How to play Home by Chris Daughtry - Guitar Lesson

Hey, what’s up? This next lesson is on the song Home by Chris Daughtry. The guitar is in half step down tuning. Once you get the half step down tuning then you’re in a good shape because that was a really tough song. If you have a tuner, I use a chord guitar bass tuner, that’s what I’ve always used. You can turn the power on button and then sometimes you want to make sure that there’s a guitar and a bass tuner. You want to make sure it says guitar up here, there's a little button here on the second one, it says flat, okay. If you press it once, a little B will show up on the screen and then you just tune it right down in the middle. Because that little B there, see if I’ll pluck an E [demonstration], it says E and then right next to it, there’s a little B, so that means E flat. So you tune it right down in the middle, okay. All right, now the chords you need to know is basically are a G [demonstration], to a Cadd9, okay. So a G [demonstration] Cadd9 [demonstration], and tabs at C2 it doesn’t matter, just do a G [demonstration] to Cadd9 [demonstration], okay. There’s an Em [demonstration] and then a D [demonstration], okay. Those are really the only chords that I see except for—not set in the bridge, it’s all this either so. The strum pattern basically I’ll play to you the verse real quick. So I’m playing from, “I’m staring out into the night, trying to hide the pain, I'm going to the place where love and feeling good don't ever cost a thing and the pain you feel's a different kind of pain”. That’s what I’m going to be strumming. So we’ll start with a G [demonstration] to Cadd9 [demonstration]. The strum pattern I’m using is just down-down-down-up-up-down-up-down-down-up switch down-down-down-down-up-down-up-down-down-up switch so. [Demonstration] “Trying to hide the pain,” third line up, “Going to the place where love” Cadd9, “And feeling good don’t ever cost a thing and the pain you feel is a different kind of pain”. All right, so going through the strum patterns again, the whole way through then reverse. Start out to your G [demonstration] you play down-down-down-up-up-down-down-up-down-up switch to at Cadd9 [demonstration] down-down-down-up-up-down-down-up-down-up back to G [demonstration] to the C again [demonstration]. We got it third time and “And feeling good” [demonstration] I would do that “And feeling good” [demonstration] down-down-up-down–down switch to the D up-up-down-up-down-down-up and then switch to a C [demonstration] down-down-up-down-down-up-up-down-up-down, same time through the same thing “And the pain you feel” [demonstration] down-down-up-down–down switch to D [demonstration] up-up-down-up-down-down-up, Cadd9 [demonstration] down-down-up-down-up-up-down-up-down. [Demonstration] And you guys are on the chord [demonstration]. Okay guys, so we just finished up with the verse and now we’re moving into the chorus which is a G [demonstration], to D [demonstration], to C [demonstration], to D [demonstration] and we’ll repeat that twice and then you’re going to get into “I don't regret this life I chose for me. But these places and these faces are getting old. So I'm going home.” Okay, the last two like places that says “I’m going home, I’m going home” that’s the same strum pattern as you used the beginning of the intro. Just [demonstration] down-down-up-up-down-down-up-down-up-down-down-down-up-up-down-down-up-down-up, repeat it. But the beginning of the chorus so, [demonstration] for the G to D “I’m going to home” I will play it down-down-down switch to D [demonstration] up-up-down-up-down-down-up. “Back to the place where I belong” [demonstration] same strum pattern. “The place where I belong” is a C to a D, so it’s [demonstration] down-down-down to a D [demonstration] up-up-down-up-down-down-up and “Where your love has always been enough for me” is the same strum pattern I gave you in the verse for “Feeling good whenever cost a thing”. So it’s like, [demonstration] just like down-down-up-down-down D [demonstration] up-up-down-up-down-down-up to C [demonstration] down-down-up-down-down-up-up-down-up-down. “I'm not running from. No, I think you got me all wrong,” same as like I gave you a minute ago. “I don't regret this life I chose for me” same as I gave you a minute ago. “But these places and these faces are getting old” the same strum pattern for the E, to D, to C “Going home, going home” is still until down to two. The verse is the same, I’m not getting a 10% of the chords because it’s way too high for me so, you can imagine what that would be like and then—because I imagined it would be pretty good with me singing it but we’re going to skip that part of the line. So just pretend I’m just singing it wonderfully and the bridge. “Be careful what you wish for cause you just might get it all You just might get it all And then some you don't want” that’s really just simple strumming, I’ll strum it out loud and then kind of see. [Demonstration] Down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-up-down-down-up and that’s it. Hope this helped you guys. I’m going to give you a link to a tab to that has lots of like a little films and stuff because—and there’s lots of places in the song where you hear stuff, you hear something like you know. Or [demonstration] this little fills in this step has tons of stuff, I’m not going to teach it because it would take a long time just because of the quantity which will easy stuff to pick up. So listen to the song, look at this tab if you want to do the electric part. I mean, if you’re here for the acoustic and I hope it helped you a little bit. So remember to check out freeandeasyguitar.com, there are 200 lessons there, lots of a really easy to understand stuff and it’s all free and this string is attached just the ones to your guitar, so take care.