Chords for Learn How to Play Zombie by the Cranberries - Guitar Lesson (Guitar Cover) by Steve Stine

Hey, Steve Stein here, and today we're gonna be talking
about Zombie by the Cranberries.
And I'm gonna show you a couple of different ways
to approach playing this song.
Again, so maybe it challenges you a little bit,
but most importantly, it gives you an opportunity
to have some fun playing a song that you like.
So basically with this song, we need E minor, [E] C, G, and D.
And there's a whole host of different ways
that we can play this.
So what I'm gonna do is just start off with the easiest way,
[Em] and then we'll move into some other variations
that you can try and see if you like them, okay?
So the first thing we're gonna do
is we're gonna be looking at E minor. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] We'll talk about strumming in just a second here.
And then we're gonna head over to a C chord. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And we're gonna head over to the G, _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] and then [D] we're gonna head to the D chord. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So it would look [F] like this at this [Em] point. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
And if you played it that way, it would fit just fine,
and it would sound just fine.
And that would be enough, okay?
Let's bump up the strumming a little bit,
and then let's alter the chords a little bit.
So in the very beginning, if you listen to the intro
to the song, you [Em] hear this, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] which is going down,
down, down, [A#] down, up, up, down, _ okay?
So let's break that down just a little bit,
and you can alter this however you need to
to be comfortable for you.
If you wanna play a completely different strumming pattern
or just down strums or whatever, it's fine,
because we're gonna get to that in a second as well.
But this intro is kind of going, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ so [A] if we think about it, we've got down, down, down,
down, up, up, down, down, up, down, up.
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] So if I put that with my chord, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ it's gonna [Em] sound a lot like the song, okay?
So one of those two, whether you're just playing
the chords the normal way like we're talking about right now,
we're gonna get into some other things,
and then this strumming part,
which now we've built a strumming pattern,
but we do have a couple of guitar parts that are coming in.
So if you did just that for this whole song,
except for the little bass breakdown where the bass plays, _
which I think is just E minor to C, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ and then at the [F#] end of the song it does that too, okay?
_ [Em] So let's bump up these chords a little bit.
So the first thing is we're gonna keep E minor
the way it is, _ _ _ but it sounds like
when it goes to the C chord,
instead of playing a full C chord,
you don't use the first finger at all.
So you could play with your third and middle fingers
like this and just take that first finger off,
or you could [C] play with just these two fingers.
_ _ So it's going from [Em] E minor, _
_ and then you're flipping over to this C,
[C] _ _
_ and you're not using [B] that,
[C] anybody on the second string at all,
you're leaving it open.
And then when you go to your G,
[G] you're just gonna take these two fingers and move up,
_ _ and again, you're leaving all that _ open down here, _ _
_ and then when we go to the D,
instead of going to the D at all,
_ _ _ [F#] we're just gonna go to the second fret of the sixth [G] string,
and then I'm kind of deadening out the sixth string,
or the fifth string, excuse me,
by kind of touching it with my middle finger.
_ _ So it's kind of deadening it,
_ but you wouldn't have to, you could let it [Em] ring out.
They're kind of bizarre sounding chords
when you're used to just hearing the traditional sounding
[A#m] E minor and C and such,
but if I put [Em] them together here, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] you can kind of hear how it flows.
Now, if you and I were playing together
and you were doing these chords,
and I was doing these other chords,
it would sound just fine.
_ I try to stay away from worrying about
trying to play something exactly, exactly correct,
because most of the time,
_ the artists don't always play them exactly, exactly correct. It's music.
We're supposed to have some fun with it and interpret it,
and if you wanna play it as close as it sounds in your mind
or in your ear, that's great.
And if so, one sounds better to you than the other,
then that's what I think you should do,
or is more comfortable for you, okay?
So now, once the drums kick in,
you hear another guitar come in
that's really driving the rhythm
with a lot of down [Em]-strumming. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] And you could use these same chords [Em] to play that,
it's just instead of doing the sort of floaty strum,
_ _ _ _ _ _ there's another guitar that's just doing that, _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [N] and I would say they're probably
both going on at the same time,
so you could choose to do the first one first
and then switch over to the down-strums
or whatever you'd like to do with it
just to have some fun with it.
_ So that's the tune.
That's all the parts of the song are those chords,
_ depending on which ones you like,
and then the strumming patterns,
depending on which ones you like
or which ones you hear more prominent as the song kicks in.
You know, if we go to the verse, for instance, _
_ there's some picking parts in there too
that we're not gonna worry about,
but _ [C] you _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ hear all of a sudden
the chords really sort of dissipate
and _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ you just sort of hear these [G] single strums,
and then you hear [C] this little,
_ [A] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _
so let's [Em] just look at that real quick.
So we're playing seven to eight
on the first string as a hammer-on,
so I'm playing seven, _ [Am] _ [E] hammering to the eight,
_ [Am] _ [B] then five, seven, _ [Em] _
_ then three, five,
[A] _ _ [G] and then two, three,
_ _ and some people return, they'll do a pull-up _ like that, _
[F#] _ [Em] so you have [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [F#m] _ [G] _ _ or, _ [B] _
and then you've [D] got three, [B] three, zero.
_ [D] _ _ _ [B] _ _ So if you're looking for a little challenge,
if this is new to you,
that's kind of a fun little thing to play,
to play some single notes
instead of just strumming everything. _
So hopefully that helps you to sort of set up
how to play Zombie by the Cranberries,
and you can kind of decide what you like
and what feels best to you
and what's most productive for you,
and at the end of the day, what's the most fun for you?
_ _ Hey, Steve Stein here.
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