How to play guitar to I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

Guitar Lesson-“I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz For today, we’re going to learn “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz, and while I play this, a capo at the fourth fret and it makes it really easy to pull out my chart over here. It makes it really easy to play this tune by just using the chords G-D-E m and C. Now, if you don’t know the scores, you don’t know about capo, you don’t know back strumming, or chord charts and all that good stuff. Check out www.yourguitarsage.com. I’ve got the instructional e-book there with supporting videos and a sort of thing on YouTube that will help me up like the good stuff, so any of these things are great to you then check it out. So let’s jump in. Basically, we’ve got an intro, a verse, turn around verse chords, bridge verse chords out. And the intro, verse, turn around, and the chords are pretty much all the same. So we have the same basic chord regression that goes throughout this entire song, G, again, capo, fourth fret, one, two, three, four. We’ve got G-D-Em-C. Before we’re going to the first chords, we have an A. So other than that, that’s the whole song. There’s a bridge section too, I’m going to show you that but here’s one of the sound likes with the music or something like this. I’m going to show you its strum aside from the music as well. So it’s something like [Demonstration] Em, C and a kind of something like this [Demonstration] So, when you’re looking at the chart, which is available at the web site, there you see on the screen there. G- D- Em –C and the rhythm is like a— [Demonstration] Just a kind of a Reggae Island Hat Fill and as far as the right hand this is what I'm doing. I'm coming down and hitting this chord, I’m basically taking the flesh part of my hand here and hitting the strings with it which gives us a nice muted sound so like [Demonstration] That’s sort of thing. [Demonstration] So, of you could do this variation like a— [Demonstration] While I'm doing this on the up D, I'm lifting at my hands up so I’m going to— [Demonstration] Then do that sort of thing so, [Demonstration] Let’s talk about the chorus here so the chorus is going to be something like this. [Demonstration] So like that! Here, everything has been four beats per chord so far, but for the bridge here you’ve got two beats for each chord. And as for the first two other. You say you got G for two, D with F # in the bass. I grab that with my thumb. Em for two, D for two, C for four, two, three, four and I think like a hard chord to play but it’s not. It’s basically an A chord with a C# in the bass. And I’ll play this high note here I just played. That’s what we call an emergence. It is when you take the note other than the basic note, in case the A. when you put the note other than the base note into the chord, in this case is the C #. Sound about it! Let me play the chords here along the music museum. [Demonstration] Here we go! [Demonstration] So here’s the bridge. Here’s what we’re doing two beats per four. [Demonstration] It’s actually two beats. [Demonstration] There’s the tendency you want to count that fast like I did but the chords should be or the bridge should be one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four and repeat, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, and then back into the verse and then I think you get the chords and then out. If you have any questions on any of the techniques that I’ve used here today, capo chords. If you don’t know your chords, check out yourguitarsage.com, and you’re going to be left going there. Keep checking back with more videos to try to add one a day here for you to keep activated. Have a good one, keep practicing.