Chords for Guitar Lesson - R.E.M. - Begin The Begin

_ _ Hey gang welcome back to another
episode of Florida cracker guitar tips _
I broke out a guitar that I haven't played in years.
It's my
_ 1980s era
Rickenbacker, it's a beautiful guitar and it still plays
I'm playing through a small box battery-powered amp.
I love the tone of it, and it's just fun to play a nice little practice [G] amp
_ _ _ Guess what songs I'm gonna cover here.
I'm gonna do some REM songs
I'm gonna do begin to begin
And I'm not going to [Gm] play the whole song or [F] anything, but I'm just gonna show a few little
licks and tricks
_ Mainly [G] in my my left hand
_ No, fancy picking patterns or anything like that
_ so anyway
The intro riff is [Gm] a signature lick and uh there's folks out there already showing you how to do it
But _ I think they were doing them acoustically, but I thought I'd try to get kind of a similar tone using the electric guitar
So I'll hit a few points on it and kind of try to keep it quick
[E] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ [G#] So the key you [E] know you're playing it is a F sharp major
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ And
_ [C#] The riff is in the an open
[B] _ Your open D string, and you're just doing kind of a hammer on walk up
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I [G] do a little subtle bend as I look because there's a pull-off
So I'm walking up the D string and then going to the [E] G string
[Bm] _ And then the G [G] string _
_ [A] _ _ second fret _ _
[F#] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ Now _ _ _ _ I throw this riff in [G] here or this
what I do is I lift the bar chord off the B and the E string and _ _ _ _
as
I do that it kind of creates that interesting effect whether
REM did it or not.
I just to me it kind of works with the song
_ particularly if you you know you're in a one guitar band kind of thing so I'm kind of [F#] just _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ You _
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ can also lift [G] and play the open E string kind of make it dirty sounding so you're playing kind of that E shape chord at
the F sharp position and _
[F#] the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ next
Chord in the song that you're gonna play is your [D] D
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[D] What [A#] I'm doing there is I'm [C#] on the on the G string
I'm just [G#] using my pinky and going up like a whole [D] step
kind of playing a partial D chord and _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ That kind of thing [B] and then it's got the
_ _ _ [D] There's an F in there, so uh let me see if I can work this out _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ So back to that change from [F] the D to an F you kind of just hold the F there _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Pretty simple [E] F.
You know the the bar chord shape of F to slide your E open E [F] up to _ _
And then you go to [G] a G
_ And I tend to always play my G's with [G] my ring finger on the B string at the third fret and [D#] my pinky
On the E string at the third fret it kind of gets a fatter sound _ _
_ _ So there's a little lick in there that's kind of neat _
_ _ Sometimes call it the monkeys lick but anyway _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ What you're doing is a walk down from [F] the D
String at the third fret down to the second fret and then back to back to an open to [G] an open D
G chord _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It's kind of associated with that classical monkeys _ lick anyway _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C#] _ _ What I kind of do here is I play a C sharp chord, and I don't play the full
_ Or [C#m] a minor.
I don't do that.
I play a [A#m] partial
I don't have my [G] middle finger landing on anything, so I'm just playing
[D] _ _
Where we at here at the sixth fret
You know the D and the G string you know the ring finger and the pinky
And I'm just kind of laying my finger across it.
I used to call it the rush chord
[G#] _ _ [G#m] But anyway, I don't play the whole chord.
I just play [C#] a partial
_ _ _ [G#m] Now lift my pinky
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ So anyway _ that C sharp position _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ _ Resolves back to the F sharp major chord [F#] and then
_ _ _ _ Round [B] _ _
_ _ maybe I guess I can't but anyway
I'm just that chord is you just kind of you lift up a little bit and you get those _
You get your B and your [F#] E string open on that F sharp
_ bar chord when you lift up _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] So I think that covers the basic elements of the song and you know just listen to the song you piece all this stuff together
[F#] And I think you'll hopefully nail it