Chords for How To Play "What A Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke

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_ Hi, welcome to 5-minute guitar lessons.
In today's lesson, we're gonna learn
What a Wonderful World by Sam Cooke and that's on the album The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke, which was released in 1960.
Before we get started, take a minute to look in the description, download our chord chart for this song.
That'll help you follow along with this lesson and the original recording.
Also, this song uses a capo on the second fret.
So when we're putting the capo on, you want to make sure to put it just beside the fret
[B] so you get a nice clean sound.
Alright, here we go.
Here are _ the chords we'll be using in this song.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now let's try those chords out over the verse.
We'll do four downstrokes per measure.
One, two, three, [B] four. _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ The strumming pattern goes down, down, up, up, [B] down, up.
_ _ _ And we can learn that in two parts.
First we'll go down, down, up.
_ _ And then we'll do up, down, up.
_ _ _ And putting that all together we get down, down, up, up, down, up. _ _
Great.
Now let's use that strumming pattern over the chords to the verse. _ _ _
_ _ One, two, three, four. _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ _ _ Here's the chorus at the original tempo. _
_ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
Now we can try that together a little bit slower.
_ _ One, two, three, four.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ _ _ So this song uses a capo on the second fret. _
_ _ _ _ And what that does is it changes all our chord shapes and puts them up a key.
So in this song it's in the key of A.
We're going to be playing a lot of A.
It's not really an A chord [A] anymore, it's an A shape.
But it's only an A chord when we're playing it in the open position.
As we move it up, [A#] we can go through the keys, [B] moving it up with the capo.
So we could go to the key of B, _ [C] _
C, [F#] and so on.
And the reason why that's important is if your voice is too high or low to sing a particular song,
or if the range of the song doesn't really fit well with you,
you can always just move the capo up or down.
And that way it'll put it in a more comfortable place for your voice. _
_ _ Here's the bridge at the original tempo. _ _
[B] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [G#] Now we can try the bridge out a little slower.
_ One, two, three, [F#] four. _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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