Guitar Lesson - I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles

Hey there youtubers! Your guitars stage here. Today we’re going to learn how to play “I saw Her Standing There: by The Beatles. This is a pretty simple tune that only requires four chords, I believe. And they're pretty simple, they're open chords, we won't need the capo for this one. And the song is build from the 12-hour blues, so I just did a video for it, so if you haven't seen that one and you’re not familiar with the 12-hour blues, check that out. Okay, I’m going to jump into it and then we’ll talk about the bits and pieces here afterwards. We’ll kind of—you know, how we’re holding the chords and all that good stuff, the construction of the chord progression. I’m looking at my chord progression on the screen here that I’ve charted for but I’m going to start into it and basically breaking this into –really there's three parts. The verse, chorus and solo. There’s an intro, but it's just an E7 chord. So I'm going to break it up into three pieces, so here we go. Sounds in 4/4, just like – [Demonstration] Okay, so that kind of field. We’re going to talk about the strumming in a minute. I’m going to keep it simple and play this, like kind of like— [Demonstration] So this is the intro, it's going go four measures of E7 and by the way, I’m looking at this chart right now, it's really easy for me to do this. If you have any issues with it, write down the chords that I’m telling you. Check out yourguitarsage.com and it’ll tell you how to get hold to the chart. Also there’s a great informative e-book there that will help you know all the songs that I‘m going to teach up here so check those out. Okay, so here we go, if you don’t have the chart then of course, jot these chords down. So the intro is going to go in E7 for four measures so— [Demonstration] So now, we’re into the verse. The verse is going to go E7 for two measures, A7 for a measure …E7 for a measure …E7 for two measures again…and a D7 for two measures…then an E … and E7…an A…a C…an E7..an E7 … and two E7’s… Okay, so that’s all the verses and in fact, there are three verses in this song and the very last verse you’re going to play the entire verse through and then it's going to end that with this little four bar progression E7-A-that’s the very end of the song. You’ll recognize it when you get to it. Okay, so that’s what we get as far as the verses. We’ll talk about the chord particulars in just a second. Chorus is going to be something like this. It's going to go six measures of A7, two measures of D7, two measures of A7, that’s the whole chorus, so— [Demonstration] Here’s the B7 [Demonstration] Okay, there's choruses in this, so I believe there are three choruses, either two or three, but nonetheless, when you get to the chorus that’s your progression. It's going to be the same for all of them, okay. Now let’s talk about the solo. The solo progression is going to go E7 for six measures [Demonstration] and a 5-6-E7 for two measures [Demonstration] A for two measures [Demonstration] and then an E [Demonstration] a B7 [Demonstration] two E7’s [Demonstration]. Okay, now that is the whole tune, as far as the chord progression. Let’s talk about chords here for a second. If you don’t know how to play an E7, it's an E, straight up E chord and hopefully for those of you that don’t know how to play the E chord you can see what I’m doing here but an E7 is you lift your ring finger up and you play open D [Demonstration] and that’s your E7. Your D7, the best way that I can say to do this is if you don’t know how to play a D7, your D7 looks like this your D looks like that, so for those of you that don’t know how to play a D7 I think it’ll look like a backwards D. So if the triangle is pointing this way, flip it the other way. First finger is here 2nd and 3rd we’re on strings three and one and that’s what your D7 looks like. Your D7, which is the chord we’re going for it's kind of the way we’re at it, we’re going to take this and lift it up, bump it up two strings, lay it down and your pinky down here, that’s your D7 and you should play it from the 5th string down [Demonstration]. It's a great chord, use it all the time. Okay and then we have a C chord here to as well in the verse [Demonstration]. For those of you who that have been studying the national number system with me, I do have a video for that also the e-book of course describes that in detail but if you d want to know what the chords are in these, the E7 is the one because that’s our tonic or a riff. The 4th chord is our A7 [Demonstration], our 5 chord is our B7, and the flat at 6th is our C [Demonstration] then of course we came up with these notes from the major scale [Demonstration]. And here’s our one [Demonstration] our four is our [Demonstration] our five [Demonstration], and our flat at six [Demonstration]. But then we’re flattening it, [Demonstration] and then we make it a C [Demonstration], that’s a flat in 6th chord. So, if that entices you, which it should is the great way for you to pick that music and for you to understand these charts. Check out the video that I have on charts. All right kids, that’s about it for today. Keep checking back if you haven't already, hit subscribe and you have already, get a hold of that E-Book, it's going to allow you to also acces the website, where I have tons of charts that will really help you with your playing and also, these e-books are informative. It’s about 33-page document and it will help you with strumming. It will teach you the national number system. Teach you have to read charts, also it's a good stuff. So all right, keep checking back and we’ll talk to you later. Goodbye!