord, okay. Now, one way the next chord, you can come to just a C#m and don’t stress out or worry about being in B bar chord because it doesn’t really matter in this case. You’re here on your E chord, right. Pick your pointer finger up and pick your middle finger up and you get your ring finger here in some of the D strings, second fret, okay. This is the only finger that you don’t need to focus on when moving from E to C#m, because if you follow in slow motion, look how fast will it stuck. If you’ll follow in slow motion, you’ll notice it. If these two fingers come up, so my ring finger is the only one touching, you slide it over to the sixth fret. Your pinky comes right down behind it, okay. So this doesn’t even move off the string, it just slides up. So if you can do this, you can do this chord, okay, the second to sixth. So once you’ve slide this to the sixth fret, your pinky goes down on the G string, the sixth fret, and the middle finger goes right down here on your B string first fret and then you’ll bar this on the last. That’s what you keep probably—you will have this. Sometimes we’re playing the E chord and then we’ll pick all our fingers up and try to come up and do this and take all the fingers up and try to do—come down here and do an A. So, do this way, play an E for two measure down, for two beats, make sure it’s two beats with that ring for everything but the ring finger up, slide it up there to the sixth fret. Put your other fingers down, two strums and then you’re going to slide all the way down here to an A chord, okay. Now, I think since you’re already baring up here, it's easy to slide your finger down because your bar will be on the fourth fret, so that’s C#m. As you slide your finger down, if you almost pointed it like down towards the sound hole, I kind of using this as a hinge, you’re almost always going to pull off that fifth string. So if you’re barred within the bottom five and you slide down here and then you kind of pivot your finger or just try to drop your—pull your thumb up to give you more strength on it, you’re just going to end up pulling off the fifth string and you’re going to be barred in the bottom four. It's just fine for that A. it’s okay if you barred that high, it's okay. This is you’re A, okay. So do that to get your E, two measures. The ring finger slides up. That’s your common finger, just kind of anchored. The C#m for two, double the A for one, two, three, four. So, [demonstration]. Okay, now, if you don’t like just the two beats, you can actually substitute with the strum pattern and it will sound something like this [demonstration]. So I use, down, down, down, down, slide up, up, up, down, up, down, down, up. Go to the A, down, down, down, down, up, up down, up, down, down, up. So, down, down, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, and then the A, you do the same strum pattern. So here, all together for the A and the C#m the down, down, down, down—it’s like down, down, down, down, up, slide up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, get on the A and you go, down, down, down, down, up, down, up down, up down, down, up. So [demonstration]. Repeat that through the first verse. The only thing that gets a little bit different is where it goes to, “And truth to be told I miss you,” it plays the B chord, all right. So your B, your barring across the second fret. The bar across the bottom five and then you do this little guy—and this little finger here, you can take your ring finger and you push up when your ring finger—just suddenly push up. So, this is might concave in and this one stays bent, all right. And that is how you want to play. So if this is the string, you want to play like this, okay and you do that on the fourth fret of the D, G and B. It takes some music to practice and then use to, don’t give up one, all right. So that’s the B chord. So the strum pattern you can use for that is like, [demonstration] down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up switch to the C#m, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up. Back to the B, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up and then A, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, up. It goes back into the one you see in my first part, homework. Yeah, I mean actually for the rest of the song, I think you guys will be following kind of just going to your own. Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Aaron, I guess I’ve thrown a solo for you so this is going to be stuck in the middle of the video somewhere. So if it cut off, that’s why it’s a solo, you’re not going to play all of this version and I’m going to teach is an easy one. You’re going to play all on the high E except for one note, okay. So you start on the high E and I say you use your ring finger on the next fret and you put your pointer on the seventh fret on the high E string you’re going to play. One, seven, slide down four, five, four, two and then the first fret on the B that kind of going that, then nine, seven, four, five, four, two and I like to play two around seven and you play nine and seven again. So it sounds something like this. [Demonstration]. Something like that. Check out the tab and do it with a rehearsal lesson. There’s nothing really that changes there. There’s another part when it says, “And here’s all your lies, you can look m in the eyes. Just go ahead and use that B again with the same strum pattern, down—down, down, up, down, up, down, down, up, down, up, down. To the next chord, which is an A, down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down. Okay, there’s just some different strum patterns that sure will work for this song. Give it a shot. Check it out and one more time, I’ll just play through the—on the guitar and get to the beat, okay. “Now where’s your picket fence, love? And where’s that shiny car?” So I'm going to start from, all right. So it's [demonstration]. This goes the same strum pattern to everyone. “And truth be told I miss you. And truth be told I’m lying.” So, good luck with that one guys. Remember to check out FreeandEayGuitar.com with over 200 lessons and more to come. So, check it out and spread the news about the site and hope you guys are enjoying playing the guitar. Take care.