Chords for How To Play Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers - Easy Guitar Lesson

[A#] Hey, [F#] what's up everybody [G#] Tyler from [F#] 10 thumbs coming back at you with another lesson all right
[C] So today we're learning [G] a classic.
We're learning [G#] ain't no sunshine when [Cm] she's gone or ain't no [B] sunshine by [F] the great builders
_ [F#] Fantastic a [A#] great songwriter a great singer songwriter
_ [G] Really underrated as a songwriter, but a really talented guy, and I recommend [F#] going through a lot of his music
His first three albums were fantastic, and you're gonna find a lot of records and songs that you're [D#] gonna want to play
_ _ But today we're doing [F] ain't no sunshine all right, so we're [Cm] also gonna take a look at some extended [F] harmony
What does that mean well?
You [D#] don't know stay at the end of the lesson [A#] and I'm gonna explain some of [C#] these chords because they're not as [F] complicated as
They look [C#] so what do you need you need your guitar?
[Cm] You need your attentions you need your [C] brain you have all three come [D#] on in follow me all right
_ [F#m] _
_ All right, so the very [A#] first thing we're gonna do this lesson a little different [F#] than normal because the song is a little different
Than [C#] normal okay, we're not playing with a pick or playing [F] with the fingers.
That's important.
No
So [C#] _
the first thing I want you to do is I want you to [F#] take your index finger
I want you to fret [C#] the fifth fret all right.
It's a certain [C] Eastern
_ Take your middle finger
_ Skip the a [Cm] string and go down to the D string fifth fret
[C#] _ ring [C] finger G string
_ Pinky finger [G#] on the B string [F] all on the fifth fret okay?
_ Now what I want you to try [C] to do is pluck all four of these at the same time [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
all right
This is the basis.
[F] This is the [F#] foundation.
This is the principal [C#] chord
It's called a minor [C] seven
_ [F#] _ _ _ _
How does that work well [F] here's an a minor chord right _ [A]
now _ _ _ [Am] _ [C#] imagine [G] if you take away your pinky
[A] _ _ This is an a7 chord _ [Cm] all we're doing is [E] skipping this a string _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Same idea, but it's a little cleaner, okay _
Now what [C#] you're gonna.
Do is you're gonna use your thumb to pluck
[A] _ _
_ The [C#] E string and then your [Am] bottom three fingers _ on _ _ [C] _ _ _
the other three strings [F] that you're fretting so it goes [A] one [Am] and
_ _ _ One _
_ _ And [F] that repeats itself twice [A#] _
one [Am] and two and
_ _ [F] _ Now this is really cool.
This is the easiest [C] chord you're ever gonna play.
I want you [A#] to take your hands and take them [G] off
Of the guitar, _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ but why does [F#] that work?
That's an e7 chord, okay?
_ [D#] But again, we're not playing that a note [Em] so
_ That's why we don't need any fingers, okay?
_ _ [C] One and [Am] two [A#] and everything off three [Em] _
and
_ _ _ [C] Point your finger [E] on the third fret _ four [G] _ and
Then back to your original chord [Am] one
And _ that's [C#] what we're gonna count [A] okay, so check it out.
It's gonna go one and [Am] _
two and
_ _ [Em] _ three and [G] _ four and [Am] one
_ _ If _ _ [C] you're wondering what this chord [G] is
_ Take it check a G [F#m] chord out [Am] now when you skip [B] the a you see [C] how these are all [Gm] open again
_ [G] So [F#] we're playing a G [Gm] chord, which is one note all right, but [F] it's still a G chord, okay?
so the [F#] pattern goes [Am] one _ and two and
_ _ _ three [G] and _ four and
[Am] one and two [A#] and three [F] and four and
[Am] one and two _ and three _ and [Gm] four and
one [C] and two and three [C#] and four and
_ _ Here we have a [C] little change, okay?
_ _ _ Take [D#] your pointer finger a string fifth fret and [C#] then slide it up after you hit it
[E] _ [C] the second little
_ Your middle finger seventh fret [G#] on the [C] G string _ and your ring finger
_ _ _ eighth [Cm] fret _
Okay, [A#] eighth fret on the [G] B string _ _
_ _ So this chord is only [A#] the other ones were four strings this chord is only three strings _ _
[C] one and two and three and four and
Take the same shape and move it down a whole step [C#] or two frets [Gm] one two _ _
one and two and three and [D] four and
_ [Am] one and two and three _
[G] four
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] All right, that's the whole song dudes and dooderines, that's it, okay?
So we're gonna play through it one time, [F] and I'm gonna count it out while we play through
[A#] You can practice it
But you can find up this [Cm] video on YouTube and you can [C#] see Bill playing it acoustic and you can see this is [C] the exact
Same way he plays it [F#] okay the exact same way that he plays it
[C#] Listen to that one put the headphones on I recommend you listen to put the headphones on and play along with it
You'll get it [F] pretty quick.
Let's count it out together one more time.
Okay _
[Am] one and two and [C]
three
and four and one and two and three and
[G] four and [Am] one and two
[C] _ three and four
_ One two _ [Am] _ _
three and [C#] four and one [Em] and two
_ three and four and [Dm] one and two and three and
four [Am] and one and two and three and [Gm] four and [Am] One and
two _ [C#] and three and
[C] Four and _ and that's it and then it starts over that happens.
I think six times [F#] in the song okay
_ [C] Now the other part is like I know [C#] I know I know I know I know [F] I know I know I know
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [Cm] You're gonna have to figure that part out on your own, [A#] okay?
The best way to get that is just to listen to it and [C] kind of slap the bass your guitar or slap them
Behind of your guitar the big old bass [C#m] part _
_ _ _ _ _ You hear that that's where you want because you want a little bass when you [A#] do it, okay?
[Cm] That's the whole song the extended harmony again.
This is our [Am] a7 _
_ [F] All right, that was it.
I told you it was gonna be easy
I told you it's [F#] gonna be painless and now you know how to play ain't no sunshine when she's gone [F] by Bill Withers a
Lovely [D#] one for you men play [G] for you ladies and for you ladies to play for you men
[F#] Ain't no sunshine when [F] he's gone right this is the 21st [Cm] century equal everything okay?
My wife loves this song.
[B] I know it works
_ _ _ [Cm] Okay, ain't no sunshine when she's gone [B] Tyler ten thumbs love peace and [C] as always keep all _ keeping [F#] _ _
[C#] on _ _ _ _ _ _