Hey guys! What’s up? Another will do, this one here is for a guy name Cameron Rickard. I’m going to pronounce that right Cameron Rickard. He lives in Columbus, Ohio and also goes out to—he wants to learn a song for his fiancée Erica Hildebrandt. So yeah, all right man. Cameron, I will try and teach this to you and it might be said you can hopefully learn it before the wedding. Hopefully, that’s not a surprise for her if it is then so we invest it to link the video where we recorded without that little blur in there. But all right, so the lesson on the song my “Best Friend” by Tim McGraw and it’s pretty. It’s not too bad of a song. The capo standard tuning Richard capo is only 2nd fret, okay.
The chord you’re going to use is basically a lot of these chords are kind of in G, I guess you could say G kind of formation but if you start out in the riff at the top, it sounds like this [Demonstration]. If you heard that song before you know that that’s kind of how it starts out. The tab is right over here from YouTube baloney from the website and the way that an intro riff is you basically have your two fingers here. Your pointer finger is on the 2nd fret above the capo of your G-string and your ring finger is on the 3rd fret above the capo on your B-string.
You play those two strings together and you pull off your pointer finger. Okay, so [Demonstration] then you go up to the next string which is your D-string if you play that with your pointer finger, 2nd fret, pull off. So as you pull, moving up here to the 2nd and fret of your A-string and you pull off again the same so [Demonstration] and you get in the chord [Demonstration]. All right so these kind of little riff at the top of the tab, it shows you that little riff and then it shows you the chords, all right. For right now, we’re going to show you basically six chords and are really all your going to need.
So you’re going to have to start out to your four-finger G. I want you to play a four-finger G this time. Actually, I take that back. I want you to play your three-finger G. So you have your middle finger here on the A string and second string down 2nd fret. Your ring finger is on the 3rd fret in your low E and your pinky is on a high E. Okay, yeah. Okay so from this G, you’re going to play this like that. That’s your G and the strum pattern which is down, down so [Demonstration]. Down, down, down, up. Okay, I will tell you before I switch chords so the chord you’re going to use is the G is here.
The G/F# means basically we’re keeping the same chord formation but you’re moving your base note down from this which is your G and your F# so it’s half step. It’s from here, [Demonstration]. So a second chord you can just take the little finger and move it—I would say you would pick your middle finger up off the A-string and put it on the second fret of your low E and pick your finger up. Play that chord and then the third chord is a G/F which is another half step down from F# to F. So you can just play like this [Demonstration]. Either way, any way you want to play this, just make sure you have the pointer finger, first fret over the capo and on your low E and high E your pinky is on the 3rd fret. Okay, your high-E.
Or your high-E or your B-string. It’s up to you, it doesn’t really matter. But basically with the walks down if you got like it starts up in your G. All right so it’s [Demonstration]. Now after it goes—there it goes let’s go back to the C chord to the G/B all that means is you have G-chord here but your base note should be a B, which would be a 2nd fret. Remember your A-string. Okay so A, A#, B. Okay so this quarter you’re going to play here. Pointer fingers on the second fret of your A-string, that’s your B note so G/B and you can play that, okay.
Then the only chords other ones are the D and the D Sus just means put a pinky on the third fret high E and the D substitute mean you have high E open, okay. So far as the chords got out in the verse, it’s just G—and I like to play the base note twice like and then strum down, down, up. Switch chords so [Demonstration]. And that G/B, if you notice in the second one G/B, I’ve been letting down so many times. You actually strum that for two measures. All right, so starting off I’ve never had no one I could count on the G, you play the G and low E [Demonstration]. That’s the first one. Second one is G/B, take your D and the sharp within that D is just I just used down, down, down, down, up, up, down, up down.
And you would only have to keep the same strum pattern as long as you can make up your kind of [Demonstration]. That’s a good thing about the D chord. Just using your middle and your pinky going from the high E open, high E second fret middle or high E third fret with your pinky. You can only make it sound cool like [Demonstration] and it’s really pretty simple thing to do so you can do that with the D chord. The part where it says “I was tired of hurting, so tired of searching till you walked in my life is the same as the very beginning or it was the feeling I have never known” is just a C [Demonstration].
So down, down, down, up, up, down, up down, down, up. So it’s your G down, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, up so [Demonstration]. You go to the Am for the first time [Demonstration] and as you can see the tab at D you strum once.
The chorus is basically the same type of thing with the chords. You would strum [Demonstration]. You strum the base note first twice then strum the chord down, down, up, base note, down, down, up, Am base note to G/B [Demonstration]. All right really that is older as to it so at the bottom of this tab you can see that it tells you exactly all those different chords in the chord formations. The G to the G/F# to the G/F, just remember you’re just walking the slow E string [Demonstration].
Right with the C and the D Sus or D Sus 2 or D Sus is just a variation on the high E with this any of those. The C/E don’t worry about that all that is a C chord from all six strings because it’s C chord with a low E base note.
I hope that helps guys, Luke send me a message and let me know if that helps if there’s still some stuff you have questions about and we will get it taken care off so you can play it at your wedding. I hope that wasn’t supposed to be a surprise but like I said if you have, let me know how we do it. All right, so see you.
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