How to Play Use Somebody by Kings of Leon

Hey what’s up everybody, it's Aaron Gallagher from easyguitar.com and I’m glad you hear to learn a new song and this one is going to be a song by Kings of Leon called “Use Somebody.” Will do a cover in the night and got a lot of people saying they want to learn this one, so to give you a little bit of – an intro, so what it sounds like, the whole song. [Demonstration] Okay, so that’s the chorus like, I'm going to teach it to you. So the first part we are going to learn is the verse. It's really simple, the first thing you're going to do is set your guitar in standard tuning alright, you're going to tumble the major bar for it and your bar is going to be across the A fret. So an easy way to do that is either count of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or just go to your dots, you should have a dot. Some of your may or may not have a dot on third fret, you probably all have dot on the fifth and the seventh, so you set the fret dot. Right above it, and you're going to bar across all six strings okay. Then you're going to take your ring finger and your pinky and your going to put on the tenth fret, which is one above your ninth dot and two below this two dots here, which means twelve right. So ten fret, your ring and pinky are going to go on you’re A and D strings, so that’s your four and five strings. That’s a four and five strings, your middle finger is going to go here on your third string one, two, three, the G string and then that pointer finger comes down on the bar. [Demonstration] I played all down strums when I play -- if you can’t play on the down strum you can put down up, down up, down up, down up, down up. Okay so I will play it down, it means eight times, [Demonstration] yeah, eight times. [Demonstration] Second chord just life this pointer finger up totally and you're only going to try to strum at the top four strings, actually top three strings. So you do that bar [Demonstration] take it off, [Demonstration], then don’t pick these fingers up, just slide them all the way down, so these two on the third fret, this is on the second and your bar is back on the first fret, for F chord [Demonstration]. Okay then we’re going to slide all the way back up, do that again, and repeat it. [Demonstration] Okay, so play that, sing along with me real quick, and the one thing you’ll notice to the tinny kind of a second, the time of two three of the song you recognize this, you actually start the line up above, you know put an intro you can sing along with me. [Demonstration] Your going to start to “I’ve been roaming around, always looking down,” while your still on this F, so it's like [Demonstration]. You do not wait till you come over with that intro’s stuff for doing this. [Demonstration] See, so you slide in “roaming around” and then you come up, so that’s how you started. So the chorus is “you know you got to use somebody and you know that I can use somebody,” and what you're going to do for that is when you get through the verse and you first notice the F that I just showed you. [Demonstration], instead of sliding back up here to this bar, you're going to slide up to the fifth fret. And you're going to put the fifth fret [Demonstration] for eight down strums. [Demonstration] Okay, so when you're counting after F [Demonstration] you're going to slide up to the fifth fret bar across the fifth fret and then you're going to use this ring and pinky, you're actually going to keep them the same place they were down here on this F chord, you're just going to slide this two up, you're going to lift this middle finger off, alright so from F chord [Demonstration]. And also while your in the F, you're going to start with “you know you got use,” slide up here with this bar across the fifth fret, take that middle finger off if you're still on the A and B strings and that sort of [Demonstration] And just slide it back to the first quarter we use for the song. [Demonstration] back to the F, first the C, A twice. [Demonstration] And surprise, surprise that is the entirely song, except for the bridge, alright the bridge takes the bar chord, the very first one we did where we bar across the eight fret moves it up two frets so you bar count to tenth fret, this middle finger still on the G string, but it's on the lot of fret and your ring and pinky are still on the four and five strings, the A and B but you are now on the twelve fret [Demonstration]. And the second chord of the bridge, you slide down is actually a F sharp chord and all that means is you take the same bar chord you have up here and the same bar chord you have on the tenth or eighth fret bar but you're going from ten, eleven, twelve frets, [Demonstration] and then slide them down, you're going to sixteenth, so [Demonstration], and you slide down to the second fret bar, third fret from the middle and then fourth frets with your ring and pinky still on the same strands [Demonstration]. I love that part on the cover, but it's just the whole – [Demonstration] That’s the “I'm ready” part. Okay for the solo, you have to go to the G string, start on ninth fret with your ring, you're going to go [Demonstration], three times [Demonstration], fourth how you play that you're going to slide to the forth fret with your ring, [Demonstration] and then [Demonstration], then you're going to release this so you can get your middle finger here on the fourth string up on your tenth fret, [Demonstration], play that once. Then you got to lift your middle finger up and your pointer is going to drop down here to the sixth fret of your B strings, your second strings. I play that once, second, third and when I play fifth fret, play again and bend it up. But I’m sliding up three on the B the middle finger fifth fret on G, and now I put the B again and I’ll come back to my G played out slide up and it’s all over. [Demonstration] Like that, so I hope that helps you all out, members check out for easyguitar.com and good luck learning, take care!