Hey, what’s up everybody, it’s Aaron. I'm going to make another video for you right now. This one is on a song called “To Be With You” by Mr. Big. Great song, really classic and I think you guys are going to enjoy a lot.
So basically, let’s just get right into it. We’re on standard tuning, okay. If you listen to the song, you’ll hear like a couple like tabs on your guitar. You can do that with your fingers. You can listen to the song, figure out what, you know, whatever rhythm you want and then you hear this [Demonstration] before it gets in the first chord, okay. Let’s just start here up on the 12th fret and you pick the note and just slide all the way down and off, so [Demonstration]. It sounds best I think if you’re doing 12 fret. Slide down and off, okay.
Only difficult thing if you’re going to do that as beginners. You do this a way down, you got to come straight back up to the fourth fret of your first chord, okay. You’re first chord is the C#m chord, so we’re on standard tuning. That means you have to bar across, coming to the fourth fret, bar across the bottom five strings, okay. This sixth string is muted by the tip of this pointer finger, okay. So you want to make sure you have it on the bottom five string but you also want to make sure that’s far enough up that it’s touching this string. So it’s muted, okay. If you’re not touching it all, you’ll get this note and it interferes with the base note, so you want to make sure it’s muted, okay. Once you have that bar cross, your middle finger is going to come down here on the fifth fret of your two string, your ring and pinky coming down on the sixth fret of your three and four string, okay. So that’s your first chord, okay, you’re C#m.
So that’s your first chord, the C#m. Your second chord is an E chord. You’re third chord is—the E chord is easy because you guys I'm sure have learned an E. If you don’t know an E, you can Google it. Your third chord is from this E, all right. You’re going to pick these two fingers up and leave your ring finger there. Once you leave your ring finger there, your pointer finger comes right down in behind it—I'm sorry, your pinky finger comes right down in behind it on the second fret of your three string and this gives you an A substitute which us your third chord. That’s your third chord back to an E, okay.
So, C#m [Demonstration]. The strum patter I use, that maybe the wrong one. You can figure it our for yourself. Just remember, rhythm is what’s important, not necessarily having ups or downs, okay. So work it out yourself, whatever sounds the best. Strum along with the song, listen for it and it will come in time, I promise it will come with practice in time. Except me, played eight months to a year to be able to sit down here with a song a couple times and pick up the strum pattern. So it will come, just keep practicing.
So you have a C#m [Demonstration]. Okay, what I use there for example is down, down, down, up, switch to my E. Okay, so [Demonstration]. And after that, do the last up and getting out of there and coming right down here to the E [Demonstration]. Okay, so a C#m [Demonstration] to the E, switch to the A sus, back to the E, back up.
Now, I know for a fact that they use a different strum pattern in that. So if someone watching, has practice this song a lot and I didn’t a whole lot of research, I’ve listened to it too many times just enough to get the rhythm. But if you know the correct strum pattern, then post it up here and let me know in the comment and we’ll put an info box, so future people can see it.
All right, so that’s pretty much your verse there. The only thing that’s going to be different is at the—actually, I’ll play it through first because we’re going to go C#m, to your E, to A sus, to E, the first line, second line, C#m, to E, A sus, to E. Third line through, when it’s though, it’s on an A sus, when it’s though to an E, it’s through, back to an A sus to fade with a twist, “The both of you.” Use the same strum pattern as before and then the last line, “So come on baby, come on over,” that’s all on D, so [Demonstration].
And then, “Let me be the one to show you,” is actually a B chord, okay. This is part of the most difficult chord in this song. All you do for the B is you bar across the bottom five strings, the second fret, and then on then on the fourth fret, you want to cover up the two, three and four string on the fourth fret. So it’s though the way you do that is you’re going to take this finger, take your ring finger on the hand that you make your frets with. So if you’re like me, it’s your left hand, all right. Take that finger straight up, put your thumb on the tip of that finger, all right. Now, try and bend this knuckle down without keeping—straight this one out and keep this one bent, all right. And to put more pressure, you put on the tip of this finger, it makes it kind of do that shape. That’s what you want to do on the fourth fret, all right [Demonstration].
So that your B. So, second fret, bottom five strings, second, third, fourth string on the fourth fret. Don’t worry if you mute the high E, it doesn’t matter. So that last chord “So, Come on baby, come on over,” just the D [Demonstration], B chord. “Let me be r the one to show you,” whatever strum pattern you want to use. So the chords, here’s the part one recognizes. We’re going to go from E chord to an A sus to that B, back to an E. So E, A sus, B, E [Demonstration] and these are all chords we went over already so [Demonstration]. It may take you some time to get into this chord formations quickly, but the strum pattern I use is [Demonstration], switch to the A sus, to this bar chord B, back to E, so [Demonstration].
And then, actually you can say the down chords and kind of hum it to the rhythm of the song just to kind of allow you to keep with the chords and the rhythm, so [Demonstration]. So that’s four and then A, that’s two, and then B and then back to the E, so [Demonstration]. Try that out.
All right, the only different part there is and I guess you’d call it the bridge, “Why be alone, we cab be together baby. You can make my life worthwhile, I can make you start to—” and it says smile I guess in the solo. So let’s start out, I'm just going to show you my hands up here while I'm looking at the chords, “Why be alone? We could be together baby,” is A sus to [Demonstration], C#m, G, and it goes into the solo. Sorry, I'm not singing this for you, it’s too hot for me.
All right, there's a little, I’d guess you’d say, I don’t know what you’d call the out chorus but there's a part where it kind of changes. I don’t know if it changes keys, I'm not good at music theory but, “Wait on the line of greens and blues just to be the next to be with you.” All right, you’ll see it in the tab, it’s right before the last chorus, okay. But instead of going from the E to A to B to E like before, this time we’re going to go G, to C at nine to D to E minor, so it’s going to go G [Demonstration] to C at nine, D to E-minor, okay. Use the same down strums [Demonstration] and the G and the C at nine. One, two in the D and then E-minor [Demonstration].
Okay, after that one, it goes right back into the same chord, the progression that you do earlier in chorus, E, A sus, B, E. Have fun with this one guys. Good luck and don’t forget to check out freeandeasyguitar.com. Take it easy.
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