Hey guys, it is Aaron. This is a request I have had some time. I apologize for not getting that earlier, but this is called “Love Song” by Sara Bareilles. Hope I pronounced that right. It has got some bar chords in it, so if you do not like bar chords then I would go to the next video, but they are not really, they are one of those kinds of difficult bar chord but I think you guys will be all right then get into it.
You start out with a Gm and all that is you are going to bar across the 3rd fret, all six strings, and you are going to take your ring and put it on the 5th fret and your pinky on the 5th fret of the 2nd, 3rd string down, so it sounds like this.
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So, you are barring across all the strings on the 3rd fret and then your ring and pinky on the 5th fret of your A and E, so your 2nd 3rd string at the top. And where I like to play the kind of strum pattern, if she plays the piano she plays, dap, dap, dap, darap, darap, dap, and she switches at the end actually darap, darap so I play it like this--
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Like down, down, down, down, up, down, switch. Down, down, down. Down, down, down, down, up, down, switch.
So, down, down, down, down, up, down, switch. Down, down, down, down, up.
From that Gm there, you switch to Bb which this is going to be kind of difficult. Get the bar across these 5 strings here, the bottom 5 strings on the 1st fret, then you make this kind of a mini bar, so that is how they call it. Right here with your ring finger on the 3rd fret so it covers your D, G and B strings. It is okay if it meets that.
So, really if you have any problems just take your ring and cover across the bottom four strings and do not worry about the high E, you can just bar on the 4th. It is all right.
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So, it sounds like this.
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Next chord after that is the Dm. You can play a bar chord Dm which I guess would be D.
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But the way I just play mine is I put my ring finger on the 3rd fret of your B string which is your 5th one up from the top 2nd one up, 3rd fret ring finger. Put my middle finger on the 4th string down, your G string 2nd fret and I put my pointer finger on the 1st fret of my high E string. So, that is--
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Because I like to play it that way because when I go to my F, that middle finger there on the 2nd fret of your G string stays the same place. So, I am playing my D, and you go to F, so you bring the middle finger there and bring these two over here, so your ring and pinky on the 3rd fret of your A and D 2nd 3rd strings down and this pointer finger bars across all this. So, that kind altogether sounds like this.
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Now, I am going to do it.
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So, that is the verse it goes G to Bb, Gm to Bb to Dm to F. He does that same thing twice, then it goes, actually he does that three times. You know when it says “I am unusually hard to hold on to” is the same thing.
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So, I will take that back again, you do it four times for the verse, that is what we do for the verse, this tab you are going to see over here you kind of link that too and listen and see when the chord changes by the lyrics.
Then there is the pre chorus, the pre chorus is this Gm here we started out in.
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To an Am. Am put your middle and your ring on the 3rd and 4th strings down, your D and G, on 2nd fret, put your pointer finger on the B string 1st fret.
So, it is Gm “Blank stares at,” Am “blank pages,” and that is Bb, “No easy way” Am, “ to say this” back to this Gm, “ you mean well, but you make this hard” is back to this Bb, it is in the verse and when it goes “ I am not gonna write you a love song,” in the chorus is Gm, “Cause you asked for it” goes to C, “’cause you need one” F to C, “I’m not gonna write you a love song” Gm, “ to tell me it’s make or breaking this” F, “you’re on your way” B, Bm again.
And it is “I’m not gonna write you to stay” is Gm to F. “I’m not gonna write you to stay if all you have” that is a Dm and then where it says “If all you have is leaving I’m a need” that is a G/B. Go t
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