How to Play "Take on My" by A-Ha on a Guitar

Today, we’re going to learn to play A-ha’s Take on Me. And I'm just going to right away. For those of you that can want you to see what I'm doing here, you can learn it quickly. Capo on the second fret. For those of you that need to stick around and get the details here, then stick around and pull try to pack it all into our little YouTube in 10 minutes. I’ll be explaining the chords; I’ll explain the strumming. And there’s three basic parts of this tune, the three basic chord progressions. I will play for the entire song, but I’ll play through each of the three chord progressions: The intro verse turn around which is one chord progression, the chorus, which is another chord progression, and the bridge. I’ll probably slide on the lyrics because I don’t have lyrics on this song. I don’t know if anybody does except for the singer. Just pardon me while I stumble through lyrics. This is a guitar lesson, not a vocal lesson. So here we go, it’s something like this. [Demonstration] Okay, so it keeps on, verse chorus, verse chorus. And there’s the bridge part that goes— [Demonstration] Let’s stop there. Let’s talk about the intro verse turn around chords. I say intro verse and turn around because it’s the same thing every time. You’ll notice that a lot of your songs you know, basic chord progression repeated over and over again. Maybe some variations through another chord progression like a chord of something like that. Let me go ahead and mention the e-book. For those of you that don’t have the e-book already, if you’re tired of writing notes and chords down, go get the e-book and then you’ll be pretty to all these sharps with that what was mentioned that I'm looking at. That you will have to look at onto, so you don’t have to write the chords down and look on it. If you’re okay with that, then get ready to write, because we’re starting with these chords. And also that e-book shows you also with the strumming exercises, how to use your capo and then what key you’re in. to teach you all the basic open chords that we’ll use in this screen. What else? All sorts of stuff, the National Number System, so that a 33 page document, shop full of good stuff. Painstakingly created for your pleasure. So here we go. Kids, what I'm doing here is the intro verse. And it goes something like this. We’re capoed at the second fret. The song is actually in the key of A. But since we have a capo on the second fret, it’s going to feel it like it’s in the key of G. Here are our chords. Capo is on the second fret. We’re going to play what it feels like an A minor, so play that for measure, then D, then G. each one of those was one measure long. Here we have a split measure. Split measures two chords in a measure. C, then the C with the B on the bass, and it’s played kind like an E minor chord, but keep that finger, first finger here from the C chord keep it right there. Bring your thumb around and mute that low E string. So, it’s going to go— [Demonstration] So it’s a bit of this and this, but it sounds real nice. So you're going to play that through twice. [Demonstration] And you repeat that twice, and then the third line goes— [Demonstration] So intro is going to go [Demonstration] Verse is really simple. So it’s going to go something like this. It’s going to go— [Demonstration] And then repeat that again. [Demonstration] And then the second part of the verse is going to go [Demonstration] Good! All right! So, as you’re verse is going to be the same; I'm looking at my chart here. The verse is going to be the same every single time. Chorus is going to go like this. We’re going to play this chord progression for times through, and then there’s a, or note, three times through. And then there’s a fourth change up. It’s going to go something like this. It’s going to go— [Demonstration] Then, you can play the chord progression three times through, so it goes like this— [Demonstration] Fourth time is going to go. [Demonstration] Then of course, verse again, chorus again which is the same. The bridge which will... let’s start on bridge. The bridge is going to go on me, then go and hurry up here. We have 8 minutes here. [Demonstration] And then, we’ll be going back to the beginning and we’ll just turn around. Let’s get it go [Demonstration] And then the turn around which is also the intro. [Demonstration] Okay, we’re running out of time. Strumming is something like this. [Demonstration] And is the most common chord progression you’ll use here, all over the place. We got to go kids we’re out of here; sorry we’re out of time. Check out the strumming video hit subscribe, buy the eBook, eat your green beans.