Here Comes Goodbye - Rascal Flatts Guitar Lesson - Part 1/2

What’s up guys? It’s Aaron. Right now I’m going to teach you a lesson on a song of Rascal Flatts and it’s actually called Here Comes Goodbye. The mean to get this done quite sometime for somebody who requested that you know who you are and here it is. So, standard tuning and we’re going to use a couple of chords here. The only chord that I’m going to want you to—it’s going to be different and it is called a GM7 chord. The way you should probably play it is to put your pointer finger on the high E second, the middle on the third fret of your B string, the ring on the fourth fret of your D string and your pinkie, on the fifth fret of your D string. If you have a hard time playing that it’s too much a stretch, just play a regular G. That sounded various—you can do it on some G, so play forefinger G here and stretch your pinkie finger up to fifth fret. So maybe you have trouble with that reach but it’s not—you can also just do this [Demonstration]. And then the B string up. So here we’re going to—for the piano, so there's a little bit of the riff beginning with the piano that covers the four chords B minor A, G and D. Now, I have come up with this own little riff on my own while I was practicing the song and it sounds something like this, we’ll see if I can—if I can do it up [Demonstration]. So it’s [Demonstration]. So that’s one of the riff that I used on the beginning. When you hear the song “Here Comes Goodbye” by Rascal Flatts, it was—that you hear piano. That’s the little riff I’m going to apply. Now, I’m going to teach it to you real quick here, all right. So we’re going to start up with your B minor chord and you’re going to play this [Demonstration]. Really simple, while in your B minor chord, this bar across the bottom, five strings on the second fret, no finger goes on the third fret of your B string, ring and pinkie go into the fourth fret on your two middle strings here, D and your G, all right. And you’ll just play starting with the A string and you’re playing five, four, three, two, three, four, three. So they’re numbered from top one, two, three, four, five, six. We’re playing [Demonstration]. So that’s just five, four, three, two, three, four, three, okay. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and that’s five, four, three, two, three, four, three and you switch to an A chord, you can play like this if you want. I find it’s much easier for me just to do a bar. You just bar across it. So, when you get that A it’s going to start this from B minor. It’s the same exact picking pattern using different chords. In the B minor you were five, four, three, two, three, four, three; A, five, four, three, two, three, four, three. So both of these chords your picking pattern is five, four, three, two, three, four, three. There’s a tab over here, go to freeandeasyguitar.com and there’ll be a better tab for you to see there. So once you finish that same picking pattern on the B minor chord [Demonstration] and you’re going to switch to the G and you’ll play this [Demonstration] and you’ll play all together. So, in the G chord you’re going to play [Demonstration]. So in the G chord you’re only going to play four notes. While you’re in this four-finger G your going to play sixth string, you’ll play six, four, two, three; six, four, two, three. After you play your six, four, two, three, you switch into the G or to the D chord and you play [Demonstration]. I’m going to play it one more time [Demonstration]. So in your D chord, you’re to play four, three, two, three, so four, three, two, three and then you’re going to play your high E open and hammer on this middle finger down to the second fret. So the D is going to sound like this [Demonstration]. The G and the D sound like this, like that and the whole thing all together is going to sound like this [Demonstration]. And thus we could plays for the intro. You can play through it twice. You can also play it during the verses if you want. And if you don’t, if you just want to strum, the chord progression that you’re going to do twice is B minor to A, to G, to D. So B minor, A, G, D, B minor, A, G, D and then you have B minor, A, G, D/F. The D/F just makes a D chord. So the first thing which is in the D to this D/F, so the D is the beginning. So that means that your actual chord and a /F sharp means that that’s a change to bass note. It’s like a D/A, means a D chord with an A base note. So the D/F sharp means the D chord with an F sharp base note. So the base note up here on low E opens as an E. So two steps up, it goes from E to an F, to an F sharp, so all the D/F sharp is a D chord with an F base note. So that’s with that chord is. An Asus I believe is just [Demonstration]. I know it’s an Asus in the tab but I want you to do an A where your ring finger covers the third fret of your B string and your pointer and middle cover the second frets of your D and G. So you have open, open, two, two, three, open. That’s why I want to play your D and you can slide it right down for an A because it goes Asus, A when you get there. So I’m going to strum through the verse four and I’ll give you a kind of strum patterns. So, the verse is [Demonstration] and that’s just [Demonstration]. It’s in the B minors, down, up-down, up, switch to A, down, up-down, up-down, down-up, to the G, down, up-down, up-down, to the D. I want you to get into the D that first down, so it’s down, up-down, up, down, up-down, up-down, down-up. So once again, B minor [Demonstration] start all over, so just watch my hand as well [Demonstration]. I’m going to challenge you guys to pick that on your own like taking sometime of practice but you can do it. That’s how you strum the first two verses. “Footsteps on the front porch, I hear my doorbell” sounds like this B minor [Demonstration]. Same strum pattern, you just substitute in that D/F sharp for the D. So it usually comes right in [Demonstration]. So an E minor usually comes right in, so down, up-down, up. Once you’re here in the C minor just stick that ring finger right down on the third fret of your B where it’s for the Asus, I want you to play it and then release to same positions as down one and that’s you’re Asus, and you play it down, up-down, up and then to the A down. So, I’m going to play it through the whole verse and look to see of the strum patterns because I want to try it and play it slow. I want you guys to work really hard on your on like to pick this up.