Chords for If I Fell - Guitar Lesson Preview
Tempo:
121.9 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
G
Em
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] [C#]
[A] The Beatles had some unbelievably unique introductions.
You only have to hear [N] a little bit of it and you know what it is.
And they were very unusual a lot of times.
[D]
[F] [N] That's all you've got to hear.
This is one, this is If I Fell, which is 1964, a hard day's night.
Beautiful ballad, written mostly by John, with Paul's help, assistance, input, and creativity right behind it.
John wasn't really comfortable writing serious ballads, love songs and stuff,
or just didn't like to go out in public like that.
And this was really the first one, it set the stage for later on in my life,
even a very similar chord progression.
They're almost the same song, but [G] beautiful in their own right.
[D] Now this is in the same key as In My Life, D, and uses mostly chords in the key of D.
[Em] D, E minor, F sharp minor, [Am] G, A, we'll use some A7's in there.
But the introduction does something [N] really unusual, and we'll talk about that.
Paul might have had something more to do with this, and it just does something you don't hear very often.
So, very simple strumming song, bar chords have to be in pretty good shape,
so you might want to review your E [F#] minor 7 shapes and A minor 7 shapes.
And then we're going to be using the major shape out of the A's as well.
Very simple [D] strumming though,
[A] down, down, up, down, up, down, up.
So nothing [N] fancy going on in this song, just a great strumming and singing song.
And that's all I needed to tell you about In My Life.
First we'll take a look at the chords.
I encourage you first, again, to go listen to it, get it in your head,
and maybe see if you can figure out what's happening first.
And then we will take it from there.
Chords [D] in the key of D are, we'll [G#] talk first about the triads and [D] review them.
We have D major, [Em] E minor, chord 2, F sharp minor, barred at [F#m] the second fret in the E minor shape, [G] G major.
And we might play the G as a bar in a few spots because we're also going to use G [Gm] minor,
a very, again, common thing that the Beatles did was going to a chord, a minor 4 chord,
as just a little change of pace or flavor from major, [E] from standard stuff.
We're going to use A's and a [A] couple different A7's.
And most of the time I would like to use the A7 with the G open in the middle.
But sometimes we want to hear the high G as kind of more of the turnaround chord
that's going to happen in the [N] leading into the, which section is that?
I don't know.
We'll get to it in just a second.
Oh, going back to the next verse, coming out of the bridge.
That's where we're going to want that one.
There you have a little bit of a fairly short lesson I put together on the Beatles tune, If I Fell,
which is really interesting from a chord progression point of view
because it does the kinds of things that we now associate with the Beatles.
And it got picked up by tons and tons of other songwriters over the years, some unusual things,
particularly the introduction starting off with a series of chords kind of unrelated to the key.
Although in the lesson I talk about how they are sort of related and not that far a stretch,
but something that again just shows off the brilliance that we got out of Lennon and McCartney
and of course George Harrison and maybe even Ringo.
But, so if you'd like to see the rest of the lesson, it's up at Totally Guitars now, along with 800 other lessons.
They're all part of our Target program, which is a monthly subscription program.
And there are also lots of theory lessons, technique lessons, finger-picking lessons,
and just a lot, pretty much everything you would need to increase your level of guitar playing and understanding of music.
So I hope you'd consider coming to visit us at Totally Guitars and think about joining the Target program.
[A] The Beatles had some unbelievably unique introductions.
You only have to hear [N] a little bit of it and you know what it is.
And they were very unusual a lot of times.
[D]
[F] [N] That's all you've got to hear.
This is one, this is If I Fell, which is 1964, a hard day's night.
Beautiful ballad, written mostly by John, with Paul's help, assistance, input, and creativity right behind it.
John wasn't really comfortable writing serious ballads, love songs and stuff,
or just didn't like to go out in public like that.
And this was really the first one, it set the stage for later on in my life,
even a very similar chord progression.
They're almost the same song, but [G] beautiful in their own right.
[D] Now this is in the same key as In My Life, D, and uses mostly chords in the key of D.
[Em] D, E minor, F sharp minor, [Am] G, A, we'll use some A7's in there.
But the introduction does something [N] really unusual, and we'll talk about that.
Paul might have had something more to do with this, and it just does something you don't hear very often.
So, very simple strumming song, bar chords have to be in pretty good shape,
so you might want to review your E [F#] minor 7 shapes and A minor 7 shapes.
And then we're going to be using the major shape out of the A's as well.
Very simple [D] strumming though,
[A] down, down, up, down, up, down, up.
So nothing [N] fancy going on in this song, just a great strumming and singing song.
And that's all I needed to tell you about In My Life.
First we'll take a look at the chords.
I encourage you first, again, to go listen to it, get it in your head,
and maybe see if you can figure out what's happening first.
And then we will take it from there.
Chords [D] in the key of D are, we'll [G#] talk first about the triads and [D] review them.
We have D major, [Em] E minor, chord 2, F sharp minor, barred at [F#m] the second fret in the E minor shape, [G] G major.
And we might play the G as a bar in a few spots because we're also going to use G [Gm] minor,
a very, again, common thing that the Beatles did was going to a chord, a minor 4 chord,
as just a little change of pace or flavor from major, [E] from standard stuff.
We're going to use A's and a [A] couple different A7's.
And most of the time I would like to use the A7 with the G open in the middle.
But sometimes we want to hear the high G as kind of more of the turnaround chord
that's going to happen in the [N] leading into the, which section is that?
I don't know.
We'll get to it in just a second.
Oh, going back to the next verse, coming out of the bridge.
That's where we're going to want that one.
There you have a little bit of a fairly short lesson I put together on the Beatles tune, If I Fell,
which is really interesting from a chord progression point of view
because it does the kinds of things that we now associate with the Beatles.
And it got picked up by tons and tons of other songwriters over the years, some unusual things,
particularly the introduction starting off with a series of chords kind of unrelated to the key.
Although in the lesson I talk about how they are sort of related and not that far a stretch,
but something that again just shows off the brilliance that we got out of Lennon and McCartney
and of course George Harrison and maybe even Ringo.
But, so if you'd like to see the rest of the lesson, it's up at Totally Guitars now, along with 800 other lessons.
They're all part of our Target program, which is a monthly subscription program.
And there are also lots of theory lessons, technique lessons, finger-picking lessons,
and just a lot, pretty much everything you would need to increase your level of guitar playing and understanding of music.
So I hope you'd consider coming to visit us at Totally Guitars and think about joining the Target program.
Key:
D
A
G
Em
C#
D
A
G
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] The Beatles had some unbelievably _ unique introductions. _
You only have to hear [N] a little bit of it and you know what it is.
And they were very unusual a lot of times.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [N] That's all you've got to hear.
This is one, this is If I Fell, which is 1964, a hard day's night.
Beautiful ballad, written mostly by John, with Paul's _ help, assistance, input, and creativity right behind it.
John wasn't really comfortable _ _ writing _ serious ballads, love songs and stuff,
or just didn't like to go out in public like that.
And this was really the first one, it set the stage for later on in my life,
even a very similar chord progression.
They're almost the same song, but _ [G] beautiful in their own right.
[D] Now this is in the same key as In My Life, D, and uses mostly chords in the key of D.
[Em] D, E minor, F sharp minor, [Am] G, A, we'll use some A7's in there.
But the introduction does something [N] really unusual, and we'll talk about that.
_ _ Paul might have had something more to do with this, and it just does something you don't hear very often.
So, very simple strumming song, bar chords have to be in pretty good shape,
so you might want to review your E [F#] minor 7 shapes and A minor 7 shapes.
And then we're going to be using the major shape out of the A's as well.
Very simple [D] strumming though, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] down, down, up, down, up, down, up.
So nothing [N] fancy going on in this song, just a great strumming and singing song.
_ And that's all I needed to tell you about In My Life.
First we'll take a look at the chords.
I encourage you first, again, to go listen to it, get it in your head,
and maybe see if you can figure out what's happening first.
And then we will take it from there.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Chords [D] in the key of D are, _ we'll [G#] talk first about the triads and [D] review them.
We have D major, [Em] E minor, chord 2, F sharp minor, barred at [F#m] the second fret in the E minor shape, _ [G] G major.
_ And we might play the G as a bar in a few spots because we're also going to use G [Gm] minor,
a very, again, common thing that the Beatles did was going to a chord, a minor 4 chord,
as just a little change of pace or flavor from major, [E] from standard stuff.
We're going to use A's and a [A] couple different A7's.
And most of the time I would like to use the A7 with the G open in the middle.
But sometimes we want to hear the high G _ _ as kind of more of the turnaround chord
that's going to happen in the [N] leading into the, _ _ which section is that?
I don't know.
We'll get to it in just a second.
Oh, going back to the next verse, coming out of the bridge.
That's where we're going to want that one.
There you have a little bit of a fairly short lesson I put together on the Beatles tune, If I Fell,
which is really interesting from a chord progression point of view
because it does the kinds of things that we now associate with the Beatles.
And it got picked up by tons and tons of other songwriters over the years, some unusual things,
particularly the introduction starting off with a series of chords kind of unrelated to the key.
Although in the lesson I talk about how they are sort of related and not that far a stretch,
but something that again just shows off the brilliance that we got out of Lennon and McCartney
and of course George Harrison and maybe even Ringo.
_ But, so if you'd like to see the rest of the lesson, it's up at Totally Guitars now, along with 800 other lessons.
They're all part of our Target program, which is a monthly subscription program.
And there are also lots of _ theory lessons, technique lessons, finger-picking lessons,
and just a lot, pretty much everything you would need to increase your level of guitar playing and understanding of music.
So I hope you'd consider coming to visit us at Totally Guitars and think about joining the Target program. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] The Beatles had some unbelievably _ unique introductions. _
You only have to hear [N] a little bit of it and you know what it is.
And they were very unusual a lot of times.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [N] That's all you've got to hear.
This is one, this is If I Fell, which is 1964, a hard day's night.
Beautiful ballad, written mostly by John, with Paul's _ help, assistance, input, and creativity right behind it.
John wasn't really comfortable _ _ writing _ serious ballads, love songs and stuff,
or just didn't like to go out in public like that.
And this was really the first one, it set the stage for later on in my life,
even a very similar chord progression.
They're almost the same song, but _ [G] beautiful in their own right.
[D] Now this is in the same key as In My Life, D, and uses mostly chords in the key of D.
[Em] D, E minor, F sharp minor, [Am] G, A, we'll use some A7's in there.
But the introduction does something [N] really unusual, and we'll talk about that.
_ _ Paul might have had something more to do with this, and it just does something you don't hear very often.
So, very simple strumming song, bar chords have to be in pretty good shape,
so you might want to review your E [F#] minor 7 shapes and A minor 7 shapes.
And then we're going to be using the major shape out of the A's as well.
Very simple [D] strumming though, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] down, down, up, down, up, down, up.
So nothing [N] fancy going on in this song, just a great strumming and singing song.
_ And that's all I needed to tell you about In My Life.
First we'll take a look at the chords.
I encourage you first, again, to go listen to it, get it in your head,
and maybe see if you can figure out what's happening first.
And then we will take it from there.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Chords [D] in the key of D are, _ we'll [G#] talk first about the triads and [D] review them.
We have D major, [Em] E minor, chord 2, F sharp minor, barred at [F#m] the second fret in the E minor shape, _ [G] G major.
_ And we might play the G as a bar in a few spots because we're also going to use G [Gm] minor,
a very, again, common thing that the Beatles did was going to a chord, a minor 4 chord,
as just a little change of pace or flavor from major, [E] from standard stuff.
We're going to use A's and a [A] couple different A7's.
And most of the time I would like to use the A7 with the G open in the middle.
But sometimes we want to hear the high G _ _ as kind of more of the turnaround chord
that's going to happen in the [N] leading into the, _ _ which section is that?
I don't know.
We'll get to it in just a second.
Oh, going back to the next verse, coming out of the bridge.
That's where we're going to want that one.
There you have a little bit of a fairly short lesson I put together on the Beatles tune, If I Fell,
which is really interesting from a chord progression point of view
because it does the kinds of things that we now associate with the Beatles.
And it got picked up by tons and tons of other songwriters over the years, some unusual things,
particularly the introduction starting off with a series of chords kind of unrelated to the key.
Although in the lesson I talk about how they are sort of related and not that far a stretch,
but something that again just shows off the brilliance that we got out of Lennon and McCartney
and of course George Harrison and maybe even Ringo.
_ But, so if you'd like to see the rest of the lesson, it's up at Totally Guitars now, along with 800 other lessons.
They're all part of our Target program, which is a monthly subscription program.
And there are also lots of _ theory lessons, technique lessons, finger-picking lessons,
and just a lot, pretty much everything you would need to increase your level of guitar playing and understanding of music.
So I hope you'd consider coming to visit us at Totally Guitars and think about joining the Target program. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _