Chords for I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song - Jim Croce acoustic guitar lesson Preview

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_ _ [Dm] _ [E] _ [A] Well I know it's kinda late, [C#m] _ _ [Bm] I hope I [E] didn't wake you.
[A] What I've got to say can't wait, _ _ [Bm] I knew you'd [E] understand.
_ [G#] _ _ [D] _ Every time [A] I try to tell you [C#] the words just came out [F#m] wrong.
_ [D] So [A] I'll have to say I [E] love you [D] in song. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Today we're taking a look at one [N] of my all time favorite songs by one of my all time
favorite _ songwriters, Jim Croce, who unfortunately died in a plane crash very young in 1973,
September 1973. _
He had a big hit on the radio at the time, a whole bunch.
I got a name,
operator, time in a bottle, all that kind of stuff were just all over the airwaves in
those, in the early 70s.
And this tune, I'll have to say I love you [G#] in a song, is [G] just
one of, _ _ just absolutely one of his best. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I want to talk a little bit about [G#] the key of
A, first of all.
We play, we don't play a lot of songs in A, well we do, but this is
one, one thing that A has in it is a lot of bar chords.
That makes this a little bit of
a difficult tune.
So we're going to be playing some bars, but the main thing I want to go
over first is just the chords in the key [C] of A and then some of the extensions that
we're going to play in them to make them a little jazzier kind [A] of sounding.
And that
is, so _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A major 7.
A is of course played with three fingers at the second fret, [G#] playing
an E with your second finger, an A with your index [C#] finger, and C sharp with your third
finger. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The right hand, and I'll have to say I love you, is kind of following, well
basically following normal finger picking position, where your thumb is going to be
covering the sixth, fifth, and fourth strings, and your three fingers are all playing one
string a piece.
Your index finger playing the third string, your middle finger playing
the second string, and your ring finger playing the first string.
Now, when we get to the
instrumental version, we're going to be doing [Am] a normal [C#m] alternating bass type pattern, like
this, like we've seen in Dust in the Wind, Landslide, Rain Damage, all that, lots of
tunes that just keep an alternating bass going. _
[B] And the song would sound fine with that, but
we're going to do a more modified arpeggio, where we're going to hit three bass notes
per measure.
It's a steady flow of eighth notes, I'm playing an A major 7 right now.
And what we're going to usually be doing is hitting [A] on the first beat, _ the main bass
note, on the second beat, [G#] or on the and of one, your index finger, on beat two, the top
[C#m] two strings, with your second and third [G#m] fingers. _ _ _ _ _ _
So let's take a look at what guitar one has to do all the way through, I'll have to say
I Love [N] You in a Song.
In the introduction, we talked about the chords, we talked about
all what you've got to do there.
The right hand finger picking pattern, again, is very
important.
It's two groups of three eighth notes, where the first, each group goes thumb,
index, and then your second and third fingers, middle and ring together.
Do that twice.
Thumb,
index, middle and ring, thumb, index, middle and ring, thumb, index.
Eight notes played
exactly equally.
If I just do that on an A major 7, the way it's normally going to happen
in the song, it's going to sound like this.
Now my thumb is going to be alternating between
the fifth string for the first bass note, the fourth string for the second bass note,
and back to the fifth string for the third bass note.
And again, the first bass note
happens on one, the second bass note is on the and of two, and the third bass note is
on four.
So [A]
it's [C#m] one and two and three and four and.
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I want to take a short look at [G#] the second guitar part, if you want to add this in to
what [C#] you, if [N] you want to play this along with somebody, or if you just want to play along
with my play through there or something like that.
And talk just a little bit about how
you end up doing something like this.
This song is in the key of A in standard tuning.
So when we put a [G] capo at the seventh fret, we need to play in the key, in a different
key, I'm going to be thinking in a different key, that is the same [Fm] as the key of A.
So
I need to be, when I move it up to the seventh fret, it becomes A.
So if you [N] think about
something, if I was let's say playing a C chord, _ _ _ _ _ _ well at the top of this lesson I played
through the song, both guitar parts, and then played a little instrumental version of it
where I was picking out the melody at the same time.
That's what we're going to take
a look at here, is this acoustic finger picking arrangement of I'll Have to Say I Love You
in a Song.
So get out the tablature that is, that hopefully you've downloaded and should
be right there in front of you.
Let me just talk about it a little bit, because what we're
doing [G#] here is I've switched the accompaniment pattern, the bass [A] pattern, from this, _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[G#m] from
the three bass notes per measure to a normal alternating bass, [G#] Travis style _ bass line,
so that all the bass notes are alternating back and forth between two strings, and they
change according to what chord you're [A] playing.
So if we're playing A, it's going to be the
fifth to the fourth, and then [E] the sixth to the fourth.
And that pattern continues on
many of the chords that have the [G#] fifth string as the root, or in the [C#m] bass.
So that's going
to happen on the C sharp [Bm] minor and the B minor.
Then on [E] the Es, we're just going to play six
and a four alternating back and forth. _ _ _
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