Chords for Sunlight - Guitar Lesson Preview

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_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ This, gotta confess, one of my all-time [F#] favorite songs, sung by one of my all-time favorite
singers and written by.
This is of course, Sunlight, by Jesse Collin Young, originally done with his band at the time, 1969.
The Youngbloods [N] on their album Elephant Mountain.
Now there's a lot of places you can find it now.
There's Greatest Hits, there was this compilation album, the one that I really snagged when
I could back then, that happened to be called Sunlight.
But really encourage you to listen to this song and kinda get it in your heart and in your head.
_ _ And then take a look, like the first thing I'd like you to try to do, depending on how
much you know about chords already, just depending on where you are as a guitar player, is just
take a look at the chart _ and practice playing along.
See, in a minute, in the next segment, I'm gonna strum through the whole thing before
we talk about the chords and how to play them and some things like that.
And I'll give you some little options, or an opportunity to sort of see what I would
do in this song.
So it's gonna be a little bit of a listen and learn thing.
We're not gonna try to figure out the chords from top to bottom, it's a bit complicated
for that, although you're welcome to do that if you like.
There will be no singing involved in this on my part.
Jesse's voice, _ _ I love Jesse's voice.
There's just, anyway, can't get there, can't get those notes.
My wife even said, when she heard this when I was playing, when I was thinking about doing
a lesson, she goes, wow, that voice!
He's got that voice!
And she said, who is that?
Anyway, she eventually placed it, said oh yeah, now I recognize it, because you hear
him sing also in Get Together and a few other things.
Anyway, Youngbloods were _ _ just a great, you know, late 60s band that hung on into the
early 70s, and then Jesse made, actually he made some solo albums earlier, before one
was even called Youngblood.
And then some other ones, some other great ones later, of course Song for Julie is the
one that everybody should have, should listen to ridgetop, and I might get to some songs
from that album somewhere down the line.
But today, we're gonna look at Sunlight, and it's a fairly [F#] simple strumming song, I'm not
even really gonna talk too much about the strumming, at least we're not gonna have a
close-up of that, but it's just keeping a steady rhythm going, and, but there are some
parts later on where we have to get a lot of accents in unusual places.
And then there are some spots too where there are some optional chords depending on which
version you [N] happen to be listening to.
So Jesse has changed the chord in, one chord in the verse, so that I think in the chart
there's a little asterisk next to it.
So, okay, without further ado or _ chit-chatting about this beautiful tune, Sunlight, _ _ let's
get into, I'll strum through it in the next section with a metronome at about, I think
100, it'll be fairly slow, I think the real speed's 117, 118, something like that.
But first I encourage you to listen to the original, get it kinda in your head, and then
come along and start playing along with me in the next segment, and then we'll break it down. _ _ _ _ _
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