Guitar Lesson - Fix You by Coldplay

Guitar Lesson – “Fix You” by Coldplay Hi, kiddy cats. Your guitar sage here again, today we’re going to learn how to play “Fix You” by Coldplay. A really awesome song. I'm going to start playing the verse and the chorus. I'm looking at my chart here on my screen. I'm going to play the verse and the chorus and then we’ll talk about the particulars. There's one other part in this song kind of an intro and then they do a chorus out in the intro so it is kind of in between on what will be called maybe a bridge. Okay, so here we go, I'm going to start off playing it and for those of you that can just look and see what I'm doing here and then for those of you that needs a little bit more help, we’ll go into the details, okay? So here we go. It’s going to go something like this. [Demonstration] Here’s the chorus. [Demonstration] So let’s talk about the particular parts in this and as I'm going along, I get the melody or the lyrics wrong. This is a guitar lesson not a vocal lesson, okay? Here we go, so the chords in the beginning here are—oh and by the way, if you want to get the whole of this chart or any of the techniques that I'm going over, if you don’t understand check out yourguitarsage.com. Get a whole of the eBook, buy the eBook. It’s like 33 pages. It’s chunk full of really good stuff that’s going to help you with these tunes. It will also let you access this chart and hundreds of other soon to be thousands of others but hundreds of other charts that I've personally written up on these tunes that will help you to play it. You know of course with all that good stuff. All right so here we go, so the verse is going to go C, for four measures. And actually I'm counting this kind of quick I'm doing like a [Demo] That’s how I charted it. I probably should chart it like [Demo] but at last I did not. I did it twice as fast. So if you get a hold of the chart at yourguitarsage.com you’ll know that, so C for four, A minor augmented, and basically what you're doing is you're leaving that ring finger down for your C chord. You're just leaving it, lifting the other fingers up and you're playing, instead of muting that guy like you did on the C you're playing it over so it’ going to go C and I'm muting that low E with the C there. And for the next chord, the E minor augmented you're just lifting these guys up and leaving that ring finger there, rich. The third chord is an A minor and again I'm thumbing that G and muting that guy. The fourth chord is a G, and each one of those are held out for four beats so [Demo] okay, that’s the verse [Demo] just learn that verse. You’ll be playing it in no time. The chorus is really not that hard. There's an F in it but we’re going to learn a little G, D, F of course it’s going to go [Demo]. So here we go, so F, and here’s the F that I use. You could use a bar chord like this but we’re going to do this F. And basically what I'm doing is you grab the C chord, with the pinky right underneath the ring finger on the same fret and drop your second finger down one string, okay? If you just play the four middle strings here [Demo] there is your F chord. If you can't carry your first finger in it or able to lay it down on stings one and two fret one then you're able to get the rest of the chord. So five strings and then what I do is I bring my thumb around. This is the third part of the chord. Now you're not going to be able to do this at first don’t get frustrated with yourself, every great guitar player has had to just work and work and work. It’s not talent. I tell my students that a thousand times. It has like 1% to do with talent and everything you do no matter how long you spend on your instrument. Before I picked up a guitar I sucked. The only reason I'm better at it now is because I play like 20 hours a day. So there you go, there's your F. Now bring your thumb around right here and mute that guy. And then there's your F bam. You're going to hold that after four. The next measure is going to be a split measure and in fact let’s cover something here. This chorus, you pretty much can play the same four measures, just do it for three times, so three times in a row. But it’s the same motif, the musical motif, the musical idea to place it three times but the whole musical motif is four measures long. So here’s the first measure that’s in half, the second measure is and what this is, is an F for two, a C with an E in the bass. So instead of playing your C like this [Demo] play it like this [Demo]. So [Demo] the next two measures you could really do either thinking a G sus or a G suspended you can do that for two whole measures. Just holding that for two measures [Demo] or another version of this is go [Demo] I don’t like doing that. I don’t play this high E string on the G sus chord. I just mute it. I can either mute it with my left hand or my right hand. I choose to do it with my right hand. I can take this finger there and I [Demo] play it like that. I keep that guy attached. It’s a little weird corky thing that I do. So, that’s a G suspended by taking your first finger, put it on the second string fret one, and you can resolve it I mean by lifting it up. He definitely does that the very last, the third time he plays it. But you really can do that every time can go [Demo] or you can just hold that G sus out for the first two times around. On the chart here, that’s how I have it written, I just hold it out for both measures. That’s the chorus, really simple, we got to finish this up here. The out row , I don’t know where they did but the other keys is going to go two Cs, two Fs, two Cs, two Gs, two A minors, two Fs, two Cs, two Gs. If you missed that go to yourguitarsage.com, get the chart or keep rewinding the tape and write it down or whatever. 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