Chords for "More Than A Feeling" Guitar Lesson Video - Intro & Verse (Boston)
Tempo:
115.25 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
Gm
Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] From 1976, here's the intro to More Than a Feeling [D] by Boston.
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
Sounds great, huh?
What a great tune.
I was born in Boston.
I grew up in Massachusetts.
And I heard a lot of Boston growing up.
All right, so let's do this thing.
We're going to talk about the left hand first, although the downs and ups I'm going to recommend
for the right hand are super important.
But let's start with the left hand first.
D.
[G] We love D, right?
Nice easy chord.
When you start off with this arpeggio here, you will want to have your D chord with a pinky added.
Pinky first string third fret, okay?
Officially that's a D suspended chord, officially, okay?
So grab your D chord, add on that pinky first string third fret, and we [D] have this.
Those first four notes, okay?
I'm going to tell you the numbers of the strings.
Remember your skinny string is number one, fat string is number six.
So numerically it's four, two, three, [Gm] one, [D] okay?
Four, two, three, one, okay?
After that sequence, the next sequence goes four, lift off your pinky, one, two, three,
okay?
Four, one, two, three.
So first we have pinky down, four, two, three, one, and then pinky off, four, one, two, three.
Next part, now it gets easy.
Ring finger stays, keep your ring finger on the second string third fret the whole time,
okay?
You're going to end up with a good groove in that finger by the end of your practice session.
Ring finger stays, but that's the only finger that [C] stays.
Middle finger has to be your middle finger.
Third fret on the fifth string, and your strum is going to go fifth, third, second, [G] okay?
Fifth, third, [C] second.
[G] Index finger, fifth string, second fret, and the strum is going to go fifth, third, second again, okay?
And then the last [Ab] thing, [G] middle finger, sixth string, third fret, and you're going to pluck
six, two, okay?
Now I'm going to walk you through that fast one more time, but then I want to talk about
the right hand.
Okay, so here we go.
D suspended chord [D] with a pinky added.
Four, two, three, one.
Take your pinky off.
Four, one, two, three.
Ring finger stays, middle finger, [C] fifth string, third fret, five, [G] three, two.
Index finger takes over on the fifth string, second fret, five, three, two.
Middle finger, sixth string, third fret, six, two, okay?
Excellent, excellent.
Now let's talk about the right hand.
I'm going to indicate how I choose to strum down and up.
Who knows how Mr.
Tom Scholz does it on the original, but I bet what he's going to do
is, what he does is not so different from what I'm going to recommend here, okay?
So I'm not going to talk about the left hand really anymore.
It's all about the right hand.
Okay, the first sequence, down, up, down, [D] up, okay?
[Gm] Nothing feels as natural as down, up, down, up once [D] you get used to it.
Down, up, down, up, okay?
Second four notes.
Down on the fourth string, and then up, up, up, okay?
This is the part that goes four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
It feels good to drag your hand back like that, okay?
So the first sequence, which was four, three, two, one, four, three, [Gm] two, one.
That was down, up, down, [D] up.
And the second sequence, four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
Now it gets very consistent [C] coming up right here.
Middle finger, fifth string, remember this one on that happens to be the C note right
there, fifth string, third fret.
Okay, ready for this?
This is the five, two, three, down, down, [Gm] up, okay?
Two [C] downs and an up.
Down, down, up.
[Gm]
Index finger takes over fifth string, second fret, same strum, or same order.
It's five, three, two, [B] down, down, [G] up.
And then lastly, sixth string, third fret, middle finger right there.
Down on the sixth string, up on the second string, okay?
Now, to me, that makes total logical sense and I see the pattern.
I know why I'm doing it.
I hope it doesn't seem too random to you.
I thought [Gm] it's okay if it does seem kind of random.
One of the principles, [C] for instance, ending something on an upstroke, it's because my
I'm ending on an upstroke because my hand is coming back to a fatter string for the
next thing anyways.
So when I go down, [G] down, up, down, down, up, down, up, to me that makes a lot of [N] sense,
okay?
So I'm giving you my perspective here on these downs and ups.
You don't have to do it my way, but whatever way you choose to do it, think about it and
stick with it, okay?
Make sure you know why you're doing what you're doing, whatever you happen to do, and be consistent.
Commit yourself to it and do it that way every time.
Okay, in the last few seconds we have left here, I want to give you a good argument for
learning an introduction to a tune.
You might say, I want to learn the whole tune all the way through, and you can do that,
but here are a couple of good reasons to learn the introduction to a tune.
Number one, it's short.
You can memorize it.
If you can memorize it, you can watch one of your hands at any given moment.
You're not staring at a piece of paper, staring at your computer screen or something.
It's a huge advantage to have something memorized, okay?
Number two reason to learn the intro to a tune.
People recognize it.
Your friends and family say, oh, I love that tune, you know, and that feels good, you know,
when that happens.
Number three, in the case of this song and quite a few other songs, the guitar part [Abm] in
the intro is, it continues on.
In this case, the guitar part in the intro really does flow right into the verse and
the singing comes in and it represents, the guitar part represents more than just the
intro of the tune, okay?
So [N] those are my three reasons why what might seem like learning only a fragment of the
tune is actually a great thing.
It's certainly a great stepping stone.
And next time you're trying out a guitar at a guitar store, you can whip out your more
than a feeling riff.
Okay, thanks for watching everybody.
My website is on its way.
Don't forget.
Very soon, I'm finishing up with details, www .song-bike.com.
And please go to my Facebook page and like my Facebook page, www.facebook.com slash my song bike.
And don't forget to like this video here and comment on it and subscribe to my YouTube
channel and more great videos to come.
I love making these videos.
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You can do this.
Thanks for watching everybody.
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
[C] [G] [D]
Sounds great, huh?
What a great tune.
I was born in Boston.
I grew up in Massachusetts.
And I heard a lot of Boston growing up.
All right, so let's do this thing.
We're going to talk about the left hand first, although the downs and ups I'm going to recommend
for the right hand are super important.
But let's start with the left hand first.
D.
[G] We love D, right?
Nice easy chord.
When you start off with this arpeggio here, you will want to have your D chord with a pinky added.
Pinky first string third fret, okay?
Officially that's a D suspended chord, officially, okay?
So grab your D chord, add on that pinky first string third fret, and we [D] have this.
Those first four notes, okay?
I'm going to tell you the numbers of the strings.
Remember your skinny string is number one, fat string is number six.
So numerically it's four, two, three, [Gm] one, [D] okay?
Four, two, three, one, okay?
After that sequence, the next sequence goes four, lift off your pinky, one, two, three,
okay?
Four, one, two, three.
So first we have pinky down, four, two, three, one, and then pinky off, four, one, two, three.
Next part, now it gets easy.
Ring finger stays, keep your ring finger on the second string third fret the whole time,
okay?
You're going to end up with a good groove in that finger by the end of your practice session.
Ring finger stays, but that's the only finger that [C] stays.
Middle finger has to be your middle finger.
Third fret on the fifth string, and your strum is going to go fifth, third, second, [G] okay?
Fifth, third, [C] second.
[G] Index finger, fifth string, second fret, and the strum is going to go fifth, third, second again, okay?
And then the last [Ab] thing, [G] middle finger, sixth string, third fret, and you're going to pluck
six, two, okay?
Now I'm going to walk you through that fast one more time, but then I want to talk about
the right hand.
Okay, so here we go.
D suspended chord [D] with a pinky added.
Four, two, three, one.
Take your pinky off.
Four, one, two, three.
Ring finger stays, middle finger, [C] fifth string, third fret, five, [G] three, two.
Index finger takes over on the fifth string, second fret, five, three, two.
Middle finger, sixth string, third fret, six, two, okay?
Excellent, excellent.
Now let's talk about the right hand.
I'm going to indicate how I choose to strum down and up.
Who knows how Mr.
Tom Scholz does it on the original, but I bet what he's going to do
is, what he does is not so different from what I'm going to recommend here, okay?
So I'm not going to talk about the left hand really anymore.
It's all about the right hand.
Okay, the first sequence, down, up, down, [D] up, okay?
[Gm] Nothing feels as natural as down, up, down, up once [D] you get used to it.
Down, up, down, up, okay?
Second four notes.
Down on the fourth string, and then up, up, up, okay?
This is the part that goes four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
It feels good to drag your hand back like that, okay?
So the first sequence, which was four, three, two, one, four, three, [Gm] two, one.
That was down, up, down, [D] up.
And the second sequence, four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
Now it gets very consistent [C] coming up right here.
Middle finger, fifth string, remember this one on that happens to be the C note right
there, fifth string, third fret.
Okay, ready for this?
This is the five, two, three, down, down, [Gm] up, okay?
Two [C] downs and an up.
Down, down, up.
[Gm]
Index finger takes over fifth string, second fret, same strum, or same order.
It's five, three, two, [B] down, down, [G] up.
And then lastly, sixth string, third fret, middle finger right there.
Down on the sixth string, up on the second string, okay?
Now, to me, that makes total logical sense and I see the pattern.
I know why I'm doing it.
I hope it doesn't seem too random to you.
I thought [Gm] it's okay if it does seem kind of random.
One of the principles, [C] for instance, ending something on an upstroke, it's because my
I'm ending on an upstroke because my hand is coming back to a fatter string for the
next thing anyways.
So when I go down, [G] down, up, down, down, up, down, up, to me that makes a lot of [N] sense,
okay?
So I'm giving you my perspective here on these downs and ups.
You don't have to do it my way, but whatever way you choose to do it, think about it and
stick with it, okay?
Make sure you know why you're doing what you're doing, whatever you happen to do, and be consistent.
Commit yourself to it and do it that way every time.
Okay, in the last few seconds we have left here, I want to give you a good argument for
learning an introduction to a tune.
You might say, I want to learn the whole tune all the way through, and you can do that,
but here are a couple of good reasons to learn the introduction to a tune.
Number one, it's short.
You can memorize it.
If you can memorize it, you can watch one of your hands at any given moment.
You're not staring at a piece of paper, staring at your computer screen or something.
It's a huge advantage to have something memorized, okay?
Number two reason to learn the intro to a tune.
People recognize it.
Your friends and family say, oh, I love that tune, you know, and that feels good, you know,
when that happens.
Number three, in the case of this song and quite a few other songs, the guitar part [Abm] in
the intro is, it continues on.
In this case, the guitar part in the intro really does flow right into the verse and
the singing comes in and it represents, the guitar part represents more than just the
intro of the tune, okay?
So [N] those are my three reasons why what might seem like learning only a fragment of the
tune is actually a great thing.
It's certainly a great stepping stone.
And next time you're trying out a guitar at a guitar store, you can whip out your more
than a feeling riff.
Okay, thanks for watching everybody.
My website is on its way.
Don't forget.
Very soon, I'm finishing up with details, www .song-bike.com.
And please go to my Facebook page and like my Facebook page, www.facebook.com slash my song bike.
And don't forget to like this video here and comment on it and subscribe to my YouTube
channel and more great videos to come.
I love making these videos.
I hope it shows and keep practicing.
You can do this.
Thanks for watching everybody.
Key:
G
D
C
Gm
Ab
G
D
C
[G] _ _ _ From 1976, here's the intro to More Than a Feeling [D] by Boston. _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ Sounds great, huh?
What a great tune.
I was born in Boston.
I grew up in Massachusetts.
_ And I heard a lot of Boston growing up.
All right, so let's do this thing.
_ We're going to talk about the left hand first, although the downs and ups I'm going to recommend
for the right hand are super important.
But let's start with the left hand first.
D.
[G] We love D, right?
Nice easy chord.
When you start off with this arpeggio here, you will want to have your D chord with a pinky added.
Pinky first string third fret, okay?
Officially that's a D suspended chord, officially, okay?
So _ grab your D chord, add on that pinky first string third fret, and we [D] have this.
_ _ _ _ _ Those first four notes, okay?
I'm going to tell you the numbers of the strings.
Remember your skinny string is number one, fat string is number six.
_ So numerically it's four, two, three, [Gm] one, [D] okay?
Four, two, three, one, _ _ _ _ _ _ okay?
After that sequence, the next sequence goes four, _ lift off your pinky, _ one, two, three,
_ _ okay?
Four, one, two, three.
_ _ _ So first we have pinky down, _ _ four, two, three, one, and then pinky off, four, one, two, three.
_ Next part, now it gets easy.
Ring finger stays, keep your ring finger on the second string third fret the whole time,
okay?
You're going to end up with a good groove in that finger by the end of your practice session.
Ring finger stays, but that's the only finger that [C] stays.
Middle finger has to be your middle finger.
Third fret on the fifth string, and your strum is going to go _ fifth, third, second, _ [G] _ _ okay?
Fifth, third, [C] second.
[G] _ _ _ Index finger, fifth string, second fret, and the strum is going to go fifth, third, second again, _ _ _ _ okay?
And then the last [Ab] thing, [G] middle finger, sixth string, third fret, and you're going to pluck
six, two, _ _ okay?
Now I'm going to walk you through that fast one more time, but then I want to talk about
the right hand.
Okay, so here we go.
D suspended chord [D] with a pinky added. _ _
Four, two, three, one.
Take your pinky off.
Four, one, two, three.
_ _ Ring finger stays, middle finger, [C] _ fifth string, third fret, _ _ five, [G] three, two.
_ Index finger takes over on the fifth string, second fret, five, three, two. _
Middle finger, sixth string, third fret, six, two, _ _ okay?
Excellent, excellent.
Now let's talk about the right hand.
I'm going to indicate how I choose to strum down and up.
Who knows how Mr.
Tom Scholz does it on the original, but I bet what he's going to do
is, what he does is not so different from what I'm going to recommend here, okay?
So I'm not going to talk about the left hand really anymore.
It's all about the right hand.
Okay, the first sequence, down, up, down, [D] up, _ _ _ _ okay?
[Gm] Nothing feels as natural as down, up, down, up once [D] you get used to it.
Down, up, down, up, okay?
Second four notes.
Down on the fourth string, _ _ and then up, up, up, _ okay?
This is the part that goes four, one, two, three, _ down, up, up, up.
It feels good to drag your hand back like that, okay?
So the first sequence, which was four, three, two, one, _ four, three, [Gm] two, one.
That was down, up, down, [D] up.
And the second sequence, four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
_ Now it gets very consistent [C] coming up right here.
Middle finger, fifth string, remember this one on that happens to be the C note right
there, fifth string, third fret.
Okay, ready for this?
This is the five, two, three, _ down, down, [Gm] up, okay?
Two [C] downs and an up.
Down, down, up.
[Gm] _
Index finger takes over fifth string, second fret, same strum, or same order.
It's five, three, two, [B] down, down, [G] up.
_ _ _ And then lastly, sixth string, third fret, middle finger right there.
Down on the sixth string, up on the _ second string, okay?
Now, to me, that makes total logical sense and I see the pattern.
I know why I'm doing it.
I hope it doesn't seem too random to you.
I thought [Gm] it's okay if it does seem kind of random.
One of the principles, [C] for instance, ending something on an upstroke, it's because my
_
I'm ending on an upstroke because my hand is coming back to a fatter string for the
next thing anyways.
So when I go down, [G] down, up, down, down, up, down, up, to me that makes a lot of [N] sense,
okay?
_ So I'm giving you my perspective here on these downs and ups.
You don't have to do it my way, but whatever way you choose to do it, think about it and
stick with it, okay?
Make sure you know why you're doing what you're doing, whatever you happen to do, and be consistent.
Commit yourself to it and do it that way every time.
Okay, in the last few seconds we have left here, I want to give you a good argument for
learning an introduction to a tune.
You might say, I want to learn the whole tune all the way through, and you can do that,
but here are a couple of good reasons to learn the introduction to a tune.
Number one, it's short.
You can memorize it.
If you can memorize it, you can watch one of your hands at any given moment.
You're not staring at a piece of paper, staring at your computer screen or something.
It's a huge advantage to have something memorized, okay?
Number two reason to learn the intro to a tune.
People recognize it.
Your friends and family say, oh, I love that tune, you know, and that feels good, you know,
when that happens.
Number three, in the case of this song and quite a few other songs, the guitar part [Abm] in
the intro is, it continues on.
In this case, the guitar part in the intro really does flow right into the verse and
the singing comes in and it represents, the guitar part represents more than just the
intro of the tune, okay?
So [N] those are my three reasons why what might seem like learning only a fragment of the
tune is actually a great thing.
It's certainly a great stepping stone.
And next time you're trying out a guitar at a guitar store, you can whip out your more
than a feeling riff.
Okay, thanks for watching everybody.
My website is on its way.
Don't forget.
_ _ Very soon, I'm finishing up with details, www _ .song-bike.com.
And please go to my Facebook page and like my Facebook page, www.facebook.com slash my song bike.
And don't forget to like this video here and comment on it and subscribe to my YouTube
channel and more great videos to come.
I love making these videos.
I hope it shows and keep practicing.
You can do this.
Thanks for watching everybody. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ Sounds great, huh?
What a great tune.
I was born in Boston.
I grew up in Massachusetts.
_ And I heard a lot of Boston growing up.
All right, so let's do this thing.
_ We're going to talk about the left hand first, although the downs and ups I'm going to recommend
for the right hand are super important.
But let's start with the left hand first.
D.
[G] We love D, right?
Nice easy chord.
When you start off with this arpeggio here, you will want to have your D chord with a pinky added.
Pinky first string third fret, okay?
Officially that's a D suspended chord, officially, okay?
So _ grab your D chord, add on that pinky first string third fret, and we [D] have this.
_ _ _ _ _ Those first four notes, okay?
I'm going to tell you the numbers of the strings.
Remember your skinny string is number one, fat string is number six.
_ So numerically it's four, two, three, [Gm] one, [D] okay?
Four, two, three, one, _ _ _ _ _ _ okay?
After that sequence, the next sequence goes four, _ lift off your pinky, _ one, two, three,
_ _ okay?
Four, one, two, three.
_ _ _ So first we have pinky down, _ _ four, two, three, one, and then pinky off, four, one, two, three.
_ Next part, now it gets easy.
Ring finger stays, keep your ring finger on the second string third fret the whole time,
okay?
You're going to end up with a good groove in that finger by the end of your practice session.
Ring finger stays, but that's the only finger that [C] stays.
Middle finger has to be your middle finger.
Third fret on the fifth string, and your strum is going to go _ fifth, third, second, _ [G] _ _ okay?
Fifth, third, [C] second.
[G] _ _ _ Index finger, fifth string, second fret, and the strum is going to go fifth, third, second again, _ _ _ _ okay?
And then the last [Ab] thing, [G] middle finger, sixth string, third fret, and you're going to pluck
six, two, _ _ okay?
Now I'm going to walk you through that fast one more time, but then I want to talk about
the right hand.
Okay, so here we go.
D suspended chord [D] with a pinky added. _ _
Four, two, three, one.
Take your pinky off.
Four, one, two, three.
_ _ Ring finger stays, middle finger, [C] _ fifth string, third fret, _ _ five, [G] three, two.
_ Index finger takes over on the fifth string, second fret, five, three, two. _
Middle finger, sixth string, third fret, six, two, _ _ okay?
Excellent, excellent.
Now let's talk about the right hand.
I'm going to indicate how I choose to strum down and up.
Who knows how Mr.
Tom Scholz does it on the original, but I bet what he's going to do
is, what he does is not so different from what I'm going to recommend here, okay?
So I'm not going to talk about the left hand really anymore.
It's all about the right hand.
Okay, the first sequence, down, up, down, [D] up, _ _ _ _ okay?
[Gm] Nothing feels as natural as down, up, down, up once [D] you get used to it.
Down, up, down, up, okay?
Second four notes.
Down on the fourth string, _ _ and then up, up, up, _ okay?
This is the part that goes four, one, two, three, _ down, up, up, up.
It feels good to drag your hand back like that, okay?
So the first sequence, which was four, three, two, one, _ four, three, [Gm] two, one.
That was down, up, down, [D] up.
And the second sequence, four, one, two, three, down, up, up, up.
_ Now it gets very consistent [C] coming up right here.
Middle finger, fifth string, remember this one on that happens to be the C note right
there, fifth string, third fret.
Okay, ready for this?
This is the five, two, three, _ down, down, [Gm] up, okay?
Two [C] downs and an up.
Down, down, up.
[Gm] _
Index finger takes over fifth string, second fret, same strum, or same order.
It's five, three, two, [B] down, down, [G] up.
_ _ _ And then lastly, sixth string, third fret, middle finger right there.
Down on the sixth string, up on the _ second string, okay?
Now, to me, that makes total logical sense and I see the pattern.
I know why I'm doing it.
I hope it doesn't seem too random to you.
I thought [Gm] it's okay if it does seem kind of random.
One of the principles, [C] for instance, ending something on an upstroke, it's because my
_
I'm ending on an upstroke because my hand is coming back to a fatter string for the
next thing anyways.
So when I go down, [G] down, up, down, down, up, down, up, to me that makes a lot of [N] sense,
okay?
_ So I'm giving you my perspective here on these downs and ups.
You don't have to do it my way, but whatever way you choose to do it, think about it and
stick with it, okay?
Make sure you know why you're doing what you're doing, whatever you happen to do, and be consistent.
Commit yourself to it and do it that way every time.
Okay, in the last few seconds we have left here, I want to give you a good argument for
learning an introduction to a tune.
You might say, I want to learn the whole tune all the way through, and you can do that,
but here are a couple of good reasons to learn the introduction to a tune.
Number one, it's short.
You can memorize it.
If you can memorize it, you can watch one of your hands at any given moment.
You're not staring at a piece of paper, staring at your computer screen or something.
It's a huge advantage to have something memorized, okay?
Number two reason to learn the intro to a tune.
People recognize it.
Your friends and family say, oh, I love that tune, you know, and that feels good, you know,
when that happens.
Number three, in the case of this song and quite a few other songs, the guitar part [Abm] in
the intro is, it continues on.
In this case, the guitar part in the intro really does flow right into the verse and
the singing comes in and it represents, the guitar part represents more than just the
intro of the tune, okay?
So [N] those are my three reasons why what might seem like learning only a fragment of the
tune is actually a great thing.
It's certainly a great stepping stone.
And next time you're trying out a guitar at a guitar store, you can whip out your more
than a feeling riff.
Okay, thanks for watching everybody.
My website is on its way.
Don't forget.
_ _ Very soon, I'm finishing up with details, www _ .song-bike.com.
And please go to my Facebook page and like my Facebook page, www.facebook.com slash my song bike.
And don't forget to like this video here and comment on it and subscribe to my YouTube
channel and more great videos to come.
I love making these videos.
I hope it shows and keep practicing.
You can do this.
Thanks for watching everybody. _ _ _