Wherever You Will Go - The Calling Guitar Lesson freeandeasyguitar.com

Hey, what’s up everybody? It’s Aaron, this lesson is going to be on a song by The Calling called Wherever You Will Go. Great song, it’s actually pretty, it’s going to be going for you guys to play if you’re a beginner because once you get used to picking, it kind of stays the same pattern for most of the song and it’s easy and basic chords. So the capo is in the second fret. We’re in the standard tuning. All right, capo second fret, once you’ve got that capo on, this is what the intro sounds like. [Demonstration] Something like that and then really those chords along with just some strumming is all you need for the song. The bridge does an Em chord in there but it’s not going to hurt you guys. So we’re going to get right into it and some pretty basic tab to learn from, like I said, the capo is in the second fret, the first thing you’re going to do is you’re going to make a C chord. Okay, you’re going to have a C chord where you’re on your A string which your five strings—your ring finger is third fret. This is second fret in your D string above the capo. So one, two, three on the first fret of the B string which is your two-string, pointer finger is on the first fret, okay. So you’re C chord and the picking you’re going to use, I’m going to go buy numbers so one, two, three, four, five, six, all right. You’re going to play five, four, three, four, three, two, three and four. So you’re going down, that is from the fifth string, go five, four, three, four, three, two, three, finish on the four. Okay, so [demonstration] this is a really good song to practice too if you go on along like all picking down like [demonstration]. This is a good song to work on alternate picking, which that means is, if the next note you’re going to go to is below it, so like on this one. You’re just picking the five strings and the next thing you’re going to go through is a four, which is below it. So you’re going to play five and you’re going to pick down to the four, okay, because you’re going about that. I’m going to five to four is a down pick. Four to three is a down pick, okay. But when you get to this three, you’re going from the three, after you pick this, you’re going back to the four. So instead of doing down pick on the three and kind of go all the way up and going down pick on the four, you’re going to do two down picks five, four. And once you’ve finished that four, bring it out and catch the third string way up and then catch the fourth string down because you’re moving to the three again after that four [demonstration]. So I’m going to go real slow and just watch right at my and I’m not going to try to over exaggerate so you can see which way I’m picking, okay. [Demonstration] Okay, it’s the first chord. The second chord use the same picking pattern but you lift your ring finger up off of the A string and you see it’s the middle finger and you move it from your D string to the second fret of your A string. And then you’re going to play the same picking pattern, five, four, three, four, three, two, three, four. The same thing in picking and it will go. [Demonstration] Okay, that’s your second chord, the same picking pattern. The third chord, you’re going to take this middle finger and move it right back to where it was in the C chord but this finger stays up. Now, it’s you’re Am7 chord, the same picking pattern [demonstration]. Okay, that’s your third chord. The forth chord you make is an F, but you don’t have to make an F more, all you need to do is take this ring—this middle finger off, so your pointer finger is still there on the first fret and then take your thumb and put your thumb right here. So it covers the first fret, okay. And alternate ways, if you want to shift your hand, you kind of twist your finger and then put your middle finger up here. But I think it’s more difficult, so if you can’t reach to reach your thumb, you could always put your pointer finger up here and your middle finger here [demonstration]. But I’ll just recommend to try to do it with your thumb, okay, because if you use your pointer finger you should be able to reach it, okay. So the pointer finger is there where it has been the whole time, your thumb is going to reach down here going to the first fret, okay. And the picking pattern you’re going to play, is you’re going to play the sixth string and you play the open four, you’ve got to play two string, three string, and you’ll play the sixth string one more time. And then you’re going to pick the two and the three strings together. So that last part goes [demonstration], so six, four, two, three, six, two and three, two and three. Okay, so all together, I’ll see if I can play through it without messing up so it don’t get your hopes up. [Demonstration] And you get a flat chord of F, and that I’m not going to play it again for time sake, but you know what the song sounds like. The only thing different there is only a C intro, the verse is the same way. You do that—that part we just did for the intro three times, so it goes like [demonstration]. Once for the intro and three times for the verse and then at the end of the verse, you play the same picking pattern for the C. They put the same first three chords, it’s the C, the G picking pattern and an Am7. Okay, and end your F, you make the F bar chord, but you only need to cover the low E string first fret and then this A and D third frets. Okay, so you can just do one, three, three, one low E three on the A, three on the D and just play. Down for eight strums, it’s eight strums, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, that’s kind of what you do as you’re going in the chorus. The chorus is the C chord, and then a G chord, to an Am, to an F, okay. Do that two times. Now, whenever you go in the picking part in the beginning, don’t worry, okay, the first one is a C that makes sense, the second one it says G that looks like this. Okay don’t worry about that. Just play it just like this, okay. Your C chord, the first chord, and then the second chord you’re picking through take your ring finger up and your middle goes up to the second for an A string, that’s when it says G for the picking part, that’s the chord you want to make. Don’t worry about—just go with that, okay. Then your Am7 is just this Am7 chord, you guys can check this out in tabs. As far as the strum pattern for the chorus, you can just use like. [Demonstration] I’m just using down, down, up, up, down, up. Switch, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up, okay. You can always use your own picking patterns or strum patterns if you want to mix it up a little bit. Everything else is the same until the bridge. The bridge just adds a different chord in but the same strum pattern, just down, down, up, up, down, up, starts an Am and goes to an F, to G, to an Em, Am, F, to a G and then you finish the last two measures just the Em chord, eight down strums, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Goes in the third verse. In the last chords, just strumming. So really guys, it’s basically the same thing, the whole song just read the way picking it [demonstration] or you’re strumming it [demonstration]. I guess that’s how it goes. So good luck, check out FreeandEasyGuitar.com for over 200 lessons and lots of other cool stuff that you’re missing out on if you’re not on FreeandEasyGuitar.com. 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