Guitar Lesson - You're Beautiful by James Blunt

Hey there kids, your guitar sage. Today, we’re going to play “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt. I’m looking at my chart here on the screen. I’m just going to play it though the first time. We’ll be playing through all of it but I’ll be playing through all the parts, the choruses, the verses and that sort of thing repeating. I’m looking at my chart I’m just going ahead and play it through then we’ll talk about the particulars, chords, chord progression, strumming, how to read the chart and all that good stuff, okay. So, here we go. It goes something like this. I don’t know the lyrics very well. Pardon my singing, here we go [Demonstration]. Here’s the chorus [Demonstration]. And then I’m back to the intro again, okay. So, really the whole song is these two parts there like with kind of like the intro, verse and then the chorus. Now, there is a bridge part that goes something like this. If you got the lyrics or the melody to that it goes something like this [Demonstration]. So let’s talk about the chords here, we’ll slow it down. We’ll talk about the rhythm and all that good stuff. So you newbies, if there are any newbies out there you can get it. Some of you can just watch what I’m doing here, you can slap and kick on three, your off. For those of you that need a little more help, stick around and we’re going to learn this part now, okay. The other thing I want to talk to you about before we start is, in any of these techniques that I’m using here today if you don’t get them or they’re too difficult, check out yourguitarsage.com. I have a great informative eBook that will really help you with all these techniques specifically on how to play these acoustic songs, with a capo, reading the chart. A lot of the same chords are repeating in these pop and rock songs. Check out yourguitarsage.com and get that eBook. It will really help out, okay. So, here we go. Let’s talk about the chords and we’ll talk about the chord progression and all that. The chords you’ll going to need for this and again if you don’t know how to play these chords, that ebook will help and also if you need to get uphold to the chart, go to yourguitarsage.com and find out how to do that. I’m looking at it on my screen. Here are the chords you’re going to need to know; a C, a G/B, which is your regular G chord but a B in the bass, so I’m muting that sixth string with my finger. I’m bumping my first finger up against it. An A minor, an FM7, which is—here’s your F Major. I teach this F Major a lot for newbies, it's a little bit easier, but F Major 7 is even easier. Basically, it's a C in either here or the whole C chord, drop your second finger down the string and put your pinky right underneath your ring finger and play this E string open, then you’re going to get this [Demonstration], that’s an FM7 chord, okay. Now, for the chorus we will actually have to play it from an F chord, and a full on G chord, and in the bridge, there is a D minor chord. So, those are all the chords you’ll going to need for this song. Let’s talk about the song construction now, okay. Specifically, we’re talking about this first part here; we’re talking about the intro, verse and turn around. The turn around is that part of the song that sounds like the intro of the song, it's in between the chorus and the verse and its basically like a little transitional time for us to digest the lyrics of the chorus and everything, just kind of sync us back in to the feel of, “Okay here we are at the second verse” type of thing. Okay so, this is the intro and turnaround and a half of the verse. One measure, a piece for these chords, so it's all in four, so it's like [Demonstration] and that just repeats itself. So the chords C, G/B, A minor, FM7—the intro does that twice. When the verse starts, it's one time through C, G/B, A minor, FM7. For the second time through its C, G/B and two A minors. Then I would go in to the chorus, okay. The chorus has split measures, okay. Split measures means taking two chords and you share the measure or two or more chords. In this case, our split measure splits in half, so the first part is an F for two beats which you can play like that in your standard bar chord or you can come down here. It's on that low E string, with your thumb, mute it and bar these two with your first finger, that is your F chord, play that for two beats, G for two beats, C for a measure so it's like [Demonstration]. Repeat that again [Demonstration]. Then repeat the F-G part again [Demonstration]. Now for this, he throws in a measure of two. We said that this song is in four, so it's like one, two, three and four for each measure but there is this little bit where it goes like [Demonstration] And that’s the measure of two. It's a little bit strange but very cool, so after that third F, G combination, you’re going to play C for one beat, a G/B for one beat, and an A minor for a whole measure, then F for two beats, G for two beats, an A minor for a whole measure, and then F and G for two a piece again. Now, the turn around is the next section where they play that melody again and the chords are just the same as the intro, C, G/B, A minor, FM7. The second verse is the same as the first. The second chorus is the same as the first chorus, and then bridge is something like this. I’m looking at my time, we’re running out of time and we have to do this quick. The chords of the bridge are going to go—C for a measure, F for two beats, A for two beats, F for two beats, A for two beats, F for two beats, A minor for two beats, if I have been saying A, I meant A minor. Let’s do it again. The bridge is C for four beats, F for two beats, A minor for two beats, F for two beats, A minor for two beats, E minor for two beats, G for two beats, and it goes to the chorus again. I’m going to play it quickly because there’s this tag [Demonstration]. Okay, I’m sorry if I’m doing that so fast. We’re running out of time. Sorry 10 minutes are over kids. Hit subscribe, buy the ebook. Feed the cats. You know it helps me. Okay kids, go practice. Get out of here.