Hi, what’s up everybody? It’s Aaron. This video I’m going to do right now is by Sugarland, and it’s called “Already Gone.” Two other new songs, I think it’s their second single after the “All I want” and “Everybody.” Yes, it’s a love and in song, but it’s a really good song and it’s pretty simple to play so, I wanted to help on here make a quick video before I go to bed tonight. I’m in Washington, D.C. tonight, but alright, standard tuning, put your capo on the first fret.
The intro is just a basic. The only chords you know for this is C which is this top string. You want to try and mute it. If you play all six strings then your base is this. You don’t want that. You just want this. But don’t worry about a whole lot because if you strum it, then you can’t tell much of the difference. But unless and you’re trying to hear, so, alright first chord is a C. From the top, your sixth string, I think this string is muted, or open whichever you want to pick. The next string down is your ring finger on the third fret down your D string. This middle finger and it’s almost second fret, your G string’s open, you B string is pointer finger first fret, and this low is open.
So the first chord is a C, the next chord you’re going to get to is an F. An F is a bar chords but it’s really going to be easy if you listen to what the direction I’ll give you right now. So right here in your C chord, ok, the biggest thing to do is learn to play guitar is to find common fingers. And my guitar teacher for my first couple of lessons, that’s one of the things that he taught me before I stopped taking him, but whenever I took a couple with him at first, he really told me that a common finger is something that he needed to emphasize when you’re learning. It makes everything so much easier.
What that means is, if you look at the C chord here, and you look at the next chord which is an F, the only thing that stays the same is this ring finger. So basically, you’re going to use that ring finger as a placeholder. So when you get from the C to the F, you leave the ring finger there, pick all the other fingers up, then you put this pinky right below your ring finger on the D string, third fret. Then your middle finger goes right here on the third string out, the one, two, three, third string which is your G string, second fret. This pointer finger bars. So the same chords in F.
So it starts out in C, that ring finger is your common finger, get your F bar chord, back to the C, and then to the G. The way I plan my G on this is when I went to C, lift your pointer finger up, and then move your ring finger up the string, your middle finger up the string, keeping them both ones at the same frets. And your pinky goes down here, the high E, third fret. So the intro sounds like this. The strum pattern I’m using is down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, switching down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, switching down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. Listen.
Then the verse is that same strum pattern with the same four chords. You’ve got a C to F to C to G then it goes C to F, C to G. So, that’s the intro, it’s the C to F to C to G twice. Then for the first verse you play that twice. And then it goes into the part where it says, “Hang out, make lots of noise, and lay out, lay with a boy”. That part there is you’re playing the same chord progression. You’re playing C to F to C to G. You just play it quicker.
So instead of before you’re playing down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up and switch, this one you’re going to play down, up, down, up, switch, down, up, down, up, switch, down, up, down, up. So the second part which says, “And hand out and make lots of noise”, it sounds like this so you play that twice. Then where it says, “Make the mistake that she made cause”, you go to an A minor.
I’m just playing a fourth finger G instead of the G, I taught your earlier. So it just goes A minor, the same strum pattern as the intro and the first two sets there were, so down, up, down, up, down, up, switch.
Then the chorus, “I was already gone,” F, “I was already gone”, so that is the same C to F to C to G. Same chord progression in the intro, the same in the verse, and then after you played C to F to C to G one time in the chorus, “She said I was already gone”, that part of the A minor for four beats. “Life is a runaway train. You can’t wait to jump on it”, “Life is a runaway train”, so it’s a C, so it says “Life…”, you play the G just like in the intro, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, switch to a C, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, and then at the very end, the last words, “Can’t wait to jump on”, that’s just the G one time, you play it once and then it goes into that little kind of interlude which is the same thing as the intro, C to F to C to G.
Second verse is the same. Second chorus is the same. The bridge, “Last time I say to him, we packed up my things”, that’s just F to G to F to G, repeat to F to G to C and the last line of the bridge, is just F twice, and then it starts in the chorus.
So all you have to know is C, F, back to C, G and A minor. Those are the only chords you need to know. Look at the tab over here. It has all the chord progressions and chords above the lyrics. If the chords are close together, like maybe three or four spaces in between them, it means you’re probably going to be playing this one. It’s just C to F to C, and that is this down, up, down, up, switch, down, up, down, up, switch, down, up, down, up, switch, down, up, down, up. And of the chords are kind of spaced up more, then you’re probably going to be playing this same chord progression, just spaced out longer.
So good luck guys. It should be a pretty easy song for you to play, just these chords. And take it easy.
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