How to Play Tonight by FM Static

What’s up everybody its Aaron and the lesson I’m going to teach for you right now is called “Tonight” by FM Static. I get a lot of request for it and I wanted to teach it to you. So, I’m going to have to look at this text I just pulled it up but it’s pretty fairly simple picking pattern even for beginner, all right. So, what we want you to do is you’re standard tuning your capos on the 1st fret, okay. What you want to start out with is you want to go to a D chord formation. I’ll play it slowly because I just picked up the tab, but this is what the intro sounds like fingering picking. [Demonstration] It sounds like that. It’s just the intro and then the rest of the song is “Tonight” by FM Static. Here you go ego, listen to on YouTube. All right, so what I want you to do is we’re going to start standard with the standard tuning capo on the 1st fret, start out on your D chord, okay. The only thing your D chord pointer finger goes in the 2nd fret of your G string, ring finger start out for B and middle finger, high E 2nd fret, above the capo. So they’re actually on the 3rd and 4th frets with this D chord because it’s relative in the capo, okay. So make your D chord [Demonstration] which is going to be one, two, frets lower the capo for these two fingers, and three frets above the capo for this. So, we’re going to start up the first tune, what you’re going to play. You’re going to pick the D-string which is opened with your thumb, and you can pick middle pointer, anything you want. You’re going to pick the high E-string, but you’re going to take your middle finger also the high E is opened. So you’re picking two open notes, okay. So you’ll play those together then you’re going to pick D-string by itself. So you’ll play [Demonstration]. The next note you’re going to play is you’re going to put that middle finger back on the 2nd fret of your high E and you’re going to play two. When I say two, I mean the one string and two-string, only just one string here playing a middle finger, 2nd fret, and the two-string which is your B string, your ring fingers on the 3rd fret. So add together, middle finger off from the beginning of these two, in your one string, fits to the middle finger. This is what I used. You can use any other finger. And the fourth string with your thumb, all right. Then you’re going to put fourth string, you’re going to open. You’re going to play one string with the middle finger on 2nd fret, two-string and take your middle finger off and play the one string open. Then you’re going to play the two-string, three-string. And I’ll like to play the four-string, and then three, or two, three, four again. [Demonstration] Then the last little part of that, you’re going to move to what—above the tab you’ll see is G. Don’t move these two fingers. You want to keep them the same place. All you’re going to do is take this middle finger instead of where wasn’t your high E. Just stretch it over here in the 3rd fret, okay. Maybe a touch stretch, you may want to use your thumb instead. It’s really up to you. It’s your preference. So I like to stretch my middle finger here at the 3rd fret. And basically the next time, this next note you’re going to play, you’re going to pick the sixth string which is your E string, with your thumb and that’s covered there on the 3rd fret, above the capo with your middle finger. With my pointer finger, I’ll like to pick the two-string, one, two to the B string which is cover in the 3rd fret, still by this ring and this high E string is opened. You can pick all three of those at the same time. So six-string, pick to your thumb, pointer, the middle finger, you’re going to pick the one and two strings, okay. So you’re going to play this. Then you’re going to play just in a high E string, move this middle finger up, two open. [Demonstration] So all three together, then two, open as a high, so there from beginning, we got this. We got this. Look at that. [Demonstration] Okay, that’s the intro of that. The only thing different is the second time through replace the D part again, plays it [Demonstration]. And then you play the 3rd fret of your high E and the 3rd fret of the low E. So you’re playing 3rd fret on these two-string. Then I use my middle finger and my pinky and you’re playing both together. So you’re playing six-string above 3rd fret. Down the high E string here, you’re going to play [Demonstration]. Okay, so I’ll play it slowly from beginning. [Demonstration] Okay, that’s the intro picking. The verse is basically kind of the same, starting your D chord and you’re going to go—you’re going to play the four-string. The first note you’re going to pick is you’re going to pick your four-string which is here at D-string and your two-string, which is your B-string. Pick that together, then you’re going to play three, two, one, three, two—I’m sorry. Pick four and two together, then you’re going to play, three, two, one, two, three, four, three. [Demonstration] And our high E-string is opened. So remember, you need the high E-string opened, so with your D with your middle finger. So you’re going to play [Demonstration]. Then switch to a G chord, okay and you’re going to play six, four. And then on this G, the only thing it’s going too little bit different as your pointer finger is still going to be here, it wasn’t a D chord. So what I need you to do for this is you actually, when you get from this D, all you need to do is put this middle finger up here on the 3rd fret, kind of like we did in the intro. So the first part of that verse is [Demonstration]. Next one, put that middle finger down, third for the low E and you’re going to play six-string, four, three, two and it starts back over. [Demonstration] That’s what the verse does twice. And third time there’s a little bit of an Em, okay. All that means is you play three strings is you’re going to pick for this. You’re going to pick the low E open. You’re going to pick the B string on the 3rd fret and you’re going to pick the high E open. So, this chord says Em, but if you look at it you can still keep that ring finger there as you’re calling the finger where it has been the whole song. [Demonstration] Okay, was there in the intro. The verse [Demonstration], the ring has been there at the same time, 3rd fret on the B-string and the pointer has still been there on the 2nd fret of your third string out which is next to your G-string. So it’s going to stay there at the same way. So for the next part to the verse, you’re going to see on the tab, it says Em to G, Em, A over the picking pattern. All that mean is those type of the road that base notes that’s you’re playing. So, you’re going to pick low E open, 3rd fret on the two string and high E open. So, you’re going to play on the high E, two, three, two, open, three on the B-string. So it sounds like this [Demonstration]. And you’ll play that last 3rd fret there on the B-string. You’re going to go and you’re going to play—put this ring finger up here, middle finger up here, 3rd fret. You’re going to play the low E and high E together and you’re going to play two open on high E. So low E and high E together, high E is open, low E starts fret, then two open on the high E. So that part right there is [Demonstration]. You can see the rest of that tab. The second verse is the same as the first with a little bit of modifications. This is a good one to kind of learn playing your tab yourself. You can see the rest of the tabs here. Then the chorus, the chorus is basically a few chords. You’re going to play a D chord and I would recommend leaving your middle finger off and leave that high E string open [Demonstration] would kind of sound better, okay. So you’re going to strum D to Bm, to G, to an A, to a D, to G, Bm—sorry to an A. You play that tune twice. If you don’t like to open chords in the tab, the barré chords are showing there. It shows you how to make the barré chords. The verse is the same. The interlude is basically the same as the first verse and then you have an alto that is pretty simple. So good luck with this one guys. It’s a good finger picking song. I’m also going to give you a tab for the straight chords if you don’t want to pick it.