Chords for bellyache Billie Eilish Guitar Tutorial // bellyache Guitar // Guitar Lesson #579

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What's up guys, Groovy [B] Guitar Dude here with a beginner guitar tutorial for Bellyache by Billie Eilish.
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Guys, the first thing that you need to know to play Bellyache on [F] guitar is that we are
going to be in standard tuning and we are not going to need a capo to play this song.
The next thing you want to know for [Ab] Bellyache is the three chords we need to play this song.
[C] The first one is C, [B] [Am] the next one is A minor, and the last [Em] one is E minor.
And I'll have chord charts for all of those in the pinned comment below for [Eb] those of you
who need them.
So guys, Bellyache is one of those cool songs that is pretty much played the same way throughout
[C] the entire song on guitar.
So we're just going to have one chord progression.
It's going to be C, [Am] A minor, [E] E minor, and E minor once more.
And we're actually just going to have one strum pattern as well.
That strum pattern [C] is going to be down up, small pause, down up, small pause, and then
up, down, up, down, up, down, up.
[N] And that's it for each chord.
Now, you'll notice that some of that is underlined.
The reason that some of that is underlined is because that's where those little high
notes that you hear at the end of each chord are kind of actually technically towards the
middle of each chord.
That's where those are and we're going to have a special thing that we do for those
on each individual chord.
So let's break that down.
Let's start with our C chord.
For our C chord, what we're going to [C] do is we're going to go down up.
That one's a little slower.
Then we do our second down up and that's a little quicker.
And then we go into those underlined up downs.
And what we have there is for C chord, we're going to put our pinky on third fret high
E.
We're going to go up, down, up, down, up, and then we're going to release that and go
back to regular C chord and then do one down up and then we switch.
[B] That's our strum pattern and that's pretty much what it follows for each chord except
for the little high note that we're adding there on each chord is a little bit different.
So [G] our C chord, once all the way through, just so that you can get a vibe for it, [C] looks
something like this. _ _
So from there we go to our A minor.
Our A minor is going to be [Am] really similar in the beginning.
We're going to go slow down up and we're going to go quick down up and then we're going to
go to the [Ab] up downs and this is where it gets a little funky.
We're going to go to fifth [Eb] fret on the G, B [Am] and high E strings.
We're going to go up, down, up, down, up, and then we're going to release on the high
E from fifth fret [B] to third fret and we're going to keep those other two at the same place.
So what we've got there is fifth fret G, fifth fret B, third fret high E.
[C] We're going to do that last down up and that's your A minor chord right [F] there.
So like I said, not super crazy, but it's just a little bit tricky getting to that transition pretty quickly.
[C] So we go to that E minor and our E minor is going to be really [Gb] similar to our [Em] C.
We're just going to go down up slowly and then quick down up and then we're going to
add that third fret high E.
We're going to go up, down, up, down, up and then release and then down up.
Just like we did on our C, but for E minor we're playing that E minor for two counts
so we're going to do it twice.
So guys, I'm going to play all the way through that pretty slowly just so you can see exactly
what [Ab] I'm doing and I'm going to play through it a couple times full speed [C] so you can match
up with the speed of the song.
Slowly should look something like this.
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_ _ _ And [E] guys, a couple times through the chord progression and strum pattern that's going
to repeat through pretty much the entire song, Bellyache is [C] going to look about like this. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] And guys, that is everything you need to know to play Bellyache on [G] guitar.
As always, if you have any questions, you can hit me up in the comments below.
I'm usually pretty quick getting back to those.
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Guys, Bellyache is another one of those songs that I've gotten a ton of requests [Dm] for and
I'm constantly getting new Billie Eilish requests more than I can keep up with honestly, but
I'm trying to do like maybe like one request for Billie Eilish song a [F] week and man, she's just [Bb] awesome.
That whole new album of hers or new-ish album of hers is just so good.
Every time I [Fm] hear a new song from her, I just, I like her a little bit more and I usually
get hooked on that song for [F] at least a day or two.
And that's how Bellyache has been.
I've been listening to it all [Bb] day today.
It's just a jam and the guitar for it is so [G] cool.
It's really good and it's still really beginner [Dm] friendly.
It sounds more complicated than it is, but it's pretty much just that same chord [F] progression
with those same cool little, you know, where you pop up on [G] the third fret of the high E,
[Dm] pop up to the fifth fret, you know, on that A minor, all that stuff.
[Am] That's, [Bb] that's still relatively beginner friendly.
All of it's really pretty basic [F] chords, pretty basic strumming, and it's just going to take
some practice for the beginners to get that down like the very early beginners, but most
people [F] should be able to get that no problem with a little bit of practice.
So [Bb] anyways, guys, I hope you have a wonderful [Bb] day.
I hope you have a lot of fun playing this [Dm] song and I'll see y'all soon.
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