Chords for The Beatles - In My Life - Guitar Lesson - How to Play on Guitar, Tutorial

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_ _ [C#] Hey, what's up you guys?
Marty Schwartz here, right here at my very own project, Marty Music.
Thank you for the continued support, spreading the word, all that.
We've got a classic Beatles song right now.
We've got In My Life.
It's one of my favorite Beatles songs.
And we're going to zoom in, break it all down.
I kind of arranged it a little bit for [A] like if you're playing it by yourself.
So I think you'll like it.
So let's do it.
All right, so I have a little way to play the intro _ with a little bit of finger picking
and then the rest we're going to strum with a pick.
So we start with kind of holding this A chord down here.
_ I'm going to pinch the A string and the second fret of the B string. _ _ _
Then pinky's going to go to the fifth fret of the high E and I'm still going to pinch
that A string.
So it'd sound like this.
_ You put those together and you have this. _ _
_ _ _ And then still with pinching the A string and holding this A chord, I'm pinching the
second fret of the B with the open A, then middle finger on the third fret of the B [D] with
the open A, [A] and then pinky on the fifth of the B with the open A. _
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_ So you put that all together and it sounds like this. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ And for that final chord there, I'm hitting the open E with my thumb and then I'm forming
a little D shape up a whole step, which would be E major. _
_ And I'm not really strumming the other strings, but if you get them _ in there, it's nice.
_ And we're just focusing on the open E and that middle finger on the fourth fret of the
high E.
It's like this.
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ One more time really [A] slow.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
And then we have the song.
And we're going to start with an A major [A] chord to _ an E major.
So [E] we're _ going to go down, down, up, down, down, up.
_ So [A] A, E, _ _ [G#] then F sharp minor, so you're barring the second fret [F#] and it's a little E minor shape.
_ [A] _ _ [B] So it goes F sharp minor, and then I'm going to play instead of A major now, I'm going
to play a little [A] A7 for a little flavor.
_ _ _ So you have this.
A, [E] E, [F#m] F sharp minor, A7, _ _ _ _ then D, D minor, back to [D] A major.
So _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] that's the classic Beatles is the four chord major, four chord [Dm] minor, to the [A] one chord major.
_ If you don't know that theory stuff, that's [G] all right, but they use that all the time.
So [A] check it out.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ A, E, [F#m] F sharp minor, [A] and that A7 is anticipated.
_ [D#m] _
So I have that strong downbeat, [A] then it goes to [F#m] the A7.
[A] D, _ _ [D] _ D minor, [A]
A major, starts over.
A, [E] E, [F#m] F sharp minor, [A] A7, [D] D, D [E] minor, [A] A major, and then there's just one other section of the songs.
[F] So the next section of the song, we can call it section B, it starts on that F sharp minor
and goes [F#m] to D.
So _ _
_ [D] _ _ F sharp minor to D, [G] and then G.
_ _ _ [A] _ _
So [F#m] check it out, here's that second section.
So F sharp minor [D] to D chord, _ [G]
G, _ [A] then A chord. _ _
Then we do F sharp minor to [F#m] B7. _ _ _
_ [B] _ [F#m] So you have F sharp minor, [B] and then the B7.
Second one, second, pinky on the second of the high E, _ _ and then that D, D minor, A, and
then you're right back at the intro.
[D] So from _ [A] _ _
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the [D] top.
I'll walk you through it, do the progression.
Here we go.
[A] So A, [E] E, F sharp [Em] minor, A7, _ [D] D, [Dm] D minor, [A] A major, starts over again.
A, [E] E, F sharp minor, [Em] A7, _ [D] D, D minor, [A] back to A major.
Now F sharp minor.
F [F#m] sharp minor, then [D] the D chord, _ [G] then the G, back to the A, [F#] F sharp minor [B] to now B7,
_ [D] D, D minor, [A] back to the A.
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_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] And what you can do for that end, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G#m] and so I'm just going, 4, [Em] 2, O, [A] A, but what you can
do is if you do that one finger A chord, you can get that note up top there.
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_ _ All right, that was the lesson.
I hope you enjoyed learning another Beatles tune.
If you've got a favorite song you want to learn, or any kind of technique lesson, anything
at all, go ahead and leave it in the comments below.
And also just thanks for supporting me here at My New Thing, Marty Music.
Really appreciate your continued support, and I just want to say thanks again, and I
also hope to see you in another lesson real soon.
[G] We'll see you later.
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