How to Play Better Than Me by Hinder Guitar Lesson Part 1
Hey what’s up everybody, it’s Aaron. The lesson I wanna teach you tonight is one of the song by Hinder called Better Than Me. Got a lot of request for it in the past, I finally wanting to get around doing it. It’s in standard tuning and it’s actually a fairly easy song for you guys to learn. Might take you a little bit to get the picking pattern, because it’s… for extreme beginner might be kinda quick. But I will run it to you real quick, hopefully this sounds right and I’ll teach to you so it’s… let’s see… that’s kinda the intro and then the rest is just chords. So, I messed up there a few times, but I wanna, I wanna basically teach you guys how to play it. So, they’re really is the same picking pattern and the only thing you’re doing is moving this fingers from here to here to here. And it’s actually the same three chord… three of the maybe four, five chord progression, chord patterns that you’re gonna play during the song. So, I want you to start out, it’s in standard tuning, I want you to start out by barring, alright here, I want you to bar the bottom five strings. The one, two, three, four, five strings, on the 5th fret, okay. Then I want you to take your ring and your pinky and put that on the two middle strings, your three and four strings on the 7th fret, alright. Now for the picking pattern, you might wonder, alright, why does Aaron have his…putting the pinky finger here on this three string, which is your G string, coz you don’t pick it. The only reason I’m doing that is because it gives you guys a better place to work, to give you more press down this. It’s kinda like, can you press down better here, or if you have thess fingers here. So, it’s kinda giving you extra pressure to pinch against with your thumb. You can play it like this if you want… but I just think, with your pinky on there, it gives you, it gives you more power to squeeze with the bar. So, alright, so, once you put those fingers there, remember, you’re barring across the bottom five strings, 5th fret. Ring and pinky on the two middle strings, your four string is where your ring is, and your pinky is on the three, so… two middle strings, alright. Now, you’re gonna play this picking pattern, and what you’re gonna do, is remember the strings are number one, two, three, four, five, six, okay. The picking pattern you’re gonna play is 5 – 4 – 2 – 5 –2 – 5 – 4 – 2, okay. So, you’re gonna play, 5 – 4 – 2 – 5 –2 – 5 – 4 – 2… okay so one more time, 5 – 4 – 2 – 5 –2 – 5 – 4 – 2, okay. Once you play that picking pattern, I’ll play it one more time real slow… then you’re gonna slide everything down two frets, so instead of the bar on the 5th and these two fingers in the 7th, your bar’s in the 3rd and these two fingers are on the 5th fret. Remember you keep them on the same strings. So it should be an easy slide down. You don’t have to move anything. You just have to slide down. Same picking pattern, 5 – 4 – 2 – 5 –2 – 5 – 4 – 2, play that twice. Then you slide down to the bar on the firt… across the 1st fret and this ring and pinky is on the 3rd fret, still on the middle two strings, alright, so, the same picking pattern, okay. Once you play, here’s from kind of from the top… alright. After you play that, you’re gonna play, you kinda strum it once, then you’re gonna go… one, and then when you play the third times, you play it… one… then to a pause, then one… two… and you slide up on the second pick. You’re gonna pick it once… pause… pick it again… and on the third time you play it, you’re gonna strum the chords, and then just slide this up here, where you’re bar’s across the 3rd fret, and your two fingers across here in the 5th fret. So, it kinda sounds like this slowed down. Slide down the 3rd fret bar…. 1st fret bar… pick it once… again… third time… slide up here, and then you go right back up to start that again. So the intro is played four times there at the beginning. The pre chorus is just, this first chord you started on at your picking, okay. Now, when you play this, the chord just shows three notes, okay. It just shows you playing this, this, and this. When you’re playing it, as long as your bar across the bottom five strings, you know, you can just try and focus on these top strings. And you’ll miss the high strings. That’s what it sounds like to strum all of them. But you don’t want that. You want this sound, okay. And what you want to do is when you’re playing any chord that doesn’t have anything on high E. So if your bass note or your bar is only across the bottom five strings, the tip of your pointer finger can actually mute this string here. So if I’m not touching the top string, you here the E note, if my pointer finger is barely touching it, it mutes it, okay. So for the pre chorus, the… it’s like this. So you play that’s the pre chorus is that first chord you did in the intro, okay. The second chord is down here. It’s the third chord you play, and then the three is for two measures. So, I think it sounds something like this… one measure, see, it’s one measure here on the 5th fret… one measure down here on the 1st fret… and then on the C chord it's two measures. So the strum pattern that will work I think if you play along with it, when you’re in this bar across the five, ring and pinky here on the 7th fret of the two middle strings, just play… down – down – down – up, switch down here, down – down – down – up. So, down – down – down – up – down – down – down – up, switch to your C, play, down – down – down – up – up – down – down – up – down – up, okay. Down – down – down – up – down – down – down – up, and the C, down – down – down – up – up – down – down – up – down – up, so, okay. I’m not sure to play that once or twice, but you can hear it when you listen to it. Then the chorus is, you start that first chord from the intro, the five, when I say five, I'm talking about the bar, okay. So, just, just, when I say five bar chord, just remember this right here, okay. And this is three bar chord. This is one bar chord, alright. So, basically here in the chorus, you’re gonna play… okay. So, start out here with the five bar, and then you play, down – down – down – up, then switch to your one bar, down – down – down – up, back to your five bar, down – down – down – up, to your three bar, down – down – down – up, five bar, down – down – down – up, one bar, down – down – down – up, and then you’re gonna finish it on the three bar and you’re gonna play, down – down – down – up – up – down – down – up – down – up. That last pattern is the same one that I told you for two measures. So, whenever you’re playing a certain chord for two measures, then you can play, down – down – down – up – up – down – down – up – down – up, okay. So starting now, I’m gonna play the chorus all the way through, one time. So, if you guys wanna learn this chord, then practice, you can strum along with this… okay. So that’s the chorus. The second verse, you have two options. You can either play the pick, the intro, you pick. Or you can play… It’s one measure of this five bar one three, and two measures on one bar… okay. That’s really the same basic rhythm as you’re playing the picking intro. Coz the picking intro you’re playing one measure… one measure… one measure… see, one measure… and then the second measure is the… like that. So it’s four measures, total. So you’re gonna play the intro picking part during the second verse or you can just strum it. Again for one measure… five bar… one measure, three… two at the one bar… okay.