Chords for ♪♫ John Lennon/Ben E. King - Stand By Me (Tutorial)

_ Hello, this is a tutorial for Stand By Me, the great song Benny King
John Lemons [D] also does a fabulous version of it as well.
[F] I'm going to show you several [D#] ways you can play this.
It's basically
four chords
[Dm] _ _ [A] A
[F#m] _ _
F sharp [D] minor
D
[E] _ _ and E
_ [B] E7's
You [G#] can throw a whole lot of stuff in this to mix it up to make it a bit more exciting
So I'm going to show you how you can do it that way, which is a regular way
You can also put a capo on the second [F#] fret so
[A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Starts on A
_ That's the strum for this _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ D _
[E] _ E
_ [A] _ _ A
_ _ _ _ _ You can throw a few little things in this to jam it up
All [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ kinds of little things like that _
_ So A
The best part is to _ slide that second string up to the third
Back down to the [F#] second and release the second, okay
[A] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
Into F sharp [F#m] minor _ _ _ _ _
_ _ D
[D] _ _ _ _
[A] _ [E] _ E
_ E and B or E7 or E and E7, whatever pleases your ear _ _
_ _ _ [E] You want to run down that second string again there for a third of a second so you open sounds nice [A] as well _ _
_ _ _ _ Playing on that second string up and down from [Am] the third second and open on all the chords
[N] But that's it.
That's all there is to that song
_ I like to also put the capo on to the [B] second fret and then basically the [A] chords will become G
_ [F#m] to E minor
_ _ [D] _ _
_ [E] G and D
_ Many of you might find it easy to play this way because then you don't have to worry about that [A#] F sharp minor bar chord
You know any song without bar [F#] chords is better, right?
So [A] then you can get this _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Those little harmony [F#] nice little parts you can throw in a lot easier on G chords
Just by bringing that second finger up onto the first string second fret
Second string first fret rather
_ Or that throwing in that little A minor 7 hammer
_ _ _ _ _ Have a lot more [F#m] fun _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Bm] Or a D7, D7 [A] sounds good as well _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
G to E minor transition _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Second finger come on to the third string second fret as well
_ _ [F#] _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ When the night _
Has come
_ _ [F#m] _ And the land is dark
And the [D] moon _
Is the only
_ [A] light we'll see _
_ _ No, I won't be afraid no
_ [F#m] _ _ Be afraid just as [D] long as [E] you stand
_ stand
[A] _ _ Okay, great song you play that [F#] over and over for hours so much [F] so I hope you got something out of that
[D#m] _