Guitar Lesson - Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls

Guitar Lesson – “Hero/Heroine” by Boys Like Girls Hey, kids. Your guitar sage here. Today, we’re going to learn “Hero/Heroine” by Boys Like Girls. We’ll start off by playing this lick and then going into some of the chords. I'm looking at my chart here that I’ve got on my screen. Any of the information talked about today here, if you get confused, check out some of my other videos and also check out yourguitarsage.com. Probably, that will help you with all these techniques. And also if you want to get hold of this chart, I have a lot of tunes as I'm a guitar teacher here in Nashville. And I'm constantly charting tunes, and if you like to get hold of this, check out yourguitarsage.com. So here we go. To start the song, what I'm going to do, I’ll explain it all I'm going to play a little bit first so here is the intro lick. [Demonstration] It’s pretty simple but basically what I'm doing here is I'm taking my second finger, my middle finger putting it on the fifth fret of the third string. So from the bottom, third string and I'm doing that I'm picking— [Demonstration] In the picking pattern, what you want to do is [Demonstration] It’s really important because of your economy of movement. You don’t want to go. [Demonstration] You don’t have to move twice as fast if you’re all downs, right? You're down here, you’re coming up so it’s half the movement then I’m going [Demonstration] We have to move as twice as fast, so don’t get in habit of doing that. It’s bad habit. Let’s talk about the chords. What I’ll do for this is I’ll do it like I'm talking about the rhythm, and we’ll talk about the chords but I'm going ahead and play this from here. So it goes [Demonstration] Here are the three chords. I’ll explain it in a minute. We’ll break this down into verse, pre-chorus, chorus and bridge. There is also a fade but really is just hanging on the F chord. Here are the chords. For the verse, a measure of C, a measure of G, a measure of D minor and a measure of F. Since this song is in four, there are four beats per measure. So just start off if you don’t get the strumming rhythm go. [Demonstration] Then you could count twice as fast and have two measures for each one of these. [Demonstration] This is actually the more correct way to do it. I charted it like this for some reason. I'm sure I have a reason probably it looks simpler on paper. So, if you do get this chart at yourguitarsage.com, check the counting in four. The pre-chorus has got split measure of G, A minor and a full measure of F, and then you repeat that again. Now, the only copy up to that is the D split measure, the G, A minor, and has a pulley sheet [ph]. A pulley sheet is when if we need to do a push it could sound like this, during the chorus, it will go. [Demonstration] But instead, you know that doesn’t sound right because that E minor kind of hiccups a little bit early, it goes. [Demonstration] It pushes into a little bit earlier. So we call it a push. And if you’re counting it faster it will be like [Demonstration] It’s a B on the end of four, if we were doing that eight beats per measure type of thing. Here we go. That set is the pre-chorus. Chorus is really easy. One measure of C, one measure of G, then the two of that. [Demonstration] You may notice how am I doing my F here is I just grab a regular straight of F power chord, but I forego the string and bar this down here. It’s a little bit easier and it’s a nice transition from your F. You don’t have to do some big flat. Let’s start about the bridge. The bridge is A minor, four measures, C, four measure, F, four measure, G, four measure and then repeats it with the exception of the last measure. [Demonstration] And this time two measures of that. [Demonstration] The rhythm structure that I'm doing on this song is pretty common for rock, blues and country, that sort of thing. And it’s one, two and four and. If you purchase the e-book, this is the last rhythm that you’ll study on there. And it’s the one that’s mostly used in pop music. This is from your pop music. So, I’ll play it fast for you here and then slow it down so you can see what I'm doing here. [Demonstration] It’s really important that you do it on that end, then come back around and then come up to the next end. You don’t want to do this, you don’t want to go. You’ll all be screwed up so don’t do that. If you have a problem with these rhythms, pause of my videos unless you got to get it right away but if you’re a real maybe you might have some problems. You get through it. Okay so, that’s the basic rhythm for the whole tune so we’re going to go. [Demonstration] And now the only difference is that you want to be counting this the way I have this chart—I should have really rewritten it but it is the way it is and for time’s sake here. That’s what you get. With that C chord, you would count that twice or for each one of these full measures you would count that twice so it will go. [Demonstration] And that will be considered really one measure. Other than that, this is all pretty accurate here. The end of the song fades out with some Fs. Just F, down in the chords [Demonstration] Hopefully guys, you’ve learned something here. If you haven’t already, hit subscribe. I add new videos everyday. Keep practicing. If you haven’t already hit yourguitarsage.com and check out that e-book, there’s a lot of information that are packed in there. You don’t need all the stuff you did here. It’s about 33 pages of sounds or something like that. You’ll get it deliver to you immediately. Kids, keep practicing! I hope you like that.