Chords for How to play Nallai Allai | Easy Guitar Chords and Tabs Tutorial | Interlude Tabs | Kaatru Veliyidai

[Bb] Hi, this is Asha Thomas, teacher at Envol Music and today we're gonna learn one of A.R. Rahman's latest songs, Nallaiyallai.
What I really like about the song is that it's very simple and if you're a beginner and you've just taken up your [E] guitar,
this is a song to learn.
We'll break the song down into three very simple steps.
The first [A] one is knowing your chords.
Here we go.
[E] _ _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ [Bm] Your first chord, [A] your A major,
_ [Am] your D major [D] and
[E] your E major.
You _ can use the visuals on the screen to learn the chords by heart.
[A] Your A major is played from your fifth string down,
your [G] D major played from your [D] fourth string down and
[E] your E major played from your sixth string [Am] down.
_ [E] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [E] _ Moving on to step number two, learning to count.
This might seem just a little bit silly,
but this works.
The more you grow as a musician, the more you realize the timing is one of the most important things in music.
So if you could just count this along with me, one and two and three and four and.
Knowing to count this is very important.
Now the guitar pattern throughout the song goes like this.
You just play on one and two and.
So try doing this along with me.
[N] One and two and three and four and.
One and two and three and four and.
If you could do this, that's step number two.
Moving on to [Am] step number three.
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C] We'll put together the chords that we learnt in step number [Eb] one in the timing that we learnt in step number two.
Before we start, there's a small word of advice.
Think of it like learning to drive a car for the first time.
You wouldn't want to do that fast, would you?
So here is the thing.
When you start playing your chords in rhythm,
try to do it as slow as you can, as safe as you can, as correct as you can.
And progressively [A] when you're comfortable, you can slowly pick up the pace.
Okay, and here we go.
Your A major chord.
You're just going to do one and two and three and four and.
One and two and three [N] and four and.
So for our learning,
we'll just try to switch between our A major chord and our E major chord.
And this song predominantly uses a down-up, down-up pattern.
Okay, here we go.
See if you can follow the counting that I do.
We'll play A major twice and E major twice.
Here [A] we go.
Down-up, down-up, three and four and.
Down-up, down-up, three and [E] four and.
Down-up, down-up, three and four and.
Down-up, three and four and.
And a very small addition to what you're playing.
On the second count, instead of [A] just playing a plain downstroke,
if you could just [Ab] keep your hand on the guitar, mute it and play [G] a downstroke, it'll sound really good.
I'll show how that is done.
[A] It's one and two and three and four and.
One and two and three and four [E] and.
Two and three and four and.
One and two and three and four and. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] And for the final part of the song, we have our foundation strong now.
We've learnt our chords.
We've learnt the counts and now we get to play along with the song.
[D] And to help me out with this final part,
I have Kishore here.
Okay, so he's a brilliant singer and you'll get to listen to him in a minute.
Here we go.
The first line of the song, you play A major twice and then your E major twice.
If you miss the chords,
don't worry, we have it in the description,
so you can look at it and play.
But see if you can follow [A] what we play.
Here we go. _ _
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_ And in the middle of the song,
Keva plays a really nice interlude.
I'll play that for you once and if you're really interested in learning it,
you can just email me and I will send the tabs for it.
Here it goes.
[D] _ [Ab] _ [E] _ [D] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Db] _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _
_ [Db] _ _ [D] _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ And if you are an aspiring musician wanting to learn guitar, keyboard or bass for Tamil, Telugu or Hindi songs,
there's this wonderful app called Manoke Stage.
It has some great features like slowing down the speed of the song and transposing the song to a scale
which you are comfortable playing with it.
Do check it out.
And finally for some inspiration, do listen to our student cover of Nallaiya Lai.
They've done a really good job.
And if you see, most of the guitarists who've played in the song have been
recent players of guitar.
They've been learning for about a year or so and if they can do it,
I'm sure you can too.
Thank [E] you.
_ [B] _