Chords for Guitar Lesson: Learn how to play the Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (TG247)

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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] Okay, that's your verse.
Okay, so this song, Hard Day's Night, has got a lot of variations on the opening chord.
The way I actually think he played it was _ _ like this.
_ [Em] _ It's like an F shape with your little [G] finger on that note there.
[F] And he actually played an F in the bass. _
And Paul played a D on the bass.
And there was a piano chord behind it as well, as well as this 12 string.
But the opening chord that I always play is like this F add 9 with F in the bass.
I know a lot of people put G in the bass because they think it sounds more like the record,
but _ _ F in the bass.
You got [G] that as well.
But the F in the bass, and then the [F] F in the [E] bass, if you watch him live, you can see him
playing the [F] F in the bass.
[Em] So it would [G] go, it's been a hard day's night.
Then it goes down to [F] this F again. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ So that's the [N] groove of the verse.
Over to you.
Okay, so for me, that intro, _ _ because there is so many variations of it, from the A, open
A, _ on your B string you want the first fret, on your E string you want the G, and we strum
from the [A] open A. _ _ _ _
_ _ But there is other things going on with that as well.
So for the verse, just show a little strum.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[B] So that F that he plays, [D] _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B]
that's your verse.
[N] That'll be your verse. _ _ _
Solo.
Solo.
Solo.
That's the interesting part.
Okay.
_ Take it away and we'll do it together.
Okay.
We'll do it together and then break it down.
One, two, [G] three, seven. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] So to break that [F#] down would be, [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ again, _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] some nice hammer-ons there.
I'm sure somebody will explain that a lot better than I will explain it.
Hammer-on is good.
Attack, again.
Yeah, would you say that?
_ I'll say it if you want me [F#] to.
What are you playing behind [E] there?
I'm playing G, C.
_ And again, [G]
the groove is very _ _ distinctive.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And it's got this _ note on the E string, which runs pretty much through the whole song.
You can hear it. _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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