How to Play I'm Yours

All right gang today we’re going to learn I'm Yours by Jason Mraz, and the way I play this is I capo at the fourth fret, and it makes it really easy here I'm going to pull out my chart over here makes it really easy to play this tune by just using the chords G, D, Em, and C. Now if you don’t know this chords you don’t know about the capo you don’t know about strumming or chord charts and all that good stuff check out www.yourguitarstage.com. I’ve got an instructional eBook there with supporting videos and that sort of thing on YouTube that will help you out and all that good stuff so any of this is great to you then check it out, alright. So let’s jump in, so basically we’ve got again I'm looking at the chart over here. We got an intro, a verse, turn around verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus out. And the intro, verse, turn around and the chorus are pretty all the same. So we’ve got the same basic chords progression that goes though out this entire song, G, again capo on fourth fret, one, two, three, four. We got G, D, Em, C. So and before we’re going to the first chorus we have an A, so other than that. That’s the whole song there’s a bridge section too I'm going to show that, but here is what it what sound likes with the music something like this. I'm going to show you the strum aside from the music as well. [Demonstration] Am, C, and the guy something like this— [Demonstration] That’s how you want to— when you’re looking at the chart which is available at the website that I mentioned to you where you see on your screen there. G, D, Em, C and the rhythm is like of. [Demonstration] Just kind of a reggae I won’t cut the feel, and you know as far as the right hand. This is what I'm doing. When I'm coming down and hit this chord I'm basically taking the flesh in front of my hand here, and hit the strings with it, which gives a nice muted sound so like. [Demonstration] That sort of thing, so and you could do any variation on it like. [Demonstration] And what I'm doing there is an up beat. I'm lifting my hand up so I'm going. [Demonstration] You could do that sort of thing so. [Demonstration] Okay, let’s talk about the chorus here. So chorus is going to go something like this. [Demonstration] Something like that alright, so here everything has been four beats per chords so far, but for the bridge here you’ve got two beats for each chord. And that’s where the first two measures, so you got G for two, D with an F# on the bass, so I grab that with my thumb, Em for two, D for two, C for four, two, three, four and this is a — it seems like a hard chord to play, but it’s not. It’s basically an A chord with a C# in the base. And I don’t play this high note here. I just play that’s what we call an inversion, it’s when you take a note other than the bass note in this case an A, and you put a note other than the bass note into the chorus so in this case the C#. All right, so that’s about it. I tell you what let me play the chorus here along the music and we’ll see a, there you go. [Demonstration] There you go. [Demonstration] So there’s you’re A, here’s your chorus. [Demonstration] Repeated. [Demonstration] So here’s a bridge. Here’s what you’re doing the two beats per chord. [Demonstration] Keep on strumming. [Demonstration] And then hit again. [Demonstration] That’s actually two beats. [Demonstration] All right, there’s a tendency you want to count that fast like I did, but really the chorus should be or the bridge should be. [Demonstration] Repeat. [Demonstration] And then back into the verse. And I think you got a chorus in and out. Alright, if you have any questions on any of the techniques that I’ve used here today, capo, chords. If you don’t know your chords check out yourguitarstage.com. I got it all for you there. All right, keep checking back with more videos try to add one a day here for you to keep you up about it. All right, have a good one keep practicing.