How to Play Why Georgia by John Mayer - Part 1/2

Hello, there everybody I’m Aaron from freeandeasyguitar.com This lesson right here is going to be a couple of lessons on Why Georgia by John Mayer. I’ll teach you a couple of parts. This is the 1st part— [Demonstration] Okay, I’m going to teach you the second part. It sounds a little something like this— [Demonstration] It's kind of a simplified version of it. Then you have to do some strumming— [Demonstration] I’ll get to all of that but the hardest part of the song is basically your verse and pre chorus so that’s what we’re getting to right now. The verse sounds like a little something like this— [Demonstration] The 1st thing that I want you to do is, I want you to start to make a D chord, okay; it is where your pointer finger is on the 2nd fret at you G string and your ring finger is on the 3rd fret of your B string. Then instead of taking your middle finger and putting it on the high E, I want you to stretch it over here on the 3rd fret in your low E, okay.— [Demonstration] So your middle finger is on the 3rd fret for your low E, pointer finger is on the 2nd fret of your B— [Demonstration] And your ring finger is on the 3rd fret on your B string— [Demonstration] So that base, play it with your thumb— [Demonstration] First is where this middle finger is on the 3rd fret, thumb, okay. Then, you’re going to pick the G and the B string together and you’d get this sound— [Demonstration] And the way that you need to get that sound is because you started it with this pointer finger off; you play the G and the B string together with your pointer— [Demonstration] And middle finger then play them together— [Demonstration] And with your pointer finger, hand is on the 2nd fret so it's like this— [Demonstration] Play them together— [Demonstration] So, your 1st two beats which is the 1st three notes is— [Demonstration] One, then pick the G and B together at the same time— [Demonstration] That pointer finger starts off and the hand on— [Demonstration] Then, you lay your hand down and mute it. Okay? If you’re not comfortable with that yet, you can just go— [Demonstration] You can leave the mute out, okay; but if you want to mute it and play the thumb base on it G and B strings together with the hand on up here, then your hands comes out and mutes it.— [Demonstration] Then you play the G and B— [Demonstration] Again together it goes— [Demonstration] When you pick at the 2nd time after the hand mutes it that pointer finger is off of your G string, so it's— [Demonstration] Hand mute, Pointer finger off— [Demonstration] Just the two together, G and B— [Demonstration] Okay, so we do this— [Demonstration] Then after he does that part, he plays the A string open, okay. So, you play the A string open— [Demonstration] Then you come up here and put your middle finger on theb5th fret of you’re a string and on the string below that, your D string in the 4th fret, your index finger or your pointer finger is on the 4th fret, okay. Then you’re going to pick those together— [Demonstration] You’re going to pick the A and the D together— [Demonstration] Then, you’re going to play your G string open— [Demonstration] Mute it and you’re going to play you’re a string, D string and G— [Demonstration] I’ll just going to walk it up with 5, 4, 3. Remember that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6th is in there numbered. So, to get a little beginning worked on— [Demonstration] After you’ve finished this— [Demonstration] Play the A string open— [Demonstration] Come up here— [Demonstration] I’d practice this slowly because it's going to be hard at first— [Demonstration] Once you get used to that, you do that without looking— [Demonstration] Speed it up— [Demonstration] Like that, okay. You’re going to play it as fast as he plays it. That’s for the verse so— [Demonstration] And then he goes into the ‘in the afternoon’, he goes in to this— [Demonstration] Something like that, okay. So, in that part right there you’re going to make a C at 9 shape, okay. So, take your middle finger and put it on the 3rd fret of you’re a string then your finger is actually going to bar across and below four strings— [Demonstration] So, the middle finger there, pointer finger is going to bar. Remember you’re going to ease it at the side of your pointer finger, okay. then your ring finger is going to be on the 3rd fret of your b string— [Demonstration] It's on your two strings. So, you’re going to play the thumb is going to pick the base notes which is you’re 8th string— [Demonstration] Then with your pointer, its going to pick the D string— [Demonstration] Middle picks your G and your B string is picked by the ring finger, okay. I repeat so those beginners. All right, so you’re going to play the thumb then you’re going to pluck the four which is the D, the three which is a G and the two is the B all together— [Demonstration] And you’ll play that— [Demonstration] So, you’re going to pick it through five times, that’s how many times I’ve played it and you play it through twice so— [Demonstration] The hands are down with this pinky, so the first time you play those notes the hammer on is done when you pick the three notes together. The hammer on is done on the 4th fret of your G string. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th C— [Demonstration] Okay, the 1st two times— [Demonstration] It's on the 4th fret of your G string, the 3rd and 4th time it's done on the 5th fret of your D string and 5th time it's done on your 4th fret of your G string again— [Demonstration] Speed it up— [Demonstration] Just like that, okay. The tabs are in the info box, check them out. That’s going to be the end of lesson 1 and we go to lesson 2, which is basically strumming for the chorus and in the bridge. Check that out and you can check out freeandeasyguitar.com. Take care.